Positive community is one of the four domains of the Responsive Classroom approach. A positive community is a safe, predictable, joyful, and inclusive classroom where all students have a sense of belonging and significance.  Teachers create a positive community when they:

  1. –Create the conditions for students to belong and be significant
  2. –Interact with students in respectful manner
  3. –Approach discipline in a primarily proactive way
  4. –Respond to misbehavior in ways that preserve the dignity of individual  students and the class
  5. –Provide opportunities to succeed that are equitable, fair, and just

 

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Empowering Adults to Support Each Other at the Beginning of a New School Year: A Conversation with Authors Emily Parrelli and Lisa Dewey Wells

  Empowering Adults to Support Each Other at the Beginning of a New School Year:  A Conversation with Authors Emily Parrelli and Lisa Dewey Wells   Emily Parrelli and Lisa Dewey Wells are Responsive Classroom consulting teachers and contributing authors for the forthcoming Empowering Educators series (Emily worked on Empowering…
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Sep 17 2021