My BAD

None of us wants to see ourselves as biased, judgmental, so what can we do when we come face to face with our own shortcomings?

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Patrick Riccards is a father and author of Dadprovement. He is the chief communications and strategy officer for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He is CEO and blogger for Eduflack, as well as a partner in Collaborative Communications Group.

I said "no" to a student and later realized I should have said yes. The experience changed my teaching.

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Oskar Cymerman is a Chemistry and Principles of Engineering Teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities Metro Area, MN. He frequently blogs about brain-based approaches to learning and classroom design, in addition to starting the "Starbucks My Classroom Project" and #StarbucksMyRoom.

Fear of being judged prevented me from reaching out and getting help from my peers.

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Rusul Alrubail is an educator in residence at Design Cofounders. She is a co-creator of The Writing Project, an essay writing app for students currently in Beta. She is also an Edutopia blogger and an editor at Medium's largest publication on Education: The Synapse.

The only thing more painful than having a lesson plan crash and burn is crashing and burning twice and not knowing why.

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Dave Burgess is the New York Times best-selling author of Teach Like a PIRATE and co-author of P is for PIRATE: Inspirational ABC’s for Educators. He received national recognition as recipient of the 2014 BAMMY Award for Secondary School Teacher of the Year presented by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences.

I was young, bright and committed to being the smartest person in the room. Life had other plans.

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Dr. Nathan Lang is currently a National Consultant at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHCO) and the founder. Previously, he was the Director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. He has been a high school science teacher, elementary assistant principal, high school assistant principal, university adjunct professor, and was an Education Supervisor at the NASA-Johnson Space Center. He is co-founder of @leadupnow & #leadupchat #divergED

I was passionate committed and driven, but my priorities were mixed up. Then I got the wake-up call.

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Dwight Carter is the Principal at New Albany High School, OH. He’s been an educator for 20 years and was a 2013 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year. He coauthored What’s In Your Space? Five Steps to Better Classroom and School Design, with Mark White and Gary Sebach.

I was was sure that as the teacher I was supposed to have all the answers. Eventually, the light came on.

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Denis Sheeran is a father of 4, district mathematics administrator in NJ, speaker, and author who travels the country helping educators learn how they can relevantly connect their content to their students lives and their own in powerful ways. He is author of Instant Relevance, Using Today's Experiences to Teach Tomorrow's Lessons (Dave Burgess Consulting, 2016).

I was zealous about innovation, leading innovation and being innovative that I discounted the great conventional work being done by great teachers.

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Dr. Brad Gustafson is the principal and lead learner at Greenwood Elementary in Minnesota. He is the author of the newly released, "Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital Age Students."

I was very clear about what my student needed and I repeatedly gave her specific instructions on how to remedy her issue. Regretfully, I was wrong.

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Maggie Bolado has been a White House Guest, Global Teacher Prize nominee, Verizon Foundation Honoree, Google Play Store App Developer, sixth science teacher, Google Certified Educator, perpetual student and a status quo buster.

Trying too hard to prove ourselves can lead to bad decisions. Here's how I learned this valuable lesson one day in my classroom.

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Steven Weber is the Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (NC). He is a board member of North Carolina ASCD and the Vice President of NCPDK.