The fourth grade has been learning about the power of MINDSETS. Students learned about fixed mindsets, in which you see intelligence as unchanging, and growth mindsets, in which you see intelligence as something that can change. Persevering at challenging work does, in fact, lead to physical changes in the brain. In Ms. Echevarria’s classroom, lessons centered around a series of videos developed jointly by Carol Dweck’s PERTS Lab at Stanford University and the ClassDojo’s staff. Among the titles in the series were the following: A Secret About the Brain, The Magic of Mistakes, The Power of Yet, and The Word of Neurons. The Power of Yet video focuses students on the language they use when they encounter challenges at school. Instead of saying “I can’t do this,” students learn to say “I can’t do this- yet.” In so doing, they are developing a “growth mindset” that will be useful throughout their lives. The comic project was designed to allow students to show what they had learned about the power of the word “yet.”

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