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Students give up
Students who do not connect disengage. Engagement strategies build motivation and bring reluctant students back into the lesson.
Program two
Help students care about the lesson
A full training day on your campus. The strategies are practical, research based, and made for the screen era.
+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
The classroom is competing with every screen in students' lives
If your teachers are losing that contest, this training is for them.
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Screens win attention
Randomization, storytelling, and proven attention-grabbers make participation the normal thing to do.
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Lessons fade by next week
Teachers learn to connect the curriculum to students' own lives, and retention goes up.
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Test pressure
Dynamic tension strategies let students practice performing under real conditions 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
Students learn from people they like. Teachers practice bringing more of themselves into the room, asking for student feedback, and making lessons feel personal.
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
Students who know how they learn keep learning. Teachers help them build that self-knowledge through reflection and low-stakes practice under pressure.
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
A typical engagement training day
On your campus, full-day or half-day, set 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.
Win back your students' attention
A free quote for your school or district is the first step.