Amanda Winkelsas

Amanda Winkelsas shares the case for teachers, students, and parents to all be involved and lessons around positive family engagement.

Amanda Winkelsas discusses how we can do more in our schools and classrooms by preparing educators to differentiate family engagement.

Amanda Winkelsas explains that she has learned that the design thinking approach is just as useful for building the technology tools for lesson planning and curriculum mapping as it is for doing the lesson planning and curriculum mapping itself.

Deep and sustained engagement in connection-making and critical practices are foundational to developing not only global competence in our students, but developing engaged, informed citizens.

In schools across the country, it is quite common to hear teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators talking about student engagement. But as Amanda Winkelsas explains, the path to student engagement is not always as direct as a teacher, coach, or administrator would hope.