Community Circles

Classroom community circles are powerful and can be integrated as a regular part of creating a strong sense of community, regulation, and empowerment for everyone. It’s a practice where all activities that take place in the class (and beyond) are debriefed and discussed - where students are not only problem solving in both proactive and responsive ways, but given a consistent forum where they are able to openly communicate, collaboratively think in a critical fashion, and understand that their voice, perspectives, and opinions have some agency in their class and school experiences. https://bit.ly/2P42hdq I believe that community circles require teachers to navigate between the roles of participant and facilitator. There’s constant inquiry and risk in community circle engagement. The teacher needs to model, be genuine, and learn along with the students, as well as, at times, enhance and steer the interactions and conversations in a positive and intended direction.  Collaborative co...