What Does It Mean to be Smart?

Last weekend, six of us went to Sacramento to hear Ian Byrd speak on meeting student needs. One of the questions he brought up was related to the definition of 'smart'.  Then this morning, I received his newsletter, Byrdseed, focused on having a conversation with students about "What does it mean to be smart?"  He has two additional articles down at the bottom "The Burden of Being Called Smart" and "Curse of the Kidney Table which are equally thought provoking. Take a look.