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Disconnected students
Engagement builds motivation and participation, so students who had checked out come back.
Program two
Student engagement training for teachers, on your campus
One day of research-based strategies for getting students' attention back from their screens.
+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
What engagement fixes
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Short attention
Randomization, storytelling, and attention-grabbers keep students in the lesson.
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Forgotten lessons
Content tied to students' lives stays with them longer.
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Test anxiety
Students who practice under pressure through dynamic tension strategies become more resilient.
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
One day, five pillars
Every pillar comes with modeling and practice, so teachers can use it right away.
1. Positive Feelings
2. Attention & Interest
3. Connectedness
4. Self-Efficacy
5. Sharing Best Practices
Pillar One
Promoting positive feelings
How does a teacher make a lesson feel personal? This pillar answers with movement, honest feedback from students, and a teacher who shows up as a real person.
Pillar Two
Promoting attention and interest
Storytelling is one of the oldest teaching tools, and it still works. This pillar pairs it with randomization and questioning so that participation becomes the expectation.
Pillar Three
Promoting connectedness and relevance
Students ignore material that feels irrelevant. Teachers learn to build connection points between the curriculum and students' lives, using synectics, visual approaches, and brainstorming, so lessons are remembered.
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
Teachers work alone too often. The matrix method gives them a simple way to record their most engaging lessons, share them with colleagues, and find where the team has gaps.
Agenda
How the engagement day runs
A typical full day is below. The format is flexible, and the training happens at your school.
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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