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.
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
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
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 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
If students cannot connect it, they will not keep it. This pillar gives teachers ways to tie key concepts to students' own experience.
Pillar Four
Promoting self-efficacy
Resilient learners handle tests better than anxious ones. This pillar uses dynamic tension strategies to build that resilience, along with reflective practice for students and teachers.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
The matrix method turns individual good ideas into team resources. Teachers record their best lessons and see where the team needs more.
Agenda
The engagement agenda
Most schools choose a full day. A half-day is available, and dates follow your calendar.
The morning block (8:30 AM to 12:00 PM) covers why engagement drives motivation, the pillars of engagement-first instruction, a positive classroom climate, movement, and attention through randomization and storytelling.
After lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 PM, the afternoon runs until 3:30 PM. Teachers design relevant lessons, guide personal connections, try new uses of visual images, and help students build confidence and perform under pressure.
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