Mrs. Chandni Langford at Evergreen Avenue Elementary in Woodbury, New Jersey, recently wrote inspiring messages on her 5th grade students’ desks to help encourage them before they took their exams.
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One graffiti note reads, “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, but it is going to be worth it!”
A United States teacher has been praised across the world for the lengths she went to to make her nervous students feel better about a test. To alleviate her students’ fears, the teacher got creative. “There is no elevator to success, you must take the stairs!” she told another. “Remember, never stop trying and never stop growing your brain!”
The words, she calls #growthmindset messages, were meant to give her students a boost of confidence before their standardized tests.
“We’ve been talking a lot about growth mindset the past few months, so I picked quotes that resonated with each student”, Langford told TODAY.
“I want my kids to know that I appreciate them and that I believe they can achieve anything they want to”, Langford said. “I thought this would be a cute thing for them to walk into”. She said the messages connect with the “growth mindset” learning strategy that she has used in her classroom of 19 students since January.
So far, the pictures posted to Facebook of her inspirational desks have been shared more than 18,000 with total strangers commending her efforts – showing that a little doodle, can go a long way.
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One of Mrs. Langford’s messages to a student.
