Co-Establish Safe and Efficient Routines, Procedures, and Norms

Teachers organize time, space, and materials to support students to engage in the regular tasks of classroom life. Through the selection and use of organizational routines, teachers establish learning environments in which students have equitable access to resources, time, space, and voice in the classroom. Teachers introduce students to routines and provide opportunities to practice, analyze, and modify the routines. In some cases, they develop and enact routines collaboratively with students. Choosing and using routines requires discretion because many routines silence and marginalize some students and propagate dominant ways of being related to race, class, and gender. As such, the teacher believes that routines, procedures, and norms are never neutral and must be defined and redefined with students. (Adapted from Teaching Works High Leverage Practice #8: Implementing Organizational Routines) 

RANDA Connections: IIA, IIC, IIIE