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5 strategies to get your students talking

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Natalie Svrcek, an associate professor at SUNY Brockport, offered strategies to help students collaborate and engage in discussions. Within the doc, students work collaboratively to complete a variety of learning tasks. The digital document is designed for student collaboration and small group discussion.

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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? All of those are real.

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Beanstack motivates all students to read 

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Don Giacomini, Senior Account Executive at Beanstack, details the company’s unique approach to ensuring students are engaged in reading. Watching their progress build keeps them motivated and engaged. Instead of a quiz-based approach, Beanstack uses modern gamification principles to motivate students to read.

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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 project also contributes to the broader goal of improving use of any high-quality math instructional material for all students.”

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One-Two-Three-Read!: A motivational reading program that works

eSchool News

a motivational reading program designed for third graders–but easily adaptable for other grades as well. Building a motivational reading program Inspired by research from Wigfield and Guthrie (2022) and Gambrell and Morrow (2015), we knew that motivation is critical to reading development. Students were thrilled.

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How Gimkit engages my students

eSchool News

During this time, students experienced significant change and evolved into a more technologically-dependent group. During this time, students experienced significant change and evolved into a more technologically-dependent group. What is Gimkit? To begin with, what is Gimkit?

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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