2. Empowered by Mindsets Access Presentation Here: bit.ly/MindsetAug2017
Determine your current mindset: click here for quick(ish) self-assessment.

3. Mindset: Belief about... Others Ourselves as learners
Our students as learners

4. Mindset - Growth or Fixed?
Video

5. The difference between those who succeed and those who don’t is not the brains they are born with, but their approach to life, the messages they receive about their potential, and the opportunities they have to learn.
Boaler, 2016

6. Can You Tell a Growth Mindset from a Fixed Mindset?
Read the statements in the plastic bag. Classify into 2 categories:
Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
Need some support? Click here
for a helpful infographic for educators
from JCPS Program Evaluation.

7. Pick statement that you struggled most to categorize.
Muddiest Statements
Pick statement that you struggled most to categorize.
Add it here, in the tab with your presenters’ names. We will discuss & fill in the other 2 columns as a group.

8. Turn & Talk
How did this activity model a growth mindset for both facilitators and participants?

9. What About TEACHER Mindsets?
We model the change we want to see happen.

10. Why do students give up? WE
Educational psychology has focused on the concepts of learned helplessness and more currently growth or fixed mindsets to explain how and why students give up in the classroom setting.
These ideas can also be applied to educators due to forced standardization, testing, scripted curriculum, and school initiatives.
Many educators feel forced into a paradigm of teaching where they feel subjected to teaching practices outside of their control.
When asked to engage in a process of continued growth and development, we hear...

12. Why do students give up? WE
The Point: What was your article about?
Self: What realization or Hmmmmmm…. moment did you have as you read the article?
Students: Regarding mindset and student learning, what did your reading suggest?
One Take Away: Moving onward and upward, what is one thing you will do to stretch yourself in this area?
Name

13. Why do students give up? WE
bit.ly/gmarts
Step into the mindset conversation
Developing a Growth Mindset (January - March)
Growth-Fixed mindsets (April - June)
Learned helplessness & mindsets
Learned Helplessness (July - September)
Learned Helplessness Attacks! (October - December)
Already know a little bit about growth and fixed mindsets?
Revisiting Growth Mindset (extension)

14. Why do students give up? WE
The Point: What was your article about?
Self: What realization or Hmmmmmm…. moment did you have as you read the article?
Students: Regarding mindset and student learning, what did your reading suggest?
One Take Away: Moving onward and upward, what is one thing you will do to stretch yourself in this area?
Name

15. Shifting to Growth Mindset
A mental shift occurs when
a fixed mindset
starts to believe that
there are options; that one can grow, change,
and be significant.

16. Teacher Agency
“The bottom line, is that teachers need to reclaim their perceived and real teacher agency, voice, and empowerment. They need to develop a growth mindset that they can and do have agency in their profession.”
Teacher Agency and Today’s Teachers

17. Making the Shift Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice.”
Answer key of Fixed vs Growth Mindset
Recognize that you have a choice.
How will you interpret challenges, setbacks, and criticism? It’s up to you!
Talk back to it with a growth mindset “voice.”
Take the growth mindset action.
Source

20. Reflect on either… a former belief you held about yourself
Image/ Video source
a former belief you held about yourself
a really horrible,
no good,
very bad idea / lesson/ task

21. Now... What did you from the lesson/idea/task?
How has your belief changed?
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22. TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
Brittany & Jen
Example 1
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Use the Flipgrid app on your phone to record yourself or a partner. Code: 5e7219 OR
Use your Chromebook to record yourself.
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TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
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23. TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
Pam Biggs & Kathy Price
Example
Example
Example
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Use the Flipgrid app on your phone to record yourself or a partner. Code: 74ca12 OR
Use your Chromebook to record yourself.
flipgrid.com/74ca12
TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
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24. TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
Dana & Randy
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Use the Flipgrid app on your phone to record yourself or a partner. Code: 74ca12 OR
Use your Chromebook to record yourself.
flipgrid.com/74ca12
TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
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25. TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
Pam Batchelor & Katie Wall
Example
Example
Example
Example
Example
Use the Flipgrid app on your phone to record yourself or a partner. Code: 5e7219 OR
Use your Chromebook to record yourself.
flipgrid.com/5e7219
TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
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26. TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
Dave & Jenna
Example
Example
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Use the Flipgrid app on your phone to record yourself or a partner. Code: 9a40b9 OR
Use your Chromebook to record yourself.
flipgrid.com/9a40b9
TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
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27. TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
Heather & Jen
Example
Example
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Example
Use the Flipgrid app on your phone to record yourself or a partner. Code: 9a40b9 OR
Use your Chromebook to record yourself.
flipgrid.com/9a40b9
TELL PARTICIPANTS THEY WILL BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION
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28. See ENTIRE Board
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29. Talent vs Effort
Video is 3:08

30. Talent vs Effort
We all have natural talents, and areas that we feel most comfortable.
Are those the only areas worth our time and effort?

31. Equipment to Run &... How Not to Talk to Your Kids
The Praise a Child Should Never Hear
Why Praise Can Be Bad for Kids
Connecting Growth Mindset to Assessment
Mindset Quiz for Students
Mindset Quiz for Students, Online
Mindsets Online Course
Another Online Course, Sport-Focused
Teacher Agency: Educators Moving from a Fixed to a Growth Mindset by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D.
Jo Boaler’s TED Talk
Mindset Cards
Edutopia has some great resources on the topics and here are just a few:
5 Steps to Foster Grit in the Classroom by Andrew Miller
Avoiding “Learned Helplessness” by Andrew Miller
Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff by Keith Heggart
True Grit: The Best Measure of Success and How to Teach It by Vicki Davis
Resources for digging deeper...