The Playbook for Self-Directed Learning: A Leaders Guide to School Transformati [Hardcover]

1. The What and Why of Self-Directed Learning: An Introduction 2. Forming and Weaving Networks of Relationships 3. Focusing on the Whole Child 4. Promoting Student and Educator Choice?5. Facilitating Daily Student Goal Setting 6. Organizing for Student Self-Pacing 7. Empowering Students Rule Making 8. Nurturing Exploration 9. Embracing Productive Struggle 10. Facilitating Learner-Led Assessment 11. Designing a Learner-Led Environment 12. Leading School Transformation Appendix

The Self-Directed Learning Playbook offers school leaders a student-centered, relationship-driven approach to fostering learner-led success and autonomy at school.?

What if young people could follow their passions, design their learning, and organize their schooling in ways that helped them flourish as humans and as citizens? In this book, experienced educators who are national leaders in the field of self-directed learning offer us a soup-to-nuts guide in how to make this dream a reality. Chockful of examples, suffused with wisdom, and forthright about challenges, this hopeful yet practical book shows us both why and how students can be put in charge of their own learning. A must read for anyone who wants to transform industrial model schools into places of purpose and passion for both students and adults.

Jal Mehta, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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I am excited to endorse The Playbook for Self-Directed Learning by Dr. Tyler Thigpen, Dr. Caleb Collier, Amber Bryant, and Brittney Toles. This guide offers transformative strategies for fostering student agency and self-direction, essential for today's evolving educational landscape. By emphasizing the importance of supportive relationships, student choice, and purposeful struggle, this book equips educators with the tools to create environments where students can take charge ofl#˜