Promoting Belonging, Growth Mindset, and Resilience to Foster Student Success

In recent years, growth mindset, resilience, and belonging have become popular topics for research and practice among college educators. The authors of this new volume aim to deepen the conversation around these noncognitive factors that significantly impact student success. Along with offering support for the development of learning mindsets, this book contains strategies for faculty and staff to consider as they create initiatives, programs, and assessments for use in and outside the classroom. Informative features include: Learning Mindset Stories, highlighting how students, faculty, and staff members dealt with issues related to belonging, growth mindset, and resilience; Campus Conversations, providing questions for generating discussion among faculty, staff, and students on what institutions can do to incorporate learning mindsets with an eye toward student success; and Next Steps, serving as a roadmap for implementing institutional change. "This book aims to deepen the conversation about the noncognitive factors that significantly impact student success. Not just a book about how to support the development of learning mindsets such as belonging, growth mindset, and resilience in students, it will also include strategies for college personnel to consider as they create initiatives, programs, and assessments to develop these noncognitive factors"-- Provided by publisher