🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own. Link arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617

If you want to create a positive school culture where your pupils belong and thrive put staff first. If your staff don’t feel happy at work, are overloaded and unsupported then they won’t do their job to the best of their ability.

Thank you @HughesHaili for an amazing CPD session today!

Victory at Arthur Terry Learning Partnership. After 9 days of strike action, with strong pickets across 20 schools, mass parent support and sustained public pressure, NEU reps and members have won. - Redundancies stopped. - TLRs protected. - Regradings blocked. - Term-time only changes scrapped. - EHCP and pupil premium funding protected. But most importantly accountability secured as the senior leadership has gone. This is the power of organised workers standing together with their communities. Congratulations to ATLP members and reps, and thank you to everyone who stood in solidarity. ✊

Ofsted evidence is telling a clear story. Culture, belonging and consistency aren’t “soft” issues — they show up everywhere inspectors look. We’ve pulled together the key themes leaders can control, plus the risks to watch. Inside the HeadteacherChat community. You don’t have to work this out alone. 👉 Join us and read the full analysis. headteacher-chat.link/ofsted…

I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!

To anyone interested in math and AI: Ken Ono, a renowned number theorist, has recently started posting here. He's definitely someone worth following.

You open an email about CPD and @HughesHaili is presenting! Very excited about the training day now.

I’m actually so devastated right now. I matched with this guy on hinge yesterday and we were having the best conversation I’ve probably ever had on that app. This morning was going to reply to his message from last night and in my half awake stupor I accidentally unmatched him and I cannot for the life of me find him anywhere!! Antony please, if you’re reading this I’m Sorry!!!! Imy

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Our English lead works incredibly hard to make our annual book advent so special for our children. In her own time she visits charity shops throughout the county to make sure every one of our 300 children get a book for advent. And then wraps them all! Such a lovely thing to do!

I cried in our staff meeting tonight. Not for attention. Not to make a point (and I'm not doing that on here). But because I finally said out loud what so many of us are feeling - that this is the toughest time in education I’ve ever known and I need my colleagues’ help to get through it (so I can keep helping them too). I love my job, our community and the people I work with. I'm lucky because I really do. But the intense pressure and relentlessness… the growing SEN needs… the feisty world we live in... the funding cuts that force us to dismantle the very things we all know make a difference - it all takes its toll. It hurts. It keeps you awake at night. After 15 years as a head in two very different places, I’ve never felt pressure like this. I want to do more for our families, more for the children who need us most, more to support my brilliant colleagues who are running on empty. Their tears break me and I’m running out of wise words and clever solutions - and we’re not even in the Ofsted window yet. The daft thing? School is in a great place. We’re playing like we’re pushing for a Champions League spot while living in a relegation battle. It’s confusing and so bloody exhausting. So yes, I cried. And I’m glad I did. Because my colleagues were there for me - and vulnerability brought us closer and made me feel stronger, not weaker. If you’re feeling it too, please talk to someone at school. Make space for each other. Create safety. Create belonging. Make it deliberate. Things will improve. They have to. Until then, let’s be kind - to ourselves and to each other.

Book 9 in my 16-part series is the longest book on the shortest phase of the lesson - the starter or Do Now. Get the Do Now right, and students remember more and are set up for a productive lesson. Get it wrong, and carnage could ensue!

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments. One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?" "6:15," he said, confused. "Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it." He blinked. "You... you can do that?" "I can now," I said. Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?" "Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing." He cried. Right there in the parking lot. Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic. But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!" "Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel." He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us." The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over." Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it. But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note, "Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends" People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket. I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece." So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones. Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees. It's not glamorous. But it's everything." Let this story reach more hearts.... Credit: Mary Nelson

Children love being successful and hate being scared. Don’t we all. Don’t bark at them; teach them how to do it. @tombennett71 @researchED_US

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Revision booklets printed and handed out to year 11 ready for the mock exams! Prepped in less than 5 minutes, 30 key topics, over 300 exam style questions, QR codes for video lessons on each one 🔥 Such a buzz in the classroom when these got handed out! Does anyone else do something similar? I used to spend hours finding questions and making booklets 🥹 ELEV8: thegcsemathstutor.co.uk/tgmt…

I am currently sitting in my car on a street in Glasgow, eyes fixed on the white van opposite, as I have reason to believe my golf clubs are in the back of it. They didn’t make my flight on Sunday from Geneva to Edinburgh and since then @easyJet have been absolutely useless. Not a single reply to an email, two of the phone numbers they gave me have been disconnected and the third just rings out. The online chat (hard to tell if it’s a person or a bot) says they can’t help me until they have been missing for 6 days. On Wednesday morning they landed in Edinburgh (about 40 minutes drive from my house). But instead of heading east to Gullane they went west. I know all of this thanks to the miracle of Apple AirTags. They spent a day driving around Glasgow and then came to a residential street to spend the night. Yesterday they had a huge adventure as they went all the way to Elgin in the north of Scotland. But then they came back to Glasgow. So, I have come to stake them out. You can tell it’s my first time though as I forgot coffee and donuts. I am hoping that a delivery man comes to open the van rather than a criminal with a taste for MacKenzie golf bags and Gen 3 PXGs…