Proactive: How often did they take initiative to ask questions, volunteer answers, seek information from books, and engage the teacher to learn outside class? Prosocial: How well did they get along and collaborate with peers? Disciplined: How effectively did they pay attention—and resist the impulse to disrupt the class? Determined: How consistently did they take on challenging problems, do more than the assigned work, and persist in the face of obstacles?
“Disciplined is interesting. Old school conformity is good in work places and navigating authority but also stifling in other ways and harder for neurodivergent kids. The other qualities I didn’t learn from ms mulligan but from my parents and innate anxiety.”
