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Embracing a growth mindset when reviewing student data

eSchool News

Many of our students entered the school year below grade level, and while achieving grade-level mastery is challenging, a growth mindset allows us to see their potential, celebrate progress, and plan for further successes amongst our students. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence.

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Breaking the bell curve: Creating more pathways so every kid gets a big win

eSchool News

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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Feeling the midyear slump? Recharge your meetings with MicroPD

eSchool News

I know that teachers—tasked with helping students achieve and dealing with adolescents—can quickly become energy depleted , even disenfranchised, seeing slow progress for the most at-risk and time-consuming among our students. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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How and When to Give Feedback

Catlin Tucker

It gives students a sense of direction, helping them understand what they are striving to achieve and how their current performance is positioned in relation to those objectives. Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence.

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Controversy on whether growth mindset works will strengthen the theory

eSchool News

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. Growth mindset is the belief that one can improve one’s abilities through effort, learning, and persistence. As Moyer wrote, “Their goal was to figure out if, on average, growth mindset interventions improved academic achievement.” captures the point.

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When Students Don’t Feel Confident About Math, a Growth Mindset Matters

Edsurge

Unfortunately, DPS follows a nationwide trend where Black students are overrepresented in discipline and underrepresented in academic achievement. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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Three Ways You Can Harness Personalized Learning to Promote a Growth Mindset

Edsurge

A growth mindset involves two important pieces: 1) a deliberate focus on attaining growth vs. proficiency, no matter what students are working on, and 2) students’ beliefs that they have the ability to meet goals by changing how they approach new learning experiences. In following this process, one can achieve a true growth mindset.

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