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Fostering a Safe and Inclusive Classroom
Social/Emotional Learning, Curriculum Strategies, Classroom Management | K-12
Study after study is confirming what veteran teachers already know: When students don’t feel safe or included in the classroom, the resulting anxiety has a negative impact on engagement and learning. But on the flip side, when students and their families feel welcomed, valued, and secure, they are more involved in their school community and perform better academically. Teachers are on the front lines of creating safe learning environments, and they need the right strategies to ensure their efforts succeed.
In this course, you’ll take stock of your current classroom culture and see how it measures up against the components of a safe learning environment. After exploring the myriad benefits of a safe environment, you’ll take a deep dive into two crucial methodologies for creating one: social–emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching. You’ll develop a playbook of actionable strategies that will foster a positive culture and meet your students’ social and emotional needs, plus a plan for overcoming potential challenges and roadblocks.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills you need to establish and maintain a safe learning environment throughout the school year.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Exercises to assess the components of your safe classroom environment
- Ways to establish and sustain a safe learning environment
- Best practices for effectively meeting your students’ social and emotional needs
- Techniques for creating and maintaining a culturally responsive classroom
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Reflect upon the current classroom environment so that strengths and gaps can be identified in the area of safety.
- Assess the short- and long-term benefits of fostering a safe learning environment with the purpose of enhancing current practices.
- Evaluate the roles that social emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching play in the classroom so a nurturing environment can be established.
- Create an implementation plan for fostering a safe learning environment in order to have positive student outcomes.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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Request a Free ConsultationCourse Design
We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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