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There’s more to student success than standards and test scores… The modern view of student achievement focuses on high test scores, higher standards, and racing to the top. Thrive skills fit with new ESSA requirements to go beyond basic academic measurements in order to equip students for lifelong success. Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford present a practical handbook that guides teachers and parents in fostering learners who are socially and emotionally healthy and prepared to undertake future challenges. Through practical examples, precise strategies, and specific tools this book demonstrates how to empower learners in areas that include: • Using mindfulness strategies to help students tap their inner strengths • Learning to self-regulate and control other executive brain functions • Developing growth mindsets along with perseverance and resilience • Cultivating a sense of responsibility, honesty, and integrity • Encouraging a capacity for empathy and gratitude Grounded in decades of psychological research, Teaching Kids to Thrive merges academic, social, and self-skills to stimulate personal and school achievement.
Creating Student Agency Through Self-Efficacy and Growth Mindset
Creating Student Agency Through Self-Efficacy and Growth Mindset
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“I think I can. I think I can” and Agency
When recalling the familiar children’s story The Little Engine That Could (Piper, 1930), most people remember the famous line “I think I can. I think I can.” Some use that phrase as a model for positive thinking. And while it is true that the little engine needed positive thinking, something deeper was going on. The little engine had a resolute belief that she really could pull those heavily loaded cars of toys over the mountain. She had a profound conviction ...
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