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Friday, September 16, 2005

START GIVING THE EXISTING NEW MONEY

(PRWEB) October 12, 2005 -- PrintSmart4U.com and USA VALUES-CDP, Character Development Programs has teamed up to jump-start the giving of a life changing educational intervention that would possibly reach every at-risk child. This gift is designed to trigger giving to teachers and adults who interact with children ages 3-6 through an educational program.

The fund raising packages to deliver steps 1-3 below are being given to principals of Metro Area schools. 2,000 classroom packages are initially being made available for the principals across the nation. This program is fully explained for all related parties at http://www.usavalues-character.org/ . See Products and Gift Certificate Program. Additionally, PrintSmart4U.com http://www.printsmart4u.com/ and USA VALUES® will position routine economic activities to create permanent new jumpstart funding for ready to read and character education.

The design is to change the life of the age 3-6 child in the name of age appropriate opportunity- defined as ready to read, count, and civility. The materials facilitate character education and early reading skills. The kit does the following positively to fill the voids one-size-fits-one.

1. Requires a public elementary school principal commitment and endorsement.
2. Gives the grade K-3 teachers the power to engage effective citizens in the classroom and community character education.
3. Encourages the effective citizen base in a neighborhood to pay attention to the ready to read skills of children starting in kindergarten. We expect 80% of a neighborhood to agree after they understand the ultimate importance. A community reaching 100% of the age 3-6 children with early reading shills before kindergarten will be created at this point. An example is- http://ulticharnetwork.blogspot.com/
4. Greatly increase the expectation in the school and community (from new and noticed activity) that 100% of the children will be ready to read starting in kindergarten. USA VALUES has a unique “business plan” built on a multi-year school change program.
5. Use principals and other leadership to empower effective citizen’s individual giving of the skills to age 3-6 children.

New money will need to be found based solely on the principal’s commitment to oversee and collaborate on the new requirement for the school. PrintSmart4U has a unique product to start this fundraising.This is a story of sunshine for the community. Negatives (blame, bias and partisanship) discussions of the voids that now exist are clouding and fragmenting the 80% middle. The sun would shine with positive building and filling of the voids. Agreements on action plans and resources for the 80% middle would bring out the sun. The resolve to give will grow when the middles know how to close our resources and capacity into early individual one-size-fits-one outcomes. Polar differences exist between “just give the money” verses “please give me exactly what this neighborhood needs to accomplish 100% ready to read.” Middle positions are very important because the new money exists but is not in the government and education systems. It will take public – private partnerships to bring designated money to the children outcomes. Effective operators with histories of performance must be asking for the money to change lives with early reading. 100% goals are important to the first measures of collaborations before kindergarten.

USA VALUES – CDP, Character Development Programs promotes truth; 1) The gift of Early Reading Skills (the FIRST value) is required for ALL age 3–6 children before they start kindergarten; 2) This individual gift is the key to opportunity; 3) The gift is the most effective and lowest cost approach to preparing at-risk children for opportunities; 4) The principal is vested in 100% of the children starting kindergarten ready-to-read. CDP is a 501(C)(3) business expecting to link families, paid volunteers, early childhood learning and faith-base resources, schools, corporations and agencies to first deliver 100% of the children to be ready-to-read starting in kindergarten. For other press releases and commentary that encourage your discussion, see http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/.

###Press Contact: Thomas Wolfgram
Company Name: USA VALUES-CDP, Character Development Program
Email: tdw.usavalues@comcast.net Phone: 507-452-2658
Website: www.usavalues-character.org

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Effective Citizens Influencing Education: Who are you? Flip the status quo! Know what little is missing!

The campaign of USA VALUES-CDP, Character Education will get 80% of effective citizens to agree on first things first as it relates to K-12 education. The wishful status quo before the accountability of "Leave No Child Behind" is still entrenched! Only a miniscule shortfall in funding is missing, in the spending formula, to accountably reinvest in our future. The key to flipping over the status quo is present in each and every neighborhood and community school.

Effective citizens (under one of our definitions) care about something in life, believe in luck and care about doing good. They are concerned with being fair, and believe in 2nd and 3rd chances. They secure their assets, attributes, and the safety of family, friends and self. They vote and generally will not admit that they did not vote. They understand leverage, waste, savings and the rewards of one's labor. They resent speculators, question partisan positions and wish they could stand with the 80% in the middle. On any given day, when we pause to think, we understand being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first, thanks to Dr. Stephen Covey and common sense.

So! - Why is it that effective citizens fail, by leaving many children behind, and set up higher future costs and less security. We do not look to be part of the simple 80% middle on this issue, because our starting priority and foundations of agreement are not broad enough. And, we look to solve problems in the middle of the process without reference to the start. We splinter into various interests. We let partisans, biases, misguided knowledge, speculators, short-term artists and lack of civility shortchange our investment in kids and our interactions with each other. Today's Children, Tomorrow's Future! ® is just a wishful slogan. So the status quo is to have wishful thoughts as we rely on special interests fragmenting the foundation!

A miniscule shortfall of funding is missing in the formula to accountably reinvest in our future. A total of just $15 billion a year is missing. This compares to $7 trillion in manufacturing and retail sales per year (non-government) to put it into our day-to-day economic perspectives (less than 1/4%). Detail is available from tdw.usavalues@comcast.net It is a simple demographic calculation based on current available knowledge in the field.

The key to flipping over the status quo is communicating the knowledge to each other that if this additional giving were in the right order; elementary school principals could ethically be held accountable for 100% of the children left behind; elementary school principals, with related collaborations could hold communities accountable for delivering 100% of the children to kindergarten ready-to-read. They are the only public servants vested in 100% delivery. Very good people are working hard in urban areas at this from many angles but without; ethical responsibilities and authorities to first reach the poorest of the poor. Neighborhoods are splintered and do not yet see the logistics of 100% as a start to the top for society.

WHAT IF WE WOULD MAKE THIS THE STATUS QUO? The Truth-- Without the gift of Early Reading Skills all children are behind before they even start kindergarten. The Gift-- Only an individual gift delivers early reading skills at age 3, 4 and 5. This gift is the building block to opportunity. It is society's best (effective and lowest cost) approach to preparing the bottom half of the bottom half (poorest of the poor) to want the opportunities, choices and engagement. The Focus-- When 100% of the children start kindergarten ready to read English the urban school has the resources to meet the requirement of No Child Left Behind.
See http://ulticharnetwork.blogspot.com/. The sole purpose of the character development materials at http://www.usavalues-character.org/ is for schools and effective communities to pull this together for the children and themselves. These gifts are at least three times blessed.

USA VALUES - CDP, Character Development Programs promotes truth; 1) The gift of Early Reading Skills (the FIRST value) is required for ALL age 3-6 children before they start kindergarten; 2) This individual gift is the key to opportunity; 3) The gift is the most effective and lowest cost approach to preparing at-risk children for opportunities; 4) The principal is vested in 100% of the children starting kindergarten ready-to-read. CDP is a 501(C)(3) business expecting to link families, paid volunteers, early childhood learning and faith-base resources, schools, corporations and agencies to first deliver 100% of the children to be ready-to-read starting in kindergarten. For other press releases and commentary that encourage a response, see http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/.

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Press Contact: Thomas Wolfgram... Phone: 763-550-0769
Company Name: USA VALUES-CDP, Character Development Programs
Email: tdw.usavalues@comcast.net
Website: http://www.usavalues-character.org/