PROBLEM OF PRACTICE

How are our students developing their agency?

• Are students developing the confidence and resources to engage in the learning?
• Are the tasks hooking students in with their relevance and challenge?
• How are teachers eliciting student thinking to deepen learning?

Students with agency:

   * build knowledge

   * demonstrate understanding

   * set intentions and produce results

   * experience efficacy

​   * feel a sense of belonging

   * know their core identity is valued​   

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THE PRESENTATION

OUR NETWORK'S THINKING

An overview of our learning during the round

PRE-READING
Excerpts from Chapter 5, "Redefine Succes: Street Data and the Pedagogy of Voice". Download here 

During the round small groups collaborated to define student agency based on the pre-round reading.  Then the Visible Learning routine, "Making Meaning" was used to flesh out what agency should look like in our classrooms.  Finally participants reflected on the growth of their understanding. Here's what we thought. 

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND
"The Learning Disposition Wheel" from "Transforming Education" (Jefferson and Anderson, 2021) Download here

Strategy Number 24, "Making Students' Thinking Visible" from the book High Expectations Teaching. Download here

BUILDING ON OUR PRIOR LEARNING

This round builds on our prior learning. Check out the resources on: The Learning Pit; rigorous tasks; and teacher questioning to make student thinking visible from our 2019 Round at Enfield PS

ENFIELD PS 2019: HOW WELL ARE WE CHALLENGING OUR STUDENTS TO LEARN?

Three Additional Resources for Student Agency
1. "Learning on Purpose" provides case studies and big ideas for implementing student agency across a school; 2. The REAL Framework is a menu of student self-assessment prompts focusing on Big E engagement; and
3. Helen Timperley challenges us to collect data on learning from a student's point of view

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