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 …
School Type: K12
Connect Career Interest with School Curriculum: Foster Student Engagement & Understanding of Relevance
Using MyNexMove.org, have students explore career options. Have the students make connections between what they learned, and the careers they are most…
Hold a Film or Art Festival: Celebrate Student Excellence, Encourage Creativity & Build Rapport
Plan a film or arts festival to showcase students’ creativity and original work. Consider developing the projects in a core class that most students…
Student Self-Awareness & Self-Knowledge: Ask the Right Questions to Understand Your Students
Ask students essential questions. This activity is a great way to learn more about your students, while fostering a sense of self-reflection. These qu…
Create a Career Pathway Experience: Making Learning Relevant for All Students
Create CTE or career pathways schoolwide so that every student experiences project-based learning throughout their school experience. Check out Valley…
Plan a Maker Event, Science Fair, or Entrepreneur Day: Engaging & Connecting Students to School Relevance
Plan and implement a school-wide or whole grade maker event, science fair, or entrepreneur day and have students develop projects for the event in a s…
Foster Problem-Solving & Creativity: Apply Divergent Thinking Strategies in Lesson Plans
Include divergent thinking strategies in your lesson plans using instructional strategies. Divergent thinking is the process of generating multiple id…
Multi-Tiered System of Support: Scaling Up a Statewide Initiative in California
Few large-scale policy initiatives speak to the potential of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) more so than the California Scale-Up Multi-Tiere…
Roosevelt Middle School: Using Artful Learning and Community PRIDE Statements to Define Student Readiness Outcomes for All Students and Staff
Roosevelt’s leadership team identified two opportunities that were already part of their community that they would be able to leverage to create a m…
Three Strategies to Empower Students
What’s the secret to empowering students? How can we unleash their hidden potential? While I’m not sure I’m qualified to answer this question fu…
