Achievement Coaching Motivation 
k12 Digest
MAY 19, 2025
Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Another study showed that in mathematics, students exposed to brain-based instruction not only achieved higher scores but developed a deeper conceptual understanding of the material.
Catlin Tucker
DECEMBER 9, 2021
When teacher engagement is high, it positively impacts both student engagement and achievement. However, to truly understand teacher engagement we must understand the dimensions of this motivational construct. I’ll be opening registration for cohort 2 of my Blended Learning Coaching Course in January!
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Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
First, I do not think grades are an effective long-term strategy for motivating most students. In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , Daniel Pink points out that extrinsic rewards–points, grades, or the promise of a class party for good behavior–are not effective ways to motivate people over time.
Catlin Tucker
DECEMBER 28, 2018
When I lead blended learning workshops or coach teachers implementing blended learning, I get a lot of questions about classroom management. When humans are given the autonomy, especially in a learning environment, it yields higher levels of interest, engagement, and motivation. Researchers have isolated autonomy as a basic human need.
Catlin Tucker
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
While reading Adam Grant’s new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things , I was struck by his distinction between teaching and coaching. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence.” The students in the study assumed the role of a peer coach.
Catlin Tucker
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
As I said in my last post, “ Taking the ‘Manage’ Out of Classroom Managemen t,” I’d like to focus more on motivating students and less on managing them, but it’s hard to achieve a student-centered, student-driven experience if there aren’t clear expectations, routines, and consequences.
Catlin Tucker
MARCH 25, 2019
However, external motivators, as Daniel Pink articulates in his book Drive , are not effective long-term. External motivators may yield short-term results, but ultimately intrinsic motivation in which students are motivated by an internal reward or feeling of satisfaction or accomplishment is much more effective.
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