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Educational Engagement: A Successful Strategy for Academic and Civic Achievement and Success

As policymakers and education leaders focus on improving schools, student engagement
should be one of the strategies they consider. In our current high-stakes education
environment, policymakers and education leaders support strategies shown to contribute
to student achievement.

Quality student engagement should be considered as an effective
intervention that leads to student success.

What is student engagement? It is the connectedness or bonding students feel to school;
it incorporates the idea of commitment or investment in one’s education; and it can be
influenced by relationships with teachers and peers, class work, studying, school behavior
and more.

When students are engaged in their schooling, they generally have better experiences.
Some researchers and policymakers focus on student engagement as an effective strategy
to learn and apply academic knowledge; others focus on student engagement in service to
their community to acquire and enhance civic competencies; and others focus on student
engagement as an intervention to reduce dropout rates.
Significant research focuses on how engagement assists students to
create and sustain relationships that matter for academic success. In
particular, attention has been paid to how engagement assists “at-risk”
students to move from risk to resiliency.

Schools can provide support
to students, particularly those at risk, through resilience-building
experiences that focus on five themes:

Full Report: http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/clearinghouse/75/77/7577.pdf

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