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Welcome to the Future of Education where we Empower Teachers, Elevate Students, and Transform Education Together!
Introducing our signature, self-study, online course…
The Engaged Classroom:
Strategies to Connect, Inspire, and Motivate Your Students
In this self-paced, online course you’ll learn how to transform your classroom into a calmer, kinder, more collaborative learning space using simple, science-backed strategies that help you reduce stress, boost participation, and create a learning environment both you and your students will enjoy!
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Enroll now for the self-paced course for just $155 for a limited time.
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Or select our premiere "live" cohort of this course beginning February 26, 2026 for our special pricing of ONLY $222 (limited spots available this round).
Can't wait to know more...
Today’s high school teachers don’t get the luxury of just being an educator.
They juggle the extra responsibility of so many other roles – like counselor, life coach, substitute parent, disciplinarian, caretaker, or confidante.
And it’s leaving so many of our talented, passionate teachers suffering from compassion fatigue and burnout.
You want to create a high-impact learning environment that makes a real difference in the lives of your students, but you never feel like you’ve got enough time, energy, or resources to deliver those things in the way you want to or know you could if those other growing responsibilities weren’t consuming your energy.
Instead you’re likely struggling with feeling…
💔Disconnected from your students and frustrated by their lack of focus, progress, and meaningful interactions.
💔Stressed, overworked, and at a loss for how to balance the demands of your job and your physical and mental health too.
💔Like your purpose and passion for teaching has been buried under an avalanche of non-teaching related administrative hurdles.
💔Creatively stifled and professionally restricted from being able to run your classroom how you always imagined.
Tired of things never changing and wondering if you have it in you to stick around as a teacher for much longer.
If you’re facing any or all of these struggles, you are not alone!
I have heard these same challenges from teachers all across the country and it seems like it’s getting worse, not better.
And the other thing I also hear them say?
That you long for ways to make your class less about managing benchmarks and standardized testing markers and more about creating connections, building collaboration, and making learning more meaningful and fun.
That’s what The Engaged Classroom is designed to do – help you create the kind of classroom environment you’ve always dreamed of, but without putting more on your plate than you’ve already got.
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In 2024, I published a book called The Voice of the Student, which came out of the research I did for my PhD in Integral Health and Life Physics with a focus on the state of education and adolescent experiences inside their classrooms.
I wanted to understand the real-life experiences of students attending public high schools in the US, so I spoke to dozens of students from different states, grades, backgrounds and demographics to gather the data I needed.
The powerful student insights and heartfelt messages they shared drive everything inside The Engaged Classroom with just some of the key, common themes they expressed being:
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Teachers – by far – have the most influence on their student’s daily experiences (for better or worse).
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Students want a more balanced classroom environment that is not just about quizzes, standardized tests, and a one-size-fits-all approach to education.
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Education should have meaning and be more focused on the student’s overall well-being, highlighting connection, balance, and engagement so they feel like more of a co-collaborator.🌈
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Stress has reached chronic levels – for BOTH teachers and students – and can no longer be ignored!
And that’s why I’ve carefully selected every strategy, tool, and technique inside this course to help you reduce stress, promote connection, and encourage a collaborative environment that supports student empowerment and learning.
This is how you can begin to create real, meaningful change in your classroom – and you don’t have to spend hours of your already limited time searching the internet for new methods to connect with your all-too-often distracted teen students – because I’ve done the work for you!
What makes this course different and why it works…
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✨Tailored for Teen Brains: Every strategy is grounded in the latest research on adolescent brains to maximize neuroplasticity, resilience, and motivation at the stage when it matters most.
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✨Immediate Impact, Zero Extra Work: Simple, actionable strategies like “pause moments” and stress-reduction breaks, fit seamlessly into your daily routine and are proven to increase student concentration, participation, and overall mood.
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✨Lower Stress, Higher Well-Being: Studies at MIT confirm focused-attention and wellness strategies reduce classroom stress and help students and teachers feel calmer and more at ease.
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✨Improved Academic Performance: Active learning and emotionally intelligent lessons are proven to positively influence higher grades, better attendance, and more engaged classroom behavior.
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✨Stronger Teacher-Student Connections: Presence practices and restorative feedback frameworks build a positive, inclusive classroom culture and promote student agency.
One of the biggest constraints of our education system is that it treats – and teaches – students as if they have adult-functioning brains and can be taught in an overly-structured, uniform way.
They can’t – and you and I know that – which is why this course is different! It’s specifically designed for high school teachers, with practical strategies aligned to how 21st‑century adolescents learn and grow!
Ready to empower yourself to make a bigger impact on the lives of your uniquely-wired, teen students?
Listen, let’s face it, there’s no magic pill for the burdens teachers face.
There are always going to be…
🎯Too few hours in the day
🎯Kids who struggle to fit into a one-size-fits-all education box
🎯Unfocused or disinterested students
🎯Absentee students or problem parents
🎯‘New and improved’ education strategies
🎯Nonsensical teaching hoops to jump through and so much more…
Yet the one thing you will ALWAYS have control over is YOU and what YOU choose to bring into your classroom every single day.
Your energy, enthusiasm, and innovation.
And when you combine those qualities with the simple, science-backed strategies I share in this course, you will steadily transform your classroom into the kind of learning environment that has a profound impact on your students now – and well into their future.
Here are 3 big changes in your day that you’ll begin to notice when you start using the practical, proven strategies inside The Engaged Classroom:
✅ #1. Increased Teacher Well-Being
✅ #2. Improved Classroom Dynamics
✅ #3. Greater Student Empowerment
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As you learn to create a more balanced, grounded classroom environment, you experience less stress, more enjoyment and get back to what you love most about your role as a teacher – engaging and inspiring your students.
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As you learn more wellness and life skill strategies to empower and support your students (regardless of academic subject matter), your classroom will naturally become a more vibrant learning place for BOTH you and your students.
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As you increase student participation and enjoyment by creating a place they want to BE and learn in, you’ll see your students showing up and expressing greater student empowerment and authenticity in their unique style of learning.
What you can expect from The Engaged Classroom self-paced, online course…
Whether you are a new teacher looking to build a strong foundation or an experienced educator seeking fresh ideas, this course offers valuable tools and techniques to enhance your teaching practice and support your unique students to feel seen, valued, and heard, so you can create a truly enhanced learning environment for all.
This transformative, self-paced course is designed specifically for teacher educators who are passionate about creating a dynamic and engaging classroom environment and can easily be completed in as little as one weekend (or over 5 weeks if you’re doing the upcoming live, supported version).
By the end of this course, you will have a comprehensive blueprint for creating your own personalized ideal classroom that fosters creativity, collaboration, and a love for learning for both you and your students!
The strategies in this course will help you to…
➡️Bring calm, balance, and joy into the classroom so your students – and you – want to be there.
➡️Empower them to take charge of their own learning with life skills and strategies that extend far beyond the classroom.
➡️Learn how to help your students focus for better instructional flow & improved classroom energy and dynamics.
➡️Learn how to bring the fun back into your teaching – which studies show naturally boosts engagement.
➡️Make lessons more relevant by helping students answer the all-important question that drives them: “Why does this matter to me?”
➡️Cultivate the values of connection, kindness, and purpose, which supports positive classroom dynamics – and growing good humans.
Perhaps most importantly, you will walk away from this course with a firm foundation to understand how you can create an empowered classroom that is more meaningful for you and your unique body of students.
And, it will help you navigate whatever outdated education system you’re operating within so you can deliver on your teaching requirements AND make it 21st-century relevant, effective and… more fun.
Here’s what’s inside…
Over this 5-module course, you’ll be equipped with everything you need to create an environment that engages, empowers, and inspires.
Perfect for educators looking to enhance their teaching strategies and connect with their students on a deeper level.
Each of the five modules is filled with actionable insights, practical tips, and real-world researched and tested examples 📝📈 that you can immediately implement in your classroom with success!
Module 1: Create An Engaged Classroom Environment 🏫
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Lesson 1: How to Be the Most Influential Energy in the Classroom ⚖️
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Lesson 2: Using Intention to Create Your Ideal Environment 🎯
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Lesson 3: The 5 Elements for Classroom Harmony & Balance 🌱🔥💧🌍⚡
Module 2: Create a Clear Classroom Blueprint 📝
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Lesson 1: Meaningful Classroom Expectations & Guidelines ✅
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Lesson 2: The Four Agreements for Student Success & Greater Wellbeing 🗝️
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Bonus: Pause Moments in Class to Ground, Balance, & Refocus ⏸️
Module 3: Unlocking the Adolescent Brain 🧠
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Lesson 1: The Power of the Adolescent Brain 💥
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Lesson 2: Leveraging Student Strengths 💪
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Bonus: Implementing Constructively Kind Feedback 💬
Module 4: Boost Engagement & Student Wellness 🌱
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Lesson 1: Emotional Intelligence & Resilience 💡💪
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Lesson 2: Unique Homework Strategies that Work 📚✨
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Bonus: Quickly Reset When Things Go Off Track 🔄
Module 5: Kindness, Connection & Collaboration 🤝
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Lesson 1: Classroom Habits for Better Engagement & Student Well-being 🌟
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Lesson 2: Building Kindness, Connection & Collaboration into Your Class ❤️
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Bonus: Creating a Safe Space for All Students 🛡️
Ready to Create Your Engaged Classroom?💫
Join today and start leading your students inside an empowered classroom designed for success in all areas.
But this course isn’t just about a bunch of proven strategies, it’s about giving you the essential tools you need to transform your classroom from chaotic and scattered to balanced and harmonious.
Here’s the kind of things you’ll learn to help you do that…
In Module 1, you learn that you are the most influential energy in the room, and how to use that to positively influence behavior, focus, group regulation and minimize stress.
In Module 2, you learn how to set up a collaborative classroom agreement that supports students to take a more active role in their own learning and greater responsibility for their own presence, attendance, and behavior.
In Module 3, you’ll learn the constructively kind feedback system, which will deliver the kind of positive interactions with students that will remind you why you wanted to be a teacher in the first place and instill an environment of meaning and collaboration that students are looking for.
In Module 4, you’ll learn more key techniques to take your classroom from stressed to calm in only a matter of seconds, so you’ll feel confident you can get their attention back when things get off track (which we all know is inevitable when dealing with teens!).
In Module 5, you’ll learn simple but effective habits you can easily build into your classroom routines that steadily encourage students to speak up more, be more curious, ask more questions, and interact more as a class.
And these are just scratching the surface of how this course will support you!
Ready to find out all the simple ways you can begin to transform your classroom into the kind of learning environment you and your students will want to be in?
🎯Yes, I want The Engaged Classroom self-paced course!
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE COURSE🎉:
✅Dozens of practical, science-backed tools to foster a positively engaging and meaningful classroom environment for both you and your students.
✅5 self-paced, themed modules with 2-3 specialized lesson topics relevant to the module, plus bonus lessons.
✅Every lesson includes a detailed information slide, pdf copy, and audio version so you can choose which way you prefer to learn the information.
✅Printable teacher checklists and reference sheets.
✅Lifetime access that includes any and all future updates – as students, education, and strategies grow and evolve, we will too!
✅Exclusive access to a private educator community within the course, where you can share your wins, setbacks, feedback, or ideas with others using these strategies in real time.
Why Learn from Me?
I’m Kelley Spence, an innovative education advocate, well-being consultant, author of The Voice of The Student, and adolescent well-being specialist and coach.
And whether I’m using my Masters and PhD in Integral Health or my qualifications in interpersonal neuropsychology, mindful awareness practices, NLP, or emotional resilience strategies, I’m dedicated to delivering real-world applications for the adolescent brain and our exciting, 21st-century classrooms.
That’s why over the past decade, I’ve worked to make public education and the pivotal adolescent experience more meaningful, inclusive, and collaborative for students, teachers, parents, and communities.
One of the core ways I do that is by sharing practical, science-backed strategies through my courses and consultancy work that move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach, boost academic achievement, and improve overall well-being during high school and beyond.
And after a decade of advocacy in the education space, here’s what I know to be true…
Things have to change, now - the system isn’t working, and good teachers and eager students are desperate for positive change.
We cannot wait for anyone else to change it from the “top”, while our students continue to suffer with chronic stress, anxiety and overload as our hard-working, valuable teachers like you leave the profession in droves!
Instead, we have to empower the people who can make an immediate difference – YOU, our teachers – with simple, effective strategies that don’t drain more of your time or energy.
That’s why I’ve designed The Engaged Classroom to be…
❇️Relevant, Real, and Fun ✨: This course brings proven life skills, wellness tools, and presence practices straight into your class—making your job easier, while giving teens what they actually need and want.
❇️Backed by Research and the Real Needs of Students🔬: The methods are tested, with proven results from respected, well-known studies that deliver results and better meet the desires of students as captured in my book, The Voice of the Student.
❇️Tailored to the Adolescent Brain 🧠: You get strategies piloted and already being implemented worldwide in real classrooms with high school students.
❇️Easy to fit around your busy schedule ⏲️: You can take it all in over a weekend or in between your classes – how you learn is up to you. (Or you can join me for our first live, supported run of the course starting Thursday, February 26, 2026 - running for 5 consecutive weeks)
Real transformation in our schools starts with our teachers!
Everyday, it’s you, our dedicated teachers, that see the impact of our outdated education system on the teenagers in your classrooms. Their time at school is supposed to empower, uplift, and grow them into thriving young adults, but instead it…
❌Leaves them bored, not stimulated.
❌Forces them to learn a certain way, rather than find their own unique way.
❌Feels like a waste of time for them because they can’t see how any of it’s relevant to their lives.
❌Skyrockets their stress and largely ignores their emotional and mental wellbeing.
And you know as well as I do that the band-aid solutions you’ve been given haven’t actually fixed anything.
The time for waiting is over. Our students need change, and they need it now!
It’s not going to come from anywhere else except INSIDE our classrooms and schools – beginning with YOU, our teachers!
You can start the change, right now, to…
✔️Make classrooms a place of inspiration — so every student wants to be there. The Engaged Classroom gives you science-backed ways that work for teens, so you can connect, engage, and leave band-aid fixes behind.
✔️Reach students in ways they’ll remember forever– and ditch those outdated methods, spark real excitement, and become that teacher they’ll always remember fondly because you didn’t just teach 'at' them… you cared for them and made your classroom a meaningful space.
✔️Prioritize wellbeing alongside academic performance – so they leave with more than just book learning, but tangible life skills for reducing stress, staying calm, finding their own version of joy, and managing their ever-changing emotions.
If you know education needs more heart, more science-backed strategies that actually work, and more fun, you’re in the right place!🎯
Ready to remake the classroom together, one engaged lesson at a time?
Then dive into The Engaged Classroom and discover simple, easy-to-implement strategies that will have an immediate impact and create a lasting ripple effect for this unique generation of students and those that follow.
FAQs
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
The small print:
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Due to the nature of the digital course, once purchased, it is no longer refundable.
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All modules are pre-recorded with easy to follow visual slides, pdf versions, and audio recordings for self-paced instruction.
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Amounts are listed in $USD. For other currencies, the chosen payment option should populate the correct amount based on your location.
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Transactions are processed through Teaching Side By Side, TSBS LLC.
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It's an honor to serve and support you and your students! I never take it for granted.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. How much time will the course take?
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The course consists of 5 modules each with 2-3 lessons each and a bonus lesson that you can complete at your own pace.
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Each complete module takes about an hour or so to complete…but can vary.
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The course is designed to be completed over the course of a weekend…but you can do it as fast or as slow as you need.
2. Can I get a refund if the course doesn’t work for me?
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Due to the digital nature of the course, no refunds are available.
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The course was carefully designed to be malleable and flexible to virtually every type of student and classroom setting, but there are bound to be exceptions along the way.
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There is an excessive amount of content provided so that you will have more than enough strategies and usable content to use the majority of what is being offered to you in some capacity for an extremely inexpensive cost.
3. What if I’m a new teacher—will this still work for me?
Absolutely! Our science-backed tools are valuable for new or experienced teachers of all levels who want to create more engaging, productive, enjoyable classrooms.
4. How long will I have access to the course?
You will have lifetime access to the course and any future updates.
Have any more questions not already answered…Ask away! You can reach me here. 📧
✨If you’re ready to create your own Engaged Classroom, enroll in the self-paced course now for just $155 for a limited time only. Or if you're reading this prior to one of our 5-week "live" runs of the course--beginning February 26, 2026--and want to be a part of that, enroll here for access information for our special premiere offering price of only $222 (limited spots available)!
➡️We also offer amazing specialized school and district professional development packages for the course...reach out for more info here!
Teachers, thank you for all you do…can’t wait to see you in the course!💛
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