Oak Ridge Schools Strategic Plan 2020: Promoting Achievement and Accountability
This is the third post in a six-part series recognizing the state finalists and overall Grand Prize winner of the Tri-State Best Practices contest. Our previous posts featured Alabama state finalists Eufaula City Schools and Muscle Shoals City Schools. Preparing students for college, career, and life success is a balancing act. School systems not […]
Muscle Shoals City Schools: Impactful Problem-Solving
This is the second post in a six-part series recognizing the state finalists and overall grand prize winner of the Tri-State Best Practices Contest. Our first post featured Alabama state finalist Eufaula City Schools. Many young people face a Catch 22 when they enter the job market: Employers want experience, but you cannot get […]
Eufaula City Schools – Providing Purposeful Exploration of College and Career
This is the first post in a six-part series recognizing the state finalists and overall grand prize winner of the Tri-State Best Practices Contest. May these great examples of best practices in Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee public education inspire you as they did us. What do you want to be when you grow up?” […]
Celebrating the 96th American Education Week
Celebrate the 96th American Education Week with LEAN Frog as Dave shares the significance of this special week. At LEAN Frog, we’re thrilled to celebrate the 96th American Education Week! This year’s theme is: Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility The American Education Week also includes “National Education Support Professionals Day.” […]
Better Eating Equals Better Grades: The Relationship of Nutrition and Education
Celebrate World Food Day as Dave shares the correlation between improving nutrition and improving education. Although dated, this infograph — provided by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) — shines a spotlight on “World Food Day’ on October 16th. GAIN is an independent, non-profit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland and was developed at the United Nations […]
It’s Always a Good Time for Pizza . . . and for Lean Six Sigma
Another yummy blog from our sales guy Dave Knowles. See why he thinks you should Take a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt to Lunch and why the lunch should be pizza!!! #itsalwaysagoodtimeforpizza Right up front I must confess . . . I LOVE ALL KINDS OF PIZZA! The pizza can be frozen, homemade, chain-store or independent […]
What Do Barbeque (BBQ) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) have in Common?
Please enjoy this wonderful post from our sales guy and burgeoning blogger Dave Knowles. Many of you may know that in his former life Dave was Director of Dining Services and Summer Conferences at Washington College. Dave helps us celebrate National Barbeque month with a “tasty” look at what barbeque and Lean Six Sigma have in […]
Teachers Deliver – Make the Choice to Show Your Appreciation
Please enjoy our very own Dave Knowles’ great blog kicking off Teacher Appreciation Week! One of the fundamental tenets of our country– fought for and established by Founding Fathers and generations hence — is the freedom of CHOICE. This freedom, both then and now, attempts to balance personal and local needs and actions with […]
Alabama’s Best Barkley Bridge Elementary-Preparing Teachers and Students in STEM Learning
This is the final post in a six-part series recognizing the winners of the Tennessee’s Best and Alabama’s Best Contests. Our previous post featured Tennessee’s Best Grand Prize winner Kingsport City Schools (TN), and the following runners up: Indian Valley Elementary (AL), Maury County (TN), Crestline Elementary (AL), and Lauderdale County (TN). Stay tuned for details […]
World Compliment Day
In 1965, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon debuted her hit single What the World Needs Now. Many of us remember the “next stanza” of this popular song as an amplification of the 1960’s call for “love” among all peoples. In 2017 — 50+ years later — I suggest that in the unsettled and politically divisive culture of […]