Students will ...

• Take personal responsibility for learning and growth

• Persist through difficulties

• See risks as opportunities to fail forward

• Set goals for self-improvement

• Initiate  learning for professional and personal fulfillment

 Personal Responsibility for Learning and Growth: 

Digital Portfolios: Encourage students to create digital portfolios to showcase their work and progress over time. They can regularly update these portfolios with reflections on their learning journey and goals.

Self-assessment Tools: Introduce students to self-assessment tools or quizzes that help them identify their learning styles, strengths, and areas for improvement. This can help them take ownership of their learning.

Goal Setting: Teach students how to set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals related to their academic and personal development. Meet MAP growth goals  or benchmark  for Math OR Reading.

Learning Journals: Have students maintain learning journals where they record their daily or weekly reflections on what they've learned, their challenges, and their goals for improvement.

Peer Feedback: Encourage students to provide constructive feedback to their peers on class assignments and projects. This fosters a sense of responsibility for their own learning and the learning of others.

Student-Led Conferences: Implement student-led conferences where students present their academic progress, goals, and achievements to parents or guardians. This empowers them to take ownership of their educational journey.

Individualized Learning Paths: Use digital tools or learning management systems to create individualized learning paths for students. This allows them to set their own pace, track progress, and make choices about their learning.

Learning Contracts: Collaborate with students to create learning contracts. These contracts outline their responsibilities, goals, and how they plan to meet them. Review and revise these contracts periodically.

Persistence Through Difficulties: 

Growth Mindset Workshops: Organize workshops or activities that promote a growth mindset. Share stories of famous individuals who faced failures but persisted to achieve success.

Gamification: Incorporate gamification into lessons, where students earn rewards or levels for overcoming challenges. This can make learning more engaging and encourage persistence.

Peer Mentoring: Pair older students with younger ones for peer mentoring. This can help younger students learn from their peers' experiences and see the value of persistence.

Character Education: Successful completion of Character Education Lessons.

SEL/Wellness  Standards per grade level.

Failure Celebration: Change the narrative around failure by celebrating it as a learning opportunity. Share stories of historical figures or contemporary role models who encountered setbacks but persevered.

Goal Tracker Boards: Create visual goal tracker boards in the classroom where students can visibly mark their progress toward their learning goals. This provides a tangible reminder of their persistence.

Obstacle Course Challenges: Set up obstacle course challenges in the classroom or outdoors that require students to overcome physical or mental obstacles. Discuss the importance of persistence in conquering these challenges.

Resilience Journaling: Encourage students to keep resilience journals where they document their experiences of facing difficulties, their strategies for overcoming them, and their feelings throughout the process.

Guest Speakers: Invite guest speakers, such as athletes, entrepreneurs, or artists, to share their stories of persistence and resilience. Students can ask questions and gain insights into real-world challenges.

Seeing Risks as Opportunities to Fail Forward: 

Innovation Challenges: Organize innovation challenges or hackathons where students can work on real-world problems and learn from both their successes and failures.

Failure Reflections: Encourage students to write about their failures and what they learned from them. Share examples of well-known failures that ultimately led to great success.

Guest Speakers: Invite guest speakers from various fields to share their stories of overcoming setbacks and taking risks. This can provide real-world inspiration.

Initiating Learning for Professional and Personal Fulfillment:

 Passion Projects: Allow students to pursue passion projects or research topics they're interested in, even if they're not part of the curriculum.

 Career Exploration: Organize career fairs, invite professionals to speak, and provide resources for students to explore potential career paths.

 Online Learning Resources: Promote online courses, webinars, and educational websites that cater to students' diverse interests and passions.

TED-Style Failure Talks: Organize a series of TED-style talks where students or guest speakers share their personal stories of failure and resilience. This helps destigmatize failure and highlight its role in growth.

Inventor's Mindset Workshops: Host workshops that encourage students to adopt an inventor's mindset. Create scenarios where they need to design, test, and refine solutions, understanding that initial failures are part of the process.

Mistake of the Month: Dedicate a "Mistake of the Month" segment where students can share their own learning experiences from making mistakes. It can be shared during class discussions or through a school newsletter.

Famous Failures Wall: Create a display in the classroom or school hallway featuring stories of famous people who experienced significant failures before achieving success. It serves as a constant reminder that failure is a stepping stone to success.

Failure-Focused Projects: Assign projects that require students to explore and present on notable failures in history. This research helps them understand how failure has driven progress in various fields.