Professor Duckworth’s piece from Sunday’s paper today<\/a>. It’s cool — I’m reading Paul Tough’s book with my Penn class tomorrow — so I’ve been churning again on this topic. <\/p>\nAs we read and tried to translate for each other, we got stuck on one line: <\/p>\n
“Getting feedback is one thing, and listening to it is another.” <\/p>\n
AB noted that that’s when they see a comment and hit resolve without thinking. But we all talked about the difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. <\/p>\n
We ended by composing tweets, one about oneself and one about the school: <\/p>\n
“AD wants to teach students self-reflection (how to reflect on your work.)” MH
\n“We can know how character makes us a person that makes the school how good it is.” AB
\n“When I think about our school I see grit because we do learn about taking the steps to push yourself even when you don’t want to.” JH
\n“I think this article says that I should start thinking about the ways I use feedback.” KB<\/p>\n
I wrote the following
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