I wrote several articles for the Zenoss Core Community Newsletter. Because open source communities tend to be a little less buttoned down than corporate sites, I was able to write in a looser, more playful fashion than I typically do. [Read more]
Newsletter: Overcoming Obstacles
February 14, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Overcoming Obstacles is a non-profit educational reform organization that helps at-risk adolescents learn “the communication, decision-making, and goal-setting skills they need to be successful in life.”
In 2006, Overcoming Obstacles needed someone to write and edit its Summer newsletter, which featured stories about the Plainfield, NJ public school system’s adoption of OO’s character education program and about a nursing professor designed a practicum for her upper-level students to teach fifth graders life skills that would help these kids negotiate the pressures they would soon face in middle school.