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10 Ways to Motivate the Undermotivated

Ten ways to motivate the undermotivated

Adding elements of surprise and choice into our classrooms is a great way to motivate the unmotivated.

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How to make a difference through your service

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50 Activities for 2nd Grade

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Open-Ended Questioning with Bloom's

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Making Poster Sessions a Success

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Match policy with local initiatives

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Preparing for a Secure Financial Future

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Students explore ancestry in "Suitcase Stories"

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Exploring history through animation

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Grow Your Teaching by Presenting

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Diving in to digital projects

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50 Activities for Kindergarten

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Podcasting: A powerful avenue for student voice

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Student-created grammar tutorials

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Keep it super simple, and meaningful.

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Fostering Gratitude

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6 Tips for Submitting a Successful Presentation Proposal

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50 Activities for 6th Grade

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Ideas for using Pixie on an interactice whiteboard

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Build communication skills in students with physical disabilities.

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10 Creative Ideas for Back-to-School

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Reach all students with digital media

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Afraid to flip? Try a somersult

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Building digital portfolios

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A tool for authentic learning

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Create a memorable learning archive

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Your first action research cycle

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50 Activities for 5th Grade

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Change the face of assessment with digital portfolios

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Engage students with music and technology, a student's perspective.

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An interview with futurist David Thornburg

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Model the Change You Want to See

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Get started with differentiated instruction

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Teaching Tolerance, Teaching Diversity

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An interview with Dick Sagor, action research leader.

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10 ways to motivate the undermotivated

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Involving students in assessment

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Let it go: Giving students choices

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Find and measure hidden objectives

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Students work to improve local parks

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Embrace action research

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Make parents an integral part of academic success

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Build Questioning Skills in Math

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Teaching across the curriculum with a race around the world

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50 Activities for 6th Grade

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Why Your Story Matters

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A Roadmap to the future of education

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Find more time for technology integration

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50 Activities for 1st Grade

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Use digital primary sources to entice students to question and analyze

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Strategies for effective technology implementation

Encourage student voice and choice.

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10 ways to encourage student voice and choice

One Tech Period

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How to make the most of one tech period a week

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ARt as response to experience with Dr Jason Ohler

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50 Activities for 3rd Grade

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5 Ways to Create an Impassioned Classroom

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5 Ideas to Better Engage with Your Students

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Meet the needs of digital learners with BYOD.

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Lessons from a digital portfolio pioneer

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Creating Websites Builds Excitement for Research

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From acceptable use to responsible use

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The beauty and the value of paper

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10 Ideas for truly active learning

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Use summer school to foster technology integration

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50 Activities for 4th Grade

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Museum Makers: Bringing History to Life

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Making modern myths with Wixie

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Flipping the elementary classroom

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A student's turn to flip

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Operationalizing Flexible Professional Learning

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Get Started with Place-Based Learning

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The Case for Gaming in Learning

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7 steps to ending up in the right place

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Combine the Big6 with making

Add Creativity to Intermediate Math

Add creativity to intermediate math instruction

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Supporting Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

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Five steps to student-centered learning

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Wixie

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