Free Educational Topics in Chicago

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  Demonstrating and Teaching Mental Math Methods

  Cliff Petrak, Retired Teacher, Brother Rice High School

  Learn to master a multitude of little-known, super-shortcut computational methods involving addition, subtraction, fractions, squaring and multiplication. Unfortunately, our country consistently finishes among the bottom third of industrialized countries in the annual mental math competition for students. Learning these strategies and methods will leave your calculator-dependent friends in the dust!

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  Get it SOLD with Home Staging

  GraceAnn Simoni, President & Premier Home Stager, Staging Redesign Group Inc.

  Selling your home now or in the future. When you’re ready to put you house on the market will you know where to start? Do you think the Realtor will do everything for you? Does the thought of getting your home ready for the buyer’s critical eye scare you? Are you willing to take a price reduction rather than investing a little into the house? MORE >

  Staging a home results in fewer days on the market and a higher selling price. Be one step ahead of the competition. Learn how to stage your home today! Get it ready now before even calling the Realtor!

  What can be done to get your house ready for little or no money?
  From the curb to the back door!
  What home Staging is and what it is not.
  What are buyers in this market looking for in their new home?
  How to shorten the time on the market and get the best offers.

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  Our Antiquated Electoral College

  Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible

  Learn why we elect the US president via the Electoral College, how our Electoral College damages our demcoracy - and what we can do about it.

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  Increasing Political Polarization and what we can do about it

  Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible

  Every decade, increasing gerrymandering has created more and more "safe seats", which have resulted in more and more extreme legislators on both sides of the aisle - creating a legislature where compromise is impossible, and very little legislative progress ensures. This presentation shows why this happens, and what we can do about it, using the recent example of the Alaska special election, utilizing a nonpartisan primary and a ranked choice voting general election, as an example of how to promote more moderate legislators and a more productive legislature. MORE >

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  How To Think and Act Decisively!

  Will (William) Ramey, President, ABBA Teaching Institute

  A leader that is respected by his peers demonstrates phenomenal qualities. Normally a leader that garners such attention is respected in and outside of the organization in which they lead. My program will show leaders the various leadership styles available then help them craft an effective leadership style. MORE >

  Participants will learn: the four common leadership styles, surefire solutions to end timid behavior, and several reasons leaders fail at decisiveness.

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  School board disinformation

  Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible

  Our public school boards are under attack. Responsible school board members are being threatened, and reasonable school policies are being dismantled. We'll help you understand why, who is doing it, and what we can do about it.

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  The Medicare Puzzle: Do You Know Your A, B, C, & D’s ?

  Tom Kedzie CFP®, MBA, Financial Planner, RetireWell

  In this presentation you will learn:

  * How Medicare enrollment periods work and how to avoid late penalties.
  * What you can expect to pay after going on Medicare.
  * What Medicare covers and doesn't cover.
  * Why you must plan for higher health care costs in retirement.
  * What about Long Term Care?

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  What’s an Assault Weapon, and why are they so deadly?

  Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible

  There's been a lot of discussion lately about tighter regulations on assault weapons like the AR-15. If we are going to regulate these weapons, we will need a legal definition describing them. And instead of a definition that depends upon specific configurations or cosmetic appearance, we propose a definition based on the factors that make this class of weapons so deadly. MORE >

  This presentation focuses on the development of this class of weapons, the factors that make them so deadly, and how we can use those factors to legally define an "assault weapon" for future regulation thereof.

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  Career Readiness Before College

  Georgia Koch, Community Outreach Coordinator, Career Vision

  College planning is not just for college but for career planning as well. Believe it or not, sophomore year of high school is not too early to start. Georgia will show audiences why.

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  Raising Innovative Children

  Stephen A. Di Biase, Ph.D., President, Premier Insights, LLC.

  "10 Secrets for Raising Innovative Children" describes what parents can do to help their children build upon their natural tendencies to be innovative while offering a buffer to the potential damage they'll experience when they begin their formal education at age 5. There is significant evidence that from age 5 to age 20 the typical person experiencing the traditional US educational system will lose almost all of their capabilities for being innovative. MORE >

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