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Virtual Collaboration: 7 Best Practices for Hybrid Teams

ViewSonic Education

The rise of hybrid working models has created a need for teams to be able to collaborate and share ideas, regardless of their physical location. The good news is, this can be achieved through virtual collaboration. Nowadays, an increasing number of professionals work closely from different locations.

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Covid created family-friendly work policies—will they last?

The Hechinger Report

When the pandemic began to shutter schools and child care centers in early 2020, parents working at the Patterson Law Group in Fort Worth, Texas, were allowed to work from home from the get go. The effect of the pandemic on some of this work has been to push the workplace policies five to ten years down the line,” Pena said.

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Project-based learning gets its moment during the coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

That means if a bad snowstorm hit the county, they could keep school going remotely and count the days like any others in the school calendar. Their experience with remote learning helped when schools closed because of the coronavirus. In the end, it worked. But only for a few days.

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Having Trouble Hiring at Your College? Try Improving the Jobs.

Edsurge

Our administrative associate manages complex budgetary and scheduling processes using byzantine systems and works closely with faculty who—let’s face it—aren’t the easiest people to placate. No one wants to work!” The frequent retort to those notes was that plenty of people wanted to work, they just found better jobs elsewhere.

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An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools

The Innovative Educator

The key will be agility and flexibility. Schools need a plan that fits many possible scenarios and provides options for families and staff that work best for them and are as safe as possible. In many districts this will mean keeping remote learning for most secondary students and for all primary students who want it.

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The Higher Education Model is Broken. Together We Can Fix It.

Edsurge

Many of these small cities have been magical, transformative places for well over a century, but these cities can’t be run—and thrive—on the backs of students and their families taking out large loans to make it work. Most of the costs are fixed, with little flexibility. The good news is that there is still time to fix the problem.

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Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

The Hechinger Report

But after most schools shifted their classes online in early 2020, remote learning caught on with some families, including those who preferred to give their children the flexibility of learning from home, or whose children struggled with social anxiety in school buildings or hadn’t found success in traditional learning environments.