Mommy Power: The Recession Breaker

By Author: Ida Byrd-Hill
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While everyone looks to Corporate America for ideas to break the recession, mommies world wide have the ability to change the workforce of the future and today. We raise our children from kindergarten to college. We prepare them for the workforce, right or wrong. We can either tolerate the sad state of American schools that rank 21st amongst industrial nations or we can demand schools transform to prepare students to compete globally.

Businesses have been having major discussions of how to improve education and communities without mommy input despite the fact we are grooming the workforce of the future. But whats more amazing, we actually have the power turn school and community complaints into solutions.

As mommies we have an instinctual need to protect and provide for our brood. Insult and offend our children and we turn from mild mannered professional into a monster ready to destroy the world. Our children already think we are Superwomen. We arrange events and parties with ease. We solve their unimaginable problems every day. We run comfortable and peaceful homes. We provide for their dreams ...
... financially. Extend your mommy power beyond your household to your children school and community. If we harnessed this mommy power, we have a natural ability to change the world, states Ida Byrd-Hill.

Ida Byrd-Hill was highlighted in the Essence Magazine article, Helping Our Children Achieve Children, for her 9 years of advocacy to improve education. As a mother of twins, Kevin and Karen Hill, she harnessed her mommy power to improve the schools her children attended and hence the improvement of her community. Excerpted from the article, Byrd-Hill is the very personification of Detroit refusal to surrender. A divorced mother who founded her own school for at-risk students, she represents the sort of ground-level involvement that was the bedrock of civil rights battles nationwide. If you are willing to fight and you have a group that is willing to fight with you, you can get anything you want, she says. Read more of the Essence Magazine article at Uplift, Inc. website.

Here is her track record:

Detroit School of Arts 2008-2009

Instituted Integrating Math and Science in Every Day Life workshop series
Served as Evening/Weekend tutor Carnegie Math Credit Recovery Algebra/Geometry
MME Math proficiency increased to 17.58% from 12.70%
MME Science proficiency increased to 27.27% from 23.53%

Hustle - TECHknow Preparatory High School 2006-2007

Created unique English class to solve illiteracy problem
Class moved schools’ collective Lexile Reading grade level from 4.2 to 7.8
Sent three quarter finalist to the National Vocabulary Championship
80% graduation rate, 100% postsecondary matriculation
Educational Program of the Year 2007, Automation Alley

Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music and Art 2005- 2006

Orchestrated merger of two existing Detroit Public Schools.
Increased Middle School MEAP scores to 84% in Reading from 44%
Enhanced teacher/parent partnership
Increased parent involvement at home and at school

Hanstein Elementary 2002-2004

Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores to 78% in Reading from 28% in Reading and
Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores to 69.1% in Math from 39.1% in Math
Enhanced teacher/parent partnership
Increased parent involvement at home and at school

She believes every parent, urban, suburban and rural, has the same ability to change their schools, communities and our economy as we raise our children, the future workforce. Whatever complaints you have, do not run from them, dig your heels in and fight. Exercise your mommy power.

Imagine the impact of our economy if every mother exercised our mommy power. Schools would prepare eighty (80%) percent of students for college. In today economy most jobs require a college degree, whether it is an associate, bachelor or master. College educated students would be ready those 21st century jobs. Companies would employ our students at high income levels. Our students would spend their income locally and then local economies would grow and expand.

Tired of the recession and struggling financially? Tired of poor performing schools. Exercise your mommy power and join Ida Byrd-Hill in the largest workforce revolution ever. Go to www.upliftinc.org and click on the Jetson Workforce Revolution Army link.
About Author:
Ida Byrd-Hill is President of Uplift, Inc., www.upliftinc.org, a 501 (c) 3 non profit Idea Incubator and an teen advocacy firm. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and 17 years of experience as a Financial Advisor, Executive Search Consultant and Human Resources Coordinator has prepared her to create ideas to revolutionize education.