More than 32,000 teachers and other staff members, including librarians, school nurses and counselors, are on strike today in Los Angeles for the first time in 30 years. United Teachers Los Angeles initiated the strike after negotiations regarding pay and learning conditions failed.
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Several school districts in the Washington, D.C., metro area are encouraging furloughed federal workers to apply for jobs as substitute teachers during the ongoing partial federal government shutdown. A Virginia school district also is asking them to consider jobs as teachers' assistants, substitute bus drivers, or swim instructors.
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Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa has seen improved office morale since implementing a policy that lets parents bring infants to work. Under the policy, parents or guardians can bring infants to work full time for the first six months or until infants start to crawl, whichever comes first.
The idea of humility is important for leaders who want to recognize and work on their shortcomings, and humility as a value can also improve organizational culture, writes Nick Martin of Aon's Assessment Solutions Group. "Once there's a collective understanding of what this behavior looks like, screening processes can be developed to identify this trait in potential talent," he writes.
