• 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.

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.

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