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Does Your Classroom Cultivate Student Resilience?

Source: Edutopia

Over 100 years ago, the great African American educator Booker T. Washington spoke about resilience: “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.”

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