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Students stop trying
When students do not connect, they disengage. Engagement strategies build both motivation and participation.
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
Four signs a campus needs engagement training
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Phones get the attention
Storytelling, randomization, and attention-grabbers give the lesson a fair chance.
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Nothing sticks
Connecting content to students' lives raises retention.
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Anxiety at test time
Dynamic tension strategies help students handle pressure 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
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 One
Promoting positive feelings
How does a teacher make a lesson feel personal? This pillar answers with movement, honest feedback from students, and a teacher who shows up as a real person.
Pillar Two
Promoting attention and interest
When any student might be called on, every student pays attention. Teachers learn randomization techniques along with questioning and storytelling.
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
What would happen if every teacher's best lesson was available to the whole team? The matrix method makes that practical.
Agenda
What the engagement day looks like
Delivered in person at your school, as a full day or a half-day, whenever it fits.
The morning is about getting students into the lesson. Between 8:30 AM and 12:00 PM, teachers learn the pillars of engagement-first instruction and work on motivation, positive feelings, movement and brain-friendly strategies, and attention through randomization and storytelling.
The afternoon is about keeping them there. After lunch (12:00 to 1:00 PM), the block from 1:00 to 3:30 PM covers relevance, personal connections, visual images, self-efficacy, and responding under pressure.
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