Students in the Driver’s Seat: Bringing Voice, Choice, and Joy to Learning in Your Classroom

This transformational book shows you how to put your students in the driver’s seat of their learning. It gives you step-by-step protocols and tools to empower student voice and choice: choosing mode, topics, outcomes, and ideas to make learning matter. Based on extensive classroom experience, the book celebrates joyful learning that also supports soft skills including personal organization, time management, collaboration, communication, and more. It promotes an approach to classroom management, teaching, and assessment to drive learning forward and personalize learning to the needs of individual students. An ideal resource for empowering your students to take charge of their learning!

Erin Quinn and Tara Vandertoorn are educators and administrators from Alberta, Canada, who collaborate to promote more student-centred, joyful learning. With expertise in creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and task design and assessment, Erin and Tara work together to design learning experiences for their students that lift students up and empower them. Erin is also a co-author of Collaborative Creativity Idea Book for Educators: Activities, Tactics and Strategies for Building a Collaborative Culture of Creativity.