Working on the Work: An Action Plan for Teachers, Principals, and Superintendents. The Jossey-Bass Education Series.

By Phillip C. Schlechty. 2002

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The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education (2008, background): “This system enhances motivation by placing greater responsibility and ownership on the students, and by offering truly engaging, often collaborative work for students (Schlechty, 2002).”
High-Quality Teaching: Providing for Rural Teachers' Professional Development (2004, background): “A model known as “working on the work” helps teachers analyze assignments given to students as a way to think about the meaningfulness of classroom work and the intellectual challenge it affords (Schlechty, 2002).”
How Motivation Influences Student Engagement: A Qualitative Case Study. (2012, background): “According to Schlechty (2002) ritually engaged students do their learning “for reasons that are disassociated from the task itself” (p. 10).”
Secondary school students' engagement profiles and their relationship with academic adjustment and achievement in university (2017, background): “Some notable outcomes include that engagement deteriorates over the years (Schlechty, 2002) and that girls are more highly engaged than boys (Goodenow, 1992; Yazzie-Mintz, 2007).”