Why 'Good Effort' isn't Good Enough
By Tricia Taylor General or verbose praise about effort has little meaning, and kids can see right through it. Telling a class that...


THE BIG REVEAL: Showing Students How Metacognition Works
By Tricia Taylor THE EXPERT IN YOU When I talk to adults about metacognition, I begin with a broken vacuum cleaner (a picture of it, that...


How One Primary School Put Mindset into Practice
Although I’ve been teaching and leading in schools for more than 20 years, I find this time in education to be the most exciting in terms...


A Mindset for Learning Languages
By TRICIA TAYLOR Learning a language can be daunting—you might say the wrong thing or feel a little foolish—but that’s part of the...





















