

BIG IDEAS
Big Ideas!
AGENCY
Students
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Have input on learning time and place, classroom routines, and restorative conversations
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Are empowered to make choices in topics, texts, and process to take a meaningful leap in learning.
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Own cognitive load and have time to read, write, talk, and apply concepts in authentic ways and with the community.
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Have meaningful input in school decisions and culture.
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Feel trusted to make decisions about their learning and being.
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Know where to go for support with self awareness, self management, relationship skills, social awareness and decision making skills.
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Advocate for their needs in the areas of with self awareness, self management, relationship skills, social awareness and decision making skills.

Educators
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Are empowered to make instructional and operational choices based on local students’ needs including resources, budget, finances, use of time, hiring, and learning to make innovation grow.
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Are engaged in high quality professional learning and expected to innovate professional practice.
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Are empowered to make choices in topics, texts, and process that launch innovation in practice that improves student experience.
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Experience distributed leadership and authentic opportunities to lead for student agency, equity, and innovation.
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Feel trusted to make decisions by community.
EQUITY

Students
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Feel known, seen, and heard as learner and person.
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Co-create and have clarity on community expectations that promote learning and belonging.
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Reflect on personal actions to build a culture of belonging.
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Experience strong partnership with teacher for learning.
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Experience challenging, engaging and power promoting learning.
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Learn in a environment that is safe to ask questions and take risks.
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Name and reflect on the learning process.
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Experience learning that is relevant to (student) life and culture and that gives windows into other cultures.
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Experience units of study that have authentic opportunities and tasks to promote social justice in the community.
Educators
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Feel known, seen, and heard as learner and person.
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Engage in conversations and self-reflection that examine equity data across race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and language.
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Act to ensure equity, inclusion and belonging for each child.
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Experience strong partnership with leaders for learning.
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Experience challenging and engaging learning.
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Work and learn in a environment that is safe to ask questions and take risks.
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Build agency in culturally responsive practice in areas of personal awareness, accessing information, and creating a community of learners.
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Engage in affinity groups with colleagues.
Innovation
Students

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Provided space and time to think, create, try things differently to show you are learning and growing.
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Understand and use design thinking and other critical thinking routines.
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Benefit from teacher understanding of best practice in learning, agency, equity, and innovation
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Create and make products similar work of readers, writers, scientists, mathematicians, artists, citizens, and social justice champions.
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Experience culture that promotes peer encouragement and accountability to take huge leaps in learning.
Educators
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Provided space and time to think, create, try things differently
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Encouraged to make school look different for children in the areas of time, tasks, assessment, collaboration, and culture
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Adjust practice using design cycles
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Experience Learning Laboratory experiences to learn and see innovative practices in the Zone
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Experience motivating peer collaboration, feedback, and opportunity for revision
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Work in a culture that understands that planning time is critical for innovation
