by cjhuff | Mar 14, 2018 | Student Success
Michele Gay is a former teacher and a parent. She lost her youngest daughter in the shooting attack on Sandy Hook School in December of 2012. Determined to build a positive legacy for her daughter and help others learn to better prevent, prepare, and recover from...
by cjhuff | Jan 4, 2018 | Student Success
Less than one hour north from where I am writing this blog sets the community of Lamar, Missouri. For you history buffs out there, our 33rd President of the United States was born in Lamar…Harry S. Truman. In 1946, Missouri’s native son, President Harry S. Truman,...
by cjhuff | Nov 23, 2017 | Student Success
The Measure of America project, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council defines disconnected youth as “…teenagers and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither working nor in school. There are 5,527,000 disconnected youth in America today, or...
by cjhuff | Oct 20, 2017 | Student Success
We acquired the word “mentor” from the literature of ancient Greece. In Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, Odysseus was away from home fighting and journeying for 20 years. During that time, Telemachus, the son he left as a babe in arms, grew up under the...
by cjhuff | Sep 26, 2017 | Student Success
As you read this blog, please understand I believe that the vast majority of education policy-makers on both sides of the political aisle are coming from a pure place. I want to believe their common ground is a sincere desire to grow generations of youth that are...
by cjhuff | Aug 20, 2017 | Student Success
The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” The meaning behind those words has been the subject of religious,...
