30/09/2026
🌱You are not competing with TikTok. You would lose, and you do not need to.
Short-form media did not destroy your learners' attention span. It trained them to expect a payoff quickly. That is a different problem, and it has a teaching answer rather than a performance one.
So give them one. In the first ten minutes: a question worth answering, a reason to keep going, and a visible win.
Engagement is not entertainment. It is momentum. Attention is earned, not performed.
Our junior high session on 10 October is about building that momentum on purpose.
Share this with a JHS teacher who needed to hear it.