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Ten Ways to Help Students Motivate Themselves (EdWeek)
Former and current educators share their ideas on how to encourage student motivation in this April 2023 blog post. Whitney Emke highlights the role of fostering belonging, purpose, and agency, and Laura Robb offers seven classroom conditions, like student-centered learning, collaboration and reflection, that nurture positive relationships to build a community of engaged learners.
A Call to Connection: Rediscovering the Transformative Power of Relationships (The Einhorn Collaborative)
A Call to Connection is a primer intended to spark conversation and inspire action in the many different settings and roles we inhabit. It does not put forward a prescriptive blueprint, but rather a set of accessible and adaptable ideas for re-centering our culture on connection. With reflection prompts and vignettes throughout, the primer is a powerful tool for igniting a shared understanding and collective consciousness that opens us up to the possibilities for connection around us.
Bridging Differences Playbook (Greater Good Science Center)
How do we build bridges when we are trying to create a sense of belonging in our school? How do we belong to a collective group with so many differences? This playbook from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center offers 14 research-based strategies to promote positive dialogue and understanding to bridge differences.
Learning Agency (Inspiring Inquiry)
The Inspiring Inquiry web page features a curated collection of educational resources that inspire teaching and learning through inquiry. Videos, infographics, and blog posts all give educators tools to support student agency. Resources support educators in their efforts to create an inquiry-based culture of thinking and learning that embraces the development of a growth mindset, 21st century skills/dispositions, and an environment in which it is safe for children to struggle, grapple, inquire, wonder, discuss and play.
Agency, Belonging, and Connectedness Resources
Browse resources related to the “small abc’s”, including action steps your school can take to enhance agency, belonging, and connectedness
The Four Core Components of Student Success Systems
High-quality student success systems combine four essential elements so that secondary schools are empowered, in an inclusive way, to graduate all students on a pathway to adult success through higher education and job training. Read the four briefs below to learn more about each of the components.
Research Brief: Student Success Systems Show Positive Results
January, 2024 Recent randomized controlled trials— the gold standard for determining the causal impact of educational interventions— have shown that student success systems generate positive results for students, schools, districts, and communities. Read our new brief to learn more about the benefits of high-quality student success systems.
Six Actions Principals Can Take to Meet Student Needs in a Post-Pandemic World
All students deserve the opportunity to succeed in school and graduate from high school prepared for the future. But when student needs are so great, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Student success systems take the guesswork out of student support. This two-page resource outlines six steps school leaders can take to implement student success systems.
Proven Strategies that Schools Can Use to Address Chronic Absenteeism: Learnings from The GRAD Partnership
New resource lays out a core set of evidence-based practices that schools have successfully used to address chronic absenteeism.
A Pathway to Change: Building Student Success Systems to Support Students with Disabilities
September 21, 2023
Students with disabilities graduate at lower rates than their nondisabled peers. Of the 49.4 million public-school students in the U.S., 13% receive services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA; U.S. Department of Education, 2022), a law that provides a free and appropriate public education to children with disabilities ages 3–21. There are many reasons students drop out of high school, and it is often a combination of factors. One of the most common reasons is a need for more engagement or interest in school.