Beliefs Failure Reading 
Teachers Pay Teachers
JULY 16, 2025
Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects. Give second (and third) chances For many reluctant learners, one school failure is enough to reinforce their belief that they’re poor students.
Teach Thought
JULY 17, 2025
The short answer is that a culture of learning is “a collection of thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Show them Model the “thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Can you cause this to happen?
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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.
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
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
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.”
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