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Teacher, author, and education journalist Jessica Lahey breaks down the research on motivation, resilience and learning. Discover how autonomy-supportive parenting and teaching not only boosts kids' motivation, but improves educational outcomes. Using personal narrative and humor, Lahey explores the research on extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, praise, and learned helplessness. She also offers instruction and assessment methods that promote deep, durable learning and engagement.

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Jessica Lahey is a veteran teacher, author, and mom. She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and the New York Times and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She is a member of the Amazon Studios Thought Leader Board, and wrote the educational curriculum for Amazon Kids’ The Stinky and Dirty Show. 

Jessica earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. with a concentration in juvenile and education law from the University of North Carolina School of Law. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons.