If you were to ask HOW?

6^th Information Bite

 

If you were to ask HOW?
 

Please do not read this HOW without reference to what (letter 5).  Together the design is in the private sector.  http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/2013/05/are-enough-businesses-asking-what.html  

 First, what USA VALUES is proposing has never been done before, except parts have been implemented with local success, without the private sector “glue” to sustain and replicate outcomes and new early inputs.  Socratic logic places the Components and the Higher Thoughts together for the expectation of 100% early reading input flow to kindergarten in a dramatic change.  Each district is indirectly served by a veteran executive owned promotions and advertising company repeatedly using a single public service message set in an economic territory. 

At least monthly a flyer and related social media website communicates to 100% of the mothers, business and schools about:

1.        The importance of Early Reading Skills Delivered

2.       Where the resources for the delivery can be found without a hassle

3.       Positive Expectations for all from that delivery   

The local message is paid for without increasing costs.  The local businesses leverage advertising that they must do to reach the local consumer.  Each location will naturally see to the development of growth economics, education, emotions and ethics at its own pace.  Growth is expected from the delivery of early reading skills, counting skills and understanding of positive direction before kindergarten.  This also provides the basis for individual grit, networks and positive expectations needed to grow.

Repeating, these points take shape locally one size fits one for each community and school district.   

Components   Early Childhood Brain Development; PVofPE-Prek; FTFRTFT; ERSD-RA; Created NEW MONEY; SCCDS Contract; ERSDRTAB of Contracts; and Veteran Component  

Higher Thoughts  Venture Collateral;  Education and Poverty; Civility, Emotional Intelligence and Ethics; Budgets / Pre-k Juggernaut per Chester Finn Jr. / Silo of Pre-k  / Quality Based on Outcomes;  Literacy is “Freedom and Opportunity”; work - family - faith is  “grit – networks – positive-expectations”;  Social Media as a tool; and Stories / messages of Assets and Attributes

Please contact me for that important discussion.  

Best regards,
Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram

President-  USA VALUES, LLC

mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com 

http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com and http://twitter.com/EEEEinNDC and

http://twitter.com/usavalues and https://twitter.com/tdwusavalues  and http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwolfgram

651-735-3018; Cell 612-968-1579

 

Are Enough Businesses Asking WHAT?

5^th Information Bite

Are Enough Businesses Asking WHAT?

The challenge to innovate from several of the Fortune 1000 helps USA VALUES positioning of the “first moving school districts” with their opportunity  -  Opportunity to create their own new money for their own definition of high quality improvement and increased successful throughput.  The district proposed process has been accepted as “too logical” by one superintendent and school board member.  And, parts of this concept are in operation today.

Your role starts with a simple statement that your company would consider, under further review,

asking a school district or two to cause 100% early reading skills delivered to kindergarten

starting with the most at risk children.

First moving districts will agree to undergo scientific changes to create their own system of improvement removing capacity constraints and remedial efforts that have increased total cost.  You know from innate understanding of process that everything would be different if the system started with 100% reading, counting and emotional proficiency.  You know;  1)  if there is going to be difficulty in creating readiness in age 0-6 children - earlier is better than later and simple early requirements are better than complex; and  2)  private sector leadership measures throughput and total cost against 100% for many large benefits; and  3)  it is time to share the thinking and processes with public education systems; and 4)  100% objectives expose all the issues to the progress but as mentioned in letter 4 only work on the real whole system constraints (1 or 2 max) will generate continuous improvement.  What is first things first is not optional or judgemental.

Our alignment with you and the school district in the process of creating the new money to reach 100% readiness delivery is unique – Your cash is not used; the school’s traditional sources of cash are used, and if required you collateralize their borrowing for this very specific effort.   Your venture collateral under our School District Credit Demanding Skills (SDCDS) contracts your assurance that payback will be made.  Your collateral does not play without district contracted commitment and local effort that include specific Theory of Constraints continuous improvement and Early Reading Skills Delivered processes that generate local admiration for the courage to reach 100%  for the 21^st century.

We have a 20 point discussion agenda for large business.  Our Positive Expectations home page makes an issue about reaching 100% and links to our nation’s effort that does not.   We are not writing a book, points are being published via email to the CEOs in single page digest bites.  The emails and twitter will measure the commitment of our nation’s private sector to first things first benefits.  Is 100% readiness before age 6 really defining the gap?  This presentation of alignment http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/support-files/alignments.pdf  is for CEOs.  

 Please contact me for that important no choice discussion.

Best regards,
Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram

President-  USA VALUES, LLC
mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com 
http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com and http://twitter.com/EEEEinNDC and
http://twitter.com/usavalues and https://twitter.com/tdwusavalues  and http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwolfgram
651-735-3018; Cell 612-968-1579

Must Prompt Innovation- Growth Economics, Education, Emotions and Ethics

4^th Request, thank you for your time.

Wish there was a choice, but...

100 companies of the Fortune 1000 companies would represent 10% of 15 Trillion dollars of value positioning (not spending) to insist on first things first attention. If there were 200 companies (it costs nothing to lead the positioning of innovation), what then? The most at risk could be mentored through and with mom without changing anything today. Not one Fortune 1000 dollar is to be spent within this venture collateral model. A pledge limited to an immaterial fraction of 1% creates a very powerful call to innovate -first things first- and just take care of the start to high quality for 100%. Nothing is going on today that addresses 100%; that is the grass root key to public school effectiveness in education, economics, emotions and ethics.

Without a focus on 100%, our systems just don’t deal with some issues and real total cost is not addressed.  You know this.  See our first three letters http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/2013/03/request-afterresponse-dear-fortune1000.html); the issue and choice will never go away. Say yes and climb the right mountain.  Any other decision keeps you in base camp or climbing the wrong mountain according to Stephen Covey. I have many positive reasons making me so bold to try and intrude on the Fortune 1000.  You also have many reasons right now to get to yes.   

You have the power to help schools see first things first and make this happen.  Besides the pure joy that takes over when children read the first and second Bob Book before they are 5 years old, the ERSD-RA contracting by the school district with the local preschool juggernaut would economically grow the delivery capacity to the exact requirement of the district.

The Fortune 1000 intruding with commitment here, for the most at risk first, is an innovation K-12 districts have been talking about without new money for 20 plus years. Help the districts, with leverage earn the new money with new commitment to their own designed high quality innovation and savings; with a new scientific understanding of the important first things first capacity constraints.

A few districts are further along this path than others but rarely address the early literacy issue as if it were equal to the early safety issue and even more rarely do they see it as the capacity constraint that could eliminate excess costs.  Simply, leaders owe it to themselves and their company to prompt innovation based on first thing first expectations for 100% delivery, in addition to everything else your company is doing.

Please set up the discussion with me, I have a very simple first step. 

Best regards,
Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram

President-  USA VALUES, LLC

mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com 

http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com and http://twitter.com/EEEEinNDC and

http://twitter.com/usavalues and https://twitter.com/tdwusavalues  and http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwolfgram

651-735-3018; Cell 612-968-1579

 

Third Letter to Fortune 1000

Dear Fortune 1000 CEO

3^rd Request

Thanks you for your time.  Education reform seems to always be calling and I understand charters, vouchers, common core, STEM and vested interests in those and other steps to increase capacity and results.  All remedial efforts to increase proficiency are good.  100% delivery of early reading and math skills in all day kindergarten are  better.  100% delivery of early reading skills, counting and understanding positive direction before kindergarten are best. The bridge to best does not have to cost more money and your company as one of the largest is critical to providing the leverage base to that bridge.  
 

 Our frame calling for action includes PVofPE-Prek a recent development set of math concepts. And, FTFRTFT a science of incurred time to finish developed in the last 30 years. And ERSD-RA an absolutely required reaction to new scientific knowledge of brain synaptic closings on empty because we adults allow it  http://bit.ly/oRiw79

I am writing to the CEO to talk about the brain power that we are not creating first things first (FTFRTFT) that would have a chance to solve the STEM shortage, and others, way into our children’s future.   Your company has the power on earth with other Fortune 1000 companies (subject to even higher power not seen) to change everything.  First things first focus on at risk age 0-6 children brain synaptic closings on literacy and order will change everything.  You know it is important to get this right after 50 years of “reform”.

The Fortune 1000 has the “venture collateral” to insist that school districts innovate on a first things first basis with economic definitions of quality, internal and external customers, throughput, and total cost among other innovations so that our nation stops wasting the millions of lives per year needed to sustain and grow our future.  The market value of the Fortune 1000 exceeds $15 Trillion and dwarfs other sources of leverage to innovation.     

We want to listen to why the power so important to our future positive expectations will not:

1.        Issue the no cost challenge to school districts that leverage innovation and creates new venture money for schools  that in turn creates the $500,000 present value of positive expectation (PVofPE-Prek) in each at risk child at age 6.  Two million children, each year, need this positive expectation. In your business positive expectations drive everything.  

2.       Help the k-12 school districts with proven world changing innovation of FTFRTFT, Quality is Free, Constraint Management, Throughput Accounting, Total Cost Consideration and others.  Our free society has benefited from this in abundance, built one size fits one first things first, but suffers because high quality is only partially delivered.  The USA cry for high quality Literacy is Freedom  has only “you” in position to insist on 100%  initial delivery.  The final 30-80% of our population is proving to be a high quality challenge in varying degrees. In your business you insist on adequate attention to 100% of any capacity constraint at risk of not meeting the requirement.  The districts and all the age 0-6 children are at risk of low expectations right now. 75 future years depends on how they start now. 

3.       Insist the remedial dollar reach the most at risk of those at risk and at the same time patch the leaks to the 100% delivery process of ready to read, count and understand positive direction starting kindergarten.  In your business you would patch the leaks yesterday.  Early Reading Skills Delivered (ERSD-RA) as continuous improvement in the market will reroute the pre-k dollar to 100% delivery after you insist and prime the innovation with collateral so that it also creates New Money from old money. This is quite simple to execute.    

Again it is not about what we are doing.  It is about the leverage power that we are not using to prompt specific school districts to innovate and create positive expectations with the money already in the systems.  The money to first things first innovate is always within the system of interested paying clients. School districts are no exception. Repeating only you have the power to boost innovation for the most at risk.  The leaders who will not commit to real high quality processes when positioned with New Money are not the leaders for USA’s future. The Fortune 1000 proves every day that innovation creates money and “how” is relevant to every organization on earth. The Fortune 1000 has the key to how the front end creates the positive expectation.

I can assure you our needs are not in the area of hand outs, contributions or covering expected expenses.  We will not solicit your company until we listen for the specific fit, unless asked.  We think the fit will be win-win because your size still requires staying power in the USA built on first things first, trust and emotional intelligence.  Certainly literacy, freedom and order are required.   Every large company in the USA would benefit from urban economic growth because of education.   Real Eastate and smaller business might track to the economic benefits even sooner.

Consider this partial letter a pleading for the no choice discussion that would complete it.  When might I call? We want you to project and position the no choice positive expectations that spread from high quality leadership.  

Best regards,
Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram

President-  USA VALUES, LLC

mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com 

http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com and http://twitter.com/EEEEinNDC and

http://twitter.com/usavalues and https://twitter.com/tdwusavalues  and http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwolfgram

651-735-3018; Cell 612-968-1579

 

USA VALUES, LLC in the private sector working the public sector to a new commitment.

These two books published by the Hoover Institute are high quality thought processes supporting the realistic need for USA VALUES, LLC  in the private sector working the public sector to a new commitment.  This PDF publishing of the books is an outstanding introduction and we encourage you to read and buy the books understanding the leadership required for Early Reading Skills Delivered of the at risk -- to reduce business risk and increase the proficiency of the USA School System.

Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut, http://www.hoover.org/publications/books/8138 by Chester E. Finn Jr. AND, American Education in 2030,  http://www.hoover.org/publications/books/8123 by Hoover Institution's Task Force on K-12 education

Best regards,
Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram
President- USA VALUES, LLC

mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and http://www.usavaluescoupons.com and http://twitter.com/EEEEinNDC and

http://twitter.com/usavalues and https://twitter.com/tdwusavalues and http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwolfgram

651-735-3018; Cell 612-968-1579

USA VALUES, LLC -- Leadership in Early Reading Skills Delivered

2^nd Request

Only men and women of your position are powerful enough to direct conditional first things first public education money for our age 0-6 at risk.  The increased brain power capacity (synaptic closings) is the driver of innovation and savings in the 21^st century if you nudge district leaderships to capture this for our nation before it is lost.

You do not want or need the power but the positioning to create this nudge already exists in the private sector innovation outside of the schoolhouses, courthouses, federal and statehouses.  Your encouragement of the leaders to commit to first things first would be appreciated by the grassroots. Business and organizations already have the issue somewhat surrounded.  100% ready to read, count and understand positive direction starting kindergarten is first thing first possible, opens many other possibilities and will change everything.

 USA VALUES, LLC – Early Reading Skills Delivered First Things First

Certainly the talk about growth versus tax, debt versus equity, and private versus the government is only talk- with  meaningful confidence in growth being marginalized at the start by so much that is partisan and not first things first.  Here is a no choice new way from the first step that is not marginalized, and I hope you let me talk to you about it.  This design captures power to influence school superintendents to innovate.  It has a role for every business organization in the country.
 

USA VALUES, LLC is a start up business of equity leverage products and services in local business with social attention to the most at risk who should want opportunity.  Value starts by driving the economics (not contributions) of 100% readiness for kindergarten.  There are alignments that create new money from commitment, but in the end they are quite simply courage, commitment, early reading skills and grassroots math leading to STEM.  

Local school districts and other schools see simple new money and the simple increase in proficiency from its commitment to 100% ready to read kindergarten starts. Schools, the pre-k silo, the most at risk and all of us benefit.  Voids exist because governments are just not designed to deliver earlier in a one size fits one mode.  Yet districts need a way to get as close to 100% delivery as possible with back up by the most committed.

Local, national and multi-national business see this as a non-cash hand up drive to grow economics, education, emotions and ethics without a tax increase.   The concepts of positive expectation, value, first things first, equity, high quality leverage and risk are applied within simple products and service.  No choice courage to innovate turns to leadership staging.  Position the K-12 schools to really reach the most at risk to avoid the gap in the first place.  What would our nation look like without the education gap at age 6 for the money in the system today.   Your leadership could be so much more than a public service message.  

 This is a federal, state and local government budget issue of growth delivered by the private sector.  More proficiency, individualism and new money are created without tax increases.   Public policy change to help this innovation of public education is not significant, but would be helpful.  

Commitment to readiness is really critical driving new money

You and the Fortune 1000 have the character to fully understand this new way leaving our early childhood education partisanship behind and quickly creating the first things first maximization of positive expectations.  Every problem would look different in this 21^st century with 100% reading readiness.  Uniquely we are selling the delivery of the public service message product and service alignment from a private sector base so that 100% readiness actually solves problems, funded by innovation and required savings. Every organization inside the locational scope of the school district will be helped immediately by your positioning.  Real estate and smaller business might track to benefits first.  

Please call me or email me so we can quickly develop understanding of this.  I am prepared to show how no choice no cash is “banked” to create school district commitment to new positive expectations.  It is unique, very important and actually stands as the base of STEM.  Traditional contributions are not used in this program designed to self fund and replicate in the private sector.      
 

Best regards,
Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram

President-  USA VALUES, LLC

mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com 

http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com and http://twitter.com/EEEEinNDC and

http://twitter.com/usavalues and https://twitter.com/tdwusavalues  and http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwolfgram

651-735-3018; Cell 612-968-1579

 PS- The PDF publishing of these books create an outstanding introduction of issues, please read and buy the books to reduce societal and business risk and increase the proficiency of the USA School System. Use these concepts to transfer power to those committed.  First thing first  is important to each and every growth economic, education, emotions and ethics solution. 

Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut, http://www.hoover.org/publications/books/8138 by Chester E. Finn Jr. AND, American Education in 2030,  http://www.hoover.org/publications/books/8123 by Hoover Institution's Task Force on K-12 education

These two books published by the Hoover Institute are Socratic high quality thought processes informally supporting the realistic need for USA VALUES, LLC.; starting the private sector alignment of expectations and values to a new commitment.

Is It Time Yet? Imagine Yourself a 3 Year Old At Risk Child

Before you read this blog, imagine you are a 3 year old at risk child and your mother is going to deliver you to kindergarten NOT ready to read and there is nothing you can do about it.  And you understand the investment to get ready has been talked about (in design) by the powerful for 20 years, but the design is so expensive it makes the mountain climb ahead even more formidable and the leadership willing to do anything but first things first, in front of all that money spent K-12, that would not be needed, if you were ready.   Who steps in with a hand up to ME?  In 2 short years your going to teach me to help my neighbor, right?  It might look like a hand out to mom, but to me, the rest of my life might hinge on it.  There are 2,000,000 kids like me. 

What is my economic ready or not?  It is at least $500,000 according to John Grisham who is known to “get it”!  That is a trillion dollars of future growth a year, or not.   Why don’t you write the ending, or the beginning.  Keep it short and we can publish it.  But, remember there are 2,000,000 just like me next year and per year after that.  Our GDP is stuck at 15 trillion dollars and appears to say my growth is not a positive expectation; is not wanted; literacy is not freedom unless delivered overseas; quality is not free, and a half trillion dollar ROI on cost of 30 billion is not good enough. 

If you think I am out to lunch, say so.  Be polite, it is a blog with many links to positive expectations.

Thomas Wolfgram,
President USA VALUES,LLC, 651-735-3018, tdw.usavalues@q.com

Schools and Government - We the People

Schools and Government Greeting Card -- We the People

Greetings to each and every School District Leadership

We position local school districts to influence business and organizations to provide initial leverage required to do first things first. 

We suggest tweaks to the public systems will energize a focus on 100%, without capacity constraint, and create proficient students who graduate; are resilient and resourceful; characterized by positive expectations. 

You know Early Literacy is Freedom!  Your district would be changed forever if 100% of the children arrived ready to read before kindergarten. 

You will want to know how we plan to present this because the whole of the plan is unique even though nothing is new. 

Please call me and I will walk you through the links and what is first things first in ten minutes.

1. We must start with the end in mind. http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/end-in-mind.html

2.  At risk mom and child must understand the importance.  The PSM is:

"Delivery of early reading skills is a Critical Gift. Without this Gift,
all children are behind before they start kindergarten.  Business wants to make certain this is understood and help exists if mom needs it."  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com/

3.  When at risk mom and child ask for help the school district must deliver the help without delay or else the most at risk mom will disappear.  The new money for new deliver is discussed here. Schools Can't get to 100% readiness if the most at risk don't believe and stay focused on the help.  The basic is so very important, who do they trust?http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/Arguments.html  

4. New Money is available.  The worst case just needs the commitment to pay it back in your time.  Business will leverage unused assets to start the loan process and will help, if needed, with high quality change managment of constraints to generate the needed innovation and savings to pay back the loan.  FTFRTFT gives the systems a new positive expectation.  Really -- Leadership should not delay the start past the understanding of this.  http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/Early_Reading.html

USA VALUES, LLC President, Thomas Wolfgram commented, "It is important to develop access to new money for school districts without new taxes for new early reading skills delivered to our most at risk children before kindergarten. USA VALUES clarifies the concepts of first things first right the first time (FTFRTFT) and the present value of positive expectations from pre-k (PVofPE-Prek) to create the new money in an Early Reading Skills Delivered process (ERSD-RA) .”

"Importantly; FTFRTFT, PVofPE-Prek and ERSD-RA can be used to create new money with innovation and requirements."

The requirement of pre-k ready to read, count and understand positive direction (ERSD-RA) before kindergarten has the potential to change everything about the education and poverty gaps. http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and http://www.usavaluescoupons.com.  The “system” to complete the delivery of early reading skills to all young children (age 0-6) as a start in life is strong for some and weak for others. It is exactly the wrong place to have a weak system for the weakest. USA VALUES would clarify the interest and influence of the school district’s spending to be proficient starting kindergarten and as a follow on to the kindergarten ready start.

Thomas Wolfgram
President - USA VALUES, LLC 651-735-3018 tdw.usavalues@q.com

 

Business Greeting Card -- Enjoy Your Freedom

Greetings to each and every business and organization in the USA.

We position business of all sizes to influence from all levels, the local school district's attitude about constraints to do first things first. 

We suggest tweaks to the public systems will restart, within present funding leverage, local districts focus on 100% of age 0-6 at risk children, and mothers with literacy mentors to create proficient students who graduate; demonstrating resiliency and positive expectations when necessary.    

You know Early Literacy is Freedom!  And, expensive beyond recovery when missed.

You will want to know how we plan to present this because the whole of the plan is unique even though nothing is new. 

Please call me and I will walk you through the links and what is first things first in ten minutes.

1. We must start with the end in mind. http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/end-in-mind.html

2.  At risk mom and child must understand the importance.  The PSM is:
 
"Delivery of early reading skills is a Critical Gift. Without this Gift,
all children are behind before they start kindergarten.  Business wants to make certain this is understood and help exists if mom needs it."  http://www.usavaluescoupons.com/


3.  When at risk mom and child ask for help the school district must deliver the help without delay or else the most at risk mom will disappear.  The new money for new deliver is discussed here. Schools Can't get to 100% readiness if the most at risk don't believe and stay focused with the help.  The basic is so very important, who do they trust?
http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/Arguments.html  

USA VALUES, LLC President, Thomas Wolfgram commented, "It is important to develop access to new money for school districts without new taxes for new early reading skills delivered to our most at risk children before kindergarten. USA VALUES clarifies the concepts of first things first right the first time (FTFRTFT) and the present value of positive expectations from pre-k (PVofPE-Prek) to create the new money in an Early Reading Skills Delivered process (ERSD-RA) .”

"Importantly; FTFRTFT, PVofPE-Prek and ERSD-RA can be used to create new money with innovation and requirements."

The requirement of pre-k ready to read, count and understand positive direction (ERSD-RA) before kindergarten has the potential to change everything about the education and poverty gaps. http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/ and http://www.usavaluescoupons.com.  The “system” to complete the delivery of early reading skills to all young children (age 0-6) as a start in life is strong for some and weak for others. It is exactly the wrong place to have a weak system. USA VALUES would clarify the interest and influence of the school district’s spending to be proficient starting kindergarten and as a follow on to the kindergarten ready start.

Thomas Wolfgram
President - USA VALUES, LLC 651-735-3018 tdw.usavalues@q.com



 

 

 

 

Our Request of Powerful School Districts, Government and Business

http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/Business_Survey.html

http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/support-files/survey.pdf

We ask the powerful in the schools, government, and business to take our survey so we can be assured they understand how important they are to the age 3-6 at risk children.  At risk is defined to be those that will in the opinion of Mom show up for kindergarten not ready to read, count and understand positive direction.

We link to the Survey, It has Business, School and Veteran components.

We list the organizations we have asked to take the survey

We call this a cloud grip because it is published on line as a part of our blog sites, in the cloud

Call Tom Wolfgram at 651-735-3018 or email him from the web site links

    

Beyond No Child Left Behind, and More Time Without The Children

Interesting articles on teacher development (time away from the children), failure measured by No Child Left Behind, which leaves us no choice but to change the measurements and “inputs” top down rather than clarify them.  Collectively we have many opinions about many aspects that are just simply NOT FTFRTFT.  That is we are not using first things first right the first time thinking. 

Just about every educator knows to avoid the gap (the subject of all this discussion) we need to spend the money first things first, before kindergarten to avoid the gap in the children.  We need to deliver language learning when the brain is most sensitive to it.

Just about every businessman does not want to spend more money in total with added earlier delivery but would consider lending it if it were paid back and schools committed in a massive way to deliver 100% ready via outsource so they could restructure based on a positive change in the input.   If they have a successful business of any size they have learned how to save based on better inputs in the last 30-40 years.  This site is about that kind of adapted thinking for schools and business in support of a bridge loan to facilitate that commitment.  http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com

There are several questions where truthful answers would lead to FTFRTFT change activity.  There are many professional organizations that could lead the questions to truthful answers right after leadership takes FTFRTFT to heart and does it.  Does it first and not something else;  manageably sinking the boats of alternatives by deciding that plan A and if needed plan B must, must include 100% of the children starting kindergarten ready to read count and understand positive direction as needed by the school district.  Many positives follow from fighting the battle earlier and earlier with no boats to get away from failure.  They include proficiency against higher standards, savings to pay back money spent in earlier delivery, innovation, individualized education, more technology, and more development outside of classrooms.  

These questions have to be answered by our leaders and teachers.  The Goal is more proficiency throughput (completions) with less total cost and less in process education.  Yes or No?  Bottlenecks, dependent demand and variability work against throughput.  Asking the questions of -- What to change first?, What to change to? and How to change? -- will simply get the decision makers to FTFRTFT.  It is very important to not waste changes that will change again when we finally get to changing first things first. 

Please keep in mind if there is no gap at kindergarten and no gap at 3^rd grade that everything will change based on just that.  It is scientific within the individual child, teacher, principal and every organization.  To learn more about these adapted parts to continuous improvement making high quality free go here.  http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/support-files/adaptedknowledge.pdf

 Thomas Wolfgram

USA VALUES, LLC –

Owner of a Positive Expectation Idea