My third grade teacher did something amazing. She authorized us to pass notes in class. Not kidding. We could send and receive notes as long as we wrote in letter form with heading, greeting, body, close, and signature. We also had to put it in an envelope with the...
I remember the first time I watched Destin’s Backward’s Brain Bicycle episode in his show, Smarter Every Day. My biggest take away from his experience was realizing that learning looks a lot like failure. If he were being graded on performance he would have received a...
I tried out for a part in a musical once. I was one of the last to audition. While waiting, I heard the same lines sung over and over and over. I had those lines down cold! Yet, when it was finally my turn, I reversed the first two lines. I never sang in that...
