Originally posted on "The front of the jersey…":
The Center for Creative Leadership has been studying the development of leaders for over 30 years, which qualifies them to say a thing or two about how to get from A to Z in the pursuit of your own leadership zenith. One consistent topic is…
Author Archives: Dr. Bree E. Cook
Rallying Congress to Safeguard Mentoring Funding
Originally posted on Human Services Policy Network:
by Abbie Evans, Director of Government Relations at MENTOR Congress is developing its budget and appropriations priorities for the fiscal year 2015 (FY15). It is critical that they hear from the mentoring community now about the importance of a strong funding commitment for the Youth Mentoring Grant program…
Pediatricians Warn TV, Social Media Linked To Obesity, Behavioral Issues
We have to do better with getting our children OUTSIDE! They need sports, recreation, music and arts!!
Civic Leader Urges LA School Board To Keep John Deasy As Superintendent
Deasy appears to have a lot of support from the private sector and from Charter Schools…
LAUSD Board To Evaluate Superintendent John Deasy Amid Resignation Rumors
Do you think he is going to resign??
Family Sues LAPD Over Shooting Of Mentally Ill Baldwin Hills Woman
apparantly more work needs to be done…
Critical Teaching in Action Conference
Transforming The Heart of Our Violence
Originally posted on Held In The Light:
On Friday morning, a gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, shooting and killing six adults and twenty children before killing himself. This incomprehensible act has caused enormous mourning and outrage. So many of us have been feeling grief and also numbness, bewilderment and anger. Our thoughts…
Newtown and the Cost of Redemption in America
Originally posted on Salvation and Social Justice:
How do we explain the situation in Newtown to our parishioners? This senseless murder is indeed a challenge to the faith. Christianity teaches that out of death comes life, misery-joy, darkness-light and void-purpose. The most challenging but glorious part of our faith is the horror of the cross…
Bree E. Cook, PsyD 