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Student Agency Resources
Compiled by Taryn BondClegg
@makingoodhumans
1. The “WHY” behind student agency
7 Sins of our Forced Education System
(article)
What works can hurt - side effects in education
(academic journal) (and
keynote speech
)
The Future of Human Work is Imagination, Creativity and Strategy
(article)
The role agency plays in happy children
(article)
Who owns the learning in your classroom?
(blog post)
Why is agentic learning important
(article)
5 lessons on “learning”
(blog post)
What kids need from grown-ups, but aren’t getting
(article)
10 provocative quotes from “Deschooling Society”
(article)
The case for the self-driven child
(book review/interview with author)
The similarities between school and prison
(comic)
Is real education reform possible? If so, how?
(article)
Self-directed learning is the pursuit of happiness
(article)
Why school is not ready for us
(Tedx Talk)
What skills will employers value in 2020?
(article)
Kids don’t fail school… school fails kids
(article)
7 things that happen when students own their own learning
(video) (and
visual
)
The difference between school and “real life”
(sketchnote image)
WANTED: Professional Learners
(article)
The Science of the Individual = The Case for Agency
(compilation of research)
3. General “How To’s” - Strategies for Upping the Agency
7 Ways to Promote More Choice in Compulsory Schooling
(blog post)
5 ways to promote student agency
(blog post)
Supporting Student Agency
(blog post)
Supporting Student Agency
- Take Two! (blog post)
Let students teach
(blog post)
How to reimagine schools
(video series)
Opt-in lessons
(blog post)
Learning to Self-Manage: Autonomy and Intrinsic Motivation
(Harvard Article)
5. Students planning units
Inviting students to teachers’ planning meetings
(blog post)
The blank unit planner project
(blog post)
Involving students in planning the lines of inquiry
(blog post)
Involving students in planning for inquiry
(blog post)
Student-led development of lines of inquiry
(blog post)
Encouraging students to plan a unit
(blog post)
Agency and the
UOI (blog post)
Student-Planned UOIs
(blog post)
Student-Planned UOIs: An Update
(blog post)
7. Students Owning Assessment
Assessment done with students, not to students
(blog post)
Should students be writing their own reports?
(blog post)
Forced feedback vs. found feedback
(blog post)
Co-constructing success criteria
(blog post)
Rethinking exams in MYP
(blog post)
What happens when students design their own assessments
(article)
Student Written Report Cards (blog post)
Choice Boards - A Shift in Ownership
(blog post)
Learning - Who gets to define success?
(blog post)
Agency in assessment
(blog post)
9. Student agency and literacy
Student agency vs. reading instruction
(blog post)
Reading “rules” we would never follow as adult readers
(blog post)
On reading tasks
(blog post)
11. Student agency and Specialist Subjects
Student agency in PE
(blog post)
Personalized learning in PE
(blog post)
Agency - a paradigm shift in the role of the library
(blog post)
Voice, choice and ownership in the art classroom
(blog post)
Agency in Visual Arts
(blog)
Technology isn’t necessary in personalizing learning
(blog post)
Examining learner agency in your setting
(list of criteria)
Agency in the library
(blog post)
13. Teacher Agency
10 ways for leaders to encourage agency
(blog post)
5 ways to increase teacher agenc
y (blog post)
Self-directed PD
(blog post)
Personalized Professional Learning
(blog post)
Personalized Professional Learning Take 2
(blog post)
Born to Learn - Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation
(website)
Some thoughts on PD about agency
(blog post)
Ideas for more agentic PD
(blog post, podcast, visual)
How to lead an evolution through inquiry-based leadership
(blog post)
Agency-Based Professional Developmen
t (blog post)
Agency As and For PD
(blog post)
School Leaders… knowing when to follow the rules, bend the rules, break the rules
(blog post)
Leading like a robot, or a rebel?
(blog post)
Evolution Starts Here: Inquiry-Based Leadership
(blog post)
#teacheragency
15. Agency vs. School structures and systems
Who is the God of Curriculum and what does he/she have against student agency?
(article)
Learning targets
(blog post)
Flexible Scheduling
(article)
Standards - Why realizing the full potential of education requires a fresh approach
(article)
Breaking the mould of assemblies
(blog post)
Timetables - the enemy of creativity
(blog post)
Feeling backwards about backwards
design (blog post)
The untouchables
(blog post)
Breaking away from the homeroom mould
(blog post)
2. Agency in General
#studentagency
What is “agency” in the Enhanced PYP
(graphic and short summary)
What is student agency and why should we care?
(blog post)
10 questions in pursuit of learner agency
(blog post)
The year of agency
(article)
Developing student agency improves equity and access
(blog post)
Student agency? Teacher Agency? School Agency?
(blog post)
What is student agency
(blog post)
‘Student Agency’ is not something you give or take
(article)
#student agency
(Twitter hashtag)
Making the shift from engagement to empowerment
(video and blog post)
The art and science of developing student agency
(article)
What is student agency?
(Academic research)
The complexity of learner agency
(academic research)
Don’t say agency unless you really mean it!
(blog post)
Play at “agency”
(article)
Misinterpreting Student Agency
(article)
Traditional Approach vs. Agency-Supportive Approach
(image)
What’s the difference between “engagement” and “empowerment”
(visual)
Defining Learner Agency
(blog post)
Choices for children - how and when to let children decide
(blog post)
Learner Agency: Beyond the Buzzword
(video workshop)
Living with Agency - beyond agency as a learner
(blog post)
Secret Agency
4. Students Setting Up the Learning Space
Preparing for students to set up the classroom
(blog post)
Example of students setting up their classroom
(blog post)
Teacher spaces vs. Student spaces
(blog post)
Students setting up their own learning spaces
(podcast)
The boards are down
(blog post)
Creating Spaces
(blog post)
What an agency-supportive first week of school could look like
(blog post)
The unsetup classroom
(blog post)
The magic of a student designed space (blog post)
GS
from
Glenealy School
on
Vimeo
.
6. Students planning day / timetable
Who should be writing the day plans?
(blog post)
Student Written Day Plans
(blog post)
How and why we let students create their own timetables
(blog post)
Students Design their own school days
(video & article)
Clear my schedule!
(blog post)
Handing timetable reigns over to students
(blog post)
Individualized Timetables, Interests and Needs
(blog post)
8. Student voice / Democracy
Report Cards for Teachers
(blog post)
School - a more fair and free place to learn
(blog post)
How democratic is your classroom?
(blog post)
What do we mean by “student voice”?
(collection of short videos)
Continuum of ownership
(image)
Student Voice - Our School’s Most Underutilized Resource
(blog post)
When students have real power
(blog post)
Respecting and Responding to Student Voice
(blog post)
Continuum of Ownership
(Sketchnote Visual)
More Agency in Student-Led Conferences
(blog post)
10. Student Agency in Early years
Agency in Early Years
(webinar)
Supporting Learner Agency in the Early Years
(blog post)
Inside the world’s best kindergarten
(article)
Promoting agency in early childhood
(pdf newsletter)
Early Years Learning - Agency in Practice
(pdf)
A sense of agency in early years
(PDF)
Involving young children in decision making
(PDF)
Respecting Students’ Agency and Rights to Participation
(Academic Journal)
Engaging with children’s voices
(article)
Promoting independence and agency in early childhood
(brochure)
Examining learner agency in your setting
(list of criteria)
Simple Moments
(blog post)
Unstructured Play is critical for kids
(article)
Learner Agency in Kindergarten
(blog post)
12. Student Agency and Homework
An inquiry into homework
(blog post)
Home Learning - Student-Led Debate
(blog post)
Student-Led Homework
(blog post)
14. Examples of Schools / Classes / Teachers Supporting SA
Building Agency
(video)
How schools develop student agency
(blog post)
A year of supporting student agency
(blog post)
Example of agency within units of inquiry, literacy and math
(webinar min. 23 - 50)
Summerhill School
(website)
Windsor House School
(website)
Supporting Student Agency Take Two!
(blog post)
Project Planning Paralysis
(blog post)
Templestow School
(video)
Studio 5: Breaking Down Moulds
(podcast)
Already Breaking Moulds - Studio 5
(Learning2 Talk)
Studio 5 - What have we just walked into?
(blog post)
Studio 5
(website)
Be the change you want to see in High School
- article
How students create motivationally supportive learning environments for themselves
(academic research)
Templestow High School
(podcast)
FLOW21 - Western Academy of Bejing
(website)
Voices of the alternative education movement
(video)
Unschooling movement
(written interview and podcast interview)
No Grades. No Timetable. Berlin Schools Turn Teaching Upside Down
(article)
Examples of learner agency in early years
(padlet)
Gleanealy School
(short video)
Studio 3: Skills first approach
(blog post)
Student Agency, Change and Pushing Boundaries
(blog post)
Futures Academy ISB
(article)
Innovation Institute
SAS (website)
Purdue- Trying to upend the traditional highschool model
My pragmatic journey to voice and choice in the high school classroom
(article)
Elon Musk Tinkers with Education
(article)
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