How to cultivate positive feedback
- May 13, 2016
- / Quint Studer
- / training-development,quint-studer
Changing your company's culture to one that nurtures constructive, positive feedback and filters out unproductive negative feedback is hard. Here's some advice on how to make it easier.
Increased minimum wage may not be enough to support many families
- May 12, 2016
- / Phyllis Pooley
- / economy
The case for a living wage is a strong one, but whether simply raising the minimum wage to attempt to accomplish it remains an interesting if not fully answered question.
SCI part of early learning panel on WSRE
- May 11, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
The focus on early education and its impact on the quality of life in the community from cradle to career is coming to WSRE. Watch “inStudio” live at 7 p.m. May 12 on WSRE with Jeff Weeks.
Summer Breakspot fills nutritional gap
- May 10, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
The Summer Breakspot Program at Weis Elementary School is essential to ensure that all children have access to the nutritional resources they need.
Taking Conversations from Difficult to Doable
- May 10, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / studer-community-institute
Lynne Cunningham from the Studer Group lead the three-hour plus trainingsession, and within minutes had the packed room of attendees on their feetengaging in an exercise.
Where are reading skills an issue for kindergartners
- May 9, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Data show that at 25 Escambia elementary schools, at least 50 percent of kindergartners were lagging in reading skills.
Photo Gallery - Making Your Presentation Bulletproof
- May 9, 2016
- / Rachael Gillette
- / studer-community-institute
Are you wearing your boss out?
- May 8, 2016
- / Quint Studer
- / training-development,quint-studer
Just as you crave feedback from your boss, supervisors like to know when they do some right. Don't be the person who only brings a problem to your boss.
Lessons learned from Zero to Five Collaborative
- May 6, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
The Zero to Five Funders Collaborative's project in the Dallas neighborhood of Bachman Lake shows how specific focus, funding planning, and collaboration build a rich early learning environment.
How parent talk can change the world
- May 6, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / video
I must admit I drank the Kool-Aid these people offered me. Dana Suskind and her staff at the Thirty Million Words Initiative are onto something.