A Growth Mindset Can Help You Thrive! Bulletin Board
Last year I ran a book group for parents and caregivers. I decided to call the book group "Thriving in the Middle" to counter the negative language surrounding middle school. You often see books and articles about surviving middle school or how middle school was the worst years of people's lives. I was planning to incorporate the concept of "thriving" and how school counselors can help students thrive into other aspects of my school counseling programming this year. I have been wracking my brain to come up with bulletin boards ideas to go with the thriving theme. The first one I'll share is a growth mindset bulletin board. Carol Dweck's book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success discusses the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Growth mindset is the idea that intelligence can be developed, whereas fixed mindset is the idea that intelligence is static. Growth mindset is popular trend currently in education. I haven...