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…
Component: Student Empowerment
Each and every student has agency and autonomy in their learning journey.
Fail Forward: Encourage Resiliency and Embrace Mistakes
Knowing how to learn from failure can be a key to success. Model and reinforce the benefits of failure with your students. Encourage students to be re…
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…
Meaningful Student Success: Discover Your Students’ Passions by Asking What Motivates Them
Many educators struggle with motivating students to be successful in school. However, the most powerful motivation is intrinsic, so instead of trying …
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…
Capstone Projects Focused on Real-World Issues: Create Meaningful Experiences that Engage All Students
Set up a process for students to annually engage in capstone projects focused on real-world issues. Have each student reflect and apply several key id…
Engage Students in All Learning: Collaborate Across Subject Areas to Develop Multidisciplinary Projects
Create prep time for teachers to collaborate across subject areas to develop key multidisciplinary projects and assignments that show how subjects are…
Successful Learning: Provide Students Opportunities to Be Comfortable with Discomfort
Provide students with opportunities to become more comfortable with discomfort.
Connect Career Interest with School Curriculum: Foster Student Engagement & Understanding of Relevance
Using MyNexMove.org, have students explore career options. Have the students make connections between what they learned, and the careers they are most…
Cultivate Growth Mindsets: Reflect on the Failures and Successes of Learning Something New
Challenge students to learn something new. Develop a space within classrooms to celebrate and reflect on the failures and successes in learning someth…