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How to Build Resiliency through Creative Academic Problem Solving
Elizabeth Gianulis, Director of MTSS
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Resilience
The ability to
tackle adversity
and emerge
stronger than
before
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GritPassion and perseverance for long term goals
• Sustain interest and effort
• Persist and persevere when you face challenges for things you are passionate about
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Growth Mindset
Belief that most
basic abilities
including
intelligence can be
developed through
dedication and hard
work
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How do I build
resiliency through
creative academic
problem solving?
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Start building
skills outside of
academic
problem solving
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FIND AT LEAST ONE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY FOR YOUR CHILD TO PURSUE LONG TERM
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SHARE STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO PERSEVERED
• 5,127 = Number of
failed, vacuum
prototypes created by
James Dyson
• 10,000 = Number of
failed attempts by
Thomas Edison to
create the electric
lightbulb
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Build a Growth Mindset
Help
Help children understand that the brain works like a muscle
Avoid
Avoid telling your child that he/she is ”smart.”• Be specific
with praise
Praise
Praise the process—effort, hard work, creative problem solving
Encourage
Encourage a healthy attitude to failure and challenge
Use
Use the word “yet”
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Read & Discuss Books about Growth Mindset & Creative Problem Solving
• Your Fantastic Elastic Brain:
Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn
Deak, Ph.D
• Bubble Gum Brain by Julia Cook
• The Most Magnificent Thing by
Ashley Spires
• Beautiful Oops! By Barney
Saltzberg
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ALLOW YOUR CHILD TO STRUGGLE AND TAKE RISKS
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Encourage and Praise Creative Problem Solving
Allow your child to struggle with support
Encourage him/her to think or try other options
Praise effort and attempts at choosing other solutions
Provide guidance as needed
Stay calm and offer breaks as needed
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Questions that Reflect on Growth & Creative Problem Solving
1. What did you learn from this task? In what way
was it difficult?
2. Did you make any mistakes? What did you learn
from them?
3. If you had to start all over again, what would you
do differently?
4. What advice would you give another child just
starting this task?
- Carol Dweck (2015)
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Recommended Books
• How Children Succeed: Grit,
Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of
Character by Paul Tough
• Mindset: The New Psychology of
Success by Carol Dweck
• The Power of Showing Up by Daniel
Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
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Questions?