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
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
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
The five pillars
Teachers see each one modeled and practice it before they leave.
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
Teachers learn safe, fun ways for students to show what they know, and how to prepare them to respond on demand and under pressure.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
Teachers work alone too often. The matrix method gives them a simple way to record their most engaging lessons, share them with colleagues, and find where the team has gaps.
Agenda
The engagement day, hour by hour
Half-day or full-day, in person on your campus, scheduled around your calendar.
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.
One day for every teacher
Ask Lecelle Quamina for a quote and choose a date.