Dr. Amy Lyon

Mindset Matters…a LOT

Please join NHWHE for our March Timeout Tuesday!

Grit, passion and perseverance for long-term goals, is a complicated virtue.  Two foundational qualities of being “gritty” are having a growth-mindset and being optimistic.  Those two character traits will be discussed in relation to grit, as well as to each other, theoretically and practically.  Participants should come away with a few basic strategies for boosting their capacity for grit. 

Dr. Amy Lyon is currently an assistant professor of education at Colby-Sawyer College.  She earned her master’s degree from Dartmouth College and her doctoral degree from New England College.  While conducting research for her dissertation, she specifically studied ways to foster qualities of grit with children. “Grit” is a term coined and studied by Angela Duckworth from University of Pennsylvania.  For the past decade, Amy has continued to study concepts related to grit with Angela, as well as on her own.  She has presented her work in at least ten different states with both children and adults in a variety of settings.