Experience the Kagan Difference

  • "They need to be teaching this at teacher training as it makes everything so easy."

    -Barry Jones, PNINS Music Specialist

  • "Kagan has made a huge difference to my classroom management."

    -Haley McKay, Y7/8 Teacher

  • "Kagan teams meant students were supported, had stability & a safe place"

    -Jennie Moore, Kagan Trainer

  • "I am a success story for Kagan. It makes teaching and learning fun and exciting."

    -Kayla Womack, 6th Grade Teacher

  • "Taking my learning back and implementing Cooperative Meetings has been transformational"

    -Melissa Booth, AP

  • "Kagan has made a significant difference to their non-verbal ORRS students."

    -T. Mackay AP

  • ""In my 16 years of teaching I have never been more excited than I am about Kagan Structures"

    -Diane Strickland, Teacher

  • "When she had a hard time communicating, we offered her Kagan communication gambits that provided her with many beautiful words."

    -Jeff McAlpine

  • Even in the short amount of time since the training, I have seen huge improvements and motivation in not only in my class, but in myself as well.

    -Holly Phillips

  • “Kagan has taken cooperative learning to another level! My students cooperate effectively because of Kagan’s amazing structures. The structures have helped my students acquire social and communication skills needed in the real world. Implementing these structures has taught my students how to successfully take turns and to listen to the views of others. Everyone is a team player and a leader when you use Kagan. The increase in self-esteem and empathy for others is all made possible when you decide to add a Kagan Structure to your lesson. The long-term benefits of Kagan are out of this world!”

    —Latasha Mose, Fourth Grade Teacher

  • “Before we started using Kagan, classwork was just easy. I just listened to the teacher and did my work. But, now that we use structures, it’s more challenging. It’s helping everyone learn so much more and it is helping others too. I know with me it made me learn so much more. Before there were only a few of us in GT (Gifted and Talented) and now there are so many. Kids have to do their work and they have to be a part of the learning. It really has helped make kids smarter.”

    —Primere Lewis, Student

  • “Kagan has made a large impact on not only improving student learning and understanding, but developing social skills and habits. Body language, tone of voice, eye contact, and positive communication greatly affect how my students interact in the classroom setting. Kagan Structures help students develop their thinking, communicating, and collaborating skills in a controlled way. I implement Kagan Structures into every lesson plan I create in order to make learning cooperative. I fully support these engagement structures, and I know they help children in many, many ways!”

    —Heather Smith, Fourth Grade Teacher

  • In my thirteen years of attending workshops and training, this has been the ONLY information I have received that I feel I will use until I retire.

    — Emma Slyow, 3rd Grade teacher

  • Jackie Corey, principal at Lehigh Senior High School, attributes the very dramatic decrease in discipline referrals at her school in part to the greater engagement of students when Kagan Structures are implemented. As Jackie puts it, engaged students “don’t have the opportunity to lose focus and get in trouble."

“In the classroom it is the teacher who ultimately makes the choice of how much students feel included or excluded. When we choose not to make concerted efforts to make our classrooms more inclusive, we have still made a choice. It is a choice to default to traditional individualistic and competitive learning that results in many students feeling disconnected.”

— Miguel Kagan, Kagan USA