Week 9: Student-Centered Snapshots

 Celebrate Success! 

 Pursue High Standards! 

      WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL AGE!      

     

 Find a Way-  Exhaust Your Resources! 

1. Think Globally: Connection to other classrooms
2. Student Centered Classrooms: Ways to get started

Week 3: "Get Busy Living"

 Celebrate Success! 

Getting in Stride with Growing Our Minds:

 Pursue High Standards! 

 GOAL SETTING at Valley (click the name to see details):  

DAVID MAXWELL looks to improve educational equity and increase student school involvement.

HEATHER HOPE's goals drove media center changes and look to increase online presence.

 Find a Way-  Exhaust Your Resources! 

This week, a psychological focus:

1. Teachers Nurture Growth Mindset in Math: read how teachers use "open tasks" and "normalized failure" to get students to integrate math concepts. Related: Dr. Carol Dweck shows and explains the research behind the Growth Mindset approach.
2. Growth Mindset on Pinterest: great resources presented visually for your perusal.

¶  SPECIAL: Former Cyclone Jeff Woody's profound insight into former Hawkeye 

Tyler Sash's death and the perception of self. A personal "must read."