Give2Attain

Raising social involvement, self awareness and self improvement topics, because our communities are the sum of our personal beliefs, behaviors, action or inaction. Only "we" can improve our family, work place, school, city, country, etc.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

RAS Pairing Schools & more

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I don't pay attention for a few weeks, and nearly miss some very interesting topics from the 13Sep10 Work Session. RAS Board Work Sessio...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Blood Letting

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As I signed in this morning for my regular date with ALYX , I noticed the sign that was hung to remind the employees at the Plymouth Memoria...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Teacher Compensation

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Well folks, I have been curious about how Teacher compensation increases with experience and education, so I finally took a few minutes to g...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Waiting for Superman

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This sounds very interesting... A self proclaimed leftist liberal reporting on the challenges with the Teacher's Unions... (ie not nece...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

The Balanced Life & Giving

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I believe that being self aware and monitoring our choices is critical to living a fulfilled life. For me there are 3 aspects to accomplishi...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Principles, Tolerance and Success

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J's version of reality got me thinking.... "You can content yourself with the fact that your kids are receiving a better education ...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Where are the Parents?

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Last night the wife and I attended a cool event at Armstrong High School. Between 6 and 8 PM, we got to walk through my 10th grader's d...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

G2A Principles

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I have my Trying For Balance graphic to the right. Here are the affirmations and related values that go with it. I often fail to meet these ...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Last Lecture

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Well if you have not read this book or watched this video, I definitely recommend that you make the time to do so. If Randy can be this upbe...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

ACT/MCA Difference Means ???

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I realize this old news, however it is good news and worth repeating. ~75% of the students at Cooper and Armstrong took the ACT test !!! The...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Making Money Via Taxes

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Here is the latest conservative link and email I have received. This one seems pretty rational and worth discussing. I am very close to the ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Results: Comments From RAS

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Now I have not watched the video yet to hear the discussions that occurred, however the presentation is pretty interesting. RAS Result of S...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Snopes & Relativity

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The other day I was labelled a Snopes Defender by someone more Conservative than myself. They believe that Snopes has a strong liberal bias....
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

The American Dream

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Well, my oldest is doing some Summer English homework. (yeah... pre-work for this Fall... so much for Summers off) She had to read a fiction...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Battle of the RAS Tabloids

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In this corner we have " 281Exposed ". A blog that is typically critical of District 281 RAS and often of Public Education in gen...
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John
I am married and we have 3 adult daughters. We live in Plymouth MN. My interests are learning, communicating, home improvement projects, motorcycling, boating, and other outside activities. Thank you for reading my blog and have a great day !!!
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