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How do we create a school culture that supports the development of a Growth Mindset in our students, teachers and wider community?
James Anderson is a speaker, author, and educator who for more than 20 years has been working in education to make schools more thought-filled places.
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'Schools will dump it': expert raises doubts over 'growth mindset' phenomenon
With its focus on grit, embracing mistakes and the power of "yet", the growth mindset phenomenon - the idea students can "grow their brain" through challenges and hard work - has taken Australian education by storm. Read more →
What People Are Saying…
Dean Finlay
Principal Ocean Road Primary School & WAPPA Board Member
“The impact for staff and students at Ocean Road Primary School has been profound with Growth Mindsets permeating through classrooms across the school.
James has the ability to captivate his audiences and deliver challenging content based on the work of Carol Dweck.”
Karen Merrick
Director of Strategy and Planning Arndell Anglican College
“James' energetic presentation style engaged and challenged staff about the concepts of Growth Mindset and how we use language to build resilience in ourselves and our students. The development of Carol Dweck's "Not Yet" to "What's Next" has had instant impact on our thinking about Growth Mindset.
I thoroughly recommend James Anderson for whole school professional development and look forward to working further with James on our journey of building a Growth Mindset culture across our College community.”
Kellie Jenkinson
Principal of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Rockhampton
“A sincere thank you for today. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive from all of my staff. I commend you for delivering such an engaging and polished Zoom to a remote crowd….. I take my hat off to you. Presenting in this way is not an easy task and you did a wonderful job.”
Marie Auvachen Principal, North Danalup Primary School
“I found the content and delivery to be so professional, thought provoking and inspiring.
I really appreciated the opportunity to be involved. This has definitely impacted on the way I will lead my school into the future.”
Jo Mohan
Manager of Risk Education and Training at Risk Partners
“James Anderson delivered a half day growth mindset session with our team during our conference in November. James was very professional to deal with during the planning phase. We had amazing feedback from the session, ran with our team, it was one of our favorite sessions of the conference.
James is a great storyteller and he took us all on a journey of growth mindset. He raised some interesting and thought provoking points, there was time for self-reflection as well as activities that helped to bring some of the concepts to life. Mindset is such an amazing and interesting thing and James really helped us to recognize some of the potentials and pitfalls of our own mindsets. Thank you James for an energetic session.”
Anthony Greene
Principal of St Peter’s Catholic Primary School, Rockhampton