Here are the Sentence Starters shared in the chat:

Respectfully disagree…because…/Respectfully agree…because…

I appreciate what ­­­________ has brought to the conversation; however,­­­­­­_______ I heard you say_____, and I think______ because…

Modeling to our students and to our community Civic friendship and Civic discourse that is my biggest takeaway. I am in a small rural school and everybody knows everybody so practice what you preach.

Thank you! I captured these and will for sure use them. Great for validation and teaching listening skills.

Building capacity for empathy through relationships was an underlying theme throughout. We need to build knowledge about each other and our communities, including the diversity of perspectives, in order to identify problems and be able to vet ideas in a respectful and well-researched way so we can move to take action to problem-solve. Lead with the students and THEIR work, THEIR thinking, THEIR ideas, THEIR choices. I shouldn’t see myself being reflected back in the products - I should see my students. Focusing on the skills will help achieve a more student-centered approach. Our job as facilitators is to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to contribute to the conversation. Remembering that engaging in problems IS problematic and it needs to be in order to move beyond problem-identification to problem-solving!

I completely agree, Benjamin Denomme . We all need practice in how to disagree with friends so that they stay friends! I also believe that students do not understand that "making an argument" is not the same as "arguing". Or that academic "arguing" is not the same as fighting.