ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the most important growth mindset components that schools and districts should strive for: equitable access to advanced learning opportunities, deliberate cultivation of psychosocial skills such as perseverance and resiliency, student understanding of neural networks in the brain, and growth mindset feedback and praise. Equitable access provides examples using “gifted and talented” as a sometimes-fixed approach to meeting student needs. Ways to approach conversations with a child’s teachers are discussed. The chapter addresses the importance of constructive feedback and letting children redo assignments or retake assessments as well as the “math genius” myth. Growth mindset in children with special needs and college age students round out this chapter.
