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Why a Mindset Revolution is the Answer to Education’s Greatest Challenges

sevenmindsets2025-03-02T14:20:52-05:00March 2, 2025|

The challenges facing today’s schools—rising student anxiety, declining engagement, and low academic performance—demand a shift beyond traditional instruction. The Mindset Revolution calls for a focus on how students think, feel, and engage with their world, fostering resilience, motivation, and belief in their own potential. By integrating mindset development into education, we can transform school culture, improve student outcomes, and create lasting change.

Deficit Mindset to a Growth Mindset Approach

sevenmindsets2023-08-16T09:06:05-04:00November 30, 2022|

Our education system has focused for too long on what students lack, where they are failing, and what is “wrong” with them. This “deficit thinking”—or mindset—fails to see the innate strengths of students and runs the risk of inhibiting their ability to realize their full potential before they even get started. One of the most significant opportunities for those working in education today is a shift from this harmful deficit mindset to a growth mindset with a strengths-based approach.

6 Strategies For Teaching the Growth Mindset

sevenmindsets2022-10-18T04:23:58-04:00May 25, 2016|

Strategies to support a growth mindset. Learn ways to decreast youth anxiety and depression. Learn what it means to "celebrate failure."

3 Problems of a Fixed Mindset

sevenmindsets2022-11-11T19:23:36-05:00March 2, 2015|

Understanding the differences between them are key to each of us getting where we want to be in life. The exact opposite of a fixed mindset is a growth mindset, in which the growth we experience throughout our lives is what we value the most.