At the beginning of the year students and I work together to create a shared vision and a code of cooperation for the year. This helps strengthen our classroom community while ensuring a safe and inclusive environment for all learners!
We begin by brainstorming ideas on how students want the classroom to look, sound, and feel like throughout our school year. I write all of their ideas down and then they have the opportunity to vote on which ideas are most important to them. We use the most popular points to create a a classroom code of cooperation (a guideline for rules and behavior), and then a shared vision.
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