Classroom Connection Check-In: Making Sure All Children Are Seen
Maintaining positive relationships is more important now than ever. A few years ago while conducting a focus group, I started by asking the Year 11 (10th grade) students, whom the school classified as ‘low-performing’, if they liked being in school. One girl responded, ‘I feel like my teachers don’t even see me.’ This has stuck in my mind. We know this girl: she is quiet and well-behaved but often falls off our radar, right under our noses. And now, in these extraordinary tim
