To spur agency and critical thinking, educators can take steps to position students as knowledge builders rather than just consumers. Drawing on Indigenous pedagogy and her own work on the value of "street data" in education, author and consultant Shane Safir discusses the importance of creating more space for student voice in instruction. By supporting student expression and agency, she says, educators can help students become knowledge builders as opposed to passive consumers. Safir outlines several instructional shifts educators can make to move from "a pedagogy of compliance" to a "pedagogy of voice." These include prioritizing inquiry over answers, ritualizing revision and reflection, and providing structures to encourage student expression and discussion.