This webinar will run from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ET/7:00 am - 1:00 pm PT on May 7, 2020 with breaks for a total of 5 hours of instruction time.

Would you like to build resiliency and perseverance in your students? Imagine a learning community where optimism is contagious, mistakes are expected, struggle is embraced, perseverance and resiliency are nurtured and valued, and growth is the focus. In other words, imagine a growth mindset learning community. In this online interactive seminar, you will explore a variety of strategies to build a growth mindset learning environment in your classroom and school. The focus for this webinar will be to provide ideas and strategies for cultivating perseverance and resilience in your students, and to help them build a conceptual understanding of the brain, growth mindset feedback, and critical reasoning. You will explore literature that can be used to teach growth mindset principles. Discover some of the barriers and common misunderstandings surrounding growth and fixed mindsets and learn ways to help students overcome these hurdles. You will leave this workshop with ideas and strategies that can be implemented immediately in your online or physical classroom as well as your own goals for creating a growth mindset learning community.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

Motivate students through teaching them about how their brains learn

Develop ways to nurture and build resilience and perseverance in students

Understand why fixed and growth mindset thinking is important for our children

Identify ways to help students learn from mistakes and failure and embrace challenges

Implement a variety of strategies for building a growth mindset learning environment

Discover how to use children’s books as a catalyst for discussing growth mindsets

Help students to set goals and use productive struggle

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar is applicable for K-12 teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, counselors, and other educators that support classroom instruction.

Mary Cay Ricci, MS

Mary Cay Ricci, MSEd, is a former elementary and middle school teacher, central office administrator, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins Graduate School of Education. She is also the NYT bestselling education author of Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Growth Mindset Learning Community (2013). Mary Cay Ricci is also author of Nothing You Can’t Do! The Secret Power of Growth Mindsets (2018) and Ready to Use Resources for Mindsets in the Classroom (2015) and co-author of Mindsets for Parents: Strategies to Encourage Growth Mindsets in Kids (2016). She currently consults, lectures, and provides professional learning sessions across the United States and Canada.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Mary Cay Ricci, MS