Community Stories

Jun 29, 20162 min read

Beating the Odds by Partnering the Genius of Youth – A Flood of Kindness

As our planet gets warmer, it has the possibility of getting meaner. When 8 year-old De’Ante Webster of Indianapolis shared his magical tale

Dec 14, 20155 min read

Beating the Odds Through Intuition – a Matter of Life and Death

I wrote this in 2004 and feel the need to spread the message of this story:

Mar 8, 20152 min read

The Odds Not Beaten

It is with heavy heart that I learned this week that one of my students from Helen S. Faison in Pittsburgh, PA, has been arrested for the

May 13, 20111 min read

Beating the Odds in Puntland, Somalia

Ilkoasse dedicated his life to building peace in northern Somalia.

Mar 15, 20111 min read

Reducing Stress Beats the Odds

The fabulously practical, caring and cutting edge brain-science expert Eric Jensen shares five ways to decrease stress

Mar 3, 20111 min read

Giving Attention to the Behavior We Want

How do we beat the odds of negativity that we are up against? Like any sane parent and educator knows, focusing on positive behavior gets

Jan 12, 20102 min read

Odds of today

Today I talked with a grandmother who is raising her six-foot eighth grade grandson who got kicked out of mainstream public school.