Fostering Growth Mindset presented by Rabbi Chaim Ellis - Parent Session

What

Fostering Growth Mindset presented by Rabbi Chaim Ellis - Parent Session

When

1/5/2020, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where

The Emery Weiner School 9825 Stella Link

Parent session:
We invite parents to learn how they can incorporate a Growth Mindset in the home.


In this era of high stakes testing and increased teacher accountability, correct answers are too often valued as the measure of success over the learning journey. As a result, classrooms become risk-averse, where learning by discovery is overshadowed by speed and accuracy. This session explores strategies for fostering classroom environments permeated by a growth mindset, where risk-taking, mistakes, challenge, and persistence is not only valued but expected. In this workshop, participants will compare and contrast the learning and performance zone and discuss how to make those differences clear to students; identify strategies that support self-reflection, practice, and engagement in the learning zone; explore strategies to create opportunities for students to take risks, engage in exploratory activities.

Rabbi Chaim Ellis, LISW-S, is an alumnus of the Mir Rabbinical College in Jerusalem and a graduate of Cleveland State University. He is a Licensed Social Worker in the State of Ohio. For the last fifteen years he has been an educator at the Hebrew Academy and serves as the school’s social worker at Yeshiva Derech Hatorah in Cleveland, Ohio. Rabbi Ellis is also a therapist in private practice: treating behavioral, socio-emotional and relationship issues. He provides trainings and consultations to schools, organizations, and mental health agencies. Rabbi Ellis' blended experience in the fields of mental health and education helps provide an understanding into the academic and emotional well-being of our children and adolescents.