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In an effort to showcase the work Human Restoration Project does each day, we maintain a log of our internal tasks:

September 7, 2025

Processed payment for Iowa Registered Agent fee.

September 7, 2025

Removed AI-generated content from website pages and replaced with original content.

September 5, 2025

Sent out invitations for upcoming TCLC meetings.

September 5, 2025

Worked on the AWRI bussing grant application.

September 5, 2025

Contacted Dan at Luge regarding the DG project.

September 5, 2025

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September 4, 2025

Created a short video introduction for RP6.

September 1, 2025

Conducted a podcast interview with Jennifer Klein.

August 27, 2025

Developed the 7th grade Open Valley portfolio introduction for teachers, which includes student editing components scheduled on alternating Fridays.

August 27, 2025

Sent email to RP7 regarding Wednesday meeting participation.

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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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