All Entries Tagged With: "Education"
Hoop Dancing, Heard Museum, and Hampton, VA
The Heard Museum World Champion Hoop Dancer competition which “draws together top Native hoop dancers from throughout the United States and Canada ” was amazing. According to the Heard brochure, “(The hoop) is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and [...]
African Native Americans
An important group of men and women has been left with no box to check in the 2010 Census: Native Americans with African origins. The 2010 Census provides us with boxes to check for gender – male, female, other questions, and race. Question #8 asks “Is the person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?” and offers 4 boxes of [...]
AAHSA & ABHOW Advocate Making Homes For Your Mother & Fathers
Get involved in aging- yours and others. Advocating, working, and serving in the industry for the aging is rewarding work and because I (Dr. Joel Martin, the one in the middle) am an aging Baby Boomer, there is a bit of a self-serving aspect to it. My sphere of influence is the ABHOW Corporate [...]
When it comes to our health, are we poorly informed?
Is it fair to say that all of us would rather be healthy and avoid illness? Are we really lazy and not wanting to do the type of research necessary to fully understand the options that are available to us? Could I be eating better then I am, excising more? This much I know is [...]
You may hate this message! But if you manage people read it anyway! Plz.
Dan Pink’s articles on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wired. He worked previously as Vice President Al Gore’s chief speechwriter from 1995-97, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (Source)
Recently Dan Pink gave this talk at TED. If you [...]
Future Olympian
This is Kaylah who at a very young age was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. Without hesitating she said “an ice skater.” Well July 4th in Las Vegas, NV she won a gold medal in her division…with a lot of support and encouragement from her Mom, Dad, Grandparents, coach and [...]
A Leader’s Clarity: Conviction, Perspective, Purpose, Vision
Words for leaders from Brian W. Kenney, Human Capital Performance Consultant, Austin, Texas: All successful leaders have a strongly held set of core beliefs and values that act as a lens through which they view the world around them. They have no doubts about the importance of these values and it is our value [...]
Having High Hopes – The Alternative of Fear
In Monday’s New York Times there was an article which basically stated that nothing was working, specifically the retraining and re-hiring of the nations workforce and that having hope might turn out to be a wasted gesture. While there may be a ton of truth in this description of the state of the economy, however [...]
Promises are tools that build dreams.
You’ve got a dream, a vision, a goal and you make a promise that by such and such a date you’ll do this or that action to make it happen. You either do it or you don’t. If you don’t for what ever reason, procrastination, fear, etc. you now have either your reasons, stories, rationalizations, [...]
The Cost Leadership – College Educations
What is evident, especially this year, is that the breeding grounds’ for our leaders have been our colleges. The diversity of students support a greater understanding of the world and would seem that this value alone is a reason to find ways that higher education is both available and affordable to most people.
