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All parents want their children to be successful in school, sports, and extracurricular activities. But it's not just about giving your kids praise or setting them on the right direction. Research shows that success is often dependent on mindset. Hard work, perseverance, and effort are all hallmarks of a growth mindset. That's where Mindsets for Parents: Strategies to Encourage Growth Mindsets in Kids comes in. Designed to provide parents with a roadmap for developing a growth mindset home environment, this book's conversational style and real-world examples make the popular mindsets topic approachable and engaging. It includes tools for informally assessing the mindsets of both parent and child, easy-to-understand brain research, and suggested strategies and resources for use with children of any age. This book gives parents and guardians powerful knowledge and methods to help themselves and their children learn to embrace life's challenges with a growth mindset and an eye toward increasing their effort and success!



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Mary Cay Ricci

Mary Cay Ricci is a life-long educator. She has been an elementary and middle school teacher, instructional specialist and central office administrator. Mary Cay was an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Education for 8 years. She has her Masters of Education degree from Johns Hopkins University and attended Mercyhurst University for her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education. Mary Cay has been applying Carol Dweck's growth mindset research to classrooms, schools and districts since 2009. Mary Cay is a popular keynote speaker and consultant who loves to help transform administrators, teachers and parents into growth mindset thinkers through interactive workshops. Information about booking Mary Cay for an event can be found at www.marycayricci.com. Mary Cay loves hearing from educators who have embraced a growth mindset, please feel free to contact her!Mary Cay RicciTwitter@MaryCayRMaryCayR@msn.comVisit her website: www.marycayricci.com



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