Carol Dweck has found that a mindset that believes in the ability of our minds to grow leads to more learning. Science research has a remarkable plasticity to our brains. Here is a message we need our students to hear and believe.

1. "the most complex thing we have
yet discovered in our universe."

3. In the first three years of life, a child builds
approximately 1 trillion synapses.

4. 10 to 23 = the number of watts of power your
grain generates when you’re awake (that’s
enough to turn on a light bulb!)
100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels
in your brain
100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain

5. 10 to 23 = the number of watts of power your grain generates when you’re awake
(enough to turn on a light bulb)

6. • Neurons send
information to
your brain at
more than 150
miles per hour

7. universe

8. And like the muscles in your arms, they can
literally grow…

9. With sustained effort, learning changes the brain…

10. The key point being…
“…a person’s true potential is unknown (and
unknowable); it’s impossible to foresee what
can be accomplished with years of passion, toil,
and training.”
Carol Dweck
Mindset (7)

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Nobody can tell you how smart you can get,
what you might one day be able to do…

12. “I never thought of myself as a very smart person. I
just stuck with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein nearly failed out of school.

13. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it
long enough. “
Helen Keller
With the help of a determined teacher, Helen Keller
became the first deaf and blind person to graduate from
college.

14. “Creativity is 1 percent inspiration and
99% perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison nearly failed third grade.

15. “Don’t be afraid to fail,
be afraid not to try.”
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan was cut from
his high school basketball
team. His response:
He worked harder.

16. What is our capacity to learn?
“With practice, training, and above all, method,
we manage to increase our attention, our
memory, our judgment, and literally to become
more intelligent than we were before.”
Alfred Binet
Father of the IQ test

17. Can we really all learn?
“After forty years of intensive research on
school learning in the United States as well as
abroad, my major conclusion is: What any
person in the world can learn, almost all persons
can learn, if provided with appropriate prior and
current conditions of learning.”
Benjamin S. Bloom
Father of the Taxonomy of Learning

18. Bloom is talking about the 95%...

19. Mindsets
Intelligence Intelligence
can grow is static
Learn without fear Protect my image
Maximize effort Minimize effort

20. Fixed Mindset
Gold
Star

21. Growth Mindset
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