Why Some Celebrations Miss the Mark I used to think celebration was simple. Praise the A students, applaud the test scores, hand out the awards at the end of the year. Done. Then I started paying attention to student reactions. The kid who shrank when I called attention to their perfect score. The student who worked incredibly hard to move from an F to a C but got no recognition because a C isn't "award-worthy." The ones who achieved amazing social growth but never heard abou