Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing the Trail to Learning and Success (Your Guide to Promoting Active Engagement in the Classroom and Improving Student Learning)

This is a breakthrough book on student engagement. Join Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves, two award-winning authors and leaders in their field, on a profound educational quest that will take you through exciting and challenging terrain. Five Paths of Student Engagement will open your eyes, heart, and mind and empower you to implement practices that lead directly to your students' well-being, learning, and success.

By integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, and using inspiring examples from seven years of research, this book delves deeply into the what, why, and how of student engagement. It reveals who and what the true enemies of student engagement are, and shows you how to defeat them. It will enrich and reward your work for years to come.

Utilize research-based strategies to promote active engagement in the classroom and build the foundation for student growth:

• Learn why active engagement is the new frontier of student achievement.
• Understand how engaging students means so much more than defeating boredom.
• Consider psychological and sociological theories that cast new light on engagement and motivation.
• Reflect on how engagement is about mystery and magic, meaning and purpose, and focus and mastery.
• Understand why increasing classroom engagement requires much more than surveys, rubrics and observation protocols.
• Learn strategies to battle all five enemies of engagement in order to engage students totally and motivate unmotivated students.
• Explore five clear paths of engagement that lead to improving student learning and success that all teachers and schools can embark upon immediately.

Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: From Achievement to Engagement--Two Ages of Educational Change
Chapter 2: Theories of Engagement and Motivation--From Maslow to Flow
Chapter 3: Three Myths of Engagement--Relevance, Technology, and Fun
Chapter 4: The Five Enemies of Engagement--How to Defeat Them
Chapter 5: Standardized Testing--The Archenemy of Engagement
Chapter 6: The Five Pathways of Student Engagement--In Theory and Practice
Chapter 7: The Promise of Engagement and the Battle for Change
References
Index

Dennis Shirley, EdD, is Duganne faculty fellow and professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Among his awards and achievements, he has been a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow of the Bosch Foundation, a German chancellor fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a C.J. Koh chair of the National Institute of Education in Singapore. He was principal investigator of the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement and has guided and worked with leaders of educational change in many countries. Along with his Lynch School colleagues Deoksoon Kim and Stanton Wortham, he is now conducting an in-depth study of a school innovation network in Seoul, South Korea. His most recent book is The New Imperatives of Educational Change: Achievement With Integrity (2017). He holds a doctorate from Harvard University.

Andy Hargreaves, PhD, is a research professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College and director of Change, Engagement and Innovation in Education (CHENINE) at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He is president of the ARC Education Project--a global network of education ministers and professional association leaders committed to advancing humanitarian goals in education. Andy formerly was adviser in education to the premier of Ontario (2015-2018) and currently is adviser in education to the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. He has published more than thirty books and over a hundred peer-reviewed articles. Andy's eight outstanding writing awards include the prestigious $100,000 Grawemeyer Award in Education for Professional Capital (2015) with Michael Fullan. He has been honored in the United States and United Kingdom for services to public education and is ranked by Education Week in the top twenty scholars with most influence on U.S. education policy debate. Professor Hargreaves is an outstanding keynote speaker and workshop leader and has delivered invited addresses in more than fifty countries, forty-seven U.S. states, and all Australian and Canadian states and provinces. His most recent book is Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility (2020).