Improving Student Agency Through Teams with Michael Toth Transformative Principal 491

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MTothLSI">Michael D. Toth</a> is founder and CEO of <a href= "https://campaigns.learningsciences.com/lsi-founder-michael-d-toth/"> Learning Sciences International</a> and leads LSI’s Applied Research Center. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning book The Power of Student Teams with David Sousa; author of Who Moved My Standards; and co-author with Robert Marzano of The Essentials of a Standards-Driven Classroom, School Leadership for Results, and Teacher Evaluation that Makes a Difference.</p> <p>Michael gives public presentations and advises leaders on the most critical issues in K–12 education today, including equity and access, academic rigor, and student agency. As a thought leader, Michael has moderated high-level events such as roundtable discussions between some of the nation’s top superintendents on topics like reimagining schools of the future.</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.learningsciences.com/blog/floridas-lowest-performing-school-improved-from-f-to-a/"> How Florida’s Lowest Performing School Improved from an “F” to an “A” After Partnering with LSI</a></li> <li>External operator.</li> <li>Overcorrection is not helpful</li> <li>ensure student agency</li> <li>after a year, nothing but love.</li> <li>Building</li> <li>All students are capable of student agency</li> <li>If we just control them, we can’t go to rigor.</li> <li>Developing persistence</li> <li>Academic teaming - structures and responsibilities.</li> <li>“My kids can’t do that” means “I don’t know how to do that”</li> <li>The promise of public schools is that it will break generational poverty.</li> <li>Photos going back to the beginning of photography.</li> <li>Core instruction has to move kids from compliant, dependent thinkers to independent thinkers.</li> <li>Give students strategies on how to have structures, norms, and codes of conduct.</li> <li>culturally responsive learning environment helps significantly.</li> <li>Granting grace to schools</li> <li>Kindergartners self-regulating in groups.