Students taking charge

This guide explores how teachers can raise academic rigor, strengthen student engagement, and hand more of the responsibility for learning to students. It is written for classroom teachers as well as school leaders who want to respond to the changing needs of today's learners and understand how those needs shape instruction.

The authors show educators how to build classrooms where learners drive the work. Problem-based learning and differentiation give students room to raise their own questions and pursue the answers, while the design still aims high enough to meet demanding state standards. Readers get concrete examples and step-by-step guidance for planning these environments.

Technology runs through every part of this approach rather than sitting apart from it. The book describes how computers can support finding information, communicating, working together, and creating finished products across the school day, and it closes by showing what such a classroom looks like in practice.