Empower students to make connections between the content, their own interests, and then push them to link their understanding to authentic real-world scenarios and authentic assessments so they can design their own learning experiences with coaching from the teacher. For example, instead of assigning a lab or giving students the choice of two labs, empower them to design their own lab based on the standard and their scientific interests.

Empower students to self-advocate and collaborate to identify threats and distractions and then create creative solutions that will allow them to excel. Student voice drives the environment.

When given the learning standard, have students create personal goals for how they will learn the content, express the content, and challenge themselves throughout the process

Empower students to select their own content and/or own assessments, based on standards, and encourage them to collaborate to add to the multiple options offered to challenge themselves and identify appropriate resources that connect to their interests and passions.

Create a classroom culture where students work together to define goals, create strategies, provide feedback to each other and push each other with mastery-oriented feedback while building integrative thinking.

Implement proficient practice and also empower students to use mastery-oriented feedback independently to self-reflect, self-direct, and pursue personal growth in areas of challenge./p>

Create a classroom culture where students are empowered and able to support their own self-talk and support one another's positive attitudes toward learning.

Encourage students to self-reflect, accurately interpret their feelings, and use appropriate coping strategies and skills to foster learning for themselves and their classmates.

Create a culture where students consistently reflect on the learning process and assessments so they become self-directed learners who grow over time.

Empower students to select auditory alternatives as well as provide them with a framework to locate additional, reputable resources to build their understanding (e.g., resources on how to determine if a website or author is credible).

Empower students to use available resources to work collaboratively to determine authentic ways to use relevant vocabulary.

Empower students to preview material under study, highlight areas in need of clarification, and choose appropriate resources to build knowledge and understanding.

Empower students to independently utilize learned strategies to decode text, mathematical notation, and symbols./p>

Empower students to independently utilize options to translate material under study, collaborate to build understanding using tools, apps, etc./p>

Empower students to choose effective resources from multiple options with multiple representations so not all students are required to learn from the same resources./p>

Empower students to determine gaps in their own background knowledge and then select appropriate resources to build that knowledge in order to achieve the goals of a lesson. For example, begin with a diagnostic assessment and ask students to reflect and create a strategy for filling in gaps in learning./p>

Empower students to self-reflect to determine the most effective strategies for highlighting critical information and independently select the strategies that allow them to support recognition of patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships. /p>

Empower students to self-reflect and independently choose the most appropriate materials, strategies, and tools to guide information processing, visualization, and manipulation, searching for additional tools and strategies, if necessary.

Encourage students to apply knowledge and skills learned in class to enhance their understanding of content, design of their own authentic projects, and express their knowledge and understanding in authentic, real-world scenarios.

Empower students to assess the need for and choose technologies that work for them to provide additional, personalized options to express their knowledge and skills.

Let students reflect on a standard or a set of competency or proficiencybased rubrics, and then independently create authentic and innovative products that allow them to demonstrate their mastery of the standard.

When provided with a task, or when independently creating an authentic product, students are empowered to self-reflect and select tools and materials that will support their learning and challenge them to strive for rigorous options to express knowledge and skills in accessible, engaging ways using, and then building upon, the tools they were exposed to in class.

Empower students to create challenges that let them productively struggle to reach rigorous goals and use supports as tools to help them to make improvements rather than making things "easier." Encourage students to provide feedback and drive teacher instruction; encourage them to define roles and expectations for group work that include routine monitoring and reflection.

Empower students to self-reflect, self-assess, and create personalized action plans to achieve their identified goals. For example, encourage students to reflect on how much time and resources they need to perform selected tasks and then encourage them to make personal due dates and task lists to reach their goals.

Empower students to self-reflect, self-assess, and independently choose the most appropriate supports and resources that will allow them to organize information and resources so they can achieve their identified goal(s).

Empower students to use multiple resources, including teachers and peers, to consistently reflect on their performance, collect feedback, and revise their work to promote and highlight growth.