Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Teaching & Learning

The Cycle of Belonging and Culturally Responsive Teaching in IRWBy Tina Shanahan and Phip Ross Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) matters in our classrooms because acknowledging and responding to students’ unique interests, strengths, and needs creates a st…

Celebrating Difference: Best Practices in Culturally Responsive Teaching Online

Culturally responsive teaching and design practices flip the online classroom by creating an environment that acknowledges, celebrates, and builds upon the cultural capital that learners and teachers bring to the online classroom.

Debate Arises Over Teaching "Growth Mindsets" to Motivate Students, by Lydia Denworth

Research shows conflicting data on the impact of the intervention, but a major new study confirms it can work.

Grit and Growth Mindset: Deficit Thinking?, by Rick Wormeli

Examining the cultural narrative around these ideologies.

Impact of Poverty on Students: All in Their Minds?, by Mary Ellen Flannery

The topic of growth vs fixed mindsets, and their effects on student achievement, has been a popular—and controversial—one since Stanford’s Carol Dweck published her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success in 2006. But the recent Stanford study, which involved 168,000 10^th-grade students across all of Chile, is the most expansive, and goes the furthest to explore how family income interacts with mindset.

Equity Pitfalls, by Paul Gorski

Failures are the Pillars of Success

A Motivational Video Featuring Michael Jordan, Walt Disney and Steve Jobs. This video showcases how important failure is and how these well known personalities overcame failures in their lives to be what they are today.

Famous Failures

Inspiring video on persevering no matter how many times you have failed in life.

You Can Learn Anything

Khan Academy is on a mission to unlock the world's potential. Most people think their intelligence is fixed. The science says it’s not.

Grit: The Key to Success

This is a story about grit - and why it might just be the key to your success as a student at Florida Virtual School.

Growing Your Mind

Your mental abilities are not fixed. Sal explains how your brain grows when you struggle with problems.

Growth Mindset Kids

Video of kids discussing growth mindset.

Acquiring Knowledge and Using It (1993), by Rita Smilkstein

Understanding why students are not naturally and easily able to generalize or apply what they have learned in other situations involves understanding what teachers want their students to learn; what learning is; what teaching is; and what is involved in generalizing or applying what has been learned.

A Natural Teaching Method Based on Learning Theory (1991), by Rita Smilkstein

The natural teaching method is active and student-centered, based on schema and constructivist theories, and informed by research in neuroplasticity. A schema is a mental picture or understanding of something we have learned.

For Noncognitive Skill Development, Start with Growth Mindset - Here's How - Dave Stuart Jr.In my last post, I wrote that we literacy educators are wise to treat noncognitive skill development seriously and systematically; the research supporting them is too overwhelming to do less than choose the noncogs we want to aim for in our classrooms and then concertedly pursue their growth in ourselves and our students. In this post, I’d like to …

The Science Behind How We Learn New Skills

Learning new skills is one of the best ways to make yourself both marketable and happy, but actually doing so isn't as easy as it sounds. The science behind how we learn is the foundation for teaching yourself new skills. Here's what we know about learning a new skill.

What Shall We Do About Grit? A Critical Review of What We Know and What We Don't Know, by Marcus Crede

Grit is a construct that is widely studied by educational researchers and that has generally been enthusiastically received by educational practitioners. This essay highlights that many of the core claims about grit have either been unexamined or are directly contradicted by the accumulated empirical evidence.

The Natural Process of Learning and Critical Thinking (1989), by Rita Smilkstein

Community college students (unless cognitively or emotionally impaired) have an innate learning system or process which makes it possible to do abstract and critical thinking in all their classes. Over an 8-year period, informal research has been conducted with approximately 1,000 low- and high-achieving students, and faculty in classrooms, faculty development workshops, and conferences.

Passionate Teacher #2 - Slower and Shorter

Passionate teachers have passionate kids

Growth Mindset Video

Having a growth mindset means that you know you can train your brain to get smarter.

Does Growth Mindset Improve Children's IQ, Educational Attainment, or Response to Setbacks?

Yue Li & Timothy C. Bates

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