Propel Launches DashStrom Growth Mindset Training in 6 Schools This week marked a milestone for DashStrom: our growth mindset classes are now up and running at six Propel Schools elementary campuses. It’s our largest single-partner launch to date, and it happened during one of the best weeks of the year to celebrate after-school learning. Six schools, one shared language When Propel invited DashStrom to join its after-school programming this fall, we celebrated the idea of co

An encouraging, effort-based culture is one of the most powerful, and most measurable, levers a school leader has. If you stopped ten students in the hallway of your school this afternoon and asked them what happens when they get something wrong, what would they tell you? Would they describe a place where mistakes are data; proof that a hard problem is finally being wrestled with? Or would they describe a place where getting something wrong feels like a verdict on who they ar

There's a moment every coach lives for. It happens quietly, often mid-class, when a child who walked in with hunched shoulders and a shaky "I don't think I can do this" plants their feet, takes a breath, and says, "Okay. I will try my best." It doesn't always look dramatic. But for anyone who has witnessed it, it is one of the most powerful things a child can do. And one of the most important things a coach can help facilitate.