{"id":48,"date":"2018-10-13T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-10-14T23:40:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:40:32","slug":"failing-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/2018\/10\/13\/failing-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m in a room full of strange faces. Correction, I actually know one person and have digitally met everyone else.\u00a0 It’s my first face-to-face, day one, of Cohort 21. I’m really excited but it also feels a little like being a fish out of water. I’m here because I want to be innovative. I want to be that amazing teacher students never forget. I want to that colleague that your coworkers turn to.\u00a0 I want to make it through the day.<\/p>\n

After the intro and a quick energizer we form a small group and start on our first ‘task’. I’m quickly realizing and being encouraged to think anything is possible and to be flexible in my approach (and thinking). What I think I want to gain from the experience could change, and that’s ok. Part of our small group conversation is on of our biggest teaching fails. For me that was only a couple of weeks ago. I was so married to an idea that I wasn’t willing to be flexible by adjusting the process or even just starting over. My students were confused, and the result showed in less than stellar artwork. Like not even a little stellar.\u00a0 My group is great at sympathizing and encouraging me. I had a fabulous failure. I took a risk and it did not work. Now I know what I did wrong and what I can do to change it for next time. What a great opportunity to learn and try again!<\/p>\n

I’m quickly beginning to realize that for the next year this group, this cohort, is going to grow into a team. My cohort is already becoming an amazing resource who are cheering for me to fail so that I can learn and succeed.<\/p>\n

I don’t have to be all those things I thought I wanted to be, I just have to keep trying and taking risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in a room full of strange faces. Correction, I actually know one person and have digitally met everyone else.\u00a0 It’s my first face-to-face, day one, of Cohort 21. I’m really excited but it also feels a little like being a fish out of water. I’m here because I want to be innovative. I want … Continue reading “Failing Successfully”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,9,7,10,11,12],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-cisopd","tag-cohort21","tag-cohort212018","tag-failure","tag-growthmindset","tag-letslearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabelanger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}