April 2023 | Student engagement must go beyond the illusion of engagement to support deep thinking, education experts Jim Heal and Bryan Goodwin write in an article titled “Moving from Engagement to Deeper Thinking.” The article, featured in the April issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine, states that once educators learn how to recognize if their students are engaged in substantive learning, new information can be presented in meaningful ways to support students as they process it for enhanced understanding and long-term retention.