The Community Builder
Welcome to The Community Builder. A weekly email blast with practical ideas for building community in your remote classes. Two ideas per week. Delivered with a smile.
Here are two sample prompts for building community in your remote classroom to give you a peek at the type of content:

Have students develop Community Guidelines together. This idea was shared by Fiorella Morales who teaches in SOLES. These are ground rules for behavior and expectations in class. They can focus on being respectful to others, general zoom etiquette, or anything in between. Here’s an example from a professor at Queen’s College who uses them to foster inclusivity by creating a supportive environment for discussing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in her English courses.
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