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
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
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
Teachers compete with hundreds of channels, every social platform, and every game. Randomization, questioning, and storytelling help the lesson win that competition and make participation normal.
Pillar Three
Promoting connectedness and relevance
Retention goes up when lessons feel relevant. Teachers practice guiding personal connections and using brainstorming to bring out every voice in the room.
Pillar Four
Promoting self-efficacy
Can students learn to handle pressure? Yes, with practice. Teachers use dynamic tension strategies so students build confidence instead of anxiety.
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
The engagement day, hour by hour
Half-day or full-day, in person on your campus, scheduled around your calendar.
Teachers start at 8:30 AM by connecting engagement strategies to motivation and learning, then move through the pillars, positive feelings, movement, randomization, and storytelling before 12:00 PM.
Lunch is from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. Between 1:00 and 3:30 PM, teachers learn to make lessons meaningful and relevant, guide personal connections, use visual images in new ways, build self-efficacy, and prepare students to respond under pressure.
Want this for your staff?
Let Robert Macias know your staff size and preferred dates.