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Shape our Session with Kids at Fusion - what can they teach YOU?

By Jennifer Rawlings on April 11, 2012

Kevin Carroll, founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and the author of three highly successful books published by ESPN, Disney Press and McGraw-Hill, will be faciliatating a session at Fusion you won't want to miss! This kid-focused session will be a time where the kids will be doing the teaching to a room of educators. Come hear their perspectives on their education and what they need to learn, grow and flourish.

Your input will help shape this discussion. We want to hear from you about what YOU would like to hear from this group of 4th - 8th grade students. What is it that they can teach YOU that will impact or influence your teaching?

Please post your questions here.

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By barberh on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 1:39pm
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If you could change one thing about school what would you change, why do you feel it needs changing, and what would you recommend to improve it?
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By Dave Fletcher on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 1:10pm
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What sort of strategies do the teachers, who you have, engage you the most?
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By jdungan on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 8:47pm
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If you could choose one topic in which to study in depth at school what would it be? You can choose anything, do not limit yourselves to "traditional" k-12 topics/subjects. What would need to change, if anything, in your school in order for you to be able study this topic?
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By denise52 on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 3:24pm
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What teacher makes you love school the most? Why?
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By customerfocused... on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 9:56am
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Question for the session: We all accept that homework is important, valuable, and benefits the long term in the form of skills mastery, higher grades and other achievement scores. However, doing homework also can feel like a nuisance and an inconvenience. Furthermore, there may be little short term payback for completing homework. Therefore, I suspect some immediate benefit (a.k.a. positive reinforcement) could incentivize students to complete more homework willingly. So my question is: "What makes a good incentive or motivator for completing homework?" Perhaps longer recess or free time? More lunch? Other food? Candy (cringe…)? TV/video? Music/iPod time? Phone/text time? Other engaging, short term activities, e.g. games, art, sports? Additional access to the library, or other elective classes? Cash? Other privileges, either at school, extracurricular or at home? Since all people are different, would homework-completing-students prefer a "menu" of choices from the above list?

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