Glows and grows as a habit

Make time with students to notice and reflect glows and grows. Pause to celebrate and appreciate one another. Pause to identify areas of growth, ideate change actions, and act.

Conditions for Glows and Grows

In order to authentically celebrate and identify grows, students have to feel psychological safety and have a positive self-esteem. Appreciation and recognition are important ingredients to create such conditions.

Recommended resources -with adults-

It's powerful when you pause to do this with your colleagues! Here are slides that you can use with your team to guide your work.

Imagine excellence and identify glows & grows.

Listen to stakeholders (students and parents/guardians).

Unpack the stakeholders' voices and identify grow to work on and an action to take.

Reflect on actions. Identify excellence. Ideate how to utilize glows and grows for your next actions.

Recommended resources -with students-

A workbook that you can use with your students to cultivate discussions on a culture of excellence.

This is a template that we used as a "mid-project check-in." It is a tool to guide students to pause and reflect their learning journey and their collaborative work.