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  Motivation and Basketball Tricks with Jim “Basketball” Jones: A Slam Dunk for HSE Students

  November 28, 2006 / Local People, School News

  I won’t quit! This was just one of the messages students at Harrison Parkway Elementary School heard from an energetic guy with several basketballs. That energetic guy is Jim “Basketball” Jones. Growing up in Ohio, Jim struggled with a learning disability, dyslexia. He spent his early years in special education. By high school, Jim was no longer in special education classes but continued to require tutoring. It was also during this time that he began learning to spin and juggle [...]

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• Take Your Mark, Get Set, Spell!

  October 28, 2006 / School News

  Sovereignty, zeppelin and phenomenon. Not words that we use in everyday conversation or writing, but if we do find the need to use those words – or words like them – well, thank God for spell check, or even an old-fashioned dictionary. However, for a select few fifth through eighth graders at Riverside School, learning how to spell words like these is what they love to do and, to my amazement, have volunteered to do! I am talking about the [...]

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