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Welcome back to the POP QUIZ! This is a regular, yet totally unexpected, feature where we ask students, parents, staff, our friends, and partners to answer a few questions about...
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Did we scare you? No? Well then, here are a few facts about kids in America that are plenty scary. 61,423 children are incarcerated throughout the United States. It is...
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We’re taking the next two weeks off from blogging and will return here to meet up with you again in January. To tide you over until then, we thought we’d...
We’ve heard from a number of you about how much you enjoyed reading the latest CIS Connections (“It’s All About the Grit” issue) on social emotional learning. That’s why we...
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As I sit down to write this post, I’ve just returned from being part of the orientation for our new interns. All twelve of them! It’s a CIS bi-annual ritual...
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This has been a tough winter. And it’s not over. With all this snow falling, ice damming, roof leaking, pipe bursting weather, my humor has taken a hit. What about...
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Every 26 seconds, a child drops out of school. This alarming statistic disturbs me more than any other national statistic out there. Why? I think it’s because it is entirely...
