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Mindset the new Psychology of success - Great Video to Motivate YOU

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Mindset the new Psychology of success - Great Video to Motivate YOU If we feed our mind with positive reinforcement, we can program ourselves for success! Mindset the new psychology of success! Sent by: http://goo.gl/ntISRg If you would like to connect with me on Facebook click here: http://www.facebook.com/amandaevanscc

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Growth Mindset Introduction: What it is, How it Works, and Why it Matters

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Grit the power of passion and perseverance

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED

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The power of believing that you can improve

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Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it … or have you just not solved it yet? A great introduction to this influential field.

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The Power of belief -- mindset and success | Eduardo Briceno | TEDxManhattanBeach

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My daughter is reading this book at her school. I thought it would be fun to put this great book from Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees to some silly music. By the way all the music you hear was created using ukuleles. Update 6/17/2014 As requested by Asali Sunshine here are the chords for this song.

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Brain Jump with Ned the Neuron: Challenges Grow Your Brain

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Sesame Street: Janelle Monae - Power of Yet

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What ClassDojo Monsters Can Teach Kids About Growth Mindset

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"The scope of this study goes beyond just these videos. We really are going to try to understand what teachers are doing on a day to day basis," Paunesku said. He's excited to find out from teachers what kind of growth mindset messages they are already giving students both explicitly and implicitly through their teaching practices. Understanding how teachers are currently working and determining which strategies already work, as well as those that don't, is big goal of this collaboration.

"We'll learn both what they're already doing and how what they're doing changes as a result of using the videos," Paunesku said. And, because ClassDojo can track engagement with their videos and tools, the PERTS researchers can gather new insights into how the growth mindset message changes student engagement levels. Conversely, Paunesku also wants to know if the videos don't work.

"To the extent the videos fall short on some things, that's really important information for making more resources in the future," Paunesku said. ClassDojo has made five 2-to-3-minute videos that will be released over five weeks and are available for free to the public. They've also put together discussion guides to help teachers jumpstart classroom discussion. The five videos build upon one another in a sequence:
Video 1: A secret about the brain
Video 2: The magic of mistakes
Video 3: The power of "yet"
Video 4: The mysterious world of neurons
Video 5: Little by little
"We have this belief that teachers and parents and students are this bottom up force in education," said Liam Don, co-founder and chief product officer of ClassDojo. "So to actually bring real evidence-based research is a real opportunity."

Don is proud that his company has always solicited teacher input and incorporated that feedback into the company's tools. ClassDojo's initial focus on behavior management through positive reinforcement came from teachers. And the expansion to become a closed circuit communication tool - basically a window into the classroom for parents - also came from educators.

"I use it to recognize and acknowledge positive behavior in the classroom," said Jennifer Ellison, who teaches computer classes to all grades at Phillips Elementary in Napa, California. "But I also use it for community building." Her students often recognize one another for demonstrating mastery over new skills or for behavior that helps another student. That in turn helps foster a positive classroom culture.

The teachers at Ellison's school have read " Mindset," by Carol Dweck, and have already been trying to incorporate growth mindset messages into their teaching. But Ellison is excited about the ClassDojo videos after seeing the pilot. "We've already been talking to our students about it, but the video is really cute and they love the little monster on Dojo," she said.

Ellison often uses her own experiences as a learner when she talks about growth mindset with students. She remembers that her older sister always learned new math problems on the first try, whereas she had to struggle to understand new concepts. Growing up, she tells students, she believed that meant her sister was smart and she was not.

That feeling of inadequacy resonates with many students. But then she explains that everybody's brains are capable of growing and changing when they are confronted with new ideas. Her struggles to understand math didn't mean she was any less smart, she just had to try more strategies and work harder to understand, growing her brain in the process. She intends to continue that personal approach, but thinks an engaging, short video is a great way to kick off the conversation.

"I think the videos head in the right direction," Ellison said. "Certainly the idea that intelligence is not fixed is important for kids to hear over and over again." She is also excited at the potential for the growth mindset conversation to travel back to students' homes and become a larger part of the school community.

Ellison says ClassDojo has increased parent engagement with her classes. The tool offers translations in 40 languages -- a huge help in her school where many students come from homes where English is not the first language -- and because much of what teachers post is visual, parents can finally see what goes on during school hours. ClassDojo only has anecdotal evidence of this increased engagement from teachers' stories and social media, but they do know that 8,000 messages are exchanged every minute between teachers and parents on the platform.

ClassDojo executives have already released a pilot video to teachers and got good feedback, so they believe the video series will be well received. "I think there's a lot of pent up enthusiasm for this idea," Don said. Many teachers have heard of growth mindset, but aren't quite sure how to work it into their lessons. Don believes the partnership between ClassDojo and PERTS will reach a huge number of teachers and help them begin these conversations.

"Teachers are willing to put in work to make a good idea work in their classroom," Don said. "We've seen that over and over when we've released things in the past."

PERTS hopes to have some preliminary data on how the messaging affects engagement and student attitudes about learning by March.

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What ClassDojo Monsters Can Teach Kids About Growth Mindset

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"The scope of this study goes beyond just these videos. We really are going to try to understand what teachers are doing on a day to day basis," Paunesku said. He's excited to find out from teachers what kind of growth mindset messages they are already giving students both explicitly and implicitly through their teaching practices.

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Austin's Butterfly: Building Excellence in Student Work

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Ron Berger from EL Education demonstrates the transformational power of models, critique, and descriptive feedback to improve student work. Here he tells the story of Austin's Butterfly. First-grade students at ANSER Charter School in Boise, ID, helped Austin take a scientific illustration of a butterfly through multiple drafts toward a high-quality final product.

This video accompanies the book Leaders of Their Own Learning: Transforming Schools through Student-Engaged Assessment.

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Perseverance (1 of 3) | Social Emotional Learning for kids

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Big Ideas for the classroom  Growth Mindset - Episode 1

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This is "Big Ideas for the classroom Growth Mindset - Episode 3" by on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Chapter 2

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Big Ideas for the classroom  Growth Mindset - Episode 2

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Statements that communicate confidence in students' ability

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Language to use when interacting with students.

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Categories - Growth Mindset Blog & Newsletter

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The benefits of quality sleep go way beyond physical health. Getting quality sleep helps you develop and strengthen a growth mindset, which is vital to maximize your potential. While it may seem easy to forgo sleep for work or school, studies have shown that sufficient rest can actually help your learning abilities and skill development.

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Categories - Growth Mindset Blog & Newsletter

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The benefits of quality sleep go way beyond physical health. Getting quality sleep helps you develop and strengthen a growth mindset, which is vital to maximize your potential. While it may seem easy to forgo sleep for work or school, studies have shown that sufficient rest can actually help your learning abilities and skill development.