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Building Relationships to Better Motivate Students

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You know the feeling. We all deal with it. Walking into a classroom the first day of a new semester, you’re thinking about it all: What are going to be the first words out of my mouth? What are these students thinking about right now? Should I use that joke I used last semester?

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