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Title: Growing Mathletes: A Model for Integrating Growth Mindset and Other Content in Informal Settings
Growing Mathletes is an NSF-funded program that is developing a curricular model to successfully integrate growth mindset principles, baseball, and math and science concepts for youth in grades 3 to 8 in out of school learning settings. Using a Design-Based Implementation Research framework for implementing, testing, and revising a curriculum and professional learning model, we are working on best practices to support youth learning and confidence as well as facilitator training and support in both afterschool and summer programs. We present youth outcomes as evidence of successes in how the program has integrated growth mindset with other content as a way to support youth’s productive mindset in their own learning along with content gains.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2005793
PAR ID:
10528559
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Schultz, Greg; Barnes, Jonathan; Shore, Linda
Publisher / Repository:
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Date Published:
Volume:
537
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Teaching Astronomy: New Opportunities, Tools, Innovations, and Resources
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Virtual
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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