Welcome to episode 107 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life,

encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators

and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to share six ways you can infuse growth mindset into daily classroom routines.

Visit truth for teachers.com to get the links to recommended resources that I share at the end of the episode or just to share your thoughts in the comments on the blog post.

So I want to apologize in advance for the quality of the audio this time. I am

recording this standing at my bathroom sink at our apartment in Brooklyn and I try

really hard not to ever record podcast episodes in the city because it's too noisy.

Like there's it's impossible for me to get even five minutes into an episode without there being sirens, people shouting, horns honking, there's always

so much background noise. I just can't get a good recording. So this time I didn't have a choice, I have to do this here today and I'm thinking well we'll do it in the

bathroom and hope that it's not too echoy so the sound is a little bit different that's

what's going on I do not have a sound-proofed podcast recording studio as much as I would love to have

one so chances are you probably hear some background noise from time to time and it may be a little bit

worse today and it may be a little bit echoy from me being in the bathroom.

So my apologies on that.

Let's go ahead and dive into the show.

We're going to be talking about growth mindset today,

which has been a buzzword in education for quite a while. I think a lot of teachers and kids are already familiar with it.

But I've noticed a pitfall that seems to occur fairly often and that's what I'm hoping that this episode will help address.

Growth Mindsette is introduced to students usually at the beginning of the year and then the

curriculum demands seem to take precedent. When you have so many skills that you have to

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