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This paper examines one essential tactic for making school turnaround more effective: community engagement. To explore community engagement in action, the Reform Support Network (RSN) conducted reviews between April and August of 2013 of 11 States and districts, urban and rural, engaged in the communities surrounding low-performing schools. The enquiry yielded five primary lessons or takeaways about successful community engagement: make engagement a priority and establish an infrastructure, communicate proactively in the community, listen to the community and respond to its feedback, offer meaningful opportunities to participate, and turn community supporters into leaders and advocates.

What factors help drive student engagement?

Students who have teachers who make them "feel excited about the future" and who attend schools that they see as committed to building their individual strengths are 30 times more likely than other students to show other signs of engagement in the classroom-a key predictor of academic success, according to a report released Wednesday by

to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale.

Teaching isn't easy. All too often educators are asked to achieve high goals with meager resources and distracted students. No technology alone can improve learning, but an intimate partnership between educational institutions and technology developers can. Our mission is to empower you-to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale. Schoology isn't just an LMS. It's a living, breathing educational community that can adjust to changing student needs, learn from collective experiences, and continually improve as education and technology advance. We strive to provide an unparalleled educational experience that improves student outcomes by providing educators information and insights that were never before possible. Schoology hopes not only to illuminate why particular students learn the way they do, but also to provide support and personalized content that is tailored to them. Schoology is transforming learning through the collaboration of passionate individuals. We're on a unique journey, and this is just the beginning.

Free Tools for Teachers: Helping You Engage Students

+ A Teaching Moment: Harriet Tubman

Student Engagement

Interactive archive of twitter conversations from a Google Spreadsheet

Twitter archive to show how your tweets are engaging with the group

Create animated videos and presentations -as easy as Powerpoint!  Flip your classroom, inspire, engage and delight your students.

College deans have written about incoming freshman being "crispies" or "teacups": the crispies so burned out by the pressures of high school that they get to college unable to engage in the work, and the teacups so fragile or overprotected in their formative years that they fall apart at the first stress they encounter.  What can/should k-12 leaders do?

Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class anywhere in real time

audience response system

"Talking with Students through Screencasting:"

Low grades on tests do not necessarily mean that students haven't studied. Some students may have been confused when the material was covered in class. Incomplete homework isn't always a sign that students don't care.

Using Educreations at Every Level of Bloom's

ASCD and CDC Announce Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model