This institute is designed for educators who wish to explore engagement more deeply and who have completed a one-day institute in either 2019 or 2020. We also welcome those who attended any event with Ellin Oliver Keene or read Engaging Children: Igniting a Drive for Deeper Learning.

The day will focus on multiple opportunities for interaction focused on successes and challenges teachers have experienced in working toward more independent engagement in students. There will also be opportunities to hear from and dialogue with teachers and coaches who have been deeply immersed in this work in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.

In this institute we will:

• Review the four pillars of engagement and discuss ways in which you have discussed and observed them in classrooms
• Discuss and refine processes for assessing the degree to which students are engaged
• Learn new strategies for encouraging students to assume responsibility for their own engagement
• Review work outcomes from students who have displayed deeper engagement and listen in on a conversation with them about how they became so engaged
• Engage in problem solving focused on students who are less engaged
• Discuss ways in which you can work with other colleagues to enhance engagement in their classrooms

This institute is being run in two afternoon sessions from 12:30-3:00 p.m. If you are unable to attend during the school day, you can register for the three after school sessions of the Ignite Engagement Advanced Institute by Clicking Here

*Please note that this webinar will be recorded and made available to all participants within two business days of each live session. So if neither dates work well with your schedule please consider registering to watch the recording.

Ellin Oliver Keene

Ellin Oliver Keene has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, non-profit director, and adjunct professor of reading and writing. For sixteen year she directed staff development initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business Coalition. She served as Deputy Director and Director of Literacy and Staff Development for the Cornerstone Project at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. Ellin works with schools and districts throughout the country and abroad with an emphasis on long-term school-based professional development and strategic planning for literacy learning. She serves as senior advisor at Heinemann, overseeing the Heinemann Fellows initiative, and is the editor of the Heinemann Professional Development Catalog-Journal. Ellin is the author of many books as well as numerous chapters for professional books and journals on teaching reading as well as education policy journals.