Outcomes
Overview
Five areas of student growth—wellbeing, connectedness, awareness, agency, and mastery—suggest students are growing as leaders of a better future. Mastery is not diluted but is enhanced when pursued with other outcomes.
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What is student leadership and why does it matter?
In this compilation video, you will hear and see examples of student leadership. What inferences can you make about what these students and their teachers value?
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Five student leadership outcomes
Students and teachers in transformational classrooms around the world value similar areas of growth as indicators of student leadership development. Our crowd-sourced studies are suggesting that rigorous mastery is achieved through, not at the expense of, other key outcomes, including wellbeing, connectedness, awareness, and agency.
WELLBEING
Students feel secure and loved, empowering them to be themselves, try new things, and make mistakes in ways that encourage deeper learning.
CONNECTEDNESS
Students seek and value the perspectives and experiences of others as they work collaboratively toward a common good.
AWARENESS
Students are aware of inequity and celebrate their and others’ unique strengths and identities as assets for navigating challenges in pursuit of their growing sense of purpose.
AGENCY
Students take independent or collective action toward shared goals to cause positive changes in their own life or the lives of others.
MASTERY
Students attain a higher-order command of knowledge and skills as a means to create new opportunities and solutions to challenges.
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Five student leadership outcomes
Students and teachers in transformational classrooms around the world value similar areas of growth as indicators of student leadership development. Our crowd-sourced studies are suggesting that rigorous mastery is achieved through, not at the expense of, other key outcomes, including wellbeing, connectedness, awareness, and agency.
WELLBEING
Students feel secure and loved, empowering them to be themselves, try new things, and make mistakes in ways that encourage deeper learning.
CONNECTEDNESS
Students seek and value the perspectives and experiences of others as they work collaboratively toward a common good.
AWARENESS
Students are aware of inequity and celebrate their and others’ unique strengths and identities as assets for navigating challenges in pursuit of their growing sense of purpose.
AGENCY
Students take independent or collective action toward shared goals to cause positive changes in their own life or the lives of others.
MASTERY
Students attain a higher-order command of knowledge and skills as a means to create new opportunities and solutions to challenges.
“We have to develop that critical authentic hope in young people that tells them that you can make change, and we’re all in this together. And so our curriculum is built around that idea, understanding how society works, how you play that game and change that game, and what skills you need in order to do that.”
— Ann Milne, Former School Principal, Education Consultant, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and Cultural Learning Pioneer
“We have to develop that critical authentic hope in young people that tells them that you can make change, and we’re all in this together. And so our curriculum is built around that idea, understanding how society works, how you play that game and change that game, and what skills you need in order to do that."
— Ann Milne, Former School Principal, Education Consultant, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and Cultural Learning Pioneer
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Why Student Leadership Matters
Through this video from 2015, hear from teachers and alumni from across the Teach For All network as they break the barriers of conventional education to demonstrate why student leadership matters - not just for our students, but for our world.
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Our Glossary
In our attempt to capture the real spirit of the classrooms we have studied, we have sometimes intentionally used words and phrases in a slightly unusual way.
We invite you to learn more about our language choices by exploring our Glossary.