“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan 

At STEAM Academy we are helping students become more resilient by applauding key traits they already demonstrate and nurturing the confidence they need to battle academic challenges.  

Competence builds confidence 

Our focus is to help students develop a feeling of competence by giving them opportunities to master specific skills or strengths. Whether these opportunities are Math skill mastery or Reading fluency we may start by giving your child a task that’s a challenge yet realistic for them initially—and work with them as they try to master a set of word problems or spelling words. When they successfully complete the challenge, we celebrate their effort. 

The sense of achievement they feel from successfully completing a challenge will convince them that they have the ability to meet new, harder challenges.

Feeling confident is significantly important to helping students develop a sense of resilience. When children feel confident, they are more likely to take on new tasks, expand their social circle, take risks—and try again if that risk doesn’t pan out. When they fail at a task, confident students are more likely to fault their tactic than to believe that a task is beyond their capabilities.