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Cultivating Caring Relationships at School: 15 Activities That Promote Staff and Student Connection

Carla Guidi, Lan Nguyen, Nakanya Magby, Alexa Southall, Jubia Chavez, Amiya Farias, Julian Berkowitz-Sklar, and Rebeca Cerna
June 2022 | California Center for School Climate

This resource, coauthored by WestEd and the California Center for School Climate’s Youth Advisory Team, contains 15 classroom-based activities that promote the development of positive relationships between staff and students at both the elementary and secondary levels. Activities are designed to be low cost and easy to implement. Each activity contains detailed instructions as well as adaptations for both in-person and online learning environments.