student voice
SEL & Mindset
Letting Students Lead School Culture
If school leaders and classroom teachers recognize the collective power of their students, then it makes sense for them to give their students the chance to identify needs, challenges, and issues within their school's culture, and develop potential means of addressing them.
Project-Based Learning
Agency and High Quality PBL
In addition to supporting deep learning and the 4 C’s, the 6 criteria of High Quality PBL hold the ability to support another critical outcome: Student Agency, the tendency and ability for students, of their own volition, to improve or extend their own learning.
Ed Policy
Youth Empowered For Social Change
Let’s not wait for another tragedy to empower young people to make a difference. In a confusing world of exponential change, it’s more important than ever for young people to develop the knowledge, skills, and self-confidence--agency plus capability--for change making.
Project-Based Learning
In Broward County, Student Voice Impacts the Classroom and Beyond
When students have a voice, and they know their voices matter, they realize they have agency in their own lives and in broader social, political and economic conversations. And then, great things happen.
SEL & Mindset
Design Thinking: A Student’s Perspective
By: Isis Toldson. "In four short months, I will be graduating high school and heading off into the future... I know that my plans may change, and whether I pursue law or not I know that what I’ve learned about Design Thinking will always be apart of my life."
SEL & Mindset
The Willpower Gap – Misinterpreting Student Agency
When definitions of agency lead to work that is driven purely by willpower, those definitions need to be reconsidered. The agentic classroom should be hard but fun for teachers and students alike.
Future of Learning
Empowering Students to Understand and Advocate for Their Own Learning Differences
By: Dr. Mary Ann Wolf. We often ask teachers, coaches, principals and district leaders about their “why” and about those one or two children who drive their work in education. More often than not, educators hone in on that student who needed to be understood, who learned differently and who was able to thrive because the educator was able to personalize learning for him or her.
Leadership
Shadow a Student: Reinventing the School Experience
The Shadow a Student Challenge is a journey that starts with seeing school through a student's eyes in order to identify opportunities to improve the school experience. It's not too late to sign up for the 2018 challenge--learn more here!
Personalized Learning
The Problem With Responsible Students
Students with agency, on the other hand, are not responsible in the sense that they have embraced the agenda of the adults and comply with it, rather they are reliable and cooperative in pursuing their learning.
Personalized Learning
Fueling a Vision of Student-Centered, Personalized Learning through Student Voice
My challenge to myself - and to all of us - today is to ask a handful of kids these two important questions: What do you want to learn? What do you want to do?