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.
Program two
Help students care about the lesson
A full training day on your campus. The strategies are practical, research based, and made for the screen era.
+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
Engagement is the first step to learning
Students who do not connect disengage, and a disengaged student cannot learn from the lesson. Teachers also compete with every screen, so the training teaches randomization, storytelling, and attention-grabbers that make participation the default.
It also covers retention and pressure. Connection points between the curriculum and students' lives help lessons stick, and dynamic tension strategies help students perform under real conditions with 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
How the engagement system works
The training moves through five pillars, modeling each one and giving teachers time to practice.
1. Positive Feelings
2. Attention & Interest
3. Connectedness
4. Self-Efficacy
5. Sharing Best Practices
Pillar Two
Promoting attention and interest
When any student might be called on, every student pays attention. Teachers learn randomization techniques along with questioning and storytelling.
Pillar Three
Promoting connectedness and relevance
Brainstorming, synectics, and fresh visual approaches help students attach new ideas to what they already care about. That attachment is what makes learning last.
Pillar Four
Promoting self-efficacy
Students who know how they learn keep learning. Teachers help them build that self-knowledge through reflection and low-stakes practice under pressure.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
This pillar builds a school culture of professional sharing. Teachers record engaging lessons in a shareable format and use them to find gaps.
Agenda
The engagement agenda
Most schools choose a full day. A half-day is available, and dates follow your calendar.
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM covers engagement and motivation, the pillars of engagement-first instruction, positive feelings, movement and brain-friendly strategies, and attention and interest through randomization and storytelling.
1:00 to 3:30 PM, after a one-hour lunch, covers meaningful and relevant lesson design, personal connections, visual images, confidence and self-efficacy, and responding on demand.
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