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Students stop trying
When students do not connect, they disengage. Engagement strategies build both motivation and participation.
Program two
What could you accomplish if every student found a way into the lesson?
A full day of practical, research-based engagement strategies for classrooms that compete with every screen in students' lives.
+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
Four signs a campus needs engagement training
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Phones get the attention
Storytelling, randomization, and attention-grabbers give the lesson a fair chance.
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Nothing sticks
Connecting content to students' lives raises retention.
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Anxiety at test time
Dynamic tension strategies help students handle pressure 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
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
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
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
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
The goal of education is for students to learn how they learn best. Dynamic tension strategies and practice under pressure help them perform in real conditions and become resilient learners.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
Stop reinventing the wheel. With the matrix method, a staff can see which lessons work, share them, and spot gaps in instructional coverage.
Agenda
The engagement agenda
Most schools choose a full day. A half-day is available, and dates follow your calendar.
In the first block, from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, your trainer connects engagement to motivation, introduces the pillars, and has teachers practice positive feelings, movement, randomization, and storytelling.
After lunch, the second block runs from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM and covers relevance, personal connections, visual images, self-efficacy, and preparing students to respond under pressure.
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