Tools by Topic
Supporting Student Agency
Diverse research converges on the understanding that the learning engages multiple, cross-wired, functionally-integrated neural systems, including cognitive, affective, social and emotional processes. These processes are malleable to experience and are composed of both foundational skills, such as stress management and self-regulation, as well as higher-order skills like self-direction and curiosity.
Developing these skills requires attention, support, and thoughtful engagement with students, who are the active drivers in their own growth and development. Supporting student agency means meeting each student where they are, leveraging their unique strengths, and designing experiences that build skills in ongoing, integrated and increasingly complex ways.
Supporting Student Agency Continuum
The Continuum is designed to prompt reflection and empower growth across roles in a school by providing rich descriptions of quality and categorically different images of practice across levels: Emerging, Developing, and Advanced.
Adult Skills Self-Assessments
When adults develop self-awareness of how they use holistic skills and mindsets, including their strengths and weaknesses, they are better able to teach and support these skills.
Scenario Analysis
Opportunities to support holistic skills and mindsets show up authentically all the time across the school day. Use the resources to analyze how skills and mindsets supports can be integrated.
Integrated Skills Planner
The science of learning and development tells us that students need opportunities to learn and practice skills, in authentic contexts, while they are calm and relaxed. Use this tool to plan for integrated skill development.
Co-Regulation Planner: Executive Functions to Self-Direction
These tools support a co-regulatory approach to a student’s skill development. Included are sample strategies for supporting executive functions, providing the foundation for self-direction and agency.
Support Student Strategies: Stress Management to Resilience
These tools guide an asset-oriented approach to developing a repertoire of shared skill development strategies with students. Included are examples for supporting stress management and in turn, resilience.