The Playbook for Self-Directed Learning

A Leader’s Guide to School Transformation and Student Agency

Tyler S. Thigpen, Caleb Collier, Amber Bryant, Brittney Toles

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040256602
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

The Playbook for Self-Directed Learning offers school leaders a student-centered, relationship-driven approach to fostering learner-led success and autonomy at school. In self-directed learning, learners set their own goals, manage their own progress, and assess their own outcomes, all under the guidance of teachers and administrators. This accessible book offers evidence-based insights, real-world examples, and practical techniques for leaders seeking to transform their schools and empower students to become responsible for their own learning within an interdependent network of relationships with educators, peers, and involved adults. Each chapter includes a variety of strategies for supporting the conditions in which students can enthusiastically develop self-regulation, time management, adaptability, problem-solving, and other important skills. Principals, superintendents, teacher-leaders, and curriculum/assessment designers will come away with bold, yet intuitive methods for transforming schools into self-directed learning environments.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• 1 The What and Why of Self-Directed Learning: An Introduction
• 2 Forming and Weaving Networks of Relationships
• 3 Focusing on the Whole Child
• 4 Promoting Student and Educator Choice
• 5 Facilitating Daily Student Goal Setting
• 6 Organizing for Student Self-Pacing
• 7 Empowering Students’ Rule Making
• 8 Nurturing Exploration
• 9 Embracing Productive Struggle
• 10 Facilitating Learner-Led Assessment
• 11 Designing a Learner-Led Environment
• 12 Leading School Transformation