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🚨 Attention Job Seekers 🚨 The West Virginia Department of Education is seeking applicants for the position of "Program Specialist/Coordinator (Network Engineer)." This position closes on Aug. 29, 2023. Full details and application submission ➡️ https://bit.ly/43xawCD #WVEd #WVDEJobs

Experience the magic of the “Almost Heaven” swings! In partnership with West Virginia Tourism, Nicholas County Career and Technical Center students brought these incredible swings to life. Designed, built, and installed by these talented students, the swings are at multiple scenic spots across the state. Check out the video and tag us in your picture-perfect moment on one of these swings! 📸 #WVEd #ThisIsCTE #CareerTechWV #Explore304

Attention Charleston Area Teachers! Great new position for an adult education instructor specializing in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Full-time position offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Apply Now! https://lnkd.in/e6zg49fC #adulted #esol

The framework to put #learning into #action Everyone learns; Not everyone acts on that learning; That is the disconnect! Most often the gap between ignorance and knowledge is far lesser than the gap between knowledge and action. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer Jerry Sternin was well-versed in the academic literature on the complex systemic causes of malnutrition – poor sanitation, poverty, lack of education, etc. In 1990, he was sent by Save the Children to fight malnutrition in rural Vietnam. The Vietnamese foreign minister, however gave him just six months to make a difference. Sternin knew he can’t depend only on his knowledge and expertise to make this work. So he used an approach that he would later call positive deviance. (Check the book - The Power of Positive deviance) He traveled to villages and met with the foremost experts on feeding children:groups of village mothers. He checked with them to trace the healthier children even among the poor. Then they met the mothers of those children to find out what they did differently. First, they were feeding their children smaller portions of food, more often during the day. Second, they were taking brine shrimp from the rice paddies and greens from sweet potatoes grown in their gardens and adding these to their daily soups or rice dishes. They were doing this even though most people avoided these foods, which were stigmatized as “low class.” And third, when serving their children, they were ladling from the bottom of the pot, making sure the kids got the shrimp and greens that had settled during cooking. Sternin called these families “bright spots” – observable exceptions recognized by their peers as producing results above the norm with only the same kinds of resources available to others. In less than a month, he and the mothers had discovered local practices that were effective, realistic and sustainable. He helped mothers in other villages to study their local bright spots and replicate their behavior. At the end of six months, 65% of the children in the villages where Sternin worked were better nourished. (Source: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath) How did they do this? They put the learning into action. Here is the T.R.I.P framework to help you do just that for yourself, in your workshops, or at the workplace. 1. Take notes - observe, ask questions, listen and note it down. 2. Reflect on it - find connection, trace patterns, and discover meaning. 3. Invest it by sharing - talk about it with others, teach, discuss and formulate customised strategies 4. Put it into practice - create action steps, implement, measure the impact and celebrate. Bonus: Keep repeating the cycle because we are always learning. What techniques have you used to put learning into action? #storypreso #ashleyvinil #visdemy #leadfruitfully