In my 18 years in education as both a computer science teacher and educational technology instructional coach, I have seen patterns of powerful influencers that have a tremendous positive impact on encouraging student engagement.

My framework, The ENGAGE Framework, is based on the human nature of your students. True student engagement is not based on a student’s IQ, interests, socio-economic level, or gender. It all really comes down to what influencers help engage a human being. And it’s more like, what influencers impact the decision to engage or not to engage.

The influencer I’m going to write about today is Community.

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