Emily Tate Sullivan

1 month ago | edsurge.com | Emily Tate Sullivan

Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools — some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled — and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city. But what to do with all of those empty buildings? It’s a question that scores of district leaders across the country are now asking themselves.

1 month ago | edsurge.com | Emily Tate Sullivan

Nancy Muñoz is on her second act — this time, in a school — and she feels she’s finally where she belongs. After a long career working in health care, the pandemic led her to seek a new opportunity. She found it in the form of an operations coordinator role inside a middle school in Camden, New Jersey. In that position, Muñoz sits at the front desk — what she calls “the face of the house” — answering phone calls, sending emails, receiving visitors.

1 month ago | uc.edu | Emily Tate Sullivan

In the high-stakes world of the United States Air Force, where every detail can mean the difference between triumph and tragedy, a team of unsung heroes—anthropometrists—works tirelessly to ensure the health, safety, and combat readiness of military personnel. These experts wield their knowledge like a weapon, crafting equipment and systems that fit the diverse bodies of today’s fighting force, boosting mission success with every precise measurement.

1 month ago | edsurge.com | Emily Tate Sullivan

Idaho is poised to become the first state in the country to eliminate state-mandated child-to-staff ratios for early care and education settings — a longstanding and universal licensing requirement used to ensure minimum quality standards and health and safety in environments where babies, toddlers and young children are being served. It’s one of a handful of changes included in a bill that seeks to deregulate key components of the early care and education industry.

1 month ago | edsurge.com | Emily Tate Sullivan

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant — thanks in great part to her ongoing enthusiasm for and belief in the power of communication in the lives of children and adults. She calls her job “soul-filling,” and she has anecdotes to back it up. Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology.