Carol Dweck's research around growth mindset has revolutionalized education. And yet too often, we do not see the learning translate to our engagement with dialogues and cultural competency. This presentation seeks to draw parallels between educational outcomes and cultural competency outcomes when growth mindset is applied.

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Why Are We Still Talking About This?
Growth Mindset and Cultural Competency
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2. Key Elements of Cultural Competency
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Value Orientation
Diversity as Value Added
Respect
Relationships
Equity

3. Key Elements of Cultural Competency
Thought Orientation
Knowledge
Awareness
Systems Thinking
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4. Key Elements of Cultural Competency
Action Orientation
Consciousness Building
Capacity Building
Assessment
Adaptation
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5. Missing From the Conversation:
Growth Mindset
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6. Debunking Some Myths
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 All or None
 Mistakes
 Apologies
 “Tonsils” Theory
 Vulnerability

7. Growing Through Mistakes
William Taylor’s Reflective Competence Model
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8. Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
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9. Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
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FIXED:
• If you are a good
person, you must be
competent.
• Incompetent people are
bad.
• The “badness” of bias
can be removed once
light is brought to it.
• Once it’s gone, it’s gone
forever, and you will
never make mistakes.
GROWTH:
• We are all on a journey,
and competence is
always aspirational.
• Incompetent people just
have not had enough
exposure and practice.
• We are continuing to
undo learning that the
world still socializes us
to learn.

10. Challenges
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11. Challenges
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FIXED:
• I don’t feel safe.
• We can have this
conversation when we
are truly ready.
• If we talk about it, things
will get worse.
GROWTH:
• I am uncomfortable – I
must be learning a lot.
• As much as we have
much more to learn, we
need to engage in this
conversation.
• Not talking about it will
result in status quo, and
status quo is not an
option.

12. Obstacles
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13. Obstacles
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FIXED:
• We had that
conversation once,
and it was disastrous.
• I tried to build
relationships with
members of that
group, and they
weren’t interested in
connecting with me.
GROWTH:
• Mistakes in this work
are inevitable.
• I learned so much in
that setback. That
learning will be so
useful for me going
forward.

14. Effort
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15. Effort
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FIXED:
• Some of my best
friends are ***
• I already know this
stuff.
• Why can’t we just
get along?
GROWTH:
• If I really want
authentic
connection, I have
to try harder.
• Anything worth
doing will be
difficult.

16. Criticism
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17. Criticism
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FIXED:
• Are you calling me a
racist? Well, I’m not.
• We’re a great and
loving school. You
are just being
negative.
• Things were fine until
you brought it up.
GROWTH:
• Thank you for
bringing this to my
attention.
• Wow, I didn’t realize
that was a blind spot
for me until now.
Thank goodness now
I know.

18. Success of Others
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19. Success of Others
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FIXED:
• Well, she may know
about race, but she
knows nothing about
class.
• Of course he knows
about ability – he’s
disabled. How am I
supposed to know as
much?
• Well, I wouldn’t do it
that way.
GROWTH:
• I wonder what work
she did to get to the
point she is at in her
understanding.
• I should ask that
person for some
advice on how I can
grow.
• What does this person
do that can I
incorporate into my
own practice?

20. Long Term Impacts
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21. Long Term Impacts
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FIXED:
As a result, these folks
are stuck in inaction,
worried that they might
give themselves away
as incompetent. Much
energy is spent
intellectualizing,
deflecting, and
defending actions or
points of view.
GROWTH:
As a result, these folks
are always becoming
more and more
competent. Their
relationships are more
authentic and
comfortable, they are
resilient through rough
patches, and they are
eager to learn more.

22. Our Charge Today and Beyond
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23. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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24. On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no more hiding place down here.

25. You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spilling words
Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out today, you may stand on me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song,
Come rest here by my side.

26. Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet, today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more. Come,
Clad in peace and I will sing the songs
The Creator gave to me when I and the
Tree and the stone were one.

27. Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your
Brow and when you yet knew you still
Knew nothing.
The River sings and sings on.
There is a true yearning to respond to
The singing River and the wise Rock.
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew
The African and Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.
They hear. They all hear
The speaking of the Tree.

28. Today, the first and last of every Tree
Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Plant yourself beside me, here beside the River.
Each of you, descendant of some passed
On traveller, has been paid for.
You, who gave me my first name, you
Pawnee, Apache and Seneca, you
Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, then
Forced on bloody feet, left me to the employment of
Other seekers--desperate for gain,
Starving for gold.

29. You, the Turk, the Swede, the German, the Scot …
You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru, bought
Sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare
Praying for a dream.
Here, root yourselves beside me.
I am the Tree planted by the River,
Which will not be moved.
I, the Rock, I the River, I the Tree
I am yours--your Passages have been paid.
Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.

30. Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.

31. The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me, the
Rock, the River, the Tree, your country.
No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.
Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning