Are your students constantly glancing at the clock, daydreaming, or lacking enthusiasm for learning? It’s time to revolutionize your classroom and bash the boredom! In Bashing Boredom, we will unveil practical strategies to help you create a classroom environment that your students can’t get enough of. This book will guide you through planning and implementing many engagement strategies while also providing practical tips, personal stories, and solutions to common hurdles that teachers face. Say goodbye to monotony and hello to the magic of engagement!
Book Study/PLC Focus
Bashing Boredom makes the perfect book study or PLC focus for your staff or team. We’ve created slides and a book study template for you to use to help maximize the effectiveness of the book.
"Preparing for student engagement is more than just coming up with fun centers and implementing engagement strategies; it encompasses planning, knowing your students, creating a space filled with trust and encouragement, and reflecting."
- Bashing Boredom
Try our Teach-Enagaged App
Our app takes the strategies from Bashing Boredom and turns them into ready-to-teach, standards-aligned lessons in minutes. Just enter your topic, grade level, or standard—and the app generates an engaging, student-centered plan your teachers can use tomorrow. It’s the fastest way to bring the book to life in real classrooms.
How it Works
1️⃣ Enter: Your topic, grade level, time block, and optional standard. 2️⃣ Choose: Your instructional phase — Whole Group, Cooperative Practice, Independent, or Full Block. 3️⃣ Get: A complete, highly engaging, lesson plan with step-by-step directions, built-in support & extension, real-world connections, and an exit ticket that makes learning visible.
Professional Development & Workshops
Professional Development That Brings the Energy Back.
Forget sit-and-get PD. Our sessions are built for impact — full of laughter, strategies, and ideas that teachers can use tomorrow.
Keynotes and Workshops
Bashing Boredom: Reigniting Engagement - Because boredom isn’t a student problem — it’s a design problem.
→ This signature session that unpacks the 4 Core Principles and 5 Engagement Drivers, shows real-world classroom examples, and helps teachers plan lessons that make learning irresistible.
Perfect For: All staff kick-offs, district PD days
Teach Engaged LIVE! - From strategy to system in 60 minutes.
→ A hands-on session where teachers use the Teach Engaged desktop app to plan highly engaging, effective, lessons in real time. Focuses on quick wins and sustainable planning routines.
Perfect For: Teacher PD, instructional coaches
Building Engaged Schools - Large scale change that brings the joy back to education.
→ A multi-session model designed to align engagement across classrooms, coaching, and leadership. Perfect for school or district wide transformation.
Perfect For: Schools or Districts working to boost engagement across all levels
Joy Is Not a Bonus: Reclaiming Energy in Education - Because burnout is the opposite of engagement.
→ A heart-forward keynote that reframes joy as a professional responsibility and gives systems to sustain it.
Perfect For: Conferences, opening-day keynotes
Beyond Behavior: When Engagement Is the Intervention - Stop managing. Start engaging.
→ Connects engagement strategies to classroom management outcomes — shows how boredom drives misbehavior and how simple shifts rebuild climate.
Perfect For: Principals, teacher leaders, deans
*We also work with schools and districts to create customized PD sessions to fit their specific goals and needs*
Why Schools Love Our Professional Development Sessions:
✅ Ready-to-use strategies
✅ Real-world examples
✅ Interactive, high-energy delivery
✅ Customizable for your school’s needs
Reach out to us at tpe@theprincipalexchange.com to request a quote or book a session and watch how engagement can change your school!
