Joslin Memorial Library Event

Thursday, April 17th at 6 pm at the Joslin Memorial Library speaker Jessica Lahey will speak on "The Gift of Failure: Fostering Intrinsic Motivation and Resilience in Kids." The presentation will focus on the best ways to motivate students to own their education and develop grit and resilience. Research has shown that the key to all these things is intrinsic motivation, or motivation that comes from within. Jessica Lahey summarizes the current research on autonomy-supportive parenting and teaching, competence, rewards, praise, and failure. Finally, she explains how parents and educators can give students the support and encouragement they need in order to stay motivated over the long term.

Jessica Lahey is an educator, writer, and speaker. She has been a middle- and high school teacher of English, Latin, and writing for a decade. She writes the bi-weekly "Parent-Teacher Conference" advice column for the New York Times Motherlode blog and her work appears regularly in the Atlantic and Vermont Public Radio. Her article, "Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail," went viral in early 2013 and became the genesis of her forthcoming book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, coming from HarperCollins. She recently appeared on the Today Show discussing gender and youth literature (http://www.today.com/moms/closing-chapter-boy-vs-girl-books-2D79456038). Jessica earned a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in juvenile and education law, and is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, writer and physician Tim Lahey, and her two sons.

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