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How to ensure Biden's climate-focused transportation plans turn out sustainable and equitable

The Biden administration's recently released American Jobs Plan proposes to use infrastructure investment to help address climate change, while creating jobs and mitigating racial and economic inequities in the United States....

source: The Hill

Where every kid needs lunch, school fights to feed them all

Most mornings, children are waiting beside the road with arms outstretched by the time driver Brian Hall pulls up in the decades-old yellow school bus. As he pulls away, the bus creaking along toward his next stop on winding dirt roads, they already are breaking the plastic...

source: ABC News

The Fight Over Schools Reopening: Understanding and Mitigating the Risks

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source: NAPT

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Research: A little recognition can provide a big morale boost

As we enter into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline public sector workers such as healthcare professionals, teachers, and social workers are under more strain than ever. At the same time, organizations in every industry...

source: Harvard Business Review

Post-pandemic times will demand a new brand of leadership. Will you step up?

One of the most common misconceptions in any organization is that leadership is associated with particular roles and only certain titles. Once you reach a specific rung on the proverbial corporate ladder or get that coveted promotion...

source: Entrepreneur

Beat a bad day with these simple steps

Have you ever just felt like your lousy day would never end? Maybe things haven't gone as you planned, and you feel like your bad luck is relentless. Bad days are never fun. Defining a bad day can look very different — anything can trigger bad days, whether it's a...

source: Forbes

How to respond skillfully to the three types of failure

The most instructive moment in organizational life is failure. Success teaches you to repeat things, but responsible failure turns on the lights.

source: Leadership Freak

The 1 thing to remember before you start a difficult conversation

You might think that successful, charismatic business leaders who talk to people every day can speak to anyone about anything. They appear to confidently start conversations with their employees about poor performance, their customers...

source: Inc.

How leaders can orchestrate better, more productive conversations

Andre Keil, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "A while back, I called an important meeting. I'd been wanting to implement a technology solution for a long-standing problem, and, finally, I had all the stakeholders together. I presented...

source: Forbes (commentary)

3 tools to help leaders steady their teams during a transition

When we experience a big change, we need support to help us make it to the other side. Developmental psychology, and particularly the seminal work of D.W. Winnicott, offers a way to do this: through transitional objects. These objects —...

source: Harvard Business Review

Biden says schools are on track to open as promised, but will kids go?

During his first news conference, President Biden said Thursday that his administration is on track to keep a promise he made to the nation's parents and caregivers: to reopen the majority of elementary and middle schools for full-time,...

source: NPR

7 predictions about fall back-to-school with COVID

When schools across the country started shutting down in-person instruction in March of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 virus, much of the nation focus turned to the impact on students. Educators, parents, stakeholders, and policymakers still wonder if remote learning is...

source: eSchool News

'You can't follow CDC guidelines': What schools really look like during COVID-19

Since the fall, research has shown that schools can operate safely during the ongoing pandemic — as long as schools take precautions such as universal masking, distancing, and contact tracing to stop the virus' spread. And...

source: Education Week

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Research: A little recognition can provide a big morale boost

Post-pandemic times will demand a new brand of leadership. Will you step up?

Beat a bad day with these simple steps

How to respond skillfully to the three types of failure

The 1 thing to remember before you start a difficult conversation

How leaders can orchestrate better, more productive conversations

3 tools to help leaders steady their teams during a transition

Biden says schools are on track to open as promised, but will kids go?

7 predictions about fall back-to-school with COVID

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