Teachers have long known that feeling safe and secure in school helps students focus their energy on learning. And the research bears that out: A 2018 study found that when teachers deliberately foster a sense of belonging by greeting each student at the door of the class, they see “significant improvements in academic engaged time and reductions in disruptive behavior.”

This post outlines ideas from teachers for ensuring that every student in the classroom feels like they belong.

Some of the activities included take less than five minutes. They’re divided up among the grades, but many can apply across all of the years from kindergarten to 12th grade.

The following document contains everything you need to get started with Learner Profiles.  Suggested inventories and resoures are included by grade grouping. Section 1 - Getting Started...Read This First (really...read this first!);Secton 2 - Kindergarten to Grade 2 Resources;Section 3 - Grade 3 to 5 Resources;Section 4 - Grade 6 to 9 Resources;Section 5 - Grade 10 to 12 Resources;Section 6 - How to Build a Learner Profile;Section 7 - Now What?

Download the guide to building student belonging.
Ideas include:
Permission to Envision
Get to Know You User Guides
Culture Boxes
Belonging Baton Pass
Morning Meetings

*This guide will need to be downloaded from Panorama.

Some unique ways to get to know your new crew of students at the start of the year!
*surveys
*geeky show and tell
*try a maker project to learn their creative process
*scavenger hunt
*find out what they want to learn with a student leadership team
*tap into sense of wonder

This 9 minute video explores the importance of relationships in learning.

In the Journal of Student Engagement (2012) Lauren Liberante writes: “The teacher–student relationship is one of the most powerful elements within the learning...

This resource contains two documents from the SK Ministry of Education: Priority Action Plan - contains crucial (foundational) outcomes for literacy and numeracy for Grades 1-9.   Reconnect - provides suggestions and other considerations for reconnecting during the pandemic and disrupted learning. 

This Back to School Package sets you up to have an inclusive classroom,

Here is a list of all eleven resources included in this amazing inclusive classroom pack:
Intermediate Words of Affirmation Word Search
Intermediate Back to School Mindfulness Colouring Pages
Intermediate Inclusive Classmate Challenge Cards
Intermediate What Makes Me Special Social Media Template
Intermediate Words of Positivity Whole Class Activity
Intermediate Canadian Teacher Planner 2021-2022 School Year
Intermediate Inclusive Class Meet the Teacher PowerPoint
Back to School Intermediate Student Checklist
Canadian Teaching Calendar 2021-2022 School Year
Back to School Intermediate Teacher Checklist
Welcome Back to School Intermediate Meditation Activities

This site uses American standards, so filter by SKILL, not grade to find what you need.

This site allows you to differentiate for a wide variety of needs quickly!

Create activities for PAPER or ONLINE learning. This can be used in the classroom and for distance learning.
*daily review creator!
*create mixed or spiral reviews to foster mastery
*create practice pages to reinforce skills
*print cheat sheets to explain skills to students
*create flashcards for review
*create modified versions of activities
*create quizzes
*multiple languages available
*drills

*make your own spelling lists using word families or use pre-made lists

The following files contain all learning outcomes for each grade from kindergarten through grade 12 written in student-friendly I CAN statements, as well as outcomes.

This is a very useful tool for PeBL initiatives and can be used by teachers or students when designing learning activities and assignments.

This guide has been created to support schools with developing and monitoring personalized goals (PGs) for students.Watch the video "What's New in 2022?" (most recent video) to get started this year. 

This collection houses resources that support teachers in implementing research and evidence-based practices in the instruction of reading. This collection is being added to and developed and is a "work in progress!"  Please continue to check back as we add more resources and links!

This set of lessons, ranging from 20-40 minutes, was developed to support the teaching of selfregulation in middle and high schools.
The nine lessons are designed to be modified by teachers to be relevant and appropriate to school
context and student needs. For example, example scenarios, cases, and quotes can be exchanged for
teacher-developed examples.
The lessons can be taught school-wide to all middle and high school students via an advisory or zero
hour course, or within specific course content.

This site is full of free (and paid) resources to help teachers and students.You can filter by age, grade, subject, and more.Search everything from back to school, orange shirt day, and subject specific topics to find great resources.

This interactive resource packed with ideas, tips, templates and more for back to school time.

Including:
*Icebreakers
*First week activities
*Tech tool refreshers
*Back to school read aloud stories
*Games
*Building community
*Templates