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Students give up
Students who do not connect disengage. Engagement strategies build motivation and bring reluctant students back into the lesson.
Program two
One day on student engagement and motivation
Practical strategies, grounded in research, for classrooms competing with phones, games, and social media.
+22%
Higher math achievement for engaged students
Gallup, 2019
2.5×
More likely to earn excellent grades
Gallup, 2018
74% → 33%
Engagement decline, 5th grade to high school
Gallup, 2018
+20%
Achievement gain from this category of strategies
Marzano, 2003
Why this training
The classroom is competing with every screen in students' lives
If your teachers are losing that contest, this training is for them.
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Screens win attention
Randomization, storytelling, and proven attention-grabbers make participation the normal thing to do.
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Lessons fade by next week
Teachers learn to connect the curriculum to students' own lives, and retention goes up.
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Test pressure
Dynamic tension strategies let students practice performing under real conditions and build resilience.
Research
"Focusing on students' social-emotional development had the largest contribution to the effectiveness of classroom management strategies."
Korpershoek et al. (2016). Review of Educational Research, Vol. 86, No. 3.
The five pillars
The engagement playbook
Five pillars, taught, modeled, and practiced, ready for the next class period.
1. Positive Feelings
2. Attention & Interest
3. Connectedness
4. Self-Efficacy
5. Sharing Best Practices
Pillar One
Promoting positive feelings
Every class has students with different backgrounds and abilities. A warm, safe climate is where engagement starts, and teachers practice building one.
Pillar Two
Promoting attention and interest
Randomization techniques keep every student ready to answer. Teachers also practice questioning and storytelling as tools for capturing attention.
Pillar Three
Promoting connectedness and relevance
Why do students forget a unit by the next week? Usually because it never connected. Synectics and visual approaches help teachers fix that.
Pillar Four
Promoting self-efficacy
Resilient learners handle tests better than anxious ones. This pillar uses dynamic tension strategies to build that resilience, along with reflective practice for students and teachers.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
The matrix method turns individual good ideas into team resources. Teachers record their best lessons and see where the team needs more.
Agenda
Sample engagement schedule
Shown here as a full day. A half-day version runs on dates you choose.
The morning is about getting students into the lesson. Between 8:30 AM and 12:00 PM, teachers learn the pillars of engagement-first instruction and work on motivation, positive feelings, movement and brain-friendly strategies, and attention through randomization and storytelling.
The afternoon is about keeping them there. After lunch (12:00 to 1:00 PM), the block from 1:00 to 3:30 PM covers relevance, personal connections, visual images, self-efficacy, and responding under pressure.
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