BUILDING CLASSROOM COMMUNITY

WITH TEAMBUILDING & CLASSBUILDING

Create Friends, Not Bullies!

2 Day workshop

Research shows that when students feel safe, included, and appreciated, they experience greater academic success and social-emotional growth. Conversely, when students feel threatened or excluded, they may disengage or exhibit disciplinary issues, hindering their learning potential.

Join us for an interactive workshop where you will learn evidence-based strategies to create a positive classroom community that fosters academic, social, and emotional learning (SEL). This dynamic workshop will provide you with the tools and techniques to promote a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment where students feel valued and respected.

Discover how energising classbuilders and teambuilders can enhance your teaching practice by promoting interaction and care among your students. Explore how these techniques can cultivate a sense of belonging and appreciation for diversity within your classroom. With these strategies, your students will feel more supported by their peers, leading to a more collaborative and effective learning environment.

Through easy-to-use strategies, this workshop will also equip you with practical ways to reduce violence and racism while creating a culture of kindness and friendship. By reducing psychological and emotional distances among classmates, you can help students develop a sense of belonging and a positive attitude towards learning.

Experience first-hand how to transform your classroom into a mutually supportive learning community. With these strategies, you will be able to create an engaging and safe environment that nurtures academic achievement and social-emotional well-being for all your students.

Additionally, educators will have the opportunity to collaborate and network with peers, share insights and experiences, and leave with a comprehensive toolkit of strategies and resources to implement in their own classrooms.

Whether you are a new or experienced educator, this workshop is sure to provide valuable insights and practical tips for promoting a positive learning environment for all students.

Workshop Highlights

  • Learn engaging Kagan Structures you can use for fun and serious learning

  • Create a cooperative and caring class through energising classbuilding activities

  • Create the “will” for students to work together, and teach the “skills” of teamwork

  • Reduce bullying and prevent violence with a class where students know and like each other

  • Reduce perceived threat and free up students' minds to learn more, think more, and be more creative

  • Develop your students' social skills as they cooperate with teammates and classmates

  • Experience structures to meet the five aims of classbuilding and teambuilding

  • Energize your entire class with movement, groupings, and celebrations

With your attendance, you will receive:

  • Building Classroom Community Workbook

  • Discount option to purchase bonus materials:

    • Classbuilding Book

    • Classbuilding SmartCard

    • Silly Sports & Goofy Games Book

    • Teambuilding Book

    • Teambuilding SmartCard

  • “I really enjoyed this session. I have a lot of great ideas to take back to my school. I work across grades and really believe this will help achieve my goal of building a positive community!”

    —QUANNA WALLACE, K-4 DEAN OF STUDENTS

  • “I love how we transitioned between classbuilding and teambuilding and content application. It was beneficial for us and our students will benefit from the portability.”

    —HELEN DAVIS, TEACHER

  • “Very engaging! Looking forward to using the teambuilding and classbuilding structures for fun and content!”

    —KACY BOYETT, 1ST GRADE TEACHER

  • “Thank you for sharing this with all of us! I believe implementing these amazing structures, principles, classbuilding, teambuilding teams, management and social skill tools will change the lives of children all over the world as well as those who teach them. Thank you so much!”

    -NIKKIE HOTZE, 1ST GRADE TEACHER

  • “While I know that creating a safe classroom that feels like a family environment is important I have not always created this environment because I did not feel that we could do non-academic teambuilding. I'm excited to do this now!”

    -MARI MOONEYHAM-HARRISON, TEACHER

  • “Well worth coming to! Teaches content along with a variety of teambuilding, classbuilding, functional skills that adults and children need.”

    -GINA LANDTISER, 2ND GRADE TEACHER

“In the classroom it is the teacher who ultimately makes the choice of how much students feel included or excluded. When we choose not to make concerted efforts to make our classrooms more inclusive, we have still made a choice. It is a choice to default to traditional individualistic and competitive learning that results in many students feeling disconnected.”

— Miguel Kagan, Kagan USA