Deliberate Practice

“We value creativity, relevance and rigor."

“We have one purpose: learning.”

Those two sentences are from our positioning statement, and you’ve seen them before in our blog. The emphasis on creativity, relevance and rigor continues to pay off for C-FB ISD students.

• Newman Smith graduate Celeste Russell and R.L. Turner graduates Rabab Surani and Hussain Lalani earned scholarships through the Gates Millennium Scholars program, the nation's largest minority scholarship program. These are full-ride scholarships to any university, and only 1,000 are awarded nationally.
• Amelia Ragsdale, Creekview junior, was one of 25 individuals who completed New York University's Summer Woodwinds Program for high school students, college students and young professionals. She also received the Excellence in Achievement Award. She was one of three high school students chosen to study with some of New York's top instructors from NYU, Julliard, and Manhattan School of Music.

This summer, we’ve been reading the book Influencer, The Power To Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. It’s a fascinating book. And, in the book, they talk about deliberate practice that has been researched by psychologist Anders Ericsson. His findings tell us that you can have talent, but unless you have carefully practice over and over to enhance your skills through structured or “deliberated practice” you won’t achieve outstanding performance.

I don’t know if these four students have heard of “deliberate practice” but isn’t great to see individual students excel because they have studied and practiced?

We in C-FB ISD believe in high achievement for every student, and the way to get there is through “deliberate practice.” And, we will because C-FB ISD has one purpose: learning.