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Enhancing School Operations: Crafting a Comprehensive Summer Plan for Next Year As the academic year ends, the facility team embarks on a significant journey to enhance the school environment. The summer months are a period of intense planning and execution. Key steps include assessing current facilities, gathering stakeholder input, and prioritizing tasks. Enhancements focus on modernizing classrooms, laboratories, and libraries, integrating technology, promoting environmental sustainability, and ensuring safety and security. These efforts lay the foundation for a successful and enriching academic year ahead. 4o

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The benefits of completing a long-term project during college are well documented—especially as they relate to critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. At Simpson, such opportunities abound in rich variety, including an array of student-faculty research. And students are taking full advantage. Read more → bit.ly/47roc44

Educators will find a way. The team has been featuring work this month that we've done across education ranging from pre-school to higher ed. Among the tactics and insights the team will be sharing, one of the foundational challenges to acknowledge are the following truths: 1. While linked to each other by the overarching brand, different schools within the same university have different audiences, different value props, different content. (You'll see in some of our posts this month that student choice goes way beyond the overarching brand & reputation these days.) 2. To compete with other universities, each school needs communications and a digital presence that is more than university level, they need something specific to them, their audiences, and the impact they are making. 3. If you don't provide the means for the schools & academic programs you support to do this, they will find a way to do it themselves. Like any business, rogue digital efforts can lead to all kinds of challenges (brand inconsistency, vulnerabilities, support challenges, etc). The universities doing it right are arming the different academic programs they support with either technology that allows that flexibility (not just a department template on the main website), or service providers who understand their university level goals/guidelines, but can deliver something unique within them.

"So how do we bring in more career pathway programs, vocational opportunities, and early college? At the end of the day, the question is this: is Massachusetts willing to make the changes? I think we're Blockbuster video in 1992 — we're not seeing Netflix coming." - Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Jeffrey C. Riley underscoring the need for urgency and innovation, and the opportunity to drive "what's next." Thank you to Commissioner Riley for joining us for our latest Competitiveness Conversation event in partnership with Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. Learn more about the event and read our recommendations to accelerate student learning: https://lnkd.in/epYb63mS

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It's always a thrill to come back to Stanford and talk to current students. I had a blast talking about careers in pro sports and some of the lessons I've learned along my own journey. I also shared what I think are three interesting research topics for students interested in breaking into the industry right now-- if I were still on campus, I would try to learn as much as I could about these, especially the first. Resharing here, would be curious what folks think about these. (1) Machine learning on skeletal tracking data. There is a flood of this class of data coming online in every sport -- how can we build end-to-end ML models that learn interesting structure from the raw data. (2) The interesting ways in which statistical models break down (ie. team misses 27 straight threes, data are not IID Bernoulli trials), and can we systematically learn anything from this beyond just explaining it away, "the model can't capture everything." (3) Induction and the assumption of the future being like the past -- this is at the heart of all predictive modeling, but in an era when team strategies are constantly being optimized, how can you avoid the unpleasant outcomes. Thank you so much Lindsey Akin for hosting me! I know I got so much out of my MS&E degree and want to help others do the same.

New York heads back to school this week and I most definitely in my feelings about the last licks of summer. I am a lover of learning. And, if you know me, you are well aware that I am a also critical observer and consumer of everything 'academic.' I have always asked a lot of questions about learning and now, the curiosity extends beyond my questioning of the world at large and into my own home: -What is its purpose? -What prior learnings are required? -How does this connect to other learnings? -Is it research based and if so, what kind of research is it based on? -How is this adapted to meet each learner's needs? -What is the intended impact? -Where are the points of friction? -How can this be extended? And the list goes on... The intersection between me as an #educator and me as a #parent is surely interesting. **Speaking of curiosity, this photo shows my boys marveling at the NY city skyline as we departed on a family vacation last week. Despite living in, or right outside the city, for most of my life I still marvel, too.**

🚀 Embarking on the Boston University journey has brought intriguing challenges and learning experiences. Transitioning from financial sales to higher education demanded a significant adjustment, an experience many who've changed industries can surely relate to. Maintaining optimism is rooted in the realization that, fundamentally, I'm still in business development. Even if the industry looks totally different. It's coming to the realization that, it's a privilege to be given the opportunity to forge new partnerships for my team, especially in unfamiliar territory. Yesterday, kicking off my third week, marked a milestone as I successfully generated my first lead. Here's to the promising journey ahead! 🌟 #NewBeginnings #CareerTransition #BusinessDevelopment #HigherEducation

The Capital Fellows Program changed my career trajectory in the most unexpected way. I made lifelong friendships, mentors, and built a lasting foundation for a career in public policy. If you or anyone you know is just exiting undergrad, graduate school, or just looking to make a career pivot to state policy, I cannot recommend this program more highly. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. #publicpolicy #fellowship #CapitalFellows