Pillar One
Promoting positive feelings
Climate comes before content. When the room feels safe and the teacher feels real, learning becomes possible, and this pillar shows teachers how to get there.
Program two
Engagement strategies teachers use the next class period
The training runs for a full day on site. Every strategy is practical and backed by research.
+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
Engagement is the first step to learning
Students who do not connect disengage, and a disengaged student cannot learn from the lesson. Teachers also compete with every screen, so the training teaches randomization, storytelling, and attention-grabbers that make participation the default.
It also covers retention and pressure. Connection points between the curriculum and students' lives help lessons stick, and dynamic tension strategies help students perform under real conditions with 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
The engagement playbook
Five pillars, taught, modeled, and practiced, ready for the next class period.
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
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
Every good lesson should be a shared lesson. Teachers learn the matrix method for recording and trading their most engaging lessons.
Agenda
The engagement day, hour by hour
Half-day or full-day, in person on your campus, scheduled around 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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