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

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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

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Olympic team in 1956, winning bronze in the 4×100 relay. Four years later, she truly made her mark, winning gold in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and as part of the 4×100-meter relay team, breaking three world records. Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring.

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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Personal development and financial success To this day, Robbins draws inspiration from a mentor from his youth, Jim Rohn , an Idaho farm boy who made it big as a motivational speaker and author by holding seminars across the country for 40 years. Why sports teams? Robbins says sports teams provide lots of revenue streams.

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

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Thanks to people like him, we now know that diverse teams tend to outperform their more uniform counterparts. Not only did the PWD task force ensure compliance, they “established a worldwide accessibility project office” in 2002 to ensure all products and services were made accessible. “You don’t hate them more than you love money.”

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