Create-Abilities’ Growth Mindset Webinar

The Create-Abilities' webinar on growth mindsets has been coming up as a suggested advertisement on my Facebook for about the past month. Last week, when the ad came up, I saw the webinar was *finally* scheduled on a day that I could attend! I immediately signed up, and was looking forward to it all week.…

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Complimenting a Growth Mindset

Growth Mindsets are important. That is a fact, but it may be easier said than done. It can be so much easier to give up, to just curl up in our fixed mindset and say "oh no, I am not meant to be able to do _______." But we are so much stronger than our…

Tough Mudder for Brains

Last week, I registered for my first ever Tough Mudder Challenge (Yikes!), and I have been working my buns off training for it. Even though it is in June, I started a workout schedule in January. It has been an incredible experience watching my muscles grow and the workouts get easier with every passing day.…

I love sandwiches, but….

Giving feedback can be really difficult, especially when you are a perfectionist (like me). I will openly admit to wanting to nit-pick all of my students' work, even though I knew it would be unfair to them and that it would take me hours to get through me grading. Thankfully, I know the sandwich method.…

SMARTER Goal Revisted

Alright. Time to revist my SMARTER goal that I set a few weeks ago. As I am sure you have noticed, I have been not meeting it. I planned on posting once a week, hopefully every Monday, but I have been struggling to keep that going, mostly because I want to make exciting and useful…