Creating an environment where students are actively engaged in learning takes work, planning, and intentionality. This page and the resources here are meant to give teachers some guidance, examples and resources as they create meaningful and rigorous learning experiences for students.

"(We) broke down the idea of engagement into three major components-academic engagement, cognitive/intellectual engagement, and egocentric engagement. After working on the individual components, we introduced a Rubik's Cube as a metaphor to remind teachers that no single component can guarantee engagement for all... the trick in solving the Rubik's Cube is to be mindful of the relationships among the colors rather than concentrating on one color at a time. This metaphor served our group well as a reminder of our ultimate goal - "putting it all together'." - Antonetti