Signature Moves

Demonstrating responsible leadership competencies in observable ways that students can understand and possibly emulate.

Infusing fun, surprise, wonder, and celebration into the teaching and learning experience.

Establishing a community in which students can engage with each other in healthy, trustworthy, and productive ways.

Incorporating activities that focus students’ attention, energize them, or ask them to perform an action that invites them to physically move in their space or surroundings.

Designing open-ended, sometimes ill-structured, learning experiences where students are encouraged to mess about, experiment with ideas, and take calculated risks.

Attuning to current students’ backgrounds, interests and needs and giving them more agency to design their learning.

Providing space for students to notice and navigate a range of emotions within themselves and others.

Guiding students to bravely engage in controversial topics, complex experiences and difficult conversations.

Expose students to real-world issues and engage them in experiences that are authentic to their current and future realities.

Embedding cycles of ideation, development, drafting, feedback and revision into assignments and learning experiences.

Uncovering the values, norms and biases that exist in ourselves, ideas, societies, and systems.

Guiding students in reflection about their inner, spiritual, and physical selves through contemplative practices and meta-reflection.

Connecting students to different cultures, disciplines and perspectives in ways that broaden and clarify their understandings.

Building meaningful links and relationships between students and industry professionals, businesses, community organizations, and others.

Going back to artifacts of students’ thinking about a topic over time to reveal the progression of their understanding throughout a learning experience.

Honouring and supporting the identities and perspectives of minoritized and marginalized groups in your context.

Enabling students to grasp the profound impact of individual and collective actions in an interconnected world

Organizing group experiences that explicitly develop students’ critical communication and interpersonal skills.

Creating opportunities for your students to use technologies in effective and healthy ways.