by Jim O'Kelley, Director Elks National Foundation That moment when you realize that thing you've been doing is actually a thing. A couple of weeks ago, I was telling Meghan about our latest Hoop Shoot video (watch for it on September 29 as the first installment in our #TrueGritTuesdays series!)--which features two sisters from Missouri and their parents and is about setting goals and working hard to achieve them--and she said: "You guys ought to talk more about grit. It's a hot topic right now. Everyone wants to fund programs that help kids develop grit." One of the things I've learned in four years of marriage is that Meghan has an uncanny knack for being right. Turns out while we were immersed in running the Hoop Shoot, its outcomes had become the Holy Grail of youth programming. The grit movement in education started a few years ago when psychologist Angela Duckworth studied people in various challenging situations, including National Spelling B...
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