‘Freedom to Fail’ Creates a Positive Learning Environment is the headline of Part Three in my Education Week Teacher series.

In it, Amber Chandler, Howard Pitler, Barry Saide, John Spencer, Riina Hirsch, Nadja Reilly, Laura Taddei discuss the topic of handling student mistakes.

Here are some excerpts:

Mistakes are ‘Learning in Action’ is part two in my Education Week Teacher series.

In it, Warren Schnack, Jenny Edwards, Michael Thornton, Annie Ward, and Cathy L. Seeley share classroom strategies on effectively dealing with student mistakes.

Here are some excerpts:

Creating Classrooms ‘to Unlock the Learning Potential Mistakes Provide us’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column.

In it, experienced educators Doug Lemov, Danny Woo, Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski, Bena Kallick, Allison Zmuda, Jen Schwanke and Mike Janatovich discuss how to handle student mistakes in the classroom.

Here are some excerpts:

Many wise educators contribute guest responses to my Education Week Teacher column, which kicks-off its sixth year over the weekend.

Many, though not all, of them are on Twitter.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this earlier, but I’m doing it now – I’m beginning a Twitter list that Twitter users can subscribe to that will include all the guest contributors.

You can subscribe to or view the list here.

It only has a few names now, but I’ll add to it each week as I publish them in Ed Week.

In the future, I hope to go back and add contributors from past years, but when and if that happens is going to depend on finding the time. There’s always hope!

Should we Celebrate ‘Mistakes’ With our Students? is my first Ed Week “question-of-the-week” for the new school year.

Feel free to leave your responses in the comments section there or here…

Links To All Q & A Posts From The Past Five Years – In One Place! is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column.

It includes links – categorized and with descriptions – of all the posts appearing there for the past five years!