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Student Motivation: Making Students’ Work Relevant
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For students to feel motivated, they must see the work they are doing in the classroom as interesting, valuable, and useful to their present lives.
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Snapchat and Schools - Monitoring What Students Post Online
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Schools are paying attention to what students post online, concerned about school safety and culture. Critics say this may violate free-speech and privacy rights. Here’s the view from one district. (June 20, 2017)
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To Introduce Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom, This District Starts With Its Teachers
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Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts is working to incorporate yoga and mindfulness into classrooms to help both students and teachers manage their stress and regulate their emotions. (June 7, 2017)
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Student Motivation: Praising Competence Instead of Natural Ability
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Students are more likely to do something if they feel like they have the ability to be successful doing it.
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What Does It Mean to Be a Successful Teacher? A Conversation With John Hattie
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Teaching is about engaging students in a passion for learning and working collaboratively with colleagues, explains John Hattie in a discussion with Education Week’s Elizabeth Rich. (April 11, 2018)
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Student Motivation: Helping Students Relate to Others
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Building relationships with peers and teachers helps students feel cared about by people they respect.
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How Media Literacy Can Help Students Discern Fake News
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How can teachers help students tell fact from media fiction? Educators and media literacy advocates in Washington state are working together with legislators to address the problem. (June 6, 2017)
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The ABC’s of Reading to Your Child
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It’s called active reading - making sure you read with your children, not to them. Reading experts have tips on how parents can help make reading fun. (March 15, 2019)
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Parents of Students With Dyslexia Have Transformed Reading Instruction
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An effort to help students with dyslexia has now changed reading instruction for every child in Arkansas. Parents led the way, forcing changes in laws around reading education. (May 1, 2019)
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New York City’s Debate Over Race and Equity in Public Schools
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New York City’s public schools are highly segregated by race. In its elite high schools, black and Latino students comprise just 10 percent of the student body even though they comprise about 70 percent of overall enrollment. (May 9,2019)
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What Are Your Worst Professional Development Stories?
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Education Week asked teachers to tweet us examples of professional development activities that were bizarre, boring, or just didn't work.
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