4 Resources for Building Growth Mindsets This Year
PUBLISHED: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 by Andilynn Feddeler
When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient and successful. These books contain many of the things that schools, students, and administrators need to develop a growth mindset culture in which perseverance can lead to success.
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Ready-to-Use Resources for Mindsets in the Classroom: Everything Educators Need for Building Growth Mindset Learning Communities provides educators with tools they need to help students change their thinking about their abilities and potential. This updated 2020 edition features ready-to-use, interactive tools for students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
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Nothing You Can’t Do!: The Secret Power of Growth Mindsets (ages 9–12) will show students how to develop a growth mindset, where they look at life through a more optimistic lens, learn how to handle mistakes in a positive way, and find all of the possibilities in themselves, even those they didn’t know were there!
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Grit in the Classroom: Building Perseverance for Excellence in Today’s Students assists educators in creating a learning environment that fosters grit development for all students, regardless of ability. Each chapter includes stories to illustrate the research and ideas presented and ends with discussion questions that can be used to continue the conversation.
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Create a Growth Mindset School: An Administrator’s Guide to Leading a Growth Mindset Community includes guidance in the areas of growth mindset hiring, feedback, systemic professional learning, and ways to evaluate present processes and protocols through a growth mindset lens. Guidance and suggestions for embedding growth mindset learning through curriculum, instruction, and grading are also included in this valuable resource.