Links and Resources
Get the Overcoming Obstacles Lesson plan that goes with the above video from Ted Ed:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/there-s-no-dishonor-in-having-a-disability-steven-claunch
How to Foster Grit, Tenacity and Perseverance: An Educator’s Guide
Tina Barseghian | February 20, 2013
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/02/how-to-foster-grit-tenacity-and-perseverance-an-educators-guide/
What if the Secret to Success is Failure?
Paul Tough/ The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&
Digital Learning and Grit:Tech Tools for Teachers in Flipped (and all) Classrooms
5/1/2013 By: Laura Minnigerode
http://www.techlearning.com/features/0039/digital-learning-and-grittech-tools-for-teachers-in-flipped-and-all-classrooms/53709
Building Resiliency in Struggling Students: 7 Key Ideas from Research
http://inservice.ascd.org/whole-child/building-resiliency-in-struggling-students-7-key-ideas-from-research/?utm_source=ascdexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express825
One to Grow On/ Fairy Dust and Grit
Carol Ann Tomlinson
EL Feb. 2013
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb13/vol70/num05/Fairy-Dust-and-Grit.aspx
Three Pillars for Supporting Resilience
Cheryl J. Wright
http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol8/825-wright.aspx?utm_source=ascdexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express825
DRAFT: Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance—Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
We face a critical need to prepare children and adolescents to thrive in the 21st century—an era of rapidly evolving technology, demanding and collaborative STEM knowledge work, changing workforce needs, economic volatility, and unacceptable achievement gaps. This report takes a close look at a core set of noncognitive factors—grit, tenacity, and perseverance—that are essential to an individual’s capacity to strive for and succeed at important goals, and to persist in the face of an array of challenges encountered throughout schooling and life.
http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/research/
Reflections on Resilience
Sara Truebridge and Bonnie Benard in Educational Leadership
“Resilience isn’t a program or curriculum. It’s not a quick-fix product that schools can buy. Resilience is more influenced by how a teacher teaches than by what a teacher teaches.”
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept13/vol71/num01/Reflections-on-Resilience.aspx
Resilience Infographic:
el201309_truebridge.pdf
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
Check for fiction titles under Adults, or under the appropriate age group for your students.
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