Learn how to effectively bring growth mindset into your community and classroom by choosing impactful language.
From the authors of the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach, this handy companion is a must-have if you want to empower students through purposeful praise and feedback. Here are the key strategies, helpful tips and go-to phrases for helping students transition thoughts, words and actions into the growth-mindset zone.
Designed for ease of use and packed with over a hundred specific examples, this book offers a “say this, not that” approach to communication that will help you model and cultivate growth mindset in the classroom. For example:
Fixed Mindset:
• You’re so smart.
• You’re wrong.
Growth Mindset:
• l like how you used different strategies to figure out these problems.
• That didn’t work out for you. How could you approach the problem differently?
Annie Brock is a former high school English teacher, library media specialist, and coauthor of the best-selling book The Growth Mindset Coach. She currently works as a freelance writer and educational technology consultant. Annie has a degree in journalism from Kansas State University and earned her secondary English education credentials from Washburn University. She is also the coauthor of The Growth Mindset Playbook, In Other Words: Phrases for Growth Mindset, and My Growth Mindset Journal, and the author of Introduction to Google Classroom.