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STREAM Learning
Joy Loss It seems that everybody else has pushed out their opinion about schools, learning loss, and the (hypothetical) post-pandemic way forward. Thus, I’ll provide mine: the best thing that governments, schools, parents, communities…can do for children is to quit fixating … Continue reading
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Tagged Learning Loss, Restoring Joy, STREAM
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Talkin’ Baseball
I first heard Terry Cashman’s song Talkin’ Baseball (Willie, Mickey & The Duke) in a baseball documentary that I saw in the 1980s. The title refers to Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider who played centerfield with the Giants, … Continue reading
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Play Ball!
With Major League Baseball’s opening day looming, I unearthed some of my baseball-related blog posts from the past several years. Some of them have themes other than baseball, including forgiveness, redemption, racism, playing hooky, and why I was the best … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, Celery City, Drexel, Sanford, Tuffy Rhodes Bo Knows
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“You’d Be Perfect For This Position”
In the go-go 1990s, when everybody was in a rush to do something ”internety,” I got a call from a recruiter, who breathlessly starting describing a position in the Chicago suburbs. I told her I lived in the city, was … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Fist, Uncategorized
Tagged Cold Calling, McDonald's, Monopoly, Recruiting
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