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Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers
Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers
Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers
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Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers

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Classrooms should be spaces where every child feels safe to bring their whole self to school. This book shows how to set up preK–grade 6 classrooms that support student agency, independence, and choice. The results of classrooms designed with these goals in mind include: 

  • Greater student engagement with curriculum
  • Students who know themselves and are empowered as learners
  • Students who feel valued and care about their learning as well as the learning of others
  • A more cohesive, authentic, and accepting community of learners
  • Opportunities for choice and decision-making by all learners

With examples drawn from real classrooms, the authors demonstrate how to make choices in seating, materials used, books read, and more. Special attention is paid to the design of classroom libraries in which a variety of diverse, quality books anchor so much of the work in helping young readers and writers grow and learn.

The book is richly illustrated with photos and samples to provide an inside look at classrooms in which children are centered and the teacher is responsive to creating spaces with student agency in mind.

172 pp. 2023. Grades PreK–6


LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 26, 2023
ISBN9780814101568
Classroom Design for Student Agency: Create Spaces to Empower Young Readers and Writers
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Lynsey Burkins

Lynsey Burkins has worked for children for the past eighteen years and currently serves third-grade students. She works toward creating antiracist spaces where children feel free, have agency, and know they are loved. She believes books are primary vehicles to help children become freer. She also presents on topics such as using literature to help students make sense of their world and literature as a vehicle to nurture students’ spirit and minds. She received her master’s degree in language, literacy, and culture from The Ohio State University. She is a member of NCTE and the outgoing national chair of NCTE’s Build Your Stack, an initiative that works to build teachers’ expertise in knowing and using quality literature in the classroom. You can find her at @lburkins on X, formerly Twitter.

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