tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19887868442648801972024-02-07T16:17:05.372-08:00Casady Community Service-Learning BlogCasady School service news and memoriesCherylynn O'Meliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422796086392897281noreply@blogger.comBlogger585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988786844264880197.post-15371044788858509712018-07-12T07:15:00.003-07:002018-07-12T07:16:19.700-07:00Congratulations to Heather Vick<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">
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<b>Portland, Ore.– June 5, 2018</b> – Learning.com celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week 2018 by recognizing digital literacy teachers across the country in a special contest that honored educators who teach technology. School administrators were encouraged to nominate a teacher superhero who goes above and beyond to equip their students with the digital literacy skills needed for success on online assessments, in college and in their future careers.</div>
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Nominees included classroom teachers, technology specialists, media specialists and school librarians. Heartfelt entries were written and submitted online by principals who praised their nominees’ efforts and recognized the contributions they have made to the students at their schools. Comments from the winning entries included teacher achievements in integrating digital literacy in the classroom such as “uses a variety of tech tools and programs,” “embraced digital literacy this year with passion,” and “because of him our students are able to use technology.”</div>
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The winning educators will receive a free, one-year classroom subscription to EasyTech, Learning.com’s award-winning digital literacy curriculum for grades K-8. Their free access begins on July 1, 2018.</div>
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Congratulations go out to these winners:</div>
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· Jessica Alonzo, Amerigo A. Anastasia School, New Jersey</div>
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Michael Brennan, Bordentown Regional High School, New Jersey</div>
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· Kelsie Chrisco, Cunningham Elementary School, California</div>
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· Jessica Clifford, Visitation Catholic School, Illinois</div>
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· Ligia Comanescu, Logos Christian Academy, Illinois</div>
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· Jennifer Daniels, Willard School, Maine</div>
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· Stephanie Droddy, Huebner Elementary School, Texas</div>
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· Glory Fox, St. Christopher, New York</div>
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· Sophie Gousset, Austin International School, Texas</div>
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· Josh Grosskreutz, Manvel Public School, North Dakota</div>
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Gloria Harris, O'Bannon Elementary School, Mississippi</div>
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· Kathy Hayes, Whitehall Elementary School, Pennsylvania</div>
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· Judith Hill, Perkins Bass Elementary School, Illinois</div>
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· Nickie Irby, N. H. Pilate Middle School, Mississippi</div>
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· Monica Moore, Gunstream Elementary School, Texas</div>
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· Teresa Pritchard, West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana</div>
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· Alexandria Saclarides, John F. Kennedy Middle School, Tennessee</div>
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Alexandria Saclarides, John F. Kennedy Middle School, Tennessee</div>
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· Niki Sarver, Wadsworth Elementary School, Indiana</div>
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· Lesa Searles, Service Valley Charter Academy, Kansas</div>
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· Dr. Molly Smith, Saint Joseph School, Pennsylvania</div>
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· David Staal, Lake Michigan Academy, Michigan</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">WHEN:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> Winners selected Wednesday, May 30, 2018</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">WHY: </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, the Learning.com teacher superhero contest gave school administrators an opportunity to recognize the teacher superheroes at their own schools who they see working to help prepare students for success in our increasingly digital world. Providing the winning teachers with a free subscription to EasyTech is Learning.com’s way of demonstrating its appreciation for the dedication, resources, </span>and<span style="color: #333333;"> creativity it takes to deliver quality digital literacy instruction to students. </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988786844264880197.post-78506173271764916602018-06-02T01:32:00.000-07:002018-06-02T02:14:50.804-07:00Eric McEver'05's Film at DeadCenter, June 9th at 4:45<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">"I’m writing with good news: my new film “Paleonaut” is screening next month at DeadCenter: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://dcff2018.eventive.org/films/5adb9cc6dc4af0001476a89e&source=gmail&ust=1528013535349000&usg=AFQjCNGfYMO4Cm8dXGcxQVj_p_8YK3BUpw" href="https://dcff2018.eventive.org/films/5adb9cc6dc4af0001476a89e" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">https://dcff2018.e<wbr></wbr>ventive.org/films/5adb9cc6dc4a<wbr></wbr>f0001476a89e</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are two screenings: one <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/null">on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1201807102" style="border: none !important; cursor: inherit !important; position: static !important; top: -2px; z-index: auto !important;"><span class="aQJ" style="border: none !important; cursor: inherit !important; position: static !important; top: 2px; z-index: auto !important;">Saturday June 9th at 4:45</span></span></a>, the other <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1201807103" style="border: none !important; cursor: inherit !important; position: static !important; top: -2px; z-index: auto !important;"><span class="aQJ" style="border: none !important; cursor: inherit !important; position: static !important; top: 2px; z-index: auto !important;">on Sunday the 10th</span></span> at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1201807104" style="border: none !important; cursor: inherit !important; position: static !important; top: -2px; z-index: auto !important;"><span class="aQJ" style="border: none !important; cursor: inherit !important; position: static !important; top: 2px; z-index: auto !important;">12:45</span></span></a>. Both are at the Harkins Bricktown."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ik</span><span lang="EN-US">é</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">men Entertainment</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 2rem;">About Eric from </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://ericmcever.com/eric-mcever/">http://ericmcever.com/eric-mcever/</a></span></h1>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: grey; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Raised in Oklahoma, award-winning filmmaker Eric McEver relocated to Tokyo during college to pursue a passion for Noh theatre. While working variously as an actor, translator, game developer, and animation producer, he developed an offbeat cinematic vision fusing the languages and idiosyncrasies of his two homes.</span></div>
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Between 2010 and 2012 he created <a href="http://ericmcever.com/thesansaku/" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sansaku</em></a>, a bilingual, genre-fusing triptych of experimental films consisting of <a href="https://vimeo.com/107317274" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tutor</i></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/107317129" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buddha Bento</em></a>, and <i style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/107317492" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Out There Somewhere</a>.</i> He further honed his skills at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he wrote, produced, and directed shorts in Japan, Singapore, the United States, and China. His award-winning student film <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/ericmcever/layovertrailer" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Layover</a> </em>screened at festivals in the United States and Europe.</div>
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He recently completed the multi-award winning <a href="https://vimeo.com/217626849" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paleonaut</em></a>, a time travel romance inspired by his lifelong affinity for paleontology, and <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Utopia</em>, a documentary chronicling a suicide-obsessed Japanese artist. He is currently developing a trio of feature films under his <a href="http://ericmcever.com/ikemenentertainment/" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Ikémen Entertainment</a> banner.</div>
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Video updates of his work can be found at <a href="http://vimeo.com/ericmcever" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">vimeo.com/ericmcever</a></div>
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Eric can be reached at <a href="mailto:kantoku@ericmcever.com" style="border: 0px; color: #007998; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">kantoku@ericmcever.com</a></div>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sam"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sam</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Will"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Will</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Arkansas"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Arkansas</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Nia"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Nia</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"George Washington University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">George Washington University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sarah"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sarah</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Texas Christian University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Texas Christian University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Chloe"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Chloe</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Quinn"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Quinn</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Gap Year"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Gap Year</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Park"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Park</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Jack"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jack</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Zac"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Zac</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Southern California"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Southern California</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sarah"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sarah</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ryan"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ryan</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Reagan"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Reagan</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Alabama"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Alabama</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Jackson"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jackson</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Columbia University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Columbia University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Blair"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Blair</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Mississippi"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Mississippi</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Anthony"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Anthony</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Central Florida"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Central Florida</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hannah"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Hannah</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Central Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Central Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Evi"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Evi</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"St. Edward's University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">St. Edward's University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Jeramiah"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jeramiah</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Oklahoma State University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Oklahoma State University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Chris"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Chris</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Chris"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Chris</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kenyon College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Kenyon College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Nika"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Nika</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sewanee: The University of the South"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sewanee: The University of the South</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Azaan"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Azaan</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Grace"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Grace</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Loyola University Chicago"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Loyola University Chicago</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Katherine"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Katherine</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Washington University in St. Louis"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Washington University in St. Louis</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Isabella"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Isabella</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Coe College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Coe College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Noah"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Noah</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Vassar College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Vassar College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Adam"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Adam</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Connecticut"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Connecticut</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Natalie"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Natalie</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Kansas"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Kansas</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Angela"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Angela</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Nell"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Nell</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of New Mexico"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of New Mexico</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hannah"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Hannah</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Texas - Austin"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Texas - Austin</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cammie"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Cammie</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Alec"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Alec</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Loyola University Chicago"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Loyola University Chicago</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Saad"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Saad</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Caleb"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Caleb</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Jillian"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Jillian</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"DePauw University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">DePauw University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Caroline"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Caroline</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Central Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Central Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Aurian"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Aurian</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Oklahoma State University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Oklahoma State University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Gabby"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Gabby</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Dallas"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Dallas</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Mississippi"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Mississippi</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cameron"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Cameron</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Seton Hall University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Seton Hall University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Beikl"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Beikl</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of California - San Diego"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of California - San Diego</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ryan"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ryan</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Arkansas"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Arkansas</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Carly"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Carly</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Caroline"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Caroline</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Texas Christian University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Texas Christian University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Margo"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Margo</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Davidson College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Davidson College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ethan"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ethan</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bentley University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Bentley University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Colton"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Colton</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Saint Michael's College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Saint Michael's College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sharun"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sharun</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Oklahoma"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Oklahoma</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ava"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Ava</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Arkansas"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Arkansas</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Aidan"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Aidan</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Washington University in St. Louis"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Washington University in St. Louis</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tara"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Tara</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Oklahoma City University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Oklahoma City University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sanjay"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sanjay</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lewis & Clark College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lewis & Clark College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"John"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">John</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Texas Wesleyan University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Texas Wesleyan University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kat"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Kat</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"University of Arkansas"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">University of Arkansas</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Caleb"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Caleb</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Boston Conservatory at Berklee"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Boston Conservatory at Berklee</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Chloe"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Chloe</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New York University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">New York University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Abby"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Abby</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Villanova University"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Villanova University</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Brady"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Brady</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Marietta College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Marietta College</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Justin"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Justin</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Colby College"}" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Colby College</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988786844264880197.post-8347642984669218402018-05-25T13:59:00.001-07:002018-05-25T13:59:19.017-07:00Thank you Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Fryer for your help with this project<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #dee0e2; border-collapse: collapse !important; border: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); color: black; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Peace through Facing Difference—it started with YOU!</div>
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<br />We did it! Together, Students Rebuild teams created over 200,000 portraits while exploring their own identity and celebrating those that are different.</div>
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<br />The tens of thousands of students who participated in the Facing Difference Challenge not only generated some of the most personal and moving artwork we’ve ever received, but their collective efforts raised $600,000 to support youth peace-building in areas of conflict through our partners CARE and Search for Common Ground.</div>
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<br />As a result of your collective action:<ul>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>570 </strong>youth from different backgrounds participated in peace-building camps</li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>137</strong> youth-led community peace projects were funded</li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong>8,600</strong> community members were impacted by peace projects in Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and the South Caucasus region</li>
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There is even more to celebrate in our <a href="https://www.studentsrebuild.org/sites/default/files/Facing%20Differences%20Impact%20Report_FNL.pdf" style="color: #df7638; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Student Impact Report</a> that can be downloaded and shared in classrooms. It captures some fun facts and a small sample of the art we received this Challenge. We’re excited and grateful to celebrate our successes together—and we couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you.<br /><br />Now that the Challenge is over you might be wondering, “What happens next?!” This month’s newsletter answers that question and provides some resources for you as we wrap up this Challenge and prepare for the next one launching this fall.</div>
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<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Facing Difference Art Exhibition at the Figge Museum: <strong>August 4 – September 17, 2018</strong></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Launch of the new 2019 Challenge: <strong>September 2018</strong></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>Follow us on social media for other updates and announcements over the summer!</em></li>
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Tell us what you think!</h2>
Each year as the Challenge concludes we ask the participants to complete a final survey. This survey helps us improve our program to serve you better, think about new Challenge topics, and much more. If you registered for the Challenge (even if you didn’t submit portraits) we really need your help in completing our final survey. And as a thank you for completing, you will be among the very first to know what our Challenge topic is for next year!<div>
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It's not too late to submit your art!</h2>
If your team made portraits for the Facing Difference Challenge but you missed the deadline, you can still have your numbers counted! While your students’ art might not be able to be featured in our final exhibition (see below), it can still be counted towards our goal and your team credited as having completed the Challenge. Here’s how:<div>
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If you made portraits for the Challenge but didn’t submit them, you can let us know by filling out this simple <a href="https://www.studentsrebuild.org/submit" style="color: #df7638; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">submission form</a>. That is the only action needed!<div>
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Your art in a major museum!</h2>
This August, Students Rebuild is excited to be partnering on the Facing Difference culmination with the <a href="http://figgeartmuseum.org/" style="color: #df7638; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Figge Art Museum</a> in Davenport, Iowa!<div>
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In a unique exhibit creatively curated by middle school students from Davenport’s Creative Arts Academy, the Figge will be showcasing thousands of your submitted self-portraits from August 4 – September 17, 2018. Some of the Creative Arts Academy’s unique ideas that will be incorporated into this exhibit will include features like a reflection mirror, walking over a map of the world with highlights for areas impacted by this Challenge, and of course—floor to ceiling portraits!<br /><br />We’re thrilled to honor the creativity of your students’ arts in this meaningful display at a major museum. Check on social media for more details as the date gets closer.</td></tr>
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Teams of the Month - All 843 teams!</h2>
Each of the packages we open and the digital submissions we receive have all been more thoughtful, creative, and beautiful than we could’ve imagined when we invited students globally to make self-portraits! This month’s team is every team—honoring every student who braved the art task of a self-portrait to share more of themselves with the world! THANK YOU!<div>
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Here are some resources that your team can use to celebrate:<ul>
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<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.studentsrebuild.org/sites/default/files/Facing%20Difference%20Participation%20Certificate.pdf" style="color: #df7638; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Participation Certificate</a> that can be given to each student or displayed in your classroom.</li>
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Desmond “Dessi” Sieburth (15, Montrose, California) is a passionate birder and bird conservationist who has been helping wild birds since he was ten years old. He believes that by increasing awareness of the role birds play in our ecosystem, more people will be motivated to help protect birds.</div>
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Dessi has educated other youth about birds by teaching in classrooms, parks, science fairs, and the library. He regularly writes articles for local Audubon chapters on how to help birds. In partnership with the Pasadena Audubon Society, Dessi annually puts on a fundraiser to raise money dedicated towards saving bird habitats; his goal this year is to raise $1,000. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001UY9jGWfb7f_7boDZbcrQ430wrxud1S6Y2PEUlmicArH25CKDMbzyM2plXTrMUjNMwc2wOKmJ9iI5P9Q8Lx90IdLtfJ9oXkYy_8OgJHNNRwflDnO_ICyFHmtZl2ngLwvP93nGv174EjLx4PCgHgDSUGkeSLn1hXSr0TX7D3lRReGxqmUCk_ZFJIyF7VYFtoprJyXdFHFRzqxQj6jwzYW9VF8RrT1UVn0V%26c%3D6McZf341tN7NFa2zh4rlrJYj57uJ4WwDmadpWmbQEKTuKGboqhq1RQ%3D%3D%26ch%3DlPIMesbXN36WpQYhh1SFXIHJEYIjRCNFtaEAxyEANOoWkBn2pZk-9Q%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1527288981113000&usg=AFQjCNE4_sPFCdgq0M1jWOsp9eP7nID9LQ" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UY9jGWfb7f_7boDZbcrQ430wrxud1S6Y2PEUlmicArH25CKDMbzyM2plXTrMUjNMwc2wOKmJ9iI5P9Q8Lx90IdLtfJ9oXkYy_8OgJHNNRwflDnO_ICyFHmtZl2ngLwvP93nGv174EjLx4PCgHgDSUGkeSLn1hXSr0TX7D3lRReGxqmUCk_ZFJIyF7VYFtoprJyXdFHFRzqxQj6jwzYW9VF8RrT1UVn0V&c=6McZf341tN7NFa2zh4rlrJYj57uJ4WwDmadpWmbQEKTuKGboqhq1RQ==&ch=lPIMesbXN36WpQYhh1SFXIHJEYIjRCNFtaEAxyEANOoWkBn2pZk-9Q==" style="color: #4b94bc;" target="_blank">Read more.</a></div>
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<span style="color: #161d26; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CAIR Oklahoma is sponsoring a wonderful program called "Revealing Ramadan" on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1762567955" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">May 22</span></span>, from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1762567956" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6-8 p.m.</span></span> This is a fantastic</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chance to learn more about the Oklahoma Muslim community and the Holy Month of Ramadan!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The evening's program will include a tour of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC), a special presentation on the Day in the Life of a Fasting Muslim, and a panel of young professionals sharing their experiences of Ramadan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A sampling of Ramadan inspired halal meals will be served from local restaurants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #161d26; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Attend an Iftar meal! Iftar meals occur at sundown to break the days fast, and are a great way to engage with the Muslim community during this very holy time of year and learn more. The Dialogue Institute of OKC is hosting a free Iftar for the community next weekend! More info </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001XqIOtUY6o4dsTHBZpahJL8YVhuQUF-VCr6uFKFQmtqyubZ3ojIqnN9xjkSb8ca2o_hhyvU1rHf0E_s0q7sUSe7gWKBXmnhpzpKnkjU7FTIqziR9Kf5mpkmu2uZBqiz7x0Qln-V5PhJdu_2R4yXmJjexDVsilU7cH8vqGD3dIVm-8ayxgQCzyOQ%3D%3D%26c%3DcwNczuXx365uEjC6E8QSNTm2RTz4LHc0O1K37n-dFL1uSQiXYXbK6g%3D%3D%26ch%3DI1f-2dPwz2qcK2iVczF3d_vM973_kFOdZdHA63zswVHp3CzgWL0ogw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1526549001376000&usg=AFQjCNF-e-TUU7XFqSPFxlj_NmZj_LiKdg" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XqIOtUY6o4dsTHBZpahJL8YVhuQUF-VCr6uFKFQmtqyubZ3ojIqnN9xjkSb8ca2o_hhyvU1rHf0E_s0q7sUSe7gWKBXmnhpzpKnkjU7FTIqziR9Kf5mpkmu2uZBqiz7x0Qln-V5PhJdu_2R4yXmJjexDVsilU7cH8vqGD3dIVm-8ayxgQCzyOQ==&c=cwNczuXx365uEjC6E8QSNTm2RTz4LHc0O1K37n-dFL1uSQiXYXbK6g==&ch=I1f-2dPwz2qcK2iVczF3d_vM973_kFOdZdHA63zswVHp3CzgWL0ogw==" style="color: #3562bf; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="color: #161d26; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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As the Holy Month of Ramadan approaches we would like to invite you to attend an Iftar (fast-breaking) Dinner with local Turkish-American host families around OKC metropolitan area (including Norman and Stillwater).</div>
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During the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast by abstaining from consuming water or food while the sun is out. Iftar - or fast-breaking - dinners take place each night once the sun sets. This is an important time not only for those who participate in Ramadan because of their faith but also an important time for us to share our tradition with our friends from different backgrounds over delicious food and through lively conversation. It is truly a special time when people of all backgrounds come together and share in the Iftar experience, learning about different cultures and faiths in the process. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">This year Ramadan is going to begin around <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_352906063" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">May 16th</span></span> depending on the moon sighting. </span>To <span style="font-weight: bold;">see available dates</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">RSVP</span>, please click <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001YgQMvrYdK6GAZzFioqykqS1MjFH9cxjFIUZcRJPcHyEZil6Rg6bjM30zJyVWzNNuX96lydaeHySTs5T0GuDdjKmZeoOGAcS6kIZUUuPZVSzAO1Ys-oROJP8aCGYlSLYjxqckH_BU8Z3l7xBObBCiIj6KX2KYXPydriaWaQBVQnY%3D%26c%3DrrHDH7Hz1Kmxj-aGf64rwlRh5I9-tKiYmHJdG9VwLpgPNRXLHgUwSQ%3D%3D%26ch%3DNacmU_zg_VdYHuJoKrQvYlircOU1poLT6EhG_bbrOB9jrhECPSVlaQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1526393380196000&usg=AFQjCNF89apfJ33sTLPJBbaQmYlyxg705A" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001YgQMvrYdK6GAZzFioqykqS1MjFH9cxjFIUZcRJPcHyEZil6Rg6bjM30zJyVWzNNuX96lydaeHySTs5T0GuDdjKmZeoOGAcS6kIZUUuPZVSzAO1Ys-oROJP8aCGYlSLYjxqckH_BU8Z3l7xBObBCiIj6KX2KYXPydriaWaQBVQnY=&c=rrHDH7Hz1Kmxj-aGf64rwlRh5I9-tKiYmHJdG9VwLpgPNRXLHgUwSQ==&ch=NacmU_zg_VdYHuJoKrQvYlircOU1poLT6EhG_bbrOB9jrhECPSVlaQ==" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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We thus very much hope to be able to host you and look forward to hearing back from you! Please RSVP at your earliest convenience.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, guided me in everything I did. She believed in the power of friendship. She would often ask, “Who in the world can get anything done or have a worthwhile life without friends?” Her answer was always the same: “<em>Nobody</em>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her efforts on behalf of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities inspired me to similarly devote my life to our shared mission. Through her unwavering faith in their abilities, she helped me – and countless others – appreciate the fact that <strong>everyone is capable of something exceptional; especially with the support and encouragement of friends and family.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My mother made Best Buddies what it is today, and she fueled not only my self-confidence but that of millions of others. She helped create a society that learned to include individuals with disabilities who offer more gifts to us than we can ever imagine or repay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thank her for her <strong>love</strong>, <strong>passion</strong>, <strong>leadership</strong>, and <strong>faith</strong> in <strong><span style="color: #5a4397;">our cause</span></strong>. I also thank her for her enduring spirit, which guides us and the work that we do today and will continue to do for the next 30 years --- and until I take my last breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We celebrated mothers around the world and the incredibly strong and loving mothers who have been blessed with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. <strong>Laura Feiler</strong>, a member of our Baltimore Advisory Board and an advocate for people of all abilities, shared her incredible testimony and example of a mother's love. <strong>I hope you take the time to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://u2314992.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn%3DSP5eHnoV7iu6Sj79whYuYcixVVG5MukLw069FBe-2FvsNeO7evg90OJdBDEadH2vNCptURuGZN7-2BB5geOe07E4LxWsiSvHy7YGWMxGeBs6GNg-3D_pJR4fySh8RFe8DcSJMhDEAwVSDNVAH2tDlwHo6sv6o0rKYn7SQKRezw7FKKhUgn1dRJcxpcWY484qIoOPEOTGV1YLLjYatwYpZhSK6-2BvdVx8W1vKMHYnhDiPP2IyoAMFSzdWDw81Y5-2B78Ergw2tKW1lmk-2FY-2FSX9fkqPuDMxqFr0QHdtzcZk7vBFoN5VohQJf3EA64mihVSFzg-2B0YQjc4787oSai6aaJc5J3McNUtN2fGNCGT6VsNoGF9gFm9CrFMhF1sk45jHVvkPxYonfBTOH67yKaCzs-2FYiXq9XxsU5erJE-2B8XHXdnQDP-2BE-2BYiPOJ0zlrvOyurENum-2BGvH-2BY1KhAZUDk-2FmWGrFnjRuwdStupct1jWWEwciv5ecentwwZpTEzFozz5OUurQIyUWj3wKV-2Bckb2pwPhE-2FHDGP6T7Uinc-3D&source=gmail&ust=1526393800999000&usg=AFQjCNGmgTXQcAtkheqgXax0XeSB_1cPkw" href="https://u2314992.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=SP5eHnoV7iu6Sj79whYuYcixVVG5MukLw069FBe-2FvsNeO7evg90OJdBDEadH2vNCptURuGZN7-2BB5geOe07E4LxWsiSvHy7YGWMxGeBs6GNg-3D_pJR4fySh8RFe8DcSJMhDEAwVSDNVAH2tDlwHo6sv6o0rKYn7SQKRezw7FKKhUgn1dRJcxpcWY484qIoOPEOTGV1YLLjYatwYpZhSK6-2BvdVx8W1vKMHYnhDiPP2IyoAMFSzdWDw81Y5-2B78Ergw2tKW1lmk-2FY-2FSX9fkqPuDMxqFr0QHdtzcZk7vBFoN5VohQJf3EA64mihVSFzg-2B0YQjc4787oSai6aaJc5J3McNUtN2fGNCGT6VsNoGF9gFm9CrFMhF1sk45jHVvkPxYonfBTOH67yKaCzs-2FYiXq9XxsU5erJE-2B8XHXdnQDP-2BE-2BYiPOJ0zlrvOyurENum-2BGvH-2BY1KhAZUDk-2FmWGrFnjRuwdStupct1jWWEwciv5ecentwwZpTEzFozz5OUurQIyUWj3wKV-2Bckb2pwPhE-2FHDGP6T7Uinc-3D" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">read her story</a> and be inspired by her courage.</strong> To all the moms around the world, Happy Mother's Day!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Y<i>ou know, working for the Walt Disney Company acquaints one with many stories. That’s what we do. We tell stories. One of the stories I have always liked is 1,001 Nights. One of those stories is that of Aladdin.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Have you ever carried a memory like an Aladdin’s lamp? You hold it tightly in your mind and heart, bringing it out only at special times, rubbing and polishing it to a crystal shine; then carefully putting it back in that special mental drawer for a bit more thought, always with great care and pride. This is the memory I have been carrying of Casady for over half a century. It is more than a memory. It is a living template that has informed my life with certain values and guidelines, some of which I have failed to uphold and others that have taken me places my imagination could never have begun to contemplate.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Now circumstances have allowed me to share this memory with you, personally, this morning. The thought of sitting in chapel takes me back immediately to the time when I was one of you-right in my seat in chapel-as though it were yesterday.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>It is at Casady that my young adult life began although I didn't know it. I met my wife at Casady. Father Benedict Barnes, my Casady adviser, married us in the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor 48 years ago. My mother's ashes are scattered over Casady Lake. I never take my Casady ring off my finger as a reminder of who I am and what I can become.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>My experience at Casady imprinted my life and led me every step to my future. And now that future has become my past. There will, hopefully, be more of a story to tell for the years I have left. But your story is just beginning. And that's why I’m telling my story now.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>My hope for you- the students of Casady- is to understand how fortunate each of you are to be a part of the Casady family. And a family is what it is. It is a family dedicated to excellence, honor, honesty, integrity; kindness and compassion. Each of you has a story and much of it can begin here if you will embrace it. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>My story began in 1965 when I was 15 years old. My mother told me she thought it best for me to attend Casady as a sophomore. It would, of course, be my decision but she knew “I'd make the right one.” Not Casady! The very thought of it struck fear in my young and unenlightened heart. Smart, rich kids went to Casady and I was neither. But mom had a way… of getting her way when it came to these kinds of decisions-meaning I kind of had no choice.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #262626;">I got into Casady by the skin of my teeth. My first year can best be described as nine months of terror, offset by the tiniest glow of confidence and pride only by the last hour of the last day of the last class.</span><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #262626;">My weekly ritual that first year was laying on my living room couch in my blazer and tie early in the morning before chapel, crushed with gnawing anxiety and doubt-sometimes literally shaking; pleading with my mother to call John Marshall high school and get me in-and-out of Casady. “Just try to make it through the week. If you feel the same way </span><span style="background: white; color: black;">on Friday</span><span style="background: white; color: #262626;">, then I'll call John Marshall.” She would say. Luckily that day never came.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>As I learned how to study my days at Casady became a bit brighter from my junior year; so by the time I graduated, I carried the pride of accomplishment that I had made it through Casady. Every difficult step was a piece of the mosaic that would give me the pattern of self-discipline, achievement and critical thinking that became the rock-solid foundation for almost every area of my life.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #262626;">I carried the skills and love of learning from Casady into my undergraduate and graduate studies. I remember calling my father when I told him I was a Phi Beta Kappa. I heard him quietly weeping with joy over the phone- a certain gift from what I learned at Casady.</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I don’t think it is any kind of hyperbole to say that whatever I have been able to accomplish academically, professionally; sometimes spiritually came from the foundation I received at this school. Casady gave me the vision to develop the essence of my own truth to make a difference for my family, the organizations I led, my country and our world. I felt that there was nothing I couldn’t accomplish because I had the tools from Casady. I feel the same way today.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Accomplishment certainly has its rewards. I have found that those rewards came as a by-product of one simple word: contribution-to your families, your communities, your school and to yourselves. Don’t ask yourself what you can receive from Casady. Find out what you can give to it and to all those around you. It is not necessary to be a great executive, or government official or statesmen, or scholar. Just be the best ‘you’ possible right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t wait. Your future will find you. Each of you is a leader of one and sometimes a leader of many. But always think of yourself as a leader. Because you are. People are watching you, especially if you are fortunate enough to have Casady attached to your name. Just remember who you are and what you represent. Remember that the development and maintenance of your character will always be more important than anything you can achieve. <b>There is no place for egotism in the character equation. There is no right way to do the wrong thing.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal that we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become all of it we can be. Explore your own passion and follow it as far as it will take you, even to the dark places where that talent may lead. I have found so much truth in Eleanor Roosevelt’s prescient statement:”You must do what you fear. You must do the things you think you cannot do.” I have found for me that it was at that times-and there were a few, and continue to be that I was most fearful that I grew the most, sometimes kicking and screaming. I wish I could tell you that there is an easier way. But I have found that you just don’t get big rewards for small efforts. Find your own truth now and live it bravely. Playing it safe is rarely really safe. I have tried that approach too. In fact, I have invented new and ingenious ways to fail. But with faith in a higher power and the foundation I received at Casady, my failures took me places I never imagined, but I didn’t know it at the time.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A young man who I first met at Casady faced these same kinds of challenges. When I came to Casady I was a real outsider. So I had loneliness to add to my fear of making it through academically. That boy accepted me immediately and became my friend. And we are still best friends today. His name is Chris Carey. Doctor Chris Carey. He was the captain of the cross country team. He ran so fast he looked like a stallion. Thanks to Chris I lettered, even as slow as I was. “Ben, I am going to win this race for the team. All you have to do is run as fast as you can. You will have no competition.” And he was right. I followed that advice my whole life, creating my own professional positions, armed with my Casady foundation.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Chris wanted to become a doctor. But it was very difficult for him. He struggled and kept at it and kept at it when any normal person would have given up. It took him a few years but in the end, he achieved his goal and became one of the most respected surgeons in this city. When I see Chris I remember had it not been for Casady we would have never met. And I’m sure he would agree that much of what he gained here set him on that path.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Another dear friend who I met at Casady is Mark Robertson, a hard-working, accomplished attorney here in Oklahoma City. He has always been fascinated with Disney. In 2006 he called me: “Benny, I happen to know that the governor of Oklahoma has a few million dollars to commemorate the Centennial of Oklahoma statehood in 2007. Think that might be an opportunity for Disney?” I did and, for the first time in the history of the Walt Disney Company, we featured a US state, at Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort, celebrating six weeks of Oklahoma culture viewed by over 12 million people.. I won the Oklahoma Creativity Award. That award belongs to Mark, not me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>One of the most difficult challenges for me is to somehow convey to your bright, shining faces: the students now at Casady, the gift you have in your hands. Celebrate this gift, understand this gift. Most important, earn this opportunity you’ve been given. A Casady education will take you places you’ve never been before. And someday when you are my age you will look back, thanking your parents and their good judgment that they gave you one of the most important gifts of your life. Use your own good judgment; grasp it with all of your mind and your heart- right here, right now.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="color: blue;">Tuesday Introduction to service requirement and YAC, Class of 2022, 1:10 at 8th grade Quad</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b> -<b>What is the Requirement?</b> 45 hours certified before starting the senior year.<br />
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-<b>Documentation for credit at <a href="https://www.casady.org/page/upper-division/service-learning">Casady Website.</a></b><a href="https://www.casady.org/page/upper-division/service-learning"> </a> You need to keep your time log and presented to your site supervisor to verify and certify your hours. Find both forms<b> <a href="ttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1aPwx9S7DAx2R2FGsx9bS82CQ9v_KJzuq2uV88yT3Jsc/view">HERE</a></b><br />
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-<b>Start THIS SUMMER,</b> highly recommended for hours to be completed before entering the senior year. Depending on your age, you can get the Presidential Service Award with a minimum of 50 hours (age 15 and under) or 100 hours (age 16 or older) in a personal calendar year -12 month period-<br />
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-<b>What is YAC?</b> Youth Active in the Community. The UD Service Club at Casady. Meets once a week. You get service hours for attending meetings, doing activities, participating in drives<br />
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<b>How can YAC help with service hours, leadership, and relationship building? </b> Organizes visits to Boys and Girls Club, facilitates club projects like Best Buddies and Cyclone Mentors at Stanley Hupfeld Academy at Western Village. Sponsors drives, helps other clubs with service projects. Helps students find their personal spark for service. Join YAC! YAC will have an organizational meeting before school starts. You will hear more information about YAC and clubs at the Freshman Orientation at the beginning of the school year 2018-2019.<br />
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-<b>Personal Services Experiences of meaning:</b><br />
<b>From YAC officers attending: Vice-Presidents Saadia, Ahmed. Presidents taking AP exams</b><br />
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<b>Saadia:</b> Served at Library and at Hospital during the summer<br />
<b>Ahmed:</b> Created a summer project at the Library to help children read and get books.<br />
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<b>Volunteering at Boys and Girls Club starts with a response to a call like the one below:</b><br />
<b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Boys and Girls Club at Memorial Park needs volunteers for their after-school program, 4:00 pm -7: 00 pm. and during the summer 7:00 am - 7:00 pm</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Contact Mrs. Clay, <a href="mailto:clayc@casady.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">clayc@casady.org</a>, 405-520-1325, if interested in creating a special activity for the children. Walk-in Cyclone volunteers are also welcomed. Ask to see Mrs. LaRissa Conn to complete a volunteer application before being assigned to volunteer as needed.</span><br />
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The volunteer keeps<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aPwx9S7DAx2R2FGsx9bS82CQ9v_KJzuq2uV88yT3Jsc/view"> his/her time log and when finished, it gives it to the Site supervisor to verify and evaluate.</a><br />
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YAC-Service Learning Office Intern, Sharun P'18. facilitated the visit of <a href="http://www.yourhalofoundation.org/">HALO Dog</a> Maylee and her handler Gayala, <a href="http://newleashinc.org/">Norman's, New Leash of Life </a> Dog Chumlee and his handler Jennifer,, and our own Cyclone Service Dog Buttercup and her handler Theresa Booze who is the mother of second grader Grace.<br />
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The dogs were brought to the Casady Upper Division campus under the sponsorship of YAC (Youth Active in the Community) for a little stress relief as this is the week of AP exams.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"A Teacher is a Compass that activates the magnet of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils." </i><i style="background-color: white; color: #342800;">~ </i><b><i>Ever Garrison</i></b><span style="color: blue;"><b></b></span><b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.” </em><i style="background-color: white; color: #342800;">~<b> </b></i><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">K. Patricia Cross</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><br /></em></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #342800;">"We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude." </i><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #342800;">~ </span><b>Anonymous student</b></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><i>"A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams.” </i></span><b><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #342800;">~ </span></i><i style="color: #333333;">Author Unknown </i></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #333333;">"The greatest success of a teacher is to be able to say - The children are now working as if I did not exist. </span></i><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #342800;">~ </span></i><i style="color: #333333;"><b>Maria Montessori</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As our Cyclones learn to be good citizens and to provide their time and talent, we realize the potential of the impact it has on our local, regional, and global communities. The more we work together to make a difference, the more we will accomplish. To that end, Westminster School's eighth-grade class has asked our Casady Community to assist them in one of their projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As part of their 2018 service learning project, the class has partnered with <i>The Curbside Chronicle</i> to help support their work to end homelessness in Oklahoma City. As a friend of Westminster, the class is asking the Casady Community to please take a few minutes to respond to a short survey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Casady Service Learning Program aligns with the School's mission to develop excellence, confidence, and integrity in students and inspire them to realize their potential to make a difference in their community in mind, body, and spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Upper Division</span></b> promotes a service-oriented life, with the intention of yielding joy and peace to the participants. The challenge is to maximize potential and make a difference in local and global communities. The charge is to learn, give, grow, transform. The 45-hour service requirement is intended to align a student’s heart, mind, spirit, and actions. </span><br />
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After spending a few days reading and critiquing children’s literature, the seniors begin the process of crafting their own children's stories. The seniors work diligently on their projects and are conscientious about content, structure, characterization, illustrations, and use of rhetorical devices. The project culminates with an opportunity for the seniors to share their stories with kindergarten children.</div>
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2017-2018 Senior Literary Exchange will be the eight-year for this project.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Senior Literacy Exchange becomes e-books in </span>2018 .<span style="font-size: 14.85px;"> See it </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfsGl9sE0yFHopQPv6S6WvM2oofNr-GSM0NiXu-n4AI/edit" style="font-size: 14.85px;">HERE</a><br />
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From eBooks workshop from Dr. Frier! </div>
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All of the 12th grade eBook projects from Whitney Finley's students:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Alumni Achievement 2017</b><br /><b>Director of Services for Logan County, Family Builders</b><br /><b>Oklahoma City, OK</b><br /><br />Susan Russell-Stewart is on the staff of <a href="https://familybuildersok.org/">Family Builders,</a> Oklahoma City, as director of services for Logan County, where she runs the batterers intervention and child abuse prevention programs. She also provides parenting courses at Palomar: Oklahoma City’s Family Justice Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thursday, April 26, the Casady Community will have the opportunity to enjoy performances and view student artwork at the Spring Fling Visual and Performing Arts Event featuring Middle and Upper Division students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Spring Fling will begin at 5:30 p.m. with performances scheduled every 30 minutes until 7:00 p.m. in various venues within Bennett Athletic Center. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Food trucks will be on campus, and families are welcome to bring blankets for picnics on the lawn near Jimmy's Concessions or dine inside at tables in the Bennett Athletic Center lobby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Follow these steps to feel more compassionate toward others and toward yourself.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Would you describe yourself as a compassionate person?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Even if you don’t necessarily see yourself that way, I bet you’re compassionate at least some of the time (e.g., when you’re well-rested and not in a hurry), or with certain people in your life (e.g., with your closest friends). <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/compassion/definition" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Compassion</a> can be thought of as a mental state or an orientation towards suffering (your own or others’) that includes <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101982926?ie=UTF8&tag=gregooscicen-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1101982926" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">four components</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Contrary to what many may believe, compassion is considered to be like a muscle that, as any other, can be strengthened with relevant exercises—or can deteriorate and atrophy. In other words, your capacity for compassion can expand, if you choose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">You likely never learned in school that you can intentionally strengthen inner skills such as compassion. The good news is that there are specific habits that you can practice in order to begin honing your abilities to expand compassion for yourself and for others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Habit 1: Try the research-tested compassion practices</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Preliminary research from a variety of randomized controlled trials suggests that compassion can in fact be enhanced through systematic training programs. For example, the eight-week compassion cultivation training (CCT) course that was developed by Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., and colleagues at Stanford University’s <a href="http://ccare.stanford.edu/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education</a> suggests that adults can indeed <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-012-9373-z#page-1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">improve compassion</a> for themselves, and reduce fear of compassion for themselves and for others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Even if you don’t or can’t take a research-validated training program, there are numerous ways to build your compassion muscle—many of which are described on <a href="https://ggia.berkeley.edu/#filters=compassion" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Greater Good in Action</a> (GGIA), the GGSC’s library of science-based practices. Some of these practices involve meditation, such as loving-kindness. Others are writing exercises, such as one that asks you to describe a time when you felt a strong bond with another person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many of the practices in both GGIA and the structured training programs range from 10-30 minutes in length. As with most exercises, the more you do them, the more you will likely reap the benefits. However, something is better than nothing. For example, if your physical exercise goal is to take 10,000 steps a day and you only take 3,000, that’s still better for your health than taking none.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meditation is similar. While the intention may be 20-30 minutes of daily compassion meditation, some practice is better than no practice—and you are maintaining your intention and routine, which will only increase the likelihood of your continuing this intention and routine the next day. Notice if this “all-or-nothing” mentality with your compassion practice is hindering you and see if you can test the “something is better than nothing” theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">While there’s lots of research supporting those kinds of compassion-cultivating practices, there’s also a place for informal, moment-to-moment practices throughout the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For example, you could notice when compassion comes easily or spontaneously for you throughout the day (e.g., watching the evening news). You could notice when you resist acknowledging or being with suffering (your own or others) throughout the day (e.g., when passing someone on the street who is asking for money or an extended family member who is challenging). Throughout the day, you could notice when you judge or minimize suffering (e.g., saying that it doesn’t count or is insignificant compared to someone else or something else going on in the world). We often notice suffering (our own and that of others) but quickly dismiss it and thus do not allow ourselves to be emotionally touched or moved by the suffering (the second component of compassion). This kind of awareness of the presence, or absence, of compassion can provide some valuable information to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, the next time you’re standing in line at the grocery store, instead of looking down at your phone or watching how quickly the surrounding lines are moving (I’m guilty of both), take a moment to consider the common humanity of the people who made your grocery trip possible—the people who grew the food, transported the food, and stocked the shelves, or even the cashier who is about to help you. Perhaps you could take a moment of appreciation for each of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you choose, this could be an opportunity to acknowledge the interdependence that surrounds us. Our lives, even simple trips to the grocery store, are supported by countless others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Renowned meditation teacher <a href="https://jackkornfield.com/dedication-and-long-term-intention/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Kornfield once wrote</a> that setting one’s intention is like setting the compass for one’s heart. Our intention helps guide our efforts to be compassionate and helps remind us why we are choosing to set time aside for compassion-cultivating practices. When I teach compassion, I pose questions for my students, such as these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">While these are indeed “big” questions, asking them allows us to ponder our intentions of why we are trying to strengthen our inner skill of compassion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For a week, try setting an intention before you start your compassion meditation practice and notice whether this intention helps clarify your purpose. At times, this intention can come up again throughout the day as a means of renewing your commitment to practice compassion, even when you are living life “off the cushion.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Run a short experiment (e.g., a couple weeks or a couple months) and collect your own data. Do you feel more compassionate (towards yourself, loved ones, strangers, difficult people) when utilizing formal (e.g., sitting meditation) and informal (e.g., silently reciting <a href="https://jackkornfield.com/meditation-lovingkindness/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">loving-kindness phrases</a> to yourself while waiting in line at Trader Joe’s) compassion practices?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Students in my compassion training classes receive a workbook, which contains a daily practice log and space for comments. Since the practice is different every day, it’s important that we spend time, even if just a few minutes, reflecting on what the practice was like for us: what came up, where did our attention wander to during the practice, how did our intention guide our practice, and so on. Without reflection, these practices can become another thing on a lengthy daily “to-do” list. It is only with reflection that we can get a sense of whether these practices are actually benefitting us (immediately or in the longer-term).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Additionally, I invite students even when they do not practice to still log a “0” for practice time for the day and to also write down what they did instead of doing the practice (e.g., caught up on emails, slept in, went to the gym, watched TV, etc.). This allows us to continue the routine of logging and reflecting and also allows us to examine patterns to the days where we are not practicing—perhaps what we are choosing to do instead of meditating is a higher priority, or perhaps what we are doing instead is <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">not</em> actually adding value to our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Running this experiment does not require a workbook, purchasing a fancy meditation cushion, or buying trendy new yoga clothes. These practices, which are thousands of years old, can be done right in the comfort of your own home, at the office, in your car, or really anywhere, just as you are. Afterward, reflection can take many forms—and you should adopt one that works for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In my experience as a meditation student and as a meditation teacher, the practices are initially helpful when done with the guidance of an instructor. The instructor can answer questions, help troubleshoot and problem-solve, and, most importantly, help you stick with and come back to your practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of my favorite things about teaching compassion courses is the supportive environment that gets created within the group—it’s a unique opportunity to participate in community-based practice. I find it also helps renew one’s optimism as it reminds us that we are not alone in these practices. Many others are choosing to acknowledge suffering (their own and others’) and wish to see the relief of suffering. This notion can get lost at times when doing these practices in solitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you don’t have the time or money for a class, don’t despair. You might find support at a religious community or center in your area, if you have one. If you don’t, enlist a friend or relative to support your effort to make compassion more of a habit—someone who can encourage and remind you to stay on track and help you (non-judgmentally) troubleshoot the times when you just don’t feel very compassionate in the midst of suffering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are lots of good reasons why sometimes we intend to do compassion meditation practices, and yet, for whatever reason, we drop the ball. Often, what people do when this happens is engage in “negative self-talk” by implicitly or explicitly saying things to themselves, such as “I never stick with anything”; “I’m a failure”; or “I can’t do this.” Interestingly, there’s no empirical evidence to suggest that beating ourselves up will actually help us change our behavior; in fact, <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-00342-002" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c6341b; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">some data</a> suggests that this type of criticism can move us <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">away</em> from our goals rather than towards them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Additionally, one of the interesting opportunities that arises when we do not do our compassion meditation practices is to see if, in that moment, we can practice compassion for ourselves. While a bit meta (compassion for missing the compassion practice), this is essentially one of the “tests” of our practice. When we’re tempted to be harsh, critical, and judgmental with ourselves, can we instead choose to have compassion: acknowledging our suffering, noting how this makes us human and that we are not alone, and trying to be gentle or kind with ourselves (or at least refrain from beating ourselves up—“if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Often the story that gets told about meditation is that it will be “relaxing,” “stress-relieving,” and “blissful.” While all of these experiences are possible, for many people the experience with meditation or compassion practices is the exact opposite of peaceful, relaxing, and positive. For some, depending on the practice, just focusing on one’s breath can bring about extreme anxiety or worry thoughts, bringing to mind a loved one can bring about grief and loss, imagining oneself as a young child can bring about sadness or pain, considering the suffering of all beings may bring about guilt or overwhelm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is important to notice whether we are bringing any expectations to the compassion practice. Often people will say that the compassion practices are not “working.” When we investigate what they mean by this, they are often referring to the experience of not feeling relaxed after the meditation. While relaxation and stress relief can be the goal of some meditations, in general this is not the case with compassion meditation. Compassion is ultimately about suffering, which can at times feel difficult to sit with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finally, people often bring the expectation that because a compassion practice generated a certain feeling or experience before (e.g., yesterday or last week), it “should” or will generate a similar feeling or experience today. As I often tell my students, reality is constantly changing (time is passing and the earth is rotating as you read this), and thus it is a bit of a fallacy to expect that we, and the practice, will be the same day in and day out. Because the practice is different every day, we have something “new” to reflect on after each practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It may simply be the case that the activities aren’t right for you. If loving-kindness doesn’t seem to be increasing your compassion, try something else, like writing about a time when you felt like someone showed compassion toward you, or a time when you felt spontaneous compassion for another. It is important to be open to another possibility: Perhaps compassion practices aren’t what you need right now. The good news is that there are many varieties of different contemplative practices available that can help you to become more present and non-judgmental.</span></div>
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How to Hardwire Resilience into the Brain</h1>
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">--by <a href="http://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Rick%20Hanson,%20Forrest%20Hanson" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson</a>, syndicated from <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_hardwire_resilience_into_your_brain" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Greater Good</a>, Apr 24, 2018</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
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One winter, I went camping with my friend Bob in the backcountry near Sequoia National Park. After spending the day slogging uphill through deep snow, we were exhausted but needed to make camp.</div>
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As the temperature rapidly dropped, Bob began shivering uncontrollably. He had poured out so much energy without refueling himself that he was sliding into hypothermia, the first stage of freezing to death. We hurried to set up the tent, get into our sleeping bags, light the stove, drink hot water, and eat hot food—and soon Bob’s teeth stopped chattering.</div>
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Luckily, we had just enough resilience to turn this misadventure around. Mental resources like calm, grit, and courage kept us going when we were hit with freezing temperatures. And these are the same types of resources we all can use to help us cope with and push through obstacles in our own lives.</div>
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But how do we cultivate them? The key is knowing how to turn passing experiences into lasting inner resources built into our brains. I teach this skill—called <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">positive neuroplasticity</em>—in my new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451498844?ie=UTF8&tag=gregooscicen-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0451498844" style="border: 0px; color: brown; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness</em></a> (written with Forrest Hanson).</div>
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Though it’s not a quick fix, you can change your brain for the better by working it the same way you would work a muscle. As you become more resilient in the face of life’s challenges, you move toward greater well-being and away from stress, worry, frustration, and hurt.</div>
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<b>12 resources for resilience</b></div>
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Every human being has three basic needs—<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">safety</em>, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">satisfaction</em>, and <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">connection</em>—that are grounded in our ancient evolutionary history. While our circumstances have changed enormously over the last 200,000 years, our brains have remained largely the same. The neural machinery that enabled our ancestors to satisfy their need for safety by finding shelter, for satisfaction by getting food, and for connection by bonding with others is alive in our brains today.</div>
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A particular need is best met by inner strengths that are <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">matched</em> to it—and these mental resources are what make us resilient.</div>
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To meet our need for safety, we can draw on:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Grit:</b> Being doggedly tough and resourceful.</li>
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To meet our need for satisfaction, we can draw on:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Gratitude:</b> Appreciating and feeling good about what already exists.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Motivation:</b> Pursuing opportunities in the face of challenges.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Aspiration:</b> Reaching for and achieving results that are important to us.</li>
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To meet our need for connection, we can draw on:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Confidence:</b> Feeling a sense of being cared about, worthy, and self-assured.</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Generosity:</b> Giving to others through altruism, compassion, and forgiveness.</li>
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To start cultivating more resilience, pick a challenge in your life, and then consider the needs at stake in it, in terms of safety, satisfaction, and connection. You may be dealing with an external challenge, such as a relationship conflict, a stressful job, or a health problem. Or you could be facing an internal challenge, such as harsh self-criticism or feeling unwanted. Sometimes there’s a one-two punch. For example, tension with someone might be stirring up self-criticism inside you.</div>
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As you consider a major challenge and the need(s) at the heart of it, see if any of the twelve resources stand out. Ask yourself:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;">What inner strengths could help me stay peaceful, content, and loving when I’m dealing with this challenge?</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;">If this challenge began in the past, what would have been really helpful to have experienced back then?</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;">Deep down, what experience do I still very much long for?</li>
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The answers to these questions point to which resources you might need to get through your challenge. Next, follow my HEAL framework (Have a beneficial experience, Enrich it, Absorb it, Link it) to cultivate this resource as a durable strength hardwired into your own brain.</div>
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<b>1. Have a beneficial experience</b></div>
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Nearly everyone has many enjoyable or useful experiences each day, most of them mild and brief. For example, it feels good to put on a sweater if you’re chilled or feel friendly toward someone who is kind to you. But do you take notice of these experiences and highlight them in your awareness, or just pass by them and move on to the next thing?</div>
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The brain is continually remodeling itself as you learn from your experiences. When you repeatedly stimulate a “circuit” in the brain, you strengthen it. The brain operates so rapidly—with neurons routinely firing 5-50 times a second—that you can grow resilience and well-being many times a day, taking a minute or less each time.</div>
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To have beneficial experiences in the first place, it helps to be alert to the good facts around you—for example, fortunate circumstances, the beauty of nature, tasks you are completing, people who care about you, or your own talents and skills. You can even find the good in hard times, such as seeing the kindness of others as you go through a loss.</div>
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Besides simply <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">noticing</em> useful or pleasurable thoughts, feelings, or sensations that are already present in your awareness, you could <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">create</em> beneficial experiences, such as by getting some exercise (to help build the resource of grit) or deliberately recognizing your own good heart (for confidence). Or you could make something good happen in a relationship, such as by listening carefully to someone (for intimacy).</div>
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Over time, you can learn to directly <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">evoke</em> a positive experience, such as relaxing at will, calling up a sense of determination, or letting go of resentment. Because of experience-dependent neuroplasticity, repeatedly having and internalizing a particular experience in the past makes it easier and easier to evoke it in the present. It’s like being able to push a button on your inner jukebox and quickly get the song of a useful experience playing in your mind, since you’ve recorded it again and again.</div>
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To grow the inner resources that produce resilient well-being, we must turn experiences of these resources into physical changes in the nervous system. Otherwise, by definition there is no healing, no growth, no development. Having an experience is only the first stage in the process of learning (including the emotional, social, and somatic learning I’m focused on here). The necessary second stage is to <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">install</em> that experience as a lasting change of neural structure or function. This is the stage that is routinely overlooked in psychotherapy, coaching, human resources trainings, and informal personal efforts at healing and growth. Therefore, this stage is where we have the greatest opportunity for steepening the learning curves of ourselves and others.</div>
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We can increase the installation of our beneficial experiences in two kinds of ways. First, we can <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">enrich</em> them, making them prominent and sustained in awareness. Second, we can <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">absorb</em> them by heightening the sensitivity of the nervous system. Here’s how.</div>
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<b>2. Enrich it</b></div>
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There are five ways to enrich an experience:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Lengthen it.</b> Stay with it for five, ten, or more seconds. The longer that neurons fire together, the more they tend to wire together. Protect the experience from distractions, focus on it, and come back to it if your mind wanders.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Intensify it.</b> Open to it and let it be big in your mind. Turn up the volume by breathing more fully or getting a little excited.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Expand it.</b> Notice other elements of the experience. For example, if you’re having a useful thought, look for related sensations or emotions.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Freshen it.</b> The brain is a novelty detector, designed to learn from what’s new or unexpected. Look for what’s interesting or surprising about an experience. Imagine that you are having it for the very first time.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Value it.</b> We learn from what is personally relevant. Be aware of why the experience is important to you, why it matters, and how it could help you.</li>
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Any one of these methods will increase the impact of an experience, and the more, the better. But you don’t have to use all of them every time. Often, you’ll simply stay with something for a breath or two while feeling it in your body, and then move on to the next experience.</div>
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<b>3. Absorb it</b></div>
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You can increase the absorption of an experience in three ways:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Intend to receive it.</b> Consciously choose to take in the experience.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Sense it sinking into you.</b> You could imagine that the experience is like a warm, soothing balm or a jewel being placed in the treasure chest of your heart. Give over to it, allowing it to become a part of you.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; float: none; line-height: 1.7em; list-style: none; margin: 4px 0px 6px 60px; padding: 0px; width: 574.391px;"><b>Reward yourself.</b> Tune into whatever is pleasurable, reassuring, helpful, or hopeful about the experience. Doing this will tend to increase the activity of two neurotransmitter systems—dopamine and norepinephrine—that will flag the experience as a “keeper” for long-term storage.</li>
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This is not about holding on to experiences. The stream of consciousness is constantly changing, so trying to cling to anything in it is both doomed and painful. But you <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">can</em>gently encourage whatever is beneficial to arise and stick around and sink in—even as you are letting go of it. Happiness is like a beautiful wild animal watching from the edge of a forest. If you try to grab it, it will run away. But if you sit by your campfire and add some sticks to it, happiness will come to you, and stay.</div>
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<b>4. Link it</b></div>
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In Linking, you are simply conscious of both “negative” and “positive” material at the same time. For example, off to the side of awareness could be old feelings of being left out and unwanted (perhaps from a rocky childhood) while in the foreground of awareness are feelings of being liked and included by people at work. The brain naturally associates things together, so if you keep the positive material more prominent and intense in awareness, it will tend to soothe, ease, and even gradually replace the negative material.</div>
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It helps to use positive material that is matched in some way to the negative material. To identify the specific psychological resources that will be especially effective with particular issues, I use the framework of the three basic human needs.</div>
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For example, challenges to safety are often indicated by a sense of anxiety, anger, powerlessness, or trauma—and a sense of calm or grit can really help with these. Challenges to our need for satisfaction are frequently experienced as frustration, disappointment, drivenness, addiction, blahness, or boredom. Feeling thankful, awestruck, or already contented are well-matched to these issues. Challenges to connection can be experienced as loneliness, resentment, or inadequacy—and feeling either caring or cared about is a wonderful relief, since love is love whether it is flowing in or out. </div>
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To link, you can start with something positive, such as the sense of a key resource. While having that experience, you can bring to mind some negative material for which it would be good medicine. Or, you can start with something that is uncomfortable, stressful, or harmful, such as a lot of anxiety before giving a presentation. After letting your feelings be as long as you like and then letting go of them, you find positive material to replace what you released, such as a sense of calm from knowing that people are actually interested in hearing what you have to say.</div>
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If you get pulled into the negative, drop it and focus only on the positive. And remember that this step is optional: If the challenge you’re facing is too powerful, you can grow mental resources for addressing it through the first three HEAL steps alone.</div>
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Going on a dangerous hike, we know that we need to bring food and other supplies. The same is true when traveling the road of life. We need psychological supplies, such as courage and generosity, in our neural “backpack.”</div>
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To fill up your backpack, be mindful of which particular need—safety, satisfaction, or connection—is at stake in the challenges of your life. Deliberately call upon your inner strengths related to meeting that need. Then, as you experience mental resources, you can reinforce them in your nervous system.</div>
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As you grow these strengths and become more resilient, you will feel less anxiety and irritation, less disappointment and frustration, and less loneliness, hurt, and resentment. And when the waves of life come at you, you’ll meet them with more peace, contentment, and love in the core of your being.</div>
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<em>“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall </em></div>
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The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, a monumental day that is widely credited for launching the modern environmental movement. <a href="https://www.earthday.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">20 million</a> Americans from all walks of life participated in the very first Earth Day, and the passage of the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/40th.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Clean Air Act</a>, <a href="http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/wacademy/acad2000/cwa/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Clean Water Act</a>, <a href="http://www.epa.gov/regulations/laws/esa.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Endangered Species Act</a>, and several other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Twenty years later, Earth Day went global, mobilizing <a href="https://www.earthday.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">200 million</a> people in 141 countries and lifting environmental issues onto the world stage.</div>
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This year, <a href="https://www.earthday.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Earth Day 2018</a> is dedicated to ending plastic pollution. <em>“From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our planet.” </em>In response, <a href="https://www.earthday.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Earth Day 2018</a> is committed to providing the information and inspiration needed to fundamentally change human attitudes and behaviors surrounding plastics.</div>
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At the root of every Earth Day is the long-term goal of global sustainability. Every day, we make decisions about what natural minerals to use, how fast to use them, and what to do with them when we’re done. All of these decisions have a unique impact on the environment. The choices we make today, big or small, will impact the future. Therefore, our choices must ensure that social institutions, the economy, and the environment will be well-supported for future generations.</div>
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More than <a href="https://www.earthday.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;">1 billion</a> people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. While it would be nice if we all lived as if every day was Earth Day, this holiday serves as a friendly reminder each year, to respect the Earth and to show a little gratitude to Mother Nature.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #532000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38761d;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Change your consumption habits.</strong> </span>Think critically about your consumption habits and be open to improvement. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #532000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sustainability begins with the recognition that all of us depend on a healthy environment to provide us with our basic human needs: air, water, food, and shelter. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #532000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Challenge your ideas of wants and needs, recognizing that everything comes from nature-and will have to go back to nature at some point. Be mindful of the resources you consume, including electricity, water, food, and any other material goods that you purchase. Do your best to avoid unnecessary packaging, plastic water bottles, single-use cups, plates, and silverware, and all things disposable.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38761d;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Examine your worldview and the worldviews of those around you.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Consider knowledge, abilities, values, and behavior. How do these worldviews impact the way we live our lives and the way we treat our environment?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #38761d;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Speak out.</strong> </span>Advocate for the conservation of endangered species and forest habitat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today was the last school day of National Volunteer Week 2018. The YAC Co-Presidents of next school year (Katherine S'19, Sahanya B.'19, and Ellison G.'19) recognized at Upper Division Chapel this year's Presidential Service Award Winners.</span></div>
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<i style="color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The President's Volunteer Service Award is a part of the Corporation for National and Community Service and is administered by the Points of Light Foundation. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Through a shared mission of inspiring more to answer the call to service, the President's Volunteer Service Award celebrates the impact we can all make in bettering our communities and our world. P</i></span><i style="color: black; white-space: pre;">residential recognition sets you apart from your peers. It is a tremendous honor.</i></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sabel Alberola, Jack Barrett, Will Bennett, Quinn Bunnag, Jackson Davis, Sophia Dystra, Charlee Enderby, Nika Gorski,</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a personal note, it was ironic to have on the schedule, for my last official National Volunteer Week activity at Casady as the Community Service-Learning Director, a movie, selected by the YAC leadership, that had <b>Pursuit</b> and <b>Happiness</b> in the title since those two words define the value of volunteer service to me. When a person focuses on volunteering with mind, body, and spirit, we find the best in ourselves, we define compassion in our hearts. Encountering that piece of our souls brings happiness. Our genuine compassion for others allows us to care deeply and see our own humanity in them, full of possibilities for a peaceful future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the midst of getting things ready for the ISAS Arts Festival, daily studies, sports, and preparing for AP exams, a small group of YAC members decided to follow Katherine S' lead and started the <b><i>"One Day Care Bag for a YWCA Mother," </i></b> YAC's action project for National Volunteer Week 2018. The supplies were purchased with funding provided by the compassionate heart of the Rainbolt Family Endowment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After school, I represented the Casady YAC and spent an hour at Centennial High School Community Garden, a connection made by Sahanya when she brought the rain barrel idea from the National Service-Learning Conference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oklahoma Centennial had to cancel their National Volunteer Week workday at their garden because of the teacher's walkout. I delivered the fruit snacks for <a href="https://www.okcps.org/Domain/1029">Chef Carrie's classes</a> as a token of YAC's appreciation for the way they embraced becoming a lead school in service during Peace Week, 9/11, MLK Day, and the amazing activities they facilitated at their school during National Volunteer Week 2018. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In June, as I turn in the keys for the YAC Community Room with the <i><b>"Leaving Giving Tree" </b></i>purchased for Katherine's ICS Hope for the Holidays Drive, YAC will continue their "Pursuit of Happiness" journey through giving under the sponsorship of a new Dean of Activities and Service-Learning. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In October 1988, YSA sent photographers out across the United States to capture images of “A Day in the Life of Youth Service” and the public was stunned at the depth and breadth of the energy, commitment, idealism, and creativity of children and youth-serving their communities. That awareness helped lead to the creation of AmeriCorps and an expansion of national and community service programs in schools, nonprofits, and youth organizations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a data-hs-link-id="0" href="https://ysa.org/act/programs/gysd/about/history-of-gysd/?utm_campaign=GYSD%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62252294&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9DLjv6rqneHqdY9BeFvFEieTbfL-34pR79W8AaRi5lewS_fjTfJI21IRBoYZIa0BK-XvVhtjIsk-SFnowMAw4iO2tiVw" style="border-bottom: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Over the last 30 years</a>, as "A Day in the Life of Youth Service" became National Youth Service Day in 1990, grew to a three-day event in the '90s and expanded into Global Youth Service Day in 2000, the goal has never changed from the original one:</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> "to document, promote, and celebrate young people making a difference." We're now sharing these stories in ways that we never could have imagined in 1988, and they continue to inspire us every single year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Of course, it's not just about the number of years. It's about the results you've achieved in those 30 years. Because of over 100,000 youth-led projects, the world is cleaner, safer, smarter, healthier, greener, and fairer. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Youth are </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a data-hs-link-id="0" href="https://ysa.org/act/programs/gysd/get-involved/get-involved-pick-your-gysd-project/?utm_campaign=GYSD%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62252294&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9DLjv6rqneHqdY9BeFvFEieTbfL-34pR79W8AaRi5lewS_fjTfJI21IRBoYZIa0BK-XvVhtjIsk-SFnowMAw4iO2tiVw" style="border-bottom: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">using their sparks</a> and <a data-hs-link-id="0" href="https://ispri.ng/VDVKk?utm_campaign=GYSD%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62252294&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9DLjv6rqneHqdY9BeFvFEieTbfL-34pR79W8AaRi5lewS_fjTfJI21IRBoYZIa0BK-XvVhtjIsk-SFnowMAw4iO2tiVw" style="border-bottom: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">building their skills</a> by </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a data-hs-link-id="0" href="https://medium.com/@steve.culbertson/is-youth-advocacy-like-neveragain-community-service-at-its-best-c08220970c2e?utm_campaign=GYSD%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62252294&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9DLjv6rqneHqdY9BeFvFEieTbfL-34pR79W8AaRi5lewS_fjTfJI21IRBoYZIa0BK-XvVhtjIsk-SFnowMAw4iO2tiVw" style="border-bottom: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">leading ASAP</a> by organizing Awareness, Service, Advocacy, and Philanthropy projects that are working towards <a data-hs-link-id="0" href="http://info.ysa.org/globalgoals?utm_campaign=GYSD%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62252294&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9DLjv6rqneHqdY9BeFvFEieTbfL-34pR79W8AaRi5lewS_fjTfJI21IRBoYZIa0BK-XvVhtjIsk-SFnowMAw4iO2tiVw" style="border-bottom: none; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">achieving the Global Goals</a>.</span></span></div>
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At personal times: Harper: Why I volunteer. Leave thoughts on the Leaving Giving Tree<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>b. <a href="https://www.natstuco.org/events/national-student-leadership-week/" style="color: #1155cc;">National Student Leadership Week,</a> </b></span><span style="color: #333333;">Since 1972, the national office of National Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society, and National Student Council has sponsored NSLW. </span><span style="color: #333333;">NSLW 2018 is being celebrated April 15-21 with the theme “Make Your Mark on the World: Dream. Lead. Serve.” This theme is rooted in a massive student leadership initiative on global citizenship, which has been underway since 2016.</span></span></div>
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<b style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">c. <a href="https://www.naeyc.org/events/woyc/faq" style="color: #1155cc;">Week of the Young Child</a>, </b><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NAEYC first established the Week of the Young Child™ in 1971, recognizing that the early childhood years (birth through age 8) lay the foundation for children's success in school and later life. The Week of the Young Child™ is a time to plan how we—as citizens of a community, of a state, and of a nation—will better meet the needs of all young children and their families.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Wednesday 4/18: </span><span style="color: blue;">Honoring</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Academic Leadership</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Throughout the day, leave your thoughts on the "Leaving Giving" Tree at the YAC Community Room at Harper </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Friday 4/20: <a href="https://leadasap.ysa.org/" style="color: #1155cc;">Global Youth Service Day</a></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-<b>Activities:</b> Ice Cream Social at Harper for all Upper School</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-<b>Double: </b>Screening of "The Pursuit of Happiness," Location TBA</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-<b>5:30-6:30 pm: </b>Boys and Girls Club: <a href="https://www.studentsrebuild.org/facingdifference" style="color: #1155cc;">Facing Differences Challenge</a>. Our partner school in service, Oklahoma Centennial High School has already raised $2,000 in this challenge. The challenge ends May 4th.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Casady YAC </span> <a href="http://newsok.com/article/3427747">Knitting for Troops Project</a> App Developer Inspirational Speaker via blog for National Volunteer Week, Global Youth Service Day, and Presidential Service Awards Recognition and Celebration</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Chandler Helms '12 has struck out as an entrepreneur and has developed an app called Buyer’s Marque. Chandler has been developing the app for a few years and has now devoted herself to growing it! The app is a fashion app for buyers to use at market. So boutique owners would be able to use the app at trade show appointments. The app has been live for just a short time, but already has more than 1,000 users!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"I spent a lot of time at Casady on the service blog and really enjoyed working on various service learning projects."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma has had a coordinated response to provide food assistance to children, families and school personnel during the teacher walkout this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Children:</strong> Increased meal production though Hope’s Kitchen, which provides meals to children after school and during school breaks through partner Kids Café sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Families:</strong> Prepared, packed and distributed family boxes full of nutritious food in impacted areas through our network of community-based partner agencies in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties.</span></div>
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