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Persevering in Child Nutrition

Discover how embracing a growth mindset can help build perseverance in child nutrition. Learn ways to increase grit, determination, and passion for learning. Take risks, learn from mistakes, and love what you do to succeed in the field.

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Persevering in Child Nutrition

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  1. A Look at the Growth Mindset by Lauren Collins Persevering in Child Nutrition

  2. About me • Married to my husband Chris for 14 years • 2 children: Cadence-13 Izzy-10 • Enjoy reading, binge-watching Netflix, being active in our church, coaching youth basketball, and traveling the country watching softball. • Child Nutrition Director at Bismarck- 5 years

  3. About my school: Bismarck • 1000 enrollment- 64% free/reduced • Participation-50% • 3 schools, 2 serving sites • Staff- Elementary/MS Café Manager, 7 full time cooks, 1 part time cook, full time food service secretary

  4. About the growth mindset • When people believe they can get smarter, they understand that effort makes them stronger. Therefore they put in extra time and effort, and that leads to higher achievement. • Develop Grit, Perseverance and Determination • Learn specific ways of increasing grit, determination and passion for learning as well as changing one’s attitude toward setbacks or failure … Build the key skill of perseverance

  5. What is perseverance? Persevere: To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement • According to decades of research, there are two fundamental belief systems, also know as “mindsets,” that determine how people respond to struggle, setbacks and failure when pursuing their goals. In one mindset, you’re likely to get discouraged and give up on your goal. In the other, you tend to embrace the struggle, learn from the setbacks and keep moving forward – you persevere.

  6. Your mindset is not set in stone. Via Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: “Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways. People tell me that they start to catch themselves when they are in the throes of the fixed mindset — passing up a chance for learning, feeling labeled by a failure, or getting discouraged when something requires a lot of effort. And then they switch themselves into the growth mindset — making sure they take the challenge, learn from the failure, or continue their effort. “

  7. What can YOU do to PERSEVERE in Child Nutrition? • Take risks 2. Learn from your mistakes 3. Love what you do

  8. Don’t be afraid to take risks • Its all in your mindset • Think of the GOOD that can come from taking that risk, not what the negative outcome COULD be. • We, as Child Nutrition Directors, cannot be afraid to take a chance. • Step out of your comfort zone • Examples: Try that new recipe, rearrange your staff/lines, start a salad bar, bring an alternative breakfast to a school • WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?

  9. After taking that risk, learn and grow from your mistakes… • Many times in our work, we make mistakes. Some of us can easily move on from a mistake and view it as a learning experience (growth), while some of us may view a mistake as a failure or a reflection of our inabilities (fixed). We may be hard on ourselves or our coworkers when mistakes are made. Whatever the case may be, we can all work on tackling negative perceptions associated with mistakes by establishing a growth mindset. • Remember, “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” –Al Franken • Example: New recipe was a disaster—but what did we learn? What will we do NEXT time.

  10. LOVE what you do • With a fixed mindset, you love the score. With the growth mindset, you love the process and the growth. • Via Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: “The growth mindset does allow people to love what they’re doing — and to continue to love it in the face of difficulties. The growth-minded athletes, CEOs, musicians, or scientists all loved what they did, whereas many of the fixed-minded ones did not. • Many growth-minded people didn’t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It’s ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.” • We wouldn’t be in the “feeding the babies’ business if we didn’t love making a difference. When days are tough, remember why you do this job.

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