Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Chicken or Egg? Egg or Chicken?


John Antonetti's Engagement Cube
We've all been asked which came first: the chicken or the egg? One of the reasons this question engages us is because it provokes debate. It challenges and exposes our thinking about a variety of things, and everyone seems to have a different theory. 

Speaking of engagement, Dr. Douglas Willms asks a great chicken-egg type question for us educators. In the great debate about how to best engage our disengaged youth, he poses this: does engagement increase achievement OR does achievement increase engagement

Dr. Willms' research reveals that "achievement begets engagement." What do you think?