More ideas for beginning of the year community building ideas are here. Making these intentional and explicit efforts is essential as data show that vulnerable youth, including transgender and ...

Colleges and universities often purport to pursue racial justice, diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, yet they offer few tools or strategies to support instructors in enacting truly ...

During the 2023-2024 school year, our school system started using Capturing Kids’ Hearts (CKH). This program aims to open the lines of communication between teachers and students, reduce classroom ...

Faculty members and assessment office staff at Macalester College in Minnesota solicited student feedback on building community in the classroom through a collaborative brainstorm activity early in ...

Educators will be immersed in a variety of art educational and cultural philosophies, methods and strategies with an emphasis on applications to the classroom, community building techniques, and art ...

“We must remember that what makes us human is, at the very end, to be among humans.” This is what Juan Carlos Oyanedel and Dario Paez wrote about the experience of the pandemic, in their study into ...

What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...

Whether you’re teaching in-person, remotely, or in a hybrid modality, it’s important to build a collaborative classroom community of mutual trust, respect, and understanding. It is a critical step in ...

It is back to school time and I just completed our Student Teaching kickoff event which got me thinking about classroom community and climate. Talking with beginning teachers about ways to communicate ...