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This guide from the Inclusive Education website provides strategies and suggestions for developing innovative learning environments (ILEs) that work for all learners. It focuses on supporting schools who are planning a new build or building modifications.
Senior students from Riccarton High School have developed a learner-led media class called the Media and Advertising Division (MAD). Find out how MAD supports ākonga to lead their own learning through authentic, meaningful learning experiences.
Hagley College has been focusing on how to reduce subject silos, particularly for the junior cohorts. The school has developed ‘Connected classes’, a collaboration between the English, social sciences and science faculties with individual teachers delivering learning around a single unifying concept.
This Grow Waitaha story explains how Principal Steve Saville and his staff at Rolleston College consulted extensively with prospective learners and their families to inform the development of a vision and new spaces to support this.
Stephen Heppell explains the difference between asking kids their opinions and expecting them to do research and becoming fully involved in learning design. This talk is full of ideas and inspiration for rethinking learning environments.
This education paper from Finland examines the impact of involving upper secondary students in the design of their learning environment.
This Inclusive Education guide provides strategies and suggestions for developing innovative learning environments (ILE) that work for all learners. It has a specific section around involving students in decision making.
This Grow Waitaha article outlines a project designed to identify the diverse range of learning experiences and opportunities available for children and young people in Christchurch.
Simon Moriarty, principal of South Hornby School – Te Manu Tukutuku, shares his school’s experiences as they relocated to a newly built school on a new site.
Stuart Cameron, principal of Sumner School, shares his school’s experiences through the master planning and design phases of their property development.
Hagley Community College provides a broad curriculum and a range of innovative learning programmes for both school-aged and adult students. When Year 9 and 10 students enrol, a learning programme is developed by the school, the students, and caregivers with a set of learning goals that meets the students’ needs and supports them to pursue their interests.
This Grow Waitaha article explains Mairehau High School's focus on learner agency and real learning opportunities through collaborative inquiries.
This Grow Waitaha article explains Limitless, a programme available for secondary students to understand their strengths and passions and to help them explore options for their futures.
At Breen’s Intermediate, students are involved in school decisions and these often provide authentic learning contexts for students to solve real life problems.
This resource supports educators to design more authentic learning experiences by gathering and considering students' perspectives about learning.
This resource offers research, experiences, and tools to support teachers and leaders to explore the conditions that enable learner agency.
This short video outlines the benefits of students leading their own learning.
New Zealand principal Stephanie Thompson shares how students are taking the lead to run key initiatives within the school and community.
Find strategies to help you build greater learner agency in your own classroom.
This blog provides ideas, questions, tools, and examples to help you design a local curriculum that reflects what is important to your community. It contains a section around authentic student involvement.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF) and card set supports schools on a journey of transformational change and identifies aspects of practice which can enable the innovation of teaching and learning. Meaningful student involvement is one of the nine principles of the MEF.
