student voice
Cultivating An Innovation Mindset in the Classroom
According to GenDIY, people who have innovation mindsets possess qualities such as “perseverance, initiative, collaboration, tenacity, and curiosity.” How can classroom teachers give students opportunities to develop an innovation mindset and build these important skills? Jamie Back offers a few ideas.
How Formative Assessment Transforms the Classroom, From Culture to Lesson Plans
By: Brea Lewis and Michelle Berkeley. The How I Know project has assisted 60 teachers in integrating formative assessment practice into their classrooms. In this post, Dallas teacher Brea Lewis shares how formative assessment practice has positively impacted her students' learning.
How a Community Organization is Helping Students Find and Share Their Voice
In part two of a four part series about how student engagement increases when students share their learning, we take a look at how Story Works Alaska is helping "youth develop skills, resilience, and engagement as they explore and share their own stories."
What Detroit and Chicago Can Teach Us About Student Growth and School Rating Systems
By: Chris Minnich. Accountability systems that measure growth recognize a school’s contributions to student progress and reduce bias against educators and schools serving students in diverse, high-poverty communities.
Developing Stronger Teacher-Student Connections
By: Tara Brown. Connecting with kids takes on many forms but all can have a huge impact on a child’s feeling of emotional safety, level of engagement and, ultimately, academic achievement.
3 Keys to Educating the Whole Child
By: Kristi Robinson. A principal’s approach to social-emotional learning starts with going on a walk with her students.
Helping Students Develop Discernment, Agency, and Empathy
By: Sherre Vernon, Shelli Kurth and Joe Acker. The Thrive Guarantee is our way of promising to the students we serve that we will help them develop discernment, agency, and empathy. Here, we explore what that promise means, and how we go about fulfilling it.
Learner-Driven Communities
A look at learner-driven communities, a new category of personalized learning that teaches and creates environments that encourage, “extreme agency”.
What Counts as Student Agency?
Students who are motivated to learn are more likely to focus on understanding, are more likely to learn deeply, are more likely to go above and beyond in an assignment, and are more likely to investigate when they have a question.
Empowering Students and Teachers for the 21st Century
By: Alan November. How do you motivate students to do their very best? One of the best ways I have found is through giving them voice and choice in what they learn, and how they learn it.