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What Does Community Building in a Blended Learning Setting Look Like?
What Does Community Building in a Blended Learning Setting Look Like?
Community building in a blended learning K-12 setting, infused with asset-based learning principles, is about creating a nurturing and inclusive environment where students, parents, and educators collaborate to recognize and harness the unique strengths and resources each individual brings to the table. By emphasizing the assets and talents of our community members, we foster a sense of belonging, trust, and empowerment. Through a blend of online interactions and face-to-face connections, educators cultivate a supportive community that values diversity and promotes holistic growth. This approach enriches the educational experience by not only focusing on academic achievement but also on the social and emotional development of our students. The goal is to create an educational journey for students that embraces and celebrates the richness of our community's assets, thereby empowering every learner.
Things to Consider:
Things to Consider:
Co-design student experience, listening to student voices
Create a needs assessment
Learner Profiles can be a beneficial way to get to know students.
Develop a learner profile
3. Create learning experiences that integrate Social Justice Standards.
Learning for Justice (Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action)
4. Use culturally responsive-sustaining pedagogy to increase students sense of belonging, and take an asset-based learning approach.
Use strategies by Zaretta Hammond, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain
Asset-Based Pedagogies (California Department of Education)
Kapor Center Culturally Responsive Framework for Computer Science and blended learning experiences.
5. Foster collaboration and promote higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and/or evaluation.
use active learning strategies, including peer-based learning, inquiry-based activities, collaborative learning, discussion groups, and small group work to cultivate learner interaction
6. Create opportunities for restorative circles.Check out build community through restorative circles.
7. Provide meaningful opportunities for teacher-student interaction including small-group instruction.
8. Establishes relationships through timely and encouraging communication, using various formats.
9. Consider activities that build on student social emotional learning.
10. Create activities that invite students to share about their identity and learn from others identity
This Identity Activity Template has been used for students to share about their identity in a variety of different ways
11. Do community building activities with students using technology like Padlet, Mentimeter, near
See Community Building Wakelet for more ideas.
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