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JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. Sure, centers in elementary school made sense, but I wasn’t quite certain at first whether a middle school biology class could pull it off. Amanda Lotz is a life sciences teacher at at Southside Middle School in New Hampshire.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

In committing to the use of games for instruction, he’s not only found a unique way to capture his students’ attention but also to alter their incentives for learning while simultaneously redefining the concept of failure. It has stopped being, ‘The teacher told me to,’ and moved toward, ‘I decided to.’

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APRIL 23, 2019

Our school has a low student-teacher ratio, averaging about 4:1, which enables us to provide more individualized attention. But there were staff members from the occupational therapy (OT) and speech departments, as well as a few of her previous teachers from our middle school.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The app relies on a process called neurofeedback, where brain-activity data gathered from the headset informs users whether they are in a relaxed state, or if they should try to refocus their attention. The researcher would not disclose which middle school she worked with to conduct the research.

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