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With A Purpose | Random Acts of Kindness

With A Purpose | Random Acts of Kindness

Posted Date: 11/30/2020

Ever considered what about the holiday season makes us all seem more charitable or a stronger desire to give or support others? Is that just me? If it is, please let me live in the joy believing . . .

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With A Purpose | Being Married to A Teacher Is a Unique Experience

With A Purpose | Being Married to A Teacher Is a Unique Experience

Posted Date: 08/20/2020

August has always been a unique experience as an active participant in our house while raising three children, with my wife’s work and her passion being in her “happy place” – her classroom. August . . .

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With A Purpose | Not All Superheroes Wear Capes

With A Purpose | Not All Superheroes Wear Capes

Posted Date: 05/06/2020

August has always been a unique experience as an active participant in our house while raising three children, with my wife’s work and her passion being in her “happy place” – her classroom. August . . .

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With A Purpose | Responding to Technology in Education

With A Purpose | Responding to Technology in Education

Posted Date: 10/26/2020

COVID 19 and the Pandemic of 2020 has certainly caused many of us to react differently to how we respond as consumers or even within our public education arena. Some truths have become evident and . . .

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With A Purpose | What's the Purpose of Your Employee Benefits Enrollment?

With A Purpose | What's the Purpose of Your Employee Benefits Enrollment?

Posted Date: 03/25/2020

In this “new normal” we find ourselves in both personally and professionally, I thought the best article may be one of truth and logic. Now that sounds ironic, huh? If you are like me, I have had to . . .

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With A Purpose | Go Ask Your Mom!

With A Purpose | Go Ask Your Mom!

Posted Date: 02/20/2020

I am certain I do not need to ask but going out on a limb here and saying,  that nearly all of us have played the game of asking one parent and getting the obligatory response “go ask your ….”.  . . .

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With A Purpose | Ever take a job you really didn’t expect to ever have?

With A Purpose | Ever take a job you really didn’t expect to ever have?

Posted Date: 01/07/2020

If you are reading this, you are participating in my maiden voyage into blogging. A few inside Kansas Association of School Boards currently blog. I often wondered, since I am in sales, and I have . . .

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Ad Astra Per Aspera for Women School Board Members in Kansas

Posted Date: 08/26/2020

Leah Fliter Director of Governmental Relations lfliter@kasb.org The centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution, which eventually led to all U.S female citizens . . .

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The Devil’s in the Demographics

Posted Date: 05/22/2019

Ted Carter KASB Chief Data Officer tcarter@kasb.org   This scatterplot shows the relationship between the percent eligible for Free or Reduced-Price Lunch within a school and . . .

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On Average, the Average Average isn’t as Average as the Average Person Thinks…

Posted Date: 08/03/2019

Ted Carter KASB Chief Data Officer tcarter@kasb.org In what some are calling the “Post-Fact World,” it is critical that we work to be informed consumers of information.  To that end, I thought it . . .

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