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Take Back Learning Series: Episode 1: Boosting Student Engagement with Less Screen Time

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
11:00 a.m. Pacific | 2:00 p.m. Eastern

School leaders are facing a difficult challenge: reducing students’ dependence on screens without sacrificing engagement, participation, or learning outcomes. As districts respond to growing concerns about attention, belonging, and digital distraction, many leaders are asking the same question: how do we put students—not screens—back at the center of learning?

In this practical and solutions-focused webinar, you’ll explore how schools can create more human-centered learning experiences that increase student engagement through discussion, collaboration, and real-world skill practice. Learn how leading schools are balancing purposeful technology use with classroom strategies that build focus, connection, and active participation.

You’ll walk away with:

  • Strategies to increase student participation and engagement through human-centered learning
  • Ideas for creating more opportunities for peer interaction, collaboration, and skill practice
  • Examples of schoolwide practices that support attention, belonging, and positive school climate
  • Actionable next steps you can implement immediately in classrooms and across your school

Whether you’re leading a schoolwide initiative or looking for practical ways to strengthen engagement, this webinar will help you create learning environments where students spend less time consuming and more time connecting, participating, and thriving.

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Meet the Experts

Stefani Kauppila, Director of Product, Committee for Children

Stefani Kauppila, Director of Product, Committee for Children

As Director of Product, Stefani leads the team responsible for the vision and strategy behind Committee for Children’s innovative human skills programs. Detail-oriented and a problem-solver by nature, Stefani sees issues through both a microscopic and telescopic lens. “I’ve always found big, hairy problems enticing,” she says. “But it’s by having an open mind, being willing to listen, and accepting some failure that I have learned to drive solutions with the greatest impact.” Stefani was drawn to Committee for Children’s research-based approach and its vision of safe children thriving in a just and peaceful world. She previously worked as an elementary and middle school teacher before developing web-based mathematics curricula at DreamBox Learning. It was there that she discovered a talent for designing learning experiences in technological environments and a passion for leading teams and forming partnerships with educators and families.