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Mark

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About Me

Living, learning, and serving in the worlds of education, business, non-profits, community development, and personal development. Serving in lots of ways---as an executive, board member, consultant, speaker, author, researcher, and teacher. If you need more, here's the bio: www.markmilliron.com

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My Blog

We Want You to Learn: The Education Imperatives

from the Catalytic Conversations BlogIf youve been working in the education field for some time, youre used to hearing the imperatives. They are supported by compelling arguments about why education...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:20:00 GMT

Joe the Governor

From Catalytic Conversations Blog For all the talk about Joe the Plummer in the last few weeks, it was the commentary of another JoeJoe the Governorthat impressed me.As Governor Joe Manchin III of ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:31:00 GMT

Waking the Fire

We're in to campfires. Our family and friends love to get a fire going, cook out, roast marshmallows, tell ghost stories--the whole thing.Everyone seems to have a theory about camp fires. They tell y...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:33:00 GMT

Are You a Life Entrepreneur?

From: http://catalyticconversations.blogspot.com I love this new book: Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. It's written by Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek. Many o...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:02:00 GMT

Shoes

I just returned from a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Western Governors University (WGU). The meeting was held in conjunction with their February graduation ceremony. WGU is an interesting story...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:13:00 GMT

Transcendence and Education

During one of the catalytic conversations I often hold during consulting visits at colleges, we started talking about transcendence and education. One teacher commented that, for a minute, she thought...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:49:00 GMT

Motivating Education

Watching a group of Scottish college students talk about the importance of their motivation was interestingand pretty funny at times. It seems that access to food has a lot to do with instruction...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:50:00 GMT

The Blog Site Address

Here's the Blog site: catalyticconversations.blogspot.com
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:50:00 GMT