by Steve on 3, March, 2010
Our Guest: Sir Ken Robinson, Expert on Creativity, Education & Human Potential
Listen to our interview with Sir Ken ~ HERE (or visit the link on the bottom of this post to listen and download the interview)
We live in a country with a broken educational system.
Now, factions on all sides of the issue will point at [...]
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by Steve on 26, February, 2010
We’ve had the good fortune to have special education attorney Wayne Steedman provide us with high quality, professional answers to complicated special education law questions (IEP, ESY, LRE, AYP, MET, NCLB … if all these letters are leaving you feeling l-o-s-t, check out our “Special Education Terms” section of the Education tab) on our show [...]
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by Steve on 26, February, 2010
When bad things happen who survives ….. and who doesn’t?
When life caves in around you who bounces back ….. and who collapses under the weight?
Why can a tragedy hit a family and one sibling self-destructs while the other one thrives?
Why do some folks seem to get all the breaks while others seem to live under [...]
by Steve on 23, February, 2010
I’m subscribed to so many different news sources and RSS feeds that in the morning it’s like an avalanche of news and stories cascading down my screen.
Normally, I read through the ones that catch my eye and then throw a couple of good ones in the – blog about it pile. Invariably though I’m only [...]
by Steve on 20, February, 2010
YouTube – Tim Ferriss – How to Peel Hard-boiled Eggs without Peeling
Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning
How To Clean a Wool Rug with Snow
Transfer Your Balances Now to Safeguard Against Coming Credit Card Changes
Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students – Yahoo! News
There’s some great tips and websites in this link below. [...]
by Steve on 9, February, 2010
How cool is this?
The world’s longest married couple (104 & 102 year old – Herbert & Zelmyra Fisher) will be answering your romance questions on Valentine’s Day on TWITTER (and you thought you were too old to get into that Twitter thing).
Interested in checking it out? Follow them on Twitter at @longestmarried
The couple, who enjoy [...]
by Steve on 7, February, 2010
Ben Heywood from PatientsLikeMe.com joined us this morning for a far reaching interview that covered ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), his brother Stephen’s struggle with the disease which ultimately lead to the creation of the outcome based patient data website www.PatientsLikeMe.com and in a larger sense what REAL health care reform looks like.
Never heard of [...]
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by Steve on 2, February, 2010
We had the great honor on October 25th of last year to interview Peter Wright from Wrightslaw.
Pete is a pioneer in the area of Special Education Law and truly one of the ultimate child advocates in this country. We had the joy of being able to host a Wrightslaw conference in 2008 and were stunned [...]
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by Steve on 2, February, 2010
I’ve got to admit these stories always make me cringe a little bit. I like stories about kids that achieve, but am always concerned when it involves kids with challenges because the skeptic in me wonders are they using the kid as a mascot and not a player …. this isn’t one of those [...]
by Steve on 25, January, 2010
The World Health Organization (aka WHO) is getting really annoyed at all of the people questioning them. It seems this H1N1 “flu pandemic” fizzled out so much faster than all the hype around it that some folks are starting to ask questions … namely why all the hype?
An answer being suggessted, to the WHO’s obvious [...]
by Steve on 25, January, 2010
This seems like a story from the Department of Made Up Afflictions but since I’m dedicated to keeping you informed and this is a real story (Google reports over 73 news stories about it this morning), here goes ….
Exotic wooden toilet seats and harsh chemical cleaners may be behind a new resurgence of toilet seat dermatitis, [...]
by Steve on 23, January, 2010
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Charles Fay from the Love and Logic Institute this past weekend. The full interview was longer than what we were able to air on Sunday so we’ve included the full interview above for your listening (and hopefully learning) pleasure.
What is the Love and Logic approach to raising [...]
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by Steve on 16, January, 2010
Ahhh, the good old days. When you could take the family to a movie and not have to worry about it warping the minds of your little children or offending the senses of the adults.
A friend and I were just talking last night about how hard it is trying to let our kids enjoy the [...]
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by Steve on 13, January, 2010
I found this story while exploring the site of Kevin Carroll’s site Katalyst (author of Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life’s Work ). I thought it was a nice story, worth sharing and was even more plesantly surprised when I realized it was from author Paul Coelho ( author [...]
by Steve on 13, January, 2010
Epicurious.com is a great website with lots of great tools, recipes and articles. This week I ran across their “Seasonal Ingredient Map” that show what fruits and vegetables are in season at what time of year broken out by month and state. Cool tool that makes eating (and serving your family) the healthiest, freshest foods [...]
by Steve on 6, January, 2010
You Missed A Show?
Missed a show? How could you?
Okay, besides you have a family and the show is on early Sunday mornings.
Then here’s your chance to catch up. I’ll be posting full breakouts of all the shows we did in 2009 but in the meantime check out any of the shows that you might have [...]