Under normal circumstances, the Duke Leadership Academy offers participants a chance to challenge themselves, build connections and harness their collective brain power to offer Duke leaders insights into how Duke can work better. But the academy’s 2020-21 class, which graduated from the program in December 2021, operated under nothing close to normal circumstances, convening in early 2020, prior to the pandemic, but then COVID-19 arrived, which put the academy on pause.
Last spring, six members of the 2020-21 Duke Leadership Academy got together on a Zoom call and began the process of plotting out what their next few months together would look like. Each edition of the Duke Leadership Academy – a year-long program that helps Duke’s emerging leaders sharpen teamwork and management skills – features group projects. And the Zoom call meeting centered around team members batting around ideas for their project.
The farmer trading card program is a partnership between Loudoun County Economic Development and Loudoun County Public Schools’ Nutrition Services office. (Courtesy Loudoun County Economic Development)
Loudoun County Public Schools students in Virginia have the chance to collect Farmer Trading Cards starting this week. Trading cards feature actual Loudoun County farmers in a program to get kids interested in pursuing a career in agriculture.
This is the fifth year for the program, though last year’s Farmer Trading Card program was put off because of COVID-19-related remote learning for students.
The trading card program is a partnership between Loudoun County Economic Development and Loudoun County Public Schools’ Nutrition Services office. It is timed to coordinate with both the Nats’ season opener and the beginning of the spring planting season for farmers.