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Empowering Excellence: 5 Key Practices for Cultivating Transformative School Cultures

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Session description

Join us to explore best practices for empowering learners in K-12 education. Together we’ll collaborate and share effective strategies to enhance student voice and leadership, provide authentic experiences, tackle real-world issues, engage students in service learning, and elevate students’ strengths. Collaborate with us to create cultures that empower!

Outline

I. Introduction - 15 minutes
A. Self-reflection activity around the five practices (e.g. "I provide opportunities for others to experience authentic audiences.") at boards around the room using green, yellow and red post-it notes
B. Welcome and introductions
C. Turn and talk - What has it looked like/felt like when you experienced empowering leadership at its best?
D. Importance of empowering cultures in education
E. Overview of the session’s purpose

II. Practice 1: Providing Authentic Audiences - 7 minutes
A. What are authentic audiences?
B. Benefits for student engagement and motivation
C. Examples of authentic audience opportunities
D. Turn and talk - share examples

III. Practice 2: Elevating Student Voice and Student Leadership - 7 minutes
A. Importance of student voice in decision-making
B. Creating platforms for student leadership
C. Examples of providing student voice and leadership
D. Stop and jot - share examples

IV. Practice 3: Tackling Real-World Issues - 7 minutes
A. Benefits of problem-based learning
B. Examples of projects addressing real-world challenges
C. Strategies for integrating real-world issues into lessons
D. Q-ball toss activity - share examples

V. Practice 4: Engaging Students in Service Learning - 7 minutes
A. Definition and significance of service learning
B. Examples of effective service learning opportunities/designs
C. Table share - share examples

VI. Practice 5: Elevating Students’ Strengths - 7 minutes
A. Importance of recognizing and leveraging individual strengths
B. Examples of strength-based practices
C. Share aloud: What are you a genius at?
D. Text message activity - send a text to someone who has empowered you.

VII. Closing Remarks - 5 minutes
A. Final thoughts on creating empowering school cultures
B. Resources and tools for further exploration
C. Thank you and next steps for participants

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Supporting research

https://ascd.org/el/the-empowered-student

https://ascd.org/books/teaching-to-empower?chapter=what-does-an-empowered-student-look-like

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/empower-students-adora-svitak

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Presenters

Kathryn Lemerich

Secondary Supervisor of STEM

Metuchen Public Schools

Julie Spoerl

Director of Technology and Learning

Springfield Public Schools

Session specifications

Topic:

Student Engagement and Agency

TLP:

Yes

Grade level:

PK-12

Audience:

District Level Leadership, School Level Leadership, Teacher

Attendee devices:

Devices useful

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows

TLPs:

Prioritize authentic experiences, Ignite Agency

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