{"id":135196,"date":"2023-05-11T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=135196"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:04:52","slug":"todays-lesson-the-gift-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/todays-lesson-the-gift-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Lesson: The Gift of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
Peyton Giessuebel \u201918 \u201921MEd<\/strong> steps into her third-grade classroom each morning with one thing on her mind: setting her students up for success. Her students, on the other hand, are thinking about going back to sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI give them a minute to just get everything situated,\u201d says the Orange County Public School teacher, \u201cand we normally do a bunch of reading in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among their books of choice: If You Only Knew What Failure Could Do<\/em> \u2014 the elementary school educator and two-time UCF graduate\u2019s newly released children\u2019s book that\u2019s inspired by her failures as a student to empower readers to overcome their own.<\/p>\n
Failure is not<\/strong> an option. Why not? Who says so? Giessuebel believes failure is inevitable and wants children to have a healthy relationship with it. Only then will they learn that the strength they achieve from failure is something they can only get from failed experiences.<\/p>\n
Here, Giessuebel shares more about her career in education, her journey to becoming an author and the important message within her first book.<\/p>\n