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September Strategies to Foster a Successful Classroom Community

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September Strategies to Foster a Successful Classroom Community

Rachel Lissy

As a professional development trainer with Ramapo for Children, an organization that provides youth programming and adult training for special needs students, I often offer feedback to teachers regarding their classroom and behavior management. Often, when teachers reflect upon a particularly challenging lesson or stressful period, they will get a faraway look in their eyes and pine for the possibilities of next September. As early as October or November they will rue the structures and expectations they did not put in place from day one. "Next year," they tell me, "things will be different. I won't make the same mistakes."

It's a commonly held notion in schools that the first few weeks of school are essential for developing a successful and positive classroom culture. Although the work of creating a positive classroom culture is never complete and requires relentless effort on the part of teachers, there are specific strategies and practices that, when introduced early in the year, help to foster a culture of learning and classroom community. Here are a few strategies for teachers to consider in anticipation of a new year:

1. Define the standards and purpose of your community and set expectations.

Articulate a vision from day one about the shared purpose of your classroom community. Link this shared purpose (learning new things, becoming critical thinkers, making friends, graduating from high school) to your classroom expectations. You should be able to link your classroom rules and expectations to the shared purpose of your classroom community. Post your expectations clearly in your classroom and refer back to them when praising or confronting behavior.

2. Establish routines.

Once the school year starts, it is often quite clear what behaviors interfere with our classroom purpose or get in the way of learning. However, we often get stuck with a "what's wrong with this picture?" vision and fail to identify and clearly articulate the behaviors we want to see instead. For example, in an ideal world, what would you like your classroom to look like, feel like, and sound like? Zero in on a particular transition or time of day. Imagine exactly what you want students to be doing and when you want them to do it. Turn this "ideal world" vision into a clearly articulated routine. Teach this routine and post step-by-step instructions to reinforce it.

3. Anticipate problems.

Your "ideal world" vision is just that-an ideal. Before the school year begins, it is important to anticipate the behaviors and challenges that might puncture this ideal. What skills will students need to meet your expectations and participate appropriately? How will you teach these skills? What alternative activities or structures will you put in place for students with lagging skills?

4. Plan and create a productive environment.

Once you have set expectations, established routines, and anticipated problems, you can better consider how to organize your environment to minimize negative behavior and maximize desired behaviors. In particular, consider how you can manipulate space, time, people, and materials to minimize or respond to the problems you anticipate.

For example, many teachers find the period right after lunch to be challenging. Students are excited, conflicts may have emerged during recess, and students may have a hard time slowing their bodies down or transitioning from socializing back to learning. Accordingly, you might manipulate space by keeping the lights low and assigning seats. You might manipulate time by incorporating a calming routine, letting students read independently, or dedicating time for conflict resolution. Playing quiet music, having a visual and engaging "Do Now," or a worksheet prepared and on students' desks as they enter the classroom are examples of manipulating materials to encourage students to calm down and get focused. Finally, for students who find the transition from recess to the classroom particularly challenging you might adapt your expectations. Have alternative activities available. For example, you might provide those students with some computer time or a classroom job, or suggest that they run an errand or get a drink of water before returning to class.

5. Create an atmosphere of belonging.

Relationships are essential to all the strategies described above. Students will be more likely to meet your expectations, follow your routines, and respond to your redirection if they feel cared for and valued in your classroom. Express interest in your students, notice their strengths, and reinforce positive behavior. Greet students warmly at the door and develop rituals and celebrations that acknowledge their contributions and build classroom community.

Here are some ways to build community and create a sense of classroom belonging:

Group goals. Establishing class goals together encourages more student investment and pride in the outcomes. Often, students come up with class rules with the teacher in the first week of school. Goals allow the class to home in on specific expectations one at a time. For example, one week the class could focus on taking turns and another week on using kind words.

Group incentives. When students are working toward a group reward (e.g., pizza party, game time), there is added motivation to cooperate and then to celebrate success. Incentives are particularly effective to motivate students through challenging tasks or times of day (e.g., transitions, walking quietly in line, or focusing on teacher instructions).

Regularly scheduled community meetings. Check in regularly to identify classroom goals, revisit rules and expectations, and solve problems.

Student suggestion box. Giving students a voice helps them feel like an important part of the class.

Class trips. Going somewhere together outside the classroom allows students to bond as a group and to see each other in a different light. Trips can be a great relationship-building opportunity early in the year.

Displays of student work. This acknowledges students' talents, efforts, and progress.

Through its training workshops and one-on-one coaching, Ramapo for Children gives teachers a toolbox for managing frustrating behaviors and creating classroom environments conducive to learning. With an established shared purpose, clear expectations, and routines and rituals that build community, the culture of learning that starts on the first day of school lasts throughout the year.

Rachel Lissy is a senior trainer at Ramapo for Children.

ASCD Express, Vol. 8, No. 22. Copyright 2013 by ASCD. All rights reserved. Visit www.ascd.org/ascdexpress.

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September Strategies to Foster a Successful Classroom Community Rachel Lissy As a professional development trainer with Ramapo for Children, an organization that provides youth programming and adult training for special needs students, I often offer feedback to teachers regarding their classroom and behavior management.

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Marshmallow Challenge: Team Growth Mindset

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Want to teach your kiddos never to give up? To make the most of their mistakes? To embrace challenges? You need to teach your students about the Growth Mindset! Read alouds are a great way to start the mindset conversations and spring board into new learning.

If you haven't heard of the Growth Mindset yet, you are missing out! Check out my other blog post HERE and HERE to get some basic information about developing the Growth Mindset in your classroom.

Here is a list of my favorite read alouds for Growth Mindset! I love to read a few of the books on this list at the beginning of the year and then space out the others through the year. The books provide a great way to steer conversations toward the Growth Mindset and help keep growth principles from being forgotten.

The first book I like to read to help teach Growth Mindset to my students is Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak. This book explains brain research findings in very kid friendly language without sacrificing the content. I also reread certain sections to spark some discussion as review of the Growth Mindset.

When trying to teach my students that making mistakes is okay, I read Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg. This book has wonderfully interactive illustrations. Each page takes an "oops" and turns it into something beautiful.

The Tortoise and the Hare by Janet Stevens is a wonderful adaptation of the classic tale. It's a great book to teach students that determination and effort pay off in the end!

The Most Magnificent Thing is written by Ashley Spires. A girl sets out to make the most magnificent thing but fails and quits! Her dog convinces her to take a walk and come back to try again. Finally she gets it just right!

Thanks for the Feedback, I Think is written by Julia Cook. It is hard to hear that there are things you need to improve on! This story teaches students how to respond to positive and negative feedback.

What To Do With An Idea? is written by Kobi Yamada. This is a charming story about having an idea, letting your idea grow, and bringing it out for all the world to see.

This is my newest addition! It is so new to my list that it didn't even make the graphic! I can't wait to read it to my kiddos! Rosie Revere Engineer is by Andrea Beaty. Rosie sets out to build an invention that can fly but it only hovers a moment. What a failure! Or is it? Great book to teach that failure only comes if you quit!

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You can do this as an exercise with students. Try the statements without and then with "yet" and ask how they feel.

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I started using the word "Yet" with my students a couple years ago. When a child says, "But I don't get it," or "I can't do this," which happens often in my land of perfectionists, I add the word, "Yet" to the end of their declaration. They usually groan and throw their head into their hands and continue to silently or not-so-silently wail in mental anguish. One day, one of the most perfectionist perfectionists of the bunch was struggling with a word problem. He raised his hand to wave me over, then said "I don't understand," but looked up at me, grinned, and said, "Yet."

I was onto something.

My pestering actually worked. (Good reinforcement for continued pestering) I usually create a poster when I don't want to repeat myself (which is always), so now I only need point to this piece of paper on the wall to induce groaning. My colleague wanted one for her room, so I thought I'd share here, too.

As with most things regarding teaching elementary students, the message applies to all other aged humans, as well.

(adapted from the work of Carol Dweck, and probably thousands of amazing educators before us)

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I started using the word "Yet" with my students a couple years ago. When a child says, "But I don't get it," or "I can't do this," which happens often in my land of perfectionists, I add the word, "Yet" to the end of their declaration.

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Why do kids need to learn to struggle?

As adults we all know the most rewarding experiences in life often involve significant struggle and sacrifice at some stage. Personally the greatest joys in my life have all come with some form of struggle...

Being married. We are very happily married, but that doesn't mean we are always very happy with one another.

Being a parent. The most rewarding thing I have and will ever do...but where did my sleep go? (x100 for my wife)

Staying healthy. I like chocolate and since turning 30 my metabolism can't burn 50,000 calories as easily as it used to.

Being a teacher. How do I motivate/help/manage/engage/inspire/avoid being stabbed by this student?

Without the ability to struggle life becomes very limited.

A fear of struggling will stop students from trying something they are not 100% certain they will succeed at with ease.

The list of things we know we can all succeed at in the adult world probably consists of 1) breathing 2) eating chocolate 3) sitting on the couch watching The Bachelorette.

Don't get me wrong, I love The Bachelorette, but I hope people aren't talking about it at my funeral.

So how do we help our students not just cope with struggle, but to thrive with it?

Here is one activity I have used to confront and discuss "Struggling" with my students...

Before your students enter the room place a couple of these (I'll show you how to make it at the end of this post) in a place where each student can easily view it from all sides.

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Students will need scrap paper and a pair of scissors to attempt to make the structure themselves.

Instruct students they cannot touch the structure, but they are encouraged to move around it and view it from all angles.

Encourage students to discuss their ideas and methods as they go, but if they are successful, they are to keep their method to themselves.
I recommend you don't "prime" the students to be positive, just let them approach the task as they would any other.

Then the fun begins. Students are then challenged to make the structure. Don't offer any advice or encouragement once the students begin. Just observe.

From my experience most students (90%) will not be able to make the structure within 10 minutes.

For the record I never figured it out...

My brother challenged me to make it one Christmas day and it nearly resulted in World War III until he finally told me the answer.

While the kids are working on it walk around the classroom and monitor their behaviour and language. I write down the language I hear and take photos of the kids working.

After seven or so minutes I start writing the language I have heard on the whiteboard, with no names attached. I don't say anything while I write all the language on the board. Some kids stop and read, others keep doing what they're doing. If a student says something else interesting as I write that goes up as well.

Once you think the kids have had enough get them to stop building and turn their attention to the board.

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Did anyone make it? How long did it take? How many tries?

Was the first ten seconds of trying much different from the last ten seconds? How? Why?

What was it like when someone else got it?

How many attempts did you take?

How long did you look at the structure before you first started?

How many breaks did you take?

Did you look at what other people were doing? Why? How did it make you feel? Did you learn anything from what they were doing?

Then turn your attention to the language you recorded. I try and remove ownership of the language and then use the language as the personification of a person. We discuss how that "person" would fare in a:

football match

job interview

audition for dance company

on MasterChef/X-Factor

relationship

any challenge relevant to your students

We discuss how life is full of frustrating, annoying, unfair situations that often appear too difficult for us to overcome.

We talk about how everyone has different strengths, and as a result we all face different challenges, but the one thing that we have in common is that we will all struggle at some stage in our life.

I then refer back to the language used during the activity and how the language we tell ourselves quickly becomes our own best friend or worst enemy.

If students can start to reflect on the language they use about themselves at a young age, and choose a better path, it is a fair bet their lives will be more productive and fulfilling.

"I can't do this" vs " I can do this, I just haven't figure it out yet"

"He is smarter than me because he already has finished" vs "I wonder if there is anything I can learn from his approach"

"I give up" vs "How can I approach this differently?" or "It's ok that I can't get it right now, but I can keep trying"

For me a student's mindset is the most important element to their success, both in the short and long term.

Obviously you can use this same "Record and Discuss" strategy for any activity that involves a struggle for your students.
If we can help a student feel more comfortable with struggling, we can break them free from the fear of "having a go".
Like this post? You might want to check out **[6 Tech Terms that apply to Teaching](http://blog.classcreator.io/6-tech-terms-that-apply-to-teaching/)**

How to make it:

Step 1: Use a rectangular piece of paper. I've got my business card here to show the twist in Step 5.

Step 2: Fold the paper in half along the long side, the fold it back out flat again.

Step 3: Make the cuts below to the middle. (Two on one side, one on the other)

Step 4: Here is the "tricky" part. You have to twist the paper. That's why I used my business card, so you could see the different colours as a result of the "twist.

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I hope this blog post give you a few ideas. If you put it into action **[please send me an email](mailto:[email protected])** or leave a comment below.
Like this post? Like creative stuff? You might want to...
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The first day of school will be here before you know it. Most teachers face the big day with enthusiasm, but they dread the inevitable challenge: what to do on the first day of school.

Every teacher's approach is different. Whatever your goal, here are a few things to try to get the school year off to a great start!

How well will your incoming students know you? How well do you know them? How well do they know each other? How well do they know the school? These are important questions to consider as you start planning the first day.

If you're teaching kindergarteners (or high school freshmen, who often seem like kindergarteners), you may need to spend the first day - or the first several days -getting everyone comfortable. There are tons of icebreakers out there, but here are a few different techniques to try:

This could involve students searching the classroom to find things like the pencil sharpener or the hall pass, or it could ask them to discover which of their classmates took a long trip over the summer or who has a younger brother.

Assess Learning Styles or Multiple Intelligences

For older students, the first day of school can be a great chance to find out more about how they learn. There are many different learning style inventories available online. Find out the many different ways your students are smart by having them complete a . Have students share these results. multiple intelligences assessment

It can encourage students who have typically struggled if they know you are aware of the things they are good at, and it provides an opportunity to address some of those "I'm dumb/she's dumb" issues that inevitably crop up in a classroom.
Do a Self-Portrait
Whether it's done with words or pictures, collage or drawn by hand, having students describe themselves can be fun, informative, and occasionally surprising. Of course, the self-portrait will be most effective if you do one of yourself, too.
Create a Time Capsule
Have students create a sample of their current work -- for example, have students take a pre-test, write a paragraph or even video tape them reading aloud or speaking in a foreign language. Bring the examples out in June and let students recognize how much they've grown.

For some teachers, the first step is helping students to understand what they are going to learn this year. But you don't always want to start right off with a lecture or worksheet, so try one of these:
Get Them Guessing
Prediction activities can be a great way to activate students' prior knowledge on a topic and get them excited about what lies ahead in the course.

Guessing Game 1 Give them a series of true and false statements about the content of the course and have them guess the right answers.

Or do a demonstration experiment and have students guess about the results.

If you teach English, try this trick: get a movie of the first novel students will read and show one brief, suspenseful or exciting scene. Make sure to stop the film so that students are "left hanging" and tell them they'll have to read the book to find out what happens. You may get kids begging to start the book!
Start with a Challenge
This is especially effective for older students or for classes in which you want to set a specific tone. Since most teachers spend the first day of school distributing syllabi and lecturing about class rules, you will really get the students' attention if you make them work the first day and get around to that "business" stuff on the second or third day of class. Give students an assignment that will really challenge them.

One drama teacher actually starts her beginning drama class by making students do an audition where they read a speech aloud in front of the class. It's not graded, but it gives her valuable information about the students and it helps them get past their initial "I can't act" attitude.

If you teach an AP class, why not start the first day by giving the students part of a practice AP exam? The students will see them soon enough - just jump right in!
Begin with a Book
This approach is especially effective for non-language arts teachers. Find a book that puts a different spin on your subject and share it (or part of it) on the first day.

Ways to Use Books to Introduce Subjects Outside Language Arts

- Maybe a children's book on animals is a fun way to begin studying biology.

- A coffee table photo book might provide striking images for students to think about as they begin studying history.

- For older history students, consider taking an excerpt from a book like . These books describe history in a different way and may grab the attention of students inclined to "tune out" their textbook.

Whatever method you choose, the first day of school offers a great opportunity to learn about your students and set the tone for a terrific school year!

What activities do you use on the first day of school? Share in the comments section!

From back to school games and activities to organizational tips and handy, turnkey lesson plans, TeachHUB.com is a helpful resource that can help you identify back to school themes to use in class, as well motivational articles and ways to educate your students.

TeachHUB.com's back to school list of articles, meanwhile, which grows every day this time of year, includes the following topics:

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The first day of school will be here before you know it. Most teachers face the big day with enthusiasm, but they dread the inevitable challenge: what to do on the first day of school. Every teacher's approach is different. Whatever your goal, here are a few things to try to get the school year off to a great start!

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10 Team Building Activities that Build Collaboration & Critical Thinking

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by TeachThought Staff

One of education's primary goals is to groom the next generation of little humans to succeed in the 'real world.'

Yes, there are mounds of curricula they must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test.

Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of which is how to get along with their peers and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote memorization or with strategically placed posters.

Students must be engaged and cooperation must be practiced, and often. The following team-building games can promote cooperation and communication, help establish a positive classroom environment and - most importantly - provide a fun, much-needed reprieve from routine.

See also Team-Building Games For The First Day Of School
10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking
You can purchase a classroom-ready version of team-building games that promote critical thinking here.
1. If You Build it...
This team-building game is flexible. First, divide students into teams and give them equal amounts of a certain material, like pipe cleaners, blocks, or even dried spaghetti and marshmallows.

Then, give them something to construct. The challenge can be variable (think: Which team can build the tallest, structurally-sound castle? Which team can build a castle the fastest?). You can recycle this activity throughout the year by adapting the challenge or materials to specific content areas.
Skills: Communication; problem-solving
This activity can get messy and may be suitable for older children who can follow safety guidelines when working with raw eggs. Teams must work together to find a way to 'save' the egg (Humpty Dumpty for elementary school students?) - in this case, an egg dropped from a specific height. That could involve finding the perfect soft landing, or creating a device that guides the egg safely to the ground.

Let their creativity work here.
Skills: Problem-solving, creative collaboration 3. Zoom
Zoom is a classic classroom cooperative game that never seems to go out of style. Simply form students into a circle and give each a unique picture of an object, animal, or whatever else suits your fancy. You begin a story that incorporates whatever happens to be on your assigned photo. The next student continues the story, incorporating their photo, and so on.
Skills: Communication; creative collaboration 4. Minefield
Another classic team-building game. Arrange some sort of obstacle course and divide students into teams. Students take turns navigating the 'minefield' while blindfolded, with only their teammates to guide them. You can also require students to only use certain words or clues to make it challenging or content-area specific.
Skills: Communication; trust
See also 10 Team-Building Games For A Friendlier Classroom
5. The Worst-Case Scenario
Fabricate a scenario in which students would need to work together and solve problems to succeed, like being stranded on a deserted island or getting lost at sea. Ask them to work together to concoct a solution that ensures everyone arrives safely. You might ask them to come up with a list of 10 must-have items that would help them most, or a creative passage to safety. Encourage them to vote - everyone must agree to the final solution.
Skills: Communication, problem-solving 6. A Shrinking Vessel
This game requires a good deal of strategy in addition to teamwork. Its rules are deceptively simple: The entire group must find a way to occupy a space that shrinks over time until they are packed creatively like sardines. You can form the boundary with a rope, a tarp or blanket being folded over, or small traffic cones. (Skills: Problem-solving; teamwork)
7. Go for Gold
This game is similar to the 'If you build it' game: Teams have a common objective but instead of each one having the same materials, they have access to a whole cache of materials. For instance, the goal might be to create a contraption with pipes, rubber tubing, and pieces of cardboard that can carry a marble from point A to point B in a certain number of steps, using only gravity.
Creative collaboration; communication; problem-solving 8. It's a Mystery
Many children (and grown-ups) enjoy a good mystery, so why not design one that must be solved cooperatively? Give each student a numbered clue. In order to solve the mystery - say, the case of the missing mascot - children must work together to solve the clues in order. The 'case' might require them to move from one area of the room to the next, uncovering more clues.
Skills: Problem-solving, communication
That playground classic is still a hit - not to mention inexpensive and simple to execute. For a unique variation, set up a multi-directional game by tying ropes in such a way that three or four teams tug at once. Some teams might choose to work together to eliminate the other groups before going head-to-head.
Skills: Teamwork; sportsmanship 10. Keep it Real
This open-ended concept is simple and serves as an excellent segue into problem-based learning. Challenge students to identify and cooperatively solve a real problem in their schools or communities. You may set the parameters, including a time limit, materials, and physical boundaries.
Skills: Problem-solving; communication
While education technology is a basic and crucial component of the 21st-century classroom, educators must still ensure that students are engaging with each other in meaningful ways. Team-building exercises are a great way to do this, and because of this, they will never go out of style.
Aimee Hosler is a writer and mother of two living in Virginia. She specializes in a number of topics, but is particularly passionate about education and workplace news and trends. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and is a contributor to several websites including OnlineSchools.com; 10 Team-Building Games For Kids, Teenagers, or Adults

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by TeachThought Staff One of education's primary goals is to groom the next generation of little humans to succeed in the 'real world.' Yes, there are mounds of curricula they must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test.

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Hi There!
Lisa here, from Growing Firsties & I'm going to share a little bit about Growth Mindset today, which is based on Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck's work.

Heads up that I do have some Amazon Affiliate links in this post. Should you choose to use the links, I'll earn some "circle money" as my daughter calls coins. :-) Half of my affiliate proceeds are for paying it forward - each month I receive earnings I give to my local food pantry/outreach services organization. The other half is spent on books and items for my classroom.

With a growth mindset, people believe that through effort and practice, they can develop and improve their talents and abilities. In a fixed mindset, people believe that their talents and abilities are fixed...and that it's talent (not effort) that creates success. Woah.

Years ago, I first began to think about mindset in terms of working with struggling students...those students where the learning is hard. Students, who, if they don't have the mindset to keep trying, will give up. Then what will they learn?

My thinking expanded as I witnessed students labelled as gifted hitting a struggle academically and not knowing how to handle the struggle when they are unfamiliar with the resilience and effort needed.

Then I realized that mindset, resilience & perseverance are critical for all of us. Regardless of age. #helloIhatecardio #gottadoitanyways

You may have seen this Growing Firsties post from a few years ago, containing this freebie download.

Or maybe this post from last summer all about perseverance.

I am blessed to work at an amazing school! Some talented colleagues ran a book study on Dweck's Mindset book this year and it was such fun to re-read and discuss mindset with like-minded teachers! I also added Mindsets in the Classroom (by Mary Cay Ricci) to my collection.

We read aloud some great books and I expanded my collection beyond the wonderful texts from Peter H. Reynolds ( Ish, The Dot, Going Places...)

One of my teammates asked me if I had a printable for our work on mindset and that gave me the motivation to put my swirling thoughts to work....Here's a little peek at the inside...

Scroll down to download this freebie! :)

You might be interested in reading an article by the always eloquently-thought-provoking Alfie Kohn "The Perils of Growth Mindset" education. You can get to it { right here}.

Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, has written this EXCELLENT article...you'll definitely want to check it out! You can get to it { right here}.

I have a Pinterest board called Mindset and I love pinning to it! You can check it out by clicking here or the screen shot below. You should really check out the Famous Failures video! It's amazing!

We'd love to hear what you do to help build a growth mindset with your learners!

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Hi There! Lisa here, from Growing Firsties & I'm going to share a little bit about Growth Mindset today, which is based on Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck's work. Heads up that I do have some Amazon Affiliate links in this post.