How to teach persitence

Title: 8 Ways To Build Student Stamina: How to teach persistence
Source/Author/Date:Scientific Learning/Norene Wiesen/January 14, 2014
URL Link [http://www.scilearn.com/blog/teaching-persistence-how-to-build-student-stamina]
Key Points: This fairly short, but very readable article give some great tips on teaching students perseverance through change of mindset, positive self-talk, modeling by teachers and other adults, and a host of other ideas.
Relevance: I believe that it is important to teach children to stick with things, especially when things are not going as well as could be expected. Students need to understand that mistakes are not failures; they are opportunities to learn.

‘Education Suspended’ | Teaching Tolerance

‘Education Suspended’ | Teaching Tolerance

Submitted by Maya Lindberg on June 3, 2015

• Blogs and Articles:
 
• Discipline and Behavior
• Audience: Educators, Parents, University Admission Committees and School boards
   
  Key Points:
  Zero-tolerance disciplinary policies continue to have negative consequences for students in K-12 public schools.  High school disciplinary records have no place in post-secondary admissions.
  Relevance:
  School discipline records should not be part of higher education admissions. There are adverse consequences, two such consequences are school push-out, which often funnels students into the  juvenile and criminal justice system, and the disproportionate rates of discipline for students of color, students with disabilities and LGBT students