This driver of Powerful Learning highlights relationships and connections that students develop enabling them to connect and contribute to their world in meaningful ways.
Connecting and contributing begins with students connecting with themselves through self-awareness and self-regulation.
Other connections include students and teachers, students and their peers, and students and parents.
Relationships are the foundation of these connections as students extend their learning beyond the classroom.
It focuses on the well-being of all students and the conditions that foster well-being in classrooms.
It encourages active citizenship and fosters critical thinking about social assumptions and social issues.
Connecting and contributing extends to both the local and global community where students are encouraged to become aware and when possible to take social action.
