Student Engagement Improvement Guide

Student engagement contributes to attendance, behavior, and course performance. Schools can use a focused continuous improvement process to identify school-level factors that affect engagement and develop strategies that respond to their specific needs.

The Student Engagement Improvement Guide provides school leadership teams with practical tools designing and implementing a six-phase improvement cycle: assess, prepare, select strategies, plan for implementation, implement and monitor, and reflect.

Teams can use the guide to identify a student engagement-related problem of practice, examine root causes, set goals, select and define an evidence-based strategy, plan and monitor implementation, analyze outcomes, and determine next steps. Application examples show what it would look like for a school team to use the guide, and companion Practice Briefs provide research-informed approaches and implementation considerations for common student engagement problems of practice.

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Student Engagement Improvement Guide (2.05 MB)

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Zipfile of all Practice Briefs (6.9 MB)
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Developing Positive Relationships Practice Brief (480.86 KB)
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Peer-to-Peer Support Groups Practice Brief (289.88 KB)
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Implementing Student Support Teams Practice Brief (298.04 KB)
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Using Restorative Practices Practice Brief (368.92 KB)
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Community Context and Family Partnerships Practice Brief (1.6 MB)
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Improving Staff Understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences Practice Brief (333.14 KB)
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Maintaining a Safe and Welcoming Physical School Environment Practice Brief (432.94 KB)
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Self-Care Practice Brief (504.31 KB)
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Using School and District Climate Data to Align Policies and Practices with Student Backgrounds, Lived Experiences, and Community Values Practice Brief (225.79 KB)
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Cell Phone Policy Practice Brief (308.08 KB)
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Community-Building Restorative Circles Practice Brief (636.66 KB)
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Community Partnerships Practice Brief (407.8 KB)
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Assessing Policies Practice Brief (291.19 KB)
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Planning and Coordination of Schoolwide Efforts Practice Brief (828.47 KB)
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Monitoring Implementation Practice Brief (344.83 KB)
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Advisory Programs Practice Brief (297.93 KB)
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Practice Brief (560.5 KB)

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