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Today, we are talking with our friend Jim Sheils about his book, The Family Board Meeting. Jim is a father of five and is passionate about helping families have the best relationships they can. He talks about the importance of putting down your phone and having scheduled one-on-one time with your children as well as weekly dates with your partner. We hope you learn some helpful tips on how to dramatically strengthen your family! Listen to Episode #321 here.   Jim Sheils talks at length about the importance of quality time. Quality time is intentional, planned, and strategic time together....

Before joining the Lifelong Kindergarten group in the MIT Media Lab, Cecilé Sadler saw computer engineering and community service as separate aspects of her life. Alongside her bachelor’s and master’s work in computer engineering at North Carolina State and Duke University, respectively, Sadler also spent a lot of time working with young people through local Boys and Girls Clubs and public schools. Now, she blends both of her passions as a graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. “The work I do now is that happy medium,” says Sadler, whose thesis grew out of a collaboration with...

[TAG0]Getty ImagesKristen Chapman, 52, doesn’t know anyone in Virginia. She doesn’t have a job lined up or a home there. But this summer, the Tennessee mother of three will uproot her family from Nashville and move 600 miles away to Richmond, VA, so that her transgender daughter can continue receiving the gender-affirming care that Chapman believes has saved her child’s life. In March, Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender minors. “My youngest child cannot get care here legally. I no longer feel welcome here. I no longer feel safe here,” says Chapman, a social worker and artist, who identifies as...

A U sculpture on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022.Ben B. Braun, Deseret News Recently it was announced that the 18-member Utah Board of Higher Education membership was being replaced with a 10-member board. Although the smaller board was part of the governance changes prescribed in SB146, which was passed by the Utah Legislature earlier this year, the replacement of all members of the sitting board is rare. According to a statement, “The governor wants Utah’s colleges and universities to be more aligned with workforce needs and responsive to keeping tuition low,...

British Columbia’s Ministry of Education went ahead with plans to do away with letter grades from kindergarten to Grade 9 despite its own public consultation showing the majority of teachers, students and parents didn’t like the idea. A 97-page report completed in 2021 for the Education Ministry includes a survey of more than 4,000 people on the government’s new policy, which includes assessing younger students as emerging, developing, proficient or extending, instead of grading them A to F. Other changes in the policy include a minimum of five updates provided throughout the year, including three in writing, and new requirements...