Your students have heard about growth mindset so many times that the phrase has stopped meaning anything. This unit earns it back.Goal-Setting & Growth Mindset is Unit 5 in the Brain Bar SEL Curriculum. It comes fifth intentionally — because goal-setting without self-awareness, emotional regulation, and decision-making skills is just wishful thinking. This unit goes well beyond the SMART goals framework students have seen repeatedly. It examines why goals fail (it’s almost never motivation), how