Confronting the crisis of engagement : creating focus and resilience for students, staff, and communities / Douglas B. Reeves, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Fisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Connections: relations are essential for engagement -- Conditions: High expectations, attendance, and participation are necessary engagement -- Challenge: Dealing with struggle and failure -- Control: Increase students' ownership of their own engagement and learning -- Collaboration: consolidating understanding with others -- Leading for engagement.

"This book presents practices that most powerfully reflect the C's of Engagement: Connections, Conditions, Challenge, Control, and Collaboration. From faculty meetings to student conferences, casual greetings to grading, you can learn to use practices that most powerfully reflect the Five C’s of Engagement: 1.Connections — feeling known, valued, and tethered to others; 2. Conditions — being able to learn in a stable environment in which expectations are high; 3. Challenge — engaging in an endeavor knowing your “high jumps” in terms of intellectual and creative risks will be supported; 4. Control — the privilege of learning with a balance between ownership and support; 5. Collaboration — deepening one’s knowledge and identity as a learner by being skillful at relationship-building. Our students are looking to us as the grownups in the room to model what it looks like to belong, believe, and balance high expectations with compassionate support. With Confronting the Crisis of Engagement in hand, you have the guide to make that happen." -- adapted from the publisher's website.