The Growth Mindset Coach: A Teacher's Month-by-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve

This book is a great resource for encouraging and developing a growth mindset in your classroom or child. There are many ideas, lesson plans, materials, charts, guide questions and journal entries that encourage your own development of a growth mindset along with your students. One of the authors of the book is a Kindergarten teacher, so many of the anecdotes come from her classroom experience. I would like to challenge the notion put forth by another reviewer that this book is too dull for middle school students. I have worked with students from K-8 and believe that the material in this book can easily be modified to be applicable and engaging to any student in those grade levels. The authors actually provide modification strategies for many of the lesson plans to make them more appropriate for whatever grade level you teach. I could not put this book down while I was reading it and found it to be very enjoyable to read. I finished it in less then a week and it caused me to want to read many more of the books that they recommend for further growth in the last chapter. I look forward to implementing many of the strategies recommended in this book in my classroom next year. I have gained tips for working with my own toddler as to how to help them begin to develop a growth mindset now.

Maybe you've got a whole classroom full of small humans to teach and aren't awash in leisure hours to read something technical. This book is for you. I'm excited to use this with my students. I think it will really help some of them discover their abilities. I'm also super excited that it's all based on scientific evidence. It's a great book though, because you get just enough of the science to help you see why the techniques will be effective. It doesn't dwell for days on the science, because good grief, Charlie Brown, you have enough to do. You just want to implement the science, not get another degree in it! We're looking for a way to help students; not a way to get more college credits. (Or maybe we are, but let's try not to think about grading winter finals and being in school at the same time. haha) P.S. Please disregard my grammar. I teach math. ;-)

This is an excellent book - a great teacher resource to supplement information and activities on developing an inquisitive mind! I would appreciate more of a dual approach to the topic - one that related to an educator-friendly monthly theme for mind growth/mindset AND included more professional reflection that allowed the reader to further expand on what these authors offer here.

Growth mindset has always been something I have wanted to incorporate into my classroom. I knew when I started teaching I wanted it to become a daily habit and reflection for my students. I wasn't sure where to start when I entered the classroom and how to really engage students and get them to "buy into" the growth mindset idea. This book was a fantastic tool this school year, especially with so much crazy going on! The authors made it easy to follow and easy to read. There is plenty of room for reflections about my own teaching as well as incorporated lesson plans to teach students about the process. This is a book I highly recommend to anyone who wants to establish a classroom of growth rather than passive behavior.

The lessons are engaging and the children look forward to the next activities and discussions. This book connects Carols Dweck ideologies, research, and philosophies by allowing me to model and teach growth mindsets with all my students. Well worth the purchase and I encourage anyone who is interested in having another tool to teach growth mindsets in the classroom, this is the book that is very well organized and in order per each month of instruction.

From the second you open this book and read through the first few pages, excitement builds as to what this could look like in a classroom, a grade level or across a school! From September's 'Everyone can Learn!' and October's 'My Brain is like a Muscle,' I can't wait to use this with students! So many practical and interactive activities and great explanations and capacity building for educators.

Reading this book as my school begins to implement growth mindset. The book is easy to read and follow, and I like that it includes places for readers to take part in activities and illustrate how growth mindset may have effected their own learning, when they were a student. This book is a great read for busy teachers wanting to implement this newer classroom methodology!

This is a great book. It is a great help to change the culture in a classroom from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. I have been using it and have seen a vast improvement in grades and confidence in my classes.