UWF CORAL Center, Santa Rosa schools renew STEAM partnership
- October 6, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
UWF adds five Santa Rosa middle schools to project to evaluate the district’s “STEAM Innovate!” program, a five-year plan to infuse more science, technology, engineering, arts and math into the curriculum.
TMW Tip: The most important years of learning
- October 6, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / early-learning,TMW-Tips
The science is indisputable. The essential years for developing the human brain are from birth through 3. Helping parents with their role in that is key.
Photo Gallery: Effective PowerPoints October 2016
- October 6, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
More than 50 attendees got practical advice from featured speaker Daniel Pennington about how to make their PowerPoints work for them.
The best PowerPoint tells a good story
- October 6, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / training-development
A PowerPoint can be one of the most effective tools presenters can use to convey their message visually.
Ensley Elementary builds on sense of family
- October 5, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / early-learning,education,report-meeting-the-challenge
Boosting basic reading and math skills will be at the heart of the plan to improve Ensley's showing on state standardized tests.
Five questions to help you navigate new hires
- October 5, 2016
- / Quint Studer
- / training-development,quint-studer
These five questions are the ones that separate the good employees from the great ones.
TMW Tip: Share books while you read together
- October 5, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / early-learning,TMW-Tips
Parents had to learn that it was OK for their children to fidget while reading. What’s important is keeping the child engaged — because engaged kids learn better.
TMW Tip: Ask questions
- October 4, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / early-learning,TMW-Tips
Yes-no questions are only good for one-word answers. How and why questions force your child to start building problem-solving skills.
SCI hopes to put
- October 4, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Studer Community Institute is among the finalists for a grant from IMPACT 100 for a project that will try to educate parents about the power of language to build babies' brains.
Get ready to get inspired at EntreCon
- October 4, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / video
Blaise Adams of Centennial Bank, Tim Shoop of Digital Boardwalk and Kristin Taylor of Cox Business were on hand to talk about what's in store at EntreCon 2016.