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This Pinterest Board for Unleashing Student Superpowers shares resources for the six student superpowers: Wondering, Curating, Connecting, Digital Inking, Designing, and Gaming.

This lesson from Learning Challenge Lessons, Secondary English Language Arts will enhance your students’ knowledge and understanding of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, with focuses on characterisation, responsibility and developments in science.

Use these strategies from Developing Expert Learners to present misconceptions, paradoxes, metaphors, and different models to evoke dissonance in your students and test and challenge their prior knowledge.

Use this checklist from Developing Expert Learners to determine whether your teachers are developing expert learners and whether your students are displaying the characteristics of expert learners.

 In this webinar, Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, discusses practices that strategically support students as they move from novices to experts in core academics. 

Use this lesson from Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary, by Jill and James Nottingham to discuss the concept of exploration with students. Includes three activities to try with your students.

Try out these lessons from Challenging Mindset with your students. Each lesson is designed to engage your students in cognitive conflict about some of the important concepts connected with mindset: influence, self-efficacy, heritability, development, challenge, resilience, and talent.

This diagram of the Learning Pit from Challenging Mindset describes the effects of mindset at each step the learning challenge journey.

Use this tool from Chapter 1 of Challenging Mindset to learn more about the impact your mindset can have and the next steps toward change.

In the following pages from Think Like Socrates, discover a new way to foster group writing with your students. Featured is a step-by-step lesson plan with directions on how to use.

In this lesson from Think Like Socrates, author Shanna Peeples provides complex texts for various grade levels and includes critical questions for debate and discussion amongst your students. 

This resource from Disruptive Classroom Technologies will guide you to set goals for the use and integration of digital tools in your classroom at three levels of mastery: beginning, developing, and mastering.