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
What could you accomplish if every student found a way into the lesson?
A full day of practical, research-based engagement strategies for classrooms that compete with every screen in students' lives.
+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
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 Two
Promoting attention and interest
Attention is the scarce resource in a screen-filled world. Teachers leave with attention-grabbers, randomization methods, and storytelling they can use the next day.
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
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
Every good lesson should be a shared lesson. Teachers learn the matrix method for recording and trading their most engaging lessons.
Agenda
A typical engagement training day
On your campus, full-day or half-day, set around your calendar.
From 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, teachers connect engagement to motivation and learning, learn the pillars of engagement-first instruction, and practice positive feelings, movement and brain-friendly strategies, randomization, and storytelling.
The lunch hour is 12:00 to 1:00 PM. From 1:00 to 3:30 PM, the focus is lessons that feel meaningful and relevant, personal connections, a fresh approach to visual images, self-efficacy, and responding on demand under pressure.
Win back your students' attention
A free quote for your school or district is the first step.