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Sorry, we couldn’t teach you the circulatory and respiratory systems, but you will be just fine as a practicing physician.

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Hello everyone!  My name is Lawrence Kohn, and I am a new blogger for REEP. I am honored to share and learn with everyone! I have been an educator for 30 years. My list of roles includes English teacher, facilitator/principal at Quest High School (now the AWESOME Quest Early College High School—YEAH!), principal of Atascocita High School, and now I am an associate professor at Sam Houston State University where I prepare secondary teacher candidates to enter the profession. Herein exists the lead in for this blog.

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Houston, we have a food revolution!

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Houston schools are experiencing a thrilling food revolution. Allow me to repeat that for dramatic effect: A food revolution. Here in Houston. Courtesy of Revolution Foods and a serving of savvy social entrepreneurship.

As referenced from a 2010 New York Times article, co-founders Kirsten Tobey and Kristin Richmond, alums of UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, “have worked on Wall Street, traveled the world and taught school from East Africa to Ecuador. Now they make lunch for a living.” 

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It’s Not About You

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Participants of Rice University’s 2011 commencement ceremony and readers of the New York Times became unknowing recipients of a compelling new piece of advice from New York Times columnist David Brooks: It’s not about you.

Brooks is exacting in his observations of society, this instance in his descriptions of the varying degrees of happiness. In his Rice commencement speech Brooks outlines three means of achieving happiness, and urges Rice graduates to strive for the third:

  1. Hedonism: indulging in personal, somewhat selfish, pleasures
  2. Money, beauty, and status: something that Brooks says “is an oddity of our culture that most of our collective fantasies seem to revolve most around this kind of happiness”
  3. Friendships and relations: happiness measured by asking the question: “How deeply is that person enmeshed in deep passionate commitments?”

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