Dulaine offering room for creative improvisation and experimentation. He uses what's relevant to the kids to open them up to what he's trying to teach them.

This is Caitlyn taking Monster's fixed mindset and trying to alter it to a growth mindset. Monster like all these kids is struggling with identity and literally where he fits in, and obviously battles with a fixed mindset (probably as a result of his size, nickname, reputation? Who knows what he's been through to develop this...) feeling like he just "can't" do certain things or "isn't made" to do certain things.

This has a lot to do with identity and role confusion... bouncing off of her mother forcing her to have a cotillion and behave a certain way, and then exposing herself to this new environment, she's figuring out where/how she fits into things. She's also entering a community of practice, maybe a slightly dysfunctional one at this point, but a community nonetheless.

Important. This is the "yet" these kids need. Making the students understand that while they don't yet have a skill, they completely have the capacity to develop it. This puts them in the zone of proximal development, while altering a fixed mindset that they may be exposed to on a regular basis, what they can and can't, should and shouldn't, do. With work comes results.

She knows so much about "us," maybe she'll sit backwards in a chair and be even more relatable!

Dates for program 1802-1885