Our primary goal is to reward students for improvement, not ability.

We praise excellent
effort more than excellent work.  We nourish growth rather than innate talent.  Thus, every
child, special ed to gifted, can be equally successful.
In traditional education, rewards for ability result in the same students winning recognition,
year after year. Too often, our brightest kids skate by with minimum effort while less
talented pupils bail out of a race that the system has taught them, they can’t win.