Building Relationships as a Classroom Routine

Struggling to make equity a priority in your ABE organization? We've got a solution! The Moving Equity Forward in Adult Education video series, created by ATLAS, offers free, 10-minute videos with discussion guides to spark meaningful conversations. These bite-sized, ready-to-use resources make it easy to energize and advance equity work in your program.

The fifth video in the series is Building Relationships as a Classroom Routine. It uses The Culture Tree to help educators dig a bit deeper than holidays and food to build trust with learners around their core cultural values with probing questions like, “Which aspect of the tree led to a miscommunication I, or students, had in class?” Live links to the resources are in the PDF of the video slides. Be sure to use the discussion guide to help staff process the video and apply it to their contexts.