actively engage

[Mefun]

By welcoming a student's home language into the classroom, schools actively engage English language learners in literacy. - Affirming Identity in Multilingual Classrooms, from Educational Leadership, Copyright 2005 by ASCD.

What does actively engage means in this sentence? Thanks for your answers, guys.

 

[PaulQ]

To engage [someone] [in something] = to hold the attention of [someone] [in something].

To actively engage [someone] [in something] = to make positive efforts towards holding the attention of [someone] [in something].

"actively" is largely emphatic - it implies that something more than "simply pointing out something that might be of interest" is done.