Increasing Engagement

The core business of schools is to provide students with content-rich, engaging schoolwork. Engaged leaders and engaged staff design work that engages students at higher levels and increases the likelihood that students will learn those things that schools, parents, and community members want them to learn to be considered well educated.

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Ask the Schlechty Center for assistance in …

  • Designing interesting, challenging, and satisfying learning experiences for students leading to profound learning

  • Redesigning professional learning to respond to the needs, interests, and values of teachers and support staff

  • Developing coaches to support the design of systems or experiences within your district or schools

Examples of our offerings:

Design is always customized to meet your specific needs.

  • School Design Teams and District Design Teams, teams work to design learning experiences or social systems to support and sustain transformation.

  • Designing Professional Learning, a framework that leverages the profile elements of staff engagement to support school leaders in designing interesting, challenging, and satisfying learning experiences for adult learners.

  • Teacher Leader Academy, an offering where teachers explore leadership roles in the classroom, school, and district, applying their learning to create engagement-focused learning organizations.

  • Principals Academy, an opportunity for principals to develop leadership capacity to internalize what it means to be a leader of leaders.

  • Design Camp, a workshop that provides “just-in-time” coaching; 1:1 support with technology integration, ideation, and design challenges.

  • Coaching for Design, a process that develops teachers as design coaches committed to designing engaging work and leading students to success in the work.

  • Designing Engaging Work, a foundational offering for teachers.