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As a primary school teacher and a passionate advocate for driving a Mindset culture in the classroom every single day, one of my biggest loves is o...

Being asked to speak about my hearing loss as part of a school 'Diversity Day' has got me thinking about our feelings around vulnerability, which are so relevant in discussions about harnessing the Growth Mindset.

Neuroplasticity has become a big deal in my life. Not only through my Mindset work and research but also because my daughter was born with a hemipl...

Learning is an invisible, abstract concept.   When I walked into my garden recently, what I saw around me was an abundance of fragile and complex c...

Children often don't naturally see how valuable feedback can be in relation to their learning. They want to produce what they 'need' to and do it in the way they would naturally do it. Any suggestion that they could do something else or something different to improve it, feels like a threat. However, we need children to see feedback for the valuable tool it is by changing the perception that many have of it; namely that it is something that exerts criticism on them and is an attack on their character. How can we do this? Tie moments of accomplishment to the feedback that helped get them there.

Odd Sock Day in school today really got me thinking about getting children intentionally imperfect and creating safe spaces in which to practice being imperfect...

‘We are better together’ This seems to be a fitting phrase, at the moment. Collaboration and teamwork are at work everywhere. It is inspiring to ob...

In Mindset terms, Feedback is a mechanism which can either be taken as a personal attack (fixed Mindset) where defences would go up, others may be ...

"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" - George Bernard Shaw "It is well to cul...

When an individual is in a Growth Mindset, they are wanting to grow themselves and make progress by taking on challenges- tasks that are a little o...

As a good proportion of us will be at this time, I watch the news avidly to see what is going on. Sometimes I choose not to because of where I am a...

I have been drawn back to a statement which was a statement by which I was going to try to live my life in 2020. 'Strive for progress over perfecti...