Behavioral and Academic Achievement
Growth Mindset (Academics and Behavioral)
Goal: Promote a Growth Mindset for both students and staff
Growth Mindset | Fixed Mindset |
|---|---|
People and Relationships Matter | Rules and unconditional respect matter |
| Collaborative decision making valued | Autocratic decision making valued |
| Behavior is communication | Behavior is personal |
| Assume student has been taught incorrectly | Assume student refuses to cooperate |
Teach and provide opportunities to practice expected behaviors | Provide more negative consequences |
Assume student has incorrectly learned how to get needs met | Assume student knows what is right and has been told often |
| Wants to IMPROVE intelligence or talent | Wants to PROVE intelligence or talent |
| Feels inspired by others’ success | Feels threatened by others’ success |
- Academically
- Brain Malleability
- Communication of High Expectations
- Effective Effort
- Learning and Study Strategies
- Growth Mindset Language
- Examples of Achievement through effort
- Behaviorally
- Respond by skill, not emotions
- If a flower does not grow, you change the environment
- Differentiated relational approaches to building and sustaining relationships and managing student behavior
- Mindset + skill sets = results
2 months-1 year to change behavior
