GRIT - PBIS WORD OF THE MONTH
March - - Respect, Responsibility, Safety, and Grit
March word - Grit
Grit is “sticktoitiveness;” a diligent spirit; the nagging conviction that keeps you pressing on when it’d be easier to give up. Grit is what makes you get back on the horse after you’ve been kicked off. Grit is the realization that achieving one’s greatest potential comes from running a marathon, not a sprint.
GRIT is an ability to delay gratification while working on a task.
Grit is the ability to remain constant even though significant challenges arise along the way.
Grit suggests that your ability to work hard, endure struggle, fail, and try again may be the key to determining your long-term success and happiness.
Grit is a distinct combination of passion, resilience, determination, and focus that allows a person to maintain the discipline and optimism to persevere in their goals even in the face of discomfort, rejection, and a lack of visible progress for years, or even decades.
What does Grit look like?
Students with grit might
- develop and deepening their interests
- stick with commitments, even when it’s difficult
- not quit a sport in the middle of the season
- revise an essay repeatedly
- ask other people for feedback about how they can improve
Teachers with grit might
- voraciously seek feedback on their classroom practice
- strive every day to do one small thing better than they did it yesterday
- adjust low-level plans as needed in order to reach high-level course goals
- not let students and other teachers quit on hard day
- practice self-care; approach teaching as a marathon, not a sprint
A poem about Grit
Invitcus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
PBIS Committee
Amanda Scroggs, Todd Braddock, Andrew Wilson, Dan Wray, Dayna Kolanowski, Gloria Reichard, Keith Sullen, Lynn Studebaker, Jack LaFollette, and Chris Boyd. Remember: the use of these materials are not mandatory in anyway. They are only suggestions and helps that can be used to supplement your enrichment experiences.