Gritting My Teeth Over Grit (Bootstrap Theories)
My worst enemy isn’t just the system, but what the system does to my students’ self-worth and confidence. The daily fight against belief. Don’t talk to me about grit; talk to me about systems of callousness and the incapacity for love and compassion. Talk to me about students knowing their environment is there to help them rather than them having to be skeptical the whole way through their learning.
Talk to me about the withered sparks and dulled stars dug deep into our celestial selves. Fight me when I’m not trying to extract that from 150 or so adolescents.
I prefer if people just said grit meant that yes, we value hard work and passion, and that’s as far as it goes.
Unfortunately, a handful of people are making tons of money on the idea that 10,000 of fixing your attitude about ideas students may or may not be interested in might close the achievement gap. It’s not that folks like Angela Duckworth, Paul Tough, and Malcolm Gladwell aren’t well-meaning folks. But, as we’ve seen with education professors such as Charlotte Danielson, we too easily trust intention without a thorough inspection of effect. continue reading
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