2015 Fall Data Collection is a Wrap!

Special thank you to ALL school principals and their leadership teams for assisting us in collecting important data for the Annual Fall Data Collection window.

Data Review Opportunity: We have the preliminary report for your school open so you can go in and see the data, please visit http://www.ocsww.org/apps/ncea
The data input tool is also open so if you need to make any final edits, please visit http://www.ocsww.org/school-data/edit.php
Schools have until Thursday, October 8th to make any final changes and then the data input tool will be closed. If questions, please contact Vireak.ath@seattlearch.org

GRIT SCORES: The 11 Catholic High Schools have agreed to study and track GRIT scores for our high school students this fall.

What is GRIT? The Grit Score initiative has been the topic of study for Dr. Angela Duckworth from the University of Pennsylvania. The Duckworth Lab focuses on two traits that predict achievement: grit and self-control. Grit is the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals (Duckworth et al., 2007). Self-control is the voluntary regulation of behavioral, emotional, and attentional impulses in the presence of momentarily gratifying temptations or diversions (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Duckworth & Steinberg, 2015). On average, individuals who are gritty are more self-controlled, but the correlation between these two traits is not perfect: Some individuals are paragons of grit but not self-control, and some exceptionally well-regulated individuals are not especially gritty (Duckworth & Gross, 2014). Source: https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/duckworth

Additional Reading:
Angela Duckworth’s Gritty View of Success published February 11, 2014 http://www.strategy-business.com/art...0232?gko=1f025

Angela Lee Duckworth’s TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/speakers/angela_lee_duckworth

The Key to Success? GRIT
http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit?langu age=en

We anticipate our high school students are very gritty and we will begin capturing the data to see if we are accurate. Thank you!