Launching and Consolidating Unstoppable Learning: Student Engagement Strategies to Support Growth Mindsets and Increase Learner Autonomy

Part of the Unstoppable Learning Series

Adopted by educators worldwide, the Unstoppable Learning model includes seven elements of teaching and learning: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. This book offers strategies for launching (introducing content and hooking students) and consolidating (facilitating students' comprehension) to help readers cultivate and increase meaningful, student-centered learning.

Learn classroom management strategies to support student engagement and learner autonomy:

• Become familiar with the student engagement mindset continuum and gain classroom management strategies that help establish a growth mindset for students.
• Understand the theories of self-determination, participation, and motivation for students.
• Consider differentiated instruction and classroom scenarios that increase participation and intrinsic motivation for students during a lesson launch.
• Boost competency and learning consolidation by tapping into student engagement strategies designed specifically for different kinds of students.
• Learn how to monitor bias, which can negatively affect motivation for students who are struggling.
• Focus on student-centered learning to help students relate to content, and learn when and where to differentiate instruction to provide more learner autonomy.

Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Student Engagement
Chapter 2: The Agitator Mindset
Chapter 3: The Retreater Mindset
Chapter 4: The Probationer Mindset
Chapter 5: The Aficionado Mindset
Chapter 6: The Academician Mindset
Chapter 7: Engagement Culture Schoolwide
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

Books in the Unstoppable Learning series:

• Unstoppable Learning
• A Handbook for Unstoppable Learning
• Leading Unstoppable Learning
• Adapting Unstoppable Learning
• Assessing Unstoppable Learning
• Managing Unstoppable Learning
• Launching and Consolidating Unstoppable Learning

Alexander McNeece, PhD, is director of instructional services and state and federal grants for Garden City School District in Garden City, Michigan. He is a children's book author and was an award-winning principal at Douglas Elementary School. Dr. McNeece previously served as a high school football coach, elementary teacher, and middle school English language arts teacher.

Dr. McNeece is an active member of the Metro Bureau's Council of Academic Leadership in Michigan, where he has served as a state-level committee liaison. In 2017, with a team of teachers and principals, he presented to the Michigan State Board of Education, based on the tremendous early literacy growth the district achieved with the professional learning communities framework. As a consultant, Dr. McNeece has worked with districts around the United States and Canada to help close the achievement gap, transform school culture, strengthen the school improvement process, and develop Unstoppable Learning pedagogy.

He holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in curriculum and instruction from Michigan State University. In 2017, Dr. McNeece earned a doctor of philosophy degree in educational leadership from Eastern Michigan University with his dissertation, "Michigan's Quantitative School Culture Inventories and Student Achievement."