How The Fika Classroom™ Works

Welcome → Settle & Notice → Conversation Prompt → Listen & Follow Up → Collaborative Practice → Reflect → Carry It Forward.

• Quick Fika: about 5–7 minutes.
• Daily Fika: about 12–15 minutes and the current pilot default.
• Extended Fika: about 20–30 minutes when a lesson or setting benefits from more time.

The routine can remain familiar without requiring identical behavior from every student. Students may speak, listen, write, draw, use AAC or another communication method, work with a partner, take more thinking time, use a hypothetical example, reflect privately or pass.

Educators establish the structure and model the skills. As appropriate for age, readiness and access, students can be offered opportunities to welcome a group, introduce a prompt, ask follow-up questions, summarize ideas, facilitate a portion of a discussion or help close with reflection. Leadership is an opportunity, not compulsory public performance.

A simple beverage or snack may support the spirit of hospitality when feasible and consistent with school policy, allergies, accessibility, culture and family considerations. They are not required for a Daily Fika™.

The first pilot is intended to examine feasibility, clarity, developmental fit, accessibility, safety, implementation consistency, student experience and whether target skills can be observed. It is not an efficacy trial.