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AI is making networking and social skills more critical. Are your students prepared?
Social skills are a must for landing a job, but today's students lack the confidence to talk easily with adults. Here are ways to help.
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Infrastructure
How Companies Are Leveraging Solar-As-A-Service
Harald Overholm, the co-founder and CEO of Alight Energy walks us through current solar trends in the Nordics and the rest of Europe
Educational Leadership
Sizing up the summer
Learning to embrace the good during the bad is one of life's lessons that gives a more peaceful point of view.
Educational Leadership
Build relationships among educators to aid MTSS implementation
Build relationships among teachers and staff by connecting with them personally and finding ways for them to connect with each other.
Marketing
Sponsorship in a technological world
Since before the days when Blue Coal brought The Shadow’s adventures to radio listeners and Little Orphan Annie reminded kids to drink their Ovaltine,...
Digital Technology
Retail media: Why growth is moving off-site and in-store
Retail media is evolving fast – and Brandcrush’s Teresa Aprile details three key opportunities: in-store revival, off-site audiences and standards for measurement and process.
Workforce
Sexist humor at work is even more toxic than you thought
Sexist humor in the workplace may seem harmless, but new research shows it could undermine the careers of both men and women.
Educational Leadership
Approaching drastic changes
Acknowledging and welcoming change, then accepting that what is different may be the new normal, are important parts of leadership.
Infrastructure
Optimizing the Grid to Electrify Everything
3M's Terry Collier shares his insights on the latest technologies and strategies to bring more renewables online and enhance grid stability and resiliency.
Leadership
Advice on expanding overseas in uncertain times
Gavin O’Loughlin offers five steps for US companies seeking to expand their business to the European Union.
Insights
Making math more equitable by building up students’ math identity
The most powerful way to build true equity is to help students see themselves as math people.
Development
Something so right – the most powerful practice leaders can model and share
Taking a pause and collecting your thoughts can be one of the most powerful habits leaders can develop, writes Larry Robertson.
Travel
Part 3: How to serve client, supplier and stakeholder business travelers
Corporate travel is crucial to success, but COVID-19 and inflation have complicated matters. As the world slowly recovers, the pendulum is starting to swing back towards client, supplier and stakeholder business travel.
Commentary
We need more music and the arts, especially now
The sense of connection to others provided by the arts is a vital part of school for many students.
Digital Technology
How publishers can diversify revenue streams
For publishers to diversify their revenue streams, they have to know their audience and their content, before they can generate competition.
Leadership
The formula you need to manage stress
Stress can lead to poor productivity and affect your mental health, but Paul B. Thornton offers a formula for relief.
Leadership
Has your business model exceeded its shelf life?
Business models, like food, have a shelf life. Dave Coffaro offers strategies to refresh yours if some processes and policies now seem dated.
Leadership
There is no cruise control in leadership
It would be handy to be able to put our leadership on cruise control, but Steve McKee writes it's better to learn to handle the curves.
Marketing
What reading trends mean for content marketers
Here is a three-pronged approach for content marketers to develop copy and content to engage with readers and keep them coming back.
Edtech
4 ways to humanize your school-home communications
Video messages, social media and personalization via a school-home communications system have helped make stronger connections.
Educational Leadership
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
Healthcare
New option on the horizon for children with PANS
Pediatricians may have a new option for treating children with PANS
Educational Leadership
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
Sponsored
Four tips to engaging with your customers post-purchase
How to keep customers coming back for more after their initial purchase.
Workforce
Pass the popcorn to create a team effort
Moviemaking is a team effort, according to director Christopher Nolan, who acknowledges everyone from the stars to those who sell popcorn, writes John Baldoni.
Educational Leadership
Physical school safety changes we made after a shooting at our middle school
An Idaho superintendent shares lessons learned after a school shooting and changes made to enhance school safety.
Career-Technical Education
Offering prior learning credits helps increase earning power
Getting college credit for prior learning can help people slash thousands of dollars from tuition and reduce time needed to complete a degree.
Education
How classroom wellness practices help teachers, students
While teachers are not mental health professionals, they are the front line for supporting themselves and students with wellness practices.
Edtech
How AI and VR will enhance language learning beyond 2023
AI chatbots, ML algorithms and VR exchange programs are educational tools set to make language learning easier.
Social Media
Grow your profits and social impact with the “Influencer Effect”
Paul Katz explores how what he calls the “influencer effect” can help boost revenue, awareness and community support for brands.
Insights
Teacher strategies to address student stress and behavior
Teacher care and creativity can help address student stress and behavior by nurturing students while keeping classroom lessons moving.
Educational Leadership
Michele Borba: Thrivers are made not born
Education psychologist Michele Borba, in her keynote presentation at ASCD23, outlined seven ways educators can help nurture students’ resilience and teach them to thrive in school and life.
Educational Leadership
5 ways to design more inclusive learning experiences for students
Using Universal Design for Learning when developing courses helps ensure inclusive learning for students in college as well as K-12.
Education
National Teacher of the Year finalist: “Lean into those parts that you’re excited about”
High-school math teacher Rebecka Peterson, a finalist for the 2023 National Teacher of the Year, is Oklahoma's 2023 Teacher of the Year.
Sponsored
How AI can personalize the shopping experience
How ecommerce retailers use AI to improve customer satisfaction.
Communication
Leadership listening lessons from a music producer
The deep listening music producer Rick Rubin does improves his artists, and it offers lessons for leaders seeking to boost team performance, writes John Baldoni.
Education
National Teacher of the Year finalist: Alaskan village “unlike anything else in the world”
Frist-grade teacher Harlee Harvey of a rural village in Alaska is one of 5 finalists for the National Teacher of the Year.
Sponsored
Talk about close to home: What consumers expect from their furniture brands in 2023
A conversation with Jay Symonds, Head of Home & Sporting Goods Advertising at Amazon Ads.
Infrastructure
Farm-Powered Sustainability with John Hanselman from Vanguard Renewables
Learn how the agriculture sector is becoming more sustainable through the use of anaerobic digesters that take food waste and cow manure and turn it into products like natural gas, fertilizer, bedding for cows and cash for farmers.
Digital Technology
How to leverage marketing data automation in 2023
Data automation can breathe new life into that marketing data you’ve been collecting over the years, much of which is likely siloed and unorganized.
Insights
5 ways online arts education access supports all students
Fom instruction to tools to field trips, online arts education access is an equalizer that can make a lifetime of difference for students.
Food
What’s the big deal with small-format retail?
Whether it’s to fill a niche in suburban towns, plug into urban markets or meet the needs of college communities, many retailers – from traditional “big-box” to grocers and more – are adjusting their store models by shifting to smaller-format stores that occupy a fraction of the square footage of their traditional store models.