Creating a safe place to foster healthy relationship where people are tolerating one another’s failures and encouraging one another in the work each must do and the vocation each must live.
"How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore."
Psalm 133
“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What type of community does the physical space and layout of the classroom create?
How is technology being used to help or hinder community in my classroom?
How can students know and be known in my classroom?
The following is a list of teacher-generated ideas of ways that this practice could be implemented in the classroom or school culture.