Partnering With in the Classroom

We’re bringing you a three-session course for educators on shifting the dynamic in classrooms and schools to one that facilitates both student and teacher autonomy.

The course is structured in three 2-hour sessions. Each session should have applicable takeaways but the sessions will fit together into a cohesive message of education as a partnership between kids and adults. We work to address NYS Teaching Standards.

Session 1 - Building Community

Educators will explore their own identities and what they bring to the classroom and then reflect on their students’ identities and think about how they view their students in terms of bias, prejudice, and assumption. . Using teacher’s own perspectives and the teachings of thought leaders past and present, we will consider the purpose of schools beyond teaching curriculum and attempt to lay bare the essence of what schools are and could be.

Session 2 - Reimagining Schools

We will use community circles to connect and reflect on participants' teaching journeys and their hard work as educators and community builders. We hope to build community with teachers and model the shared vision and value system they might create in their own classrooms. Together, we will reframe conflict as an important part of the educational experience and we will work on how to address it in a more restorative and transformative way.

Session 3 - Empathy, Choice and Trust

Participants will discuss what happens when guidelines are taken away and traditional power structures dismantled. We will encourage educators to step back and let students drive the direction of the class. We will encourage choice by giving the participants a choice of topic to investigate related to restorative practices in schools. We will wrap up with the message that through these practices, we can reject harmful school structures and start to transform systems from a place of harm to a place of healing and growth.

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