•What do you believe about learning?•What do your students believe?

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Consider how you can encourage a growth mindsetin your school.Discuss concrete strategies for your own context.

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As a result, they reach ever-

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School Messages That Promote A Growth Mindset

•We believe in your potential and are committed to helping everyone get smarter.

•We value taking on challenges, exerting effort, and surmounting obstacles more than we value “natural” talent and easy success.

•Working hard to learn new things makes you smarter—it makes your brain grow new connections.

•School is not a place that judges you.

From Mind-Sets & Equitable Education by Carol Dweckhttp://www.principals.org/portals/0/content/61209.pdf

Teacher Actions that Promote a Growth Mindset

•Set up lessons as learning tasks not judgments of ability. Characterize the activity as a learning process and present skills and material as being learnable.

•Praise the effort not the ability. For example say, “I see that you’ve been working really hard on using evidence to support your argument.”

From Mind-Sets & Equitable Education by Carol Dweckhttp://www.principals.org/portals/0/content/61209.pdf