Cia Verschelden > Quotes

“T. M. Freeman, Anderman, and Jensen (2007) found that a sense of belonging was positively associated with academic success and motivation.”
― Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

“We must transform our institutions so that the entire enterprise operates from a growth mind-set (Dweck, 2006), where mistakes and missteps are seen as excellent opportunities to develop our individual and collective brain”
― Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

“The key is the belief that we can grow our brain by hard work and persistence. Making mistakes and figuring out where we went wrong and trying again and again until we solve a problem is how we grow our brain.”
― Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

“the condition of scarcity depletes mental capacity; in their terms, bandwidth.”
― Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

“Stigmatization can create a global uncertainty about the quality of one’s social bonds”
― Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization

“The cause of low birth weights among African-American women has more to do with racism than with race.”
― Cia Verschelden, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization