Inspiring Student Empowerment: Moving Beyond Engagement, Refining Differentiation

A practical, comprehensive guide to help educators go beyond student engagement and differentiation to achieve student empowerment.

Student engagement continues to be an important goal for teachers, but it shouldn’t end there. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching anymore. School districts that have begun to shift their focus from engaging students to empowering them, and from differentiation to personalized learning, have seen a rise in test scores, motivation, attention, and self-confidence.

When students have voice and choice, they gain control over their learning and their actions and feel empowered to work harder and achieve more. Through sample lessons, strategies, and applications, educators will learn how to shift from engagement to empowerment, from differentiation to personalized learning, and practical ways to make these strategies work in the classroom.

Engagement and Empowerment

Educators will find:

• -A comprehensive guide to engaged learning
• -A comprehensive guide to empowerment
• -Research-based best practices to promote empowerment

Differentiation and Personalized Learning

Educators will find:

• -A comprehensive guide to refining differentiation practices
• -A comprehensive guide to personalized learning
• -Practical ways to use voice and choice, instructional design, and classroom climate to promote student empowerment
• -An entire chapter dedicated to the social and emotional learning side of personalized learning

Digital content includes reproducible forms and a PDF presentation for professional development.