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RE: Teaching Grit, Resilience, and Perseverance
In my school district, the administration is obsessed with Dweck, though I am not sure they understand her well. They have been using her ideas (or the way they interpret them) to remove tracking - implying that it causes a fixed mindset if you teach kids math at the appropriate level. I think her research is interesting but much abused. I like to write about homeschooling (among other things) - check it out @beriberi.
I do find her research interesting, but agree that it is often misused. In terms of tracking, there is often a misconception about meeting students at their level and tracking. I think it is important to both meet students at their instructional levels, while giving them access to grade level material. Core + interventions at level help students close the gap rather than being "tracked" throughout their whole school experience. When this happens, they never catch up, but instead stay progressively behind their grade level cohort. I think sometimes the jargon gets thrown around so much that we lose sight of the real purpose...doing our best to educate kids in whatever way best meets their needs.