Today at GATE the students expanded upon their work from last week where they brainstormed strategies for dealing with frustration and the Learning Pit. This week, the students designed "I'm Stuck!" posters that I will be printing and laminating for them to add to their GATE folders and use in their regular classroom as well. 

In the afternoon, we started talking about failure strategies specifically... so, how can we look at failure as an opportunity rather than shutting down, giving up, or getting mad. The students tried a series of increasingly difficult drawing challenges that made it impossible to do perfectly. They then reflected on ways to turn the failure into a positive and came up with a good starter list: find humor, persist, think flexibly, and reflect and focus on what went right.