If at first you don't fail, try, try again.

• How can we create a growth mindset in our students and our teachers so that we are not afraid of failure, but rather embrace it and seek it out?
• How do we create places of learning that support and encourage us to fall down in order to rise up?

Here are some of my ideas:

• Focus on the learner's progress and strategies, not outcomes.
• Create teams of learners that support and encourage each other.
• Leaders/teachers share their own failures (not just their successes).
• Place people on both sides of the wall, some to catch you if you fall, others to help you over and take you to the next wall.
• Encourage learners to ask questions, lots of questions.
• Try, try again.
• Laugh a lot!

What do you think?

(Yes, that is me)