21st Century Readiness Archives – Page 8 of 11

Two elementary students wear safety goggles as they compete a science activity using flasks filled with blue liquid.

Rate How Student-Centered Your Learning Environment Is: Implement Practices That Are Purposeful & Valuable to Students

This activity will assist your team in developing a shared understanding of what it means to transform the student experience (at the instructional le…

Inflexion February 15, 2021

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Three diverse professional women sit at a table and discuss ideas.

Make Sure All Students Have What They Need to Learn: Reflect on Purposeful Learning in Your School

In this activity your team will discuss what purposeful learning means to you (teachers, staff and leaders) in your school, and begin to develop a set…

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Female teacher and diverse group of students closely examine a robotics component in an engineering class.

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…

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Four diverse high school students smiling and walking side by side as a group with a college building behind them.

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 …

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Female high school student smiles and gestures with her hands up in surprise and discovery as other students watch in a classroom.

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.

Inflexion February 9, 2021

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High school students in blue t-shirts with the word "volunteer" printed on them sort donated clothes in cardboard boxes. One female student faces the camera smiling.

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.

Inflexion February 9, 2021

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Three high school students comfort a peer whose head hangs in her hand in distress.

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.

Inflexion February 9, 2021

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Diverse group of four smiling high school students.

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…

Inflexion February 9, 2021

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A Black female teacher helps guide a struggling Black female high school student.

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…

Inflexion February 9, 2021

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Female elementary student writes on a calendar hanging on a wall.

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…

Inflexion February 9, 2021

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