It’s that time of year with graduation ceremonies, dinners, parties and presents. It’s the biggest day of a graduate’s educational experience, and their favorite part seems to be when the ceremony is all over and they can have some “real fun.” Everyone jokes about how the graduation speeches are too long, too boring, not targeted to the students, and that few people seem to really remember anything from them.
Recently, however, I had the opportunity to listen to a truly inspirational speaker. Read More...
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Empowering educators, so that educators can empower Kansas students.
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CARLISLE, Pa. — In the summer of 1901, a petite 12-year-old girl was plucked from an orphanage in Alaska and shipped across the continent by boat and train. She arrived in Pennsylvania 25 days and 4,000 miles later, a world away from the windswept island in the Bering Sea where she was born, where her Aleut heritage went back generations.
So began the final chapter in the heartbreakingly short life of Sophia Tetoff, one that would end five years later at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in rural Pennsylvania. Read More...