Masters, Not Victims: What Learner Agency Asks of a Leader (James Anderson)

Victim or master? In the opening episode of The Lead Learner, our new four part series with James Anderson, we ask what learner agency really asks of a school leader. James makes a deceptively simple case. A student without agency feels like the victim of their circumstances. A student with agency feels like the master of them. Agency, he argues, is not a program we hand out. It is an outcome we build, through the environment to act, the will to act, and the power to act. In this episod...