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Video 4 of 8. Author and Harvard professor Ron Ferguson discusses how to support students to make their way in the world, build a successful life and care about others. He defines agency as the capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative. Students effective in agency seek meaning and act with purpose to produce the changes they desire in their own life and in others’ lives. He talks about the things that inspire agency, things that focus agency, things that enable agency, and things that express agency.