Strategies
Overview
We have identified patterns in the actions teachers take in classrooms where students are growing as leaders of a better future. These transformational classrooms have shown that growing students in this way calls for more relational, student-led, discovery-oriented teaching and learning.
Discover
Check out this compilation of clips from some of the teachers, students, classrooms, schools, and communities that were part of our Global Learning Loops. What do these classrooms have in common? What key strategies do you see?
Learn
Our studies suggest that five families of actions (which we are calling “strategies”) distinguish transformational classrooms. Under each of these, you will observe five specific actions (for a total of 25 actions) often found in these classrooms.
“It turns out, if you are a teacher working to help students improve their lives and their communities’ futures, you do things very differently than teachers who are working to raise test scores.”
— Franco Mosso, Co-founder & former CEO, Enseña Perú
“It turns out, if you are a teacher working to help students improve their lives and their communities’ futures, you do things very differently than teachers who are working to raise test scores.”
— Franco Mosso, CEO & Co-founder, Enseña Perú
Do
Explore an emerging toolkit of strategies for developing student leadership designed for teachers and teacher coaches, and other recommended resources:
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Why: Collective, Contextualized Vision
Through this video from 2014, virtually visit communities and classrooms around the world and learn from educators, families, and students about the power of asking WHY. Explore the power of contextualized visions of student success to inform classro...
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Teach For Australia: Aboriginal Studies Class
This video from 2018 showcases the Aboriginal Studies class taught by Kaija Keski-Nummi, Teach For Australia alumna. In it, she shares how she incorporates culturally sustaining practices into her classroom.
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Samia Habli Creating Healing Spaces
In this video from 2020, Samia shows how she created healing spaces inside and outside of the classroom for her students to begin developing the awareness and agency they needed to understand and overcome the inequities they were facing.
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How Do We Work With Adult Learners?
This video from 2015 features staff members of Teach For Bangladesh, Enseña por México, and Teach For America discussing innovations in their approaches to programming. As you watch, consider what adult learning principles might be influencing their ...
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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.
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