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Episode: 411: How to Keep Students Engaged When Everyone (Including You) Is Done
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- Teaching Middle School ELA
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- May 19, 2026
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- 951
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Summary
In today's Teaching Middle School ELA Podcast, I share the most powerful lever I’ve seen for middle school ELA engagement: making engagement your north star. Not entertainment. Not fluff. Engagement that lives right alongside rigor and standards-based instruction. When students are genuinely invested, they learn more, they push through hard parts instead of shutting down, and their growth actually shows up in their work. And here’s the part every teacher wants to hear: engagement also ma...