Class Meetings

Class meetings provide teachers and students with a forum to get to know one another, discuss issues, identify and solve problems, and make decisions that affect classroom climate.

How It Works

Teachers create an environment in which students’ learning, opinions, and concerns are taken seriously—and in which students participate as valued and influential contributors to the classroom community. As students learn to listen and talk to each other, they begin building a safe learning environment.

Class Meeting Lessons

The Class Meetings Kit provides meetings for different purposes.

Beginning of year meetings:

• Help students get to know one another, set classroom norms, and apply positive social values to their interactions with others
• Examples include: Identify and share favorite things, Fairness and helpfulness, Playground behavior

Issues-based meetings:

• Are used whenever needed
• Examples include: Getting ready for a substitute, Field trip behavior, Arguing and fighting

End of year meetings:

• Help students make the transition from the school year to the summer
• Examples include: Appreciation cards, Autograph books

There are 30 lessons for grades K–1 and 35 lessons for grades 2–6.

The Class Meetings Kit also contains the Caring School Community Overview, Teacher’s Calendar: Classroom Implementation Guide (grades K–1, 2–6), and CSC Year at a Glance calendar.

Info by Grade Level

To see the components for a particular grade range or download a sample activity, click a grade-range package or activity listed below.

• Class Meeting Lessons Package K–1 download “Welcoming New Students” activity
• Class Meeting Lessons Package 2–6 download “Playground Challenges” activity or “Bullying” activity

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Teacher’s Package  |  Leader’s Package