This web log discussion is built around these 100 words.
The Truth Without the gift of Early Reading Skills all children are behind before they even start kindergarten.
The Gift Only an individual gift delivers early reading skills at age 3, 4 and 5. This is the key to opportunity. It is society’s best (effective and lowest cost) approach to preparing the bottom half of the bottom half (poorest of the poor) to want the opportunities, choices and engagement.
The Focus When 100% of the children start kindergarten ready to read English the urban school has the resources to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress Requirement of No Child Left Behind.
These first 100 words have been left loose in the middle so you can fill in the blanks. But, the start and end are not loose, in the sketch or in the web log. Our society has never prepared 100% of the children in urban areas to start kindergarten ready to read. This is a new requirement, and it is being addressed as if it is an old one. We can rise to the challenge the fastest by positively facilitating exactly these starting requirements within the community. Also, the urban elementary school principal's network to the community is the urban capacity to sustain any improvements over 10-20 years. This network is also the link to the social return and payback for the gifts of early reading skills. It must be defined to be an end in mind.
This web log is only one way to say and resource the start and the finish. Obviously there are others. Please stay positive with me, It is critical that each community, principal and school district has started with the end in mind and is looking to the available resources already in place. This material will show one non-exclusive way to an undisputed end in mind for the urban public elementary school (see focus above).
In a turnaround, started when leadership has no choice but to change, several strategies (paths) are not better than one. Public or private turnarounds are made with added equity resources in some form. The initial resources to make the turn come from those already deployed and considered as equity. Pure new cash equity is generally not forthcoming, until the organization can articulate in a few words (say 100) why success, in the end, should now be expected. It is usual for turnarounds to fail because they do not resource first things first, they also resource third and fourth level strategies, or leadership does not look far enough into the future for the real requirements and ended up climbing the wrong mountain.
Tom Wolfgram
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Have you ever spent two or three hours doing nothing but blog surfing?
I’ve been surfing for related information to goal setting tool for my next
eBook on goal setting
for young adults.
It will be a compilation of information found mostly from blogs (not websites because
they really don’t cover much for young adults - how they think and react).
Blogs on the other hand have more personal “stuff” and are rich with anecdotes
and “hidden” emotions, words and information not found anywhere else on the net.
If you’ve not surfed at least a couple hundred blogs at one setting, you really should some day, it’s a great education.
Anyway,
Along the way I also leave a little “wisdom” to start you thinking about your own goals and maybe help put you in the very small percent of the population that actually set goals, write them down and try to achieve them.
Not earth shattering by any means, and you have read this before, but have you
actually practiced it lately?
Jot down a few new goals today, right now, that would make you a better person, better business person or a better provider.
I dare you!
There is a difference in setting your goals and setting them effectively. Anyone can set a goal, but doing it effectively means that it will actually get done.
There are so many things that you can do to better your life, but if you don't know how to go about it you are stuck.
The following guidelines will help you to set effective goals and help you manage your time in an efficient manner that will cause those goals to become reality.
State each goal as a positive statement
Express your goals in a positive way. This is a key component to setting goals that you can attain.
How often have you been excited to accomplish a goal that didn't even sound good when you brought it up? If you are not comfortable or happy with the goals that you have set, the likelihood of you succeeding is pretty low.
If you want to express your goals in a positive way, you simply have to first think of a goal that puts a smile on your face when you imagine it completed. Why would you want to set a goal that made you frown, cringe or cry?
When you are beginning to set your goals it helps when you are talking about them to others in a manner that states your actions as positives because it will have others seeing it as a positive as well.
That will garner you a great deal more support. In the end, don't we all need a little support when we are trying to do something positive in our lives?
Be precise
Set a precise goal that includes starting dates, times and amounts so that you can properly measure your achievement.
If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
Being precise in setting your goals is no more than setting them with exact details. It is easier this way because then you can follow a step-by-step format. That's all there is to it.
Set priorities
When you have several goals, give each a specific priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones and follow each in succession. Setting priorities will force you into the step-by-step format above.
By doing the most important first and moving to the least important in succession, you are enabling each task to be easier than the last. It causes the accomplishment of each task to get easier and easier which will encourage you to complete your goal.
Enjoy your day – have a GREAT one! And set some new goals…
I like to leave a little “wisdom” to jolt your into thinking about goals you may have set over the past few years, months and days, after a good blog read.
Not earth shattering by any means, and you have read this before, but have you
actually practiced it lately?
You know – gnitteS laoG
Jot down a few new ones today or visit a few old ones that would make you a better person, better business person or a better provider.
I dare you!
Today’s tidbit…
There is a difference in setting your goals and setting them effectively. Anyone can set a goal, but doing it effectively means that it will actually get done.
There are so many things that you can do to better your life, but if you don't know how to go about it you are stuck.
The following guidelines will help you to set effective goals and help you manage your time in an efficient manner that will cause those goals to become reality.
State each goal as a positive statement
Express your goals in a positive way. That is a key component to setting goals that you can attain.
How often have you been excited to accomplish a goal that didn't even sound good when you brought it up? If you are not comfortable or happy with the goals that you have set, the likelihood of you succeeding is pretty low.
If you want to express your goals in a positive way, you simply have to first think of a goal that puts a smile on your face when you imagine it completed. Why would you want to set a goal that made you frown, cringe or cry?
When you are beginning to set your goals it helps when you are talking about them to others in a manner that states your actions as positives because it will have others seeing it as a positive as well.
That will garner you a great deal more support. In the end, don't we all need a little support when we are trying to do something positive in our lives?
Be precise
Set a precise goal that includes starting dates, times and amounts so that you can properly measure your achievement.
If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
Being precise in setting your goals is no more than setting them with exact details. It is easier this way because then you can follow a step-by-step format. That's all there is to it.
Set priorities
When you have several goals, give each a specific priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones and follow each in succession. Setting priorities will force you into the step-by-step format above.
By doing the most important first and moving to the least important in succession, you are enabling each task to be easier than the last. It causes the accomplishment of each task to get easier and easier which will encourage you to complete your goal.
There’s a few more “tidbits” for you at effective goals
Enjoy your day – And have a GREAT one!
After a good read on blogs like this I like to leave little tips on goal setting. You know, the things you used to dream of when you were young, or even now.
A lot of research has shown that only those who set goals are likely to achieve their dreams.
When is the last time you really sat down and wrote a few short term and long term goals down?
What? It's been that long!
A new year is coming. You could do the same things you did this year and achieve the same results you did with your life dreams last year, or you could visit stating goals and read all the FREE information on setting goals and getting what you want out of life
OR
you could just piddle on through life hoping for the best, like most people do.
Which will it be?
You really can have a lot more of everything than you do now. All you gotta do is know what you want and have a plan.
Have a GREAT New Year!
I was just surfing the net looking for useful information on Life-Mission and came across your blog, Tom. Great work! This will help me perfect my personal development software that you are welcome to test drive at http://www.wellnessmaster.com. Keep up the great work, you are providing a great resource on the Internet here!
Hey everyone! Cool site! The customer support seems good and the technology jobs are endless. Maybe I will have a better directmatch searching for human resources
since my keyword "customer care jobs" did not fit as intended.
Glad I found you! Keep on keepin on!
I was going to leave a little tip on New Years Resolutions and how to make the best of them.
Unfortunately, I would not be able to keep it brief.
Goal setting takes effort and you really have to know how to do it to do it well. Especially the follow-up.
That's why I've included a lot of FREE goal setting information on my website, to help folks like you be more successful.
In fact, you can start now, and get a head start on the new year - and the rest of your life.
Think goal setting isn't important? Spend a little time at career goals and you'll change your mind.
Have a GREAT day!
After a good read on blogs like this I like to leave little tips on goal setting. You know, the things you used to dream of when you were young, or even now.
A lot of research has shown that only those who set goals are likely to achieve their dreams.
When is the last time you really sat down and wrote a few short term and long term goals down?
What? It's been that long!
A new year is coming. You could do the same things you did this year and achieve the same results you did with your life dreams last year, or you could visit long term goals and read all the FREE information on setting goals and getting what you want out of life
OR
you could just piddle on through life hoping for the best, like most people do.
Which will it be?
You really can have a lot more of everything than you do now. All you gotta do is know what you want and have a plan.
Have a GREAT New Year!
Thank you for your wonderful site. Although I did not find admin jobs as a directmatch to your site, I did however enjoy the career advice from other posts.
Thanks again for being here!
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Hi. After suffering through the tree-busting, home-wreaking destruction of Hurricane Wilma, and being away from the Internet for well over a week because Adelphia broadband blew away in the wind, it’s nice to read things like your blog. Even though I really am searching for information on the Boca Raton Country Club, which I might be able to use on my Boca Raton real estate site ... thanks for the read.
Visited so many blogs today my eyes are spinning, although sometimes I think that’s better than working on my Boca Raton real estate site. At least your blog stopped me for a while … enjoyable read … although I don’t necessarily understand it all. Guess I’ll hit the "next url" link one more time. This blogging thing is a little addictive, isn’t it?
I always think I’m wasting my time slogging thru the blogging … hit the “next url” and scratch my head trying to figure out what the new blog’s message actually means … if there IS a message. I feel a little guilty not working on my Boca Raton real estate site. But not THAT guilty. I enjoyed your blog. Good read. Keep it up.
I always think I’m wasting my time slogging thru the blogging … hit the “next url” and scratch my head trying to figure out what the new blog’s message actually means … if there IS a message. I feel a little guilty not working on my Boca Raton real estate site. But not THAT guilty. I enjoyed your blog. Good read. Keep it up.
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