Transfer responsibility and build student agency

Wixie is designed with students in mind, providing a tool for them to share their ideas and understanding.

Here are ways to empower students to use Wixie for personal goals and jump start their agency, building confidence to take ownership of their learning.

Set goals

Use this SMART Goals lesson plan to have students set academic or personal goals for the school year that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. You can also search "goal" at the top of your home page to find a range of templates.

Visualize success

A vision board is a collage of images, words, and short phrases that help provide students with a tangible idea of what future success looks and feels like.

Use the completed vision boards as a device lock or home screen for a daily reminder and motivator to do the work necessary to achieve their goals.

Explore a Vision Board lesson plan.

Rights and responsibilities

Constitution Day is September 17th. This document, along with its amendments, protects the rights of all US citizens. Create a similar document for your class to ensure that everyone has a voice and rights that make them feel safe and comfortable expressing themselves.

Explore a complete Classroom Constitution lesson plan.

Make your mark

International Dot Day is celebrated in September each year to encourage student creativity. Based on Peter H. Reynold's The DOT, this delightful story is designed to help students "re-discover the power and potential of creativity in all they do." Encourage to students to write their own DOT story or make their mark.

Self-expression and self-regulation

The motions of moving a pen or pencil can have a calming effect, drawing a picture takes just enough brain power to make you forget other things and relax.

Remember the fun scratch art you used to do as a kid? Have students choose a scratch art activity and simply use the Eraser tool to express yourself and destress.

Make a mandala

Have students create their own mandalas to creatively apply elements of color, shape, and balance for self-expression and relaxation. The colors and imagery move from the outside to the center or goal. You can use these templates to make or color a mandala.

Explore a Make a Mandala lesson plan.

"Carve" your own petroglyph

Petroglyphs are objects carved into rock by prehistoric people. Assign the petroglyph template to have students use the Eraser tool to "carve" their own petroglyph image. Students can use the microphone tool to tell the story of the rock art.

Play in teams

Wixie contains games like sudoku, tic-tac-toe, and backgammon students can play with a friend using the Team feature. Working with a friend on a team math project can help students build flexible thinking and confidence in their unique mathematical ability when they see multiple right ways to answer a problem. Students can get started with parts of a whole and a partition challenge.

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Activities like Tangram Shape Guess can also help make math practice fun.

Build collaboration skills and connect team members

True collaboration isn't working on separate pages of a group project but discussing ideas and working together on the same content. Start with a simple one-page project like a team poem.

Create a classroom tour

It can be a little scary to come to a new class with new rules. Once your students have learned and settled into your classroom routine, ask them to apply their knowledge of locations and rules to design a classroom tour for new, or next year’s, students.

Student leaders

Encourage students familiar with Wixie to take on a leadership role and become student leaders. Students can provide additional support to students, and perhaps even new teachers, trying to use Wixie for the first time.