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October 2010 • Volume 14 • Number 2 • Pages 32-33

Grabbing Students with Social Media

Elizabeth Delmatoff

Article Description: Using social media as the hook, teachers in this low-performing urban middle school were able to turn the students around and set them back on the path to achievement. The result: increased student performance, decreased absences, and students learning for the sake of learning.

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Elizabeth Delmatoff is a counselor at George Middle School in Portland, Oregon. E-mail: lizdel@pps.k12.or.us
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