A new partnership between the Topeka Housing Authority and the Greater Topeka Foundation will help Topekans in the Pine Ridge community in southeast community.
The two organizations on Friday afternoon held a ribbon-cutting for the Topeka Housing Authority Empowerment Center, a business incubator in a renovated former lawn mower maintenance building next to Pine Ridge Partnership.
Four businesses Sheena Simms Tutus and Tennis Shoes Daycare, Heather Crowley s Scrumptious Sweets bakery, Nakeisha Bryant s Kidz Trapp mobile entertainment service and Mario Wright s home repair and handyman service will anchor the business incubator to start.
As those businesses become successful and eventually find their own spaces, other members of the community will be able to start their own businesses in the incubator space.
When Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 first considered using the Quantum Learning professional development system for teachers years ago, Laura Hurla asked the school board to think back to their years as students and remember who their favorite teachers were.
Hurla, now an instructional coach at Berryton Elementary, asked the board to go a little further than just those teachers names and to think about what it was that made those teachers their favorite. Most likely, those teachers were doing these strategies that we re including in Quantum Learning, Hurla said.
Now, after a year of shifting learning strategies to accommodate COVID-19 while following the concepts set out in the teacher training program, Berryton is the first school in the U.S. to achieve the program s Quantum Learning School designation.
Jack Arnold had been just some geeky track kid his freshman year when track coach Brad Nicks challenged him with YOGOWYPI.
Or in other words, the phrase You only get out what you put in, but in an acronym that has just enough vowels to work as a word, too. He was just a motivating individual, and he saw potential in me and told me that I had it, where other people might not have cared as much for some geeky track kid, Arnold said. But him telling me I had that potential really motivated me to use every bit of that potential that I had and always work at getting better.