168490 20260209162330.0 doi 10.1111/ejed.12754 sideral 145329 ART-2025-145329 eng Fernández-Terol, Lucía Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7132-9717 Empowering Student Engagement: A Case Study of Transforming Schools Through Professional Learning Communities 2025 ABSTRACTInterest in studying student engagement arises from its predictive role in school success and its potential to address various classroom‐related educational issues, such as school failure, low achievement, high dropout rates and student alienation. This article presents a case study set in a challenging Spanish school environment that actively promotes student engagement in learning. The study's goal is to gain a contextual understanding of educational change, exploring the school's educational project development, its journey as a professional learning community, and the foundational elements underpinning such engagement. The findings highlight the pivotal role of curriculum and middle management leadership, shifts in teaching methodologies, the cultivation of collaborative professionalism, the enhancement of professional capital and the establishment of supportive structures and dynamics for student engagement. Moreover, this research suggests that the school's achievements are the outcome of a prolonged and intricate process of institutional development led by effective leadership. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN PID2020-117020GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Domingo-Segovia, Jesús 4001 215 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Educación Área Didáctica y Organiz. Esc. 60, 3 (2025), e12754 [17 pp.] Eur. j. educ. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 0141-8211 2039534 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/168490/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2493676 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/168490/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:168490 articulos driver 2026-02-09-14:42:02 ARTICLE