Mentors Extend Our Reach

By Larry Nyland | September 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Mentors Extend Our Reach
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Mentors:  To Go Far … Go Together If you want to go quickly, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.  – African Proverb Mentors help us go farther … and many times go faster.  Virtually none of us would be where we are today without the help of others.  The question is…

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Positive Success Mentors: My Brother’s Keeper

By Larry Nyland | March 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Positive Success Mentors: My Brother’s Keeper
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Positive Success Mentors: My Brother’s Keeper Beliefs and practices are needed to close opportunity gaps. There is a wealth of good work on reframing our beliefs about institutional racism and white privilege.  Finding practices that close opportunity gaps is harder.  During my time as superintendent in Seattle, we had literally dozens of initiatives intended to…

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