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Disconnected students
Engagement builds motivation and participation, so students who had checked out come back.
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
What engagement fixes
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Short attention
Randomization, storytelling, and attention-grabbers keep students in the lesson.
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Forgotten lessons
Content tied to students' lives stays with them longer.
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Test anxiety
Students who practice under pressure through dynamic tension strategies become more resilient.
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 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.
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
Teachers learn to design lessons that score high on the meaningful-and-relevant meter, so the curriculum stays with students.
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
The matrix method turns individual good ideas into team resources. Teachers record their best lessons and see where the team needs more.
Agenda
What the engagement day looks like
Delivered in person at your school, as a full day or a half-day, whenever it fits.
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.
Want this for your staff?
Let Chera Rodgers know your staff size and preferred dates.