In Other Words: Phrases for Growth Mindset

Book excerpt: 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?