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About Jim Ott

Jim Ott has been a school psychologist with the Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency out of Bettendorf, Iowa, since 1984. He has served a variety of schools in rural Jackson County for his entire career. Jim is the co-founder of the City of Dubuque’s Circles Initiative, which is applying Bridges Out of Poverty Concepts at the community level through workshops, trainings, and Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World groups. Jim also presents Emotional Poverty workshops. He has been a national consultant with aha! Process since 2010.

New to aha! Process? Here’s your vocabulary cheat sheet!
New to aha! Process? Here’s your vocabulary cheat sheet!

New to aha! Process? Here’s your vocabulary cheat sheet!

Jim Ott2020-06-26T14:40:28-05:00November 6th, 2017|Inside aha! Process|

One of the most powerful aspects of the Framework and Bridges concepts is that t [...]

Podcast: Mindset, motivation, and the argument for change
Podcast: Mindset, motivation, and the argument for change

Podcast: Mindset, motivation, and the argument for change

Jim Ott2020-06-26T15:03:06-05:00May 26th, 2017|Community|

I often see Getting Ahead investigators go from feeling like they’re victims of [...]

Poverty Is a Context, Not an Excuse

Jim Ott2020-06-26T16:11:07-05:00October 11th, 2012|K-12 Schools|

The new school year has arrived and with it the opportunity for me to do a numbe [...]

Am I helping or not?

Jim Ott2020-06-26T16:17:37-05:00August 30th, 2012|Community|

I appreciated KD’s blog and story (August 2) and perspective on enabling, and Ma [...]