Join Our Leaders Circle
With the generous support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our nonprofit, EduGuide, is working with targeted schools to help their students build the grit, growth mindset and other new learning skills that lead to higher achievement in school and life.
Now, we’re inviting others to join us on this journey. If you have a passion, or just curiosity, about our efforts and what we’re learning from the latest research and work in the field, we invite you to join other leaders across the country as we discuss new ways to strengthen students’ core skills to accelerate growth.
EduGuide’s Leaders Circle members will get:
- Quick updates every few weeks when we have news you can use.
- First access to new tools we create.
- New strategies from our research and other leaders’ observations.
- A say in where we focus our research and development.
- Invitations to new grant opportunities.
Millions of dollars have been invested over the last decade in what we’ve learned through our nonprofit’s programs. This is another way for us to give back to the community and sharpen our own work to better serve more people as we all learn together. We’re looking forward to connecting with you.
Interesting – I am always willing to participate in something that is advocating for REAL education, not some canned corporate plan to create worker bees..
Thanks, Lissa! Worker bees are definitely not our goal. We’re of the mind that students need to take ownership of their own education. They need to be self-motivated, and every student has the potential to achieve self-motivation if they learn how.
I agree that student learning should be shared by the student. Constructivist instructional methods and strategies should be the norm in every classroom. I am looking forward to reviewing and presenting feedback on exceptional learning models and teaching strategies….and what ever else you may send.
Thank you for the opportunity to become a part of an extensive learning team!
What are my responsibilities and how does it show accountability?
No “responsibilities” per se. We’ll send you updates and welcome your feedback. Our goal is to share what we’re learning about how students can learn better, and gather the thoughts of school and community leaders such as yourself in order to develop effective interventions that help students develop grit. If you don’t always have time to share, that’s okay.
I would like to be a part of this but would like additional information that is more specific. Thank you.
Diane Steiner
Hi Diane, thanks for your interest! We’ll be sending more specific information in the coming weeks. Watch your email for opportunities to weigh in on some exciting new research and developments in grit-building interventions for students.
Yes, I would love to join your circle.
Excellent, welcome aboard, Candice! We’ll make sure your included in our future communications.
Yes, I would like to participate.
Mindi Jenson
Thanks, Mindi! We’ve added you to our Leaders Circle list.
More info please!
Thanks for your interest, Amy. Basically, the Leaders Circle is an informal, online gathering of education stakeholders who share the goal of helping students develop grit: the passion and perseverance for very long term goals, even in the face of obstacles. All you have to do to be a member of the circle is to be interested in learning more about these ideas and/or how they can be taught in schools. Ideally, you also weigh in and give us your thoughts and feedback from time to time (with your emails, comments on our blog, etc.) as we share our research and ideas.
Sound good?
Yes, I would like to be a part of your group. I’m the Dean of Students/Special Ed. Director in Prescott, Arizona-I grew up in Michigan and graduated from Ferndale High School.
Thank you, Anita! We’re based in Michigan as well, although we’re offering our new program nationwide. Currently we’re working with schools in Flint and the Upper Peninsula. We’re also exploring ways to adapt our program specifically for use in Special Ed classes. Our platform already has a really great system for mentoring and tracking progress on goals that we think is going to be super useful for Special Ed.
Please count me in.
Thanks, Mary! You’re all signed up.
I would love to be in the circle as well 😉
Done! Thanks, Jill. We appreciate your interest.
Pascas@Danbury.k12.CT.us
I would like to learn more about your diagnostic , presceyive system for informing practice and increase student achievement.
Thank you, Sal! I’ve added you to our list, watch your email and check this blog for more information about our program, including a sample activity.
Willing to give it a try.
Thanks, Gerard! We’ve added you to our list.
I am interested in participating and looking forward to finding new ways to improve the educational experience for my students.
Excellent, thanks Corine! You’ve been added to our list.
Yes, I would like future emails about this circle. I am looking forward to being included in them. Thank you!
Great, Ashley! We welcome your feedback.
Yes, I would love to be a part of the group and receive information that may benefit our students.
You’ve got it! Let us know if you’re looking for anything in particular, in terms of what you think would benefit your students.
Thank you for the invite. I would enjoy joining your circle.
Thanks, Michelle! We’ve added you to our Leaders Circle list.
This sounds like a wonderful opportunity. I would really appreciate some information so I would be able to share this idea with my department and administration.
Thank you.
Thank you for inviting me to participate. I will be glad to serve.
I’m a counselor at a middle school and I realized the impact that grit and mindset can have. I’m very interested in learning how to build those in my students.
Yes, I will join you. Thank you for the invite!
I’m in! I’m very curious how GRIT is having an impact throughout Michigan.
I would like to be part of it. I am very interested in different strategies in building GRIT among our students.
Count me in! I love the opportunity to learn more about GRIT and how it can impact our students.
Happy to join the leadership circle
My district is very interested in this conversation. We are hosting Paul Tough this summer (author of How Children Succeed) and trying to see how these ideas fit into our instructional framework. Please add me to your list of leadership circle members.
Thank you for the invitation to be a part of fostering grit into our schools. It is an essential component of student success!
I appreciate fostering grit and providing as many ‘real’ learning opportunities as possible, especially as education in general seems to be focusing on teaching-to-the-test and other pedagogically incorrect approaches! Sign me up.
I would love to be a part of the circle and to receive more information on exactly what the circle is, what my role would be, and an other relevant information.
I would like to join.
Thanks, I’ve added you to the Leaders Circle.
Yes, I would like to join.
Thank you for the invitation. I am looking forward to being able to truly help children.
Thanks, Jeanette. Your feedback and input will help us to reach more students with our program that teaches noncognitive skills.
Great, Margie! I’ve added you to the Leaders Circle.
I would like to join this effort.
Excellent, thanks Don. I’ve added you to the Leaders Circle.
Yes, I would like to join.
Great! I’ve added you to the Leaders Circle.
I am interested in the goal. Keep me posted. It would be wonderful to be a part of articulating needs for the improvement of not only instruction but ways that assess student performance and plot growth without the insanity of over-standardized testing. Promoting student performance outcomes makes more sense and provides a better chance to make a life-long learner……
Maria Scricco
I agree whole heartedly.
Thanks Duanne! I’ve added you to the Leaders Circle.
Definitely agree, Maria. If you teach to the test and don’t address the root, noncognitive issues a student might have, you’re not going to achieve either a significant increase in test scores or making a difference in the student’s life. Some of our most recent work deals with the importance of high standards combined with growth mindset training: getting the students to see high standards not as intimidating obstacles but as opportunities to learn.
I’m interested, but I want to know if I can opt out if I decide it’s not for me.
Linda, you can opt out by unsubscribing from the email list at any time. There’s absolutely no obligation. And even if you unsubscribe from our emails, you can always come back to this blog if you ever want to check in on what we’re doing. 🙂
OK thanks – sign me up
I would like to hear more about the work you are doing. Please sign me up!
Great, Cindy! I’ve signed you up for the Leaders Circle. 🙂
I need to learn more about this new iniciative. Thanks
Fabiola, I’ve added you to our Leaders Circle email list. You’ll learn lots more about EduGuide from our emails, and you can unsubscribe at any time. You can also learn more about us at http://www.EduGuide.org. Thanks!
I would like to participate in this.
Thanks Liz! I’ve added you to our Leaders Circle.
I’d like to receive more information about this. Thanks.
I would like to be involved, but I would like some additional information. Thanks.
I am very impressed with the concept of getting away from testing and opening the imagination of our students. More independent and creative thinkers are destroyed daily by those that are interested in self gratification than the growth of our students. With an education system that concerns itself with evaluations for promotion, the main reason for education becomes obscure.
Common Core Education forgets the principle of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Without application, the students never have the opportunity to problem solve with the knowledge and comprehension that they have been taught, thus learning has not been accomplished. The evaluation only pertains to those that can read and remember.
What about those that have excellent tactile skills and the ability to solve real problems of mechanics, technicians, and skilled artisans. They learn by doing and succeeding in a ‘real world’ task. Look at a students eyes when they see an engine run that they fixed. Success creates more self-esteem than understanding a written essay that they can not read or comprehend. Many craftspeople have taught themselves to read to accomplish a “real world” task. At that point, they get the message and build the GRIT. Success builds GRIT.
When Vocational Education was predominate in schools, special education enrollment was 1/2 of what it is today(Sitlington, 1996). Students could graduate and get a job. Today, no.