It’s part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent."

Technology is such a big part of our lives. It makes everything easier. It doesn’t make sense to fight against it. We need to set limits and learn how to use it so that we can go to places that we have never been to before.

Actually, between Colombian and Mexican Spanish, there’s not a huge difference, but it is a different accent."

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?