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Birmingham City Schools Leads Groundbreaking Research on Student Motivation and Math Achievement

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/PRNewswire/ — BirminghamCity Schools (BCS) is spearheading an innovative research initiative to explore the critical link between student motivation and math performance. “This partnership aligns perfectly with our district’s strategic focus on academic achievement and evidence-based strategies.

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AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention

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The future of AI in education must be a shared effort across curriculum providers, district and school leaders, and policymakers. Many AI models are built for general use and later “adapted” for education, but this retrofitting approach can introduce bias, misinformation, and misalignment with instructional goals.

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Enhance Student Engagement with Virtual Social Learning Spaces

Catlin Tucker

So, it makes sense that teachers are frustrated when they feel like students are not engaging. The pandemic is presenting new barriers to student engagement, most obviously the lack of physical proximity. Teachers can bring multiple students together for shared tasks on documents, slide decks, drawings, or spreadsheets.

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Student engagement requires more than edtech tools

eSchool News

During a session at FETC 2024, Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, dove into just what, exactly, makes for the effective use of edtech in supporting student engagement. Simply incorporating a device into the classroom doesn’t mean students will automatically engage with their learning. “A

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Understanding and mitigating academic regression from summer learning loss

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This phenomenon has garnered increasing attention from educators, researchers, and policymakers due to its substantial impact on student achievement and educational equity. Research indicates that students typically lose between one to two months of reading and mathematics skills during summer vacation.

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AI can personalize learning–it can’t make students care

eSchool News

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? What if the key to unlocking motivation isn’t something intrinsic to students, but something found in their relationships with peers, teachers, mentors, and communities? All of those are real.

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4 blended learning strategies for better student engagement

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A 2019 Gallup study that included 128 schools and more than 110,000 students found that student engagement and hope were significantly positively related to student academic achievement progress in math, reading, and all subjects combined. Blended Learning Increases Student Engagement.