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Teachers are the catalyst to promote student motivation and engagement. Teachers need to celebrate students' diversity in culture, language, reading, family, apparel, etc. Students need to be recognized as individuals. Teachers must set high expectations and scaffold lessons to help encourage students to meet their goals. Teachers need to create a safe environment within their classrooms that encourages taking academic risks. Through all these strategies students will then help motivate and engage each other later in the school year. But the teacher is the one who starts it all!

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Teachers need to create classroom that is rich in language and disciplinary discourse. The classroom needs disciplinary habits of mind and ways of inquiring and learning. The classroom must be student centered, collaborative, and barrier free. Students must feel like scholars and teachers need to embrace students learning as an apprenticeship.

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Students will be in discussion groups and develop 'intersubjective interchange' discussions. This will help build students' understanding and practice language to increase their academic language development, critical thinking, social skills, and self monitoring speaking and learning. These collaborative inquiry groups will provide opportunities to use metacognitive strategies about what they are learning within the lesson. This collaborative groups will create community and bonding experiences within the classroom and provide opportunities for students to make FRIENDS!!

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Accountable talk requires everyone this is including teacher and students to be accountable for constructing the meaning in class. For students to be accountable to learn community so they need to be listen carefully, paraphrase and summarize as needed. Teachers are being accountable by selecting interesting ideas to examine, talk and argue to make the classroom accountable to talk.

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All content area teachers need to think about their discipline, curricula, and learning goals to organize their learning environment, instruction, and content. Students learn when they are in a positive, safe, organized, challenging, collaborative, and motivating environment. Every learning environment should be a conversational, thinking, hands-on, creative, relevant, and inviting space for students to learn. Small group discussions about the texts student read and their perspectives on the texts will help create an atmosphere of inquiry. Collaborative problem solving will facilitate the development of mathematical habits of mind, perseverance, decision-making, curiosity, self-monitoring, and success in learning and doing mathematics.

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A classroom that will respond to all student's "needs, goals, interests." To be college ready, students need to know more than just the content knowledge. This suggests that each discipline-specific culture promote an environment of inquiry, collaboration, and apprenticeship. Teachers need to be ready to facilitate this type of learning.

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Collaboration is a problem-solving, a communication, and a critical thinking skill; it facilitates deeper learning. 5 important academic talking skills are 1) elaborating 2) supporting ideas with examples and evidence 3) Building on ideas or challenging them 4) summarizing 5) bringing key ideas together from the conversations had. Socialization is an important key to learning.

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Teachers need to be experts within their discipline but need to be mentors for their students. This means teachers need to be able listen and provide positive reinforcement for students.

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Teachers need to emphasize academic language as the "essence of thinking and learning." Academic language is the language that is used by teachers and students for the purpose of acquiring new knowledge ad skills. Teachers must create an authentic environment where students feel supported and engaged can help promote academic language. Another example to create opportunities in your classroom for students co-construct meaning from texts/sources - inspire academic language!