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  Asking for Help Takes Grit and a Growth Mindset

  For years, educators have been influenced by two powerful ideas about how children learn and succeed. 
  
  Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset challenged the notion that intelligence and ability are fixed. Children can grow through effort, effective strategies, feedback, and experience. Angela Duckworth later offered another compelling idea: grit, which is the passion and perseverance to stay with something meaningful even when it becomes difficult. 
  
  I appreciate both ideas. But I have also been somewhat uneasy about the way “grit” can sometimes be translated into the lives of children.
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  Beginning with Hope: Why High Meadows Starts the School Year with "Hopes and Fears" Conferences

  "Parents bring two suitcases to school every September (in our case August) — one filled with hopes and one filled with fears." - Dr. Michael Thompson
  
  Ask any parent what they hope for their child, and the answers rarely begin with grades or test scores. They speak of confidence, kindness, curiosity, resilience, meaningful friendships, and the joy of discovering who they are becoming.
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