K12 Education.
Parenting.
Personal Growth.

I was not experienced with failure. And it’s served as a major disadvantage in my real, non-student adult life.

Today feels like a fresh cup of hot coffee. Or a crisp, hot sheet just coming out of the dryer. Today feels new.

Disclaimer: I don’t feel this way about every New Year’s Day. But there is something about this one that makes me feel confident, and I think I can put a finger on why that might be.

Grit. Angela Duckworth popularized the notion of possessing, teaching, and nurturing grit in her 2013 TED talk. Her definition of grit, as “passion and perseverance for very long-term goals”, dominated instruction and conversation at the Harvard Education School and while I was a student in 2013. How do we teach kids to be gritty? And what does grit look like on the ground?