b'Providing Stability and StructureEstablishing routines and expectations is essential now more than ever. We can help to ease anxieties by creating schedules within our classrooms and sharing them with our students. Posting daily or weekly schedules and sending them home can work well. Beginning each gathering with prayerthe same prayerand allowing time to simply be together and check in can be comforting to our students.Providing stability becomes even more important if we are not physically gathering with the children on a regular basis. Creating schedules by establishing online gathering times and due dates for material to be submitted and beginning each online gathering with the same routine, such as a short prayer and quick, round-robin check-in focused on one question (such as What is one good thing that has happened in the past week?) can help to establish a sense of stability for students.Subscribe today! smp.org/inspire 11'