Facilitating Interesting, Meaningful, and Visual Engagement Activities

Participant Engagement is an essential part of training that can increase interest in learning and application of the content, whether in the classroom or a room full of adults. Effective engagement activities are interactive, purposeful, and visual.

This newsletter's trainer tip covers ideas to increase engagement for individuals, partners, small groups, and the whole group.

Do you have a question about this tip or another training scenario? Send us a message!

FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp

The FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp, scheduled for March 12 and 13, 2025, at the Lansing Community College West Campus (LCC West) in Lansing is intended to support Current EPLI Trainers of START Content, with increasing confidence and competence, in training the START FAPE in the LRE content in their local contexts. 

This Bootcamp will be a very rigorous, yet engaging session; prerequisite work is required to prepare participants for the day. In addition to strengthening the content knowledge of trainers, strategies for the instructional delivery of the FAPE in the LRE training module will be shared and practiced.

The application is due February 28, 2025.  

Reminder: Individual EPLI Trainer Report Mid-year Deadline

The mid-year deadline for the Individual EPLI Trainer Report was January 31, 2025. Trainers are required to report all trainings they conducted using START content/materials. If you haven't already submitted your data, please do so this month!

Email Signature

If you choose to include your trainer status in your email signature, you can include "EPLI Trainer of START Content." Please contact START if you have any questions.

Reminder: EPLI Resource Center

We shared the EPLI Resource Center directly with Current Trainers to make it more accessible. To ensure that you have viewing access to the files and folders, please visit the EPLI Resource Center. If you do not have viewing access, please reach out to Kellie Fitzgerald for assistance.

→ Tip: You can access the EPLI Resource Center through the Current Trainers page on the START website under "relevant links."

Disclaimer:
The EPLI Resource Center is only intended to be accessed by Current EPLI Trainers of START Content.

START presents the resources in the EPLI Resource Center for informational purposes only; no endorsement or recommendation is expressed or implied. Any use of these materials must be premised on the user’s professional judgment as to the appropriateness for their district, community, and student(s), and be undertaken per all applicable district policy.

Contact Information Update

Help us keep our contact list up to date! If you have had a name change, changed RCN or districts in the past two years, and/or have a new email address, please submit this form to share your updated contact information. 

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