Caring Connections Part 2: Creating Connection in Your Classroom

Building on Part 1, this session gives you practical ways to create genuine connection in your classroom. You’ll explore behaviour as communication, discover relationship-building strategies that fit into the time you already have, and learn how small environmental and routine shifts create powerful belonging. Real scenarios, immediately applicable techniques, and sustainable approaches that make a difference without burning you out.

Learning outcomes:

• View challenging behaviour through a lens of communication and unmet needs
• Build meaningful relationships with students through small, sustainable actions
• Create classroom environments and routines that foster belonging for all learners
• Apply listening and responding strategies that help students feel genuinely heard
• Identify the ripple effects of caring connections and sustain this work without burnout