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Exploring teacher professional learning opportunities at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution offers many free professional learning opportunities for teachers, often held during the summer.
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Analysis
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.
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
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.
Sponsored
QLC SSDs deliver on capacity, performance and cost
Post is sponsored by Solidigm. Today, more data is being created, stored and analyzed than ever before. As workloads become more read-intensive, many storage...
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.
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.
Communication
Be long on patience when new workers are short on skills
New-to-the-workforce people whose schooling was interrupted by the pandemic may be short on skills. Here's how leaders can be address the gaps.
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.
Consumer Insights
What generation shifts mean for predicting food trends
Food preferences can change drastically between generations, and industry professionals need to know their customers in order to effectively market to them.
Marketing
How to conduct a mid-year marketing checkup
Mid-year marketing checkups are essential. After the challenging past six months we've faced, that's especially true. It's time to assess your overall B2B marketing health and strategies. SmartBrief's B2B demand gen marketing team explains how to do it.
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.
Marketing
Why financial brands must now take bigger risks
The Shipyard’s Lauren Arnold details three forward-leaning strategies that financial brands must take for their marketing to get noticed.
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.
Infrastructure
Tackling the Complexity of Sustainability Data
Data is the linchpin of corporate sustainability, so learn more about how companies like Deloitte, Amazon and FedEx are gathering and disseminating sustainability data.
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.
Sponsored
Solidigm and Supermicro execs discuss SSD density
This post is sponsored by Solidigm As workloads evolve and become more data intensive, storage architects can no longer design for worst-case scenarios or...
CPG
What is driving candy and snack purchases?
Inflation and product innovation were some of the key topics at this year’s Sweets & Snacks Expo organized by the National Confectioners Association.
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.
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.
Travel
Part 2: How to serve conference and expo business travelers
The conference and expo business traveler segment is diverse, covering personas ranging from sales “road warriors” to the C-suite and age ranges from millennials, zillenials and Gen Zers to Gen X and Boomers.
Infrastructure
How Wendy’s Cooks Up More Sustainable Dining
Liliana Esposito, chief corporate affairs and sustainability officer at Wendy's, discusses the company's annual Corporate Responsibility Report and outlines numerous sustainability initiatives the Queen of QSR has embraced.
Edtech
Edtech 2023: SmartBrief Readers’ Choice Awards
From classroom management to professional development to reading and literacy, SmartBrief readers chose their favorite platforms and solutions.
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.
Leadership
Senior leaders’ top 5 culture concerns
Five culture concerns are top of mind for many leaders including how to create wellbeing and inclusivity, says S. Chris Edmonds.
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.
Workforce
5 characteristics of high-performance organizations
Boost employee performance by building trust, providing critical feedback and recognition as well as opportunities for growth, writes Cyndi Wenninghoff.
Sponsored
What you think you know about QLC SSDs might cost you
This post is sponsored by Solidigm. Tech leaders need every advantage to manage vast data volumes in ways that keep customers, end-users, and CFOs...
Workforce
Build a culture of respect to end office drama
Building a culture of respect can take time, but the payoff is worth it as productivity and employee retention increases, says S. Chris Edmonds.
Sponsored
How AI can personalize the shopping experience
How ecommerce retailers use AI to improve customer satisfaction.
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.
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.
Food
Off-premises dining will continue to help restaurants grow in 2023
The takeout and delivery sales that helped many restaurants weather pandemic shutdowns will continue to play an important role in post-pandemic recovery, according to the National Restaurant Association’s 2023 State of the Industry report.
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.
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.
Commentary
The far reach of near peers
Enlisting those close in age and experience -- near peers -- may be schools’ greatest hope for scaling support and guidance to help students.
Leadership
3 ways leaders can build employee loyalty
Leaders can increase employee loyalty by offering flexibility, respect and validation, says S. Chris Edmonds.
Travel
Part 1: How to serve today’s digital nomad and bleisure travelers
From hotel and lodging to air travel, digital nomads and bleisure travelers are impacting business travel in ways being felt across the board.