Growth Mindset
Have you talked to your students about the power of YET? Read, watch, and learn about how reframing our attitudes can change our outcomes. The best part about this intervention tool - the cost. It is FREE! Changing our words, minds, and actions costs nothing.
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Growth Mindset Manifesto
The amazing ability of our brains to be rewired to develop the capacity for new skills and tolerances is amazing! By accepting challenges and setbacks as growth and learning opportunities, our brains can develop new neural pathways through these attempts at success and faced challenges. Simply facing the anxiety and fear of a failure and returning to a challenge can create pathways in your brain that help you to fight another day with even less anxiety of failure. Throughout this year, we will be changing our voices to speak the language of growth among our staff and our students. We will accept our challenges and our setbacks without fear. We will boldly reflect upon and learn from our mistakes. When we think about growth mindset, we will not to fall into the trap of getting lost in praising effort without actual progress (Dweck, C. 2019). We will work hard and accomplish great things.
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to stretch and grow - it is not fixed! When we speak and write about growth and training your brain, we clearly have a goal in mind. Identifying a clear and focused intent becomes important when you are considering any type of goal or training. Without clear intent, you lose sight of what your process should be, or where you may be going. For me, this is where mindfulness fits right in with growth mindset, brain training, and neuroplasticity. The practice of mindfulness helps you to focus your intent. It helps you to identify what is really happening around you and what may be impacting your ability to be successful. Mindfulness helps you fight off that anxiety that allows you to return to a task after a failure. As part of retraining your brain (and your students') consider incorporating mindfulness into your own practice.
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MINDFULNESS
What is Mindfulness? Mindful.org explains that "mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us." Read their full explanation here.
How can mindfulness help us? Practicing mindfulness helps us to become less reactive. When we take a moment (a breath), it allows us to better assess a situation, take stock in what we are feeling, think about what is the root cause of a problem, and maybe even decide how to generate a positive outcome for all around us. When we react without pause - fight, flight, freeze - we are simply in short-term self-preservation mode. Fortunately, we can retrain our brains to take the mindful and less reactive path.
Try it. It's free. All it takes is practice.
How can mindfulness help us? Practicing mindfulness helps us to become less reactive. When we take a moment (a breath), it allows us to better assess a situation, take stock in what we are feeling, think about what is the root cause of a problem, and maybe even decide how to generate a positive outcome for all around us. When we react without pause - fight, flight, freeze - we are simply in short-term self-preservation mode. Fortunately, we can retrain our brains to take the mindful and less reactive path.
Try it. It's free. All it takes is practice.
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Resources
Dweck, C. S. (2016). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Random House.
Dweck, C. (n.d.). MINDSET. Retrieved April 28, 2019, from http://mindsetonline.com/changeyourmindset/firststeps/index.html
Dweck, C. (2019, February 20). Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset'. Retrieved April 28, 2019, from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html
Sentis. (2012, November 06). Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpfYCZa87g&feature=youtu.be
RSA, T. (2015, December 15). Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9TVbAal5s&feature=youtu.be
Sprouts. (2016, April 15). Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWn_TJTrnU&feature=youtu.be
Wilson, Reid. (Year). What Kind of Mindset Do You Have? [JPG]. Retrieved from https://1change.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Growth-v-Fixed.jpg.
Dweck, C. S. (2016). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Random House.
Dweck, C. (n.d.). MINDSET. Retrieved April 28, 2019, from http://mindsetonline.com/changeyourmindset/firststeps/index.html
Dweck, C. (2019, February 20). Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset'. Retrieved April 28, 2019, from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset.html
Sentis. (2012, November 06). Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpfYCZa87g&feature=youtu.be
RSA, T. (2015, December 15). Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9TVbAal5s&feature=youtu.be
Sprouts. (2016, April 15). Retrieved April 29, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWn_TJTrnU&feature=youtu.be
Wilson, Reid. (Year). What Kind of Mindset Do You Have? [JPG]. Retrieved from https://1change.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Growth-v-Fixed.jpg.