Growth mindset projects

Students complete the crumpled brain growth mindset activity first.

This zentangle growth mindset project is one of my favorite activities for the beginning of the school year!

Encouraging students to make art can sometimes happen easily and other times, it's a challenge. You bring out, act out, or show your "hook" and BAM! They're engaged and are wanting to do their best. Depending on the age or the student's own personal experience with creating art, this is sometimes a challenge and you might even get a complete refusal. As a teacher, it is our job to encourage a student to create. After many years of experience teaching, and having taught art to students from…

I love to start the year with Peter H. Reynold's books like The Dot and Ish. Both books are great for teaching kids that it is okay to take risks and make mistakes. Those books also go very well with

At The Mimi Diaries, I am passionate about nurturing the boundless potential within every child. Understanding the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset can be transformative. It's the difference between viewing challenges as insurmountable obstacles and seeing them as opportunities to learn and grow. Research consistently shows that our core beliefs, especially about our own abilities, are deeply ingrained during our early years, particularly up to age 7. These formative year...

Looking to introduce Growth Mindset to your students? Check out these easy and FREE activities to introduce growth mindset in the classroom!

In all of my career, I have been a big proponent of a classroom carpet/rug. I can't imagine not having kids right in front of me while I teach. It helps me to ensure all kids are engaged, on-task and of course, learning! This year, I am moving to 4th grade. 4th graders are bigger so I wasn't sure how I was going to get them all to fit on the carpet...but I was definitely going to try! I was searching through Amazon and discovered these 7 inch carpet dots! They are velcro circles that stick…

Spoiler Alert: There's a free Open House Activity in this blog post! It's a free growth mindset activity that aligns with the Open House project ideas I'm discussing today. Are you overwhelmed by Open House? I know I've spent many years in absolute panic about what projects and student work to put on display for children and their families during Open House and/or Parent Night events. That's why I'm always on the hunt for Open House activities that check all my Open House "boxes." In my…