Taking Flight: Impact Learning by Empowering Learner Agency (A Learning Forward Session)

 

This session was centered around the pictured text, written by practitioners from Liberty Public Schools in Missouri. The session focused on conditions and practices that support the development of student agency. The text is intended to serve as a "field guide" for developing student agency, offering different starting points for educators, tips and suggestions from current practitioners, and additional online resources. 

Agency is defined as:  the feeling of ownership and control that learners have over their own learning. When students believe their actions can make a difference, they become more confident, engaged, and effective learners

Enabling Conditions for Learner Agency include:

1. Vision- Identify a vision for learner agency

2. Relationships- Build relationships grounded in learner agency

3. Clarity- Develop clarity- align vision, goals, and learning

4. Learn- Model and engage in learning at ALL levels

5. Collaborate- Use authentic collaboration to foster innovation

6. Support- Build capacity in learners through embedded support

7. Efficacy- Build a culture that promotes efficacy

If you would like to be entered into a raffle to win a copy of the book, email an example of how your students currently show agency in their learning to Laura at 10166@kaneland.org