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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.
As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.
I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.