Aspire: The Leadership Development Podcast

How do you define student engagement in your classroom? This week’s guest, Heather Lyon, shares a common understanding of what engagement looks and sounds like so that anyone can design and gauge instruction using this understanding. More importantly, with this knowledge, educators can make changes to instruction to truly increase student engagement.  In this episode, we also discuss: Grading practices that need to be assessed The teacher and resource shortage in education  And her books, Engagement in Not a Unicorn (It’s a Narwhal) and The Big Book of Engagement Strategies About Heather Lyon: Heather Lyon is author of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HLB6SJJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 (Engagement is not a Unicorn (It’s a Narwhal)) and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09DTQRJP9/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 (The BIG Book of Engagement Strategies.)  Heather is a former English teacher and has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and an Ed.M. in Reading from the University at Buffalo. Sh