Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Challenge, Deeper Learning, and Solutions

"The project of creating better environments for children growing up in adversity is, at bottom, the work of individuals."
(page 113, Kindle Edition)

"The first step is simply to embrace the idea, as those researchers did, that we can do better."
(page 114, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Relationships and Pedagogy

"The central premise of EL schools is that character is built not through lectures or direct instruction from teachers but through the experience of persevering through challenging academic work."
(page 98, Kindle Edition)

"In order for a student to truly feel motivated by and about school, he also has to perceive that he is doing important work— work that is challenging, rigorous, and deep."
(page 99, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Messages and Mindsets

"Moments of failure, Farrington believed, are the time when students are most susceptible to messages, both positive and negative, about their potential. If they hear the message that a failure is a final verdict on their ability, they may well give up and pull back from school. But if instead they get the message that a failure is a temporary stumble, or even a valuable opportunity to learn and improve, then that setback is more likely to propel them to invest more of themselves in their education."
(page 75, Kindle Edition)

"She distilled the voluminous research on student mindset into four key beliefs that contribute most significantly to students’ tendency to persevere in the classroom: I belong in this academic community; my ability and competence grow with my effort; I can succeed at this; and this work has value for me."
(page 78, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Motivation and Assessment

"Students feel competent, they say, when their teachers give them tasks that they can succeed at but that aren’t too easy— challenges just a bit beyond their current abilities."
(page 63, Kindle Edition)

"Teachers create a certain climate, students behave differently in response to that climate, and those new behaviors lead to success."
(page 72, Kindle Edition)

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