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Growth Mindset

The Mindset Kit is a free set of online lessons and practices designed to help you teach and foster adaptive beliefs about learning.

For Teachers

Developed in collaboration with Raise The Bar. Parents learn what a growth mindset is, why it’s important, and best practices to support their children in developing this learning belief.

For Parents

How Not to Talk to Your KidsNew York Magazine
Research shows praising effort, not intelligence, helps children build resilience, embrace challenges, and improve performance.

For Parents

Khan Academy and PERTS, Stanford University’s applied
research center on academic motivation, created this lesson alongside some of our middle school classrooms in order to provide a few activities to introduce students to the concept that intelligence can be developed. Feel free to adapt and edit these activities below to meet the needs of your classroom.

For Teachers & Parents

Common Core Learning Standards

On this page you can find the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics and English Language Arts.

For Teachers

Teach and learn with The Times: Resources for bringing the world into your classroom

New York State Regents Exams

NYS Regents Exams in PDF format are part of the Library’s Digital Collections. In addition to current exams, many historical ones have also been digitized: some of the oldest Regents Exams currently available online are in Physical Geography (1884) and Astronomy (1893).

Past examinations.

For Teachers & Parents