1. Utilizing Grit in the Classroom: A Summary
Takeaways from Grit in the Classroom 
by Laila Y. Sanguras 

2. CHAPTER 1: Anatomy of Grit
-Grit is about internal fortitude and zeal.
-Self-discipline is the ability to control an impulse in order to overcome a weakness.
-Perseverance is a behavior, a purposeful action to pursue a goal or task despite obstacles. Grit involves sustained perseverance.
-Grit only exists when sustained perseverance is paired with passion. Passion is a strong desire for an activity, object, or person that one loves, values, and invests time and energy into. 
-Grit may have just as important an influence on success as cognitive ability. 
-Never miss a moment to bring grit to the forefront of your students' minds.
CHAPTER 1: Anatomy of Grit

3. -10 Things We Should Care About in Education
Children believe they can learn and they demonstrate growth in their learning over time.
Children love the process of discovery so much that they lose track of time.
Children know how to approach a challenge and problem solve their way through it.
Children feel empathy and genuine respect for others.
Children are passionate and can articulate their passions. 
Children understand that they control their actions and, therefore, the results of those actions.
Children know what it feels like to want to give up – but then they persevere through it.
Children establish the necessary self-discipline to achieve short- and long-term goals.
Children are intrinsically motivated because of their dedication to the learning process.
Children understand their strengths and weaknesses and that these are not fixed.
-10 Things We Should Care About in Education

4. Signs of Students Demonstrating Grittiness:
Warning Signs of Students Without Grit:
They get a bad grade on a math test and ask you how they can do better next time.
You introduce a project, and your students get excited about the possibilities.
They can be overly chatty in group projects but typically related to the assignment.
They get huffy when they get a bad grade, throwing away their tests.
They are annoyed by the open-endedness of a project and just want you to tell them how to get a good grade.
They ask you for extra credit, often at the end of a grading period.

5. It is crucial that we help students find their "why."
When we place an emphasis on effort, authentic effort, with our students, we are also showing them a way to improve their performance.
Grit is the result of intense passion couple with sustained perseverance and it may be the difference between success and failure over time. In building grit, effort counts twice – more than achievement and more than talent. As teacher who give our students everything we have (and then some), we can take practical steps to cultivate grit in our students.
Self-discipline and passion are also important in our understanding of grit. School is the place where we can help our students manage their behaviors and stoke their passions. As teachers, we can fulfill the dual purposes of teaching our students content while developing their abilities to persevere through challenges. 

6. CHAPTER 2: Measuring Grit
-If our students don't have interests that develop into passions, then they just haven't found the right one. 
-We need to engage our students in our content and we do this by being actively passionate about it.
-Building interest is not something that can be done in isolation. Exposure to ideas breeds new ideas.
-The art of practice is placing yourself in opportunities so that you can feel this joy again and again. 
-We have to take this interest-building business seriously, as seriously as we take our curriculum standards and standardized tests. 
-Purpose is not easy to identify and it doesn't just "come to you." 
-The key is to acknowledge that you cannot control your students' lives. And then create experiences that allow them to achieve mastery amidst the struggle.
-Your students will stay right there with you as long as they know that you know what you are doing and they trust that you care about them. 
CHAPTER 2: Measuring Grit

7. Building interest, establishing time to practice, and finding purpose are at the heart of developing talent. We build interest by creating classrooms that are places where students identify their passions and are rewarded for their curiosity. We help students set goals aligned to practice, and we insist that our students find meaning in their studies. And pervading all of this is hope, the hope that our students need to dream big and believe in their abilities to succeed.

8. Ability matters.
All domains begin with potential.
As students' abilities and interests grow, the opportunities they need to further their development will change.
Psychosocial skills, particularly grit, are necessary to the talent development process.
We take away the easy button, and we demand, while we also encourage, earned excellence.
It's our job to help students focus on their passion in order to achieve as much as possible.
Force your students to "perform" regularly.
Focused energy brings a more powerful response than energy sprayed out in several directions.
Our place in education is to create experiences that are valued – experiences that cultivate passions, provide challenges, and leave room for failure.
Developing talent is comprised of four components: ability, understanding the domain, providing opportunity, and building psychosocial skills. 
CHAPTER 3: What Gritty Classrooms Can Learn From  Gifted Education and Talent Development

9. CHAPTER 4: Integrating Grit, Mindsets, and Motivation
Fixed Mindset:
Growth Mindset
CHAPTER 4: Integrating Grit, Mindsets, and Motivation
Intelligence is static.
Leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to...
Avoid challenges, 
Get defensive or give up easily,
See effort as fruitless or worse
Ignore useful negative feedback,
Feel threatened by others' success.
As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential. 
All this confirms a deterministic view of the world.
Intelligence can be developed.
Leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to...
Embrace challenges,
Persist in the face of setbacks,
See effort as the path to mastery,
Learn from criticism,
Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
As a result, they reach ever-high levels of achievement.
All of this gives them a greater sense of free will.

10. A person with a growth mindset thrives on challenge and seeks out growth opportunities. 
We should make hard work a habit so that our students repeatedly experience positive effects as a result.
We need to practice optimism with our students if we want them to have a growth mindset.
You can think of goal orientation as how you feel about challenges and how you define success.
We want our students to approach their goals with the desire to achieve success, not just to avoid failure.
A person with Mastery Orientation defines success by comparing herself to her prior performances.
A person with performance orientation thrives in competitive environments and believes she is in control of her success.

11. Supporting Students With Mastery Orientation:
Reward the behaviors you want to students to repeat. 
Examples: Striving for academic excellence and viewing academic competition as healthy.
Supporting Students with Performance Orientation:
Examples: Academic risk-taking, positive support of peers, and self- discipline.
We can use our understanding of mastery and performance orientation to shape our we motivate our students and help us understand where they are coming from in times of frustration. Finally, we need to commit to making hard work a habit. Set the bar high and your students will meet you there.

12. CHAPTER 5: Cultivating Passionate Students
Passion is a critical component of grit. It's the ultimate "why" that is too important to ignore.
-Create learning experiences designed to lead your students to feeling competent.
-Give students choices.
-Creativity should be infused into your curriculum and not just tacked on at the end as an extension activity.
-Help students see that their actions and their learning matter.
-Design thinking is a strategic process for cultivating passion in students:
1) gather inspiration by studying what people need,
2) generate ideas beyond the obvious solutions,
3) make ideas tangible by building prototypes,
4) sharing the results to spur others into action.
CHAPTER 5: Cultivating Passionate Students

13. -Create open learning experiences so your students can select their own topics. Design opportunities for students to explore their interests.
-Focus on your students' strengths and encourage them to investigate those. Help them find extensions from their skills to future areas of study.
Competence, respect, autonomy, creativity, sense of impact. Imagine if you are committed to incorporating those five tenets of passion into your curriculum, if every day your students were tackling the content in ways that aligned with building passion. 

14. CHAPTER 6: Building Grit at Home
Parents need to consider the three components of grit (passion, perseverance, commitment).
Children with authoritative parents are socially adjusted and can typically face challenges with confidence.
Encourage the parents of your students to talk with their children about their own commitments and the struggles they've faced honoring them.
Kids should be allowed to be bored. Part of finding yourself is figuring out what to do when you have free time.
Prepare your parents. Tell them that their child will struggle, but that it's worth it.
Remind parents that gritty children are often the product of parents who are consistent in their expectations.
Parents want what's best for their children. You want what's best for your students. To make this work, you have to establish a rock-solid relationship between school and home. Grit is a newish concept and you will be an advantage if you can build a positive, working relationship with parents before you start doing hard things (holding kids accountable, pushing them toward excellence, etc).
CHAPTER 6: Building Grit at Home

15. CHAPTER 7: Creating a Gritty School Culture
Don’t set up a meeting unless it is imperative and the most efficient way to share information. 
Every child, even and especially the difficult ones, deserve a person at school who can advocate for him.
Ensure that everyone at every level understands that your school is a place where people go for it, where no one holds back and no one gives up.
Six Suggestions:
Be enthusiastic.
Care.
Align content delivery to students' needs.
Require students to engage with the context.
Regularly offer specific feedback.
Challenge students.
CHAPTER 7: Creating a Gritty School Culture