South Lewis Faculty Meetings Focus Areas for the Year: -Giving Students Feedback -Best Instructional Practices -Character Counts -Educating Students from Poverty -Growth Mindset October 2016

Intelligence Questions… Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very much. You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.

Intelligence Questions… FIXED MIND-SET: Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very much. You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are. GROWTH MIND-SET: No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.

A Growth Mindset Could Buffer Kids From Negative Academic Effects of Poverty Code the text +++++++ share a star with a neighbor ####### answer this question with your neighbor – Why is it critical for us to understand what a growth mindset is and how we can help to ensure our students have growth mindsets?

Power in knowing… “students from low-income families were less likely to hold a growth mindset than their more affluent peers.” “However, if a low-income student did have a growth mindset, it worked as a buffer against the negative effects of poverty on achievement.”

Character Counts Video Discussion Questions: Should you share this video with your students? If so, what questions would you ask them? How does this video connect to a Growth Mindset?