Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity: Make sure that students are given activities and options that align with their values and interests.

Nurture joy and play: Give students the opportunity to learn through play. This could be sensory play or outdoor play. This allows for students to be active while learning, which helps to keep them engaged.

Address biases, threats, and distractions: Make sure that your classroom is a supportive, safe place for students. If they feel unsafe or threatened, it will be harder for them to be engaged in the lesson.

Optimize challenge and support: Challenging students in the classroom is extremely important. However, students may need to be challenged on different levels and in different ways. It is important to figure out what challenges work for each student.

Foster collaboration, interdependence, and collective learning: It is important to learn from one another, especially when discussing education. Supporting one another will help to create a stronger, more effective learning experience for students. Discussing education with others can help to develop new ideas.

Foster belonging and community: Students will be more engaged in the classroom when they feel like they belong. It is important to include all students and be welcoming of their ideas and interests.

Offer action-oriented feedback: It is important to give students feedback that is constructive and supportive. Students will be more engaged if they are being given specific feedback.

Develop awareness of self and others: Students need to have time to understand and think about their emotions. Learning how to manage your emotions can help students to better understand and support one another.

Promote individual and collective reflection: Giving students opportunities to reflect can help them to realize more about the progress they are making. It is important to remind students that they are making progress, which prevents them from losing motivation in the process.

Cultivate empathy and restorative practices: Empathy helps to create a classroom where students feel supported and understood. Students can show empathy by listening to someone else's viewpoint. Empathy creates trust among students, which creates a better classroom environment for everyone. When students feel supported, they will be more engaged in the classroom.

Support multiple ways to perceive information: Providing students with descriptions, explanations, and physical objects are all examples of ways to present information for those who need more of an explanation. Students may need extra support in order to understand the information being given to them. Instead of just showing an image or video, it is important to explain in another way for the students that may need it.

Represent a diversity of perspectives and identities in authentic ways: It is important to make sure that everyone's perspective is valued. Students will feel like they belong when the material relates to them in some way.

Support decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols: Students may need extra support in understanding symbols, numbers, and certain words. Symbols can be hard for some learners to understand. If students are unfamiliar with symbols or numbers, it may be helpful for them to use text-to-speech or another useful tool.

Cultivate understanding and respect across languages and dialects: It is important to display different representations of lessons for students who are new learners of the dominant language in the classroom. These students need to know that they are understood and make sure to support them in their learning process.

Address biases in the use of language and symbols: It is important to display content in different languages for those who do not speak English or the dominant language in the classroom. This helps students to feel more welcome and valued. Those who speak a different language need to be valued just as any other student would be.

Illustrate through multiple media: It is important to show information through different ways, not just through text. This can be difficult for those who struggle to understand for various reasons. Having other tools such as illustrations and simulators can be helpful.

Highlight and explore patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships: It is important to realize what the critical parts of the lesson are. This helps students to focus on their goal and know what is necessary to focus on.

Cultivate multiple ways of knowing and making meaning: It is important for students to know how to make meaning in various ways. It is important to respect everyone's perspective and approach. Students can use interactive models that help them to develop new understandings.

Maximize transfer and generalization: Students need to be able to show their knowledge in different ways. For example, using checklists or electronic reminders can be helpful.

Optimize access to accessible materials and assistive and accessible technologies and tools: Students are able to participate more when using these tools because they are accessible for learners. As an educator, it is important to support students when they are using learning tools.

Use multiple tools for construction, composition, and creativity: It is important to use many different tools in order to give students the best education. They are able to learn more when they use tools that truly help them learn.

Build fluencies with graduated support for practice and performance: It is important to focus on the process of learning. However, the performance is also important. Students have an opportunity to express themselves through different forms of expression while learning.

Address biases related to modes of expression and communication: It is important to make sure that students feel valued when expressing themselves. Students will feel more comfortable expressing themselves if they feel supported.

Anticipate and plan for challenges: Students have to be reminded that they will face challenges while working toward their goals. It is important to reflect and understand how to move past them.

Organize information and resources: If students want to stay organized and reach their goals, they have to make sure to keep all of their resources together. It is important to have a plan and keep everything organized.

Enhance capacity for monitoring progress: It is important to help students realize that they are making progress. You can do this by using charts, reflection prompts, and giving feedback.

Challenge exclusionary practices: It is important to make sure that every student feels included. Addressing experiences that students have faced can be helpful.