Some of the most critical soft skills (i.e., nontechnical, interpersonal skills that impact personal performance in an environment such as school or the workplace) that students must acquire as they mature are the skills to act or cause things to happen in their lives. Providing instruction to increase these skills--all part of self-determination--has been found to predict better in-school and post-school outcomes (Mazzotti et al., 2016). Skills can be targeted and addressed in the classroom through The Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction developed by Shogren et al. (2019) at the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities. This article provides a framework for teachers and families to use to help build self-determination skills through each stage of a student's life.