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Your background: Name, School, and Years in Current Position. For example, My name is Sajata. I was a high school assistant principal in Carver High School for 4 years.

For the sake of today's work, please open and bookmark this website:

Please open the Rowan Resources and Discussion Notes slide deck and save to your own Google Drive.

Please choose a table name (be creative) and a table recorder. This should be someone comfortable positing digital data.

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Why we are here and what we hope to accomplish.

Picture of success.

Participants will paint a picture of an engagement focused school.

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How do you define the word engagement in your district strategic renewal document.

Discuss this at your table. Table reporters, please summarize your tables thinking in the Padlet for table discussion.

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4. Two Tools for Thinking About the Definition of Engagement

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4. Two Tools for Thinking About the Definition of Engagement

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Our company definition.

How students react to schoolwork.

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5. What does engagement look like in a classroom?

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5. What does engagement look like in a classroom?

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You cannot have engaged students without an engagement culture/mindset.  You could have pockets of engagement by teachers who understand and pursue the practice on their own.  But we have never seen a school wide commitment to engagement where leadership, faculty, and staff were not engaged in a culture shift.

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Leading an engagement focused school and developing an engagement mindset/culture means that we identify engagement as the most important thing we do and it is reflected in the actions we take.

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Discussion - Imagine you are visiting an engagement focused school.

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Discussion - Imagine you are visiting an engagement focused school.

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What kinds of things would you see in a school focused on engagement?

What kinds of things would leaders and teachers be doing?

What might students be doing?

Brainstorm at your tables and post to the Padlet discussion board.

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Where does your school stand in terms of a commitment to a focus on engagement?

Begin this activity with a personal reflection about your school.

Make notes in your slide deck.

List examples to support your answer.

Share whatever you’re comfortable sharing with your table.

You will not report out on this.

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8. A Tool to Assess a School Wide Culture of Engagement

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8. A Tool to Assess a School Wide Culture of Engagement

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Elements of a school focused on engagement - a future view

There is a school wide definition of student engagement.

There is a visible and enthusiastic vision/mission to engage students that is verbalized by the principal and school leaders regularly.

Faculty and staff are engaged in the work of engaging students.

School leadership and faculty understand how students react to schoolwork, including the differences between engagement, compliance, and "edutainment".

School leadership and faculty understand the difference between a learning platform and a teaching platform.

Faculty clearly understand what students are expected to learn.

Faculty and staff have ongoing conversations and PD about how students learn, what they learn, and how they engage with schoolwork that includes sharing of classroom successes and challenges.

Teachers have a deliberate process to check for and assess student engagement (effort and results).

The principal and school leaders create opportunities to work on engagement on a regular basis. Time and resources are allocated for this to happen. A formal team may be established to do this.

Teachers have and use the necessary tools and a common language to assess, modify, and redesign existing schoolwork to address engagement and learning.

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Using your reflection notes, rate where you believe your school is at in regards to a focus on engagement. Use the survey tool provided.

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Complete the feedback survey from the landing document.