The Huffington Post – Heather Sandager
“At our school, we believe in “accepting failure as a stone on a path to mastery”. We know that wrestling with feelings of failure, doubt, and inadequacy are part of the creative design process. We want our students to have safe, teachable opportunities to grow accustomed to the ups and downs of a risky process…we need to let our children fail and we need to love the heck out of them when they do. And we need to trust our teacher’s long game instead of stifling their process the moment we hit a bump in the road. When have you seen your child fail at school? What was your reaction? What would happen if we trusted our teachers as experts in education?”(more)