Teaching Perseverance in Finland with Pirjo Suhonen Transformative Principal 184

• If you aren’t falling, you aren’t trying hard enough

• How to teach kids to be comfortable trying and failing

• We were surprised we did so well when we don’t prepare them for these big tests

• Kids’ interest in learning naturally grows as they do

• Kids need to understand that they come to school for themselves

• Dealing with misbehavior

• You normally need an audience to misbehave

• There is a reason for their misbehavior

• Challenges of education in Finland,

• Technology, collaboration, and presentation (social) skills.

• How to be a transformative Principal? Try a Skype break

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