{"id":84,"date":"2017-04-17T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/?p=84"},"modified":"2017-04-17T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:53:42","slug":"do-i-need-more-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/2017\/04\/17\/do-i-need-more-grit\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need more grit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright, so full disclosure, these past few months have not been great ones for me. The combination of some not-so-great personal things along with taking responsibility for too many great things left me feeling overwhelmed and really thinking that I bit off more than I can chew. Reading @lmiller<\/a>\u2019s blog and the quote from Seth Godin she references, \u201cthere\u2019s a queue of urgent things, all justifiable, all requiring you and you alone to handle them. And so you do, pushing off the important in favor of the urgent\u201d I feel more comfortable acknowledging my challenges. I tried to spend my Easter weekend tackling the urgent in order to favour the important \u2013 my Cohort21 action plan.<\/p>\n

In my mind, I have had two pathways for my feelings and thoughts about my Cohort21 action plan and experience:<\/p>\n

1) I had all these visions for an action plan, I barely reached any of them, therefore I was an awful candidate for my school to send to Cohort21 and I have failed as a representative.<\/p>\n

2) Cohort21 allowed me to acknowledge and identify an area of growth for my classroom that extends to the entire school community,\u00a0the school\u2019s mission and my own teaching philosophy. It has served as the driving force behind every new thing I tried this year and every one of my interactions with students.<\/p>\n

I have to admit I toggled between these two quite often over the past month or so. I had to remind myself that I have already done great things in and out of the classroom with students that were motivated by creating a culture of grit that I have been meeting goals towards my action plan, even if these weren\u2019t things explicitly identified.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My action plan is centred around creating a culture of grit in students. When I reflect on my feelings towards #1 above, I need to remind myself that I need to be gritty first before I can expect it from students. I am truly passionate about building a grittier student body who can build skills and success through persevering through challenges, even if the outcome is not exactly as originally expected. Culminating\u00a0my end of the beginning<\/em> for my action plan is my current challenge. By persevering through this challenge I will build skills to help students persevere through their own challenges in my classroom and school community. This challenge will help me set realistic goals for meeting some of the larger action plan items in the future.<\/p>\n

Action plan item #1:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow might we create a culture of grit in the chemistry and math classroom?\u201d \u2013\u00a0first by modelling grit, passion and perseverance in the classroom ourselves as teachers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, so full disclosure, these past few months have not been great ones for me. The combination of some not-so-great personal things along with taking responsibility for too many great things left me feeling overwhelmed and really thinking that I bit off more than I can chew. Reading @lmiller\u2019s blog and the quote from Seth … Continue reading “Do I need more grit?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahregli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}