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Continuous Learning: Why Honing New Skills Is Essential for Staying Relevant in Your Career

If there’s one surefire way to success in today’s era, it’s continuous learning. The job market is constantly evolving, driven by technological advancements and industry shifts. To remain relevant, professionals must regularly update their skills and expand their knowledge. Without continuous learning, it’s easy to fall behind and miss out on new opportunities. Staying ahead requires an ongoing commitment to self-improvement.

Music for Hope, Connection, and Courage

by Kerry Dexter /
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Aug 19, 2024 / 0 comments

All across the world, politics and social life continue to shift and to change.

At certain times and in certain places, those shifts and changes seem to lead toward peace, toward connection, toward progress. At other times and in other places, chaos and fear haunt present and future.

In the midst of these things, hope can be a constant. Hope offers the idea of connection and the possibility of brighter future.

Music for Hope, Connection, and Courage

Through the Eyes of an Educator: The In-Between

by Stacey Ebert /
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Aug 05, 2024 / 0 comments

“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.” ~ L.R. Knost

Through the Eyes of an Educator: The In-Between

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5 Great Ways to Have Fun at Home (Without Much Effort)

When most people think of having fun, they usually imagine being out doing something with friends and family. Sometimes, people don’t have the energy for this, though. They’ll want to have fun at home but mightn’t be sure what they can do.

Thankfully, this doesn’t need to be difficult to do. There are plenty of ways to try; they can be more fun than you’d think.

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From Journeys to Classrooms and Back Again: Travel Writer Lisa Niver’s Tips and Tales

I'm so excited to share a lovely, inspiring interview today with our Wandering Educators. Let me tell you why...

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Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic

Publisher’s note: This is an excerpt from Chapter Five (Learning to Fight:  Bartram to Drake) of Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic (Koehler Books: 2022), R. Barbara Gitenstein, President Emerita, The College of New Jersey, Senior Fellow and Senior Consultant, Association of Governing Boards
 
Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic
 

Music for Love, Justice, and Community

by Kerry Dexter /
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Jul 15, 2024 / 0 comments

Times are shifting indeed, all across the world.

There are many ways music can come into such changing circumstances. That is an idea we’ve continued to explore through the years in this ongoing series.

Music for Love, Justice, and Community

Perhaps you feel the need of songs to rally around, to sing together?

Through the Eyes of an Educator: What’s your definition of success?

by Stacey Ebert /
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Jul 11, 2024 / 0 comments

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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From Mom to CEO - Amber Jayne's Journey in Early Childhood Education

I never imagined I would be a self-proclaimed “Mom turned CEO.” Growing up, I wasn’t raised to dream big. I envisioned my future as a stay-at-home mom with a big family, only slightly entertaining thoughts of being a Kindergarten teacher. Things didn't pan out how I imagined. At age 22, I gave birth to my first son and  stayed at home for four months: cleaning the house, doing dishes, and washing clothes repeatedly. This reality left me unfulfilled. Of course, I absolutely love both my son and motherhood; however, I felt the need to search for something greater. 

Music for Centering and Focus

by Kerry Dexter /
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Jun 17, 2024 / 0 comments

As circumstances of all sorts continue to shift, and information of all sorts arrives from all directions, making time for centering and focus can be useful.

It can also be challenging.

Music can help with that. Giving the time needed to focus on one song, to center on repeated listenings of a favorite—or a whole orchestra piece or a whole album—can be refreshing. It can also offer space for new ideas to appear, new perspectives to evolve. Both of those may well be needed in these shifting times.

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