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Growth Mindset – More Evidence

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley13/06/201513 Comments

If you are a school teacher and you haven’t heard of Carol Dweck’s ubiquitous growth and fixed mindset concept then… quite frankly, where the hell have you been for the past few years? No …

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@tombennett71 @C_Hendrick @HuntingEnglish One the hardest things I have found as an academic is to be as skeptical and critical of research that supports my beliefs as I am about research that contradicts them.

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Thank you for including me in your list this week 😊 https://twitter.com/schoolsweek/status/1307167532835647488

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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