Agents to Agency - by Lee Crockett (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Lee Crockett's highly anticipated Agents to Agency: A Measurable Process for Cultivating Self-Directed Learner Agency follows on from his bestselling Future-Focused Learning: 10 Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice.

The transformation of classroom practice and moving the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the learner is examined in greater detail, with an emphasis on the specific learning practices that successfully underpin the transition.

Agents to Agency explores how to adopt learning practices that develop and enhance learner agency and will provide the understanding you need to move forward with it in your classroom.

Lee guides you through the journey from agents to agency with clear summaries, key points, and tangible examples you can apply to your practice. Additionally, the final chapters also present a series of sensible and practical continuums for facilitating and measuring the progression of learner agency.

Review Quotes

'Most educators would agree that student ownership and agency are essential elements of deep, meaningful student learning. This book creates philosophical and practical clarity for any educator or education system who truly wants to graduate lifelong learners. Lee Crockett cuts through the rhetoric and provides insights and practical strategies that have the potential to significantly accelerate student learning.'

Dr Anthony Muhammad, educational speaker, presenter, and author

'If students are to become their own teachers, they need the skills, evaluative thinking and opportunities to develop a deep passion for learning. Gaining such agency rarely happens by chance; it needs systematising of the belief that it is important to teach students to become their own teachers and ensuring there is joy in the worthy struggle of this learning. Crockett's Lesson Zero and beyond are powerful methods to enact agency based on the premise there is no perfection, yet it was perfect in the moment that was. O this learning, what a thing it is!'

John Hattie, laureate professor emeritus at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, and chair of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership board

'Lee uses his personal journey, his global experience and the literature to shape a seamless and practical argument that we can "do" the fundamentals of learning and teaching differently. If we start with learners and focus on their journeys, we can reframe school experiences, making them relevant and centred on preparing our young people for their futures, not our past.'

Professor John Fischetti, pro vice-chancellor of the College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle

'Engagement of learners is so important in our schools, but there are many compelling reasons to move students from an initial position of engagement to something much more powerful and meaningful. In Agents to Agency, Lee Crockett skilfully sets out a practical blueprint to support educators with the necessary "how" for equipping, empowering and enabling young people to transform their own lives through amplifying learner voice, agency and advocacy in our schools and, ultimately, society.'

Adriano Di Prato, educator, former deputy principal, co-founder of a School for tomorrow. and co-author of Game Changers: Leading Today's Learning for Tomorrow's World

'I am such a fan of the brilliant writing and work of Lee Crockett. In Agents to Agency, Crockett provides an illustrative roadmap of "destinations, milestones and footsteps" with exceptional clarity for developing student agency over their learning. I have planted his Lesson Zero flag into all of our mathematics lesson design work. The book offers a brilliant, practical and precise rationale, structure and process for us to follow.'

Dr Timothy D Kanold, award-winning educator, author of books including HEART! and SOUL!