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Why Psychological Safety in the Workplace Should Be on Your Radar - Inc.com

As a business coach for more than 25 years, I have helped thousands of business owners grow their businesses. And one of the ways we do that is by helping them create safe, nurturing spaces in which their team members can grow and develop. For many leaders, psychological safety is an idea they may not have ever really thought of. But once they start putting different ideas and protocols into place, they immediately see the value in making it a priority for their businesses. So today I want to talk about why psychological safety in the workplace should be on your radar, and how you can harness it to help your team grow.

At its core, psychological safety in the workplace gives your employees permission to take a chance. It answers the questions:

As a leader, you make mistakes. That's a given. But you know that at the end of the day, your place in the company is secure. Your team members, however, may not feel the same. And if they don't, that can really limit the amount of growth that both your business and your leadership team are capable of.

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Students’ math skills plunged in the pandemic, and schools are betting that teaching ‘financial literacy’ can reverse the drop - Fortune

Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes, and food.

His medium-term financial goals take a little more thought, but he settles on a car — he doesn’t have one yet — and vacations. Peering way into his future, the 18-year-old also imagines saving money to buy a house, start his own business, retire, and perhaps provide any children with a college fund.

Call it a reality check or an introduction to a critical life skill, this exercise occurred in a course called Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications. The elective math class has been a mainstay in Capital City Public Charter School’s offerings for more than a decade, giving students a foundation in money management while they hone math skills. Conversations about credit, investments, and loans, for instance, intersect with lessons on compound interest, matrices, and exponential equations.

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How America’s House of Representatives will choose a speaker - The Economist

AMERICA’S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has been without a permanent speaker since October 3rd, when a handful of Republican rebels ousted Kevin McCarthy. Days later an attack thousands of miles from Washington, DC, highlighted the urgency of the problem: on October 7th Hamas, an Islamist group based in Gaza, attacked Israel, killing at least 700 people and taking dozens of hostages. America’s defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, has promised to send munitions and military aid to Israel. But until a new speaker is selected, no bills can be brought before the House, curtailing America’s ability to support its ally in the longer term. Lawmakers are frustrated. Mike Lawler, a Republican congressman from New York, described the situation pithily as “an unmitigated shitshow”. How will it be resolved?

Mr McCarthy’s sacking was unprecedented: the House had never before voted to remove its speaker. On October 2nd Matt Gaetz, a fellow Republican, filed a “motion to vacate” which triggered a vote of confidence in Mr McCarthy. Previous Republican speakers threatened with a similar fate had jumped before they were pushed. In 2015 John Boehner resigned after being threatened with such a motion. (Thomas Massie, the lawmaker who co-authored it, has a framed copy in his office.) Newt Gingrich, who oversaw the party’s return to power in the House in 1994, stepped down four years later after taking the blame for midterm-election losses.

In both cases the party swiftly coalesced around a successor. That looks less likely this time. To be elected speaker a candidate needs to command a majority in the House, meaning 217 members. The Republicans’ slim majority—221 seats to Democrats’ 212—leaves little room for disunity. In January it took 15 excruciating rounds of voting to install Mr McCarthy as speaker because a small group of rebels from the party’s far right withheld their support.

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Doubling counselors in schools won’t solve kids’ mental health crisis—here’s what else to do - Fortune

Of all the challenges that threaten the well-being of America’s schoolchildren, one of the most serious and severe is the lack of school counselors and school psychologists. Despite the increased demand for their services, there’s simply not enough professionals in these fields to go around.

For instance, the American School Counselor Association recommends that there be one school counselor for every 250 students. However, in the 2021-22 school year – the most recent year for which data are available – the ratio of school counselors to students was one for every 408 students.

Similarly, the National Association of School Psychologists recommends one school psychologist for every 500 students. But the ratio of school psychologists to students stands at just one for every 1,127 students.

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