There aren’t rows of desks in Iowa BIG—an XQ school located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. No single teacher lectures from the front of the room. Instead, the whiteboard is blank and students gather around couches and in meeting spaces to talk about their expectations for the...
Employers in the state and elsewhere struggle to keep pace with ever-evolving guidelines for protecting staff. Just a few weeks after California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, also known as Cal/OSHA, loosened its emergency temporary standards,...
As COVID-19 persists amid other concerns, sharing leadership and maintaining self-care are among tips offered by principals and superintendents. Burnout isn’t a new concept for school leaders and staff, but prolonged uncertainty and intensity of the pandemic is...
Use these 7 tips to build a distributor relationship that pays off. It’s a wild time in the irrigation and landscape industry. Supply chain shortages, rising material costs and labor shortages are squeezing the already high-stakes seasonality of landscape and...
Years before there was talk of pandemic burnout, June Gunter recognized a trend of workers feeling exhausted and uncertain in their careers and set out to change it. For 15 years, she created leadership programming for a large healthcare company, and while there she...
Katie Navarra is an award-winning writer. She has been writing professionally, both on staff and as a freelancer, for nearly 20 years. Her expertise includes business development, equine, farming, education and landscaping.
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Katie Navarra is an award-winning writer. She has been writing professionally, both on staff and as a freelancer, for nearly 20 years. Her expertise includes business development, equine, farming, education and landscaping.
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