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26 Nov GYFS/HSG Pilot Program Participant Rebecca Battles: Encouraging Communities to Help Raise Healthy Kids

Posted at 18:44h in Health

Rebecca Battles and her husband live in Woodbridge, VA with their 4-year-old son, Collin. Having moved in August to Northern Virginia from Dallas, where her family lived for the previous nine years, Rebecca is keenly aware of the health influences various communities can have on...

17 Nov Interview with GYFS/HSG Pilot Program Participant Connie Steele: Making Family Nutrition Proactive and Innovative

Posted at 19:04h in Health

Connie Steele is a working professional who lives with her husband and their two boys, ages 3 and 6, in Northern Virginia. “I have my own marketing consulting business, which can make things pretty busy and hectic,” said Connie. She added that “being able to...

21 Oct Good for the goose, not good for the gander?

Posted at 19:12h in Education

Teachers are rightly expected to meet the needs of their students. There is much proper attention now to how we clarify teaching expectations, measure student growth against those expectations, and support teachers when the regular evaluation of their performance shows that help is needed. Teachers...

09 Oct United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Posted at 19:28h in Education

When Steven Foster penned the words “The Sun Shines Bright on My Old Kentucky Home…” I am sure he had no idea how powerful a message he would be sending us in today’s time. My beloved Kentucky has been known for decades for excellence in...

07 Oct Delaware Teachers Respond to Common Core State Standards

Posted at 01:47h in News

Monday, October 7th, 2013 Press Contact: Courtney Haynes (540) 320-4494 October 7, 2013Courtney Fox, a Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow and Delaware Teacher of the Year 2008, connects with Delaware teachers through a unique partnership with the Delaware Department of Education, the Rodel Foundation of Delaware and Hope...

19 Sep Workforce Myths Debunked: Why everything we think we know about hiring young workers could be wrong

Posted at 19:32h in Jobs

Workforce analytics—using “big data” to hire, manage talent, and measure workforce performance—is becoming an increasingly prominent part of the American business landscape, as more companies turn to new techniques to streamline their hiring and retention processes. This type of quantitative analysis seems to get a bad...