Here’s how StoryCorps describes their new animated video: When Theresa Burroughs came of voting age, she was ready to cast her ballot—but she had a long fight ahead of her. During the Jim Crow era, the board of registrars at Alabama’s Hale County Courthouse prevented African Americans from registering to vote. Undeterred, Theresa remembers venturing to the courthouse on the first and third Monday of each month, in pursuit of her right to vote. I’m adding it to The Best Websites To Teach & Learn About African-American History.

The Supreme Court has just made a terrible decision to hear the Friedrichs case which, if they rule in favor of the plaintiffs (the likely outcome) will eviscerate public employee unions, including our teachers associations. And those are not the only ones who will be affected. As I said in a tweet earlier today: I thought readers might find these resources on the case helpful (you might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning Why Teachers Unions Are Important): The End of Public-Employee Unions? is from The Atlantic. Activists look to courts to weaken grip of California teachers union is from The Sacramento Bee. What AFT members need to know about the ‘Friedrichs’ case is from The American Federation of Teachers. Teachers ask high court to hear union dues case is from Ed Source. Justices take up dispute over union fees is from The Associated Press. Supreme Court to Reconsider Key Precedent on Teachers’ Union Fees is from Ed Week. Joint Statement on Public Service Workers on Supreme Court Grant of Cert in Friedrichs v. CTA Supreme Court to hear case challenging compulsory fees to CTA is from Ed Source.

Bansi Kara shared a Guardian story from today headlined Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking. It’s about a wild-looking Glasgow University project that has mapped "metaphoric connections" over the past 1,300 years (yes, that’s one thousand three hundred years). I haven’t quite figured out how to use it, and nor have I figured out its practical purpose, but I suspect the former might have something to do with the latter. If you have better luck, please let me know. I’m adding this post to The Best "Language Maps."

Ted-Ed just came out with a new video and lesson on "The incredible history of China’s terracotta warriors." I’m adding the video to the Ancient & Classical Periods section of my World History class blog.

This post originally was a request for help to find clips, and now I’ve turned it into a "Best" list sharing the ones readers have recommended. Last week, readers were very responsive to my request for help in finding TV and movie scenes that demonstrated metacognition, and you can see them all at The Best Movie/TV Scenes Demonstrating Metacognition - Help Me Find More. Now, I’m looking for clips showing characters demonstrating a growth mindset. I’ve got plenty of great clips and animations that explicitly explain what a growth mindset it, and you can see them at The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A "Growth Mindset." But video clips from TV and the movies are obviously more engaging to students, so I’d like to have a few in the mix. You might also be interested in: The Best Movie Scenes, Stories, & Quotations About "Transfer Of Learning" - Help Me Find More! The Best Video Clips Demonstrating "Grit" - Help Me Find More The Best Video Clips On Goal-Setting — Help Me Find More The Best Video Clips & Full-Length Movies For Helping To Teach Persuasive Techniques (Help Me Find More) The Best Video Clips On The Benefits Of Writing Well — Help Me Find More The Best Video Clips & Full-Length Movies For Helping To Teach Persuasive Techniques (Help Me Find More) The Best Funny Videos Showing The Importance Of Being Bilingual Or Multilingual — Part One The Best Funny Videos To Help Teach Grammar - Help Me Find More The Best Fun Videos To Teach Language Conventions — Help Me Find More The Best Videos For Teaching & Learning About Figurative Language Here are The Best TV/Movie Scenes Demonstrating A "Growth Mindset": Moshe Mittelman recommends this great one from Back To The Future: Mrs. Waters suggests these first two: Judith Dubois recommends this one: Here’s one suggested by Reed Gillespie - I just wish it didn’t convey that the teacher would get the student "there." Instead, I wish it conveyed more clearly that the student would get "there" more on his own - with some assistance from the "teacher." Here’s one that sort of relates to a growth mindset, but is more just inspirational: Jen Marten suggests this from Meet The Robinsons: Fred Delventhal made these recommendations: I’d follow up that last video with this one:

Last night, I asked readers to recommend movie scenes that demonstrated a growth mindset. Here is what they’ve come up with so far: Mrs. Waters suggests these first two: Judith Dubois recommends this one:

The Atlantic published a great article on class sizes today. It’s headlined Too Many Kids. Here’s how it ends: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About How Class Size Does Matter.

The new "question-of-the-week" at my Education Week Teacher column is: What is your best advice to a new teacher? Feel free to leave your responses in the comments section there or here…

Here are new additions to The Best TV/Movie Scenes Demonstrating A "Growth Mindset" - Help Me Find More. I can always use more! Jen Marten suggests this from Meet The Robinsons: Fred Delventhal made these recommendations: I’d follow up that last video with this one: Keep your suggestions coming!

I’ve invited Laura Gibbs to contribute this guest post about a creative project she’s doing and inviting others to join, too. I’m adding this post to The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A "Growth Mindset." Laura Gibbs is an online instructor who teaches mythology and folklore at the University of Oklahoma; find out more at mythfolklore.net. Growth mindset: this a term familiar to many teachers, but it’s even more important for students to learn what the growth mindset can mean for them. You can tell students about Carol Dweck’s research that shows how learning results from effort over time, not simply from "brains" or raw talent. You can provide details about neurobiology, and you can talk about potential, persistence, and other abstract notions. But how can you really reach students, especially younger students, with these ideas? Here’s a possibility: growth mindset memes! By combining text and images, memes are able to make a powerful impression, often conveying complex ideas in just a few words. The brevity of memes makes them a great option for student composition, and free online tools like Cheezburger and Automotivator (to name just two) make it easy for everyone — students and teachers alike — to create memes and share them on the Internet. So, after a great presentation on growth mindset by Laura Slade at the Upgrading Online conference on June 24, 2015, I decided to create a blog where I could publish and collect growth mindset memes while also inviting others to share and contribute. You can see the blog here: Growth Mindset Memes. Another teacher has joined in, too: Susan Strickland has started her own Cheezburger Board of Latin LOLCat memes to promote the growth mindset with her Latin students. We hope that others will want to contribute either by creating your own blog of growth mindset memes, or perhaps a Cheezburger Board like the one by Magistra Susan — or even just by sharing your memes with the #growthmindset hashtag at Twitter. There are lots of possibilities; here are some ideas about How to Contribute. And to give you an idea of what the memes can do, see what you think of these LOLCats with a growth mindset (made with Cheezburger): I love a challenge! The bigger the challenge, the more you stretch. You can even make animated gifs for multilingual memes like this Spanish-Latin-English LOLcat (animation done with GIMP): Si puedes soñarlo, puedes hacerlo. Si potes somniare, facere potes. If you can dream it, you can do it. Any type of meme can work, of course — it’s not just about cats. For example, here are some motivational poster memes (made with Automotivator): They wouldn’t make erasers if we didn’t make mistakes. Fall down seven times, get up eight. So, if you are a teacher with an interest in growth mindset (and it’s valuable for teachers of all subjects at all ages), see what kinds of memes you can invent, and then set your memes in motion by sharing them online. To learn more about growth mindset and what it can offer both students and teachers, be sure to check out Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, and you can also follow the #growthmindset hashtag at Twitter.