Creative Teaching Press Award, Incentive Chalk It Up! Inspire U Motivational Stickers, CT 4235

and early on in that talk I actually challenged all the teachers they had to kind of do a grid from 0 to 100% and they had to put their X where they thought their responsibility lied for motivating student performance is it 50% year responsibility 80% 0% 10 where is that responsibility to motivate your kids to perform and it created a tremendous buzz of dialogue in the room so much so that a young man who is a late 20s came up to me afterwards said I'm a junior high teacher and I have to tell you I did not like one thing you had to say today I was like well it's nice to meet you and and then he said you mean he said he said I have to tell you he said you know my friends and I were talking oh I don't think we're responsible for motivating our kids he goes and even and then he said he said but I think you're right about a few things and I said well I thought you didn't like it he said wel