Student-centered classrooms make it possible for schools to fulfill their best and most enduring promise: to give students a fair chance to grow up literate, open-minded, and prepared to succeed. With this resource as your guide, you will learn six teaching practices to help you leave behind one-size-fits-all lessons, tests, and grades in favor of a student-centered approach that is interactive, individualized, and rigorous. (1) Learn how to use the two essential qualities of education, respect and agency, to help students achieve learning goals; (2) Find affirmation in being part of a community of educators that is creating the potential for a much-needed shift in the approach to education and academic rigor; (3) Discover ways to use speaking, listening, writing, and reading in new and creative ways; (4) Explore the essential components of a student-centered approach to evaluation and assessment; and (5) Understand how to counter misconceptions about student-centered learning when communicating with colleagues, administrators, and parents.