Authentic Engagement with the Content. Discover instructional design strategies to help students engage with the content so it becomes a source of meaning in their lives.

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• Session 1: Inclusive Materials: Ensure students can see themselves reflected in their learning and encounter unfamiliar stories, perspectives, and ideas.​​​

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• Session 2: Connective Prompts: Help students say something meaningful about the content and make it relevant in their lives.​​

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• Session 3: Orienting Rituals: Enable students to navigate transitions between topics and bring their values to their learning.

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• Session 4: Values-Based Task Choice: Create opportunities for students not only to choose how they learn the material but to make those choices based on what’s important to them.​

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Authentic Engagement with Their Work. Discover instructional design strategies to help students engage with their schoolwork so it becomes a source of vitality.

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• Session 5: Affirming Assignments: Ask students to create things that matter—to them personally and in the world.

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• Session 6: Empowering Work Processes: Make school projects intrinsically fulfilling for students.

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• Session 7: Co-Constructed Definitions of Success: Recognize established learning objectives as well as what matters to the student.

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Authentic Engagement with Each Other. Discover instructional design strategies to help students engage with one another so the class becomes a source of community.

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• Session 8: Respectful Discussions: Make class discussions equitable and participatory, and turn them into a site of relationship-building within the group.

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• Session 9: Collaboration Protocols: Foster academic understanding and interpersonal connection during group projects and inquiry-based lessons.

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• Session 10: Appreciative Reflection: Help students acknowledge their own learning, one another, and the group as a whole when they come to the end of a lesson or unit.

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