The Engaged Student

Teachers will read the following books, chosen to explore student engagement in reading and writing: The Disengaged Teen, The Anxious Generation, Changing Teachers for Challenging Times, and Restorative Literacy Practices. After reading the texts, teachers will participate in the following protocols to collaboratively investigate the texts and explore their implications: Text-Rendering Protocol, The Final Word, The Wagon Wheel, and Three Levels of Text (all attached). From those protocols, teachers will create classroom applications and present them to participants during the last meeting. This work will take place over the course of five meetings, lasting 2 hours. Teachers will leave with content applications and having experienced and reflected on four reading protocols.