What Does Community Building in a Blended Learning Setting Look Like?

1. Co-design student experience, listening to student voices

   • • Create a needs assessment 

2. 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

1. • 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