According to a Deloitte survey, Women at Work: A Global Outlook, 52 percent of women have experienced some form of harassment or microaggression in the past year, ranging from the belief that their judgment is being questioned because they are women to disparaging remarks about their physical appearance, communication style, […]
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Omaha Public Schools calls off remote learning due to rotating power outages
Omaha Public Schools calls off remote learning due to rotating power outages Updated: 9:01 AM CST Feb 16, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript MOMENT. FIRST, WE WANT TO GET THE LATEST ON THE FORECAST, WITH WEATHER NOW CHIEF METEOROLOGIST BILL RANDBY. BILL: TEMPERATURES ALREADY IN THE TEENS TO BELOW ZERO […]
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Remote But Never More Relevant
The 1948 charcoal and pencil on paper drawing “Christmas Homecoming, 1948” by Norman Rockwell was $1.1 million at Jonathan Boos, New York City. It is preliminary to a painting of the same name, now at the Norman Rockwell Museum and published on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on […]
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Five ways Alexa can help make remote learning easier this semester
Chris Monroe/CNET Remote learning is hard — hard for students, hard for parents and hard for teachers. While many people have struggled with isolation during the pandemic, many of us with children have struggled to balance the demands of life as a professional, as a parent and increasingly, as a […]
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‘The Boy in the Box’ was first remote learner in Akron Public Schools
Mark J. Price | Akron Beacon Journal Mark Palchick couldn’t go to school so he learned from home. In doing so, he became the first student in Akron Public Schools to participate in remote learning. This school year, more than 21,000 students in the district are receiving online instruction during […]
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How to increase your productivity as a remote developer
The world has now new norms for traveling, working, and just about every daily activity ever since the pandemic broke out on a global scale. To keep up with the changed lifestyle, many industries and workplaces started adopting remote working norms and the necessary infrastructure support. Software development has definitely […]
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Save an extra 20% on an adjustable standing desk to improve remote work in 2021
The Hill may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people have had to find ways to build out their remote office space to create an environment that is both comfortable and conducive to productivity. Many […]
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Wichita women in the workforce struggle with remote learning
Rianne Chavez had to start a new bartering game with her 6-year-old daughter last week: if she does her school work for 20 minutes then she can try to get just 20 minutes of paperwork done from home. Chavez owns a massage therapy practice in Wichita, and when USD 259 […]
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How to Make the Most Out of Slack for Remote Team Collaboration and Communication
PHOTO: Austin Distel on Unsplash The pandemic has forced most organizations to rethink how work gets done. As they retooled, resumed and rebooted operations, many had to find new tools to make the most out of remote ways of working. As more workers move towards remote and hybrid work, their […]
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Remote school is leaving children sad and angry
Sophia Sanchez, age 9 and stuck in perpetual Zoom school, is crying a lot lately. Her mother and sister rush in and ask what went wrong. Did the Internet go out again? Is her computer plugged in? Is the math too confusing? Sophia can’t really answer. She’s too upset, wondering […]
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Remote work can make you more creative
Many of the online HR conference sessions I’ve joined recently have been dominated by discussions around finding ways to make our remote workforce more productive and efficient. Yet while productivity matters, creativity often gets left out of that conversation. If creativity is discussed at all, it’s often seen as something […]
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How to Balance Working From Home and the Kids’ Remote Learning (Without Losing It)
Getty Images For working parents, the pandemic hasn’t just been stressful, it’s felt impossible at times. Not only have you been challenged to meet the needs of your children as they adapt to remote-learning set-ups, but your career has evolved too, creating additional curveballs around every corner. While we all […]
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Most Memphis students to continue remote learning, survey shows
Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat Tennessee Published 5:31 p.m. CT Nov. 13, 2020 CLOSE Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Parents of 65% of Shelby County Schools students do not plan to send them back to school buildings in January, based on survey results obtained by Chalkbeat. Some parents […]
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Fairbanks teachers vote to continue remote learning | Local News
Members of the local teachers’ union met on Oct. 24 and voted that students should remain in remote learning while the school district is in the operational high risk zone for COVID-19, according to the president of the Fairbanks Education Association. The union represents about 900 teachers who work for […]
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The reinvented, remote world of co-ops under COVID-19 | Life and Arts
The University of Cincinnati is known for being one of America’s best co-op schools. With the pandemic, students are continuing a fully online co-op experience in the comfort of their homes. Pixabay | jagritparajuli99 Like everyone else, the COVID-19 has deeply affected College students. COVID has altered the way they […]
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Juggling act: Tips for balancing remote work and home life in 2020
NEW YORK – Any remote worker can tell you how office demands have invaded the home in 2020 and started creeping into every corner of the day. FILE PHOTO: Stacey Barry, a community works administrator, at her band office desk. Picture taken April 27, 2020. REUTERS/David Jackson/File Photo But Jessica […]
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Tips for balancing remote work and home life in 2020
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK – Any remote worker can tell you how office demands have invaded the home in 2020 and started creeping into every corner of the day. But Jessica DeGroot is no ordinary worker. She is an expert in work-life balance as head of the consultancy ThirdPath […]
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Coronavirus pandemic remote schooling surge spurs parents to make desks for kids in need
As remote schooling surged during the pandemic, parents across the country realized that many kids didn’t have desks at home. So they got busy building, collecting and donating them, giving hundreds or thousands of students workspaces to call their own and helping them get through long days of virtual learning. […]
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Why Some Kids Are Shy In Remote Learning But Not In-Person Classes
There are many reasons why a child who is not usually introverted at school would be shy in a remote learning setting. (Photo: Mayur Kakade via Getty Images) Remote learning often comes with technical difficulties, but it also can bring about challenges with student engagement. By now, most students have […]