Student Agency Job-Alike Huddles

Huddles

Job-alike forums held for an hour once a month, when educators with similar organizational responsibilities come together to share successes, challenges, resources, and strategies related to strengthening student agency. These gatherings are led and facilitated by a peer in the huddle group. The Huddles are supporting the development of school structures, processes, and practices that develop student agency, as defined here:

Agency Definition

The concept of student agency, as understood in the context of the OECD Learning Compass 2030, is rooted in the principle that:

“[S]tudents have the ability and the will to positively influence their own lives and the world around them. Student agency is thus defined as the capacity to set a goal, reflect and act responsibly to effect change. It is about acting rather than being acted upon; shaping rather than being shaped; and making responsible decisions and choices rather than accepting those determined by others.”

(OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 Concept Note, 2019)

Ideal Outcome

Huddles are seen as a supportive, safe, challenging environments that influence and stimulate peers to experiment and tinker with different ways to get their “one -downs” (Deci, 1985, p. 7) to take self-determined risks to grow and learn.

“Ultimately, the goal of any [learning] experience is to integrate the insights, developing skills, or other lessons the experience generates into one’s larger sense of self (Identity) in a way that expands a young person’s competencies and agency in the world.” (University of Chicago, 2015, p. 48)


  • Facilitated by:

    Jeff Brown, Superintendent, Granville Exempted Village Schools, Granville, OH

    Mike Nicholson, Principal, Learning InspirED, Dublin, OH

    Dates: the 3rd Monday of every month, starting 9/18/2023 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST

  • Facilitated by Dr. Jim Angelo, Frederick County Public Schools, VA

    Dates: the 4th Tuesday of every month, starting 9/26/2023 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST

  • Facilitated by:

    Nathan Gorsch, Principal, Academy District 20, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    Kate Ryan, Principal, Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union, Windsor, Vermont

    Dates: the 1st Thursday of every month, starting 9/7/2023 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST

  • Facilitated by:

    Jim Reding, HS Science Teacher, Granville Exempted Village School District, Granville, Ohio

    Katie Flanagan, HS Science Teacher, Academy District 20, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    Dates: the 2nd Thursday of every month, starting 9/14/2023, from 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

  • Facilitated by Scott Gaddis, Principal, Genoa Middle School, Westerville City Schools, Westerville, Ohio

    Dates: the 2nd Tuesday of every month, starting 9/12/2023, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST.

  • Facilitated by:

    Maggie Patel, 8th Grade Science Teacher, Daniel Wright Middle School, District 103 Lincolnshire Prairie School District.

    James Browder, 7th Grade ELA and Mastermind Teacher, Granville Middle School, Granville, Ohio

    Dates: the 3rd Wednesday of every month, starting 9/20/2023, from 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM EST

  • Facilitated by Rachel Rinker, Principal, Orchard View Elementary School, Frederick County Public Schools, Winchester, VA

    Dates: the 2nd Thursday of every month, starting 9/14/2023, from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EST.

  • Facilitated by:

    Rachel Chiesa, 2nd Grade Teacher, Sprague Elementary School, District 103 Lincolnshire-Prairie School District

    Katie Jenkins, 2nd Grade Teacher, Sprague Elementary School, District 103

    Dates: the 2nd Tuesday of every month, starting 9/12/2023, from 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM EST.

To participate in these huddles, please complete the brief registration at the link below.  After completing the registration, a calendar hold and zoom link will be emailed to you from mnicholson@learninspired.org. Please white list this email to prevent it going to your spam folder.  Registration link here