When a new school year begins, get to know you questions and activities become a prerequisite for building a strong classroom community. Even though it might seem unnecessary to spend time on get to know you questions and worksheets, the opposite is true. By being engaged with get to know you questions and activities, students develop strong bonds and robust connections and establish their place in and belonging to a social group. A teacher can design get to know you questions for purposeful communication in a classroom to teach various vital goals, such as allowing students to: talk about their interests discover their values reaffirm their strengths. Through simple but…