Growth Mindset

A four-part framework for teaching personal narrative writing, which can help students understand themselves and their world.

A simple analogy can help students think about their learning disabilities and better navigate obstacles.

Use these novels to teach learning from loss and overcoming adversity to your middle schoolers and high school freshmen.

Larry Ferlazzo discusses practical classroom strategies to reinforce four qualities that have been identified as critical to helping students motivate themselves: autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance.

Find information about growth mindset, discover how learning mindsets can affect student performance, and explore strategies that support student confidence.

A new study shows how a growth mindset helps students cope with academic setbacks.

Veteran researchers present five strategies—like maintaining success files and allowing choice—to help struggling students develop a positive attitude needed for success.

Thanks to the wonders of neuroplasticity, adolescents are primed to improve their performance in school—and beyond. Here’s how to help.

You can have students use an old technology—ballpoint pens—to keep their mistakes and revisions, and their learning, visible.

Resources related to building the skills young people need to confront adversity, cope with challenges, and persevere to attain goals.

Pushing our students to adopt a growth mindset is an easy call. Adopting one ourselves is harder.

Weekly open-ended math tasks can pique students’ interest, leading them to take risks and develop a growth mindset.

Examples of a false growth mindset include praising effort over progress, affirming students' potential without enabling them, and blaming their mindset instead of refocusing it.