During the past month I have been observing specifically for student engagement during our after school program. It has become obvious that the more our staff uses of WBT the more engaged the students are. I also observed a staff member who benefited from Andrea's coaching and I was blown away. She had 1st and 2nd graders (with constant interruptions for student pickup) completely engaged with gestures and they were able to retell the picture book to each other using the gestures.

This is the beauty of WBT...not just student engagement, but total student engagement.

I have seen this also in Hemet Unified, the kids are continuing to learn...after school!