Growth Mindset

Schools are developing rubrics to guide them in helping students develop social and emotional skills, creativity, and growth mindset.

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

Makerspaces build students’ cognitive abilities while fostering independence, perseverance, and self-regulation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Learn more about how mindset can affect learning with this collection of videos—for everyone from preschoolers to parents.