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  • A New Chapter for the Work of Engaging Schools

    February 3, 2025   |   Blog

    After more than four decades of collaborating with educators to build equitable, engaging classrooms and schools that nurture students’ academic, social, and emotional growth, Engaging Schools has closed its doors. While this marks the end of an era, we are delighted to announce that two exceptional organizations will carry forward much of our work, ensuring…

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  • Engaging Schools Is Closing

    June 27, 2024   |   Blog

    Engaging Schools experienced a significant drop in revenues that began during the pandemic, when many schools were closed for in-person learning. Many districts are still facing severe budget challenges, which are forcing them to make difficult decisions on how to allocate their funds. This situation shows no signs of easing, severely impacting our ability to…

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  • Stay the course on restorative, accountable, and equitable discipline

    August 15, 2023   |   Blog | District Codes of Character, Conduct, and Support | Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support

    The recent wave of school shootings is among the reasons cited for the movement underway in the country to support or expand the use of punishment and exclusion to address behavior concerns. Bills have been introduced in many states that allow educators to suspend more students for reasons like disruptive behavior, making it easier for…

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  • Memorializing Carol Miller Lieber

    November 8, 2022   |   Blog

    Carol Miller Lieber, a leader at Engaging Schools for four decades, passed away in her home in late October. Facilitating academic success, healthy development, and postsecondary aspirations for every student were at the heart of her work. Carol got the call to teach when she was just a teenager and it was her driving passion…

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  • Engaging Schools Welcomes Edna Olive as Associate Director

    August 11, 2022   |   Blog

    Edna brings over 25 years of experience as a classroom teacher, school administrator, coach, facilitator, consultant, and entrepreneur, with a focus on positive and restorative approaches, school and district culture and climate, and educational equity. She knew as a young child that her life path was to be an educator. She followed in the footsteps…

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  • Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools partners with Engaging Schools to address inequity

    December 2, 2021   |   Blog | District Codes of Character, Conduct, and Support | Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support | Social and emotional learning

    The impacts of COVID-19 on students and a national movement for racial justice are compelling many districts to explore ways they can implement supportive and restorative discipline practices as students readjust to in-person classrooms. NBC News covered the story in ‘Growing awareness’: Schools focus new policies on equity with students back in school. One such…

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  • Deborah Childs-Bowen Leadership for Equity Award Presented to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

    June 28, 2021   |   Blog | Engaging Schools

    The Engaging Schools Board of Directors is pleased to present the first Deborah Childs-Bowen Leadership for Equity Award to Dr. Charlos Banks and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools District Code and Task Force Teams. The award was created to honor the life and work of Dr. Deborah Childs-Bowen, who served on our Board for twelve…

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  • We stand for racial justice and equity.

    June 15, 2020   |   Blog | Engaging Schools

    Engaging Schools joins those standing collectively against racism. We are horrified by the recent deaths of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor — the latest public atrocities in the more than 400-year history of continuous oppression faced by African Americans. We know that racism is systemic, built into our institutions, and woven…

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  • Frameworks for Increasing Equity and Academic Success

    February 27, 2020   |   Blog | Engaged Classrooms | Social and emotional learning

    Our Engaged Classrooms approach for secondary schools offers three key pedagogical frameworks that support increases in equity and the academic success and achievement of every student. They are: Equity-Centered Classrooms, which emphasize culturally responsive and developmentally informed practices that affirm students’ multiple identities, their cultural experiences, and the range of their developmental needs and interests….

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  • How do educators do what may be the single most important thing for their school communities?

    January 23, 2020   |   Blog | Engaged Classrooms | Publications | Social and emotional learning

    One of the essential questions at the heart of our Engaged Classrooms approach is “How do I foster and sustain strong and supportive personal relationships?” For adolescents, an emotional connection with adults is perhaps the single most important factor for fostering positive development, including higher levels of engagement, motivation, and academic performance. In addition, the…

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