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Student engagement in schools and learning needs research and evidence-informed policy to support schools and teachers. School leaders and teachers can find their efforts thwarted by system policies such as tracking or punishment-focussed discipline, rigid curriculum, and insufficient roles and time for teachers and others to work together and continually improve. This commentary uses recent policy around engagement in one schooling system, Aotearoa New Zealand, to show how it can affect schools’ work to better engage students.
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Wylie, C. (2022). The Role of Policy in Supporting Student Engagement. In: Reschly, A.L., Christenson, S.L. (eds) Handbook of Research on Student Engagement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07853-8_28
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