Dear Teachers,

You’ll know you’re starting to get good at something when you find out that you are your own best teacher. Not to say that other people don’t have things to teach you, but if you think you know what you want and you have a rough idea of how to get it, then you’re in a good place.

Every day when I write these letters, I learn something new. Sometimes it’s something big, like what I think I might believe about learning, and other the times it’s small, like the difference between every day and everyday.

But it takes discipline. And focus. And time and effort. And, most of all, it takes a willingness to mess up, learn from it, and mess up a different way the next day.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck