About the author:Dr. Small is a children’s advocate who has stumbled upon a great phenomenon: If students are made aware of SELF- EFFICACY & DISCIPLINE and how to use it to boost their enthusiasm towards learning and life, there will be a generation of exceptionally intelligent children and future favorable citizens. The Phenomenon: Get the students to want to learn. This will happen only when students begin to believe that they can learn. Many children have unknowingly programmed their brains to fail and now need to be taught how to reset their minds to succeed. Some children have even tried to learn to no avail, not understanding that by embracing irrational thoughts, they have created a mental block towards learning. Being oblivious to this fact causes a child to feel, “dumb” and to engage in such negative self-referent statements as, “I am stupid!” or “I am a loser!”Students who fail are unaware that they are caught in a cycle, which can be broken. Please help Dr. Small in her effort to open their eyes and reveal to them the gifts of intelligence and purpose which lie within them. Her mission is to bring students face-to-face with ‘the power of self-talk’ until they begin to understand that they can control their actions with their words. The “What You Say is What You Are” mentor text and the accompanying activity guide are interactive resources Dr. Small has designed to train children how to reset their minds to succeed using positive self-referent statements such as, “I can do it”, and “I am a winner!” Dr. Small embraces her mission to inspire each child to become their best self, One Moment At a Time (OMAT) because of this belief: These very children, regardless of how they approach this critical cycle, will grow up to be our future leaders and active participants of our community. Hence, it behooves us to make children aware of how to apply self-talk and discipline as tools to enhance their enthusiasm towards learning and life; rather than allow them to grow up unstable academically, socially, and psychologically, ultimately becoming menaces to society and forfeiting their dreams. As a teacher, Dr. Small taught her students that their ability to use words to motivate their actions makes them superheroes. And every superhero has a power. When a child learns to activate their superpowers they can achieve the greatness for which they were designed. Read more about this authorRead less about this author