Our results suggest that transformative experience may be conceptualized as a continuum ranging from in-class engagement to active out-of-school engagement. The upper levels of this continuum are more typical of the conceptualization of transformative experience used in prior research (e.g., Pugh, 2004; Pugh & Girod, 2007). In our sample, we found the average level of engagement to be at the low end of the transformative experience continuum and engagement at the upper end was rare