student voice

Difference Making

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.

SEL & Mindset

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.

Future of Learning

Learner-Driven Communities

A look at learner-driven communities, a new category of personalized learning that teaches and creates environments that encourage, “extreme agency”.

Project-Based Learning

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.