Stop believing success is solely about raw talent or inherited IQ. In this empowering episode of Your Morning Boost, we dive into the science of achievement, focusing on two learnable traits that truly differentiate high performers: grit and curiosity. School leaders, this is your blueprint for transforming potential into performance! We explore how to cultivate these traits across your entire school culture, emphasizing the need to normalize productive struggle and reframe failure as essential feedback. Key Takeaways You'll Get:
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- How to design environments that encourage these traits, creating a powerful culture of lifelong learning and achievement.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to your Morning Boost, brought to you by AWB Education.
Here we amplify knowledge, widen reach, and broaden impact in education,
delivering your daily dose of professional development. This program is
sponsored by Grundmeyer Leader Services, where together we are transforming education,
one leader at a time. Now get ready to amplify
(00:25):
your day with your Morning Boost.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome back to your Morning Boost. Happy Wednesday, everybody. All
of our shows this week are based on articles that
are in the Fitting five newsletter, produced by AWB Education
but put out by Grunmeyer Leader Services. If you do
not currently get this newsletter, I recommend that you reach
out to us here at AWB and we will make
sure that that gets delivered to your inbox immediately. Today,
(00:54):
we're shifting our focus from systems to mindset, specifically looking
at what truly separate rates the highest achievers in any field.
Now a little spoiler alert, it's not raw talent or
inherited IQ. Drawing from an insightful peace on Upworthy, we
are unpacking a fascinating expert claim that high achievers possess
(01:16):
two traits that are completely learnable by anyone, Grit and curiosity.
We are going to explore how we as school leaders,
can systematically design our environments in professional development to cultivate
these two powerhouse attributes not just in our students, but
in ourselves and our staff, transforming potential into performance. Now
(01:45):
you know, the old wisdom that success is dictated solely
by an aid intelligence is really being dismantled by modern research. Instead,
everything points to the power of character traits that can
be intentionally developed. The expert sited in the up or
the article by Todd Perry contends that the two most
powerful drivers are grit and curiosity, and we must absolutely
(02:08):
nurture these across our entire school ecosystem. For cultivating grit,
we need to start by normalizing productive struggle. This means
reframing failure from a final verdict into a rich, essential
piece of feedback. For example, why not start staff meetings
with a flop Friday segment where teachers openly share a
(02:30):
lesson that failed and what they learned. It's a great
way to model the value of persistent effort as the
piece here. No, it's a key to understanding this mindset
is that it's not the ability to never fail, but
the tenacity to try again after failure that defines high achievement,
and when we talk about curiosity, we must intentionally foster
(02:53):
it by designing inquiry based learning and leadership projects that
prompt genuine, open ended questions. This means we move away
from checklist management and towards collaborative problem solving. A great
strategy for your administrative team is to create curiosity sprints,
where you give them a current complex school challenge and
(03:13):
task them with generating ten wild questions before offering a
single solution. This forces a deeper exploration of the problem
space and shifts the team from focusing on surface level
complaints to collaborating on innovative, sustainable solutions that directly serve
our school strategic mission. By modeling and rewarding a curious,
(03:36):
persistent approach to challenges, we lay the groundwork for a
culture of lifelong achievement. This article leaves us with a
powerful mandate. The success of our school is not dependent
on seeking out innate genius, but on our ability to
(03:57):
cultivate two trainable virtues, grit and curiosity. As leaders, our
ultimate job is to design an environment where productive struggle
is normalized, where failure as seen as essential feedback, and
where open ended questions are more valued than easy answers.
By fostering this persistent curious mindset in our staff and students,
(04:19):
we systematically transform potential into high performance across our entire community.
Keep modeling that grit and curiosity in your own leadership
and you can start doing so today. Thanks for listening,
have a wonderful Wednesday. We back again tomorrow as we
get to another article out of the gren Meyer Leader
Services Fitting five, But until that time, thank you for listening.
(04:42):
We'll talk with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That concludes another episode of your Morning Boost. We hope
today's daily dose of professional development helps you amplify knowledge,
wide in reach and broaden impact. Your Morning Boost is
an a you Be education production brought to you with
the generous support of Grundmeier Leader Services. Join us again
tomorrow for more. Until then, keep boosting your impact.
Welcome to your Morning Boost, brought to you by AWB Education.
Here we amplify knowledge, widen reach, and broaden impact in education,
delivering your daily dose of professional development. This program is
sponsored by Grundmeyer Leader Services, where together we are transforming education,
one leader at a time. Now get ready to amplify
(00:25):
your day with your Morning Boost.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome back to your Morning Boost. Happy Wednesday, everybody. All
of our shows this week are based on articles that
are in the Fitting five newsletter, produced by AWB Education
but put out by Grunmeyer Leader Services. If you do
not currently get this newsletter, I recommend that you reach
out to us here at AWB and we will make
sure that that gets delivered to your inbox immediately. Today,
(00:54):
we're shifting our focus from systems to mindset, specifically looking
at what truly separate rates the highest achievers in any field.
Now a little spoiler alert, it's not raw talent or
inherited IQ. Drawing from an insightful peace on Upworthy, we
are unpacking a fascinating expert claim that high achievers possess
(01:16):
two traits that are completely learnable by anyone, Grit and curiosity.
We are going to explore how we as school leaders,
can systematically design our environments in professional development to cultivate
these two powerhouse attributes not just in our students, but
in ourselves and our staff, transforming potential into performance. Now
(01:45):
you know, the old wisdom that success is dictated solely
by an aid intelligence is really being dismantled by modern research. Instead,
everything points to the power of character traits that can
be intentionally developed. The expert sited in the up or
the article by Todd Perry contends that the two most
powerful drivers are grit and curiosity, and we must absolutely
(02:08):
nurture these across our entire school ecosystem. For cultivating grit,
we need to start by normalizing productive struggle. This means
reframing failure from a final verdict into a rich, essential
piece of feedback. For example, why not start staff meetings
with a flop Friday segment where teachers openly share a
(02:30):
lesson that failed and what they learned. It's a great
way to model the value of persistent effort as the
piece here. No, it's a key to understanding this mindset
is that it's not the ability to never fail, but
the tenacity to try again after failure that defines high achievement,
and when we talk about curiosity, we must intentionally foster
(02:53):
it by designing inquiry based learning and leadership projects that
prompt genuine, open ended questions. This means we move away
from checklist management and towards collaborative problem solving. A great
strategy for your administrative team is to create curiosity sprints,
where you give them a current complex school challenge and
(03:13):
task them with generating ten wild questions before offering a
single solution. This forces a deeper exploration of the problem
space and shifts the team from focusing on surface level
complaints to collaborating on innovative, sustainable solutions that directly serve
our school strategic mission. By modeling and rewarding a curious,
(03:36):
persistent approach to challenges, we lay the groundwork for a
culture of lifelong achievement. This article leaves us with a
powerful mandate. The success of our school is not dependent
on seeking out innate genius, but on our ability to
(03:57):
cultivate two trainable virtues, grit and curiosity. As leaders, our
ultimate job is to design an environment where productive struggle
is normalized, where failure as seen as essential feedback, and
where open ended questions are more valued than easy answers.
By fostering this persistent curious mindset in our staff and students,
(04:19):
we systematically transform potential into high performance across our entire community.
Keep modeling that grit and curiosity in your own leadership
and you can start doing so today. Thanks for listening,
have a wonderful Wednesday. We back again tomorrow as we
get to another article out of the gren Meyer Leader
Services Fitting five, But until that time, thank you for listening.
(04:42):
We'll talk with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That concludes another episode of your Morning Boost. We hope
today's daily dose of professional development helps you amplify knowledge,
wide in reach and broaden impact. Your Morning Boost is
an a you Be education production brought to you with
the generous support of Grundmeier Leader Services. Join us again
tomorrow for more. Until then, keep boosting your impact.
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