Growth Mindset
Read about the impact in schools of the belief that skills are developed over time through effort, rather than being innate and “fixed”
Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset'
Carol Dweck, who parsed the difference between a "fixed" and a "growth" mindset, clarifies her theories of intelligence.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Educator Voices Must Be Heard, That's Why We Blog
Each of us has a responsibility to share our stories the way we want to share them. If we choose not to be the owner of our personal brand, then other people will tell our stories for us and then we lose control over the reality of our spaces.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Mindset and Attitude Affect Our Interactions in Leadership
Leadership is hard and helping adults develop into their best selves takes time and patience. Not everyone will be ready to hear the message or take the risk, but we can't give up on. We need to meet them where they are (just like with our students) and help them grow from there. Differentiate your approach based on what you know and continue to learn about your team members and share feedback regularly.
School Climate & Safety
Report Roundup
Research Report: School Climate
Students' school environments can affect their academic mindset—whether they believe intelligence and other skills are fixed or can be improved through effort—and that mindset affects how they react to future school environments, creating a feedback loop.
School & District Management
Report Roundup
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.
Student Well-Being & Movement
The 'Brain' in Growth Mindset: Does Teaching Students Neuroscience Help?
Brain science explanations might help boost growth mindset, a new study finds, but the students and subject matter.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Writing a Flexible Curricular Map to Ensure Student Voice is Heard
Learning is deeply personal and engaging when done right, and every school can be developing lifelong learners by setting up expectations that involve student and teacher participation.
Curriculum
To Up Students' Math Ability, Try Working on Their Teachers' Growth Mindset
In a new study from the Stanford Graduate School of Education, students whose teachers underwent a professional-development program challenging the "myth of the math person" scored higher on an assessment of math ability.
School Climate & Safety
Letter to the Editor
Students Are Not 'Mini-Adults'
In a recent Commentary, the authors outlined how serious the plight of our young people is today, highlighted by the stunning increase in their suicide rates.
Assessment
Report Roundup
Education Attainment
A massive new research analysis finds that formal education, in general, remains "the most consistent, robust, and durable method yet to be identified for raising intelligence."
Assessment
Report Roundup
Student Motivation
The historic "marshmallow test" has tied young children's ability to delay gratification to their long-term success, but a new, larger replication study in Psychological Science puts those long-term results in doubt.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
The Power of Silence: Use Wait Time to Increase Student Thinking
All students learn at a different pace and we need to honor the time it takes for all students to participate and engage with the learning in a way that makes sense to each of them. Let's try not to unintentionally take that opportunity away from them.
Teaching
Opinion
Six Ways Teaching Has Made Me a Better Mom
My early teaching days were littered with crazy mishaps and expectations that often mimicked my perfectionist student ways. Always eager to please and be the best version of myself, I tirelessly worked to be a perfect teacher and (as you can imagine) often failed to meet that mark.
Curriculum
Pearson Tests Growth-Mindset Messages in Software
An experiment with embedding 'growth-mindset' messaging in software appeared to help students persist when they encountered difficulty, and raised ethical concerns.