Hawai'i State DOE • A Growth Mindset for You and Me: Strategies for Teachers and Students to Increase Abilities and Achievement • 3 Credits • UMass Global
Course Fee: $65 (normally $165) + Optional Credit Fee: $210 = $275
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- ✅ Registration Fee: $65 (normally $165)
Instant access to your online classroom - ✅ UMass Global Credit Fee: $210 ($70/credit)
Feel free to pay later, even after course completion - ✅ Total Cost: $275 for the course and 3 graduate-level credits
- ✅ Finish anytime — 100% Self-Paced & Online
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Course Description:
Education specialist Chanelle Walker, M.Ed., is here to show you how to turn challenges into opportunities with the transformative power of a growth mindset. This highly practical FTBT Partner course equips educators with research-backed strategies to foster resilience, increase achievement, and help students and teachers alike develop the belief that abilities can grow through effort and learning.
What You’ll Learn:
- The Science of Growth Mindset: Understand how a growth mindset can close achievement gaps and empower students to overcome academic challenges.
- Practical Strategies for the Classroom: Learn evidence-based techniques to cultivate a growth mindset in your students and yourself.
- Embracing Challenges Together: Discover how to reframe the frustrations of teaching students below grade level into opportunities for growth and collaboration.
- Building Resilience and Achievement: Equip yourself with tools to inspire perseverance, improve problem-solving, and celebrate progress.
Why Educators Love This Course:
- Actionable Insights: Gain practical strategies you can use immediately to support your students and your teaching goals.
- Research-Backed Results: Learn from studies showing how a growth mindset drives higher achievement and greater equity.
- Empowering for Teachers and Students: Develop a classroom culture that thrives on effort, creativity, and continuous learning.
Transform Your Classroom Today:
By fostering a growth mindset, you’ll help students believe in their potential and give them the tools to achieve it. This course will inspire you to embrace today’s educational challenges as opportunities to grow and succeed — together.
Enroll Now!
Join us and unlock the power of a growth mindset for yourself and your students. Let's turn setbacks into triumphs, one step at a time.
Self-Paced, Quiz-Based, and Completely Online
Forget portfolios or lengthy written assignments — this is stress-free professional learning designed with YOU in mind. With no start dates and no due dates, you can begin and finish the course whenever it’s convenient. You don’t need to be working with students to complete it, and there are no scheduled meetings. The course is 100% self-paced and self-guided — so you can work whenever and wherever it fits your life.
🌎 This course is offered nationwide!
Open to educators, counselors, social workers, school staff, and professionals from all fields who need graduate-level university credits for salary advancement, license renewal, professional learning, or continuing education.
Special Information for Hawai‘i DOE Educators:
- ✔ This course provides 3 graduate-level university credits, which can be used in place of Learnsoft-issued (formerly PDE3) credits for HIDOE salary step movement and reclassification.
- ✔ Credits are issued by UMass Global or CSU Pueblo (depending on the course), and are accepted by HIDOE.
- ✔ No Learnsoft submission required — coursework is reviewed by our instructors.
✶ Important for HIDOE educators: Before starting, simply obtain verbal approval from your principal. When you’re ready to apply your credits, submit the signed
200-005 Form along with your transcript to the HIDOE Reclassification Unit.
💡 You may also qualify for reimbursement via the
HawaiiUSA Professional Support Stipend, available annually beginning each January.
🔗 For official HIDOE reclassification policy and university credit usage, see the HIDOE Guidelines for Reclassification.
To enroll in this course:
Start by completing the $165 registration using the banner link at the top of this page. That will create your For Teachers By Teachers (FTBT) account and give you immediate access to the online classroom. You can begin anytime and work at your own pace.
✶ Want 3 Graduate-Level University Credits through UMass Global?
Inside the classroom, you’ll find simple step-by-step instructions for UMass Global’s separate $210 credit registration process ($70 per credit). Everything you need — including the direct link, course code, and payment instructions — will be available after you enroll. You're welcome to wait until you've completed the course to make this payment.
University credit issued by UMass Global – a regionally accredited university partner.
For Teachers By Teachers is excited to offer this graduate-level course in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Global and FTBT Partner, Chanelle Walker.
Chanelle, the creator of this course, is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education from Walden University, specializing in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. She holds a Master of Education as a Reading Specialist from Notre Dame and is a faculty member at Ashland University's College of Education.
Chanelle also designs professional development for the Euclid Council of the Ohio Literacy Association, and has over a decade of experience in public school teaching. As the founder and CEO of Professional Inspiration — an organization focused on teacher wellness — she delivered an acclaimed TEDx talk on burnout prevention, "The Elephant in the Classroom," which you can watch here
Your Course Instructor
For Teachers By Teachers is a highly dedicated team of licensed educators with professional certifications across grades PK–12. Our areas of expertise include Special Education, Childhood Education, Art Education, and Reading Specialist certifications.
Collectively, our course authors and instructors bring more than 20 years of experience in the field of education. We are passionate about empowering teachers and have contributed meaningfully to school communities in Hawai‘i, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Ohio.
Our mission is to support your professional growth with flexible, high-quality online courses designed by teachers—for teachers. If you have any questions or need support, don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. We’re here to help!