"Brag Sheet" strategies

mackinaw
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 02:57:38 +0000

My kids prepared brag sheets voluntarily – the school had no forms to work with. The sheets emphasized achievements and awards not values, attitudes, or ambitions. Attitudes and ambitions are best expressed by the students themselves in their essays. So if a student led something, or won something, those are achievements. So are grades and test scores. How hard they may have worked to gain those achievements is superfluous information.

However, if a student does not have demonstrated achievements in the form of awards, championships (whether team or individual), outstanding grades and tests, etc., then their efforts and priorities are worth mentioning.