Researchers have reported students’ sense of belonging has been strikingly low internationally, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Creating the conditions for students to experience a sense of belonging and feel fully affirmed in who they are is the best way for teachers to personalize any instruction in any context. In this workshop, participants will explore activities and practices to build student-student and teacher-student relationships in a language class context that affirms students’ identities and improves students’ sense of belonging. By the end of the session, participants will have developed an action plan to regularly embed at least one relationship-building strategy into their instruction.

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