School leadership teams are struggling with student disengagement and how to support educators in their efforts to increase student engagement. As the Assistant Superintendent of Turtle Mountain School Division (TMSD), I want educators to self-evaluate their educational practice and make changes to ensure that their teaching is supported by current research. A group of ten teachers who have engaging classroom practices completed a questionnaire about their thoughts on student engagement: what it is, what they do to engage students, how they know that students are engaged, and what they describe as the key ingredients for encouraging student engagement. The teachers created a definition of student engagement, and five themes of how to nurture student engagement emerged: building relationships, creating a safe classroom culture, providing opportunity for student choice, differentiating instruction, and having high expectations of their students. The findings of the questionnaire will be used as a part of a divisional mentorship program for new teachers.