Participate and share: Interactive session 
Purpose
Now more than ever, students need to be prepared to tackle challenges that are not clearly defined, that involve multiple new literacies (data literacy, human literacy, etc.), and that will require iteration in order to be successful. Giving students the opportunity to practice these skills by fostering environments where productive struggle is supported, will increase their ability to do this in the real world, as well as their resilience and frustration tolerance.
Objectives
Participants will:
Understand what productive struggle is and why it is critical to the learning process.
Know how to create opportunities for deeper learning, where productive struggle may occur.
Be able to facilitate learning while productive struggle is occurring.
Use these learning experiences as opportunities to help students increase their resilience and frustration tolerance, as well as their problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
Engage in a hands-on learning activity that they could take back to their own schools/districts to help others learn how to design learning experiences that foster deeper learning and to feel prepared to facilitate the learning.
(5 minutes) Introduction to the ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Productive Struggle
(10 minutes) Review examples of how to create safe spaces for building resiliency.
(20 minutes) Hands-on Project to simulate
(5 minutes) Takeaways from Hands-on Project
(10 minutes) Return to ‘Our Why’. How could this be finetuned for your community?
The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle by Rishi Sriram (https://www.edutopia.org/article/neuroscience-behind-productive-struggle/)
Understanding the Zone of Proximal Development can help educators design experiences that are appropriately scaffolded.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/zone-of-proximal-development)
How to Encourage Productive Struggle in Math - Insights from Research and Strategies for the Classroom
(https://medium.com/inspired-ideas-prek-12/how-to-encourage-productive-struggle-in-math-42485d427f6e)
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