Belonging: Classroom Environments Designed with Kids in Mind

Belonging: Classroom Environments Designed with Kids in Mind

Years into my teaching career, there was a pivotal shift in how I designed my classroom environment—one shaped by two key practices: soft starts and kidwatching.

Neither of them is new or novel, but both of them are a call to recenter what I value most in the face of standardization, censorship and erasure, stuck…

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Sara K. Ahmed
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Sara K. Ahmed

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