Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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It'll be everywhere you can find books, I hope.
Thank you.
The the big thing that gift of failure is about is about trying to get our kids back into a state where they're intrinsically motivated to want to do stuff, not because we're dangling carrots in front of them or making sticker charts or threatening them or promising to pay them for grades.
And one of the ways we can do that is by engaging them in the process because that's giving them autonomy over the details of their lives.
Yeah, sure thing.
So I um I've been a teacher for almost twenty years.
Uh I actually went to law school to do juvenile law.
I was I had a job all lined up.
I was positive that's what I was gonna do.
And then I was asked to teach a class and and uh that was sort of it.
I came home that first day understanding that teaching was what I was gonna be doing.
Um so I finished law school and went straight into teaching afterwards and
About, you know, six years ago or so I've always been a writer, but about six years ago I started writing about education specifically and sort of the art and craft of teaching.
And that has just sort of over very slowly led to, you know, writing for the Atlantic and uh writing a column for three years in the New York Times called the Parent Teacher Conference and uh the book The Gift of Failure.
So it's been just an awesome ride and uh
And it was funny, when I first started writing about education, I thought it was really just for me to sort of record what I was doing in my classroom because I was fairly sure no one wanted to read about teaching.
And I've been really, really happy to be wrong.
And I was it's been such an honor to sort of be at the confluence of education and parenting and um help both sides talk to each other.
Um, I I sort of was feeling like it was becoming increasingly adversarial.
And so having a part in um helping teachers talk to parents and parents talk to teachers and and get the communication lines back open has been such an honor.
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