Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset is the 1st series of ClassDojo Big Ideas
== Big Ideas Site Summary ==
ClassDojo and Stanford's PERTS Research Center teamed up to create the the first season of The Mojo Show. The five-episode video series (along with a few incredible activities) highlight the power of having a growth mindset, and how any student can learn this skill! 
== Episodes ==
Episode 1: Your Brain is Like a Muscle 
Mojo is a friendly monster who loves math, at least, he used to. After struggling with challenging math problems, he decides to give up and leave school forever. Fortunately, his friend Katie stops him by teaching him about how his brain is like a muscle and can grow and become smarter by doing hard work. However, as Mojo is about to ask Katie if even he could become smarter, she dashes off to her next class, leaving Mojo to think about this question himself.
Episode 2: The Magic of Mistakes 
Mojo decides to join a robotics competition the school is hosting, but quickly learns that building a robot isn’t as easy as it seems. Just as he's given up and thrown the robot away, Katie shows up, complimenting the robot. Mojo, however, doesn't think the robot is as good as Katie makes it out to be and tells her about how he kept making mistakes, so he gave up. Katie tells Mojo about how mistakes can make his brain grow, depending on whether he gives up or learns from them. As Mojo takes another look at his robot, he starts to see mistakes differently and thinks they aren't so bad after all.
Episode 3: The Incredible Power of Yet 
In Katie's favorite class, science class, the students are doing a fun project, but Katie just didn’t get it. As she starts to ask for help, she fears being made fun of, so she keeps quiet. Later that day at lunch, Mojo tells Katie how he has been using what she taught him. While doing the science project Katie was also doing, he got stuck. Normally, he would have given up, but with the knowledge of how his brain is like a muscle, he thinks “It’s not like I can't do this, I just can't do it YET!” so he asks Bruce for help, with Bruce happily agreeing. Katie thinks maybe it's time to learn a lesson from Mojo, after him learning so much from her.
Episode 4: The Mysterious World of Neurons 
Mojo arrives at school one day and receives a package for a new device he bought that is promised to “grow his brain.” Before he can put it on, Katie shows up and brings Mojo to see Ms. Clara, a neuroscientist turned art teacher to show him how his brain actually grows. When they go see Ms. Clara, she says to Mojo the only way to grow his brain is to “learn challenging things.” After some thinking Mojo tells Katie that they're going to take on the biggest challenge they have ever done.
Episode 5: Mojo Puts It All Together 
Mojo and Katie take on the biggest challenge they ever have, building a working rocket that would fly to space. After months of work, they launch the rocket at school. Unfortunately, it doesn't get too far off the ground before crashing, Katie reassures Mojo that they probably grew their brains by trying such a big challenge. Mojo grows hopeless that night in bed, wondering why it mattered if his brain was like a muscle, if he always failed in the end anyway. In the morning, he wakes up positively, rushing to Katie at school and telling her that they should work more on the rocket to help it go farther. Katie is excited too, as she remembers how far Mojo has come since the time he wanted to leave school. Now he loved challenges and couldn't wait to grow his brain.
== Trivia ==
* Growth Mindset took only 8 weeks to create, as said by Sam Chaudhary, ClassDojo's CEO in an interview with YCombinator