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Expectations: "The Barnstable Story": Sending High-Expectation Messages: Middle School

The whole Barnstable Middle School has made a commitment to build effort based ability into everything they do. Their results are outstanding. It shows how just this intervention, if done skillfully and throughout a school, can make a great difference. It also highlights the importance of leadership from the principal, the superintendent, and teachers to this successful effort.

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schoolwide adoption, total school study groups, significance of leadership, collective efficacy
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This program teaches what it looks like and sounds like when a teacher acts authentically from a growth mindset. Participants will learn how to choose language, develop classroom structures, and use effective instructional strategies to motivate all students, but particularly to get low-performing, low-confidence students to change their stereotypes about themselves.

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