Are you thinking about learning a language? Perhaps you’ve decided that it’s time to dust off your classroom French. Maybe you’re planning a trip to Japan and feel like you should make the effort to ...

Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids would find at least some academic work utter ...

Like most teachers, Dani Boepple devotes a lot of mental energy to devising ways to motivate and engage her students. Motivation is a key part of learning ...

On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...

Middle schoolers embody a messy no-man’s land: young enough to get excited by stickers and play-acting, but mature enough to crave autonomy and opportunities to improve their world. Younger ...

People play games without being told to. Sometimes, they'll easily stay up all night playing. And they all say the same thing: they lost all track of time. Wouldn't it be great if studying could be ...

How we motivate ourselves and others is the first principle of efficient learning and perhaps the most difficult one to implement. There are times when personal interests make it easy for us to seek ...

Motivating and developing others is a misunderstood practice. Surveys in the past 20 years conclude that for professionals and managers, money is not the motivator we think it is. Of course, that ...