Emma to the Rescue
May 29th, 2010 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Boulder, Emma, Family, Joni, Work
I only agreed to the garage sale because Joni said I don’t have to be in the garage during the actual sale. My job is to set up, tear down and take what ever didn’t sell to Goodwill. I can do that. Sometimes the best made plans don’t play out the way we imagine. Joni is working at Alpine Clinical Research Center. She is supervising an asthma or heart study. I don’t remember which. Probably a heart study because she [...]
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May 26th, 2010 by John Creighton in Photo Per Day
Tags: Emma
The cliches about time are true. It seems like only yesterday…
Read more...How Do We Make Dreams Come True?
May 21st, 2010 by John Creighton in Dispatches
Tags: Atwood, Emma, High School, St. Vrain
Unlike Glenn Beck and President Barack Obama, I won’t make any top ten list of commencement speakers. But, I have had the privilege to speak to a graduating class as a member of the St. Vrain Valley Board of Education. Like many commencement speakers, my preparations included contemplating a big question. In my case: How do we make our dreams come true? Mr. Bray, the custodian at my home town high school, was the first person I thought of when [...]
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May 3rd, 2010 by John Creighton in Photo Per Day
Emma & Izzy are inducted into National Junior Honor Society.
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April 28th, 2010 by John Creighton in Dispatches
Tags: Education, Emma, Family, Joe, School, St. Vrain
I had the opportunity to meet eight wunderkinds at the Apple Education Leadership Summit in Dallas last week. Several of the students owned businesses of their own. Some were generating six figure revenues. Another transformed The Ohio State Medical School. The students were in Dallas to talk to educators (and school board members like me) about where, when and how they learn. Their panel discussion drove home findings from the 2010 Horizon Report produced by the New Media Consortium. The [...]
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