Individual Voice
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Individual Voice

  When students are allowed and encouraged to bring their interests and passions, their curiosity into creative spaces it automatically makes the work relevant and meaningful to their own lives.…
Who Am I?
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Who Am I?

  I’m the quiet kid who sits in the corner with his hoodie pulled tight. But who am I? You’ve never seen me interact with any of the other students.…
Grit
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Grit

  Grit, or the ability to persevere when things are difficult, not working, or complicated is a great skill to help students explore and develop. The key ingredient to demonstrate…
Can’t Don’t Won’t
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Can’t Don’t Won’t

  We often hear the words can’t, don’t, won’t from many in education. Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators. Don’t do that. You can’t do that. I won’t do that. I’m not…
Learner Agency
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Learner Agency

  What happens when we switch our classrooms from being centered around our wants and needs to centering them around the wants and needs of students? We simply allow our…
May Your Starts Never End
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May Your Starts Never End

  Beginning can be so hard. It can be so overwhelming. It can even be frightening. It’s not hard to come up with a million reasons NOT to start. There…
Giving Up
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Giving Up

  What do you do when you finally want to give up? When you have exhausted all possibilities? When no one is working with you toward a goal? When others…
Help Them Matter More
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Help Them Matter More

  Whether engaging with books, or movies or paintings, or plays or music or musicals, the arts foster joy and connection. Whether on a flowered couch in your childhood home,…
PDIY
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PDIY

  Are you still sitting through staff meetings that are irrelevant to what you do? Are you still forced to sit through hour-long sessions where an outside presenter talks AT…