Public Consulting Group Acquires TeachersConnect to Help Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis
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BOSTON, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Public Consulting Group LLC (PCG), a leading provider of solutions implementation and operations improvement services to the public sector, today announced it has purchased the TeachersConnect educator social network and the Grab and Grow learning community from Great Teachers, Inc. The acquisition aligns with PCG s commitment to building sustainable pipelines of diverse talent to help overcome the teacher shortage affecting districts across the country.
TeachersConnect was founded by former teacher, David Meyers, in 2015 to provide a safe, educator-only social network to make sure that teaching is never-again a solo activity. Through this network, teachers ask questions, validate concerns, and share ideas and resources and have an opportunity to earn supplemental income. TeachersConnect has hel
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Sometimes, all it takes to turn a bright idea into a breakthrough business is a run-in with the right person.
For Bobbi Brown, in 1991, it was a rendezvous with a man of science. “I met a chemist accidentally and asked him if he could make this dream lipstick,” she says. “He did, and the budding entrepreneur in me thought, ‘Well, people would like to buy this.’” At the time, Brown was a makeup artist disenchanted with stinky, greasy, dry lipsticks, so she came up with ten shades that women could wear to work. The line debuted at Bergdorf Goodman, and it was an instant success: Brown expected to sell 100 lipsticks in the first month, but she ended up selling 100 on the first day. Brown sold her company to Estée Lauder
Thirty years ago, Israel carried out a momentous operation to bring Jews from Ethiopia to Israel.
In an unprecedented act, more.
David Meyers: Your grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Were you close to them and how did their upbringing and influence on you help shape the actor and person that you’ve become?
Yuval David: I was very close to my grandparents. My grandparents were the matriarchs and patriarchs of our small family. Family and community are important words for us, especially because of their experiences. Most of our family were killed in the Holocaust, and I understood that I must live my best in their honor and continue their legacy.
ACE Mentor Program completes 4th year, names scholarship winners By: Joe Yovino April 29, 2021
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The ACE Mentor Program of Greater Milwaukee held a virtual event on April 27 awarding three scholarships and six internships to local Milwaukee students.
Over the past 3 years, the Milwaukee Chapter has offered over $40,000 in scholarships to students planning to attend post-secondary education and training leading to careers in architecture, engineering, construction or the skilled crafts. This year’s scholarship recipients demonstrated exceptional work ethic and relationship building with industry professionals. They are:
Brianna Gutierrez, a senior at St. Augustine Preparatory Academy, is a dedicated student who thrived during her 6-week internship with Mortenson. At Mortenson, she effectively navigated through a series of 3D models and accurately estimated an entire structural steel package for a local hospital. ACE Mentor Program of America selectedGutierre
What is antisemitism? Despite many recent and more seasoned articles, and as many long scientific papers written over the years.
Now, author and Sondheim expert Rick Pender has put out an entire encyclopedia dedicated to Sondheim’s work, and he recently spoke with
The Algemeiner to discuss it.
David Meyers: Rick, I’m so glad to speak with you. If our readers don’t know who Stephen Sondheim is, why should they?
Rick Pender: Musical theater is a uniquely American art form, and one that has evolved from mere entertainment to works that are the equivalent of serious drama, thanks to Sondheim’s central role in the creation of works that shaped the genre’s path through the latter half of the 20th century. Sondheim is surely the most prolific and successful proponent of musical theater during the past half-century. He has advanced the subject matter and the way stories are told in astonishing ways.