Growth Mindset for Educators & Learners
Why This Learning Experience?
This instructor-guided professional learning experience is designed to help educators learn on their schedule while still receiving meaningful support. Participants complete practical activities, connect ideas to real classroom practice, and build confidence through application-focused learning.
Learning Experience Overview
This course equips educators with the knowledge, strategies, and resources needed to develop, model, and sustain a growth mindset culture in classrooms and schools. Participants explore the research behind growth mindset, examine how beliefs influence learning, and learn practical techniques for helping students embrace challenges, persist through setbacks, and view mistakes as opportunities for growth.
Throughout the course, educators examine the role of feedback, classroom culture, resilience, accessibility, collaboration, and equity in fostering growth-oriented learning environments. Participants engage with classroom-ready tools, reflection activities, planning resources, and implementation strategies designed to support both educator and student growth.
By the end of the course, participants will create a comprehensive Growth Mindset Action Plan that can be implemented immediately within their classroom, team, or school.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define growth mindset and explain its impact on teaching and learning.
- Recognize and reframe fixed-mindset thinking in themselves and their students.
- Implement classroom routines, activities, and instructional practices that promote growth mindset.
- Apply feedback strategies that emphasize effort, process, progress, and resilience.
- Model reflective and resilient learning behaviors for students.
- Evaluate instructional practices through a growth mindset lens.
- Promote equitable and inclusive learning environments that support all learners.
- Develop a Growth Mindset Action Plan for classroom or school implementation.
Who Should Participate?
- Teachers developing student resilience
- Educators supporting students with anxiety or perfectionism
- Instructional leaders building positive school culture
