I am going to take you back to middle school. I know middle school is hard, but I want you to think about who you were when you were 13. What labels were used to describe you.Now think of the students who were chosen to be leaders. What labels did adults use to describe them. Miriam Webster defines leadership as the capacity to lead.That leaves an awful lot up to interpretation. I learned some leadership lessons the hard way early in my teaching career. Like the time when I planned a studentled field day.We ...

Have you ever had one of those days where you have something to look forward to at night and you're so excited about it, you just can't focus. Here's an example. It's the opening night for the movie you've been looking forward to seeing for over a year.All day you're daydreaming about how you can't wait to dress up for it. If you're going to get the popcorn or the candy. if you need to get there early to get the seat with the perfect view.And the best part, you're going with people who are just as excited a ...

When we face big problems, climate change, pollutions, disease. Most of people assume we need big solutions, tall building, huge machines, massive systems. But sometime the most powerful solutions are small.So small you cannot see with your eyes. So small you need a microscope. I'm talking about micro algae.Micro algae are tiny plantlike creatures living in water, oceans, rivers, lakes, puddles. They lives everywhere on our planet and they keep our planet alive. Here's something most people don't know.Micro ...

I want you guys to take a look at this zebra. Some of you might see a black animal with white stripes, but some of you but some of you might see a white animal with black stripes. But why can it not be both? What if it's neither? In fourth grade, like most elementary schoolers were required to do, we had to take state standardized testing. I was sitting at my desk, nervous like any kid would be about to take a test. But before we could actually access it, our screen showed a list of boxes to choose from. An ...

You have more than $100 million in investments that you have refused to disclose to ethics officials and to the public. So let me ask, do the Juggernaut Fund or the t h sdf. S LLC invest in any companies affiliated with President Trump or his family companies that have facilitated money laundering, Chinese controlled companies, or financing vehicles established by Jeffrey Epstein.Senator Warren. Thank you. So let me first share a point of agreement with you.The Fed has two tools. One is its monetary policy ...

I was 15 when a doctor looked at me in burn and predicted my life or tried to and he painted a picture of a life with a wheelchair with chronic pain with a lot of suffering and challenges a short life and he did add not a good I was already walking on crutches. I had had juvenile polyarthritis, a dozen bouts of malaria, bulimia, and other illnesses I won't go into. And my body felt like a battlefield and a battle.I was waring which I was losing. So I did what I was taught to do. I was tough. I fought. I tri ...

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Hi everyone, my name is Brenda and I'm going to be performing What's Up by the Four Non-Blondes. What's Up is a song of resistance against conformity and silence. um ethical norms and standards are dissolving more each day and uh we're urged to ask the question what's going on and fight for a change.So if you know this one please sing along with me. 25 years in my life and still trying to get up this great big hill of hope for a destination. I realized quickly when I knew I should that this world was made u ...

Has anyone heard of the children's book by Charlie Mackazi. It's called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse. >> Yes.Or perhaps some of you may be a peaceuilder and you felt lost. Has anyone felt lost. then this story might just resonate with you.In the novel, we begin with a boy and a mole. And the boy, he's found himself lost in a land. When he meets the mole, the mole, he says to him, "I'm so small. Hello." But the boy turns to him and he says, "Yes, but you make a huge difference." So the boy, he p ...

In 2009 at the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington State, a man named Colin Winter stood up on a grassy hillside. Everybody around him was seated quietly enjoying the music. He started to dance making a complete fool of himself.People were giggling, looking over their shoulder until someone else joined him. And then the third person joined and a fourth. Within a few minutes, almost everyone was on their feet dancing in complete joy.By that point, it was the people that were still sitting that looked out ...