Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Faculty Meeting Notes: Growth Mindset and the Draft ES Action Plan

Below you can find information and links to the past two faculty meetings

Growth Mindset:
Parent Coffee presentation
Cheat Sheet for Parents in Support of Changing Language
Mindset test

Draft ES Action Plan for 2016 - 2017
Please find the slide show here.
Please find the draft plan here.

Feedback for the Action Plan
Please use the Google Document for communicating feedback. It is important that we all promote open communication, transparency, and honesty when sharing thoughts upon the draft plan.

In order to receive actionable feedback, it will be incredibly helpful and important to receive feedback and/or questions like the following:
- Pacing and volume (too much, too few, too slow, too fast) and with suggestions what to focus on and how to pace it.
- Clarifying questions (Where can further information be found? Links? How will the process go ahead, What is...,
- Prioritizing: E.g. I think it would be important to try to focus on ... first, because...,
- Reactions: Great! This is really important, because... Stop! This doesn't seem so important because....
Worries and Concerns
- This may be challenging because...
- How a decision on ... will be made?
- This sounds scary because...
- Will this mean that...