Building Community in Your Classroom

Here is a great idea to build community in your classroom. Use one of the bulletin boards in your classroom...assign each student a CD disc envelope and staple all of them to the board. Students and teachers can write positives notes about each other. This is an excellent way to encourage students to think positively about each other and develop a respectful and supportive environment in your classroom. You can have your students write to each other about something they think another student in the class did well at during a lesson as an Exit ticket. Perhaps a student is having a bad day, you can write a note to that student showing your support. There are so many things you can do with this board. I would definitely recommend creating something like this in your classroom!