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Recently a Landmark Education Communication Expert was interviewed on television about how to deal with the impact that a bad economy has on relationships.
Reprinted from RecordBreeze.com
Glo. Twp. students give books ‘from the heart’
Books recently took on a different meaning for students at Loring-Flemming Elementary School in Gloucester Township.
The school launched its first “Books from the Heart” this year. The project asked students to bring in a book for needy children in Camden.
“Books from the Heart” began in January and ended last week. Through the drive, the school collected 1,155 books.
“The goal was 500. We went far above what I expected,” Lisa Bair, a second-grade teacher at Loring-Flemming, said.
Bair introduced “Books from the Heart” to the school as part of a “personal education.”
“It’s called Landmark Education. I had to develop a project that would benefit people in my world,” she said.
Bair explained the core meaning of the “Books from the Heart” project.
“The purpose for the students here was to teach them about generosity and compassion. It was to also give something to students who have nothing,” she said.
As part of the project, students could only donate new children’s books. To purchase those books, they needed to complete a chore at home to earn money, Bair said.
“We sent home a form asking parents how many books they would donate,” she added.
So, students cleaned their rooms, washed the dishes, and took out the trash frequently – all to earn an allowance needed to participate in “Books from the Heart.”
“It taught them responsibility,” Bair said.
Students donated books that were appropriate for their age level to the project, Bair said. The final 1,155 books were delivered to Sumner School in Camden last week.
“The reaction was lovely,” Bair said.
Bair attributed the overwhelming response to a desire to give embedded in Loring-Flemming Elementary School.
“We have a very generous population here,” she said.
Bair indicated that she hopes to continue “Books from the Heart” next year.
“We may end up getting it district-wide,” she said.
The Muslim Observer, Regional, Houstonian
Painting for Peace at Rice University Houston Texas
Houston Muslims are working with their fellow non-Muslims to paint several paintings representing Peace and Unity. The paintings will be displayed on Saturday, August 5th at the Rice University Ley Student Center (Farnsworth Pavilion) at 11 a.m. The exhibition will remain at Rice University through August 25, 2006. There is no admission fee.
The project was created by Dr. Imrana Malik, a Houston physician. “As a Muslim, I feel very heavy-hearted about the negative view of Muslims and Islam today,” Dr. Malik said. “The tragic and unfortunate ‘reality’ is that Muslims are viewed as violent individuals based on the actions of a few radicals. Working with our fellow neighbors to paint these paintings is an expression of our stand for Peace and Unity. We are hoping to make this into an annual event, as well as get national involvement by reproducing this effort in other US cities, such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.”
Dr. Malik developed this project, while participating in a Landmark Education leadership program, the coursework for which included creating a project that benefits the community (www.landmarkeducation.com).
For more information, call 832-563-0199 or E-Mail ImranaM@HotMail.Com
Changing laws so surplus food can be given to the hungry Picture a few food industry workers hanging out at 3:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning, and you probably don’t envision the kind of conversation Guido Pozzebon, Francisco Valles, and Claire Nikakas had a few years ago. One night after their Landmark Advanced Course, Pozzebon says, the three stayed up late “talking about all the wasted food in our industry and how it could be given to the needy and underprivileged of Melbourne.”Pozzebon, Valles, and Nikakas banded together after that night to form One Umbrella, an organization dedicated to ending hunger in Australia by rescuing potentially wasted food. In order to jumpstart the organization, Pozzebon set about getting a Good Samaritan law passed through the Victorian State Parliament that would allow people and organizations to donate surplus food stocks and supplies.“The law previously did not protect the donor,” Pozzebon explains. “People were open to legal liability and as such they would not donate good food but instead they dumped it.”The law was officially passed last October, and other states in Australia are now in the process of passing their own Good Samaritan laws. To date, One Umbrella has helped feed more than 200,000 disadvantaged people with food that would have gone to a landfill if not for its efforts.“Through Landmark, I’ve realized that I am a leader, that I can produce results, and that it’s a privilege to make a difference in the quality of life for others,” Pozzebon says.
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Hello,
It is less than two weeks before the 2006 mid-term elections in the US and the campaign ads are all but impossible to miss. I live in the middle of the United States and many congressional districts around me are up for grabs. Therefore many of the television and radio ads are laced with fear inducing phases that are intended to do nothing more than press primal buttons in the people who are exposed to them.
Never mind that I am personally insulted by the presumption that I am so easily manipulated. I want to start a grassroots conversation that calls for more understanding, more communication, more learning from each other and most importantly, more listening.
I hold the contention that in a free and demographic society, we are given a great set of responsibilities; not just to defend and stand for freedom around the world, (I say that with great respect for the people in the armed forces, several of whom are in my family) but to truly strive to understand the place that others are coming from.
Some would have you beleive that the Evangelical Christians are spiritual facists. Others would have you beleve that the ACLU is the right arm of the devil.
The Gay Community is an abomination and religious conservatives are manufactuing crises to jump start the tribulations and bring on the rapture. Which are you to beleive holds more ”Truth”. Maybe you read this and you have already decided for yourself. I contend that neither holds more truth than the other.
I believe that one of the most patriotic things that we can do, is to do our best to understand where other people are coming from. The future of Democracy requires more than polite restraint while we wait for our turn to make the other side “wrong”. It requires more than merely tolerating the fact that people who disagree with you exist.
It actually requires that you find compassion for those you dissagree with. It requires you grant validity to the passions that others feel for things your may dissagree with. It requires that you accept the fact that all world views are actually valid. They are valid becasue they exist.
I do not think that I am alone in the view that I hold here. I invite you to join me in a conversation that might just change the previaling winds of fear in our world.
I invite your replies.
Thank you.
