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LearnStorm Growth Mindset: Ceiba Prep Students on mistakes

Listen to two students from Ceiba Prep Middle School in Watsonville, CA talk about how mistakes can be helpful in our learning journey. These stories are part of the Growth Mindset Curriculum available with LearnStorm, a back-to-school program aimed at helping students start the school year strong. The growth mindset curriculum helps students take their own life experiences apply their learnings in the face of frustration, making mistakes and learning new things. For more information, visit https://learnstorm.khanacademy.org/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=desc.

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- It's fun, challenging, and sometimes a bit stressful because I might have forgotten a negative sign or a certain decimal, and that gets me wrong. And once I find what my mistake was I'm literally relieved because I learned something new and I know to not forget that again. It really felt like I was trying my best on something and then all of a sudden it just didn't really work because I missed one little thing. So I had to practice again and then get it all right. - It really makes me feel like even when you make mistakes you learn from those mistakes, and that kinda really benefits you, I think, more than actually getting the right answer 'cause you know, like you said you said with Sophia, you get that extra missing puzzle piece.