Building Growth Mindset Using Lessons From Sports in Out-of-School Settings

By Sanlyn Buxner, Erin Turner, Ricardo Valerdi, Seneca B. Miller, & Christina Baze

In sports, youth are coached to see persistence and hard work as important paths to personal improvement and success. They come to understand through practice that mistakes are tools to help them improve and that collaboration and teamwork are keys to success in team sports (Kovács & Szakál, 2024; Rottensteiner et al., 2015).