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Sean McHugh

How Free Play Can Define Kids' Success | MindShift - 0 views

  • Creativity plays an integral part of developing these seven skill sets.
  • Keeping children on rigid, academically driven schedules denies them the space for some of the real self-learning that will see them through unexpected challenges, the ones that aren’t on the test.
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    "one of the most important skills a parent can foster in children is resilience, which he says can be fostered through creativity. Ginsburg relies on the "Seven C's of Resilience" as a road map for helping students to find their inner grit. "
Keri-Lee Beasley

Presentation Zen: There's no shame in falling. The key is in getting up! - 0 views

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    What penguins can teach us about resilience
James Dalziel

Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals - 0 views

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    The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about other individual differences that predict success. The authors tested the importance of 1noncognitive trait: grit. Drive and energy in childhood are more predictive of success, if not creativity, than is IQ or some other more domain-specific ability" (p. 293)
Sean McHugh

Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids? | Mickey Goodman - 2 views

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    The uncomfortable solutions: "We need to let our kids fail at 12 - which is far better than at 42," he says. "We need to tell them the truth (with grace) that the notion of 'you can do anything you want' is not necessarily true."
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