Gain seven strategies designed to help you engage students and families by building performance-based relationships. Drawing from research and his own experiences as an education leader, Coach Carlos Johnson shares practical guidance on how to deepen the impact of your instruction. Learn his performance-based relationships framework and how to apply it to engaged, partially engaged, and unengaged students. This book will help K-12 teachers and administrators: Identify their high why behind increasing student engagement and discover how to help students find their high why as well Foster a healthy sense of cooperative competition in students that will assist them in reaching their full potential Tailor their approach in response to the various racial, socioeconomic, and gendered factors that impact student investment Learn how to build mutually beneficial relationships with parents that help to achieve higher educational performance, transform school culture, and reduce staff stress Contents: Preface: Sound the Alarm That Students Must Engage Introduction Chapter 1: Discover the One Thing Can Change Everything Chapter 2: Get Our Buts Out of the Way--Relationship Mindsets Chapter 3: Adopt the Classroom Coach Approach Chapter 4: Know Your Why for Teaching Chapter 5: Help Students Find Their High Why Chapter 6: Foster Cooperative Competition Chapter 7: Educate and Celebrate Parents as Partners Chapter 8: Target Your Boys Chapter 9: Measure Student Engagement Frequently Chapter 10: Understand the Engagement Evidence Chain Epilogue References and Resources Index