Purposeful Learning and Vision for Readiness: Align Instruction to Purposeful Learning
This activity will help you assess how much purposeful learning is happening in your school. By providing an opportunity to reflect on the bright spot…
Component: Step 2: Set Goals and Take Action
Co-create a vision of the skills, dispositions, and behavior that you are trying to achieve for all students. Find a north star, and backwards map from that vision to create the goals and identify the actions that will get you there. School leaders strengthen bidirectional communication with the entire school community, including families, to partner in supporting students.
Envision the Future of Your School’s Identity: Develop a Shared Understanding of Your School’s Identity
This activity is designed for the entire school community and will be conducted with staff, leadership teams, families, and students. This is an oppor…
Develop Life Readiness Pathways: Prepare and Empower Students for Their Futures
Develop schoolwide Life Readiness pathways so students feel prepared and empowered for their next steps. Reflections and activities from all of these …
Prepare Students for Their Future: Develop a Course for Students to Explore Their Purpose
Develop a course for students to explore their purpose and gain a better understanding of who they are, and what they value.
School Projects for Positive Change: Empower Students to Positively Impact Their Communities
Empower students to positively impact their communities, country, and the world. Consider projects from Design for Change.
Help Students Develop Empathy: Teach Empathy via Learning for Justice
Give students the opportunity to think about and practice empathy. Use lesson plans from Teaching Tolerance.
Develop Student Agency: Allow Students to Manage Their Daily Learning
Use design thinking, or a hackathon approach, to give students the opportunity to envision how their daily school experience should change to allow st…
Teach Time Management: Help Students Develop 21st-Century Skills
Teach time management: Challenge students to use their time to do what matters most to them by using lesson plans like
this one from Harvard Graduate…
Help Students Be Life-Ready: Teach Collaboration and Teamwork
Provide opportunities for students to work on skills that teach collaboration and teamwork - two skillsets required for their future success in career…
Create Internship Programs With Local Businesses: Providing Students Opportunities & Experience
Create internship programs with local businesses or organizations, such as Chamber of Commerce. Work with business partners to embed on-the-job projec…