Engaged Teaching The 5 Dimensions of Engaged Teaching (Solution Tree, 2013) offers practices, principles, stories and activities that support educators to 1) develop and sustain a reflective teaching practice 2) integrate social, emotional and academic learning in the classroom, and 3) cultivate a positive school-wide culture. Final-outcomes_tree . The Engaged Teaching Approach is a life-long path in which we learn from both our successes and mistakes, cultivate our own and our students’ social, emotional and academic intelligence, and develop a deep understanding of what effective teaching looks and feels like. Whether we are veteran teachers or have just entered the field, in the Engaged Teaching Approach, we simply start where we are.