Learning to Fail
on the Path to
Success

Welcome to LetMeFail, an innovative program for educators that teaches kids how to practice, embrace, and learn from failure.

Here’s how to bring LetMeFail into your classroom

Discover our classroom activities, resources, books, and virtual author visits, then download what you need to create the perfect failure curriculum for your students. We recommend hosting a Failure Day, Failure Week, or several Failure Fridays throughout the school year. Our activities are free for everyone and designed for grades 3-8.

Activities

Activity Sheets

Download these activity sheets and lesson plans to spark classroom discussions all about Failure.

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Author Visits & Books

Explore the stories of how some of our greatest ideas, inventions and companies were started by overcoming Failure.

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What educators are saying about LetMeFail

Educator

  • Hanover Community School Corporation,
  • Indiana

I think this is a great idea and you have given me enough of a base that I feel I can adapt my own lessons so they can “fail” and teach my students to bounce back. This is such an important skill for my kids to learn that will help them in the future. Thank you so much for creating this!

Educator

  • Howe-Manning Elementary,
  • Massachusetts

The concept of LetMeFail is wonderful and absolutely needed in our current school climate. Students need to learn that mistakes are where real learning happens and having a dedicated “fail time” really emphasized that point. Students truly loved the activities and were coming in with new ideas even when we had finished activities. Overall, it is a great concept, and I look forward to more “Let Me Fail Day” each year.

Educator

  • Hopewell Area Schools,
  • Pennsylvania

absolutely LOVE this program! One of the biggest differences I’ve noticed in kids over my twenty years of teaching is that they lack grit. They give up so easily and lack problem solving skills. Teaching kids how to fail is SO important. Thank you for giving me some tools to share with my students. A program like this is so valuable!

Educator

  • Wilmette Public Schools,
  • Illinois

Thank you so much for our “Let Me Fail” week. So many students said it was the highlight of their year! 

Educator

  • Winnetka Public Schools,
  • Illinois

Through these experiences, students saw failure as less of a negative and more as a tool to learn from and motivate them to proceed.

Educator

  • Springdale,
  • Arkansas

My students have ENJOYED failing! This morning, they asked me for more opportunities to fail! They are designing/ creating stickers that say I failed at ______, and I’m OK!  I failed, and I learned _____! Failure makes me STRONG! They’re using the #letmefail money to purchase sticker supplies. Thank you for creating this opportunity for my students and I to have an open dialogue about failure.

GT Educator

  • East End School District,
  • Arkansas

I have always wanted to embrace failure in my GT classroom but never knew how. Thank you for this!