Recently I had another piece published with the good friends at MindShift KQED titled How Can Teachers Nurture Meaningful Student Agency? I love collaborating with MindShift as time and time again, they bring thoughtful and informed articles to educators around the world.
This particular piece focused on exploring authentic student agency with an aim to bring clarity to how educators can begin to move beyond defining agency as merely a choice over assignments. The accompanying sketchnote by the ever-talented Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt further illustrates these views (see below). Please have a read!
“Students need to feel psychologically safe if we are to ask them to take on a more active and meaningful role in their learning, which is why as we nurture student agency in our classrooms, it’s important that we also nurture relationships, trust and risk taking.”
