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Mar 2025

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Mike Anderson—Tackling the Motivation Cr...

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Get the book, Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems

Visit Mike's website LeadingGreatLearning.com

About The Author Mike Anderson is a full time education consultant who works with diverse schools across the United States and beyond. He was a classroom teacher for 15 years and then a Responsive Classroom consultant and developer for 6 years. He is also the author of many books about great teaching and learning.

This episode of Principal Center Radio is sponsored by IXL, the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12.

Discover the power of data-driven instruction in your school with IXL—it gives you everything you need to maximize learning, from a comprehensive curriculum to meaningful school-wide data. Visit IXL.com/center to lead your school towards data-driven excellence today.

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