What did you do in school today? : Qu'as-tu fait à l'école aujourd'hui? Transformer les salles de classe par l'engagement social, scolaire et intellectuel

On behalf of CEA, I offer our appreciation to the Canadian Council on Learning for its support of this initiative; to the school districts for their commitment to making a difference for students; to the research team that has authored this report; and to the thousands of students who chose to participate and are engaged with their teachers in understanding the data and making change happen. [...] The initiative is also designed to help researchers and practitioners understand how these processes of engagement occur, and whether all three forms of engagement – social, academic and intellectual – are the result of the same dynamics, make the same contributions to learning, and are equally important for all students. [...] The participating school districts and the number of schools participating in each district are shown in Figure 6. The number of children at each grade level in the full sample is shown in Figure 7. The study included measures of mothers’ and fathers’ levels of education and family structure. [...] Figure 11 shows the relationships among the four measures of engagement at the student level (below the diagonal in blue), which range from a low of 0.09 between attendance and participation to highs of 0.25 and 0.28 between intellectual engagement and positive levels of sense of belonging and attendance. [...] Figures 17 through 20 show the range in the levels of engagement across the 93 schools participating in the What did you do in school today?