Posts Tagged ‘growth mindset’
What's Your Best Lesson of 2015?
What comes to mind when you think back on your instruction in 2015? Would you say you played it safe or you took risks? Did you try a strategy multiple times so you could tweak it or did you knock it out of the park on your first try? Whatever the lesson, it is worth…
Read MoreMyth Busters: Is there a math gene?
How many of these have you heard before? “I am just not a math person.” “I wasn’t good at fractions so he isn’t either.” “I can’t do math so neither can my kids.” These are typical comments we hear when people start discussing their math history as it relates to their child. There is an…
Read MoreTrue Coaching is a Gift
From the desk of Alice… ERG is on the eve of celebrating 11 years of business. In those 11 years, we have managed to fine tune the process of job-embedded coaching in a way that gets results at the school level. When we started ERG, coaching was not a mainstream idea. In fact, coaching was…
Read MoreResilience
From the desk of Carol C. . . You’ve got to accentuate the positive. Eliminate the negative. And latch on to the affirmative. Don’t mess with Mister In-Between by Johnny Mercer Excitement and apprehension fill the air at the beginning of every school year. They both come from a sense of renewal that the year…
Read MoreThe Tribe
This: “Four Lessons for Life, Leadership, and Learning: A Tribute to the Late Grant Wiggins” by Stephanie Malia Krauss In 2015, we mourned the loss of Grant Wiggins (blog). Over ten years ago, we were introduced to the writing and thinking of Grant Wiggins before Education Resource Group was ever dreamed about. Whenever we saw…
Read MoreSummer Love List
From the desk of Alice… The season of summer is upon us. Thank goodness. In her book, The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin reminds us “It’s about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind.…
Read MorePep Talk
From the desk of Leigh Ann . . . The finish line is in sight, and students and teachers are striving to complete the race. You are weary, children have learned what buttons to push to create conflict and get reactions, and you simply want to keep a healthy classroom environment that is filled with…
Read MoreAll Means All
From the desk of Hope… Several weeks ago as I checked in with my social network accounts I noticed the hash tag #ALLmeansall. This phrase caught my attention and I paused to think about the meaning of – “ALL means all”. All, as in all children?, All of what? I asked myself as I tried…
Read MoreGlass Half Full Mentality
From the desk of Leigh Ann . . . “Resilient people immediately look at the problem and say, ‘What’s the solution to that? What is that trying to teach me?’ ” – unknown Simply saying the world optimism makes me smile. It sparks this positive, more resilient tone to my thinking. Research shows that optimist…
Read MoreWhat's the Weather?
From the desk of Leigh Ann . . . “It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.” – unknown As teachers we are are tasked with building the whole child – academically, socially, and emotionally. The climate in my classroom is instrumental to me meeting the…
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