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Promoting Growth Mindset Means Checking Biases At The Door, Experts Say Educators Must Confront Personal Biases Before They Can Address Students' Mindsets "Educators must confront personal biases before they can address students' mindsets".		A Growth Mindset Could Buffer Kids From Negative Academic Effects Of Poverty Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, along with other education researchers interested in growth mindset, have done numerous studies showing that when students believe their intelligence can grow and change with effort, they perform better on academic tests.
Growth Mindset: Clearing Up Some Common Confusions "A growth mindset is the understanding that personal qualities and abilities can change."		New Research: Students Benefit From Learning That Intelligence Is Not Fixed "Teaching students that intelligence can grow and blossom with effort – rather than being a fixed trait they’re just born with – is gaining traction in progressive education circles."
Helping Kids Take Criticism Constructively (Even When It Isn’t Constructive) Basalt Middle School is an award-winning middle school that has been recognized as a national School to Watch since 2012.

Books

Books

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck, Ph.D		Flight School, by Lita Judge
The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt		Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers
The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds		Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg
Thanks for the Feedback, I Think (Best Me I Can Be!), by Julia Cook

Curriculum

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Introduction to Growth Mindset Students with a fixed mindset believe that their own intelligence and talent are innate traits that don’t change (“I just can’t learn math.”).		Growth Mindset Framing In order to create a "risk-free" classroom environment where all students are willing to take on challenges and push themselves, it is important to make the focus on learning clear, make it safe to risk mistakes, and communicate a high confidence in all students' ability to rise to the learning challenges.
Effective Effort Rubric This rubric assesses the learning process–the effective effort that a learner applies.		Growth Mindset Feedback As students begin t work on their learning objectives, growth-minded language guides and motivates them to ensure that they remain persistent, resilient, and focused on the process of learning.

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