'Be the Bulb' challenge to improve kids' school readiness
- February 8, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / studer-community-institute
The deadline is April 27 to submit ideas for the Be the Bulb challenge, which will award $50,000 for the best ideas to improve early learning in Escambia County.
'Be the Bulb' challenge looking for good ideas
- February 8, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / studer-community-institute
The Studer Community Institute’s Pensacola Metro Dashboard shows that 34 percent of children in Escambia County start their first day of kindergarten unprepared.
Finding and defining a quality teacher
- February 8, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
It's hard to define and they are hard to find, but quality teachers determine the quality of education a child receives in school.
How Pensacola's women fare in business ownership
- February 7, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / entrecon
In Pensacola, 46.2 percent of the businesses are co-owned or fully owned by women, and account for some 17,000 jobs in the Escambia-Santa Rosa county area.
Why small town America is poised to become the next Silicon Valley
- February 7, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / economy
Learn how a start-up insider predicts small town America will overtake Silicon Valley in innovation.
Service sector slowdown explained
- February 7, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
As Bloomberg Business reports that the service sector of the national economy is slowing, UWF's Dr. Rick Harper explains what that means for the Pensacola metro area.
'ReadyRosie' a bright spot in early learning
- February 5, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
Ready Rosie promotes early learning by providing an online parent engagement tool that models fun and easy literacy and math activities for young children.
SCI's 2016 training calendar
- February 5, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
Check out the topics for the Studer Community Institute's 2016 training and development calendar.
Red-light camera ban inches forward
- February 5, 2016
- / Jim Turner
- / community-dashboard
State lawmakers are inching a bill forward that would limit cities use of red-light cameras, measures that have been used in Gulf Breeze and Milton.
Setting specific goals get better results
- February 5, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / training-development
Employees gain focus, become more productive and have better results when companies help them establish specific goals.