C1.2
Fostering Academic Safety and Belonging

Integrating

The classroom community is set up to promote students to ask questions of peers, respond to peers, and make connections to personal experiences and past learning without teacher prompting.

Implementing

The teacher intentionally creates opportunities for students to develop a sense of safety and belonging (e.g., co-creates and revisits classroom agreements for doing math, provides opportunities for students to build relationships with peers). 

The teacher provides opportunities for students to make connections between their lived experiences and the lesson and highlights links to past learning.

Progressing

The teacher signals the importance of safety and belonging by co-creating classroom agreements for doing math. Evidence of classroom agreements is visible (e.g., anchor charts, student discussions).

The teacher may provide an opportunity for students to connect personal experiences to the lesson.

Emerging

The teacher may use language that promotes belonging, but there is little evidence of established classroom agreements for doing math (e.g., anchor charts, protocols).

⬜ Indicator not observed