Jodee Lund

This! 🙌

School taught us that C is average. Straight A’s mean you’ll be successful in life. Not necessarily. Some of the most prepared people for adulthood were C students. Not lazy. Not incapable. Just navigating a system that rewarded compliance more than capability. Grades are great at measuring one thing: How well you do school. They are terrible at predicting: Who can adapt Who can recover Who can communicate Who can lead when there’s no rubric C students learn those skills early—because they have to. They fail sooner. They adjust sooner. They stop waiting to be told what “good” looks like. Psychologists call it desirable difficulty. Life calls it preparation. And before someone says it, yes, many A students are wildly successful. This isn’t A vs. C. It’s a metrics problem. Grades correlate with success in structured systems. They don’t cause success in an unstructured world. Some A students succeed because they also have: resilience relational intelligence risk tolerance adaptability Those traits, not grades, help them succeed. And many C students excel because they’ve been practicing those skills their whole lives. In fact, two of the most successful investors on Shark Tank—a show built entirely around real-world success—were not top students. Daymond John was an average student and dyslexic. He didn’t do great in school. He did great with people, timing, and opportunity. Barbara Corcoran was a straight-D student and dyslexic. School didn’t play to her strengths. Failure didn’t break her. It built confidence, persuasion, and grit. None of them lacked intelligence. They lacked alignment. This isn’t anti-school. And it’s not anti-achievement. Because life doesn’t ask: What was your GPA? It asks: Can you adapt? Can you communicate? Can you recover when things don’t go as planned? Can you lead without being handed the answers? A lot of C students already can. And that might be the most underrated preparation of all.

Asking students to write without sentence starters can get in the way of seeing the amount of content the student learned.

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"When we include and empower students in our learning, we don’t just talk about their future; we shape it together. And in that process, they often reshape who we are and hope to become." How Involving Students in Professional Learning Events Inspires Everyone georgecouros.com/professional-l…

"The ability to be observant and to hear others in a world full of noise is more valuable than ever. 3 Things Podcasting Taught Me About Leadership - mailchi.mp/georgecouros/w…

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A student struggling with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) can be disruptive to the class, but these strategies can help. 🧡

When students own their learning, they view mistakes as learning opportunities 📷 Sketchnote by John Spencer

A good reminder!!

Today was #draftday at school! Ts drafted students the week prior. Today, Ts announced their teams for field trips and school #joybreak competitions! Each teacher had music played and the school cheered for each kid! So fun!! #SEL #inclusion #schoolfamily #educhat

Solid Question 🤯

Executive function remains one of the most reliable predictors of success in academics—and in life. Here's the research on what it is, and how to cultivate it. ✈️

I received a package in the mail a few days before my first day of school as a brand new teacher. It was from my mother. Inside the box was a very large file that included my report cards, progress reports, papers I had written that were marked up with a lot red ink, and several tests with a large letter “F” on them. The feedback on these items included: -“Not sure how Bryan qualified for the gifted program since he can’t read” -“Bryan won’t be college material” -“Bryan doesn’t seem to care about anything but sports” -“Bryan just needs to focus better” -“I’m not sure why Bryan asks to go to the nurse and counselor all the time” -“Bryan needs to learn how to sit still and be quiet” -“I’m not sure what else I can do, I’ve already taken his recess away most days” This made me sad. I had not seen these before. I think my mother had tried to shelter me from all of these negatives. At the bottom of the box was a notecard from my mom that said, “Try to see each of your student’s strengths. I know you will do better for your students. I am so proud of you! Love Mom”. After my career as a teacher and principal, I became a therapist. The majority of my adult clients can remember both the most positive thing a teacher said to them and also the most negative. Remember, our words matter. We have the power to build someone up or tear them down. What comment(s) do you remember hearing from a teacher? From the book: “Whatever It Takes!: For All Students to Succeed in School and Life” (a.co/d/3sOcuFW) Join the “Maslow Before Bloom” Facebook group at: facebook.com/groups/maslowb…

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