Pathways to Student Engagement Part 1: Collaboration, Writing, and Distributed Summarizing Asheville Event
Enhance Student Engagement with Strategies That Work
Dates for This Event
- January 26, 2026
Essential Questions for this event:
- How do you skillfully integrate strategies for sustained engagement?
- What transforms student compliance into authentic engagement in learning?
- How does Distributed Summarizing serve as a foundation to student engagement?
- How do Collaborative Pairs enhance engagement and learning through structured discussion?
- How does Writing to Learn deepen understanding and increase engagement?
Designing Learning for Active Participation and Accountability
True student engagement extends beyond simple participation; it is a deep behavioral, cognitive, and emotional investment in learning. This course addresses the common challenge of student disengagement by focusing on three powerful, research-based strategies that foster active participation and deeper thinking.
By moving beyond compliance, educators can create dynamic learning environments where all students feel challenged and connected. This approach centers on implementing Distributed Summarization to reinforce comprehension, Collaborative Pairs to enhance accountability, and Writing to Learn to help students process and retain new information. These hands-on strategies are adaptable across all grade levels and content areas, providing a clear pathway to a more engaged and motivated classroom.
Learning Goals
You Will Be Able To...
- Apply the Dimensions of Engagement model to support behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement.
- Identify and address barriers to engagement by promoting student motivation, autonomy, and connection to learning.
- Recognize factors within teacher control to sustain meaningful student engagement.
- Use Distributed Summarization to enhance comprehension, retention, and accountability.
- Connect Collaborative Pairs and Writing to Learn with summarization to deepen understanding.
- Implement summarizing strategies for both discussion-based and written responses.
- Use three Collaborative Pairs structures—Numbered Heads, collaborative discussions, and partner activities—to increase engagement.
- Develop short and long response writing tasks to help students process content and demonstrate learning progress.
You Will Know...
- The Dimensions of Engagement model
- Barriers to Engagement
- Factors of Control of Engagement
- Learning Theories to Support Distributed Summarizing
- Methods to connect Collaborative Pairs and Writing to Learn with Summarizing
- Summarizing strategies for discussion based or written responses
- Three types of Collaborative Pairs structures
- Short and long response writing strategies
What You Will Receive
Along with attending a workshop led by a Learning-Focused expert, participants will also receive the following resources and materials:
- Pathways to Student Engagement Part 1: Collaboration, Writing, and Distributed Summarizing Book
- Pathways to Student Engagement Part 1: Collaboration, Writing, and Distributed Summarizing Flip Card
- 12 month Learning-Focused Online membership
When and Where
At Learning-Focused Training Center
Location
- 200 District Drive Ste 001, Asheville, NC 28803
Date
- January 26, 2026
Time
- 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Registration
Act fast, only 22 spots are available
- Registration for Pathways to Student Engagement Part 1: Collaboration, Writing, and Distributed Summarizing is $197 per person.
- Learning is better in teams! Register three people and receive a $50 discount off the third registration fee!
- Participants are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis only. To secure your spot, we must receive a signed quote.
