The Power of Grit in Education

Welcome to your Morning Boost. Your daily leadership advice to help you lead your school community, brought to you by AWB Education and sponsored by Grundmeier Leader Services, where together we are transforming education, one leader at a time. Now here's your host, Adam Bush. Good morning and a very happy Thursday to you. Welcome back to your Morning Boost. I'm Adam Bush, and it's a pleasure to have you here. We are continuing our phenomenal week with doctor Albert Bramonte, and today he's going to talk about a quality that is foundational to effective leadership, and that is developing resilience and grit. In the world of education, where we face daily challenges and setbacks, these qualities are not just nice to have, they are absolutely essential. Doctor Bramonte is going to give us some practical advice on how we can cultivate these traits in ourselves and our teams. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to our incredible guest, doctor Albert Bramonte, to walk us through his insights on this vital topic. Thanks for being here again. Today and thank you Adam for having it so The important thing if we look at the word resilience, it's kind of like the ability to bounce back and to adapt and not only adapt, but let them make the stronger these experiences. So, especially with education, because the idea of resilience is extremely important in the leadership because we need to model that for the staff we oversee, and then also that's that's gonna then crickle down to the students in a couple of different degrees. So we want to model being able to bounce back from setbacks and being able to handle challenges and obstacles that come away, which they are going to that to the human experience. So and then grit refers to just and a sense of persevering, keeping up with challenges because as a leader, you're gonna be faced with a whole host of challenges. And while there's a lot of prestige sometimes being a leader, there's also a lot of responsibilities and there's going. To be challenges thrown your way. And especially when you're responsible for somebody or other or a team, there may be even challenges that you're not even really directly you know, involved with that are going to affect you, like, you know, if there's problems within the team communicating, you know, even on a downward level, and it. Crickles down into the students. So you're gonna be partially responsible, just like you know, me owning a business. If my employees mess up, it's unresponsible. Yep. Yeah, Oh there's gonna be that. So it's gonna be challenges and we need to be prepared for that and not to fold when they happen, but to balance back. And that doesn't mean that we. Don't get emotionally affected or or even bothered by it by someone Well that's I think that's some mouthful thing not to get get bothered by it. But I think the important thing is to be able to say what can I learn from or how can I improve this so it's better the next time. So that's the important thing. And and it's it's so important. Because the one thing when we're faced with challenges is we can't pold, we can't break down because we're especially as leaders, your models as to how other people should be responding. So your teachers, you know, or your you know, employees are gonna want to see somebody who's strong, who can at least lead them, because if you're gonna panic, they're gonna panic, and students are gonna pack and that's gonna be a mess. And so you know, grit is also important because there's gonna be setbacks. And one of the best I think teachers of grit and perseverance are children. So for those of you who are passed, which I imagine there's a good number of you listening that are parents. If you remember when your child toddler was growing up and they were learning to walk, how many times did they fall down? How many times did they stumble or have a hard time standing upright and then taking your steps and falling out? I would imagine it could be en upwards of hundreds of times. You never seen an iNFiNiT or toddler say I can't walk anymore, true, or a parent who says, you know, walking is not for you. We overcome that. Now for some reason we fold. We don't have that same level of rit that that that dollar has. So like a couple of times when we get set back, we haven't donecy the fault or to say I quit. So the important thing is there is kind of like learning to fail in a sense. So what can you learn from these experiences, because that's. What it's going to keep you going in, day in and day out. So rather than wanting to quit and you get burnt out. It's it sort of turns into how can I become a better person or how can this experience help me better? Because that's what it is. It takes up perseverance. You know, there's people who sometimes failed so many times, but it was that last time that they pushed forward, they actually took off from and propelled. So the important thing is doubt. If we want our students in sacally, we've got to model that too. So there's whole idea is to bounce back from our setbacks and let them teach us new things, but not affected in a negative way. So that's what I mean by resilience in grit. Yeah, that's good. I appreciate that reminder that it's not about being tough enough to never fail. It's about having that inner strength to give back up after every fall. That's your analogy of a young child is absolutely perfect. That's wonderful. Again, Yeah, it's really good. I appreciate your topics this week. This is awesome. Good good topic today. Remind us that moments aren't failures, they are opportunities, right, and it's another opportunity to grow and get ready for that next challenge. Huge. Thank you again to doctor Albert Bramonte for these motivating discussions and today's unresilience in grit. The work you do is just so vital and the work we do as school leaders is also vital, so that ability to bounce back is what's going to make all the difference. Thank you everybody. Hope you have a wonderful Thursday. Doctor Bremonte will be back again tomorrow for one last episode to join us this week. I can't wait to see what he's got in store for us for Friday. But again, thanks for listening. We will talk with you again tomorrow. You have been listening to your morning boost by AWB Education in partnership with my Leader Services. You can find out more about our services by clicking on the links in the description. Remember, you are doing this vital job that only a few can do. So until next time, thank you for your service to your community.