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September is Attendance Awareness Month for K-12 Schools

Initially celebrated in 2013, Attendance Awareness Month has the objective of raising awareness of the connection between school attendance and academic achievement. This year, the event has added importance due to the perception that chronic absenteeism resulted in students experiencing significant learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why Now is the Time to Review Your Internal Communications

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic – when offices were closed, and employees forced to work remotely – many businesses had to improvise how they communicated internally. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 25% of employees “occasionally” worked from home prior to the pandemic, and the subsequent shutdown revealed how unprepared some
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Returning to Campus: A Peek into What the Fall Semester 2021 May Look Like

Although much has changed this year due to the success of the vaccination rollout, anticipating what the fall semester may look like is still a stab in the dark. Learn about COVID-19 mitigation strategies colleges and universities are using to keep students safe as they return to campus.
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What Happens When Extreme Heat Collides with a Pandemic?

The recent extreme heat warnings across the south and south-west of the country brought back memories of last summer when triple-digit temperatures in many locations put increased stress on public health agencies and healthcare systems already under immense pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic. Alarmingly, this year the situation could get worse.
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Will the K-12 Education System be Reinvented Following COVID-19?

If you do an Internet search for “K12 education 2021”, you will find a selection of predictions about how the K12 education system could be reinvented following COVID-19. However, if you search for the same term, and swap the year to 2020, you’ll find the reason why few of these predictions will come true.
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How to Best Prepare Students for a Return to Campus Life

There are still multiple unknowns about how the fall semester will pan out in the country’s colleges and universities. Will student vaccinations be mandated? Will the option exist to take classes remotely? Will it be necessary to wear a mask on-campus? Or in class? What other COVID-mitigation measures will be implemented?
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COVID: Rave Year in Review

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people suffered bereavements, lost their jobs, and/or experienced financial difficulties. Although the situation is improving, millions more people may yet be impacted by the consequences of the pandemic due to the mental health crisis sweeping America.

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