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 ...

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 ...

This post is by Gia Truong, CEO of Envision Education. Robert is a typical Envision Education student: he is African American; he is from a low-income immigrant family; and no one in his family has ...

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 ...

There is no shortage of articles reporting on the bleak picture of how Gen Z is doing. These students are supposedly moving into their college dormitories unable to read full-length novels, unprepared ...

If we resign ourselves to thinking that resistance is futile and allow AI to replace students’ voices, we are surely guilty of abandoning our responsibilities as educators A great deal of ink has been ...