Student Agency

Ellen Hume-Howard / May 16, 2025

From PACE to PLACE: How New Hampshire is Redefining School Accountability Through Classroom-Aligned Innovation

In the national conversation about education reform, New Hampshire has quietly—but powerfully—paved the way for a new vision of school accountability. At the heart of this vision lies a transformative […]

Ann Hadwen / November 25, 2024

Student Agency Part 1: A Catalyst for Change in New Hampshire Public Schools

Empowering New Hampshire Students to Lead Change in Their Schools On a fall day in New England, approximately 100 students from 10 New Hampshire school districts gathered at a Concord […]

Bari Boisvert / June 5, 2024

Project Based Learning: A Dive Into The Student-Centered Classroom

Project-Based Learning is a teaching strategy that changes the dynamics in the classroom and traditional education. Instead of passively receiving information from teachers, students engage in hands-on projects that require […]

Kathy White / January 22, 2024

Beyond Compliance: Unlocking the Power of Self-Direction

Discovering the Dimensions of Self-Direction for Student Engagement Self-direction is often considered compliance-oriented behavior such as attending class on time and bringing a charged device. However, those practices do not […]

Bari Boisvert and Ann Hadwen / September 12, 2023

CULTIVATING CLASSROOM SUCCESS

Five Ideas for the New School Year Each September brings the promise of creating positive student relationships and the excitement of engaging students in meaningful learning. Teachers cultivate success in […]

NHLI / May 23, 2022

Habits of Success: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for Learning, Work, and Life – by Eliot Levine

Kathy White / February 19, 2021

Student and Teacher Agency in Action: the Self-Direction Toolkit Development Process

Researchers tell us and employers confirm that individuals who demonstrate the 21st-century skills of self-direction, communication, creativity and collaboration excel in post-secondary and career experiences.

Ellen Hume-Howard / July 1, 2020

Together and Stronger in the 603

We heard from many educators that they also needed normal conversations, and to focus on ideas that went beyond the current reality and look to a future to when we are past this crisis. 

Jon Vander Els / April 13, 2020

Silver Linings: Observations of Self-Directed Behavior in an Online Environment

There has always been a clear recognition of the importance of the critical competencies of communication, collaboration, creativity, and self-direction for success in the “real world” by teachers, parents, community members, and local business leaders. The “why” has never really been a question. However, providing opportunities for application of these skills in real-world situations that can transfer outside the walls of the school has been a question that educators have been grappling with.