Twenty-three years after dropping out of high school, I finally enrolled in college. In between, I got married, worked as a waitress, had three children, and adopted a fourth. My first baby got cancer and had three serious operations between the ages of two and five. What she and the other kids in the hospital […]
Commitment and Success
I was a first-year student and enjoying college, but I was having a hard time in my electronics class. The teacher lectured about things like current, watts, volts, and resistance, and even though I read the book, took notes in class, and asked questions, I still wasn’t understanding what I needed to. When I got […]
Grit + Growth Mindset
The individual concepts of Grit and Growth Mindsets are familiar terms in the lexicon of student success. More recently, Hochanadel and Finamore have studied the interplay of these two concepts, encouraging educators to explore the synergy created when students are provided with the tools to learn how to develop both grit and a growth mindset […]
