For students to enjoy and feel safe participating in class, this is how we agree to be together:

• We use good manners and take turns sharing the space/speaking.
  
  

• We welcome students with acceptance and respect for the differences among us, and remain open to the richness and discomforts of diversity.
  
  

• We assume the positive intent of others and keep our discussions to topics and issues rather than personalities.
  
  

• We tell our own stories, not other people’s. Respect confidentiality.
  
  

• We listen with an open, nonjudgmental mind.
  
  

• Refrain from fixing, saving, advising, making assumptions about, or correcting one another.
  
  

• Speak up when you feel hurt or offended, and apologize when you discover that you have hurt or offended someone else.
  
  

• Be brave, be vulnerable, and risk being uncomfortable.

Students who take away from the learning environment by breaking covenant will be removed from the Zoom classroom or asked to leave the in-person gathering.