Perseverance and Grit in Our Students

Early next month, Rick Wormeli, author of the award-winning book, Meet Me in the Middle, as well as the best-selling books, Day One and Beyond, Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom, Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching any Subject, and his new book, The Collected Writings (So Far) of Rick Wormeli: Crazy Good Stuff I Learned about Teaching Along the Way, will be talking with teachers about standards-based assessment and grading. He will also be hosting a Community Conversation for parents on February 6, 2014, 7-8 pm, at the Dunton Administration Building. Rick Wormeli is a wonderful speaker, so we encourage all of you to come out for this great event. This month, he wrote a great article in Middle Level Education entitled, Perseverance and Grit. It is a great article about building tenacity in our children.