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Saturday, March 18, 2017
The Lost Years
I am not going to report a ton of research on this, because the available research is bogus and part of the actual test-centric problem. What I can tell you is what I, as an actual real live classroom teacher who knows actual real live classroom teachers, see and hear.
This is the result of accelerated early instruction done primarily in the service of test-centric schooling ("We have to get them started early-- otherwise how will they be ready for the Big Standardized Test??")
It is lost years.
By the time these same start-em-early push-em-hard students arrive at high school classrooms, they are behind compared to the students that we saw twenty-five or fifteen or even ten years ago. They know fewer things, have fewer skills, and express lower academic aspirations.
Why? I can offer a couple of theories.
They have learned to hate reading.
They have learned that reading is this thing you do with short, disconnected, context-free selections, and when you read, you are not looking for something that sparks interest or enjoyment or curiosity or wonder or the pleasure of feeling your brain expanded and grown. You read so that, in a moment, you'll be able to answer the questions that someone else wrote-- and by "answer" we mean from the potions given the one answer that someone else has decided is "correct." There will be no expression of your own personal insights, and never the possibility that there's more than one way to understand the text. It is a stilted, cramped way to approach reading, and it means that students grow up with a stilted, cramped notion of what reading even is, or why human beings actually do it.
With some luck, some students will still discover the joy and, yes, utility of reading-- but they will discover outside of school, and they will not expect that the kind of reading that they love has anything to do with the test-centered "reading": they are required to do in school. That higher level course has additional "reading"? Then I surely don't want to sign up for that. And since the real task here, the real point of the whole exercise is not the reading, but the answering of questions about the reading-- well, I bet I can find a time-saving way to cut that corner. Because after enough years of this, many students conclude that "reading" is something to actively avoid.
There's no pleasure there, no discovery, no ideas to mull and discuss, no characters who help us pick apart the thorny questions of how to be human in the world. Just clues for answering the BS Test questions.
Their years are shorter.
The school year is now shorter. It is shorter by the number of days involved in the BS Test. It is shorter by the number of days spent on pre-testing and practice testing. It is shorter by the number of days spent on instruction that is only being implemented because it will help get them ready for the test.
By the time we've subtracted all those days, the school year is a few weeks, a month, maybe even more than a month shorter. It was only 180 days to begin with. The test-centric school has amped up a feature of education that has always frustrated teachers-- the 180 day year is a zero sum game, a bathtub full to the absolute rim with water. You cannot add something without removing something else. A really feisty or frustrated teacher might turn to an administrator who just said "Add this to your class" and say, "Fine-- what exactly do you want me to stop teaching?" But mostly we're expected to just make do, to perform some sort of miracle by which we stuff ten more rabbits into the hat.
It doesn't work. Every year students get less actual instruction than they used to, which means their teacher next year finds them a little bit behind, so the school year that used to start on Day One now starts on Day Thirty after the students are caught up-- and then it ends on Day 160 because, you know, testing. So the following year those students are that much more behind. And so on, and so on, and so on.
In the end, kindergarten may be the new first grade, but for many students, twelfth grade is the new eleventh grade.
There are certainly students who escape this effect, and there are certainly clever teachers who mitigate it. But mostly the injection of toxic testing into the bloodstream of US education has had the predictable effect-- it has weakened and damaged the entire body.
Mind you, that wasn't what we were promised. The injection of test-based accountability was going to transform the Steve Rogers of US schooling into a mighty Captain America of education. Those tests, linked to The Standards That Dare Not Speak Their Name (but which have never quite gone away, either), were going to lead to a surge in new and successful college students. Test scores would rocket upward, and we would get to be the Belle of the Ball at the next PISA Prom. We were going to have success out the wazoo.
And yet, none of that is happened. Mind you, I don't think the BS Test scores mean jack, and they have never been and will never be my measure of success. But reformsters chose the game, set the rules, picked the measurement they wanted (BS Test scores) and they STILL lost the game. We have wasted over fifteen years of education; some students have seen their entire schooling consumed by test-centric baloney.
Yet we keep plowing on, keep committing to Testing Uber Alles. We are losing students, losing education opportunities, losing the chance to awaken some young humans to what they could be and could become-- instead, we are still trying to mash their spirits flat under the heavy testing hand. We are losing years that we cannot get back, cannot give back, and this is not okay.
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I think you nailed it. Kids aren't just hating READING, though: they're hating ALL the disconnected discrete bits of learning that don't connect naturally (although sometimes they do connect in contrived ways, to some kids). All those surveys about student engagement put that "eff-it" mark around middle school, some earlier, some later, but kids begin dis-engaging around middle school and we don't get them back. That's not how adolescent minds work.ReplyDelete
My youngest was a book-o-phobe until 4th grade, when we successfully refused PARCC on her behalf and she was required to sit silently in the classroom with her class - but she WAS allowed to read. That week of 90-120 minutes daily of sustained reading got her hooked on an entire series of books and now she's a proper bookworm, but ironically it was standardized testing (and the not-taking of it) that lit that bulb.
You should also add that there are more mental health issues, more depression, more anger/aggression issues, more suicide in High Schools and college students. The reformsters chose the game, set the rules and still lost, but it's the children that lose the most. Karma is a butt kicker......and this generation of students will be the ones setting the rules as these reformsters age out and retire. I try to be nice to my kids since they will be the ones changing my adult diapers or picking out my nursing home.ReplyDelete
Morning, Peter.ReplyDelete
On this topic, I'm going to post some stuff (w/video links) about Eva's deranged pedagogy regarding this concept.
First up: the reports in the New York Times and elsewhere where former Success Academy teachers speak out about the rampant "crying" arising from S.A.'s "treading kids as adults" (read: child abuse) approach.
Let's take the "kids crying" issue. Eva doesn't believe that the kids' constant incidents of crying at her schools — reported by N.Y. Times reporter Kate Taylor and 20 former teachers quoted by Taylor —- is an unfortunate consequence of which she disapproves, but an actual "goal" of her pedagogy. On multiple occasions, she has said that it's good when kids cry, because that means they care … or are being influenced to care about their education through their extreme and demanding pedagogy.
In support of this, Eva keeps bringing up the comparison to Olympic athletes who cry when they perform badly, and lose out on a medal.
No one ever objects to Olympic athletes crying, so what's the big deal when Success Academy students are bawling away?
Well, the big deal is that, unlike adult athletes, her students are children. Therefore, deliberately inducing states of despair to the point that these states are regularly accompanied by crying is child abuse.
She defended this crying stuff at TFA's 25th anniversary, where they had a module celebrating Success Academy. Here's Eva's inability to distinguish between adults performing in the Olympics, and vulnerable children (as young as 4 --- i.e. kinders with late birthdays) learning at her schools.
The NYTimes reporter to whom she refers is Kate Taylor, by the way.
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( 1:30:17 – 1:30:45 )
EVA MOSKOWITZ: "It's frustrating to us that when a New York Times reporter seeds a kid crying because the kid didn't do well, her assumption is that that's sort of 'torture.' Right? Whereas Olympic athletes, when they don't do well, they cry … often. And that's considered… 'cause they care! They care about their performance in the sport. Our kids care about their level of growth. They care about getting as close to the excellence as they can."
There's a whole mess of wrong going on at this module:
One of Eva's principals even says that with Success Academy Students (as young as 4… i.e. Kinders with late birthdays), the teachers should place the same demands on them that a college professor places on university students.
( 1:30:17 – 1:30:45 )
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S.A. PRINCIPAL: "Eva likes to talk about how they're SMALLER PEOPLE, not just small children,so you have to respect their intellect, and everything that you study and plan needs to be done as if you were in a college classroom."
It's hard to respond to something like that, a comment that is so patently absurd and just plain wrong, particularly in the early K-1-2 grades.
Campbell Brown, who is on Success Academy's board of directors, strangely opts not to send her own two sons to a Success Academy school, but instead they go to Heschel, a rich kids' private school WHERE THE KIDS ARE NOT TREATED LIKE "smaller adults."
MORE on Eva's "treat kids like adults" baloney.ReplyDelete
The following is from a video that was deleted after it was spotlighted in a Diane Ravitch blog piece. (Hmmm... if you're so proud of this, why are you hiding it?)
And it's a doozy:
I just watched a one-woman Eva Moskowitz' horror show… starring Eva herself. It's her six-minute "Ed Talk" (get it? rhymes with "Ted Talk") at the 2014 Corporate Reform jamboree called "Camp Philos":
(VIDEO SCRUBBED FROM YouTube)
She glowingly tells the story of Sidney — an eighth grade Success Academy student — while projecting her picture on a screen. (Did she get permission?)
During Common Core testing, Sidney was in a life-threatening battle with sickle-cell anemia. Even at the most severe moment of crisis in her health, Sidney insisted on taking the entirety of that year's Common Core testing. The adults around argued otherwise, because she had just had her infected spleen taken out that very day, "had lost a lot of weight," and "was extremely cold and weak." In the light of this, the principal informed Sidney that she was entitled to claim a "medical excuse" and delay taking the test.
However, Sidney wouldn't hear of it, and took the test.
"I want to get a 4," Sidney replied, with Eva recounting these words with emotion.
Eva's point?
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(VIDEO SCRUBBED FROM YouTube)
( 02:10 – 03:03 )
"EVA MOSKOWITZ: "Children are incredibly resilient, and I would urge you to think about NOT treating children AS children… I think that we have underestimated in this country the pleasure that comes from achieving mastery, and from performance. In my experience, kids actually want to perform. The want to master. Sidney was a perfect example, even though she was in a life-threatening situation."
Indeed, the infamous "rip-and-re-do" video of Success Academy teacher Charlotte Dial abusing a child ...
... is not the "anomaly' that Eva keeps claiming that it is. It's a deliberate outgrowth of thinking that is represented in the quotes above.
Indeed, Eva put Charlotte Dial — who has no teaching credential in New York State or any other state, by the way — in charge of training other Success Academy teachers. Making Dial the top trainer of teachers is not just giving Success Academy teachers the "Green Light" permission or required directive to do likewise. It's saying that treating kids the way Charlotte Dial did is actually mandatory.
Watch the video BELOW as Eva lets down her guard a bit, and reveals her hostility towards any type of regulation or oversight, as that is "strangling" her schools — in this case, she smears what she pejoratively describes as the "Special Ed. Compliance Machine," and the adults who are part of this. She claims that unlike her, those adults don't really care about the "special ed" children about whom they are supposed to care.ReplyDelete
This 25th Anniversary TFA event happened just prior to the Charlotte Dial abuse video, but after the Got-to-Go List controversy.
Eva's clearly angry about the reports about her schools failing to meet the needs of "Special Ed." kids, and instead, kicking them out.
In responding to those charges, Eva claims victim status, and insinuates that those critics don't really care about Special Needs kids, whereas she, of course, does. To that, she claims that there exists a "Special Ed. Compliance Machine" is "strangling" Success Academy schools.
She wants current policies protecting and looking out for special needs children changed to her liking.
God forbid that should happen. (CAPITALS are mine.)
( 11:02 – 11:50 )
( 11:02 – 11:50 )
EVA MOSKOWITZ: "We think that we're not really going to make the dream of TFA come true until we change the public policies in this country. And I believe that educators don't have enough of a voice at the table on those public policies.
"You know, because you've been in the classroom, or because you've led a school … you know that it's not just a question of resources. Resources, of course, are helpful. You know it's about teacher training. It's about 'leader training.'
"It's about not being STRANGLED BY REGULATIONS THAT are really not driven, or ARE NOT REALLY ABOUT CHILDREN. If you take the…
— (sarcastic tone & facial expression, waving her arms)
"the 'SPECIAL ED. COMPLIANCE MACHINE,' it's NOT REALLY ABOUT SERVING THAT SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, so there's a lot
of work to do on the educational front… "
She just throws that cheap shot out there, but doesn't elaborate or explain what the-hell she means. She then plays a slick propaganda video for Success Academy.
What exactly is she referring to, anyway?
Eva absolutely despises he fact that school officials are legally required to identify which children have Special Ed. disabilities, and then must provide them with extra, targeted, and yes expensive support – including smaller class sizes, extra classroom aide, an I.E.P. with a team that meets regularly to monitor whether or not the I.E.P. is being implemented.
I have something to add. Language is inextricably tied to social cognition. Language is actually learned along with gestures of the face, eyes, mouth and body. These things are represented together at the single neuron level of the brain. Narrative comprehension and working memory are probably in large part based on the experience of interacting with others. So when children play with each other they are using this system and training this system and developing it.ReplyDelete
I know that since the Charlotte Dial "rip-and-re-do" abuse video, Eva has changed her tune about Success Academy serving all children. Her latest is that for Special Ed. kids, Success Academy is not the place to go, that S.A. cannot be all things to all children.ReplyDelete
Well, then don't call your schools "public schools."
Politicos' Eliza Shapiro (link not handy) reported that there was a secret Success Academy memo leaked to the press. In that memo, Eva instructs staff on how to fight back against the dreaded "Special Ed. Compliance Machine. To bolster legal action against these evil bureaucrats, Eva orders her staff to amass documentation of whatever minor failing on the part of any outside, oversight personnel who visit the school … "and then escalate" a response … is truly pathetic.
If a member of the DOE's Committee on Special Education "shows up late, does not act professionally, does not listen, you must document it … and escalate," the memo reads.
Hey, why stop there? What about if that person has a tie that is crooked? Or body odor?
Since these interactions are likely not videotaped (maybe they should be), Eva and her ilk can lie, lie, lie all the ding-dong day in court about DOE "Special Ed" compliance officers "not listening" or failing to do their jobs in some manner.
Why doesn't Eva and Co. use that same energy spent strategizing and acting in ways to kneecap outside inspectors, actually tending to the needs of her students .. again, instead of spending it trying to attack those who are there on campus trying to ascertain if Eva & Co. are fulfilling their legal responsibilities to those students?
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One more thing, If I was DOE personnel tasked with visiting Success Academy schools to monitor their treatment of Special Ed. students, and I watched that video ...
( 11:02 – 11:50 )
( 11:02 – 11:50 )
"It's about not being STRANGLED BY REGULATIONS THAT are really not driven, or ARE NOT REALLY ABOUT CHILDREN. If you take the…
— (sarcastic tone & facial expression, waving her arms)
"the 'SPECIAL ED. COMPLIANCE MACHINE,' it's NOT REALLY ABOUT SERVING THAT SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, so there's a lot
of work to do on the educational front… "
... you know, where Eva called me and other DOE Special Ed. Compliance offers a bunch of frauds who don't "really" care about "special ed" students, and that we were not truly or effectively carrying out the work that we had chosen to do in life … I'd be angry, really angry.
As in…
"Excuse me, but who do you think that YOU are in making such a charge? Aren't YOU in charge of the charter chain where a video was just made public, a video showing one of your so-called 'model' teachers is shown viciously abusing a child?
"Then, in the press conference that followed, you gave an insincere, half-ass apology, then turned that same press conference into a bizarre, paranoid rant — accompanied by pep-rally-style cheering — about being innocent victims of outside persecutors trying to "strangle" your schools?
"Are YOU REALLY someone who should sit in judgment of MY commitment to the well-being of children? After all, at $600,000/year, you make ten times what I make, and almost double what the NYC Chancellor makes."
Here's that press conference, or as I like to call it …
"32 Minutes in Jonestown"
From the ridiculous pep rally-style cheering that accompanies Eva's entrance ... through the entire orchestrated event, a cult expert would have a field day with this, picking out all the red flags.
When you consider the horrifying abuse video to which Eva & her ilk are responding here — and Eva's defiance to and dismissal of the resulting criticism — this is truly scary stuff.
Pre-K…. We're talking 3-4 year-olds left to the mercy of the Charlotte Dial's at Success Academy!!!
Unlike the other charter operators who are signing on to cooperation agreements, EVA IS REFUSING TO SIGN ANY CONTRACT THAT GIVES THE CITY Dept, of Ed. ANY OVERSIGHT OF HER PRE-K SCHOOLS, or that demands her schools are in any way even slightly transparent to the people whose taxes will fund these SUCCESS ACADEMY Pre-K classes.
Yeah, I'd want my kid to attend Success Academy Pre-K … NOT!!!
This was bad timing, to be sure.
Here's the video:
For a comparison of the mindless cheering, here's the doomed Congressman Leo Ryan getting that same cheering from the Jim Jones' cult followers in Jonestown:
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LEO RYAN: "There are people where who think that this is the best thing that ever happened in their whole lives."
What some people don't remember about Jonestown was that Harvey Milk was a huge (and sadly misguided) backer of Jonestown and Jim Jones. Just before his own demise, Milk even attacked the San Francisco media's detailed exposes of what was going on on Jim Jones' People's Temple as … you guessed it … a witch hunt against people who were just trying to do good for the world.
People today have also been played for chumps in a similar fashion by Eva and her PR leviathan.
It's time for them all to wake up.
My greatest fear, and I tell this to my HS students, is that this testing regime is all you have ever known and, when you have your own children, you will believe that this is the only way it should be.ReplyDelete
First of all, thanks for posting my stuff.ReplyDelete
Secondly, I missed a good quote from a Success Academy official (other than Eva) touting the "kids are just smaller adults" line.
Let's take the "kids crying" issue. Eva Moskowitz doesn't believe that the incessant reporting of incidents of kids' crying at her schools — reported by N.Y. Times reporter Kate Taylor and 20 former teachers quoted by Taylor —- is an unfortunate consequence of which she disapproves, but an actual "goal" of her pedagogy.
On multiple occasions, Eva Moskowitz has said that it's good when kids at Success Academy cry, because that means those kids care about school, and --- as a consequence of their prolonged crying jabs --- Success Academy students are being influenced to care about their education. All of this is thanks to Eva's extreme and demanding pedagogy and rigid militaristic routines.
In support of this, Eva keeps bringing up the comparison to Olympic athletes who cry when they perform badly, and lose out on a Gold/Silver/Bronze medal.
No one ever objects to Olympic athletes crying, so what's the big deal when Success Academy students do?
Well, the big deal is that, unlike adult athletes, her students are children. Therefore, deliberately inducing children to descend to extreme states of despair, extreme to the point that these states are regularly accompanied by crying ... well, if that ain't child abuse, then what the-hell is?
She just said as much at TFA's 25th anniversary, where they had a module celebrating Success Academy. Here you can witness Eva's inability to distinguish between adults performing in the Olympics, and the children learning at her schools.
The N.Y. Times reporter to whom she refers is Kate Taylor, by the way.
( 1:30:17 – 1:30:45 )
( 1:30:17 – 1:30:45 )
EVA MOSKOWITZ: "It's frustrating to us that when a New York Times reporter seeds a kid crying because the kid didn't do well, her assumption is that that's sort of 'torture.' Right?
"Whereas Olympic athletes, when they don't do well, they cry … often. And that's considered… 'cause they care! They care about their performance in the sport.
"Our kids care about their level of growth. They care about getting as close to the excellence as they can."
Boy, that Kate Taylor at the Times just doesn't get it. Thank God we have Eva to set us all straight.
There's a whole mess of wrong going on at this module:
One of Eva's principals even says that with Success Academy Students (as young as 4… i.e. Kinders with late birthdays), the teachers should place the same demands on them that a college professor places on university students.
( 1:30:17 – 1:30:45 )
( 1:34:44 – 1:34:44 )
S.A. PRINCIPAL: "Eva likes to talk about how they're SMALLER PEOPLE, not just small children, so you have to respect their intellect, and everything that you study and plan needs to be done as if you were in a college classroom."
Wow. Kindergarten classes should be run like "college classrooms?" Sweet Jesus!
It's hard to respond to something like that, a comment that is so patently absurd and just plain wrong, particularly in the early K-1-2 grades.
And now, with Pre-K, Eva will be starting with kids as young as 3 (again, Pre-K-ers with late birthdays), who, thanks to Eva, will now be treated the way university students are.
Gotta start 'em early!
I have taught ESL for 20 years. In that time, I have taught grades K-12. In addition to reading and writing, ESL is also about teaching listening and speaking skills (which is also included in the Common Core). Because K is not mandatory in PA, ESL services were given when time and staff were available. Back then, I used to teach the K students socialization skills, read aloud stories, have students reenact fairy tales, etc. When I would pick up the K students, they were usually in centers doing a lot of ... well, talking! Socializing! Now when I pick up the K students, they're sitting, writing, or doing math. Not much talking, let alone socializing. It's sad to see the fun being sucked out of school. No more trips, no more arts and crafts, no more centers, no more reading for the he££ of it.ReplyDelete
Apparently, I'm a really feisty and frustrated teacher! (My colleagues will be so shocked to hear!) Then I close my door and teach...the BS test scores come out the same anyway. �� As predicted.ReplyDelete
Which outcome is worse, mashed spirits or lost years? Children are required to participate willingly in an environment that mashes their spirits?ReplyDelete
They are supposed to just suck it up and make the most of it?
Is this the often lauded chance to develop grit so they can compete as adults?
Sounds like a sick dystopian novel plot that no one wants to read.
"The school year is now shorter. It is shorter by the number of days involved in the BS Test. It is shorter by the number of days spent on pre-testing and practice testing. It is shorter by the number of days spent on instruction that is only being implemented because it will help get them ready for the test."ReplyDelete
This is my biggest complaint about the testing. I also think that you underestimated this shortening effect. When my children were in elementary school ion NC, the test prep would begin about 4 weeks before the exams. Then the exams would take an entire week. There was no instruction during that week. There were multiple exams and each one took the entire day. The other children had to be "quiet" during the exams. After that week, there were about two weeks of tutoring for the children who did not pass. The children who passed watch movies or colored. Seriously, my son was in 3rd grade and he needed crayons for the week after the test. WTF?
When I added it up is was at least 7 weeks spent on testing. Throw in all the other tests here and there during the year, and we have a whole quarter of the school year spent on testing. That is a lot of time that could have been spent on instruction, reading, practicing math, drawing, painting, producing a play, or doing other creative activities. I went to elementary school in the 1970's. We put on plays in 3rd, 5th, and 6th grades. It was fun and educational. My children did not get to do that even once. That still pisses me off.
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2018 at 10:19 PM
And just to add, we are now spending a lot of time and energy on social & emotional learning for middle school and high school students. Which I don't object to, but I do wonder how much of the need for that has to do with all the time for SEL that was taken away from the early primary years.ReplyDelete


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Enduring Legacy
As Brownell-Talbot nears its 150th anniversary it has a new leader to chart the course.
Brownell-Talbot school, which began as the episcopal church-sponsored girls' boarding school brownell hall, has seen changes aplenty in 149 years.
Brownell-Talbot School, founded in 1863, moved several times before fixing on its present site, 400 Happy Hollow Blvd., in 1923. It became coeducational in 1952 and gained independence from the Episcopal Church in 1967, though it still maintains a chapel program to foster spiritual and moral growth. Brownell-Talbot is making history with its new head of school, Brooklyn native Sylvia Rodríguez Vargas, the first person of Latina heritage to lead the venerable private institution.
Rodríguez Vargas began her duties in Omaha July 1, arriving at the school as it enjoys record enrollment - more than 460 students - and 33% racial-ethnic diversity. Brownell-Talbot's commitment to diversity and inclusivity influenced her taking the job. "The fact that Brownell-Talbot was founded as an all-girls school when very few schools in the country educated young women is extraordinary. What impresses me most is the ever-present focus on forward-thinking vision and the emphasis on leading in education, not just for the students who attend Brownell-Talbot, but for the community at large."
The school's partnerships and community outreach appeal to Rodríguez Vargas. She also appreciates that Brownell-Talbot is grounded in core values around its Episcopal tradition. Serving students from preschool to grade 12 aligns with her experience and the school's holistic approach to education appeals to her personal and professional style. "We educate the whole child, preparing each student for college and for life," she said. "These values speak to me."
When named a finalist for the head of school position last fall Rodríguez Vargas visited with her husband Brian Luis Vargas, an information technology specialist. Meeting a cross section of Brownell-Talbot's extended family made her feel at home. "I met students and families, board members, teachers, and staff. It was great timing to be on campus with so many engaging activities taking place – a chili supper, homecoming, grandparents' day, and more. The experience, the reception, the interaction reaffirmed for me that there was a real connection. We came away from the experience feeling very positive. I knew that if they were as positive about me as I was about them, then this was the place!"
They no sooner returned to Columbus, Ohio, where she was completing her doctoral dissertation at The Ohio State University, when the call came offering her the job. She didn't hesitate to accept it. "You just walk by faith," she said, adding that she has taken on the role certain in the knowledge that this is where she's meant to be.
Brownell-Talbot Board of Trustees president, Charles (Chip) Vrana said a national search identified several "excellent candidates" and Rodríguez Vargas stood out as the one "most suited to take the school to the next level."
Her path to this point has been full of "enriching" experiences. She keeps close to her family's working class roots and Puerto Rican identity in her personal life and academic specialties of Latin American literature, history, culture and language.
She grew up in New York City in a bilingual home where her parents stressed education to her and her younger sister. "In my house, you were expected to earn excellent grades. It was always about doing your best and giving your best always. That was a very important part of my upbringing," said Rodríguez Vargas, who attended public schools.
"For me what made all of the difference is what my parents modeled. It was about the foundations of a good education and treating people with respect and dignity, being open to all kinds of differences knowing people will see you as different too, until they get to know you."
The education that Brownell-Talbot delivers fits her wide-open embrace of new perspectives. The seeker in her makes her ever curious and energetic. Whether earning a degree or doing a job, she says her mantra is "get it done and do it well."
Inheriting the leadership role of a legacy school has meaning for Rodríguez Vargas, whose education is robust and whose experience includes teaching and administrative posts at private schools.
She earned her bachelor's degree from New York's Binghamton University and studied a semester at the University of Puerto Rico. In working toward her first master's degree from The Ohio State University, she studied in Mexico and Spain. She earned her second master's degree and teacher certification at Columbia University. Most recently, she completed her Ph.D. at The Ohio State University.
Her leadership skills showed early. She became department chair in her 20s at Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, New York and became middle school director at the Columbus (Ohio) School for Girls in her 30s. Her many honors include a Klingenstein Fellowship from Columbia University in independent school leadership. "That was an outstanding program that prepared me for the next set of challenges and opportunities," she said. Her most recent post before moving to Omaha was as associate head of school and dean of academics at Saint Mary's School in North Carolina.
At Brownell-Talbot, Rodríguez Vargas looks forward to carrying on the vision and progressive practices in education, while upholding the long-standing values and tradition of the school. "I've had outstanding opportunities and an amazing career up to this point, but nothing compares to what is in front of me in Omaha and at Brownell-Talbot School," she concluded. "The students are driven and so capable. The faculty is knowledgeable, innovative and caring. The parents, alums and Trustees have been incredibly welcoming and supportive. I've hit the ground running and I don't see stopping anytime soon!"

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Legislator Pay: Too Much Or Too Little?
A state senator and candidate for higher office on Thursday sought some attention for giving up a portion of his pay. This comes after Illinois lawmakers — for the first time in years — did not vote to symbolically cut their own pay. This form of salary self-denial has become popular in Illinois, but its roots are much deeper than that.
The base salary for a member of the Illinois General Assembly is $67,836 a year. During the Great Recession, when Illinois' finances were tanking, lawmakers decided to give some of that back.
They passed a law requiring themselves to take unpaid furlough days, one a month, which reduced annual salaries by a bit less than five percent. This went on for five years. Then, something changed last summer.
"The legislators should not get paid until they enact comprehensive, public pension reform," said Gov. Pat Quinn, who vetoed the money for legislators' salaries out of the budget, trying to get them to pass a pension overhaul.
The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate sued the governor and won. Cut to this year, and a spokeswoman for the Senate president said having just argued it was unconstitutional for the governor to cut legislative pay, it would be just as unconstitutional for lawmakers to do it to themselves. Hence there was no vote this year on taking those furlough days.
This does not sit well with Rep. Dwight Kay, a Republican from Glen Carbon.
"The state's broke," Kay said. "We can't fund our schools. We can't take care of the most needy. We can't provide opportunity. So why in the world should we reward ourselves for doing bad work."
Kay points to the fact that Illinois legislators are among the best paid in the country.According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, only California, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan have higher base salaries. But other states are way, way lower, like New Hampshire, where a two-year term will net you a cool $200.
It's important to keep in mind that this is not only a Republican talking point. Democrats, like State Sen. Mike Frerichs (D-Champaign), like to get in on the act, too.
In a video touting his candidacy for state treasurer, Frerichs said, "In 2006 I ran for the Senate, where I led by example by cutting my own pay."
But, as we've heard, no one got to cast that vote this year. Frerichs is already taking criticism from his opponent, Republican Rep. Tom Cross of Oswego, for supporting the overall budget. So Frerichs announced he'd donate 12 days' worth of pay to charity — the amount he would have been furloughed. That money will be used to address tornado damage in his home town of Gifford.
"Skipping this pay increase is a small, but important gesture that I understand we must do better for the people of Illinois and I hope my colleagues in Springfield will follow my lead," said Frerichs in a news release.
This is a well worn path for politicians. Chris Mooney, who heads the University of Illinois' Institute of Government and Public Affairs, said they want to be seen as "just helping out."
"American don't like politicians," Mooney says. "They don't like government. Going back to throwing the tea in the drink, and et cetera."
Mooney said it benefits most politicians to try to look more like everyday people — people who aren't seeking this job just because they want a paycheck.
Mooney said this can lead to what he calls a death spiral, where policy makers can't raise their salaries because it might look bad on a campaign mailer. Believe it or not, he says Illinois was once in the forefront of a push to "professionalize" state legislatures. That involved making sessions longer, hiring more staff, and increasing lawmakers' pay.
"Look, if you're only paying them a thousand bucks or something or whatever, (and) they can't afford to do it, who is going to serve in the state legislature?" Mooney asks. "It's going to be people that are wealthy, people who are what were called in those days 'housewives,' people who are students, and retired people."
It's also going to be people like House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, both of whom are lawyers in private practice on top of their legislative duties.
As a voter, ask yourself: Just what kind of legislator do I want? Professional? Citizen? Working class or wealthy?
It's something to keep in mind when you begin to see campaign material attacking legislators for "giving themselves a raise."


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How do Management Consultants end up doing Leadership Development with Horses?
Good Question.
Participative Designs Inc is a management consulting organization. We've worked with CIBC, the Ontario Government, Manufacturing Organizations, Fortune 500 and companies of all sizes. We offer many services – leadership development, change management, executive coaching, facilitation, team interventions = anything dealing with the people side of leadership – but once the work day is over one senior consultant (Sharon Quarrington – that's me) would head for the riding ring.
I was dealing with a serious performance problem. One day my horse would jump anything and the next would leave me in the dirt. Things got worse as the battle to see "who is the boss" got bigger and more dangerous until I chanced to meet an amazing horse woman who showed me that the problem was not the horse…. the problem was that everything I thought I knew about horse training was backwards.
I did not have a badly behaved horse – I had a communication problem between two vastly different perspectives – the predator (me) and the prey (my horse) .Every time I ended up in the dirt my horse had swerved because my body language said "danger". He was doing his best to be helpful and I didn't appreciate it.
The difference between Intention and Impact is at the root of most Leadership challenges.
Leaders intend to have a positive influence on their teams yet so often a difference in perspective creates stress and tension that leads to decreases in performance.
- Leaders whose teams thought they were too controlling actually were trying to empower, they just didn't provide enough early direction and when the project inevitably ran into trouble took it over in an attempt to be helpful.
- Leaders who were stressed out by workload at the same time their teams were frustrated by not being involved.
- Teams jumping into action too early and having to restart when they discovered that there was no agreement on scope.
- Both sides of a grievance feeling they were doing the best action while neither consulted the customer.
We thought it would be interesting to explore mindsets using the horses as a demonstration. Leadership theory is easy to obtain but the leader mindset is difficult. At some point every good leader shifts from seeing themselves as someone who achieves goals (a good predator) to seeing themselves as someone who leads a team towards a shared goal (a great herd leader). Those who never make the mindset shift either end up stressing their teams or stressing themselves (or both).
We brought in our first group of leaders to work with the horses in 2004 and I was stunned with the results. Getting out of the office, raising awareness through experience, driving home the lessons with people leadership. It worked better than I would have ever guessed.. I still hear from some of the people who were at those first few training's and even 12 years later they still remember exactly what they learned from the horses.
- There was a senior supervisor struggling with team performance. As she was leading one of the horses and looking back to make sure he was following she backed straight into a wall. She looked at me and said – oh my – this is exactly what I do with my team – they keep asking for direction and I am so focused on keeping everyone happy that they have no idea what I want. She went back and started sharing her vision with the team and they became much more productive, six months later she was promoted.
- There was a District Manager who wanted to learn how to communicate better with his team. Every time he was with the horses he kept reaching into the horses blindspot and petting it – the horse would put his ears back, we would point that out and he would stop. Within 15 seconds he was petting the horse again and again we asked him to observe feedback, the fifth (yep fifth) time he did it he stopped and turned to me and said – I think I know what my communication problem is – I'm so busy sending my message that I am not listening to anyone's feedback.
Both these leaders had been given these messages before in a 360 and from personal coaches but seeing a horse react to the exact same mindset helped them understand the feedback in a new way – and both were able to act on it.
This is how I know we are doing something right – not the great reviews or the appreciations at the end of the day – but the feedback we get months and years later that tells us the impact the program had on someone's life.
We are not the only people who have noticed that the instant feedback from horses has value – but our program is unique. We didn't start with Horsemanship or Psychology. We started with Leadership. The horses bring learning to life and our expert management consultants ensure Leaders take those lessons and build them into their own practice. Every session is led by Sharon with the assistance of 2 to 4 horse experts to ensure that no one is ever left on their own with a horse. Depending on the group size and seniority we may also add a second leader coach to increase the amount of one on one feedback..
I started Horse Sense because I thought it would be fun to share what I had learned but we keep doing it because it works. When our session is rated as the number one to keep in a 12 month leadership development program that includes keynotes by some of Canadas top experts (John Burdett and David Weiss) I know we are doing something right. One Director told me of coming home after a dinner with the current President of the United States and when asked about her day said it was "amazing" – "oh right" her partner said – "you met Clinton" – "I did" she responded "but what was amazing was what I learned from some horses!"
Why do Management Consultants do Leadership Development with horses?
- Because horses are way more interesting than slide decks.
- Because it makes hard concepts much easier to understand.
- Because earning Followership works the same way for people and for horses
- Because we get better results faster
- Because the learning sticks
We love is helping good leaders have the impact they are hoping for. Each time a leader is better able to support their teams we have improved the lives of so many people. We believe that the best way to grow organizations that make a positive difference in the world is to support their leaders. We would like to support you.


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Let's start with the good news.
First, I have completely unpacked all my belongings and found homes for everything. The dining room is no longer a mountain of boxes and it has a dining table which is doubling up as my desk at the moment. I also found curtains for the living room. Second, with the help of Mum, I've finished digging up the weeds in the garden and sown my flower seeds. She also identified all the mystery shrubs. There's a Weigela, a Ceanothus and a Hydrangea. There's also a Himalayan Honeysuckle which is in bud. Very exciting!
In the interesting news category, this coming week is my last at the RCN. I am sad to be leaving but also grateful as I had reached the limits of the interesting bits of the job and have spent the last two weeks bored out of my skull with not quite enough to do. I am however going to miss my paycheck, especially as I don't have anything lined up for when I get back from sailing.
Speaking of which, I'm going sailing on the Stavros in a week's time! Much Excite! Southampton to Cardiff with a sea shanty group! Hopefully the weather will have the correct amount of wind, in the right direction. The bad news is that we are currently lacking enough Watch Leaders and Deckhands. I hope to Neptune they fill the volunteer crew positions in time else I am going to be VERY busy.
In between all the things I've been doing lately, I've been having some interesting emotional outbursts. I'll just start feeling sad for what seems like no reason and then tears follow. It's taking me a long time to get better/faster at identifying what I'm feeling and working out the cause. In the interim between the realisation ofI'm having a FEELING and working out what's upset me, there's a period of flailling and crying "I don't know what's wrong, I'm just upset!"
Which is a great way to make yourself feel crazy and frustrate your partner.
Given enough time and cuddles however, I usually work out what I'm reacting to.
Lately, it's been PhD stuff.
I realised that now I finally have my own house with Squisher that I feel truly safe and home for the first time in a very long while. Re-experiencing and remembering what it feels like to safe is bittersweet, as it's giving me the chance to heal and come to terms with my PhD experiences. It's still very early days, especially since I haven't actually completed my PhD yet (bloody thesis corrections), but things are looking up.
I've reduced my citalopram dose and in a couple more weeks will attemtp to taper off completely. I've stopped having nightly nightmares, waking up in a panic after taking forever to get to sleep. I feel refreshed when I wake – at the weekends anyway. (Commutting is a b*tch). I can do the things I need to do at work and at home, to keep both ticking over nicely even though I still have the occassional day where all I want to do is stay in my pyjamas and marathon trashy TV shows.
The downside of feeling safe and having both time and space to myself is that my brain is working through the backlog of issues I accummulated during the last few years.
Yesterday, it was dealing with the loss of my dream that I would be a research scientist. I posted an article on Facebook about women in science (#girlswithtoys) and I was sad because they were doing awesome things in their career – getting to figure out how stuff works and do cool things like controlling the Mars Rover or whatever. I'm never gonig to discover a cure for cancer, become a Professor or win a Nobel Prize for my work. I'm not going to spend my days as a bench scientist or push for change so that Universities take the mental health of their PhD students seriously or force PIs and professsors to develop their personal managerial skills or reform the Complaints System so supervisory bullying and neglect are taken seriously and dealt with in such a way that the victim isn't further penalised.
It makes me sad that I won't achieve those things and I'm at a loss because I'm not sure now what it is I'm aiming for. I want to do interesting work. I want to contribute. I want to make the bits of my world that I can better, especially in the face of all the global problems I can't change. But I have NO IDEA what these things look like any more. It's both an amazing opportunity to create something new and utterly terrifying because I have but the barest sketch of a map to guide me.
Giving up the dream of being a research scientist also makes me feel like a failure. There are so many things I didn't manage to do during my PhD, and I can remeber all the bits where I "gave up" a particular line of work, because it was too hard, too exhausting, or I just didn't care anymore because I was so burned out. I take those things and many others and turn them into a narrative of how I'm a Failure as a Scientist. Because clearly with my brains and talent I should be able to do it and want to do it, and stick at it in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. And that if I don't take up my predestined role as a Scientist, anything else will be a waste. Anything I do instead will never be as good or as worthy as the thing I couldn't acheive.
It hurts so damn much. Squishy's off-hand comment about how I "didn't exactly work full time hours" in my PhD was like him twisting a knife in my back because it hit at the core of my insecurity. Objectively, I achieved so much in my PhD, but the snide, persecuting whisper in my head says "yes, but you could have done so much better. You were capable of so much more but you were lazy and weak, and you gave up."
And it's true but it's also complete bullshit. I could have done more… if the situation had been different. If I didn't have a genetic and environmental tendency to depression. If my parents hadn't separated and then divorced. If my best friend of three years hadn't walked out on me and our housing contract four months in and left me to deal with her shit. If I'd had a supervisor who actually knew more than one method of supervison, and wasn't an egotistical narcissist. If my objectively shitty situation hadn't resulted in depression that went untreated for the better part of four years. If my counsellors had explicitly said "your situation is awful – you should really talk to your GP about trying medication. Oh and here, let us help you get active support from the University to deal with your supervisor problems that are not your fault."
If. If. If. If. If.
So many ifs.
But it is what it is. As long as I get through my corrections, all that will ultimately matter is that I successfully completed my PhD despite a littany of "personal difficulties" (Gods, I hate that phrase).
So, in the face of what has been, I have the chance to create a new path for myself. I don't know what I'm going to acheive next but I am sure something interesting will turn up. And if it doesn't, I'll join the merchant navy and sail tall ships. It is after all, always a good idea to have a back-up plan.


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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
This is "O Captain My Captain" by Walt Whitman, one of the favorite poets of angsty young men everywhere.
By: Zoe Samuel
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"Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice." If you're a "Game of Thrones" fan, you might think we're talking about the George R. R. Martin book series, but we're not! This "Fire and Ice" poem is by one of the most talked about authors in literary history. Can you match the famous line of poetry to its author?
Poetry has been around for centuries upon centuries. Many of you have probably had a section of your English classes dedicated to it. There are many types of poetry, like limericks, sonnets, and Haiku. You might have heard their devices like alliteration and assonance. Words like metaphor and simile should sound familiar. For thousands of years, authors and poets have been using these to create some of the most well-known pieces of poetry. How many can you match to the author?
William Shakespeare, who might be considered the most well-known author, wrote 154 sonnets. While Sonnet 18's "Should I compare thee to a summer's day," is his most popular, the author had a series of other well-known lines.
There are other poets who are often listed as some of the greats. These include Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allen Poe, and Maya Angelou. While you might recognize all their names, can you match them to their poetry?
There's only one way to find out! Will you be able to rhyme your way to a perfect score?
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This is "O Captain My Captain" by Walt Whitman, one of the favorite poets of angsty young men everywhere.
This is the last line of Dylan Thomas' beautiful poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" about refusing to let a loved one die without a fight.
This is a poem from A.A. Milne's famous "When We Were Very Young." The poem is called "Brownie, " and the rest of the verse reads: "I think it is a Brownie, but I'm not quite certain. (Nanny isn't certain, too.)".
This is the first line of William Wordsworth's "Daffodils." Wordsworth was a key mover and shaker in the Romantic movement.
This is from "Remember," a popular and beautiful poem often read at funerals. In it, a dying person gives the living permission to move on and be happy, even if it means forgetting.
"Dulce Et Decorum Est" is by war poet named Wilfred Owen. The poem describes the horror of a chlorine or mustard gas attack. The Latin phrase that finishes the poem means, "It is sweet and proper to die for your country." Owens' writing made clear he did not believe any such lie.
John Donne mostly wrote about love and faith, in that order. His poems are unbelievably complicated, as in "Batter My Heart," a sonnet in which he begs God to bash his wicked heart back into shape. His best-known work is probably "The Apparition," in which a rather entitled bro-like character threatens to stalk his ex-girlfriend from beyond the grave. Fortunately, his poetry gets less entitled and much more appealing as he ages.
This is from "The Raven" which is one of Poe's most famous works. Poe is one of the great horror writers of history. Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft both nod to him as one of their foremost inspirations.
This one's pretty obscure, though the poet is not: William Blake wrote this line, which opens "The Lilly." You probably know him best for the words to the popular hymn, "Jerusalem," which was originally a poem of his.
This is a segment of "A Very Short Song" by noted satirist and wit, Dorothy Parker. She is also famous for the words, "I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host."
This elegy by Auden first appeared in a play, though some claim it was written for a dead lover. Its actual title is "Funeral Blues," but it is also known by its opening line, "Stop all the clocks."
This is the most famous line from "Ozymandias," a sonnet by Shelley. He was a very famous Romantic poet in his time and a good friend of Lord Byron. His fame since has been eclipsed - most would say quite rightly - by his wife Mary Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein and mother of the genre of science fiction.
Lord Tennyson wrote, "The Two Voices," formerly titled "Thoughts of a Suicide" following the death of his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Other rather tragic work by Tennyson includes "The Lady of Shalott," about a woman under a curse, and "Maud," a poem that opens with the line, "I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood."
This is from the second of The Canterbury Tales, "The Miller's Tale," which is told to repay the Knight for the gift of "The Knight's Tale."
Dickinson suffered from ill health - possibly a form of mental illness such as depression - and a preoccupation with death. She had a sterling education thanks to her family's belief that women should be educated, studying at Amherst Academy, later the Ivy League school Amherst College.
"...took good care of his mother though he was only three." Another A.A. Milne about a startlingly precocious boy.
"Caged Bird" is possibly the most famous poem from Angelou's bestselling collection, "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"Angelou is famous for her poetry, her civil rights activism, and for her incredibly good advice, including such gems as, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
These words were written by Byron to his beloved dog, Boatswain. Lord Byron was one of the most small-r romantics of the big-R Romantic poets. Among his possessions at death included a box of locks of hair given to him by his many, many lovers. He was incredibly handsome and charming, despite his bad leg. For all his love affairs, Boatswain was his truest friend, and Byron personally nursed the dog through its final illness. Byron himself came to a rather sad end when he got involved in the Greeks' battle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. He and Boatswain are buried near one another in the same churchyard at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate - Boatswain's grave is bigger than his old master's.
With his hundreds of wives and concubines, plus his wars and further affairs, it's amazing that King David managed to write any poetry. But somehow he wrote about six dozen Psalms. Some Biblical scholars dispute his authorship, but the evidence for it is convincing to others.
These are the final words of the poem "Lady Lazarus." The Pulitzer prize-winning Plath's career was tragically cut short by suicide.
These words come from the charming Nash poem, "The Tale of Custard the Dragon," who had a "mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose, %0DAnd realio, trulio, daggers on his toes!" Nash was notable for very silly and funny poems, and also for writing a poem called "Samson Agonistes" which - while it may be not as profound as the poem of the same name by John Milton - is a darn sight more fun to read.
John Milton was more than a poet; he was a politician during the English Civil War. He picked the winning side and served Cromwell loyally. The quote in the question is from his most famous work, "Paradise Lost," in which he successfully set out to do for the English language what Homer did for Ancient Greek. The idea that great epics may be written in modern English may seem rather obvious now, but Milton did it first.
Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress," quoted here, expresses how if he and his lover were immortal, he would gladly take thousands of years courting and admiring her - but they're not, so they should make love before they both die and the worms take her honor from her grave. It is a rather silly argument, as the lady in question probably noted - but it is very well made!
You knew the Bard had to be in here somewhere, and here he is at last. This line begins Sonnet 130, and one of the recurring figures of Shakespeare's poems appears here; the Dark Lady. The Fair Youth and the Rival Poet are the other two repeat characters who are addressed by the poems, with different types and levels of affection and respect. It's not 100% clear whether any of the three was a real person, but it's much more romantic to suppose they were.
The Brontë sisters are best known for their novels, but they were also notable poets, publishing a book together under their male pseudonyms. Emily Brontë's only novel, "Wuthering Heights," is one of the most-adapted and most read in all of literature.
Marlowe was a contemporary of Shakespeare, and here opens his poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." The nymph had to wait the best part of the year before Sir Walter Raleigh wrote her reply, in which we learn that the shepherd didn't get the date he was after.
E. E. Cummings was noteworthy for playing with the shape of the poem on the page, as well as adapting grammar and spelling to tell the story he was trying to tell. Love him or hate him - and everyone does at one time or another - you have to admire his creativity.
"...and when she was good, she was very very good, and when she was bad, she was horrid!" Most of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry was longer than this, in keeping with his name, and included "Paul Revere's Ride." But "There was a little girl" remains one of his best-known works.
This poem was written by Barrett Browning to highlight the injustice and cruelty of child labor during the Victorian era, as many children were made sick and died young due to the long hours, strenuous labor and unsafe working conditions. There is some irony in this, as Barrett Browning's family grew rich on plantation money. Barrett Browning was notable in her time, selling a great many books, and moving in impressive literary circles.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which is one of the bestselling novels of all time and helped sway many minds to support the Abolitionist cause. Stowe also wrote poems such as "The Crocus" from which the above lines are taken.
Theodor Seuss Geisel, AKA Dr. Seuss, was a master poet and storyteller who gave us characters like the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, and the Lorax, who is quoted in the question. Geisel was an environmentalist and was also not afraid to speak against bigotry. With his cartoons and poems, he called out the nascent fascist movement in the US in the 1930's and helped galvanize public sentiment against the Nazis - which helped ensure that the fascists remained a fringe movement in the US, and when America entered the war, it was on the right side!
A Romantic poet, Coleridge wrote "Kubla Khan" while tripping on opium, thinking of a 300-line poem. His trip was interrupted by the arrival of the postman, and he only wrote out about a third of the finished piece. While sober, he quickly wrote four lines to wrap things up.
Phillis Wheatley was born in what is now Senegal or Gambia and was brought to America as a slave. She was purchased by the Wheatley family, who saw and encouraged her genius and eventually freed her. Despite her brilliance, her patriotism, and the popularity of her work, sadly she died in poverty - but at the very least, her legacy long outlived her captors and oppressors.
We could have given you a Pope quote like "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread", "A little learning is a dangerous thing", "The proper study of Mankind is Man", "To err is human, to forgive, divine", "The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!" but those would be too easy this late in the game! Instead, we gave you this obscure epigram, which has the distinction of having been written for Pope's friend, the Prince of Wales. This poem was engraved on the collar of a dog who Pope gifted to the Prince, then resident at the royal palace at Kew. So don't feel bad if you didn't get this one; you learned something fun!
Carol Ann Duffy is a former British Poet Laureate, best known for the incredible bestselling collection known as "The World's Wife." Duffy writes poems from the point of view of the wives and female family members of famous male figures in history. The question quotes Mrs. Icarus. Others include Mrs. Aesop, Pilate's wife, Frau Freud, and even Elvis' twin sister, giving a voice to the voiceless and reminding us that history doesn't always tell us all the facts.
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Here is something else to think about. When Don and I first started the Circles, my success rates were slightly higher. We never once looked at this as a competition, we only added our success ratios because one the readers requested that we do so, plus it made perfect sense to keep a record to use later for a reference point.
But as the Circles reached the higher levels Don's calculation muscle kicked into high gear. While I could still solve the problems matching or bettering my earlier success rates, my ability to solve them more quickly with each consecutive pass didn't improve as dramatically as Don's. He soon left me in the dust with his success rates when it turned to the critical portion of timed exercises.
In hindsight I believe it was because Don took great effort to use his full amount of time per exercise in the lower circles. I saw or guessed at the answer and moved on, all the while growing increasingly displeased at the random order of themes involved, thinking of CT-Art as a sloppy way to learn tactics. Of course I was spoiled by my earlier exposure to the excellent training CD made by TASC called "Chess Tutor". I later found out that this was a highly successful 5 step method pioneered by Rob Brunia and IM Cor van Wijgerden. It breaks tactics all the way down to the fundamental elements. For example when describing and teaching pins it gives the themes of King + Material, Material + Material, Material + Square. I cannot give this CD enough praise, every beginning to intermediate player should own it, or at least be exposed to its methodology.
Anyway there I was, focusing on a pattern recognition/theme approach because at the time I thought that was the key to improved tactical ability and the basis of Michael de la Maza's plan. Now I realize that I couldn't see the forest because of all the trees. But until the Knights were formed no one had really thought about the difference between pattern recognition and "Calculation Muscle".
So really Michael de la Maza owes his rating increase largely in part to a heightened ability to calculate variations quickly and accurately. That is not to say his ability to find the correct move wasn't intact, because I have a feeling he was very good at seeing patterns, nor am I dismissing what he achieved as an easy feat of accomplishment.
While he stresses the benefits as tactical improvement, he really should be calling it an improvement in calculating accurately. Because CT-Art used as he prescribes certainly serves no other function better than a calculation exercise. If you wanted to use it in another capacity you should switch the setting to either 1. Tactical Methods, or 2. Combinational Motifs.
Once I reach that portion of my training where I want to work solely on calculation muscle I will certainly consider the MDLM version of 7-Circles. I will still be hesitant about using CT-Art but you never know...
Actually it would feel kind of good to slay that buggy piece of work. Technically I guess
I could finish my remaining circles but that would kind of miss the point. If I'm going to do something I want to do it properly.
I'm wondering if this post breaks the "obtuse" barrier.


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It has been my favorite week of the year!! We read more Dr. Seuss books than one class could muster. On Friday the kids did some awesome opinion writing about their favorite Dr.Seuss book. As us Common Corers know opinion writing is all the rage! I was so proud of them. We started by making a long list of books we read. Then the kids wrote on scrap paper (trying to save a tiny forest) 3 reasons why the book they chose was their favorite. Then I gave them an opening and closing sentence starter. And BAM! take that opinion writing!! I will take some pictures of our work when I am back in school on Monday.
My favorite week- I HEART he who shall not be named but wrote great books!
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Personal Statement Essay Examples
The personal statement essay is a major part of college applications, and some jobs will require you to write one also. There are three types of personal statements; universal, all encompassing, and statement of response. The statement of response answers a particular question. This type of essay allows you to address who you are, what your goals are, and what sets you apart from everyone else. Personal statement essay examples can be a great help when writing your own college essay.
The first step to writing your personal statement is to brainstorm and prepare yourself.
- Make a list of people, places, or job experiences that has shaped who you are today.
- List all of the skills, characteristics, or qualifications that you may possess. These must be relevant to the position or program you are applying for.
- Create an overview of your goals and how that program or position is going to help you achieve those goals.
- Become familiar with that particular program or position. The more information you have, the easier it will be to write your statement.
Now that you have some notes and an outline for your essay, it is time to put it all together. Here is some information that may help you accomplish this task.
- Look at the list you made, and choose a subject that is of great importance to you. You want to have as much supporting information as you can for your topic. So make sure you have enough information to write a complete essay that will wow the reader.
- Create your opening paragraph; your thesis should be included in this paragraph. Make sure it is strong enough to carry all the way through your statement.
- The body of your statement should exemplify your knowledge and experience with the program or position. And your enthusiasm to work towards attaining your goals.
- The conclusion of your statement should include restating your main point of interest. And should summarize everything you have written about in your statement.
- Finally, proofread your statement several times. It is suggested that you have another person read it also, this way they can see if there are any additional grammar errors that you may not have seen.
The personal statement essay will be one of the most important essays you will ever write. If your personal statement is part of your college application, remember that admissions officers have a very limited time to read each essay, so you will want to grab their attention from the beginning. And avoid including information that the reader may already have access to, such as your test scores, grades, work reviews, etc. Personal statement essay examples can help you figure out what direction you need to take your essay. But remember to be original with your statement; after all it is all about you.


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Mother is the most loving and the most beloved person in your life. That's why a present for your mom should be well thought out as there is no room for useless trifles. You have most likely given a lot of presents for your mom for every single her birthday you remember so it is pretty much clear why you are confused about this matter.


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Sentencing Guidelines for Sexual Assault Charges in Calgary
A sexual assault charge can be a life changing event, no matter what the circumstances of the case or the outcome of any trial or other proceeding in the Calgary courts. Simply being accused of sexual assault can cause deep rifts to form in interpersonal relationships, and can be emotionally, psychologically, and socially devastating.
The best way to combat the negative effects of a sexual assault charge that you believe is false or erroneous is to mount a legal defence against the accusations that have been made and the charges that have been laid against you. This is not just important in restoring your good name and ensuring you have a chance to tell your version of events, but is also the surest way to avoid potentially devastating legal consequences, including imprisonment and significant financial setbacks.
Make no mistake: even the most seemingly frivolous and insignificant sexual assault charge can have serious repercussion on your future opportunities, and your very freedom is quite literally at stake. The law at working Calgary's sexual assault cases does not take these charges lightly, and you should take your defence just as seriously.
How Those Convicted of Sexual Assault in Calgary Can be Punished
As noted elsewhere in this blog, criminal and sexual assault are both defined by the same section of the Criminal Code of Canada. The sentencing guidelines for sexual assaults are different from those for common assault, however, and it's important to know this difference.
Here's what Section 271 of the criminal code says regarding punishments for those found guilty of sexual assault in Calgary and throughout Canada:
Everyone who commits a sexual assault is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years or, if the complainant is under the age of 16 years, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 18 months or, if the complainant is under the age of 16 years, to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of six months.
Simply put, if you are convicted of a sexual assault against someone sixteen years of age or older, you are looking at a minimum of one year in jail. Depending on the specific circumstances of the charges laid against you, you could face up to ten years in prison. That's ten years away from your family, your community, and your career—a stretch of time that cannot help by alter the course of your entire life.
If you've been charged with sexual assault in Calgary, you need a compassionate, confidential, and experienced criminal defence lawyer on your side. Contact Susan Karpa today to get the help you're entitled to, and put these charges behind you as quickly and completely as possible.


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Gary Vaynerchuk was born November 14, 1975. He is a Belarusian American entrepreneur, author, speaker and internet personality. First known as a wine critic who grew his family's wine business from $3 million to $60 million,Vaynerchuk is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media, leading New York-based companies VaynerMedia and VaynerX.
Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of VaynerMedia, a full-service digital agency servicing Fortune 500 clients across the company's 4 locations.
Gary rose to prominence in the late 90's after establishing one of the first ecommerce wine sites, WineLibrary helping his father grow the family business from $4 to $60M in sales.
Gary is also one of the most sought after public speakers alive today. He is a venture capitalist, 4-time New York Times bestselling author, and an early investor in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo and Uber. Gary has been named to both Crain's and Fortune's 40 Under 40 lists.
Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it's like to be a CEO and public figure in today's digital world. He is also the host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show online.
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Most soul searching is sparked when things go wrong. It often takes a dark patch to inspire the pathfinder in us. The ability to find strength and opportunity to grow in the midst of hardship shows fortitude and spirited character. We can find ourselves feeling lost and confused in any kind of situation. It's about perspective. It doesn't always takes true dire straights to feel truly out of balance.
Not everyone has the means to fly to Italy and India to eat their way to the pleasure of nourishment and pray their way to inner peace. Some of us have to find balance within the context of our comfort zones, no time to take a step out and make changes. We have families and homes that need our attention and time.
The truth is, we hold all the tools we need to change our path right where we stand. The way I feel at the end of a good yoga class is often the same way I feel at the end of a great vacation.
I'm learning to find balance and add peace to more moments in my current existence. I'm weaving peace into the chaos of daily life. Eventually there will be so much peace that the chaos will no longer have as much power. This is my choice. I have to make that choice in each moment.
I'm a mom of young daughters and most of my time is taken up serving the needs of others. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing at this point in my life, but that being said, this is no easy task. My own needs often go unmet and although I happily give myself to my family, even the most giving mother will struggle with this from time to time. I'm finding myself being pulled toward wanting to take an inner journey at this stage in my life, but I just don't have the time to devote to focus on myself. Maybe it's because I don't have the time to focus on myself that I feel this pull, but I feel it nonetheless. So, it's my onus to balance this life that needs my full attention with my own need to go inside and do some searching.
Even if the scale tips heavy toward my family responsibilities in this moment, my perspective needs to remain unobstructed. There is no need for a self indulgent journey around the world for inner peace when I can gently pull at the threads of peace and work them into my life right now as best I can. I will find them, weave them in and watch them become more and more prevalent.
When the time is right the threads will become thicker and more abundant, but there will be plenty of time for that later and I can wait. The truth is that what seemed to be a dark patch is actually a shining light of hope and abundance. Change your perspective, change your life.


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Launch Angle: 25.7 degrees
Max Height: 101.9 feet
When Joey Gallo steps into the batter's box, one of two things is likely to happen—he's either going to strike out, or he's going to hit the baseball into another dimension.
Dating back to the start of the 2017 season, over 51% of Gallo's at-bats have ended in either a strike out or home run.
He hit a meager .209 last season, yet his 41 home runs helped him post an impressive 3.2 WAR. That's the power of the long ball.
And Gallo rarely hits wall-scrapers. If he gets a hold of one, it usually goes a long, long way.
Case in point, this moon shot from September 2017.
The 490-foot blast nearly exited Angel Stadium.
"He's probably going to hit for 60 homers one year," Rangers Outfielder Nomar Mazara once told Sporting News. "He's got that kind of power."


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Minimum creditable coverage
Under the Massachusetts Health Care reform Act, most Massachusetts residents 18 or older must carry health insurance that meets specific standards called Minimum Creditable Coverage (MCC).
What is MCC?
MCC establishes the lowest health plan benefit threshold an individual must have in order to meet the requirement for Massachusetts residents to have health insurance. Regulations defining minimum creditable coverage have been established by the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority Board effective January 1, 2009.
Does MCC apply to me?
MCC applies to Massachusetts residents who are 18 years or older.
What happens if my plan doesn't meet the MCC standards?
If your plan doesn't meet the MCC standards you may face a tax penalty.
How is MCC compliance being reported and monitored?
The Massachusetts Health Care Reform law requires most residents over the age of 18 to prove that they have health care coverage or pay a penalty. Individuals will be required to transcribe data contained in the MA 1099-HC form to their annual state income tax filing statement provided by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR).
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts issues MA 1099-HC forms to qualifying subscribers residing in Massachusetts who are enrolled in a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts health plan at any time during the calendar year.
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How to enable a fearless & holistic cyber security approach
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Cyber attacks continue to make the headlines as they grow in number, severity and sophistication. Unsurprisingly, organisations are struggling to cope and cyber criminals are leveraging this opportunity. That means everyone is a potential target. Quite simply, IT teams lack the resources they need to deal with the ever-evolving threat landscape - and hiring the right people to work in-house is prohibitively expensive.
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Since the light rail was built out to this neighborhood, it's become noisy and overcrowded. There are a couple of nice mobile home parks in the area, but for the most part, it's industrial and not the safest area to be in at night. It improves as you walk towards Tasman and Great America Parkway.
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Stack in the Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 enables building a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) with new layers of security and Azure-related approach for hosting business applications and infrastructure. The new Software-Defined Network (SDN) Stack provides dynamic security and hybrid flexibility by enforcing network policy in the Hyper-V Virtual Switch using the Azure Virtual Filtering Platform (VFP) Switch Extension. Instead of programming network configurations into a physical switch, the new Microsoft Network Controller delivers the network policy to the Hyper-V Hosts using the OVSDB protocol and is programmed into the VFP extension of the vSwitch by a Host Agent which enforces the policy.
Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV)
The network virtualization solution in Windows Server 2012 and 2012R2 – Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) – used an encapsulation format known as NVGRE to create overlay networks based on network policy that is managed through SCVMM and programmed through WMI / PowerShell (which is still available in Windows Server 2016). Another popular industry protocol for encapsulation is VXLAN.
Windows Server 2016 supports both NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulation protocols, with the default being VXLAN. The Microsoft Network Controller is built as a programmable surface to create and manage virtual networks and apply precise policies for security, load balancing, and Quality of Service. A specific management plane (PowerShell scripts, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), or the Microsoft Azure Stack (MAS) components) programs network policy through the RESTful API exposed by the Microsoft Network Controller, which then distributes this policy to each of the Hyper-V hosts using the OVSDB Protocol and a set of schemas to represent virtual networks, ACLs, user-defined routing, and other policy.
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Like VLANs, both NVGRE and VXLAN provide isolation by including an identifier (e.g. VXLAN Network Identifier – VNI) to identify the logical network segment (virtual subnet).
In WS2016, multiple VNIs (or virtual subnets) can be combined within a Routing Domain so that isolation between tenant virtual networks is maintained thereby allowing for overlapping IP address spaces.
Unlike physical networks with VLANs where policy is closely tied to location and the physical port to which a server (hosting a VM) is attached, a network endpoint (VM) is free to move across the datacenter while ensuring that all policy moves along with it.
Microsoft picked the distribution by a central authority approach to sending out the VM MAC : VTEP IP mapping information to avoid the unnecessary broadcast/multicast network traffic. The Microsoft Network Controller (OVSDB Client) communicates with the Hyper-V Hosts (VTEPs) using the OVSDB protocol with policy represented in schemas persisted to a Host Agent's database (OVSDB Server).
A local ARP responder on the host is then able to catch and respond to all ARP requests from the VMs to provide the destination MAC address of the remote VM. The Host Agent database also contains the VTEP IP address of all hosts attached to the virtual subnet. The Host Agent programs mapping rules into the VFP extension of the Hyper-V Virtual Switch to correctly encapsulate and send the VM packet based on the destination VM.
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Source: blogs.technet.microsoft.com
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