C-isms

Mom (in the AM, before breakfast): "Sweater? It is cold?" C: "No. I want a blanket." C wraps around herself, shuffles around and says: "You have done well young Padawan, you have done well." 9/8/12
C: "A great teacher would remove the word 'impossible' from the classroom dictionaries." [Why?] "Because nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it."
Mom, lost in a park near their house, "I can't find a trail." C: "Lets blaze one!"
C: "Steph-anne Hawkins is not as smart as Einstein because Albert Einstein could do quantum physics and quantum mechanics in his head, while Steph-anne Hawkins, with all due respect, can only do physics. No offense to Steph-anne Hawkins, partially because he is the smartest man alive." Mom (in all seriousness, and remember that she is a regular reader of Scientific American): "What is quantum mechanics?" C: "It is how particles move." 9/26/11

Friday, July 03, 2009

Learning: White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation ... launched!

Posted by Leigh Anne Miller

Today was the launch of Sonal's new, huge, amazing, wonderful Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. From the Skoll Foundation blog:

"Geoff Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone was powerful: humble and honest about realizing 10 years ago that what he was doing was NOT really making a dent, and on fire about what he now knows about what DOES work and how those lessons need to spread—block by block, community by community - until every child in every neighborhood is succeeding."

If this is what we're going to see out of the office, keep it coming and lots of it.

Geoff Canada, you are a superstar.

Keep up the great work! Thanks to Sonal and her crew for putting this event together...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ will have an active link to the new office in a bit.


BONUS: Check it out, visualization of government budgets and data! http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/

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