COVID-19

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Reimagining a World of Learning

The numbers are staggering. Close to 90 percent of the world’s students are impacted by COVID-19 school closures—that’s over 1.5 billion children out of traditional school for the foreseeable future. With public safety of paramount...
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Lori McFarling

President, Corporate & Community Partnerships, Discovery Education
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The Elevated Leader Through Crisis

These are unprecedented times. You have heard this phrase ad nauseam over the past few weeks—and let’s be very clear, they are. You know the world impact in deeper detail than most can even fathom. You know that with every challenge comes...
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Chenoa Maxwell

Founder and CEO, Live Limitlessly
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The New Normal Is Still Ours to Define

There is no new normal. Not yet. It is too soon to put the physical, emotional, and financial disruption in one column and the heroism, innovation, and health-care advances in another and sum them up. Whether in the public or private sector...
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Mark Machin

President and CEO, CPP Investments