Building a home with your community is a remarkable experience. There are many ways to engage your community in the construction of an earthen home, and create and/or strengthen lasting friendships. I’m teaching a free class TOMORROW (Thursday) with @buildoutsidethebox at 8pm EST/5pm PST. We’ll talk about how to find and engage your community in your building projects, the materials and methods that are well suited for community involvement, and the challenges and rewards of building together. F

Need some community building ideas for this week? These community building activities and games are perfect for the first weeks of school! Students will use collaboration and teamwork which will build a positive learning community in your classroom. These unique challenges and games will be different than most of the “getting to know you“ activities your students have done in previous years. We’ve used about ten of the activities and they’ve enjoyed all of them! It helps them work together, spar