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Building Growth Mindset in the Classroom: Assignments From Carol Dweck

New research describes how a teacher's classroom approach can shape whether their students believe their academic skills are fixed at birth or they can grow them through practice and experience.




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Growth Mindset in a Pandemic: Teachers Talk About Building Resilience in Students

Teachers in the Texas Mindset Initiative talk about how they are trying to help students learn and grow from a period of dramatic and disruptive change.




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Three Teacher-Tested Ways to Encourage a Growth Mindset

How to show homework isn't punishment and other effective ways to build a growth-mindset class culture during distance learning, according to research.




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Carol Dweck on Nurturing Students' Growth Mindsets Through Protest and Pandemic

Growth mindsets are an important tool for battling racial bias in the classroom and helping students through difficulties posed by the pandemic.




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Why Leaders Need to Develop Their Own Growth Mindset

Harvard's Richard Elmore has pointed out the "catastrophe" that is educational leadership preparation. We can all look to practice communities like Peloton to develop our skills, practice, and mindsets to help remedy that.




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Growth Mindset

Teaching students the science of how their brains change over time can help them see intelligence as something they can develop, rather than innate and unchangeable.




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Developing a Growth Mindset in Our Students

As we continue to build the leaders of the future, we must ensure their own belief in their abilities. This is the only way we can ensure their successful futures and ours.




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How Growth Mindset Makes for Better Student Writing

When students begin to value their own improvement, and see their weaknesses as opportunities, the grades will come, writes teacher Stephanie Curtis.




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National Study Bolsters Case for Teaching 'Growth Mindset'

A national study of nearly 12,500 9th graders finds that two sessions of a 25-minute exercise on “growth mindset” can boost students’ grades and their willingness to take on challenging classes.