Mindful Monday

Maya Angelou on defeat, and the thing that actually decides whether a child tries again after they fail in front of everyone. It was never grit.

One room taught him what fear does to a child. One friendship taught him what encouragement does. Both are in this quote, and both are in your building.

They were there to break rock. What they did instead explains what courage actually costs, and why a classroom where nobody is uncomfortable is a classroom where nobody is practicing it.

What brought her back was a teacher who asked her to do the hard thing, and who had already made the room safe enough to ask. Plus the Growth Zone activity to run this week.