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Middle Schoolers Kick Off the School Year With Goal-Setting Pep Talk

Teachers and special guests talk to Reuther Middle School crowd about the importance of goals.

For a gymnasium full of Rochester middle schoolers on Tuesday, back to school meant back to goal-setting.

learned about goals loud and clear during a back-to-school afternoon assembly.

Teachers from Reuther, along with a few special guests, talked to students about the importance of setting goals in their personal lives, in education and in relationships with friends and family.

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Amy Hoekstra, a math teacher and seventh grade girls basketball coach, gave a math lesson on kindness:

If you're awake for 14 hours per day, or 840 minutes, and the average smile lasts one minute, it would only take .1 percent of your waking hours to brighten up someone else's day, Hoekstra said.

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That's a lesson we should all incorporate into our daily lives, she said.

Other examples were delivered by professors, coaches, and student athletes from and to enforce the lessons being taught by Reuther's faculty.

A perfect example: Stephan Henning. Henning graduated from Reuther and before being recruited to play basketball at Rochester College on a scholarship.  

Henning told students about the importance of his teammates, friends and family when it came to achieving his goals to continue his education and basketball career.

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