The Belonging Library
Downloadable Tools to Help Every Learner Feel Seen, Valued, and Connected.
We believe every educator and leader should have access to the tools that make belonging and community-building come alive.
That’s why we’ve opened up our library of templates, guides, and ready-to-use resources — the very ones we use in our coaching practice — now available to you, free of charge.
Whether you’re looking for a quick reflection prompt, a planning guide, or a visual reminder to keep your practice rooted in inclusion, you’ll find it here.
Downloadable Tools
This resource lays out the Roots ConnectED approach to community building, and offers a sample plan and planning template for more authentic spaces of community with students, staff, or families.
This accessible, flexible checklist enables educators to create lesson plans that promote inclusivity for all learners. The Implementation of UDL principles builds learning spaces that support student success.
Whether you call them norms, guiding principles, or agreements, this tool allows you to assess how often you center, lift up, and practice norms. Use it to support making norms relevant in daily practice.
This tool is designed to help you write clear, accessible, and inclusive learning goals based on your state standards, in line with a UDL approach. Identify what students should learn and remove barriers.
Explore how the words we choose can shape a sense of belonging with examples of everyday classroom language and suggestions for more inclusive alternatives—includes space for personal reflection.
Turn big ideas into practical changes. This tool offers examples of inclusive question design, suggestions for refining your own questions, and guided areas to map out these shifts in your daily practice.
Take inventory of where you are in mindset and practice in relation to these culture indicators connected to Community Building and Identity of the Anti-Bias Education goals.
The INTENT Framework was developed in order to help families come together, share perspectives and engage in community building activities. This planning template highlights the framework as a holistic way to plan for family engagement.
Get support in preparing for, facilitating, and reflecting on current event discussions in ways that foster belonging, and critical thinking. This tool is to be used once you know the current event you wish to discuss.
This planning tool, structured as a framework, is one that teachers can use to integrate and plan for increased choice and independence for the students in their classrooms.
