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Exam One –

Next Tuesday (9/23)���Syllabus Quiz closes

tomorrow night at 11:59pm

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My choices? �My life?

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Free choices shape our lives��AND��External factors shape our lives

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Giant sodas and

public health��Secondhand smoke

and public health

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William “Will” Okrafo-Smart�Director, Recruitment�Teach for America

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Household Income in Pennsylvania

U.S. Census - 2023

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PENNSYLVANIA

SCHOOL FUNDING��State – 38 percent�Federal – 4 percent�Local (property tax) – 58 percent

Pennsylvania School Boards Association, 2021

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Change Needs to Happen Now

Teach For America

Teacher Corps

(Post Grad Opportunity)

Application Deadline: October 20th

Ignite Fellowship (Spring Internship)

Application Deadline: November 19th

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Jeff asked on the �YouTube Live Stream Chat

“Sam, what is the key to happiness when you see

choice and chance?”

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Jennifer and Steven asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat

“How do we learn to keep trying after multiple failures?

How do you make a failure into a teacher instead of a dark place in your life?”

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Whopper from the Netherlands asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat

“Free Will and Determinism

is a western way of thinking

(focusing on social sciences).

How does daoism change

this way of thinking?

(Daoism: things in life happen because they are part of the natural process.)”

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Stephen from the UK asked

on the YouTube Live Stream Chat

“How many people do you think use their situation as an excuse for not achieving things?”