Responding to Climate Concerns

Please watch the following video before our meeting and start considering ways you might assess the climate of your classroom. After viewing the video, you might reflect on the following questions:

• What does it mean?
• How do you understand it?
• How does it make you feel?
• How does it connect to other discussion topics?
• How does it connect to other topics, contexts, or experiences?
• What other questions does it raise?

Meeting Agenda

Recap last meeting (10 mins):

• Review resources

• Setup teaching observations for those interested.

Responding to climate concerns (50 mins):

• Watch the video as a group

• Discuss feedback from climate surveys:

  • Look at the broad trends

  • You do not need to respond immediately

  • Watch for the high impact, low frequency events

• Putting this into practice and responding to students.