You know when you try something new in your classroom and it flops? Like the kind of flop where you just scrap the entire project and move on? It’s a failure. But, what happens? You learn from it. We have this preconceived notion as teachers that we are supposed to know everything, make sure every lesson is perfect for our students, and avoid failure at all costs. What happens if we embraced failure instead?
Our students would see that it’s okay to fail. We’d be taking more risks. We’d all be learning. We’d be growing as teachers because we’d be figuring out new ways to do things, based on foundations of ways that just didn’t work. That tech tool that turned out to be horrible? That project that just never got off the ground? Isn’t that better than 100 days of mundane safe, sameness? It’s not really about failing, it’s about growing.
Failure.
It’s the new success.
