In my more than 20 years of supporting students on their academic journey, I’ve realized there are no “magic” solutions in education. But there are some strategies that have proven to be more ...

Agency is the capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative--the opposite of helplessness. Young people with high levels of agency do not respond passively to their circumstances; they tend to ...

“Student-led conferences allow us to take ownership of our learning. Only we know how we are doing and where we are running. There isn’t always going to be an adult there to help us,” said Payton, a ...

Most everyone in the room agreed that phones can be a major distraction, yet few favored banning them. They argued that ...

With summer and fall planning top of mind for educators across the country, one stubborn challenge is students’ online attendance and engagement—or, precisely, the lack of it. In many schools and ...

A few years ago, Harvard’s Achievement Gap Institute conducted a study on teaching and student agency. The study recognized agency as potentially “…as important an outcome of schooling as the skills ...

It’s only recently that I’ve become much more disciplined in my use of the term “student agency” and how I apply it. Thanks to a research assignment on behalf of the Center for Innovation in Education ...

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You grew up on a small farm in Slovenia — far different than the bustling city you live in today. What was your experience growing up in such ...

Memory Krasmodemski, a Princeton University junior, understands those late-night hunger pangs as well as any student. One night in March she had a paper due the next morning, still had 50 pages of ...

GIVEN that most schools strive to grow by establishing a reputation of academic achievement, there are obvious gains from teaching students to crack exams and chase results. However, we have a dearth ...