1. CREATING A CULTURE OF Growth Mindset
The Office of Equity & Accelerated Student Achievement
Anne Arundel County Public Schools
May 25, 2016

2. Our OUTCOMES: Learn what a Growth Mindset is and why it’s important
Explore tools & strategies to support your students in developing the mindset they need to succeed.

3. YOU CAN LEARN ANYTHING!

4. WHAT’S THIS GROWTH MINDSET THING?
Discuss!
Capture your thoughts!
Choose a person to share!
Dump sheet – DONE!!!
What do you know?
What do you want to learn?

5. WHY GROWTH MINDSET? EMBRACING growth mindset LEADS TO SUCCESS!
25 years of Growth Mindset research show that we can learn more and become smarter if we work hard and persevere.
Growth Mindset tools can be taught and lead us to learn more, learn it more quickly, and view challenges and failures as opportunities to improve learning and skills Carol Dweck

6. Growth mindset three Core Beliefs
Students perform better in schools when teachers believe that intelligence is not fixed, but it can be developed.
Teaching students that intelligence can be grown is especially powerful for students who belong to typically stereotyped groups.
Growth mind-sets focus on effort and motivate students to overcome challenges.

7. At table: Now that you are developing a stronger understanding, create a working definition of what Growth Mindset is and can do for your students. (Put on back of dump sheet?)

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GROWTH MINDSET?
Flip over the cards on your table!
Discuss…
GROWTH OR FIXED?
Create two groups:
GROWTH & FIXED
Each table gets a few cards and then call on one or two tables

9. How did we do??
Verify

10. SOUNDS GOOD, BUT HOW DO WE DO IT? USE GROWTH MINDSET TOOLS!
There are MANY tools…
But AACPS has chosen five!
Let’s check them out!
Sounds like a nice philosophy, but how do you develop it??

11. PROCESS PRAISE & GROWTH LANGUAGE Use words that focus on effort & growth
Focus on Growth!

12. The power of yet!
A very cool word!
YET

13. Goal setting & reflection
Lead students to own their learning
with goal setting and reflection!

14. Growth & effort rubrics
EFFORT COUNTS!

15. Growth mindset readings
Stories can help light the way!

16. Growth Mindset tools DESIGN CHALLENGE!
Divide up the materials in the folder.
Read and discuss them
Design an “outfit” (words & images) for your “STUDENT” that shows how these tools will support his/her success
Divide up your team for the runway show: Half to describe the “outfit” and half to walk him/her down the runway
As a table - person paper & markers

17. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?? Success is . . . One scenario at each table -
First
Review the scenario on your table
Decide which person needs to shift their mindset
Next
Choose tools you could use to support their change
Rewrite the scenario and embed your strategies
Finally
Post your revised scenario
Participate in the Gallery Walk to give feedback and get great ideas
WHAT WOULD YOU DO??
Success is . . .
One scenario at each table -

18. YOUR NEXT STEPS!!
Create a “Next Steps” on your organizer like the one on the slide to capture what you will take back to school and how you will inspire your students & others to embrace Growth Mindset.

19. How can you… HELP STUDENTS BELIEVE . . .
THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING!
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