24 Jul, 2024 Good News About Resilience By Debbie Ausburn A scoping review of 27 studies highlighted that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can lead to negative outcomes in cognitive, mental,...
22 Jul, 2024 Louisiana Court Backtracks on Abuse Statute of Limitations By Debbie Ausburn The Louisiana Supreme Court recently reversed itself, finding that the legislature's creation of a safe harbor for old claims of sexual...
17 Jul, 2024 District Courts Enjoin Title IX Interpretation By Debbie Ausburn A district court judge in Mississippi has enjoined the federal government's interpretation of “sex” in Title IX as including “gender...
15 Jul, 2024 A Rare Dismissal for a Mandated Reporter By Debbie Ausburn A prosecutor in Pennsylvania has made a rare turnabout in a mandated reporter case and dismissed charges against a Mormon clergy member....
13 Jul, 2024 Students Continue to Lose Ground After Pandemic Restrictions By Debbie Ausburn The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released its 2024 “Kids Count Data Book,” reviewing data from the National Assessment of...
10 Jul, 2024 Classroom Discipline Matters By Debbie Ausburn A study from Japan and Macau found that classroom discipline and the quality of teachers have a greater impact on student success than...
11 Jun, 2024 Women on IT Livestream By Debbie Ausburn Debbie Ausburn will be speaking on the Positivity Hack Delivered (PHD) livestream, part of the Women on IT community. Join us on...
10 Jun, 2024 Know the Difference Between Good Mentoring and Predatory Grooming By Debbie Ausburn All youth organizations need to guard against grooming. The problem is that the characteristics used to describe both good mentors and...
08 Jun, 2024 How Many Documents Do You Keep and for How Long? By Debbie Ausburn YSOs that follow a school calendar often use this time of year to clean out storage. If you don't have a document retention policy, you...
05 Jun, 2024 Kids with ACEs Benefitted from In-School Classes During COVID By Debbie Ausburn We have yet more evidence that in-school classes were better for kids during the pandemic than online learning. Researchers looked at...
03 Jun, 2024 The Main Reason We Don't Have Enough Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn As we close out National Foster Care Month, I want to look at two news articles that came out the same day in April. In the first, the...
01 Jun, 2024 Fourth Circuit Expands Exception For Religious School Employees By Debbie Ausburn The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently expanded the Title VII “ministerial exception” in a case involving a religious school....