{"product_id":"creating-courageous-learners_9780807785737","title":"Creating Courageous Learners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can teachers create classroom cultures where students feel safe taking risks, being wrong, and working resiliently through failure?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreating Courageous Learners\u003c\/i\u003e provides a definitive, evidence-based roadmap for fostering intellectual risk-taking (IRT) in middle and high school settings. While society prizes the \"failing forward\" mindset of tech innovators, traditional secondary classrooms often penalize errors with high-stakes grading and rigid rubrics—fostering academic anxiety and silence. Authors Shelby Clark and Madora Soutter show how shifting the focus from \"performing for the grade\" to \"navigating the learning process\" transforms confusion and mistakes into the very engines of conceptual growth and intellectual character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrounded in synthesis data across three distinct research studies and building on foundational intellectual character scholarship by Ronald Beghetto and Jason Baehr, this book bridges theory and classroom practice. Clark and Soutter equip educators with seven overarching strategies and specific \"teacher moves\" to normalize disagreement, scaffold vulnerable student discourse, reframe confusion, and build psychological safety across all academic disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey features include:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisentangling growth mindset from action: How to move beyond student self-belief to cultivate observable intellectual risk-taking behaviors in daily learning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilding psychological safety: Practical \"teacher moves\" to eliminate fear of peer ridicule and normalize productive confusion during complex tasks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeven actionable pedagogical strategies: Concrete frameworks to structure classroom discussions, reframe grading, and praise exploratory reasoning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScaffolding vulnerable discourse: Techniques to establish classroom norms that encourage quiet or hesitant students to share unfinished ideas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCultivating long-term intellectual virtue: Aligning daily routines with character development to build resilient, lifelong learners ready for an unpredictable world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreating Courageous Learners\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that when educators construct environments anchored in trust and vulnerability, classrooms become vibrant spaces of inquiry, courage, and deep academic achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shelby Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46627083780198,"sku":"9780807785737","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4051\/5174\/files\/9780807785737.jpg?v=1787337007","url":"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/products\/creating-courageous-learners_9780807785737","provider":"Teachers College Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}