What Does an Innovative Classroom Look Like?

Innovative teachers will...

• Provide choices and opportunites for reflection
• Create an inclusive environment that encourages problem finding
• Promote fearless student-centered learning acitvties, discussions, and experiences

Innovative students will...

• Exhibit a positive mindset when approaching new tasks
• Seek new opportunities to learn
• Work with others or indepdently to ask questions and discover new solutions

Classroom Examples

Goal Setting

• Academic class goals: reading minutes, math concepts, spelling.
• Service class goals: random acts of kindness or donations
• Behavior class goals: raising hands, controlling bodies, lining up quietly

Visuals of routines and schedules

Creative, comforting, supportive, and flexible

Growth mindset and positive thinking/positive conversaitons