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The Case for Intuition, Motivation and Engagement

December 31, 2010 | Student Engagement, by Terry Pickeral

As a daily reader of many newspapers and education briefs I have been fascinated with stories that focus on school success. What recently impresses me is that the issues and strategies oft-mentioned in these stories of success are not standards, testing or even accountability but rather arts, motivation, engaging students, skill-building, play-based education, exercise programs and even a story of