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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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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

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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? Or basketball. Or Taylor Swift.

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AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention

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These platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to personalize learning, refine curriculum development, and support teaching. There is growing enthusiasm for using AI to better support teachers–a promising shift that could save educators time and enhance student engagement.

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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

The way I did this was to have each student submit a written weekly page minimum response showing how they applied that weeks concept. This will require extra work for you, but the results should be enlightening to your teaching success along with problem areas that should be addressed.

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Crafting environments where students with autism thrive

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Awareness alone isnt enough–what students on the spectrum benefit from environments where their needs are understood, respected, and supported with purpose. Throughout my career as a behavior therapist, classroom teacher, and Head of School, Ive worked closely with students on the spectrum and their families.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

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However, in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, there is a growing need to enhance this traditional model with innovative teaching methods (Barker, 2000). Experiment Design for Policy: Designing experiments to test policy interventions helps students understand the practical applications of their studies.

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