Growth Mindset News and Tips
A Summer of Growth
By Emily Diehl, Mindset Works Team
It is finally summer, and I am ready to enjoy all the wonderful things that come with this season. Many educators, although we continue to work here and there, also get to use these weeks for play, rejuvenation, and growth.
Schools sometimes feel as if they go a mile-a-minute. At any time, there could be nearly one hundred things that I could be doing. I could work the entire summer, eight hours a day, and still not feel caught up. I had a former principal who said that a school year is like getting into a race car and driving it as fast as you can until you run it into a brick wall in June. Then you get out, shake your head, and say, “Let’s do that again!”
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Creating Motivated Learners! The Little Red Hen story from teacher-of-the-year and author Olivia LaField
By Olivia LaField, Redding, CA
The Common Core Standards are here! By 2014, K-12 educators all across America will be teaching their students identical standards. From California to North Carolina, school districts are already providing in-service workshops to prepare their teachers for the inevitable. As I anticipate my district’s first training in August, I will undoubtedly greet the new standards with confidence. I am ready for whatever lies ahead because I have learned through experience how to create a classroom where kids work hard to learn the standards because they want to, not because they have to.
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Mindset in Action
My Mindset Journey
By Jill Osler
 Just over four years ago, my friend and I were meeting to collaborate on fifth grade lesson plans for the following week. She had just returned from a conference, and before I could even ask how it was, she began talking. In her excited pitch, I caught the words book, mindset, Carol Dweck, research, ability, brain, intelligence, fixed, and growth. The fact that I am a hopeless book addict and brain-research freak had nothing to do with what I did next…honestly. Rather, what caused my next action was the fact that as my friend was conveying her newly-discovered knowledge, it was as if these random dots in my head were illuminating and connecting—slowly, deliberately, and beautifully.
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The Growth Minded Educator Contest
The Growth Minded Educator Contest is our way of capturing and sharing collective learning experiences, and recognizing the efforts that educators have put into instilling and cultivating a Growth Mindset in their students.
May 2012 Contest Results
 We are excited to introduce another winner of our growth-minded educator contest to the community: Peg Ludtke!
Congratulations to our winner, and thank you to all who participated! We received some great submissions, and will reach out to some of you to discuss ways to share the other entries.
Below is the winning entry to the contest question: " How do you keep your students motivated and engaged toward the end of the year?”
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Enter the next Growth Minded Educator Contest
All contest entries have a chance to win an autographed copy of Carol Dweck's book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
Contest Question:
Summer is a great chance to catch our breath, break the routine, and do things that we don’t have time for the rest of the year. How do you plan to stretch, grow, and recharge this summer? (Suggested length: 150 words or less)
Email your responses to updates@mindsetworks.com by June 30th, 2012. We’ll review each answer and share the winning one(s) in a future newsletter.
If you have any questions regarding the contest, please post a comment or email us at updates@mindsetworks.com.
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