Wednesday, January 26, 2011

How do we equip students with "Habit of Mind" to equate Effort with Ability? The Growth Mindset Offers An Empowering Strategy.


Throughout our NYC schools, a major goal is to assist our students with adopting the mindset that their success, intellectual growth and social development are predicated upon their degree of effort applied towards learning, practicing and taking calculated risks. Carol Dweck shares her thinking and ideology concerning the considerations educational leaders must make in establishing and maintaining school cultures where an emphasis is placed on the dynamic improvement of student practice and not on empty compliments that all too often prove static and unfruitful.

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