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
One day on student engagement and motivation
Practical strategies, grounded in research, for classrooms competing with phones, games, and social media.
+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
Five pillars in one day
Each pillar is taught, modeled, and practiced, and teachers use them in 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
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
Why do students forget a unit by the next week? Usually because it never connected. Synectics and visual approaches help teachers fix that.
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
How the engagement day runs
A typical full day is below. The format is flexible, and the training happens at your school.
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM covers engagement and motivation, the pillars of engagement-first instruction, positive feelings, movement and brain-friendly strategies, and attention and interest through randomization and storytelling.
1:00 to 3:30 PM, after a one-hour lunch, covers meaningful and relevant lesson design, personal connections, visual images, confidence and self-efficacy, and responding on demand.
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