Never Work Harder Than Your Students
#learnership education Probably the best piece of advice I ever got as a teacher was “never work harder than your students.” One of my former mentors, Joanne Roberts, told me that. A fantastic principal, with…
Effort
Focus. Feedback. Fix it! … and the role of mistakes
On its own, a mistake has no value. The value and learning potential come not from the mistake itself, but from the way we act on it. To achieve learning and extract value from a…
Why students need to get better at making mistakes
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about how real growth only happens when we stretch ourselves beyond our current best. We grow when we seek to raise the bar by working in our…