Empower Student Leaders: A Student Activity
This activity will be conducted with your students to allow them an opportunity to think about how they feel empowered at school, and what things (if …
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Assess Your School’s Level of Student Empowerment
This activity will guide your team to examine how student empowerment can be incorporated into students' daily lives. Are your students empowered to c…
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.
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…
Encourage Students to be Resilient 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…
Create Internship Programs With Local Businesses to Provide 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…