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Disconnected students
Engagement builds motivation and participation, so students who had checked out come back.
Program two
Bring the unmotivated back into the lesson
Teachers spend one day on research-based engagement strategies built for students who grew up with 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
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 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
Teachers compete with hundreds of channels, every social platform, and every game. Randomization, questioning, and storytelling help the lesson win that competition and make participation normal.
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
Teachers learn safe, fun ways for students to show what they know, and how to prepare them to respond on demand and under pressure.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
Every good lesson should be a shared lesson. Teachers learn the matrix method for recording and trading their most engaging lessons.
Agenda
The engagement agenda
Most schools choose a full day. A half-day is available, and dates follow your calendar.
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.
Bring engagement training to your campus
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