Classroom Tips for Teachers

School is a safe haven for children where vast worlds of learning open up to them. They learn and play surrounded by friends and with the example and guidance of teachers. The rituals and routines of the school day give children a sense of order, belonging, and common experience with their peers. Students connect with the values, rituals, traditions, and practices that are distinctly their school's very own. Each classroom contains its own cues that put students in a mind to learn, to let go of burdens, to thrive. Beginnings and endings, each day, are great opportunities for common experiences, for happy rituals. This report shares four techniques that may prompt ideas for how to strengthen students' common experience and ready them to learn.