Description

Start the school year with intention, joy, and connection. This Intentional Back-to-School Bundle is designed to help you build a classroom rooted in community, belonging, and purpose, without the stress of planning it all from scratch.

Whether you’re teaching Ethnic Studies, Social Studies, Advisory, or just want to center relationships and culture in your classroom, this bundle offers engaging, student-centered tools to set the tone for the year ahead.

What’s Inside:

• Facilitating Community Agreements Lesson Plan – Walk students through a collaborative process to define your classroom values and norms

• Affirming Poster Set – Printable visuals to make your space feel welcoming, inclusive, and rooted in student voice

• Snapshot Autobiography Project – A powerful way for students to introduce themselves and share the identities, experiences, and stories that shape them

• Student Survey – A thoughtful, identity-affirming questionnaire to help you understand your students’ needs, interests, and strengths from the start

• Parent/Guardian Survey – Build bridges with families using this connection-centered survey designed to invite collaboration and care

• Semester Bingo (Student-Created) – A goal-setting and self-connection activity where students create personalized bingo boards to track intentions and joyful milestones throughout the semester

• Are You Smarter Than an 8th Grader? Trivia Game – A lighthearted, team-based quiz game that breaks the ice and builds community through laughter and competition

This bundle is perfect for teachers who are:

• Prioritizing community-building from Day 1

• Cultivating a classroom culture of care and connection

• Seeking meaningful alternatives to “syllabus week”

• Creating space for students to show up as their full selves

Build the classroom you want to be in—on purpose.