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Classroom contexts survey

Each of us brings our unique contextual backgrounds to our learning communities. Providing a safe context in which members of a community can share their values (Practice M1), passions, anxieties, or identities can help innovators better understand how to support them more effectively. Use this activity to facilitate your own understanding of the members of your classroom community in a safe online context. 

Tool

   15 minutes

   By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

   Educator-prep | K-12 educators


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

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