Grit
Teaching
Opinion
Teaching Grit Through Sportsmanship
So many kids these days lack the perseverance to succeed. Sports is a great way to start teaching them these lessons and the more we connect the lessons to classroom learning, the better students grow as learners.
Student Well-Being & Movement
A Growth Mindset May Counteract Effects of Poverty on Achievement, Study Says
A growth mindset may buffer students from the effects of poverty on academic achievement, Stanford researchers concluded after studying test scores and survey results for 168,000 Chilean students.
School & District Management
Opinion
When Having Grit Is a Bad Thing
The problem with grit is that it privileges hard work over judgment; people with grit keep working even when they don't know why they're doing it. What if having grit is not as good for us as we thought it was?
Education
Opinion
The Trouble With Grit
Grit mania is serving up yet another in a long line of supposedly groundbreaking new insights that promise to change everything about the way we educate our kids. Should we be a little more skeptical?
School & District Management
Angela Duckworth: To Grow Students' Grit, Balance Challenges With Support
University of Pennsylvania psychology Professor Angela Duckworth released a new book on grit Monday, exploring the depths and misconceptions about her research on persistence and passion.
Education
Opinion
How Important Is Grit for Success?
Grit will get students only so far in achieving success in educational settings.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Scholars: Better Gauges Needed for 'Mindset,' 'Grit'
Current ways of studying students' social-emotional skills must improve if they are to be used for accountability, experts cautioned at a recent gathering of education researchers.
Education
Opinion
'Testing for Joy and Grit'? I Don't Think So.
The NY Times recently ran a story about testing for joy and grit. Seriously? It seems as though joy and grit are really just used for compliance.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Why I'm Tired of 'Grit'
The K-12 infatuation with "grit" offers an impractical and unfair model for education, writes educator James R. Delisle.
Education
Opinion
It's the Hard That Makes It Good: Developing True Grit
A lot has been written, both good and bad, about 'Grit," but it's the hard learning that makes learning so good.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Merry Christmas, Ramone. You Represent Hope in a Seriously Messed-Up Education Nation.
How can we live in a nation where someone like Ramone Williams doesn't want to be a "distraction" to his fellow scholars? It's gratifying to read about all the families who offered Ramone a safe, warm place to stay over the holidays--and to think that, temporarily, he has enough money to finish a college degree and launch his adult life. But what about the other 56,000 students patching together their holiday "vacation" around donated food and temporary shelters--are they also trying to avoid being a distraction to the American academic conscience? Aren't we supposed to be Education Nation?
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
So You Think You Can't _____?
It strikes me that we are shaping our education system around the media-driven idea that only some ideas and abilities matter and must be pursued, full-bore. Other ideas--say, the potential of representative democracy, or caring for our fellow humans--may be nice, but are completely secondary to striving and winning, nose to the grit stone. What good is a growth mindset if the things you feel most passionate about doing and being are undervalued?
Teaching
Study Measures Which Teaching Traits Boost Student Agency, Mindsets
The teaching traits that help students succeed in academics aren't necessarily the ones that will help them develop resilience, agency, and growth mindsets--but teachers have to help develop both kinds, researchers say.
Teaching
Opinion
Response: To Teach Grit or Not to Teach Grit: That Is the Question
Today's post shares commentaries on "grit" from Andrew Miller, Barry Saide, Sara Truebridge, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Trevor Bryan, and William Dikel. In addition, I include comments from readers.