Engage with Students

Student engagement strategies, like those shared here, are designed to inspire teachers to empower their students with a goal of increasing attention, curiosity, and passion. Of course, student engagement is human engagement and people are complex at all ages. While these strategies can help to improve engagement, there is no single recipe or response that…

Increasing student achievement in traditional academic outcomes such as literacy, numeracy, and content knowledge is vital for post-secondary success. In recent decades, the definition of achievement has expanded to include essential skills like the 4C’s, Career Readiness, Wayfinding, and Social-Emotional Learning.  This expanded definition of student success has been necessitated and accelerated by many factors,…

Right now, many young people are vibrating with the uncertainty, isolation, and collective trauma due to this global pandemic which has captured everyone’s attention. As responsible adults, it is crucial to help our youth shift their attention to positive innate qualities to help them regrow their courage, strength, and resilience.  Here are two simple yet…

I recently read a blog by The Annie E. Casey Foundation called “Reengaging Students Who Lost Their Way During the Pandemic.” It reminded me of Josh. Josh was a student of mine a few years back, his reputation as a rebellious young man preceded him. Our class was primarily 9th graders and, at 18 years-old,…