Pillar One
Promoting positive feelings
Teachers learn to read and shape the emotional climate of the classroom, the lever most teachers overlook, using movement and student feedback.
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
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
Randomization techniques keep every student ready to answer. Teachers also practice questioning and storytelling as tools for capturing attention.
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
Confidence comes from success under real conditions. This pillar gives teachers dynamic tension strategies and reflective routines that build it.
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
How the engagement day runs
A typical full day is below. The format is flexible, and the training happens at your school.
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.
Bring engagement training to your campus
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