Teachers play a critical role in motivating students and in identifying barriers to learning. The EdWeek Research Center surveyed middle and high school teachers as well as teenage students to learn ...

Editor’s note: This article on learning and student motivation originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. In 2020, my wife and I bought a used 2017 ...

Motivation is everywhere in education. We’re told to cultivate it, sustain it, and assess it as if learning couldn’t happen without it. It’s common to hear that students need to be supported, inspired ...

Supporting student engagement and creating the conditions in which student intrinsic motivation can flourish continues to be a challenge facing teachers in the classroom. Today’s post is the latest in ...

Motivation is one of those topics that gets studied, debated, and written about endlessly. Psychologists have spent decades breaking it down into theories like Self-Determination Theory and Maslow’s ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect current activities. Help people discover and talk about their desire for personal change, like managing symptoms of mental illness; reducing the ...

With the new year approaching, millions of people will turn to apps to help them get fit, save money or learn something new.