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JANUARY 25, 2023

A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction. Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Naturally, this could create challenges in a school setting, but in my experience, whether innate or as a product of a structure, competition itself isn’t always problematic. In fact, some studies confirm that competition has benefits , though they vary based on the individual and the competition.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2015

Middle school students can take online courses for high school credit, and high school students can design their own studies with the help of a faculty advisor. “We We’re doing everything we can to motivate and engage them.”. He added: “We’re giving students more of a voice and a choice in their education.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2023

Even more, we are facing a student mental health crisis, with studies showing nearly 8 million children worldwide lost a parent or primary caregiver to a pandemic-related cause. Educators continue to work hard to keep students motivated and engaged in learning to read while helping them cope with mental health challenges.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

The impact of probeware on student motivation and interest, particularly in science subjects often perceived as “ difficult, boring, and abstract ,” is significant. By using these tools, students can actively conduct investigations, gather data, and observe results, making abstract concepts more concrete and understandable.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Career-connected learning helps students understand how academics connect to real-world careers which can improve academic motivation. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) , students who engage in career exploration are more likely to understand the relevance of their coursework.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

Cox Middle School has embarked on a transformational journey to turn around the school. Through the Leader in Me and an RTI2-B partnership with Vanderbilt University, the school is transforming its culture and addressing unrealistically high behavioral issues that inhibit learning. As part of the process, E.A.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The strategies span middle school to higher education contexts, across a variety of subjects including math, science, social studies, and literacy. Each strategy was created by an experienced educator, selected and supported by BetterLesson through their “Master Teacher Project” model. For more information click here.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2018

Last year, my district—Roosevelt (AZ) School District—was asked by Arizona State University’s (ASU) department of innovation and entrepreneurship to pilot a new educational program for middle school students. I teach social studies, and our middle school’s math and science teachers joined me.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2024

It’s one thing to study a concept in a textbook. A recent study compared two groups of students learning in an art appreciation course–one learning in a more traditional learning model and the other group integrated virtual reality. A quote attributed to Confucious explains the concept in simple terms: “I hear and I forget.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Erin Haley, middle school teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif.: “YES But I’m betting many do have a newfound appreciation for teachers and schools and what we do for kids.” Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: “I YES THEY HAVE!

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MARCH 22, 2022

This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. He seemed to think that if students would just study and be compliant then they would do well.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024. More than one third of U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: “The

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. And these are not just super-precocious kids digging into self-directed study—what Evans calls “free agent learning.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Research shows that a positive school culture is associated with higher attendance rates and deeper engagement for both students and faculty. As best-selling author Dan Pink writes in his book Drive , mastery is a powerful motivator. Making sure employees feel valued and celebrating their successes is also important.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

With increased practice, they become more proficient and confident readers, and because everyone loves doing things theyre good at, theyre motivated to read more and more joyfully. elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking. Their impact can be immediate and visible. The difference large print can make.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

al (2019), Integrative teaching benefits middle-level learners as it potentially increases student engagement, motivation, and achievement. For instance, principles from science can be linked to literature they are studying in English class. Rethinking content teaching at the middle level: An interdisciplinary approach.

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MAY 18, 2021

Breakthrough SJC is an education nonprofit embedded in an independent school but serving about 300 students across our Orange County, Calif., Our underlying vision is to increase the number of college graduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds by serving students starting in middle school through their graduation from college.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

LearnPlatform by Instructure conducted an independent study in accordance with ESSA Level II requirements to evaluate the effectiveness of Mathletics in improving academic achievement. The study analyzed NWEA MAP® testing scores from 1,885 third- through fifth-grade students across eight schools within a single district.

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MAY 22, 2024

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University created the first adaptive AI-driven tutor for teaching middle school mathematics, MATHia, which is still one of our flagship products. We have the researchers who have studied it for 25 years. Schools should consider those things as they adopt AI tools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Take up coding, study nursing or go into engineering , they say. Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. Hearing this context profoundly changed how I viewed Marcus’ motivations and aspirations. Become a lawyer, or an electrician.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The practice is known as “data walls,” and is designed to serve as a motivational tool. Students are told that “everyone is working to move their number” even higher, says Demetria Tumpkin, a second grade teacher at the school. At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

And plenty of schools and colleges are wondering: Will this new realm work for education? A new study co-authored by one of the world’s most prominent researchers on the effectiveness of edtech, Richard Mayer, offers some answers to that question. Students need to be motivated. They need to be excited. They need to be focused.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. Middle school technologist Benjamin Lloyd knows his students are already using VR to watch movies and game at home. His goal is to help them to see the academic and creative potential while at school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. And what motivates me is seeing the students. I'm excited to go into the schools. That's what motivates me, because I know there are students out there who need my help.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

RIF will continue to align our model based on complementing the science of reading with the critical element of the joy of reading which will be especially important as educators look for ways to motivate and encourage greater frequency and engagement in reading.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Specialists can also connect the teacher’s classroom to another teacher and classroom inside or outside the school; that collaboration can happen with a peer classroom or with a classroom of younger students eager to learn from their peers. What it looks like : Many classes create digital portfolios based on student projects and interests.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A recent study sponsored by Reading Plus , an adaptive literacy intervention platform, found that by the time they finish high school, today’s students read 19% slower than their counterparts of 50 years ago. Inefficient reading habits lead to difficulties with both comprehension and motivation. Source: Reading Plus.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique. Yet several themes emerged.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

I started implementing Genius Hour in 2014 after watching Daniel Pink’s TED Talk, “The puzzle of motivation” in which he discussed Google’s 20 percent time policy (employees spent 20 percent of their week working on their own passion project). Ava’s work was getting recognized outside of her middle school, and she was inspired to do more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. Completing homework and meeting deadlines are important life skills that should be fostered at school,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Students improve in math when parents motivate them, set high expectations and connect them to help at school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation.

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