Teacherpreneurship webinar for Skyteach on 28th October 2017. The story of our English summer camp business KEZ Camp in Latvia, why it failed and what we learned by applying the right mindset.

1. 28 October, 2017
Failing Forward
You Win or You Learn
James Egerton

3. Are you sitting comfortably?
the KEZ Camp story...

4. March April May June July Aug Sept Oct

6. Meetings
Meetings
Meetings
(Look at how we suffered!)

8. Biting the hand
that feeds me?

11. Hired staff

17. The power of the
poster!
(or so we thought)

20. MARCH: Conceive. Believe.
Achieve.
JULY: the aftermath...

24. After the pain…
Applying Theories

25. Mindset Theory
Professor Carol Dweck

26. GROWTH MINDSET FIXED MINDSET
Intelligence... can be improved with
focused practise.
can’t change as it’s what I’m
born with.
Effort... is how I improve. I love a
challenge!
shows a lack of intelligence.
The easier, the better.
Failure... is a stepping stone to
success. Try again!
is a disaster. Give up!
Other people’s
success...
makes me happy and
motivates me.
makes me look stupid.
Criticism... is a chance to improve. means I messed up.
James Egerton
www.jamesegerton.wordpress.com

27. In my classroom...

29. So what did we learn?
“Failure is success if we learn from it”
- Malcolm Forbes

30. dddd
1. Pre-mortem

31. 2. Know
your partners…
and yourself!

32. 3. Group think < Outside mentor/critic

33. 'What humans require in our ascent is
purpose and realism.
Purpose, you could say, is like passion with
boundaries.
Realism is detachment and perspective'.
- Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday.

34. 4.

35. 5. Treat people right (something I´d repeat)

36. So in conclusion...

37. A man (or woman!) in the arena, Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort
without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither
know victory nor defeat.

38. Questions?
get in touch
james.egerton@tiscali.co.uk
www.jamesegerton.wordpress.com