Hello Foundations Families and Friends!In place of our usual growth mindset discussion this week, I would like to share with you another story of hope and healing. I recently received the following email from the parent of a Foundations student: "FYI, we just received an email from Noah’s history teacher letting us know how well he has been doing in history class. He said he noticed a …
Perseverance
Holding on to Hope, Even When You Can’t Feel It
It’s hard to believe that this is the very last day of 2021. Tomorrow, a whole new year begins. Some of us are ending this past year on a high, feeling energized by the things we’ve overcome and accomplished. Some of us are ending this past year wondering how we survived, feeling exhausted by the amount of energy it has taken to persevere through each day. Regardless of how you are ending 2021, I …
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A Happier and Healthier Brain
Did you know that science has proven that there is a very simple ingredient to having a happier and healthier brain, and as a matter of fact, this simple ingredient can even make you live longer? It is so simple, actually, that you might even doubt how incredibly important this ingredient, or should I say mindset, is... Gratitude. I live with and care for a 95 year old woman with Alzheimer's …
Growth Mindset Friday – Surviving the Dip
This week's Growth Mindset classroom discussion was about surviving "the dip." How many times in life have you gotten all excited about a new goal you have set for yourself - to lose weight, learn how to play an instrument or sport, learn a new language, to exercise more, to change a bad habit - only to find that a few days, weeks, or months into the process, you get so discouraged that you …
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Growth Mindset Friday – Our Brain CAN Grow and Mistakes Are Required
B. F. Skinner once wrote, "A failure is not always a mistake - it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." Today, during our growth mindset discussion time in our classrooms, we discussed the fact that our brain can grow, we can learn to do things that were once very hard to do, and that making mistakes (and not giving up) is key to that …
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