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Summer Is Here. Get Up And Learn!!

Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers Memorial Day is behind us!! Kick off your summer with Jessyka Coulter’s “Get Up And Learn” free downloadable resource give-away. for you and your teens. Without regular engagement- Yes even over the summer- teens can experience what is known as “academic slide.” This means losing academic progress particularly in reading, writing and …

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Where Are The World’s Happiest Cities?

Pack your bags and head to one of the world’s top 10 “Happiest Cities” according to researchers from The Quality Of Life Institute.  Copenhagen, Denmark, Zurich, Switzerland and Singapore are numbers 1 -3, respectively. The indices are based on things contributing positively to the quality of life. Citizens give their cities accolades for things like large …

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AI And Spotify Endanger Organic Discovery Of Truly NEW Music 

Khemet McConville has a new release, “1216 E Palm Dr”. He’s been featured as a new music discovery artist on Earmilk.com—a legit digital music magazine with a strong reputation for being not pay-for-play. No paid articles, no fluff. Like thousands of unsigned independent artists, he and his music are buried, overlooked, and dismissed because of …

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Guarding A Treasure- Preserving The Cherokee Language

This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com. And, it was subsequently reported in David Byrne’s digital “good news” magazine  Reasons To Be Cheerful. We are all, at least most of  us very aware of the many public and charter school dual language immersion programs; Spanish, …

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Only One U.S. State’s Math Scores Have Gone Up Since 2019-Guess Which

Alabama is the only state where 4th grade math scores are higher now than they were in 2019. How are they doing it? While K – 12 learning was remote during the Covid lockdown DeKalb County’s school district reinvented their math program in elementary schools. The plan was to make math more engaging, more relevant …

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Get Preteens, Teen and Young Adults Into Volunteering- The Sooner, The Better

According to 2023 research data from Volgistics, a volunteer management software, kids that volunteer are 25% less likely to experience anxiety and 50% less likely to engage in destructive behaviors like smoking or  misusing alcohol. There’s no question, volunteerism translates into mastering important adult life skills. To name a few; Social and Professional Communication Skills …

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The Need to Master Adult Life Skills Is Gender Neutral

I’m not saying there aren’t some specific adult life skills that may be specific to a gender identity or sexual orientation …. But ALL teens and young adults will navigate adult life with greater confidence and less stress by mastering many much-needed everyday adult life skills that are for the most part gender neutral. There …

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FORCE BLUE Special Ops Veterans Come Together With Marine Science….

The result, “mission therapy” for Veterans  and  cleaner oceans and waterways for all of us. The idea for FORCE BLUE grew out of a trip co-founders Jim Ritterhoff and Rudy Reyes took in 2015 to go reef diving. Since returning home from several tours in Afghanistan Reyes, a former Recon Marine,  had been struggling with …

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