I've never been to London even though that traveling there is on my "bucket list." I feel like I grew up on the Beatles, Monty Python, Harry Potter and so much more. When I go I plan to be traveling by cab. Why would l try to figure out streets that look like this? This is how the book is introduced. It looks like cabbies in London have to pass a test about every nook and crannie in their city. We are going on a trip to one of the most interesting places in the world! I am hoping that you will come along as we begin our journey through Mathematical Mindsets that have been created for us by our parents and teachers through the years. While many of our experiences are similar, none are the same. And the experiences we create each day for our students can become new roads, never before traveled. Teachers choose the path of travel. We even have the ability to create different paths for each of our students. On this blog, our tour guide is Jo Boaler, professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. We follow her through words, video and mindset! I will support her work with research and resources that are easy to implement but when consistently used can make big differences to individual students. I know that together we will discover new ways to promote Mathematics in our classrooms and for the future of our students and the country. Your participation is important because we are in the cab together. Please comment often and thanks for reading and "Viva la Revolution!" We all have our Math stories. I have many. When I was in school, I was a boy who just wanted to play. Get it done so I can go out and play. I could usually just scrape by with a C or C- and be very happy with that. While my teachers and my dad were frustrated, I really thought that Math was the most boring subject and really not worthy of any real thought. It was not until later in College when I had a vested interest in the Math that I began to feel that Math was not so bad after all. So as a teacher my struggle was how to get students interested in Math. How to get them to pay attention and participate. Engagement is the key to get students to become interested and willing to invest more of themselves. But most of the time it helps if they know "why" they are learning this. The real issue is if you really believe that all students should have access to great teachers who believe it all students, not just some students. As this is a blog, your comments make all this work worth while. Believing that you have a valuable interest in the conversation is in itself growth mindset at its best. So how can teaching with a growth mindset help to improve our schools and ultimately our students? We would love to hear your thoughts. EDWEEK November, 2017
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