Giving Compass' Take:

• Education Dive explains that when students fail in the classroom, they learn how to build resilience and confidence from their mistakes. We should not shy away from this process.

• How can educators create an environment with a positive approach to failure, often known as a learning mindset? What programs have shown proven success with this approach?

• Read more about integrating failure into the learning process to build lifelong skills.

Nasrin Jafari feels fortunate to be teaching in a school where educating students to develop critical thinking skills is considered more valuable than correct answers to standardized test questions.

As a humanities teacher at City School of the Arts in New York City, Jafari sees tremendous value in taking missteps and failing. She wants to support the middle school children she works with so they know how to handle the stumbles that will happen not just in their educations, but throughout their lives.

“Students should be encouraged to learn how to fail,” Jafari told Education Dive by email. “That is, seeing failure as an opportunity to learn from their mistakes and correct their actions in the future.”

Failure is a word that, in some cases, has been almost mythologized. To fail is to build resilience, with failure symbolizing an attitude that embodies change and challenge. As author Neil Gaiman once extolled in his speech at the London Book Fair in 2013: “Fail better.”

Read the full article about letting students fail by Lauren Barack at Education Dive.