What does student and teacher data reveal about engagement? And, what educators can do next?
This resource explores a critical challenge in today’s classrooms: engagement is often present, but it does not always look the way educators expect.
Drawing from Discovery Education’s 2025–2026 Education Insights findings, this helpful and engaging resource highlights key disconnects around participation, questioning, motivation, relevance, and overload.
What you’ll learn:
Why engagement can be easy to miss when students are quietly processing, reflecting, or participating in less visible ways.
How reliance on traditional signals like asking questions can cause educators to underestimate student engagement, especially in middle grades.
- What “passenger mode” looks like when students feel both bored and overwhelmed at the same time.
Practical strategies to lower the risk of participation, broaden engagement signals, and make lessons feel more meaningful and relevant.
