Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning: A Framework for Building Student Agency (Your guide to fostering learner self-agency and increasing student engagement)

Cultivate confident thinkers who have a strong sense of agency over their lives. In Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning, author Bill Zima clearly outlines what student agency looks and sounds like in the classroom. Rely on the book's framework to help you develop a learner-centered classroom culture, establish well-defined learning targets, deliberately plan and structure lessons, and more.

Use this resource to help students become active participants in their learning:

• Explore the framework for building agency, and understand the importance of developing self-agency in students.
• Receive detailed explanations of each component of the framework and end-of-chapter assignments that ask readers to apply their learning.
• Study the agency unit planner, and utilize the planner to design student-centered learning experiences that develop learner agency and skills.
• Receive firsthand perspectives from teachers and students who have transformed learning and increased student engagement with the framework.

Contents:
Introduction: Why a Book on Agency?
Chapter 1: The Framework for Building Agency
Chapter 2: A Learner-Centered Classroom Culture
Chapter 3: The Inquiry Starter
Chapter 4: Learning Targets
Chapter 5: Application of Knowledge
Chapter 6: Reflection
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Index

Bill Zima is the director of implementation for Marzano Academies, partnering with schools and communities to realize a vision for personalized competency-based education. Throughout his career, he has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent in competency-based systems. His role prior to joining Marzano Academies was as superintendent of Regional School Unit 2 in Hallowell, Maine, considered a leader in the creation of a learner-centered, proficiency-based approach to education. Bill also acts as an adjunct professor of education for the University of Maine at Augusta. He works with teacher candidates by teaching courses on foundations of education, the teaching process, and classroom assessment. Bill has also supported student-teaching candidates for the university.

Bill received his bachelor's degree in industrial technology--electronics from Illinois State University and his master of education in science from the University of Central Florida.

To book Bill Zima for professional development, contact pd@MarzanoResources.com.