This analogy is true in education as well. For years we had No Child Left Behind (NCLB) but education, technology, and the world were changing. NCLB didn’t work and educators and policy makers started trying to come up with a fix. The result? Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Are CCSS the right answer? I think that remains to be seen, but at least someone tried. Obeng refers to the idea that some people take chances and get fired, but that we should be taking more chances and celebrate our failures. Out of these failures new ideas grow and we come to the right answer. So while we have CCSS as our framework, teachers should work within it and take chances. Make “smart failures.” Try something; if it doesn’t work—try something else. Now is an incredible time to be an educator: technology has so much to offer, we are being asked to teach our students how to collaborate and go deeper in their learning, and students are learning skills for jobs that we can only imagine. Let’s not allow change to happen without us noticing, instead let’s be agents of change and model failures and mistakes for our students so they will be excited to fail and always get back up to try again.