Community Building

How can we turn a rough day with students into a teachable moment? Here's one teacher's strategy for a "reset" that promotes accountability. 

Students read about and discuss positive and negative impacts of social media, and reflect on their own experiences through pair shares and group discussion.

Educators learn about the neuroscience of storytelling and experience for themselves a storytelling activity they can use with students. The activity is the first session in our new guide, Teaching as an Act of Solidarity: A Beginner’s Guide to Equity in Schools.

Invite students to think about the power of storytelling, and make time for storytelling in your classroom.

Making time for students to do a bit of crafting can provide joy and comfort - and brighten up your classroom.

A selection of activities, in honor of Respect for All Week, to help you and your class appreciate each other, promote respect, and stop oppressive behavior.

This circle activity invites students to appreciate each other, using as inspiration the Zulu greeting Sawubona, which means “We see you.”

Students learn about the science of gratitude - and one person's effort to express gratitude to every person along the supply chain who made their morning cup of coffee possible.

Students discuss the concept of Ubuntu, or interconnectedness, then consider the news this summer and its impact on us and on others around the world.

Students discuss the land where they live, and the Indigenous peoples who once lived there. Then they get to know each other by reflecting on four aspects of their lives, using Native American teachings on the Medicine Wheel.