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'Student Agency' Is Not Something You Give or Take

Supporting Children's Agentic Identities through the Approaches to Learning

How Can Teachers Nurture Meaningful Student Agency?

Simplifying Agency: 5 Habits for Valuing Student Voice

Boost Student Agency

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Recommended Reading

In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.

In Choice Words, Peter Johnston shows how teachers build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities using their most powerful teaching tool: language to promote strategic thinking and agency in students.

Ron Ritchhart's work from Harvard's Project Zero project promotes Visible Thinking, a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines that engage and encourage independent thinking.

Debbie Miller gives insights into teaching focused on student agency and making what children make and do a priority.

In Educated by Design Michael Cohen (aka The Tech Rabbi) explains that when creativity is clearly defined and intentionally practiced, all educators can improve the design they bring to their students’ learning experiences.

Kath Murdoch shows how can we create learning environments that cultivate curiosity and grow children as confident, capable and creative inquirers. And how can we ensure that our teaching nurtures rather than diminishes inquiry.

In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our students and how the brain affects their learning.

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