Engaging Schools offers these materials that are aligned with our core professional services:
- Engaged Classrooms:
- District Codes of Character, Conduct, and Support:
- Advisory Plus:
In addition, we have a wide range of books and other products on conflict resolution, countering bullying and harassment, building positive school culture and climate, and more.
Some Engaging Schools books also offer supplemental downloads. Use the buttons to the right for supplemental material for Activators and The Advisory Guide.
“We had teachers who were great in their subject areas but weren’t so great at being personal with kids. They didn’t know how to ask, ‘What’s going on?’ and ‘How can I help you?’ to stimulate those conversations. Now we’ve transformed our culture. It was already a caring school, but now it’s a more understanding culture for all our kids.”
Stephen Kane, Principal, James Bowie High School, Austin, TX
Featured Publications
Shifting Gears: Recalibrating Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support – A Restorative and Accountable Approach for Middle and High Schools
Shifting Gears presents a systematic approach to schoolwide discipline and student support, examines the school discipline problem, the features of an effective system, and research and theory that underpin our approach. It then offers an examination of the “gears” that create an effective system. Chapters on each gear provide guidance, recommendations, and “how-to” information, detailed protocols, training tools, examples, scripted agendas, checklists, readings, and interactive elements to support users to construct their own schoolwide discipline system.
AudienceSchool leaders, climate-culture-discipline teams, and individuals including deans, student support directors, counselors, teacher leaders, and other specialists within a district or school
Activators: Classroom Strategies for Engaging Middle and High School Students
This book is a deep dive into activators, a core teaching practice that incorporates individual think time with purposeful social interaction. It features concrete, hands-on activities that help students improve their emotional, cognitive, and behavioral engagement in learning. Nationally acclaimed differentiated instruction expert Carol Ann Tomlinson praises Activators, noting, “This book is a keeper because it commends instructional strategies that engage the minds of adolescent learners as it attends to their need for interaction with and appreciation of peers.”
AudienceELA, math, science, social studies, and modern language teachers in grades 6–12; instructional coaches; and teacher educators
Engaged Classrooms: The Art and Craft of Reaching and Teaching All Learners
Engaged Classrooms presents a compelling set of evidence-based strategies that support an equity-centered classroom. These discrete and interrelated strategies foster caring, high-performing classroom communities. They also strengthen the social, emotional and learning competencies that are linked to increases in academic engagement and achievement, and are essential to success in school, work, and life.
AudienceMiddle and high school level classroom teachers, school leaders, coaches, and teacher leaders