Master teacher and education consultant Patricia Vitale-Reilly has a deep understanding of what engagement strategies look like and how to integrate them into classroom practice. "Regardless of age, grade level, geographic location, type of school, discipline, or curriculum," she writes, "A student needs to be engaged in his or her learning in order to excel and succeed." In Engaging Every Learner, Patricia applies the research on motivation and engagement to strategies and tools that cultivate and sustain student engagement across the school year. She suggests a sequence for implementing the principles of teaching that lead to engaged classrooms, including:

• creating physical, emotional, and cognitive classroom environments for optimal learning
• building meaningful classroom structure through whole class, small group, and independent instruction
• applying the principles of choice to content, process, and product
• connecting students to the world around them through popular culture, technology, and the community.

A wealth of classroom anecdotes, examples, and practical tips are woven throughout each chapter to illustrate Patricia's strategies. If you're looking for ways to make students real partners in their learning, try Engaging Every Learner and watch kids thrive.

Patricia Vitale-Reilly is a national consultant, teacher, and author with 25 years of experience in education. Early on it became clear that her passion was to collaborate with leaders in education to develop and achieve engaging and relevant instructional practices. Patty taught in both public and independent schools, as well as at the graduate level, in New York and New Jersey. Patty also worked as staff developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. In this capacity, she helped school communities implement exemplary literacy instruction, and presented workshops and courses on the teaching of reading, writing, assessment, and literacy in the content areas. In 2003, Patty founded her own literacy consulting group, and currently works directly with school leaders, coaches, teachers, and students inside and outside of classrooms. Patty is an author of Time for Kids teacher training materials and is a contributor to Write Time for Kids (TCM, 2000), co-author of The Complete Year in Reading and Writing Grade 2 (Scholastic, 2008), and the author of Engaging Every Learner and Supporting Struggling Learners. Her newest book, coauthored with Lisa Eickholdt, is A Teacher's Guide to Writing Workshop Minilessons (A Classroom Essentials book). As a national consultant, Patty is dedicated to guiding schools and districts to set and realize goals that matter most in their learning communities, and to her belief that every student has the right and the capacity to learn. Check out her blog exploring important and essential ideas about teaching and learning at http: //www.pattyvitale-reilly.com/blog.html. You can also find her on Twitter at @PattyVReilly.