
Category: Resources
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Growth Mindset
By: Jeff Simmons Are you of a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? Don’t know the difference? “Mindset” is a term you may hear a lot, lately. For a great read on this topic, check out Carol Dweck’s work, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. A very short summary of the two concepts is this […]
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Rethinking Failure: Let Go of Fear, Embrace Opportunity
By Theresa Carter I know volumes have been written on this topic, but each time I work with teachers in this organization–whether it’s blended teachers or cohort teachers, this idea moves to the forefront, so it must need saying again. How can we shift our thinking so as to embrace the barriers in education, and […]
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Reflecting on Reflecting
iNACOL’S Blended Teacher Competency Framework has four domains: Mindset, Qualities, Adaptive Skills and Technical Skills. In the Adaptive Skills domain, the first competency is Reflection. So, let’s reflect on reflecting. According to the CSU Writing Studio, “reflection transforms experience into genuine learning about individual values and goals and about larger social issues” and the same […]