Tonight Maya actually brought in homework to work on! Generally, when she comes in she does not have any, even though she is missing quite a few assignments in her classes. Then, when she brought in her homework once before, I was told after that I could not help her with it. The weeks following, she was not bring in anything else and we would talk. Despite that the homework was not for her biology class—considering she is missing the most assignments from there— I was still glad that she was spending time to work on her art. I had a recollection to what Dave mentioned when he talked about how small steps are better than none at all. She also mentioned that her teacher annoyed her after she pointed out how to shade things. Maya felt as if
