Can you Imagine Student Engagement at All Time High?

Can you imagine if the reports we read were the reverse? To wake up and read "Student Engagement at an All Time High?" -- and the way our schools would be then as a place to run to? I dream for this day!

This morning I am thinking about how I wish all middle and high schools had the same open sense of discovery for students when they walk through the doors as did when they walked through their pre-school and early elementary doors. Stations, self-selected activity, all driven by discovery.

The recent Gallup Poll unfortunately reports the reverse situation -- and their graph says it all -- I am just determined to make major strides toward reversing this. Together, with so many others (like you most likely!) working hard all around us toward this same goal - then certainly we will! We must!

So I breathe in deep a sense of hope on this chilly, so wonderful Atlanta morning, and get ready for a meeting of minds with a colleague from out of town and keep building!

Read for yourself -- and maybe find your own new determination to do something new, if even just one thing, to help our middle and high school students enjoy a sense of discovery this next week!

We can reverse this! WE CAN! http://thegallupblog.gallup.com/2013/01/the-school-cliff-student-engage…