While teaching drama workshops, I very quickly realized that students learned best not by watching or listening but by trying and failing. What seemed to me at first to be an oxymoron—success through failure—I learned was the heart of education as I watched my students build resilience, take risks, develop confidence in their ideas, and take ownership of their learning. It thrills me to watch a student puzzle through a problem, test their own solutions, and, most importantly, feel accomplished and proud of their work. As a Teaching Apprentice at the Mastery School, I hope to bring this experience to my position as our students learn how to problem solve and relate to those that are different from them, a lesson that I believe both drama and the humanities are intrinsic to teaching. Outside of the classroom, you can find me on a stage performing improv comedy, in my backyard overwatering my garden in a desperate attempt to keep it alive, and in my kitchen, leafing through my well-loved collection of cookbooks as I test new recipes for family and friends.