How does a focus on learning and creating significant learning environments impact or influence your innovation plan?

As educators, we are responsible for creating significant learning environments (CSLE) where students feel motivated to learn within the boundaries and expectations of a safe classroom. Research has shown that an engaged learning environment increases students' attention and focus, promotes meaningful learning experiences, encourages dialogue, discussions, and higher levels of student performance; it motivates students to practice higher-level critical thinking skills and helps them feel connected and supported. My Innovation Plan was born as a response to encourage students in their learning. Creating a significant learning environment for my fifth-grade students through the implementation of ePortfolios will motivate and engage them. By focusing on learning, students will use their ePortfolio as a learning tool, not just as digital storage they can fill with stuff.  ePortfolios playfully cultivate the imagination of our learners by giving them an authentic space for choice and providing more significant opportunities for ownership of learning. The ePortfolios promotes collaboration once artifacts have been constructed, showing our learners that they have an audience and a voice.