Secondary Schools Wanted

If you work at or with a secondary school where teachers are feeling defeated, dejected, or sad about student demotivation, let's connect.

In the 24-25 school year, I'd like to focus on helping teachers and schools who have this problem. Let's take the strategies and ideas from The Will to Learn and put them to the test in community, in real classrooms and schools like yours and mine. The goal is to improve our circumstances by cultivating the key beliefs in our students, as efficiently and effectively as we can, through a year of gently focused intensity.

If you fit the description at the start of this post, the first step is filling out this form and telling me about yourself and your situation. After a week, I'll go through the submissions, determine the nature of our group (size, geography, severity of problem), and reach out to you with next steps.

The group of educators could end up being three people or it could be three hundred; it could represent just individuals or a mixture of individuals and whole teams or schools — I have no idea.

But with this group, I want to:

• Identify highest leverage moves for cultivating student motivation by time of year (beginning, middle, end).
• Conduct some simple and empowering action research on how these moves are working in our practice.
• Find a way to either physically or digitally meet up from time to time.

So if you work at or with a secondary school where teachers are feeling defeated, dejected, or sad about student demotivation and want to do something about it next year, please fill out this form.