How we learn from mistakes makes a huge difference in our learning curve!
by Eduardo Briceño
"We can deepen our own and our students’ understanding of mistakes,
which are not all created equal, and are not always desirable. After
all, our ability to manage and learn from mistakes is not fixed. We can
improve it.
Here are two quotes about mistakes that I like and use, but that can
also lead to confusion if we don’t further clarify what we mean:
“A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing” – George Bernard Shaw
“It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to
treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a
purpose which it truly has.” – Maria Montessori"
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"It’s that time of year – college students are making their way back to campus. Soon picturesque quads across the nation will be filled with backpack-toting collegians walking under perfectly azure skies crunching fallen leaves underfoot" By Jeff Beals
"Summer will be here before you know it and the one thing we have learned
over the years is that a summer contract is a game changer.
Kids need to know what is expected of them. Rules need to be signed off
on so that you don’t have to argue all summer. Put this summer contract
in place and if arguments arise refer to it. Make sure you offer tons of
positive reinforcement when they are getting it right!!"
More on the significance of self resiliency, confidence and self esteem! 
"In the "good old days" of college admissions, parents would
show up at my door during the summer before their child's senior year
and ask for help with choosing colleges and getting in. Except in rare
cases, it was assumed that it didn't really matter what a student
majored in; somehow, someday everything would just work out. There were
plenty of jobs for college graduates, regardless of their majors in
college."