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Community Check-in

Group Members: Matt Cheney, Mike Davidson, Leslie Blakney, Hannah Dutton, Denise Hutchins

Value: Belongingness

How does this practice/idea reflect Cluster Learning?

We want to make sure that our students are connecting with each other, with us as professors and hopefully their wider community. This may open the ability for students to be more connected to the class and open the floor for questions. a community check-in could support the self-regulation part of habits of mind for students to advocate for what they need.

Why did your group choose this idea to feature/explore?

We think that because of the return to campus, we need to have opportunities for students to be honest about their needs. And this can facilitate connectedness. One of the vital values of campus is community, and we need to be intentional about it everywhere. If we don’t have community on campus, retention and success of our students is vital.

How could you generalize this idea into a practice that is applicable to as many different kinds of participants in the CPLC as possible?

If there was a way for there to be a community check-in at the beginning of meetings, through informal ways. Faculty and Staff need to find ways to connect through a space, place or time to foster that.

Identify anything that the University or the CoLab could do to help advance or support this practice.

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