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Morning Meeting Accessibility Map-Amanda Diamond, Emma Corngold…

- - - - makes classroom mildly less English centric
  - - - Students get limited time to prepare their response. Difficult for students who need more processing time.
      - Students often go around in a circle to share. Students who are towards the end of the share have to remember their response for a long time.
      - Students are often given specific sentence starters that they are required to use. These sentence starters are only given verbally.
      - CT models 2-3 examples verbally
      - Students must share in English.
      - Turn taking, especially round robin turn taking can be extremely difficult for students who may require more support for physical and verbal impulses
  - - - Some students may not understand the directions and therefore participation is limited.
    - - Limits access for those who cannot memorize with ease
  - - - challenging for students who need processing time and time to sound out unknown words
- - - - Always verbal
        
        Some students would benefit from alternative or additional modalities besides verbally to express their responses
      - Students are given think time, but aren't allowed to pass or tell a partner before sharing with the entire class.
      - Students go around in a circle sharing one at a time.
      - Questions are usually about students' home life.
        
        Builds a nice home-school connection
        
        Can be uncomfortable for those who do not want to talk about their home life. Question could relate to a sensitive situation for a student (e.g what is your favorite thing to do with your grownups?)
        
        forms connections between peers over shared experiences
      - Has to be spoken in English.
        
        Doesn't authentically draw on all students' lived experiences.
  - - - Promotes inclusion of all children
      - Children aren't given a choice to pass. The spotlight of greeting and being greeted could be anxiety producing for some children.
      - Children must use verbal greeting. No option for any non verbal gestures.
      - Each day one student chooses greeting for the whole class to use. Students have the choice of "hello" in English, French, Spanish, Hawaiian, Mandarin.
        
        Tokenizes translanguaging without embracing children's home languages. Languages selected are not taken from children's culture, but are selected generically by CT.
      - Assumes all children know the names of all their classmates.
      - Children are asked to make eye contact with their classmates. Promotes active listening, but can be deeply uncomfortable for some students
  - - - students may feel uncomfortable or having negative experience with physical contact
    - - Eye contact and working in close proximity can be uncomfortable for some students.
      - Children find their own partner or small group leaving students left out and singled out for being the last one to find a group.
      - Promotes relationships and friendships. Generates conversation and social skills.
        
        provides opportunities to work with a variety of peers & problem solve
  - - - conversation among students does not take place after the message is read
        
        challenging for students who need processionals
      - Intention is to end morning meeting with a group experience for all members to equally participate. Whether the intention is actually carried through is questionable.
      - Gendered language "boys and girls" used in message could be extremely uncomfortable and/or isolating
- - - - Students are asked to move just in the rug space. Small space for movement would be difficult for any student with mobility disabilities especially those who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids.
      - Many activities incorporate students touching each other for example high fives, hand shakes, or hip bumping. Students may feel uncomfortable with this type of physical contact
  - - - Students sit in an open circle facing the middle of the circle. This welcomes students, acknowledges, and values all students as a member of the classroom community.
      - Children who use chairs during other rug times aren't allowed to at this time
      - Little space for bodies. Have to sit with their legs crossed. Bodies touch those next to each other. A student with physical disabilities may not be able to participate in this circle.