Develop Student Academic mindset: 

How students think about their own learning can have a big impact on the outcome of their learning. 

How:

Learning is a social enterprise, so integrating interpersonal skills like looking at how growth mindset helps manage anxiety before a test, or how developing study habits provides opportunities for students to reflect on heir relationship to the subject and time management preparing for the test. 

Supports Educator Relational Capacity and Collective Educator Efficacy

Examples include:

• Students self assessments

• Student reflection

• Student voice about projects or products

• Student Interaction and partner Work

• Real life application of content

John Hattie’s work shows us that when students have agency and efficacy within their learning and understand their growth and mastery of academic content, they are assessment-capable learners. 

"Agency is partially about having choice, and partially about knowing what to do with that choice."

• See more information at https://www.nwea.org/blog/2021/how-to-build-student-agency-in-your-classroom/

• https://www.nextgenlearning.org/articles/student-agency-autonomy-joy-classroom

Examples include: 

Cooperative learning: Small groups of students use knowledge of their own strengths and the ability to take the perspectives of others to complete learning tasks collectively.

Use interactive pedagogy / instructional choices: 

The methods you use to teach your subject can provide students with a foundation for advancing their academic and or social-emotional skills.  

How:

Utilize Interactive pedagogical practices like discussions and cooperative learning provide numerous opportunities for students to be supported as they practice self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills. 

Supports Collective Educator Agency

Examples include:

• Collaborative groups with structures and roles 

• Peer to peer interactions and discussions

• Structures such as socratic seminars or philosophical chairs that involve interactions and content acquisition simultaneously

Capacity is built through reflection, coaching, acquiring by failing forward, and shifting our natural tendency to manage all things in the classroom. It is possible to create strong independent students through relational capacity. This is a common term associated with AVID classrooms, but applies to all educators and learners. 

AVID Connections:

• https://www.gettingsmart.com/2022/08/29/5-strategies-for-a-successful-start-to-the-school-year/

• https://avidopenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AVIDs-Four-Stages-of-Building-Relational-Capacity.pdf

Supports Educator Relational Capacity and Collective Educator Efficacy

Examples include:

• use communication skills to puzzle over ideas

• respectfully compare thinking

• Providing sentence stems to make phone calls home or apologies to peers

• Structuring student seating to allow for choice and voice

• Opportunities to collaborate and plan projects together

• Providing opportunities for circles, get to know yous, trust agreements, welcome back agreements or more to create inclusion and equity

• Providing structures that allow students to be independent and preserve dignity and apply learning in multiple ways

• Honoring lived experiences and creating circumstances to allow student agency

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that build Collective Teacher Efficacy and Common Protocols and Language benefit Student experience and learning.

Norms and Common Goals to Improve Teacher Efficacy include: 

• hold high expectations balanced with high support and compassion

• differentiate and provide opportunity for student choice 

• redirect without shame or humiliation -- create classrooms of care by getting curious, not furious when discipline is needed

• engage students with relevant instruction or experience for all

• foster communities of excited, self-directed learners

• personalize meaningful learning 

• ensure belonging of all to build academic achievement for all 

• direct teach and practice of guides and rules, but enjoy the potential for structured chaos

• make safe spaces -- physically and emotionally

• serve as a collaboration guru, providing on-task yet fun activities and group projects

• many other key actions...

Collective efficacy is 1 of the top 2 factors that change the trajectory of student learning, according to John Hattie's influences. The power of a team believing that it’s their working TOGETHER that makes the difference -- that is collective efficacy. 

So focusing on collective efficacy helps educators ensure that we investing time in the most influential, effective influences on learning -- the best way to work together is through PLCs.

Lead instruction based on competencies and process skills

This article articulates some key competencies both from the student and educator perspective. https://globalonlineacademy.org/insights/articles/an-introduction-to-competency-based-learning-what-why-how

Examples include:

• Building student agency -- 

• Collaboration skills for both in person and online work