Hi there once more, buddies! I’m so excited to catch up. This previous weekend, we received residence after two weeks visiting household in Cornwall, England, and seeing buddies in Italy (extra on that quickly). Listed below are a number of images, when you’d wish to see…
The journey from Brooklyn to Cornwall is not any joke: you are taking an in a single day flight to London, hire a automobile, then drive 5 hours southwest to my aunt’s home.
However after all of the anticipation, getting into her village feels spectacular — you drive by way of miles of nation lanes, then BURST into the harbor. That is the view!
Lulu all the time greets us with drinks, snacks, and large smiles.
We took a bleary-eyed however glad photograph on our first evening.
Anton reunited along with his long-lost cousin Jimmy, who’s his English doppelgänger. They’re like little soulmates, leaping into the water, consuming salt-and-vinegar chips, and stepping into mischief. (Right here’s a photograph of them from six years in the past.)
So courageous!
And Toby lastly caught up in peak to his same-age cousin Bo. (Right here’s a candy slideshow of them by way of the years.)
On the peak wall, the infants, toddlers, and youngsters slowly creep up, however youngsters begin capturing up 4 inches yearly. My sister’s late husband, Paul, additionally as soon as marked his peak within the morning and the night to show that individuals get shorter through the daytime.
In the meantime, Lulu’s canine, Jane, appeared surprisingly unfazed by all of the chaos.
On days when it didn’t rain (it’s nonetheless England, in spite of everything), we’d take the little boat into the ocean, the place you’ll be able to see jellyfish when you look over the aspect.
The boys would swim from the rocks to the boat.
And my dad was psyched didn’t care once I advised him that boat footwear are literally very cool proper now!
If it did rain, we’d hit the seashore, as one does, haha.
Lunches had been of the smash-and-grab selection…
…or we’d get fish and chips and mushy peas on the pub.
We additionally performed a LOT of Go Fish. (What different basic card video games do you want? Ceaselessly on the lookout for recs.)
One afternoon, Julia Chook — of seaweed artwork fame — stopped by Lulu’s home, since she lives in the identical city. I used to be so glad to satisfy her! After chatting about work and kids and marriage, she mentioned, “Properly, I have to stroll the canine and go for a swim, so I’m going to like you and depart you.” How candy is that phrasing?
One evening — for the reason that sky doesn’t get darkish till 10 p.m. — I lay in mattress, wanting over the water, and considered what number of instances we’ve come to Cornwall, ever since I used to be seven. We’ve missed a number of summers right here and there — when cash was tight, or once I had infants, or throughout quarantine — however general these annual visits have felt like a heartbeat in our lives. We moved round loads after we had been rising up, however my grandparents’ yellow home was all the time there, yearly, precisely the identical. Whereas scripting this submit, I used to be considering how there isn’t a lot new to report, however then I noticed, that’s the purpose. It’s all cousins and moist fits and fishing strains and half an avocado within the fridge.
The one catch was a abdomen bug that handed by way of the group — or, as Toby known as it, “the illness.” We nearly escaped unscathed, till we drove again to London and I caught it from my brother. However each journey has some ups and downs, proper? That’s what makes it a household trip.
Thanks a lot for studying. We love you, Cornwall! Italy recap coming quickly… xoxoxo
Antibodies that bind to 2 targets are a longtime manner of treating the blood most cancers a number of myeloma. Aiming to high these medicines, AbbVie has secured rights to an early-clinical drug that works by binding to 3 targets.
The drug, code-named ISB 2001, comes from IGI Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Ichnos Glenmark Innovation. AbbVie stated Thursday it’s paying $700 million up entrance for rights to this multi-specific T cell engager in North America, Europe, Japan, and Larger China.
A T cell engager is a sort of antibody drug that works by binding to a goal on an immune cell and one other goal on a most cancers cell, bringing the 2 collectively so the immune cell can kill the most cancers inform. IGI provides a 3rd goal to this strategy as a method to overcome drug resistance. ISB 2001 is a trispecific T cell engager engineered to bind to CD3 on T cells, and to BCMA and CD38 on a number of myeloma cells. Binding to 2 targets on a number of myeloma cells enhances binding energy to the most cancers cell, even when the goal protein is expressed at low ranges. It’s additionally supposed to scale back off-target adversarial results from the remedy.
In the course of the annual assembly of the American Society of Scientific Oncology final month, IGI introduced knowledge from a Section 1 take a look at of ISB 2001 in closely pretreated a number of myeloma sufferers. The corporate reported that outcomes from 35 sufferers confirmed the drug led to a sustained total response charge of 79% and a excessive full/stringent full response charge of 30%. The corporate stated ISB 2001’s security profile was favorable; instances of cytokine launch syndrome have been delicate and the one case neurotoxicity that was reported was categorised as Grade 1.
“Multispecifics together with trispecific antibodies characterize a brand new frontier in immuno-oncology with the potential to ship deeper, extra sturdy responses by partaking a number of targets concurrently,” AbbVie’s Roopal Thakkar, govt vp, analysis and improvement and chief scientific officer, stated in a ready assertion.
Relying on the progress of ISB 2001 beneath AbbVie, IGI may obtain as much as $1.225 billion in milestone funds, plus royalties from gross sales of an authorised drug. The IGI drug represents the second multi-specific deal for AbbVie this yr. In January, AbbVie signed an option-to-license settlement for SIM0500, a trispecific antibody from Simcere Zaiming, a subsidiary of Simcere Pharmaceutical Group. SIM0500 is engineered to bind to CD3 on T cells and GPRC5D and BCMA on a number of myeloma cells. That strategy may make it a competitor to Talvey, a J&J bispecific antibody that binds to CD3 and GPRC5D.
A Section 1 take a look at within the U.S. and China is assessing the Simcere drug in sufferers with relapsed or refractory a number of myeloma. AbbVie’s upfront fee to Simcere was undisclosed. Possibility charges and milestone funds may carry the payout to greater than $1 billion.
This text was initially written in 2011 and most lately up to date in 2025
Gamification is just the applying of game-like mechanics to non-game ‘issues.’
The massive thought right here is to encourage a desired conduct. On this approach, ‘gamification’ quantities to putting in mechanics or techniques that acknowledge and reward conduct. By elevated visibility of nuance, documentation of progress, and rewarding of seemingly minor (however essential) behaviors, a particular final result might be achieved.
Because it encourages inside motivation via an outwardly-created set of circumstances, gamification sits on the awkward intersection of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Whereas for a lot of the time period’s connotation suggests video video games, video video games are just one instance of the idea of gamification in motion—and solely insofar as they’re very a lot video games. Video video games are interactive, digital sequences that themselves have been gamified. In any other case, they’d merely be interactive digital experiences.
In truth, life is itself ‘gamified’—loosely, via casual social competitors (‘maintaining with the Joneses’), to the thrill excessive couponers get evaluating receipts, to cryptocurrencies and evaluating 401k portfolios, getting access to ‘Platinum’ or ‘Black’ bank cards, or accumulating frequent flyer miles. Even sticking a push-pin into the map of each touring vacation spot you’ve ever visited is a type of ‘gamification.’ As are Boy Scout Badges. You’re making a sport out of one thing that isn’t.
Virtually all social media is deeply gamified—within the ease with which mates might be ‘collected,’ standing updates are sometimes used to replace progress or actions all through your ‘actual life’ day, or ‘like’ buttons brings you each dopamine and a way of identification whenever you align your self with others that like the identical factor. Share a pic or an replace and watch the ‘likes’ roll in, each like a degree in a sport.
The present challenge across the thought is much less about definition and extra about tone.
Lowering the method of ‘gamification’ to one thing merely leisure whimsical, foolish, or juvenile represents a elementary misunderstanding of gamification as a course of. For years, lecture rooms have been gamified. Letter grades are certainly first subjective evaluations of data proficiency, however as soon as they’re handed to the palms of the scholars, they turn out to be sport elements, handed round as proof of the completion of some process, or the achievement of some desired purpose (mastering a regular, fulfilling the necessities of an project, and many others.) Right here, rubrics turn out to be directions for process completion.
Right here is the purpose, listed here are the standards getting used to ascertain the phrases of high quality, now give it a shot and I’ll consider how effectively I believe you probably did.
The Grade Level Common is perhaps essentially the most seen instance of gamification in class. Data is evaluated with a slew of assignments and assessments, and a letter grade is given as a sort of trophy—As are huge trophies, Fs trophies of the incorrect type, however trophies nonetheless. Class rankings? It is a contest to gather as many As as attainable, attempting to make neat what’s inherently messy: studying.
Contemplate how a lot ‘3.2 GPA’ misses a few learner, their pursuits, their historical past, their progress, and their potential. Letter grades are the tried quantification of understanding and/or efficiency in hopes of hiding the ridiculous complexity of the training course of. By way of the letter grade (versus options to letter grades), efficiency turns into apparently synchronized throughout in any other case asynchronous conditions. Completely different learners with completely different lecturers, via completely different assignments, accomplished in lieu of various studying types, with the overwhelming affect of extremely completely different private lives—via this setting of disparity, the letter grade makes an attempt to be the one factor that’s common.
However at an incredible price.
In truth, the facility of the letter grade has turn out to be extra highly effective than the training itself for a lot of, subsuming notions of data, discovery, and self-awareness. It’s assumed that letter grades and check efficiency are dependable quantifications of data, however anybody that’s ever graded a check is aware of the peril of this assumption. Utilizing a letter to explain easy, singular efficiency could also be acceptable, however when the implications transfer to longer-term notions of ‘data’ and ‘understanding,’ these themes gravitate dangerously in direction of self-worth.
Different examples of gamification? Scholar of the Month, Most More likely to (insert verb right here), Cum Laude designations, ‘Lettering’ in a sport, and numerous different acts and icons. Prior to now, nevertheless, there have been extra learners than there are seen rewards—extra particular person pathways than alternative for recognition of these pathways. Extra learners than podium spots. The remainder are despatched to vocational faculty.
The Nuance Of Instructing & Studying
Analysis on pupil motivation illustrates that pupil motivation is pushed largely by the intrinsic want to perform objectives:
“The fifth household of social–cognitive constructs that has been a serious focus of analysis on pupil motivation is objectives and purpose orientation. There was an excessive amount of analysis on completely different purpose constructs and their function in motivating and directing human conduct (Austin & Vancouver, 1996), however in analysis on pupil motivation, there have been two fundamental packages of analysis. One program focuses on purpose content material and the a number of objectives that college students can pursue in class settings, whereas the opposite has centered on the character of accomplishment objectives or purpose orientations. In each instances, the particular content material and the nature of the objectives serve to inspire and direct conduct in classroom contexts.”
What’s the ‘nature’ of a pupil’s objectives in your class? (Tutorial) grade? (Private) your reward? (Social) peer stress? Gamification permits broad content material areas (like English-Language Arts) with few measures of efficiency (alphanumeric symbols) to be damaged up into extra granular–and achievable–ideas and expertise. ‘Writing,’ for instance, can turn out to be ‘Skilled and self-initiated utility of the ‘revision’ step of the writing course of.’ Engaging in this will get them a badge or trophy or some illustration of that achievement–one thing that college students perceive and might accumulate over time. Then, every time that ability is used and improved, the badge can turn out to be greater or a special shade or tiered or by some means modified to mirror the pure progress of studying over time.
There have been makes an attempt at correcting this: each pupil will get a trophy, go/fail registration, social promotion in lieu of failing letter grades, and numerous others. However gamification can go a lot additional for these keen to think twice about it. This concept is nowhere stronger than within the capacity to doc and curate numerous learner nuance. Moderately than solely providing a handful of slots for the ‘highest performers’ to occupy, inside gamification lies the power to acknowledge the deeply customized nature of studying. Not all college students need trophies or gold stickers, or to be patted on the pinnacle for ‘learning laborious.’
Moderately, learners need—and wish—recognition of their distinctive nature: previous expertise, pursuits, cognitive and inventive presents, and demanding interdependence with these round them. This leads to self-knowledge and genuine placement with a peer set and neighborhood that gives an once more bigger, essential social context.
A gamification system–if well-designed–gives the power to make clear not simply success and failure, accolades and demerits, however each single step within the studying course of that the gamification designer chooses to spotlight.
Each due date missed, peer collaborated with, sentence revised, story revisited, each step of the scientific course of and long-division, each authentic analogy, tightly-designed thesis assertion, or exploration of push-pull components–each single time these concepts and extra might be highlighted for the needs of evaluation, accountability, and pupil self-awareness.
Within the ‘good’ studying mannequin, gamification wouldn’t be needed. However till we get to that time, it is a perfect slot in extremely tutorial studying environments the place college students are anticipated to grasp big piles of non-authentic content material and are measured for his or her ‘proficiency’ continuously.
Transferring Ahead
There are as many pathways to ‘success’ as there are particular person personalities; it is a theme of the 21st century. Gamification permits not only for recognition of those concepts, however convincing validation for really customized studying. To proceed to maneuver in direction of wholesome communities and helpful world interdependence, we might want to not merely acknowledge ‘completely different studying types’ or half-heartedly reward ‘low-achieving college students,’ however reasonably appropriate the hurtful custom of overly slender visions of educational success—a problem with strict requirements and outcomes-based instruction.
By the artistic utility of sport mechanics—and associated innovation in curriculum and educational design–that is attainable, however the dialogue should transfer past video video games and badges in direction of notions of learner empowerment, and a nearly-angry broadening of the definition of educational success.
This text was republished from a 2011 article by Terry Heick
Six months into my first being pregnant, I felt a lump in my breast and introduced it up at my physician’s appointment. “Oh, that’s regular,” my OB-GYN stated. “That occurs if you’re pregnant.”
Three years later, in 2022, I sat in a hospital robe a PET scan of my physique. Every patch of sunshine on the black background confirmed the place most cancers had taken residence. The scan was lit up just like the Las Vegas strip at night time.
That lump was not “regular.” It was HER2-positive breast most cancers, and by the point it was found three years later, it had unfold in all places.
As surprising as that picture was, I’d recognized one thing wasn’t proper in my physique after my daughter was born, and for 3 years afterward. My hair had turned three shades darker and was falling out and breaking. I slept 12 hours an evening and took two-hour naps to get via the day. I noticed specialists who recognized me with hypothyroidism. In the summertime of 2022, I discovered dimpling in my breast, like I had a damaged implant — besides I didn’t have implants. Once more, a dermatologist informed me it was “regular.”
Within the fall of 2022, the muscle groups in my chest felt sore, and after I was showering, I felt a lump. This time, my physician informed me to get a mammogram and ultrasound, which led to a biopsy and analysis. I used to be in my early 30s, mother to a toddler, had all the time labored out, and had no household historical past of most cancers. How might I’ve breast most cancers? I didn’t match the factors.
However the PET scan, glowing brightly, confirmed breast most cancers that had unfold to my lymph nodes, thyroid, kidneys, liver, abdomen, skeletal system and extra.
I instantly began chemotherapy and hormone suppressants. My insurance coverage wouldn’t cowl a mind MRI, despite the fact that I had most cancers in all places from the neck down and HER2-positive breast most cancers generally heads to the mind when it spreads. My physician fought for the mind MRI and, in February 2023, it got here again clear.
Extra excellent news adopted: In April 2023, I completed chemotherapy and my tumors had shrunk significantly. My liver enzymes had been regular. I stayed on hormone remedy, and my hair grew again. I had common scans to ensure I used to be nonetheless transferring towards my aim of NED, “no proof of illness.” My physician despatched me for a second mind MRI in August.
I used to be sitting on the sofa with my daughter on the point of take her to high school after I received the decision concerning the mind MRI outcomes.
It was the worst-case situation: There was most cancers in my spinal twine fluid. When most cancers metastasizes there, it’s referred to as leptomeningeal illness, and it’s incurable. Once I rushed in to see my physician, and three extra docs, that morning, I used to be informed I’d dwell two weeks with out therapy and 4 months with therapy.
I had 10 rounds of radiation on my entire mind and entire backbone. I realized there was a medical staff in Baltimore utilizing proton radiation. My insurance coverage denied this therapy, however I fought and received.
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In Baltimore, I stayed at a house for younger adults preventing most cancers. I missed my daughter and husband again in Tampa, however it was good to have a automotive service to the hospital and the companionship of a survivor group with individuals my age.
The therapy itself, nonetheless, wasn’t good. I vomited all the best way residence afterward and all through the entire night time, despite the fact that I’d been given anti-nausea treatment. The second spherical had me convulsing with nausea from the odor of burning flesh. I used to be informed just some individuals might odor that in therapy. After the primary 4 days of therapy, I used to be throwing up each different hour.
After 10 rounds, I’d misplaced 30 kilos and felt as if my esophagus was burned off. However I made it via. Now, I might return residence and have my first-ever surgical procedure: I’d have a port inserted into my mind that might ship a new vaccine straight into my spinal twine fluid. The vaccine was so new, I’d be the second affected person to get it.
For the following 16 Mondays, I’d present up for my six-to-eight-hour appointment. Though the vaccine took simply 10 minutes to manage, it might solely be combined after I checked into the hospital, so most of my time was spent ready. Because the vaccine trickled down via the port in my mind into my spinal twine, I might hear it. Then got here the ache, which I rated 10 out of 10. It was so extreme I couldn’t transfer for an hour afterward, so extreme that when my mother was driving me residence and hit a pace bump, I threw up all night time from the ache.
In January 2024, I reached my aim of NED from the neck down, however scans confirmed I’d developed mind tumors. I switched to a breast most cancers therapy that crossed the blood-brain barrier. I might take this treatment as a capsule at residence, however it induced me to lose 80% of the imaginative and prescient in my proper eye. I began getting injections into the eyeball to stop it from spreading to the opposite eye, however it didn’t work.
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I needed to swap to my third line of therapy in two years. I now get this chemotherapy each three weeks. Days three via 5 are exhausting, however I get two weeks of feeling nicely on this treatment.
My healthcare suppliers predicted I’d survive 4 months, however I’ve now lived for almost two years with leptomeningeal illness. I’m in uncharted territory. To this point, I’m the one one that has been in a position to end the vaccine.
I found the Leptomeningeal Most cancers Basis, which connects and advocates for individuals with this illness. I’ve met unbelievable individuals via this community, and I’m all the time keen to share my expertise with the vaccine with individuals who have questions. I encourage individuals to strive it, however I don’t sugarcoat it or make it sound simple.
The individuals I’ve met via this useful resource have helped me study to dwell with my illness. I advocate for myself. I strive each trial, and each new therapy, even when it’s scary. I deal with trying ahead. My household has deliberate a visit to Jackson Gap subsequent March. My daughter, Palmer, has by no means seen snow. I wish to do that first, and all of the firsts, together with her. She has so many to expertise.
I’m a logical individual, and I’m not in denial. I solely get emotional after I discuss Palmer. She’s the rationale I’m preventing. She is mild and pleasure, and he or she’ll be the rationale I do know my household will likely be okay. She’s going to deliver everybody via this.
After my analysis, I wrote 21 birthday letters for Palmer. I wished her to learn them on her birthdays after I used to be gone, to make sure she knew her mother’s love remained together with her as she grew up. I’ve now lived lengthy sufficient to throw away the primary 5 letters as a result of I can inform her I really like her in individual. I’m decided now to throw out the sixth.
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New to plant-based consuming? These 5 simple ideas will assist you begin a vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian weight-reduction plan—plus beginner-friendly recipe concepts to strive right this moment!
Plant-Based mostly Made Straightforward: 5 Newbie Tricks to Kickstart Your Vegan or Flexitarian Journey
Interested by consuming extra vegetation however unsure the place to start? Whether or not you’re going totally vegan, leaning vegetarian, or simply exploring a semi-vegetarian or flexitarianlife-style, making the shift to a plant-based weight-reduction plan doesn’t need to be overwhelming. On this information, I’m sharing 5 simple plant-based ideas for rookies that can assist you eat extra mindfully, deliciously, and sustainably. From easy swaps to simple vegan recipe concepts and starter plant-based meals, you’ll discover ways to make reasonable modifications that suit your life-style—no strict guidelines required. Let’s dive into your journey towards more healthy, plant-forward consuming!
The plant-based consuming pattern continues to soar as a approach to eat extra healthfully and sustainably. Increasingly individuals are turning away from the standard meat-centered plate in direction of a beautiful, colourful, plant-centric plate full of pulses (beans, lentils, peas), entire grains, greens, fruits, nuts, and seeds. No marvel this consuming model is catching on—it’s downright scrumptious! From a entire grain bowl full of chickpeas, brussel sprouts, and pistachios to a home-made veggie burger with tomato and avocado slices, there are such a lot of simple, scrumptious choices for plant-powering your consuming model.
A plant-based weight-reduction plan doesn’t imply that you need to surrender meat altogether should you don’t need to; it simply signifies that your weight-reduction plan focuses largely on vegetation. As I clarify in my ebook The Plant-Powered Food plan, there’s a spectrum of plant-based consuming, from vegan to vegetarian to pescatarian to semi-vegetarian (aka flexitarian). A plant-based consuming model is linked with a boatload of well being advantages, reminiscent of decrease dangers of coronary heart illness, sort 2 diabetes, sure varieties of most cancers and weight problems, in addition to reducing your carbon footprint. With so many causes to go loopy for vegetation, what are you ready for? Try my 5 newbie ideas for plant-powering your consuming model and dive into the world of plant-based consuming.
5 Suggestions for Plant-Powering Your Consuming Model
1. Breakfast with Vegetation One simple approach to transfer in direction of vegetation is to only begin on daily basis off by flooding your physique with really feel good vitamins from vegetation—nutritional vitamins, minerals, wholesome fat, plant protein, fiber, and phytochemicals. It’s simple! As an alternative of traditional American fare (breakfast meats, eggs, and refined grains), strive nutritious, tasty starters, reminiscent of a fruit and nut porridge, breakfast tofu wrap, buckwheat waffles, or aveggie burrito. See what I imply?
2. Meal Prep for Success Meal prep is usually a great approach to plan simple, scrumptious, wholesome plant-based meals for busy lunches and dinners. As an alternative of turning to takeout or quick meals, you’ll be able to pack your individual nutritious combos by prepping your meals firstly of the week following this simple formulation.
In an particular person, hermetic container layer: Salad greens (kale, arugula, spinach) + entire grains (quinoa, brown rice, farro) + plant protein (beans, lentils, tofu) + veggies (bell pepper, broccoli, snow peas) + fruit (diced pears, raisins, blueberries) + sauce (tahini dressing, French dressing, hummus) = nutritious and scrumptious.
Try this video on the right way to do my plant-based meal prep right here, and seize the recipe right here.
3. Let Vegetation be the Star of Your Dinner Plate The place does your thoughts go once you ask the query “What’s for dinner tonight?” As an alternative of going straight to animal proteins (rooster, beef, pork) why not consider the vegetation obtainable in your kitchen? What greens, fruits, grains, and pulses do you will have in your fridge, pantry, or fruit bowl? Flip to what you will have readily available to encourage a tremendous colourful meal. For instance, with easy elements, reminiscent of quinoa, avocado, and pomegranates, you’ll be able to create a flavorful, hearty salad bowl. Try how I make this stunning salad recipe right here.
4. Whiz Up a Plant Smoothie For vitality and protein gasoline, flip to your blender to create a plant-powered smoothie for a wholesome snack or mild meal. Chances are you’ll already be having fun with a wholesome smoothie custom, which you’ll simply make 100% plant-based with a number of swaps. Toss into your blender soymilk, a handful of nuts or seeds, seasonal fruit, and leafy greens to create a lean, imply smoothie. You possibly can even pre-prep a pitcher stuffed with smoothies to take pleasure in all week lengthy. Simply portion them out in single serve mason jars and retailer within the fridge to seize and go.
5. Snack on Vegetation You don’t need to restrict your plant choices to mealtime; make the most of snack time by munching on a wide range of greens, fruits, pulses, nuts, seeds, and grains between meals. Strive dipping snow peas into tahini, bananas into almond butter, and entire grain flatbread into hummus.
In accordance with Ring, Rose, who can be deaf, threatened to “chunk Doe’s fingers off” if he revealed the abuse to anybody, and at occasions choked him in his personal dorm mattress.
In 2011, after over two years of alleged abuse, Doe begged his mother and father to withdraw him from the varsity, although he didn’t clarify why. It might be one other seven years — as soon as Doe turned 18 years outdated — earlier than he got here ahead as an grownup to report the abuse.
California’s expanded statute of limitations permits victims extra time to carry ahead abuse claims. After the police investigated Doe’s claims, the California Freeway Patrol arrested Rose within the Hayward space on prices of kid molestation and prison threats.
Ring mentioned the $14 million settlement is the most important the state has ever paid to a single survivor of sexual abuse.
“I do know that there are different victims of this perpetrator,” Ring mentioned, emphasizing his concern that Rose isn’t in custody. “In the event that they haven’t come ahead already, I’d urge them to take action.”
In an announcement, Liz Sanders, director of communications for the California Division of Training, mentioned, “Pupil security stays a high precedence” for each the division and the state’s particular colleges, together with the CSDF.
“Since studying of those incidents, CSDF has taken extra protecting measures for college kids,” Sanders mentioned.
Rising residential staffing and offering extra coaching for residential employees are two of these actions, in keeping with Sanders. She mentioned the varsity has additionally “expanded monitoring capabilities” all through the campus to assist “guarantee protected, supportive studying environments for present and future college students.”
The CSDF didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Though the expertise was deeply traumatizing for Doe, Ring mentioned his consumer has been in remedy and the litigation did present a way of closure.
“It empowered him,” Ring mentioned. “He made a distinction, and so they acknowledged that he had been severely harmed. So all issues thought-about, he’s in a great spot proper now.”
For most children, summer time means a break from the grind of the college yr. It’s time to ditch the early alarms, overlook about packing lunches, and simply get pleasure from time collectively, absorbing sunshine for the 2 wonderful months. For a lot of mother and father, although, the liberty of summer time can carry new stress into the house. How do you fill lengthy days in a enjoyable, significant manner? How a lot display screen time is an excessive amount of? How do you keep away from guilt over not doing sufficient? How are you going to get work finished, sustain with chores, and survive the seemingly fixed chants of “I’m bored”?
If summer time feels extra overwhelming than stress-free this yr, relaxation assured, you’re not alone. Scuffling with learn how to get probably the most out of summers with the youngsters is fairly widespread. The excellent news is you don’t want a fancy, color-coded schedule to get pleasure from summer time. Versatile, low-pressure routines could make an enormous distinction in your peace of thoughts and your children’ growth. They assist stop the “summer time slide” — the lack of scholastic momentum that analysis reveals occurs over summer time. Having a summer time schedule for teenagers helps. The difficult half is discovering a rhythm that works for your loved ones.
Thankfully, we’re exhibiting you ways to try this right here. Maintain studying to discover a summer time plan that mixes construction with flexibility, so everybody in your home will benefit from the magic of summer time this yr.
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Find out how to Create a Summer time Routine for Your Children
A summer time routine for teenagers is clearly going to be totally different out of your typical faculty yr schedule, and it’s not about controlling each second of day-after-day. As an alternative, concentrate on constructing a basis the place children really feel protected, free from anxiousness, and supported of their social-emotional progress. Analysis suggests that schedules enhance emotional well-being and cut back anxiousness for teenagers. Making a structured routine for your loved ones additionally helps parental anxiousness, too.
Right here’s learn how to create a summer time schedule for teenagers that’s versatile and really works for your loved ones.
Determine your loved ones’s wants first
Earlier than you begin mapping out each summer time exercise, take into consideration your distinctive household state of affairs. Realizing your priorities and restrictions upfront allows you to make a practical and sustainable summer time schedule in your children.
When making a schedule, take into consideration:
Your work schedule – Are you distant, within the workplace, or working a hybrid setup?
Childcare assist – Will grandparents, sitters, or day camps be serving to out?
Nap schedules – Do you could have youthful kids who want common relaxation occasions inbuilt?
Current commitments – What sports activities, practices, remedy periods, holidays, or physician’s appointments are already scheduled?
Your private capability – Take your individual power, stamina, and psychological well being under consideration.
Select anchors, not hourly slots
Resist the temptation to micromanage each hour of the day. Utilizing a time-blocking strategy that’s tied to the pure rhythm of your family is way more efficient.
Begin by asking your self: When can we usually eat meals, relaxation, or play open air? Then, create a predictable construction round your typical every day actions, beginning together with your morning routine and dealing your manner via the day. This provides your children construction so that they know what to anticipate, however you don’t need to micromanage them.
To make use of anchors as an alternative of hours, take into consideration day-after-day as blocks of time, like:
Morning routine: You must get up, eat breakfast, and dress.
Mid-morning: It’s time for lively play like exterior time, going to the park, or taking bike rides.
Noon: Break for lunch, display screen time, or quiet time.
Afternoon: Let children be artistic with arts and crafts or give them studying time. You may additionally use this time for mild instructional actions just a few occasions per week to cut back the summer time slide impact.
Each night: Get pleasure from devoted household time, adopted by dinner and the bedtime routine.
Create a visible schedule collectively
Children, particularly youthful ones, usually tend to observe a routine if they assist create it.
You may make it enjoyable and artistic with an enormous poster board or a printable template. Let children beautify it by drawing photos, including stickers, or selecting the colours to code totally different actions. Engaged on a visible schedule collectively boosts buy-in by giving children a way of possession and independence. It provides them a way of satisfaction after they stick with it all through the week.
Rotate actions to maintain issues contemporary
Each mum or dad is aware of that selection is essential to maintaining children engaged, which is why it’s a good suggestion to combine up plans and actions each few days.
To assist, you possibly can sprinkle in some fun-themed days, like Strive It Thursday or Science Sundays, or plan a special occasion for water play, nature walks, journeys to the library, or something that enables children to discover one thing new. It’s also possible to create a menu of choices they will select from when time permits. Choices can embrace each at-home actions and ventures out and about.
Construct in transitions between actions
Children of all ages profit from having time to shift from one exercise to the subsequent. Incorporating rituals like snack breaks, a cleanup music, or a five-minute warning helps kids anticipate what’s coming subsequent, making transitions smoother and decreasing the probability of meltdowns or resistance.
Youthful kids may have visible timers or verbal countdowns to set expectations when transitioning from one job to a different.
Regulate as you go
Among the finest tricks to think about whereas making a summer time schedule for teenagers is {that a} routine ought to assist you, not stress you out. Be versatile and prepared to confess if one thing isn’t working.
Early on, it’s good to verify in weekly and mirror on what labored nicely that week. That is additionally a chance to establish the place you possibly can enhance shifting ahead. Don’t be afraid to tweak your plan at any level. Summer time is lengthy, and adaptability shall be your buddy.
Keep in mind, the purpose just isn’trigidity. Structured flexibility means discovering a rhythm that meets your loved ones’s wants whereas nonetheless permitting you to adapt. It’s the trick to maintaining children enthusiastic about their summer time days.
“Kids are most profitable after they know {that a} schedule is in place, because it prepares them to know what to anticipate and plan. Nevertheless, additionally it is essential to show that flexibility in schedules/constructions is critical. Exhibiting kids that changes and diversifications to schedules occur now and again permits them to be prepared for sudden points. Permit for the ‘destructive’ feelings (frustration, disappointment, disappointment) to be current but in addition mannequin that it’s okay to really feel this manner, however different viable choices are on the market.”
Pattern Day by day Summer time Schedule (Adaptable for All Ages)
Use the next pattern schedule for summer time as a place to begin. You’ll discover how simple it’s to adapt it to your kids’s ages. The concept works for parenting toddlers, school-age children, and even parenting youngsters, so long as you consider this as a template, not a rulebook.
Time Block
Toddlers (Ages 1–3)
College-Age Children (Ages 4–11)
Teenagers (Ages 12+)
Morning
Mild wake-up Breakfast Diaper change Free play
Wake-up Breakfast Dress Morning chores
Wake-up Breakfast Private time (studying, journaling)
Lunch Join with mates or household Take a noon break
Early Afternoon
Nap or quiet time (books, music)
Quiet time (studying, drawing, puzzles)
Downtime (music, artistic tasks, relaxation)
Mid-Afternoon
Snack Inventive play (blocks, artwork)
Inventive time (crafts, constructing, STEM kits)
Private tasks Chores Interest time
Late Afternoon
Water play Yard time Snack
Free playOutdoor gamesNeighborhood time
Free timeOutdoor hangoutSocializing
Night
Dinner Tub Bedtime routine
Dinner Household time Board video games Bedtime routine
Dinner Household check-in Wind-down Personal bedtime routine
Listed here are some extra suggestions for adjusting your summer time routine for teenagers by age:
For toddlers: Maintain nap and snack time constant and use shorter exercise blocks.
College-aged kids: Contain your little one in selecting actions.
Teenagers: Providing teenagers extra autonomy and independence helps them be taught to plan a wholesome and productive every day rhythm.
Suggestions for Sustaining Stability and Sanity
Even the perfect plans aren’t completely foolproof. When you’re feeling overwhelmed by the challenges of parenting throughout summer time, keep in mind that it ought to be enjoyable, not traumatic. The next professional suggestions can assist you retain emotional well-being entrance and middle as you create a balanced summer time schedule.
Contain children within the planning
Give children as a lot age-appropriate freedom as doable. You may let your little one select every day actions, or problem them to plan an upcoming theme day. Involving them will cut back resistance and get them enthusiastic about upcoming actions. It may possibly additionally increase confidence and allow them to observe decision-making expertise they’ll use all through life.
Construct in quiet time for everybody
Day by day downtime is essential for each children and caregivers. In line with analysis, quiet time helps emotional regulation and helps stop sensory overload. It doesn’t need to be strict nap time, both. It’s simply an opportunity for everybody, together with mother and father, to have a break, relaxation, and recharge.
As your kids outgrow naps, this a part of the day can rework into studying time or impartial play. Even quiet free play is effective. Research present it helps children construct essential self-regulation expertise they’ll want as adults.
“Downtime is so essential for everybody, particularly kids. It permits them to take a break from a packed schedule and calm down. It begins the observe of a wholesome self-care routine. By modeling that as mother and father, we additionally present the youngsters that it’s okay to take a while to calm down and care for themselves. It units kids up for the concept and observe of well being boundaries and steadiness in life. For fogeys, it permits time to breathe and recenter themselves to be current for his or her kids in a while.”
Maintain display screen time in verify with out guilt
Managing display screen time is usually a traumatic a part of parenting, nevertheless it’s OK to permit some flexibility, particularly on the powerful days. The American Academy of Baby and Adolescent Psychiatry says balancing display screen time helps wholesome progress and growth.
Restrict to instructional packages with a caregiver or mum or dad
2 – 5 years
Restrict non-educational time to a median of 1 hour per day (and not more than 3 hours on weekend days)
6 years and older
Monitor display screen use and encourage wholesome actions and habits, each with and with out screens
Setting cheap limits can stop sleep points, declines in grades, temper issues, physique picture points, and extra. Keep in mind, it’s about steadiness. An occasional film marathon or online game session gained’t derail your summer time or wreck your child.
When to Ask for Assist (and Why It’s OK)
Irrespective of how good it’s, a schedule for summer time gained’t erase all your stress, nevertheless it’s place to begin. When you’re struggling to handle the summer time months and also you discover elevated irritability, issue sleeping, or feeling overwhelmed by even small duties, it might be time to hunt assist. You’re not alone. Virtually all mother and father can relate to the toll that juggling work, childcare, and household wants takes.
Reaching out for emotional, psychological, or bodily assist is an important a part of self-care for folks. Remedy generally is a helpful software for all mother and father. Whether or not you’re managing a disaster or simply making an attempt to remain grounded, caring for your individual well-being is the easiest way to mannequin wholesome coping expertise.
If the psychological load of summer time feels heavy this yr, Talkspace makes getting assist via ongoing remedy handy and reasonably priced. Discover out why remedy is for everybody within the household, from children and teenagers to oldsters, and also you join with an internet licensed therapist when, the place, and the way it works for you, with out placing your loved ones’s wants on maintain.
My associates, we’re like explorers of yore standing on the fringe of a identified continent, looking on the huge ocean in hopes of discovering new, unspoiled, higher lands throughout it. True, we might have despoiled the continent behind us, however definitely issues will likely be higher within the new lands.
Within the metaphor I’m pondering of, the identified continent is our shambles of a healthcare system. For all of the protestations concerning the U.S. having the perfect well being care on this planet, that’s manifestly unfaithful. We don’t reside as lengthy, we’ve got extra persistent ailments, we kill one another and ourselves at alarming charges, we pay far more, we’ve got too many individuals that may’t afford care and/or can’t acquire care, we’ve got an excessive amount of care that’s ineffective, inappropriate, and even dangerous, and we spend a lot an excessive amount of on administration.
Throughout that metaphorical ocean, within the distance, over the horizon, lies the 22nd century healthcare system. It can, we hope, be like magic. Will probably be extra equitable, more practical, extra environment friendly, extra proactive, much less invasive, extra reasonably priced. We don’t know precisely what it should appear to be or the way it will work, however we’ve seen what we’ve got, and we all know it may be higher – significantly better. We simply must get there.
This leads me to the following a part of the metaphor. I just lately learn an important quote from the late nature author Barry Lopez, from his posthumous e book of essays Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World. Mr. Lopez laments: “We’re trying to find the boats we by no means constructed.”
The boats aren’t coming to save lots of us, to move us to that idealized 22nd century healthcare system. As a result of we by no means constructed them. As a result of we nonetheless don’t have the braveness to construct them.
We’ve by no means constructed a system to make sure common protection. We depend on a hodgepodge of protection mechanisms, every of which is combating its personal issues and nonetheless leaving some 25 million folks with out insurance coverage – and that’s earlier than the 10-20 million who’re predicted to lose protection because of the “Large, Stunning Invoice” – plus the tens of thousands and thousands who’re “underinsured.
We’ve by no means constructed a system that was remotely equitable, simply as we by no means did for housing, training, or employment. Cash issues, ethnicity issues, geography issues. Discrepancies in availability of care and in outcomes present up clearly for every of these, and extra.
We’ve by no means constructed a system that prizes sufferers above all. We deferred to medical doctors and hospitals, not calling them out once they gave us substandard care or once they charged us an excessive amount of. Now well being care has gone from a “noble calling” to a jobs and wealth creator. A latest New York Occasions evaluation discovered (amongst different issues):
Well being care is the nation’s largest employer;
In 1990, well being care wasn’t the most important employer in any state; now it’s in 38 states;
We spend extra on well being care than on groceries or housing.
Decide your favourite goal: non-public fairness corporations shopping for up well being care entities, for-profit firms extracting income from our care (or nominal “non-profits” doing the identical), the regular corporatization of well being care. Throw in favourite boogeymen like well being insurers, PBMs, or Large Pharma. A method or one other, it’s concerning the cash, not us.
The adage about Large Tech involves thoughts: we’re not the client, we’re the product (or, as I’ve written earlier than, we’re merely the NPCs.).
We’ve by no means constructed the methods to make administration simpler. So many codes, so many guidelines, so many kinds of insurance coverage, so many silos, so many directors. By now you’ve little doubt seen the chart of the expansion of directors versus clinicians in our well being care system, and are conscious that round 1 / 4 of our healthcare greenback goes to administration. It doesn’t must be this fashion, it shouldn’t be this fashion, however administrative bloat is getting worse, not higher.
We’ve by no means constructed the methods to correctly monitor our well being or dangers to it.
From wastewater monitoring to monitoring of ailments/outbreaks to antagonistic impacts from prescriptions medication, medical units, we’re counting on haphazard strategies that depart us with no efficient warning methods. The assorted public well being mechanisms we had in place have been woefully unfunded previous to COVID, crashed (and have been burned) throughout COVID, and now are gleefully being defunded.
Worst of all, we’ve by no means constructed a system to trace what care truly works. Positive, there are gold normal managed research which can be supposed to do this, however a lot care that’s delivered shouldn’t be based mostly on such research, the impacts of such research take years to permeate precise observe patterns, and practitioners aren’t actually monitored to make sure they’re delivering the “proper” care or within the “proper” approach. We undergo care, we pay for that care, with out actually figuring out if it’s the care we needs to be getting or from the particular person/establishment who needs to be giving it to us.
Disgrace on us, and the system that permits all this.
With out constructing all these boats, we’re not attending to the 22nd century healthcare system that we would like, and deserve.
Positive, there’s numerous thrilling know-how that can assist make issues look extra like a 22nd century healthcare system. AI, robots, genetic modifying, nanobots, sensible cells, artificial biology, and extra – these are all thrilling, and can all be helpful in that 22nd century healthcare. However they gained’t get us to the 22nd century healthcare system we must always get. They’ll simply take us to a slicker, dearer model of the one we’ve got.
You could have seen {that a} couple weeks in the past was the 50th anniversary of the preliminary launch of Jaws. One in every of its most iconic strains was the Chief Brody’s response when he first glimpsed the scale of the shark he and two companions have been foolishly searching: “You’re gonna want an even bigger boat.”
With regards to getting us to the 22nd century healthcare system we must always need, we’re gonna want an even bigger boat too – and we higher begin constructing it now.
Kim is a former emarketing exec at a significant Blues plan, editor of the late & lamented Tincture.io, and now common THCB contributor
Charlotte, NC (Wednesday, July 9, 2025)—Florida’s Volusia County Faculties (VCS) has introduced the adoption of the Science Techbook for Florida to be used within the district’s Okay-8 lecture rooms. Constructed from the bottom up for Florida lecture rooms by Discovery Schooling, the creators of important PreK-12 studying options utilized in lecture rooms around the globe, the Science Techbook for Florida is accredited for classroom use by the Florida Division of Schooling and is aligned to the Florida State Requirements for Science. VCS is among the many first districts within the state to formally undertake the Science Techbook for Florida for classroom use.
Positioned on Florida’s east coast, VCS’s crew of greater than 8,100 directors, lecturers, and help employees serve over 60,000 college students in practically 70 colleges throughout the county’s 16 municipalities. United by their mission to ignite a ardour for studying in all college students in order that they might turn into productive residents, VCS seeks to have interaction all college students in excessive ranges of studying daily.
In help of that aim and to fulfill the goals of the district’s Strategic Plan 2024-2027, district management sought a brand new core tutorial useful resource for Okay-8 science. Particularly, district curriculum leaders sought a useful resource that would offer each scholar a difficult and constant tutorial expertise, that was accredited by the Florida Division of Schooling for classroom use and aligned to state requirements, and was each easy to make use of and straightforward to suit into the district’s current expertise structure. Following a cautious evaluation of potential sources, VCS chosen the Science Techbook for Florida to be used in grades Okay-8.
Science Techbook for Florida empowers Florida faculty programs to simply combine an modern digital-print-kit blended curriculum into instruction to create distinctive, student-centered studying experiences. Included on this complete core curriculum are partaking digital sources, print scholar and instructor editions, hands-on exercise kits, and digital investigations. As well as, embedded accessibility instruments assist extra college students connect with content material than ever earlier than, and a collection of time-optimizing sources present Florida lecturers with extra alternatives to give attention to educating.
The Science Techbook for Florida curriculum consists of ready-to-use, phenomena-driven classes that inspire college students with highly effective expertise instruments—reminiscent of toggle-on genuine Spanish translation—that personalize the scholar expertise, and labor-saving instructor instruments that streamline preparation and grading. Obtainable in each print and digital codecs, Science Techbook for Florida offers a seamless classroom expertise full with immersive, interactive methods to discover scientific phenomena, together with hands-on engineering actions, labs, and STEM connections.
Via its digital, print, and blended choices, Science Techbook for Florida delivers a variety of high-quality sources that help college students as they uncover how science is practiced in the true world whereas specializing in deeper understanding and the applying of grade-appropriate science content material. Just lately, Discovery Schooling’s Science Techbook was licensed as assembly the rigorous, evidence-based ESSA Tier III requirements as set forth within the Each Scholar Succeeds Act (ESSA).
“A stable science schooling is crucial for college students of all backgrounds, skills, pursuits, and skills,” mentioned Jennifer Taylor, Volusia County Faculties’ Okay-12 Science Coordinator. “Our district’s strategic plan commits to making sure all college students obtain excessive ranges of studying daily. Through the use of the 5E tutorial mannequin to discover real-world phenomena, college students be taught to watch, ask questions, collect proof, and assemble which means from the world round them. These new digital sources from Discovery Schooling will assist carry science to life—partaking curiosity, deepening understanding, and constructing the important pondering abilities college students must navigate and make sense of the occasions they encounter daily.”
A number of research present that common use of Science Techbook within the classroom has many constructive tutorial outcomes for educators and college students throughout quite a lot of districts and populations in the US. For instance, in an unbiased research with Arizona’s Sahuarita Unified Faculty District, a 3rd occasion evaluated Discovery Schooling’s affect and located that use of Science Techbook resulted in elevated science, math, and studying proficiency in grades 3-8. Within the second research, a correlation was discovered between frequency and depth of use of Science Techbook and scholar achievement in science in grades 6 and seven. This analysis and extra will be discovered right here.
Educators utilizing the brand new Discovery Schooling options will obtain devoted skilled growth from Discovery Schooling’s crew {of professional} studying specialists. These studying alternatives for lecturers assist colleges acknowledge the complete return on their edtech funding. Via Discovery Schooling’s interactive skilled growth classes, individuals will be taught finest practices for integrating their new digital sources into instruction. Efficient skilled studying will increase scholar engagement and helps the continued tutorial growth of all college students.
As well as, all educators utilizing Discovery Schooling’s digital sources have entry to the Discovery Educator Community. A world neighborhood of schooling professionals, the Discovery Educator Community connects members throughout faculty programs and around the globe by social media, digital conferences, and in-person occasions, fostering useful concept sharing and inspiration.
“Discovery Schooling is proud to kick off this new partnership with the Volusia County Faculties,” mentioned Daniel Gammage, Discovery Schooling’s Director of Instructional Partnerships. “The district’s directors and lecturers have collaborated to create an thrilling new imaginative and prescient for science schooling throughout the district, and we’re proud to help their modern efforts.”
For extra details about Discovery Schooling’s award-winning digital sources {and professional} studying options, go to www.discoveryeducation.com, and keep related with Discovery Schooling on social media by LinkedIn, Instagram, and Fb.
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About Discovery Schooling Discovery Schooling is the worldwide edtech chief whose state-of-the-art, PreK-12, digital options help studying wherever it takes place. Via award-winning multimedia content material, tutorial helps, modern classroom instruments, and strategic alliances, Discovery Schooling helps educators ship highly effective studying experiences that interact all college students and help increased tutorial achievement on a world scale. Discovery Schooling serves roughly 4.5 million educators and 45 million college students worldwide, and its sources are accessed in over 100 nations and territories. Via partnerships with districts, states, and trusted organizations, Discovery Schooling empowers lecturers with important edtech options that encourage curiosity, construct confidence, and speed up studying. Discover the way forward for schooling at www.discoveryeducation.com.
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