Principal's Corner

Hope

This week was one of many ups and downs. I will say there were times that I felt like I completely failed. I mentioned this to a wise person (Semi) who told me, “It’s a good sign that you feel you are failing, it means you are trying.” After hearing this I felt relieved not because it erased the feeling of failure but because it gave me hope. I know there are many times when we as educators, feel as if we failed. Sometimes that feeling is there because we didn’t get the result we wanted but it doesn’t mean we truly failed. What it does means is that we need to learn from our mistakes and keep trying.  

A lot of times our students don’t have the cheerleaders on the sidelines to get them out of these negative spaces. Like we learned in our regional PD the ‘learning pit’ is a place where a student may get mentally stuck. It would be great for our students to think about what they can tell themselves when they begin to feel this way.

I attached two templates below, one that explains the learning pit with a growth mindset perspective and the other is a blank template that can be given to our students to fill out for themselves. Once these are done, please share your students work!