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Welcome to Tools for Empowering Students!

If our students are to be successful in the classroom and in life it is important that we empower them. In order to empower them they must first be MOTIVATED to learn.

What motivates students?

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* Name: Dawn and Lois Mackey * Email: dmackey@phila.k12.pa.us * Company Name: * Company URL: * Country: USA * Comment:

Created by Dawn Mackey
July 2003

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