Hi! My name is Jeremiah Santos. I grew up in multiple places due to my family's military affiliation. I moved to Hawaii in 2017 in my junior year of high school and graduated from Kapolei High School. If I were an artist's tool, I'd guess I'd be a mousepad or mouse. It sounds odd, but as an artist who does a lot of work on a computer without any kind of stylus, it's what I'm most used to.
For decades, male students have lagged behind their female peers in academic achievement, negatively impacting boys across all percentiles. Contributing factors likely include biological differences, student-teacher relationships, and self-esteem development divergences. Reviews showcase conclusions on these potential influences. Proposed solutions like leveraging boys’ visuospatial affinities have succeeded in some classrooms, though the gap persists. Solving the multilayered achievement gap will require ongoing research, as current measures only partially mitigate boys’ academic disadvantages.
The concept of creativity has come a long way. The Old Greeks would call those creative forces muses, other religions referred to them as God. Today people still mostly treat creativity as an aha moment outside the area of influence. However, just by looking at the creative process one can tell, that creativity and creative work is more than just that one "Aha-Moment" (insight). It is clear that generating ideas demands planning and preparation, identifying something of interest like a problem, an opportunity or a challenge, doing research. This then leads to thinking of a solution, allowing time to incubate and iterations before arriving at something “complete.” Students learn that hard work is what makes their ideas come to life and sticktuiveness is what helps them get better.