Creating Community Agreements
How do shared community norms or agreements change how we care for each other in our communities?
During this lesson, students/participants will work together to design community agreements. Community agreements are ideas generated by students that set expectations as to how your community will show up together. The agreements should reflect what students believe they need from their community and what makes your community a safe environment to grow and be vulnerable.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to collaborate in determining a meaningful class goal.
Students will be able to collaborate to create expectations for their community.
Materials
- white board and/or poster paper
- marker/pencils
- writing journal
Preview Lesson Plan
Create a Class Goal
15 minutes
- Say: We are working together to build empathy as well as practicing ways to deeply listen to people. While we may not be doing a story exchange today, we are working toward building skills that will help us connect and listen to one another so that we can engage in a story exchange by the end of the semester.
- Discuss the importance of having a goal to work towards together as a team.
