The school has aligned itself with the work of Carol Dweck, a Stanford psychologist known for pioneering the “growth mindset”—a theory that the brain is malleable; that a person can get smarter with effort, good strategies, and the help of mentors. Children commonly come to Hershey with the opposite view, which Dweck calls a “fixed mindset.” They assume that intelligence is a preordained trait, as immutable as the color of one’s eyes.
