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*Practice using a growth mindset yourself. If students see that you are embracing your mistakes and teaching with a growth mindset they are going to be more willing to embrace their mistakes and other aspects of a growth mindset as well.
*Teach students about their brain and how their brain grows from mistakes that they make.
*Praise the process. Do not only praise students for the end product that they are producing, but praise them for the effort they are putting in.
*Celebrate mistakes, your own and your students.

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Tips
* Growth mindset is a lifestyle change, not a fad diet ( I teach food classes). It will take time to develope a growth mindset, so don't feel like you have to do everything at once.
* Write down ideas of what you would like to do with your students as you read, this is helpful for focusing in on your lesson plans.
*  Enjoy the journey, there is a lot of information, some of it will be things you know and some of it will be new and exciting ideas.
* Don't forget to apply and model these concepts in your own life.

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You must have (or be working towards having) a growth mindset yourself. Your students will be watching your words and actions and will know if you aren’t practicing what you’re preaching.

Praise effort and perseverance over intelligence. Our words convey what we value and the more you praise your students’ efforts, the more they believe it matters.

Focus on the learning process, not the end result. Your students must know that learning is a journey and it isn’t just about the final grade.

Model and celebrate making mistakes. Show your students the value in messing up and then getting better because of it.

Make sure your students know the science behind growth mindset. The struggle is where the learning and growth happens.

Provide opportunities for reflection so that your students begin to make connections between their mindset, attitude, effort and achievement.

Tell your students over and over again that intelligence is not fixed. Everyone has the ability to grow their intelligence.

Be sure to provide your students with wait time. Make them really believe that you know they are capable of answering the question or completing the task. “Get back to me” or “I’ll come back to you” is a great strategy for this.

Peer assessment and self assessment are key ways to engage students.

Figure out ways to get your students excited for a challenge. Hype up the tough lessons and show them they are capable of figuring hard things out.

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My biggest tip for utilizing this course is to start thinking about application right away and write them down. Through the course I had a lot of ideas as I was reading and it has been great to have a notebook that I can look at while lesson planning.

Other tips
-Start right away by praising and complimenting effort
-Model living with a growth mindset
-Celebrate mistakes and talk about them

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I would tell future students that they are going to learn a lot of information that can be applied to every aspect of your life, so please start this course with an open mind. I would also recommend that they read Aguilar’s book because she gives wonderful strategies to build and maintain your resiliency.

Tip 1- You have the power to choose your reaction to every situation.

Tip 2- Mistakes are a learning opportunity. Normalize making mistakes as part of the learning process.

Tip 3- Seek out challenges. They make your brain stronger and help you stay resilient.

Tip 4- Rephrase your “I can’t” to “I can’t yet.”

Tip 5- Celebrate process and effort instead of ability. The way your praise individuals will contribute to them having a fixed or growth mindset.

Tip 6- Meditation is good for your health (physical and mental). Try it.

Tip 7- Do things that make you happy. If you aren’t happy and mentally resilient, you will not be effective at your job or personal life.

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Your brain and your students brain is an amazing thing. If you really want to achieve something , you can. It will involve some risk and struggle and that is good. That is how you will grow. Be good to yourself throughout the process of learning. Take the time to reflect on what you have already achieved and where you want to go. Remind yourself daily- Mistakes are good, that is where we learn.  Focus on the process more than the product.  When you are offering encouragement or praise, focus on the effort and the process, not the end result. Lastly, take care of yourself, mentally and physically.

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~Share the Science - It is helpful for students to understand how their brain grows when making mistakes or working through challenges.

~Praising the Process - It is important for students to understand the power of YET.

~Feedback - It is all about how we respond to students through challenges. It is important for teachers to send growth messages. Helping students see their effort put in is what matters most.

~Mistakes = Learning Opportunities

~Modeling - It is important for teachers to model how failure and mistakes are moments we can learn and grow.

~It is important for teachers to provide students with challenging tasks and even more important to help guide them in setting goals and encouraging them to persist through challenges they may face.

~As a classroom community it is important to celebrate and share in one another’s growth throughout the school year.

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*Mind Your Language - Be purposeful with the words you choose.  There is power in the word "yet".
*Process > Product - In a growth mindset the process of learning (ie growth) is greater than the eventual outcome.  In other words what you learned is greater than the grade you got.
*Embrace Challenges - We don't learn if we aren't stretched and challenged.
*Be Vulnerable - Learning is a vulnerable act.  Falling down in front of others, embracing mistakes - these all carry risk of judgement.  Don't judge failure.
*Fail Forward - the only true pathway to learning is thru failure.  You can either embrace it, or flee from it.
*Reflection - "We don't learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience." John Dewey

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- Praise the process rather than the final outcome.
- Embrace mistakes when they happen in front of the class and encourage students to do the same.
- Regardless of the subject area you teach, show videos and talk about the brain! It is fascinating to make the connection between how our neurons behave and growth mindset.
- Reflect on past experiences of hardship and how you were able to overcome challenges when presented with them.
- Celebrate failure.
- Be intentional about the words and phrases used in the classroom. Make sure that they focus on effort rather than intelligence.
- Build up your own emotional resilience and be intentional about how you are spending your energy throughout the day. Take time to focus on self-care and understand that in doing so you can better show up for your students. Tackling injustices in the education system takes consistent time and effort.

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Here are some questions and statements to help you start preparing for your own journey to a stronger growth mindset.

G GROWTH: How will you grow your brain today?

R REFLECT: Are you using a fixed mindset or a growth mindset right now?

O OBSERVE: Take the time to watch others.

W WAIT TIME: Give students time to think before they have to answer.

T THANKFUL: Show gratitude to others and yourself.

H HELPFUL: How can I help others today?

M MINDSET: You can change your mindset!

I IGNITE: How will you ignite the attitude that a student can be more than they think?

N NOT YET: When something is hard tell yourself NOT YET, until you have it.

D DETERMINED: How can you overcome the challenges before you?

S SELF CARE: Are you taking care of yourself?

E EFFORT: Praise the effort and process not the result.

T TALENT: We all have talent, it becomes more when we use our brains to overcome challenges and learn.

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-Be open to everything and don't be afraid to allow your thinking to be challenged. I think a skill we all could practice is listening and keeping an open mind. I'm glad I did throughout this course.
-Begin thinking about ways you can shift what you do in your classroom when you learn that something your doing may foster a fixed mindset.
-Read through others responses on each module. I learned a lot by reading other peoples perspectives as they would have takeaways that I missed.

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-Intelligence is malleable.  Be sure to communicate to students that we do not have a genetic predetermination about our intelligence.  It is something that can be grown.
-Brain research is powerful.  Show students how the brain makes connections and gets smarter when it thinks and solves problems.
-Praise the process not the product.  It is  important to encourage students.  But the way you praise students can make a huge difference.  Be sure to encourage students with words that compliment their hard work and effort, rather than their intelligence.
-Welcome a challenge.  Our human nature can sometimes be to avoid challenges.  We need students to embrace challenge and make them feel safe for wanting to challenge themselves.
-Resilience. Teach students characteristics of resilient people and give them opportunities and advice on how to build their resilience.

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As an educator, we have the opportunity and responsibility to instill a growth mindset into our students. Here are some of the biggest takeaways/pieces of advice I would like to share to fellow educators:

Mindset is Everything: YOU as the classroom teacher have the power to change lives through your words and actions.

Celebrate Mistakes: It is important to take time to reflect and learn from your mistakes; mistakes = growth and learning.

Praise Correctly: It is important to practice praising students’ process, rather than the product. Learning is all about being present in the moment.

Mindfulness: How do you instill mindfulness practice in your classroom? Do your students practice taking deep breaths and are they learning about how to take care of themselves?

The Human Brain: The brain is so complex and malleable. Teaching students about how the brain can change is essential to cultivating a growth mindset.

Language: Do you use praise sentences that cultivate a growth mindset? In other words, do you praise students’ efforts, rather than their intelligence?

Social-Emotional Learning: How do you practice social-emotional learning in your classroom? How does integrating a growth mindset and social-emotional learning go together? Why is it important for students in this generation to establish a growth mindset?

Become Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Learning means we have the opportunity to try new things, which means we need to become vulnerable in our teaching practice.

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One of the most important tips for having a growth mindset is to never stop learning or thinking of ways in which you can improve. Changing your mindset requires you to understand that you can always grow as a person. Your intelligence is not set, you can always improve in various aspects of your life and certain skills by learning from mistakes and failures and handling them in a positive manner. As an educator, it is important to celebrate mistakes and praise the process vs. the results. Shifting your focus to that will help students feel more confident in their abilities. Last but not least, always try to find the positive in any situation.

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-Start your days with affirmations. This could be a class “cheer” or even time spent journaling their goals for the day.

-See the value in the process, it doesn’t have to be all about the product. Praise students on their process and recognize times that they may have struggled or overcame a setback but continued to work hard on with their activity or assignment.

-Model failure and how to build resilience. Students are learning from us at all times, not just when we are in front of the room conducting a formal lesson. Take advantage of down times to model your thought process and your work ethic, "sticktoitiveness".

-Promote the power of Yet. Use signage around the room and common language to get students comfortable with positive self talk and the power of Yet.

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- A person's intelligence is not set in stone. People can improve their intelligence.
- Celebrate failures and let students know that these are common for everyone.
- The power of YET! Use this word frequently
- Your brain can become stronger. Working through challenges help strengthen your brain power
- Praise the learning process rather than the final grade
- Control what you can control
- Try not to jump to negative assumptions. Think of everything from all points of view before becoming frustrated.

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Growth mindset is very important to incorporate into your everyday teaching. It is something that doesn’t happen overnight and needs a lot of practice. It is important that you model the growth mindset, so your students pick up on it right away. This will also create a healthy learning environment for ALL students in your classroom. Praise the effort and hard work your students are putting in, even if they aren’t getting the results either of you want. Mistakes are a great opportunity for learning, so make sure to remind them of that and that is it is okay to make mistakes because they only make them smarter. Make challenges seem exciting and not like such a hurdle to get over, this will help the students see challenges as being fun instead of dreadful.

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- Your brain is always growing and changing
-Praise hard work and effort, not intelligent
-You have the choice on how you react to a situation. Take a step back and look at it from another perspective.
-You can grow your intelligence
-Struggles, mistakes, and challenges lead to learning. As teachers, show you make mistakes as well and vocalize the learning from it.
-Support the growth and progress made
-have a growth mindset as a teacher, but also have it towards yourself.

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The biggest tip I can give as I work towards the end of this course is to come into each with an open mind and find one little piece that you can put into practice. We, as educators, know the importance of teaching our students about a growth mindset to our students. Otherwise we wouldn't sign up for the course. However, as you progress through this course take the time to really dive into your own growth mindset and the areas that you think differently than you know you should. This in itself will improve your ability to be a growth mindset educator. Then create a plan, celebrate the steps along the journey not just the destination. Find a way to make failure a way to move forward instead of backward in your classroom, give yourself permission to fail, and work on your own personal resiliency journey.

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Schools need to do more than teach content. They need to build grit, resilience, and perseverance.

- Celebrate failures as positive steps in the learning process.  We need to take the risk of failure in order to move forward.

- Recognize all of the small steps that lead to growth.  As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Just because the goal isn’t complete doesn’t mean there isn’t progress worth celebrating.

- Embrace the power of yet.  There’s a popular classroom poster that says, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Take every chance you can to emphasize that you might not be able to do something yet, but with hard work that will change.

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-Promote resiliency and persistence to create a growth mindset, it doesn't happen overnight.
-Encourage effort and hardwork.
-Praise effort and hardwork
-Celebrate mistakes and failures and use them as an opportunity to learn.
-Become a lifelong learner.
-Embrace the power of Yet.
-Promote growth not grades.

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Growth mindset is a mindset. Something YOU get to decides moment by moment if you are going to practice or not. YOU hold the power of your mindset. If we teach our students a growth mindset we equip them and empower them to be in control of their own thoughts that can support a growth mindset. If we model and emulate a growth mindset and teach our students how to approach the world this way we can build their perseverance and resilience in the classroom. We need to focus on and praise the effort put forth in learning, embrace and support students through mistakes and opportunities to try again, give students opportunities to think, celebrate successes along the way and to embrace the power of 'yet' so help students stay in a growth mindset.

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Your brain can learn to have a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset, but it takes practice and effort.
To support a growth mindset in students, you should:
-Praise effort and perseverance in the face of a challenge
-Model learning from mistakes
-Model thinking about your thinking
-Show students how a setback gives them a chance to try something new (resilience)
-Celebrate success

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-Praise effort, not success
-Workout your brain as you do your muscles. You need to struggle in order for them to grow.
-Vocalize your mistakes as a teacher to show that mistakes are a natural part of learning.
-Vocalize your metacognition to show students the process of thinking about your own thinking.
-Share your personal stories to connect with your students
-Keep a personal and school balance to help stay resilience

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Growth mindset directly affects learning. Teachers can model a growth mindset and create an environment that celebrates mistakes and failure. Personal stories are shared as examples of challenges. Praise for the effort and learning that has taken place. Together these will instill resilience in the student so they may thrive now and in the future.

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Growth mindset will take some time to make figure out. The changes that you'd personally need to take in will need to be introduced to students mater of fact. Through education and practicing, supporting the learning process will all need to be incorporated and figured out on how you'll work it into your classroom. There will be a lot that you'll need to work through in the upcoming year, but as you work through, use the growth mindset strategies. Remember to take care of yourself! You need to be your best, and ready to take on the challenges. You can only do this by taking care of yourself. Allow for play in your classroom and play in your life. Failure will happen. However, look at them as learning experiences. Never forget the power of yet.

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The biggest tip I learned was to Trust the Process.  As education has always been changing, last spring and this coming year probably offer some of the biggest changes and challenges I have seen in my lifetime.  As we swim our way through, we just have to trust this process that this is what is best for our children during these times. We have to remember that all things will not be smooth and it is ok to make mistakes and possibly even fail. We learn so much from our mistakes.  Another tip would be to make sure you create play for yourself.  Our jobs in education can be all consuming and drain every bit of energy we have.  We have to make sure we take time for ourselves and have fun, laugh and play!  Lastly, we have to make sure we take time to appreciate and celebrate.  Being a resilient person helps us to thrive each and every day.