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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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Despite any obstacles students face, since its creation in 2002, the school has enjoyed impressive outcomes, boasting a college readiness score 27% higher than the city’s in 2019. A range of foundations and community-based organizations help meet the school’s ambitious goal of ensuring both high school graduation and college matriculation.

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

It wasn’t just any form of the disease, but a rare form of blood cancer known as anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. His rigorous and dedicated practice habits were no longer just about honing a skill—they were about reclaiming a part of himself. For Rudolph, the goal was everything.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

Success

Jewel’s mental health organization: Inspiring Children Foundation In 2002, after many years of putting what she learned to action, Jewel co-founded the Inspiring Children Foundation , which provides mental health programming to youth whose financial circumstances are a barrier to access. Because, unless my behavior changed, it didn’t matter.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

But he made diversity in the workplace a strategic initiative , laid down goals and linked those goals to manager pay. Among the initiatives that emerged from the exercise was a group formed to “[identify] and [support] sales and marketing strategies” that could be utilized to reach women- and minority-owned businesses.

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Bioteams Part 4: The Team Organization Zone

BioTeams

The boundary and the processes form a unity – you cannot have one without the other. The two half arrows outside the circles represent all forms of communications between the living system and its external environment. Teams traditionally define their goals and roles in terms of activities, tasks or outputs.

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5 Tips For Incorporating Exercise Into Your Life

Brilliantly Better

I have been exercising in some form or another since I was five or six years old. And I ran the Chicago marathon back in 2002. I couldn’t agree more. I played on countless sports teams growing up. With the exception of a few breaks when I was only running, I have been weightlifting consistently since I was 15 years old.

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