Resources on Embracing Failure

The ability to grow and keep trying when you don't succeed -- resilience and grit -- are key to cultivating a growth mindset, in academics and in life. I like how the business world has coined the term "failing forward" to mean using mistakes as stepping stones along the road towards achieving your goals. For young people in school, how can we provide them with the tools to see failure not as shameful, but as a necessary step towards success? Check out some of the resources and articles below for more discussion. How do you help your kids to fail forward?

• "Making Friends With Failure," by Ainissa Ramirez via Edutopia
• "Sowing Failure, Reaping Success: What Failure Can Teach," by Daniel E. Slotnik and Katherine Schulten, The Learning Network
• "How To Help Your Students Embrace Failure Through Game-Based Learning," by Justin W. Marquis, TeachThought
• "Failure Is Your Friend," Freakonomics Radio Podcast
• The Resilience Project at Stanford University
• The Success-Failure Project at Harvard University
• "What the Hype Behind Embracing Failure Is Really All About," by Rachel Gillett, Fast Company
• "Effective Failure: Teaching Students The Power of Mistakes," by Monica Fuglei, HotChalk Lesson Plans Page
• "How to Help Kids Overcome Fear of Failure," by Vicki Zakrzewski,Greater Good Science Center
• "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?" by Paul Tough, New York Times
• "9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes," TeachThought