This resource explains how to create the conditions, employ the practices and develop the behaviours, attitudes and learning environments that are conducive to student voice, agency and leadership.
What is Student Agency?
This article is the first part of a two-part series exploring student agency as it has been defined through decades of research and how we can apply the lessons learned in a culturally-competent frame.
Menu of Practices for Student Agency
Three categories provide an organizational framework:
1. Student Opportunities
2. Student-Teacher Collaboration
3. Teacher-Led Approaches
Framework for Improving Schools (DET) - Continua of Practice for Empowering Students
Use this tool to self-assess your school’s capacity to activate student voice, in order to enable students to have positive school experiences and act as partners in school improvement.