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As we start a new school year, it is once again an opportunity (rushed though it may be) to reflect upon changes we can make as we move ahead.  One of the challenges to making a change is not knowing what has been tried and tested by others before us. That’s why my focus for the newsletters and this year’s “Reading Group” will be on research. I actually stole the idea from an acquaintance who is a bioinformatician at the Mayo Center in Rochester.  He once told me of a Data Blitz that a cross-disciplinary group of researchers completed about once a month.   The group of thinkers, representing a number of different scientific fields, would come together and browse through the hundreds of recently published research studies. Each member of the group would vet a few studies that looked to be worthy of study, present them to the group, and then they would vote on which ones to read and discuss more deeply.   Within the culture at Mayo, this type ...