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Teaching Grit and Mindset in Afterschool Programs


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An easy-to-use, hands-on guide for understanding and teaching the success skills - grit and mindset - in the afterschool program environment. Are you working with kids your afterschool program who have potential but don't want to do anything? Here is a commonsense resource for busy afterschool program leaders and their staffs who face the challenges of helping kids increase their perseverance and develop the mindset and motivation to complete homework and fully engage in out-of-school learning experiences. This book is packed full of ready-to-use professional development, resources, trips, vignettes, and instructional activities. It is organized in four parts, five chapters within each part.Part I reviews research about mindset theory, grit, social emotional learning and connects those findings to practice in schools and afterschool programs. Part II outlines grit and mindset needs of adult employees. Part III includes strategies for teaching growth mindset and grit characteristics for children and youth. Part IV addresses the role that parents must play in learning about, adopting, nurturing, and developing growth mindset and grit. Conceptual frameworks for including grit and mindset discussions in daily interactions, conferences, extracurricular activities, social functions, and family night activities are presented. This book should be read by: -early childhood, afterschool, and youth development professionals.-school principals (and school leaders who work with before and after school care).-practicing and aspiring teachers.-21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) program leaders, trainers, and consultants.-college and university instructors.-professional association leaders.-related afterschool youth programs (YMCA, Boys & Girls Clubs, Parks & Recreation, etc.)
About the Author: Paul G. Young, Ph.D., has worked as a high school band director, elementary and junior high classroom teacher (grades 4, 5, and 7), an elementary school principal, and executive director of an afterschool program during a 45 year+ professional career in the Lancaster, Ohio, area. Additionally, for more than 35 years he has served as an adjunct professor of music and education classes at Ohio University-Lancaster. He served in leadership roles with both the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) and the National AfterSchool Association (NAA). He was elected president of the 30,000-member NAESP in 2002-2003. He served as a member of the NAA Board of Directors starting in 2008 before becoming NAA's President and CEO in 2010. He retired from association work in 2012. He has written extensively on the topic of school and afterschool alignment, led training workshops throughout the country, and played an influential role in the development of practical, evidence-based alignment strategies for school leaders and afterschool professionals. He is the author of Principal Matters: 101 Tips for Creating Collaborative Relationships Between After-School Programs and School Leaders and Lead the Way! available at www.ExtendEDnotes.com. Additionally, he has presented workshops and written many articles and books about leadership and mentoring for principals, music teachers, and aspiring teachers. He and his wife, Gertrude, a retired music teacher, live in Lancaster, Ohio.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781983595721
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 335 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1983595721
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jan 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: What students, staff, and parents should know and be able to do
  • Width: 152 mm


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