Fall 2025 registration is full – join the waitlist below.
Student Motivation and Engagement: The Secret Sauce
Do you wish your students were more engaged? More self-motivated?
This full day workshop demystifies how motivation and engagement work — and don’t work — in school settings, giving you research-validated tools to cultivate the seeds of motivation and engagement that exist within all your students. Supportive, collaborative work time during the session will leave you with concrete plans for your classroom.
About the workshop
This one-day informational workshop allows participants to:
- Start planning or modifying lessons to increase motivation and engagement with their students, using resources provided during the workshop
- Understand how designing activities that support internal motivation leads to student engagement
- Recognize the importance of personal relevance to enhance students’ motivation and engagement
We will provide strategies and structures for lesson planning to support students' intrinsic motivation and increase their engagement. Supportive, collaborative work time during the workshop will leave you with concrete plans you can put into action immediately. Examples used in the workshop will include elementary science lessons and non-science examples. The concepts and strategies explored will be applicable to all disciplines and all grade levels. Knowledge gained may be useful for participants who are providing professional learning opportunities for teachers in their schools or districts.
Course Price: $250 per participant (from non-priority schools)*
Lunch and free parking provided. Earns 6 hours of professional learning credits.
Registration
Registration for Fall 2025 has closed. Future dates will be announced soon.
Activate the 4 Cs workshops will be available for individual registrants periodically throughout the school year. Check back for future dates, or sign up for the Educator newsletter to be the first to hear about new offerings.
* For applicants from Priority Schools**, the workshop is FREE.
** Priority Schools are defined as schools that are Title I eligible or whose total student population is at least 70% Black and/or Hispanic or Latino.