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The Quest for Strengths Strengths-Based Educating: 180 A Concrete Way to Bring Out the Best in Students—and Yourself The Confessions of an Educator Who Got It Right—Finally! by Edward “Chip”Anderson I was wrong! For nearly half my professional career, I was wrong about how to help students achieve. I adopted the wrong focus, made inaccurate assumptions,used faulty logic,and came to the wrong conclusions about how to increase student achievement. During almost thirty-six years as a college administrator and instruc- tor, I designed programs and services, taught classes, and conducted workshops with one purpose in mind: to help students gain maximum benefits from college and continue learning and achieving long after they finished school. But looking back, I see that for the first fifteen years, despite my best intentions, I used the wrong approach. During those years I did invest myself in students, express my care and concern for them as people, and encourage them. But although a high percent- age of my students persisted in and graduated from the programs in which I worked,they seldom became top achievers,and few achieved to levels of excellence. Here is where and how I went wrong: I read the research reports. The results from almost every study showed that students who had the best academic preparation earned the highest grades and had the high- est graduation rates, and students who had the weakest academic prepa- ration ear