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I have just listened to a 'Squiggly Careers' podcast/interactive presentation in which they were talking about how to approach a task/project from ...
I have just listened to a 'Squiggly Careers' podcast/interactive presentation in which they were talking about how to approach a task/project from ...
This weekend, I saw my best friend from primary school. She, like me has a daughter. My daughter is almost 7, her daughter is almost 5. She asked m...
In my quest to build my Growth Mindset business, I have been thinking carefully about the values that are important to my brand. This has come as p...
I have returned from a long dog walk on which I listened to 2 podcasts which both mentioned, in slightly different guises, the need for patience in...
Hearing your Scribble can help you pull yourself out of the Fixed Mindset.
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.