Student Engagement

Featuring research-backed exercises, routines, resources, and instructional tips, this book provides a five-unit leadership framework for academic curriculum. Students and educators build motivation, perseverance, communication, and collaboration skills through reflection, goal setting, experimentation, feedback, and advocacy.

Empower students to make meaningful change by cultivating student agency. This resource explores strategies for education reform that help students realize their potential, set goals, and prepare for the future.

What Are You Bringing to the Potluck? offers readers a deeper understanding of how significant a sense of belonging is in schools—and challenges them to set a strong example of how to build respect, and nurture community. By doing so, insightful connections are forged in thoughtful consideration of identities, beliefs, and needs.

Through questioning fostered by curiosity and active teacher support, students learn to construct mathematical arguments and justify their claims. This book also equips readers with tools and strategies to cultivate students’ mathematical curiosity, positive learning attitudes, and skill development.

Equipped with 25 essential practices, educators can use this guide to reinvigorate their ELA classrooms. These strategies cultivate engagement and independent learning, helping students strengthen literary analysis of texts, pursue inquiries, and cultivate their voice as readers and writers.

Classrooms thrive when students feel heard and involved. That’s where author Miriam Plotinsky’s ready-to-use strategies come in, helping teachers strengthen student participation through everyday instruction. With a focus on communication and inclusion, this book strengthens the collective learning environment.

Split into two sections for building and refining, this guide provides a comprehensive high school peer tutoring curriculum. Equip students to communicate, advocate, and support through seven peer training modules and tools that bridge general and special education, tailored to your students’ unique needs.

Open the doors of possibility for every student. Pete Hall delivers a collaborative guide to reengaging learners who struggle with traditional school structures. By focusing on the whole child and student belonging, this book provides the tools educators need to ensure every student meets their potential.

Peg Grafwallner is an instructional coach and reading specialist at Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With over 25 years of experience in the field of education, Peg has also served as an English teacher and an alternative education teacher.

Brady Barr, PhD, is National Geographic’s reptile expert. Dr. Barr started his teaching career at North Central High School in Indiana, teaching subjects like zoology, biology, and earth and life sciences.