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Parent, Educator, Author Dan Blanchard the Award Winning Author and Speaker, two-time Junior Olympian Wrestler, and two-time Junior Olympian Wrestling Coach who grew up as a student-athlete. Dan admits that as a youth he was more of an athlete than a student. Since then, Dan has successfully completed twelve years of college and has earned seven degrees. He teaches Social Studies in Connecticut’s largest inner-city high school. In addition, Dan is a Teacher Consultant for the University of Connecticut’s Connecticut Writing Project. He was chosen by the American Federation of Teachers as their face and voice of educational reform. Dan has authored the two dynamic teen leadership books, Feeling Lucky? and Feeling Good. His third book of the Granddaddy’s Secrets series, Feeling Strong! will be out next winter. As an educator, coach, author, and speaker Dan feels that it is his duty to positively influence our youth every chance that he gets! He lives with his wife, Jennifer, their five children, and family dog, Daisy.

Book Marketing For Authors Blog 5- Building Relationships and Networking

Building Relationships and Networking One of the easiest ways to build relationships and build your network is to do favors for others. Psychologists have even done studies that show when you do a favor for someone or let them do a favor for you, it builds a stronger bond between the two parties. And anyone […]

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Every One of Us has the Right to Make Some Money through Writing It doesn’t matter what we do for employment. We don’t have to be an author. We don’t even have to be a good writer… I’m not… No matter what we do for a living, we can still write about it and make

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 37)

Blog 37 Week 12 Regular Sophomore Season Well, this is the last week of the regular wrestling season. This upcoming weekend we will compete in the Class “L” State Tournament. Then the season will be officially over for most of our team. Only a few of our wrestlers will place high enough to extend their

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Blog 36 Week 11 Regular Sophomore Season Well, it’s getting into the second week of February, and wrestling season is winding down. Monday and Tuesday’s practices were pretty typical. The wrestlers did a bunch of spinning, some drilling, some stretching, and then some live wrestling. Then they did some more spinning followed by sprints to

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 34)

Blog 34 Week 9 of Regular Sophomore Season It’s Monday again. And guess what? I missed wrestling practice today. Near the end of my workday of teaching, I got a call from my wife. She and my daughter were at an urgent care center and that they were being sent to the Connecticut Children’s Hospital

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