# data[].attributes.body
Where students have advocated for specific instructional choices, an opportunity to develop those strategies should be created. As well, other students that may not have been active participants in instructional decision making but who feel they can activate their voice in the area of development would benefit from using instructional design as a platform for developing their voice.

# data[].attributes.body
Expression is an important goal for my class to activate the voice of those learners that tend to self select out of voicing their ideas or participating in activities where we can assess individual mastery of concepts.

# data[].attributes.body
Providing a platform where students can use their individual voice to inform class norm and instructional decision making creates the opportunity for students to feel like active rather than passive participants in the learning environment.

# data[].attributes.body
Where individual students have a strongly held opinion on direction that may provide a platform for them to grow into a leadership role in informing the evolution of learning goals and the environment, there should be provided opportunities for them to grow into these spaces by means of developing their active voice to advocate for their positions.

# data[].attributes.body
Students that actively engage the partnership aspect of the continuum of voice are now emerging experts in the rationale and design of instruction and can use their voice and prior knowledge as an instructional resource for their peers. As well, an important part of being major stakeholder in decision making is direct implementation and post analysis of the efficacy of instructional choices to develop future instruction.

# data[].attributes.body
Seesaw

# data[].attributes.body
Edmodo

# data[].attributes.body
Flipgrid

# data[].attributes.body
Weebly

# data[].attributes.body
Seesaw provides an easy to navigate whiteboard environment for students to develop their ideas, collaborate and implement feedback to fine tune their thinking. The open ended platform is well suited for the collaboration process. Students can present and discuss ideas remotely with teachers and experts not directly within the class, evaluating and implementing feedback to fine tune their lessons.

# data[].attributes.body
Kahoot is available through our district’s Classlink, and provides an engaging and anonymous means by which to communicate their mastery of learning objectives. This tool activates student voice for those students that otherwise might not feel comfortable sharing in what they perceive to be a high stakes environment, as well as for students that may find demonstrating mastery through written artifacts challenging.

# data[].attributes.body
Edmodo provides a place where students can create an individual learner profile, which activates their voice by providing a space for them to communicate their learning style and interests to their instructor. As well, students can respond to teacher created polls on a variety of subjects including student feedback on lessons or assignments.
Finally, it provides a teacher moderated space for students to collaborate and discuss their ideas about learning topics and class culture.

# data[].attributes.body
FlipGrid provides a platform for students to self create a content specific environment with videos, photos and other resources. As well, other students can provide feedback in a safe, collaborative environment.  A student that feels ready to transition to a leadership position to support instructional design choices can use this platform to develop and advocate their position to their peers, and be provided with meaningful feedback.

# data[].attributes.body
Weebly will provide a platform for those students engaged in the process of creating lessons to advocate for the decision making used in the creation of their chosen lesson content and format. As well, those students engaging the presentation, Weebly can be used as either a format for demonstrating learning directly through the creation of their own Weebly content, by providing lesson feedback to the presenter via blog, or as a platform for submitting other lesson related products to demonstrate mastery of the objectives.

# data[].attributes.headline
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #4

# data[].attributes.subject
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #4

# data[].attributes.body
For those students or groups of students that support the growth of active voice of their peers within the classroom, they will engage a small group lesson on how to define an objective, choose appropriate materials and activities, and effectively elicit support and review from experts.  Students will use the Seesaw app whiteboard and multimedia function to develop and organize their ideas, and to seek realtime feedback from teachers and other experts. Through collaborating with teachers and experts to develop instruction, students will explore, defend and grow their active voice as collaborators and leaders within the classroom, creating instruction built directly on their own ideas and input from their peers.

# data[].attributes.headline
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #1

# data[].attributes.subject
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #1

# data[].attributes.body
Students will use the Kahoot online quiz to compete against one another in a game show style competition, answering questions related to previously taught content. Using Kahoot will give individual students an ability to anonymously communicate their mastery directly to teachers to identify skills and concepts that may need to be readdressed, informing lesson plan design.

# data[].attributes.headline
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #2

# data[].attributes.subject
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #2

# data[].attributes.body
Edmodo will be used in a lesson that directly teaches students how to activate their voice to inform class culture and instruction. As a warm up, students will self diagnose their existing concept of how their voice functions currently in the classroom. Direct instruction will be based on concepts learned in Activating the Voice of the Student. In the lesson, an Edmodo survey will be distributed electronically, to provide students the ability to actively use their voice to provide actionable feedback on current class culture and instruction.

# data[].attributes.headline
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #3

# data[].attributes.subject
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #3

# data[].attributes.body
FlipGrid will be used for small group instruction, differentiated by topics such as class culture, instruction, and assessment. Student groups will create FlipGrids using self created videos to advocate for their positions on growth areas for our classroom community. Each group will present their FlipGrid to the rest of the class.  Class members will respond to the topic by creation FlipGrid responses. Doing so will provide  a space for students that want to develop as change leaders to develop their ideas, and for other students to voice their opinions on the ideas presented, all of which will help to create an active and collaborative community based on student input.

# data[].attributes.headline
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #5

# data[].attributes.subject
Overview of Instructional Activity to Support Goal #5

# data[].attributes.body
Those students that have developed along the voice continuum to the level of leader will use Weebly as a platform to present their lesson ideas to the class. Students will teach their peers to use the Weebly platform to submit their final product, as well as to communicate with each other during the lesson process, and to provide real time feedback on the lesson design and implementation to the student leader. Once students have completed the lesson, the student leader or leaders that developed the lesson will have the opportunity to use the artifacts created by their peers to reflect on positives and growth areas within their lessons.