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Every leader must recognize that we lead people, not job titles. The people who make up our organizations carry responsibilities far beyond their job descriptions, such as caring for children, managing health needs, supporting aging parents, handling school schedules and navigating everyday challenges. When CEOs understand that we are leading human beings, flexibility becomes one of the most powerful tools we have.

In August of 2022, a resident of Denton, Texas, appeared before his school board to demand the removal of a salacious library book. He read aloud passages from the novel describing detailed sexual acts. But the book he was reading from, Love Lies Beneath, wasn't actually available in the school district's libraries. He had confused the sexy psychological thriller with Lies Beneath, a young-adult novel about mermaids.

A South Bay school district agreed to pay $5.75 million to settle claims that a teacher impregnated a 15-year-old student at Leigh High School during a long-running illegal sexual relationship, and then forced her to have an abortion. The Campbell Union High School District's payout comes nearly two years after the allegations surfaced against Shawn Thomas, a physical education and social science teacher who also worked as a football and track coach at Los Gatos High School.

A pair of City & Guilds executives have each been awarded million-pound bonuses and sizeable salary increases after the skills charity's business was acquired by an international company in October, the Guardian understands. The payments which are understood to include a 1.7m award for the chief executive, Kirstie Donnelly, and 1.2m to the finance director, Abid Ismail have emerged at a sensitive time for the training and qualifications business, as it navigates its first few months in the private sector.

As we say goodbye to 2025, let's delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number. 442 = 1936 452 = 2025 462 = 2116 And since 45 = 20 + 25, we marvelled at the dazzling pattern: (20 + 25)2 = 2025 Good times.

The learning curve is a graph depicting the rate of acquiring new knowledge, skills, or competencies of a learner over time. It shows the gradual improvement of proficiency through repeated exposure and practice. Corporate training using the learning curve allows us to figure out: The duration needed by learners in order to reach competency. The level of steepness of the learning progression. How to design training to obtain mastery in less time.

The AAUP says it learned of the partnership when FedScoop reported that it noticed a message referencing Palantir on the website foreignfundinghighered.gov Dec. 4. An hour later, the website showed "a login page with the Palantir logo," and, a couple of hours after that, "the Palantir logo was replaced with an Education Department logo," the outlet wrote. Foreignfundinghighered.gov tracks foreign gifts and contracts data for higher ed institutions.

OUSD budget crisis OUSD has $100M in cuts to make. School sites won't be exempt - Interim superintendent Denise Saddler proposes $32 million in cuts from school site budgets as part of a broader $100 million deficit reduction plan that may include school closures and mergers. Ashley McBride explains the full scope of cuts, from custodial services to technology to special education.

A Lake Tahoe school district is caught between California and Nevada's different policies on transgender student athletes, a dispute that's poised to reorder where the district's students compete. High schools in California's Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District, near the border with Nevada, have for decades competed in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, or NIAA. That has allowed sports teams to avoid making frequent and potentially hazardous trips in poor winter weather to competitions farther to the west, district officials say.

Christopher Becerra, a trustee for the Brea Olinda Unified School District, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of possession of child pornography, annoying or molesting a minor and falsifying evidence by bribing, influencing or threatening witnesses, Brea police said. Police received a report that a school board member was sending inappropriate sexual messages to a juvenile, according to a news release.

Higher ed cannot restore public trust in colleges and universities unless the sector reckons in a clear-eyed fashion with the causes of the current crisis. Simply put, the fundamental problem is that when the sector or its individual institutions draw public criticism, we are unable either to make quick changes in response, to explain compellingly why we should not do so, or to redirect public attention effectively toward the overall value and purpose of our work.

Here's how you can build that awareness in your kids in ways that stick. Make them curious, not scared First step is going to be removing the fear. Many kids grow up hearing that bees sting, swarm, and chase you down till you are tired. The first lesson you need to instill is frankly quite simple: bees don't attack without a reason. Only female worker bees sting, and doing so costs them their life.

According to newly released research, two-thirds of high schoolers agree or strongly agree that using AI too much could make them overly dependent on the technology or less intelligent. This data reinforces how many students feel about AI: they are curious - and cautious. For all the handwringing about an "AI-fueled decline in learning," teenagers may actually understand the stakes better than adults think. What they want are more guardrails to help them use AI responsibly and fairly, and that's where schools need to catch up, quick.

In this March 2024 file photo, members of the Berkeley school community packed a BUSD board meeting in support of ethnic studies programs focusing on Palestinian history. Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight

It will also allow me to focus more deeply on my education and my internship this upcoming summer. As an international student, my experience has always involved balancing the challenges of maintaining my F-1 status, keeping a high GPA and reassuring my parents that their investment in me is being put to meaningful use. This scholarship affirms that commitment and motivates me to continue striving for excellence.

The Oakland Unified School District approved a $103 million budget plan that includes vague cuts and hopes to boost attendance rates to generate additional revenue, in an effort to repair its bleak budget hole. If the district is unable to pass a balanced budget by June or runs out of cash, Oakland Unified could return to state control just months after exiting it.

San Jose Unified School District advances plans for a 288-unit apartment complex at 760 Hillsdale Avenue, designed specifically for its employees. This initiative addresses the challenge of providing stable homes for teachers and staff amid rising living expenses. The development occupies a vacant parcel next to Highway 87, creating convenient access for those working in the area's education sector. The project targets the missing middle group of workers who earn above limits for many subsidized options yet struggle with market rents.

Salary increases, better health care benefits, and a concerted effort to improve working conditions were among several conditions promised to about 3,000 district employees represented by two unions United Teachers of Richmond and Teamsters Local 856. The agreement with United Teachers of Richmond was ratified by members during a weekend of voting. Union President Francisco Ortiz said 86% of members participated in the vote, with more than 92% of votes cast in support of the contract.

"When you grow up in a small town, you learn early that people are watching," he once said. "It teaches you to carry yourself the right way."

Ask any instructor what helps students learn, and it's unlikely any of them will answer "a really big wall of text". It's incredible to me, as both a university instructor and a UX designer, that the army of people working at OpenAI are not imagining better tools for our students. I want to walk you through a design pattern in ChatGPT that, despite its good intentions, might be creating unintended hurdles for students.

Positive social engagement, according to Anita Woolfolk (1998), which of course, also includes education, is enhanced when students understand that choices have consequences (Purje, 2014). One of the keys to achieving this goal, of positive engagement, according to Woolfolk, is through the consistent application of self- management. Woolfolk highlights that psychologists became interested in self-management behaviors because studies found that students subjected to externally imposed behavioral regimes, who were compelled to conform to a set of behavioral norms, too often refused to behave appropriately.

We've all been there. You're three hours into a study session, hunched over your desk with tabs multiplying like rabbits, your phone buzzing with notifications, and that nagging feeling that you're not actually retaining anything. Digital learning promised us flexibility and endless resources, but sometimes it feels more like drowning in information while learning nothing at all. A new concept design called Check Mate is tackling this exact problem, and it's making waves in the design community for all the right reasons.

The government has promised to create 50,000 more places for children with special educational needs (Send) in mainstream schools in England. It plans to invest 3bn over the next three years, partly funded by cancelling the building of some planned free schools. Councils - who will receive the funding - have argued the money needs to be diverted to the right areas and to the people who know what is needed in their local communities.