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Role of Social-Emotional Learning in 2022

Kitaboo

Our ability to think, show empathy, manage emotions, and balanced social behavior. School curricula are designed to meet the psychological growth of children, to enable them with tools to advance academically and excel in the professional sphere. Why is Social-Emotional Learning an Indispensable Fraction of Education in 2022?

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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research. Denver and Dallas and has helped more then 6,200 people get housing.

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Meet the startups that just joined Techstars Seattle’s 13th cohort

GeekWire

” Techstars Seattle is running a hybrid-style program for this cohort — founders can work from wherever they are most productive, whether that’s at Startup Hall in Seattle or their home city. So, one of the silver linings of COVID is that we’ve evolved our delivery model to meet the needs of our founders.

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DevOps at SMBs: Three Important Considerations that Differ from Large Enterprises

Social, Agile and Transformation

I recently started a new program called Coffee with Digital Trailblazers on LinkedIn. We typically meet on Fridays at 11am ET and discuss a selected topic on leading digital transformation. Two weeks ago, we chatted about how to become a Digital Trailblazer, and this past week we discussed DevOps in SMBs and nontech companies.

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Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact

GeekWire

The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. Then COVID-19 hit. Game to Grow Photos).

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Twitter is launching a Spaces accelerator program to pay live audio creators

The Verge

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it plans to support Twitter Spaces creators through a new three-month accelerator program called the Twitter Spaces Spark Program. Twitter’s plans follow a similar creator three-month program that Clubhouse launched in March 2021. Have 5,000 or more “active followers”.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online. Gaming company or social company? I think in a lot of ways gaming is the new social.” Rec Room Image).

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