This year at Spring Hill, we have been focusing on the principles of Responsive Classroom to build a strong and positive community throughout the school. One facet of Responsive Classroom being implemented in every classroom is the daily Morning Meeting. 

What is Morning Meeting? 

According to responsiveclassroom.org:

Responsive Classroom Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically. Each morning, students and teachers gather together in a circle for twenty to thirty minutes and interact with one another during four purposeful components:

1. Greeting: Students and teachers greet one another by name.
2. Sharing: Students share information about important events in their lives. Listeners often offer empathetic comments or ask clarifying questions.
3. Group Activity: Everyone participates in a brief, lively activity that fosters group cohesion and helps students practice social and academic skills (for example, reciting a poem, dancing, singing, or playing a game).
4. Morning Message: Students read and interact with a short message written by their teacher. The message is crafted to help students focus on the work they’ll do in school that day.

Learn more on the Responsive Classroom website. 

School-Wide Morning Meeting

In order to model the expectations of Morning Meeting, as well as create a greater sense of community among the teachers and students, Principal Eck runs a school-wide morning meeting on Zoom every Friday morning. The meeting is projected into classrooms and everyone participates with their classmates. See the slideshow below to get a glimpse of what our Morning Meeting looks like on Fridays!