Student Motivation From Bev Bowers, an elementary school LD teacher in Southland School District in Adams, Minnesota: ìI was working with a child who would not speak. I gave her a magic ring. I told her that whenever she wore the ring, she could talk. At first, she began to talk just in our classroom. But later, I allowed her to take the ring to other classrooms and then she spoke there. It was wonderful.î