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From the chapter, "Shift..."

2025-03-13 22:44:40 UTC

"It's also a trait [grit] lacking in many of our students, perhaps more so today than at any other time in history" (83).

2025-03-13 22:46:23 UTC

"Praising students for minimal effort and achievement sends the message that less than their best is not only good enough, but worthy of special recognition. It also lowers the bar of what is considered hard work." (83).

2025-03-13 22:49:42 UTC

"In a 2012 Pew Research survey (lol if only in 2012 they knew what was coming...) 87% of teachers polled said that new technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans. The pull of the smartphone and its instant gratification has in many ways replaced the deep satisfaction of hard-won, incremental improvement overtime." (84). This is important because it demonstrates the need to support students in shifting their mindset from this idea that "we need instant gratification" to "it feels SO much better when we are successful with something we worked hard on."

2025-03-13 22:50:58 UTC

"...teachers have taken on more and more responsibility for student behavior, performance, and work habits while students are taking on less and less." (85).

2025-03-13 22:56:09 UTC

"But you mustn't wait an entire year to show your students how much they're improving. It's always worth giving them an opportunity to compare their newly finished project, essay, or presentation video with the one before" (88). My kids just finished an essay that, I thought (and I think they thought) they did pretty well on. I'll bring out their first essay they wrote next week so they can compare their first big piece to this one.

2025-03-13 22:59:41 UTC

"Like great art, great teaching isn't about just getting through the day. It's about being fully present and engaged in what's right in front of you." (79)

2025-03-13 23:01:52 UTC

"It's about process, persistence, and the moment-to-moment experience of being a teacher." (79)

2025-03-13 23:11:25 UTC

I think starting next week, when students are doing student work, I'm going to set a timer for 5 minutes and let students grapple--no questions, no support...just figure it out.