I had a nice summer. I spent most of my time working at DePaul, but that’s okay because I like my job. I taught two summer courses: Intro to Elementary Education and Intro to Middle School Education. Both groups of students will be spending this academic year in classrooms with mentor teachers in high needs

Success Breeds Success, and Meaningful Practice of Skills can Lead to Success, Ergo: Skill is Not a Bad Word For most us, motivation follows success, it does not generally precede success. If we sit around waiting to be motivated to do something, we could end up creating quite a dent in the couch with the

I’m terrible at being bad at things. Do you know what I mean? It’s definitely more fun to engage in things at which we excel—or at least at which we aren’t awful. Given the choice between playing “Row, Row, Row, Your Boat” on the piano and doing a Calculus problem, I’m going to row that