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What is this blog about?

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• This blog will provide positive solutions…
• This blog will be a no whining zone…
• This blog will only allow problems to be presented when solutions are also given…
• This blog will be written from a professional educator’s viewpoint …
• This blog will be written by someone that has children in school…
• This blog will be kept current with fresh ideas for parents, teachers, administrators, local and state school system personnel and concerned citizens to have options for their schools…
• This blog will look at individual steps for positive improvement and not abstract, nebulous claims or suggestions…
• This blog will seek to open up dialog from people who are doing it….those that are in the trenches and not so much those that are in the ivory towers that do not understand the hallways and classes of today’s schools…we can learn from successes in different parts of the country and help other students to make progress through sharing and utilizing technology…..
• this blog is only as good as the ones that contribute and the ones that share the message of this blog….there can be a “new step forward.”

Denis Waitley: Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

John Naisbitt: The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.Henry Ford: The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.“The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’”
–E. M. Kelly    

“Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”~
 Oliver Wendell Holmes