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I saw this item a while ago and then promptly forgot about it. I was looking back through some old drafts of posts and stumbled across it.

One of those things that I love about teaching is that we can lead by example. We can try new things and show others that it is OK to fail, just as it is OK to succeed. Like I often tell the kids, life is not a race; the first one to the end is not the winner. We can take chances on new ideas or new ways of looking at a problem.

I don’t mean being completely reckless and haphazard in how we do things. What I mean is taking the chance to succeed. We often spend so much of our time trying to avoid failure rather than trying to achieve success.

When I try to think of the times I have failed, I can’t come up with a nice clean list. There have been so many times! When I think about times that I risked the possibility of failure, whether it be in relationships in something as basic as learning to walk, I realize that we all must take risks in life. The only way to avoid failure is never to take the risks that lead to success.

Should I share my ideas with others in my school or my board? The might not be receptive to them, but then again they might. I guess that’s a risk I’ll have to take!

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