
(4 Cs for 21st Century Learning Rubric)
Growth Mindset & Effort
As a part of building a culture of problem solvers, our staff began studying the work of Carol Dweck on growth mindset. We seek to embed the ideas of persevering, work hard, the power of “yet,” and seeing failure as a learning opportunity. Through this work and our work on rethinking grading, we developed an Effort Rubric. This is used by teachers in grades 2-5 as well as Related Arts to help students self-assess and set goals for their focus, accountability, participation and initiative. This tool is also a part our each student’s agenda book so that parents can refer to it as well.