Pillar One
Promoting positive feelings
Students learn from people they like. Teachers practice bringing more of themselves into the room, asking for student feedback, and making lessons feel personal.
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
Why engagement, why now
A student who does not connect with the lesson stops trying. Teachers also compete with every app and game on every device. Randomization, storytelling, and attention-grabbers help them win that competition and make participation the norm.
Two more problems follow. Lessons that feel irrelevant are forgotten, so teachers learn to tie content to students' lives. Test pressure makes students anxious, so dynamic tension strategies teach them to perform under real conditions.
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
What the training covers
The five pillars form a complete engagement system, and teachers practice each one.
1. Positive Feelings
2. Attention & Interest
3. Connectedness
4. Self-Efficacy
5. Sharing Best Practices
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
Confidence comes from success under real conditions. This pillar gives teachers dynamic tension strategies and reflective routines that build it.
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
What the engagement day looks like
Delivered in person at your school, as a full day or a half-day, whenever it fits.
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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