Beliefs Failure Reading 
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.
eSchool News
MARCH 26, 2025
In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose.
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eSchool News
MAY 10, 2016
But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists.
eSchool News
JANUARY 30, 2019
It’s fairly standard belief that professional development (PD) must go deeper than the one-and-done workshop; it must be more sustained, more relevant, and offer tangible takeaways. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. That’s why we conduct monthly PD meetings. The 5-Minute MicroPD.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
While reading these points, rate yourself, and then your perception of the total “mindset position” of your organization, on a scale of 1 (Poor) to 5 (Excellent). When you read the points, plot your results on the following graph. Belief that education needs to change. This may not be easy, but all that is needed is a “gut feel.”
eSchool News
JANUARY 28, 2016
This belief is a myth. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. When John first started in my class, his academic skills were minimal: His reading was well below grade level. At 19, John was behind in school and still trying to graduate.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
In my early years as a teacher, I would read teaching books desperately looking for bulleted lists and numbered paragraphs. I felt like a failure. There wasn’t a bulleted list I could recall from any of the teacher strategy books I had read. I sought out gray boxes at the end of chapters with a “Try This” heading.
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