Description
Book SynopsisAll students can drive their own learning when we show them how. Humanized, equitable classrooms start with a commitment to building student agency. Step Aside offers clear, streamlined guidance for launching secondary students into high-level work that hinges on their ideas and insights.
Sarah Zerwin writes from the complex and challenging space of daily life in a classroom. She knows student-driven learning does not mean students make all decisions about what happens in the classroom. It occupies a more nuanced space where teachers carefully curate the classroom experience and teach students how to navigate it on their own.
Sarah has done the work to weave many resources into a Three Step Meaning Making Process that grows studentsâ thinking. Each chapter offers effective, flexible strategies to put into practice immediately:
- Reading strategies that work for any text students need or want to read
- Writing strategies that work for any te
