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Growth Mindset: Changing your culture

Pedagogy
The work to adopt growth mindset strategies and approaches at Hanham Woods Academy continues. Surface cultures have changed, and the focus is now on deep culture change. Rebecca Tushingham explains.

Growth mindset has made the transition from academic research into educational practice in a big way over the past few years. At Hanham Woods Academy, we have been on a journey of discovery to find out how to make growth mindset work for us and our students.

Our motivation for wanting to place growth mindset at the heart of our ethos comes from our desire to raise the ambitions of our students and their families and in doing so perhaps transform their life chances to some degree.

A recent INSET enabled us pause for thought to reflect upon the things that we are challenging ourselves to do more of in the pursuit of learner grit and resilience. These are a few of my favourites:

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