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The Seeds of Innovation

A Principal's Reflections

Then, I gave my students several examples of how they could use this website in their elementary school classrooms. is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Queens College, CUNY. Also, his research looks at race, social class, and gender in educational settings. Franklin Dickerson Turner, Ph.D.

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How to Design Educational Technology Products to Motivate Students

Digital Promise

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Learning games that have compelling, obvious goals are significantly more popular among elementary school children than those that don’t. Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Boggiano, A.

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To Serve Bilingual Students, This Future Teacher Will Draw on Her Own Experience

ED Surge

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. That would’ve been in college for you.

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

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Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. That was too hard to bear.

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After a Decade Working in Mental Health, This Future Teacher Is Headed for the Classroom

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More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but psychology definitely grabbed my attention. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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Top 10 EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2023

ED Surge

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book. The episode is part two of a narrative series we did on student disengagement.

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Double Shift: 6 Stories of Teachers With Side Hustles

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But whether they live in Illinois, New Hampshire, Missouri or elsewhere, they each concede that despite their education and certifications, their teacher salary alone is not enough to afford them the lifestyle they had hoped to one day attain. Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable.

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