Today we know how to weave the Habits of Mind into the culture of a school. We have learnt much since Art Costa and Bena Kallick first shared either work with the world more than 25 years ago. Together we have worked to infuse the Habits of Mind into schools and systems, into classroom and the wider community – with extraordinary results. I have had the honour to work closely with Art Costa and Bena Kallick, as well as many passionate educators. They form core components of my three books: Succeeding with Habits of Mind, The Agile Learner, and The Learning Landscape. Throughout my career as a consultant, speaker, author and educator the Habits of Mind have remained a central part of my work. ![]() I launched this Habits of Mind website in the late 1990’s when I was working with Habits of Mind in my own classroom. Once you have clarity around where you are now and where you want to be, you can start mapping out your ROAD journey and working to close the gaps between the two.James Anderson : Speaker, Author and Educator Complete a current profile alongside this – one of where you are now – and start identifying the gaps between the two. Similarly you could use a profiling tool to complete, what we call, an aspirational profile – a profile that provides a projected profile of the individual you aspire to be. Is it a coach you need? A training course? Consider what support mechanisms you need to get you closer to that person you want to be. Go and search for the training and development needed to get you there. Try to identify the differences between yourself and that person and pinpoint the behaviours that you really want to develop. Describe that person and then measure yourself against them. Thinking about who you admire as a person is a good place to start. It may sound obvious, but if you don’t have an end goal in mind, how on earth are you going to get there?! How can you possibly know whether you’ve succeeded, failed or reached somewhere in between, if you don’t know what you’re aiming for? Knowing your end goal can give you the continued motivation you need to achieve success. Think about what small resolutions you can make, rather than huge, cumbersome, overwhelming ones that you are unlikely to remain disciplined with. Self-discipline is challenging already (we all know how difficult eating one square of chocolate rather than the whole bar is!) and creating unrealistic disciplines can be counter-productive. ROAD most definitely supports the starting with the end in mind habit and focusing on the Discipline element for now, it’s important that the daily disciplines you set are both realistic and achievable. You may have seen the ROAD acronym that we shared with you earlier this month (Responsibility, Outcomes, Action, Discipline). ![]() People are typically motivated by the future, not the past and so knowing what you want your future to be can be a strong source of motivation. It’s also about fast-forwarding into the future and considering what it looks like there for you.
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