It's September and the start of the official “New Year” in the world of education. It's on my mind and, no doubt, yours. How do we get our students to learn more? For that matter, how do we get them to yearn to learn more? While there is considerable research about motivating students, three articles resonated with me for New Year's resolution consideration.

Most likely all the students we teach are over the age of 7. That means, according to the research news in ScienceDaily (Society for Research in Child Development, 2009), that our students understand how their feelings and emotions affect their brain and thinking processes, their ability to concentrate and pay attention, and their school performance.

Securing that emotional hook from our students is probably, then, the greatest and possibly most ignored challenge to our creativity as the pressure to focus on all the content that...

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