Building and Maintaining Classroom Culture

Teaching with Mr. Bop · Jul 15, 2026 · 11m

Episode 6 is a standalone one: classroom culture, how you build it and how you maintain it. We get into a practical, step-by-step approach to co-creating classroom norms with students instead of just handing down rules, why defining vague terms like "respect" actually matters, and how to carry that same collaborative approach into accountability.

Topics covered:

Building classroom norms as a joint agreement, not a top-down rule set

Facilitating the norms conversation, whole group or with individual input first

Why you have to explicitly define vague terms like "respect"

Making norms visible…