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"An education will make him unfit to be a slave"

There's a powerfully nuanced and layered understanding of servitude that shackles itself to those words

Or so I'm here to suggest to you in these next few minutes. Now, the going standard for TED talks these days allows a speaker

10-20 minutes to make his case and indeed this sounds like a reasonable amount of time for a person with an idea that he feels

Is worth spreading whether virally or otherwise to make such a case so here goes?

I've taught courses and rhetorical analysis under the misnomer speech for 12 years nine of them at the largest undergraduate

Institution in the already large state of Texas and I do take this responsibility as seriously as I have anything in my life

Now the best footballers leave it all on the field the best endurance racers leave it all in the course

Perhaps the best chefs leave it all in the food, but the best teachers certainly leave it all in the classroom

reputation and

Perception so often serve as a black mirror for reality

still I would confidently appeal to any former student of mine for an honest assessment of my efforts thus far as

Any person or group of people in a position of authority?

Should always be confident enough to both welcome and encourage public criticism for example

I offer the following self criticism

I enjoy a healthy amount of academic freedom at the front of a college classroom yet

I often feel a strange

obligation to teach the Canon

For those who aren't familiar with this term the Canon serves as a collection of the favorite speeches and books of teachers

Who've come before us and?

It took me a great deal of honest

Introspection to recognize my own. Hypocrisy here as

I've found that I can quite easily lie myself into believing that someone else's favorite books are mine, too. I

Can do the same with speeches with movies with foods with fashion trends and all the rest

now this kind of self-deception can be a massive opportunity cost for otherwise impassioned teachers and

Perhaps some of you can relate

Now my formal education featured many dispassionate teachers

And I used to go out of my way to make teachers hate their jobs as much as they seemed to want to

But now with more wisdom I wonder how many of them were dispassionate because they were teachers

Versus those who were simply dispassionate about what they were teaching

The students I've had the privilege of learning with over the past decade have made me a better person

For it and as all engaged teachers. Do I have documented stories that are truly stranger than fiction?

And over the past few years. I've decided that my cannon is long overdue for an update for example if you dare

imagine a woman introducing herself to a roomful of

25 strangers telling the story of her journey across the earth to find a safer Haven here in Dallas

fleeing a court a culture that forced her into a mutilation of her genitals a

Practice at the World Health Organization estimates over 95 percent of women in countries such as Egypt and Somalia have had to endure

Now there have been seven of these stories in my classes thus far in

The front of a college classroom has been a space that these brave women deemed safe enough to condemn the barbarism from which they

Heroically fled this is quite the Odyssey

I would imagine and as the son of a weakened duit liberal feminist single mother I've listened to these

horrifyingly inspiring personal narratives

made starkly aware of my own privileged position in a world this chaotic and

Many stories that I have documented belong in any reasonable person's Canon as they will always enjoy a safe space in my own

Now my college campus is a graveyard, and I'm not just talking about the free speech area

I mean a literal one as the motley family cemetery reminds me each workday

how fortunate I truly am to be able to whistle past the graveyard gates and

as any lover of dead poet's would I make it my goal to help people find their voices a

Success in my case is watching students experience a Renaissance

Which is a renewed desire to seize the day in their own unique ways and that makes my work feel worthwhile?

Now that I'm older I take more time to reflect and wonder how many of these

Rediscovered voices get quickly muted after graduation by the predictable loudness of a stressful life

So welcome to the Eastfield college free speech area

Now many of my colleagues are aware that I do not mind taking the lead or starting a flash mob

And I plan to start using this area frequently, and I hope you will consider joining me

students faculty professional support staff administration cleaning crew members members of the local community

You all have something worth sharing publicly

Now coming from an anxious introvert who forces myself to be the opposite

I understand that it may take many of you years of struggle to do this

But I'll ask you to bracket for a moment whatever

Anxieties you may feel and consider that the juice in this space may be well worth the squeeze

Now I say this having spent 12 years watching adults myself included self actualized

This substantive lesson is one that I am most certainly privileged to learn more concretely each semester

Now I love being an educator and it has come to my attention

recently that my discipline poorly named speech is being strongly considered for a de facto removal from the core curriculum a

Core curriculum for those of you who don't know is more commonly referred to as the basics

it's the Canon of courses that lawmakers decide should be required to complete in order to graduate with a degree and

That's fine as I relish the opportunity to market our discipline in a variety of ways

Now I've worked a non profit student service for 17 years

And I've taught students ranging from 5 to 82 years of age

And I started my career working as an advisor for a scholarship that did not discriminate on behalf of a person citizenship

And I'll ask you to trust me when I assure you that I've listened to thousands of people's dreams at this point

Perhaps some of you can relate and at this juncture in my career

I cannot think of a better way to continue to help people in my local community

Find their voices than to practice public in this free speech area what I preached privately in the classroom

now at Eastfield college

we brand ourselves in many ways a

Family is one such label now worth noting here is I've found that families work best when they learn to argue

Honestly and publicly the hive is another label

We proudly give ourselves also worth noting here hives are mostly made up of worker bees now each workday morning

I transition from a 6 to 8 hour extra-dimensional trance to the best wet willy ever from my best friend stuff

Stuff and I have a walking route down by the Trinity River in one of Dallas's most awesome green spaces and so it's nearly impossible

For my days not to begin with a smile, and I was born across the street from South Oak Cliff high school

I grew up around candy houses known to many today as trap houses drive-by shootings gang turf wars

helicopters regularly shining spotlights on our bedroom windows and

Constant sirens you learn to adapt to your environment, so these days I cannot forget how charmed of a life

I currently live and my body's been around the Sun 38 times

And it's difficult for me to imagine how my mother managed all of the stresses

She had at 38 and it must have been a private hell for any parent struggling

Unsuccessfully to shield one's offspring from life's harshest and most

disgusting realities

But like a good parent

She insisted that an education was the way out and this can be a hard sell to a five-year-old

Especially when your kindergarten class goes through 9 teachers in one year, and we dealt with issues including

But not exclusive to beer bottles found in the trash can teachers caught having sex in the classroom lockouts

Firings all in one year

Welcome to school in my case

I was fortunate to have a mom who cared enough to get me out of there the next year

And I should note here that

she had to physically threaten the principal to release my records so that I could attend a different school out of our district and

She likely won't like me saying that publicly but my mom didn't play when it came to her child's education

respect do I

Should also add that I was privileged enough to have our

Received a solid educational foundation in the heart of one of the poorest neighborhoods in the United States

At a preschool, which has now moved from its original home in the Nolan Estes Plaza called Jimmy Tyler

Brashear where my mom lied about my age at two to get me in

Now I say all of this because it informs my current view of how valuable a quality education

Truly is and I now deem myself

educated only to the extent that I can keep the experiences of others in the calculus of my thoughts and behaviors and

It's incredibly hard to do this and I fail often

But that's okay because I've found that there are helpful people out there when I present myself

Honestly, so let's get honest about some stuff

each morning stuff

And I look up at the massive digital billboard that

overlooks one of the busiest highway mix masters and one of the richest cities on the planet to read the marketing slogan higher

education that actually gets you hired

marketing often lends itself to cuteness

Now this is the marketing slogan for the largest undergraduate

Institution in the state of Texas and so I have to understand my students expectations of me to get them hired

fair play right

But what about the students who aren't pursuing an education?

Merely to get hired

What about those who have a job and want to learn something for personal growth?

What about the entrepreneur who wants to start our own business and work for herself?

What about the stay-at-home parent who wants to pursue a formal education simply to set a positive example for her child?

What about those who want to spend their lives volunteering for organizations all around the world?

What about the person who recently got a new camera and wants to take a class to learn how to use it?

What about the person with a deaf child who unlike the majority of parents of deaf children?

Who expect their kids to learn how to read lips actually wants to take a sign language class?

To be able to communicate with his son

What about the couple who wants to take a beginning Spanish class because they live in Texas?

And they simply want to learn to communicate with their

now these are just a few examples from my experiences over the past 17 years as both an academic advisor and

As an educator and I have far more to further bolster this point and so do thousands of other educators

So I stand here today to speak out on behalf of Education

When Frederick Douglass's Kaptur came home to find his wife teaching him how to read he became infuriated

the wife was no doubt aware of how loudly this caged bird could sing if given the platform an

Education will make him unfit to be a slave Douglass recalls overhearing and his powerful

Personal narrative that again, I suggest belongs and any reasonable person's cannon

now I was 13 in the mid 1990s and there was a massive push for ethnic diversity in both schools and in workplaces and

a local diversity recruiter was tasked with visiting Dallas Public Schools to fetch top performing brown and black skin students

Now the schools. I applied to were labeled as college preparatory and they currently charged 30,000 dollars each year for tuition

These schools started in pre-k and they go to 12th grade and that's nearly four hundred

thousand dollars for a child's formal education

This is a lot of money and strongly suggests that an education is truly highly valuable

Now my life certainly changed after I was admitted to this different world in

eighth grade

The boys club van and the dart bus transported me to a massive farmland campus complete with peacocks

Windmills the number one debate team in the nation and the most part

that was invaluable for me was positive peer pressure I

Recall being fascinated by the fact that people actually pushed each other to do better in school

With of course the usual adolescent complications along the way

But if this doesn't sound like the twilight zone to some of you yet perhaps these two factoids will help

one in the campus's history no graduate ever had a child before graduating and

To the end of the year boasts a matriculation list detailing each graduates elite University alongside his name

Yale Harvard, Columbia

Dartmouth Penn Duke

Princeton Stanford Wake Forest they're all there and in my case it was Vanderbilt University in Nashville

Tennessee now people pushed each other to be smarter here to have healthier arguments to cultivate a lifelong

intellectual curiosity

This was a different kind of hive than I had been used to and incidentally our mascot was the Hornet and

Each year, I still have lunch with the former Admissions Director at the time that I was recruited

His name is Tom Perryman

And he's easily one of the most genuinely

Passionate educators that I've ever had the privilege of meeting and I will always consider him to be a mentor

the only reason we ever met is

because of my own teenaged ignorance

And I still recall the essay prompt for the Green Hill school admissions exam

Who is the most important historical figure in your opinion and why?

Now I remember being terrified because I didn't know what the term historical figure meant

and after staring at the paper for several minutes pretending to think I

Finally worked up the nerve to ask the kids sitting next to me, and he looked at me like I was from another planet

someone from history he said

Does it have to be a real person? I whispered

I

Wasn't kidding either?

And I remember him shaking his head in a way that let me know that if I was lucky enough to be accepted

I'd be punching up for a long while I

Looked at his paper and remember fixating on his first word

essentially

For me smart started there in that moment, and I put my pen on the paper

And I wrote a quote walk the streets my forefathers walk climb the trees my forefathers hung from

This hauntingly beautiful piece of musical poetry was written by a lyricist named speech

In a song called tennessee from a band that was popular at the time Arrested Development, and this quote headline a choppy

adolescent Spike Lee joint inspired essay about my hero at the time Malcolm X

Another order who belongs firmly in any respectable cannon by the way

now Malcolm X's legacy often gets

Zoomed by a symbol and as many people were sporting this symbol at the time on hats and t-shirts and posters

also by the line by any means necessary

And by a line beautifully delivered via Denzel, Washington in his prime. We didn't land on, Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us

Now I was moved by the power of those words

moved enough to make Malcolm Malcolm X history's most important historical figure after 13 years of heroes to choose from

But truthfully I was probably just man crushing on Denzel at the time more than anything

But 25 years later

Tom and I can still laugh about this first encounter on paper

and I've used a quarter of a century sense to find importance in those words and

actions of countless historical figures both real and fictional

Now this may all sound like a tangent to you

but that confusing essay prompt provided me with an education that will forever make me unfit to be a slave I

Might have been just another worker be

Someone who believes that the point of higher education is simply to get hired

And I see this slogan billboard it on the same dart bus routes

I used to ride and again flashing on the marquee at the entrance every single time

I turn in to campus and again on every piece of marketing swag that we have

It's a slogan that I try

unsuccessfully to unlearn each day a

Higher education is meant to challenge adults

many of whom have been grossly underprepared and

Under-resourced by a fledgling public school system and see College merely as the 13th grade

But rather a higher education is meant to challenge them with project-based learning

teaches them how to practice intellectual self defense and how to ask better questions of themselves of each other and

especially of authority

a higher education should empower adults to challenge broken systems

nonsense policies and ideas

Now my own discipline emphasizes that silence can be golden when you learn to listen to listen

Empathically to listen critically to listen

comprehensively and to listen

Appreciatively, and the best listeners are those that know how to adapt their listening style to the audience and to the situation

Now listening is most important and hardest when you disagree with someone or some thing and I personally

Often find it hard to listen when clear

communication takes a backseat to stuff like Robert's Rules of Order or Old English legalese and other nonsense ax

Intended to allow people to talk in secret code

Now it's my hope that you'll join me in this area

Whenever you feel motivated to do so and I'll certainly be here to help in any way that I can

For the past 12 years. I have given the same speech on the last day of class

encouraging students to remain intellectually curious to pursue their goals

Creatively and passionately and to keep me posted on any developments in their lives

And I always emphasize the first correction that was made to the US Constitution

Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech

Free speech is for all speech especially the speech that offends you and especially the speech that offends me

Whether or not free speech needs any ethical limitations is always up for debate in the mind of any educated person

So free your voice

Here and free your mind with a higher education and made this space always remain safe

For you to share with us what you learn along the way

You

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MakerBot Education Solutions - Duration: 2:01.

It's very important for students to realize that the career they pick and

the field they pick should be something they want to enjoy for the rest of their lives.

There are a lot of opportunities for students to utilize 3D printers in the workplace.

So when we talk about 21st careers — if we just gave kids the ability to print

they're actually walking away with ideas as to how I could use this moving forward.

I know what I'm gonna get with a MakerBot. I know that it's going to work, I know how it's going to work

The reliability was obviously a big factor because we didn't want to bring something in that would fail.

The reason why we continue to do what we do successfully is because the customer service

for MakerBot is outstanding. We get the parts we need. We get things fixed.

We get replacements whatever it might be as soon as possible

There was no guide when I started — and now there's this opportunity to see how to

use a 3d printer, how to unload it, how to clear it, frees you to then focus on

teaching children how to design.

We also have the Thingiverse for education piece

where you have these things that have been developed by educators

so instead having to search through the whole volume of Things you just *boop*

go to that one spot and there they are. Some if not all include lesson plans

that go along with it. You know that's a great resource.

I love the training. I love the fact that there's this curriculum now, that there's community.

After talking to teachers, we made the MakerBot Educators Guidebook

so they would have tangible lessons that they could use in their classrooms.

I'm really excited about it because I think that the design industry has been

talking about manufacturing and prototyping — having the technology in school

that prepares them to fabricate and build and test gives them an edge

that none of us had few generations ago

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Linda Brown, Known for Brown v. Board of Education, Dies at 75 - Duration: 0:57.

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Education Talks | Flipping the classroom in science lessons and beyond - Duration: 4:09.

Research suggests educational videos may be more effective than a teacher with textbooks: why?

I think that books are important. Evidently they are there.

I studied with books. I love books.

But these new generations,

the children who are in class right now, they spend all their free time on YouTube.

YouTube is their playground.

They are very used to the audiovisual format

and everything that arrives in audiovisual format, they get it a lot better.

Obviously it is much better, like I always say,

to show a video of an explosion than a photo of an explosion in a book.

So in my case, I think video in particular is a fundamental tool and can help teachers a lot

at the time of teaching and especially to connect with their students.

How do you think the idea of flipped classrooms will develop in the future?

There are already many teachers in the world working with the flipped classroom.

They are using video usually in class

and I think the breakthrough is going to be unstoppable in the next 3 or 4 years.

For me it is fundamental, not to replace the work of a teacher or anything like that,

but to be able to help to achieve that those kids,

who often find especially science subjects less likeable, can be engaged much more.

I also teach students in person

and they always like what the videos tell them better than what I tell them in class.

In fact, it will make it so that a teacher has to be more creative

and do much more different things than what they actually or usually do in class.

As a nominee for the Global Teacher Prize 2017, what would be your advice for the delivery of a good science lesson?

First of all, try in any subject, it does not matter if it is science,

to transmit the greatest possible enthusiasm to your students,

empathise with them and let them participate in class.

I think we should abandon, especially in science,

the idea that the teacher only has to speak and the students can only listen,

and I think we should participate and empathise and talk a lot more with them.

From there, I try to give them examples of superheroes, movies,

of all the things that they are keen with from the real world,

so they can relate the numbers and the letters and the equations

they see on paper and they do not know very well what they are for.

They try to relate to the real world and I explain why a plane flies

or that the bridge they go through every day responds to a mathematical equation

or that if there were no mathematics, they could not play their video games

because video games are about physics and mathematics.

And if I try to link their passions with the sciences, well, much better,

and that is what I try in the videos almost always.

Do you see more integration of e-learning into the curriculum in the future?

I think we teachers should little by little start introducing

all those small dynamics or in our class dynamics,

all those little technological innovations

that allow our students understand the sciences from different angles.

It cannot be that we continue teaching the sciences in the same way

as when I was little for example, when there was no Internet or no Google.

We must make the most of the computing power of computers,

mobile phones, social networks, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, definitely.

Because it makes the kids connect more what they see in class with the real world

because if not, they are faced with two different worlds.

And we teachers need to start introducing little by little that type of dynamics.

Not just social networks, but augmented reality.

All you need is a mobile and some cardboard glasses

for children to see the Sistine Chapel from inside or the bottom of the sea or space.

So, everything that we can introduce little by little in class that has to do with technology

will make the students go to the class more motivated, participate more,

and that obviously improves the way in which science is taught right now.

Above all, considering that in the future,

these kids are going to work with technology practically every day

and job opportunities of the future and of tomorrow

go through artificial intelligence, machine learning,

and many other concepts that have to do with science.

And the sooner we introduce the kids

or get them to discover the passion for science is much better.

And little by little, the teachers, we must try, at whatever cost.

For more infomation >> Education Talks | Flipping the classroom in science lessons and beyond - Duration: 4:09.

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Ngāti Naho Rangiriri education programme launches - Duration: 2:57.

After Ngati Naho was given back

the lion's share of the land in Rangiriri,

they decided to get into tourism

to share their local stories of war and confiscation.

Today they welcomed Manurewa High School,

their first large school group, to their new education programme.

Hania Douglas reports.

Rangiriri - usually somewhere you pass on State Highway One,

but the locals invite you to stop in.

We are Ngati Naho, Ngati Pou, Ngati Hine and Ngati Mahuta.

These lands were confiscated in 1863 after the battle of Rangiriri

when it was returned recently, the iwi got down to business.

There's a place to eat-in,

a museum which displays the history of the area,

along with artefacts.

There's also an art store as well.

And with the growing call for the Maori land wars

to be included in the national curriculum,

schools are invited to visit and learn.

When the students are here

they get to experience the ambience of the area

and really connect with the ancestors in a meaningful way.

Those ancestors have been laid to rest beneath those near-by hills.

You could say that the crowning jewel of the place

is Rangiriri Pa itself,

situated on land that was only returned to the iwi in 2016.

When the land came back to the iwi, to the Maori King,

we, as Maori,

agreed that we wouldn't build anything

on top of these sites of significance.

Ngato Naho says they're happy that they now hold the power

to share the narratives passed down through the ages.

I'm very happy because if we hadn't had done this

then someone else would have,

and it would be someone else telling our history to others.

What happens when guardianship and business come together.

Hania Douglas, Te Karere.

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Aravas Education | Inclusive Education - Trivandrum - Duration: 0:26.

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CCSU to hold forum about problems plaguing higher education - Duration: 0:24.

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Education Talks | The question of quality in early years education - Duration: 5:27.

What is the significance of the EU quality framework on early childhood education and care?

Children's experiences in early year services across Europe

have the potential to be really influential in their current lives, in their future lives

and in fact throughout their life.

So it is really critical that we make those experiences the best quality that we possibly can

for children and for their families.

When the Quality Framework came out in 2014, it was a proposal, a draft set of statements

and even in that format, it has already made some impact in policy across Europe.

What does 'quality' mean? How can families, communities and local services contribute?

Children develop best in an environment where all stakeholders, all adults

who work in the support of their care and education,

work in partnership with a common shared set of goals and understandings

and so those really important relationships are the starting point of quality.

It is really important that staff, practitioners, teachers, parents

and wider families and societies and communities work together,

work together to share their understanding of how children best develop and learn.

We also need a shared vision of what quality looks like in practice.

That can be expressed through curricula or programmes of learning

that are informed by best evidence around how children develop and learn.

We also really importantly need to find support at the macrosystem level

so policymakers need to provide the resources, the governance infrastructure

and all of those elements that are going to create

what has often been described as a competent system

which supports quality at all levels

from the top at policy making right through to the experiences that children have.

Can quality ECEC have an impact on the inclusiveness and efficiency of education systems?

Early childhood education can lay foundation stones

that really give children the potential and build their capacity

to benefit from the offer of education right throughout the education system

and indeed into their professional lives and in their personal lives as well.

In early childhood we build strong foundations through fostering learning dispositions

such as creativity, self-regulation, problem-solving.

We create children who understand each other, who can be members of communities and societies.

We foster empathy and unfortunately in the current climate across Europe,

we could do with a lot more empathy and compassion.

How can the status of practitioners working in early childhood education be improved?

But what is really important as well is the fact that

you need highly qualified skilled adults to work with those young children,

to support those really positive learning interactions,

to find those teachable moments

where children make that breakthrough in their learning and development.

Those adults need to be qualified appropriately

but they also need to find the work rewarding.

They need to be recognised and valued for the work that they do.

Unfortunately, too often across Europe, the early childhood workforce tends to be

the poorer relations in the education system and that is something that we must change.

We really need to understand that the starting point

for improving the quality of experiences for young children

is to ensure that we have a strong, competent, confident workforce

who feel fulfilled in their work

so they come in with that positive attitude that models learning for young children.

We need to recognise that the work that early childhood professionals do is critical.

If they cannot do a good job working with our youngest children,

then we are always going to be catching up in the remainder of the education system.

They need to be given parity of status and parity of recognition and value.

What is your view on the transition from early years to primary school?

Transitions are something that is positive if they are supported correctly.

Our first transition from the close, warm connectedness of our families

into an early year service is becoming more and more common for children across Europe.

In recent times the numbers of children being funded

to attend free earlier services has increased quite dramatically.

This presents challenges for the next stage, the next transition: the one into primary school.

Because now we have a cohort of young children across Europe

who have had hopefully the experience of high quality early education and care

and this has developed their capacity, their learning dispositions, their skills,

their empathy, their ability to communicate,

and primary schools and primary teachers need to be ready for that.

They need to understand that there has to be continuity

both in the experiences

but also in the way in which children are recognised as competent, confident learners.

For more infomation >> Education Talks | The question of quality in early years education - Duration: 5:27.

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Interview with Inclusive Education Advocate, Brian Herndon - Duration: 52:25.

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Jack Millman '16 on how his military experience influenced his legal education - Duration: 0:37.

I believe my military service helped me sort of on two levels with law school.

The first is a very practical level.

It helped me with attention to detail, balancing my schedule,

planning in reverse so I would be able to accomplish things like getting an outline done on time.

The second thing was kind of bigger picture, which I think the military helped me realize

times can be very hard or you can have this sort of goal that seems overwhelming but you

just break it down piece by piece to get to the end, making sure you don't lose sight

of what that main goal is but you don't also get overwhelmed and not take care of all the

things along the way that need to get done.

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Rice Business Executive Education - Rethinking Workplace Diversity - Duration: 0:56.

My course is called Rethinking Workplace Diversity. A lot of times there's sort of

a one-size-fits-all approach. And I think the things that they learn in this class

will allow them to do a more custom approach and to think about the needs

analysis of their organization. And then to learn some of the best tools from

empirical research on how you can make a difference; how you can get people aboard;

what are the best ways to promote, to nurture, to watch diversity grow.

I've been doing work on diversity for twenty years. And I like to explore the issues

with people out in the field and come up with new ways. It's so near and

dear to me, I really believe in diversity.

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Asked & Answered: Graduate Education (03-27-18) - Duration: 0:42.

Hello, we're back with another round of Asked and Answered: An Ongoing Discussion.

In this series, faculty members talk about the meaningful experiences and mentoring relationships

they have with their graduate students.

Do graduate students need mentoring?

Graduate students are beginning the process of continuing the cycle of knowledge that's

been passed down for centuries really.

There's an old saying that we're all standing on, that we're dwarves standing on the shoulders

of giants.

And it has to be said that that's true of us faculty who were mentored at the same stage

in our lives and the capacity of us to pass that on is one of the most exciting things

we can do.

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I learned something that I didn't know. When you're backstage you can only hear a

few of the words that are coming - being said in the front so I have no idea what

she said about me. So hopefully she made up something. I heard something about

tech guru which I find hilarious. Any of you look at me this morning and as I

walked out and said, ah, there goes a digital native? Yeah.

So I love technology because I love the power of it. But I have to tell you that

my nine and seven-year-old granddaughters who have an iPad for less

than a year are so much more proficient than I am.

In fact they send me all these pictures with effects and things and I have to say,

how'd you do that? And then they explain it to me. It's

really wonderful. Well welcome to Napa! We are very happy that you're here and you

are here for two days, and you're having breakfast with us, you had breakfast with

us, and you're having lunch with us, so I would like to make a suggestion that you

find some lovely place in Napa to have dinner, which won't be hard, and then you

come back here tonight. For an unbelievable production of Les Mis, by

the Vintage High School Choir. As in unbelievable. If I wore mascara I would

have ruined it every night that I've seen the show. And I've probably seen it now

five or six times part in rehearsal and part I saw I was here for opening night

and last Sunday's matinee, and they do an amazing incredible job. Tickets are all

of $20. You can probably get them at the door tonight. If you want to be sure that

you get a seat it's a pretty big auditorium and they're doing ten

performances total so probably it won't be a problem but if you really want to

be sure, call Vintage High School music department and reserve two tickets and

they'll have them waiting when you get here.

But you don't want to miss this. It really is fabulous. Not that I'm

prejudiced! All right, maybe a little bit. But not really. So I know what I wanted

to start with. This is school! I'm gonna give you a quiz!

Let's get those brains going early this morning. Now this is a tough quiz. First

one is, how do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? Okay I just heard it.

(Inaudible audience member.) Oh he's heard this before. Okay you're, you're eliminated from this quiz. (Laughter.)

Now that was a question to test whether you do simple things in a complicated

way. Because it was really very simple. Question two.

How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator? The wrong answer is

open the door, put the elephant in, and close the door. The correct answer is

open the refrigerator door take out the giraffe, put in the elephant, and close

the door. That was designed to see if you could think through the repercussions of

your actions.

Well, a lot of our teachers do wear mics and classrooms which is a wonderful

thing because it saves your vocal cords. I wish they'd had that when I was

teaching. Okay so number three. The Lion King is hosting an annual conference.

Yeah! All the animals attend except one. Which

animal doesn't attend? Yeah. The elephant cause he's in the refrigerator! Excellent!

That was designed to test your memory. Okay even if you didn't answer the first

three questions correctly there is one more opportunity. Let's see if you can

show your abilities now. There's a river you must cross, but it's inhabited by

crocodiles. How do you manage it? You swim across! All the crocodiles are attending

the annual meeting! So that tested whether you learn quickly from your

mistakes. According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the

professionals they tested got all the answers wrong. Interestingly many

preschoolers got several answers right. Anderson Consulting said this

conclusively proves, disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains

of a four-year-old. Okay just being silly. So I wanted to start off by telling you

I have actually a very strong, I don't need glasses if I'm not reading do I.

I have a very strong connection to adult education.

The year was 1939. And any of you who are counting on your fingers and saying I

didn't know she was that old, just stop.

The place was Sierpc, Poland, and my father-in-law Boris Nemco was a young

man, 24 who lived there with his brother and his parents. His father was a

bookkeeper, his mother was a stay-at-home housewife, and he and his brother were

working. And there was a knock at the door. There were two Nazis there. And

unlike what you think of when you think of Nazis coming, they didn't yell, they

didn't scream, they just very quietly said you will be out of your house. Tomorrow.

Or else. And they left. And so everything got packed up and the next day there was

a knock at the door, but this time there were 12 Nazis. And they yelled. Out! House

with you. And they had to leave. Go to the center of town, join all the people who

were there, and they were put on the train and sent to concentration camps.

When they got there my father-in-law and his brother were put on one side, his

parents on the other side. He never, they never saw their parents again, he never

saw his brother again. My father-in-law was very fortunate because he was in the

camp with other men and they figured out how to tunnel out, dig underground and

escape. And thanks to the wonderful people, the good Christians in Poland,

they lived in the Black Forest for a couple of years until the war was over.

At the end of the war, the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society

put him on a cargo boat and he landed in the Bronx, New York. He had no family,

spoke not a word of English, and a big $50. And he had to figure out what to do.

So somehow he managed to get a job sewing shirts in a factory, and he found

a very small apartment with his $50, probably had to share. But what did he do,

first thing. He signed up for adult education. So he went to night school,

and who did he meet there but Siva, who had the same story except she had been

in Auschwitz, and what was she doing there? She was learning English. So they fell in

love and they got married, and then Martin Nemco was born, and 41 years of

wedded bliss later I have to thank adult education for my marriage! So what we

know for sure is that adult education changes lives. It's pretty amazing. It's

been doing that forever. And so if we look at adult education today, it's even

more critical than it was before. As you look around the room, what do you notice

about those of us who are here? Anybody have any comments about...? Right. Lots of

different cultures represented here. Which means probably lots of different

languages as a native language. That's one thing. What else do you see about us?

Excellent, even if we don't have the brains of a four-year-old we're all

adults, yes. And what else? What kind of adults? We're all teachers, good. I'm from,

where I'm standing I see a lot of gray hair.

Now this is not necessary. Don't have to have it. But we are an aging population.

So we know that the baby boomers are retiring in record numbers. And that is

leading to a huge skills gap. Because all of the experience of all of the baby

boomers is leaving the workforce, and the workforce now is, has more older people

as they're getting to the edge and leaving, and the workforce needs more

skilled people. We are moving more to a knowledge-based economy, yet you have

more immigrants entering the workforce. And so many of them, immigrants tend to

fall into two categories right now. We have the very highly skilled immigrants

who come here and work in Silicon Valley as engineers, and then we have the very

low skilled immigrants who come here doing what immigrants have always done,

looking for a better life. So the combination of them needing to learn

English, needing to learn about our culture, and needing to get more highly

skilled in order to get better jobs is causing a bigger need for adult

education than we ever had before. At the same time, adults have more

choices than they've ever had before. Because technology has given them many

choices. Now we use technology too. I'll tell you a personal story. At the young

age of 60 I decided I wanted to learn how to tap dance. This is not necessarily

a smart thing to do. Usually you tap dance when you're a child, and that gives

you a certain ability. But no, at 60 I decided I wanted to do that so I signed

up for an adult education class at the college. And I took it, and then I took it

again, and then I took it again, and I'm not terribly good at it.

And there are lots of people my age in those classes, but most of them are

people who studied when they were kids. Then I gave up and I stopped taking it.

So last summer we were at a meeting, and my husband who likes to pretend he's a

talk-show host all the time, was going around the table saying okay so what's

on your bucket list? What what do you want to do? And when he got to me I said

I really want to learn how to do a simple time step in tap-dancing. I've

taken the class six times and I still can't do it. And his next question to all

of us was so what are you gonna do in the next 30 days. Okay so I enrolled

again. But still having trouble because they're all so much better than I am.

So finally, duh, what did I do. I went to YouTube. And there in my laundry room,

which is the only place that isn't carpeted, I watched that YouTube video

again and again and again and again. Now I can do a simple time step. Can I do it

well? No. I can prove that to you if you'd like to see it, it's pretty pathetic. Okay.

So it's stomp hop step shuffle ball change hop hop step shuffle ball change

hop step shuffle ball change hop steps. (Clapping.)

I'm sure you use YouTube in the same way! The other way I use it is we got a new

refrigerator, and suddenly it says change the filter! I am the least

mechanically abled person that you've ever known and where the hell is the

filter? YouTube! Samsung french door refrigerator. And there is this lovely

young lady, and she says the filter is in between the two crispers. Ah! There it is!

Turn. Pull. Insert new. Turn. Finished! Oh my God. So technology is amazing in enabling

us to learn things and somebody said at some workshop I was at recently any

teacher who thinks they're more entertaining than a YouTube video needs

to think again. Oh, there's a problem. So what does that mean for us in terms of

adult education and having people in our classes. Well number one the refrigerator

is irrelevant but, because they don't have classes on how to do your, how to

replace the filter in your refrigerator. But the tap-dancing class I'm still

enrolling in. Why. Why do we want to keep them rolling in in the class. Huge. I

gotta tell you tap-dancing in my laundry room is a very solitary activity. And not

one that keeps me going for more than about 45 seconds. So yeah, I can do a time

step, but I don't want to keep doing it. I want to be in a class with the social

environment, where I am interacting with other people. What else? Yeah, but I could,

you're right. If I go to the class, I'm gonna get 45 minutes to an hour of

exercise rather than the seven minutes I entertain myself with the YouTube video.

What other reasons? Yes! Absolutely! Because they will show me tricks that

they've learned. It's hard for me to do it all by myself.

What else? Right. I'm accountable, absolutely. I feel the need to show, I

haven't put that YouTube video on in about four months now. But the class, you

go every week. Absolutely. Reinforced by success and as an adult I want to get

feedback from my teacher. I mean you saw a very simple time step, but you didn't

see a good one. So now I have to get from where I know the basics to where I can

do it to a level that someday I want to be in a show where they tap-dance.

That's my bucket goal. The only way to do that is to get a lot of feedback from my

instructor about how I can make better what it is than I'm trying to do. So we

know a lot of things about adult learners, and one of them is they're

motivated, right? I didn't end up in the class by accident. Something I decided I

wanted to do. When we're talking about people who need to learn English and

need to improve their skills, we know they are very motivated. That's a

good thing. We also know that they've had a life's worth of experience. So they

bring that with them. We also know that they're very practical. They generally

come for a specific reason. They want to have a better job, a new job, they want to

learn new skills, those things are important, and they're motivated. You

don't sign up unless you're motivated. But that those are the characteristics

that they normally tell you if you look at the research about adult learners. But

there's another piece that they don't tell you. And that's the piece about many

of them are fearful. Because here you are in a brand new culture, and English is

something that you're not particularly skilled at, for the most part there are

obviously more technical Adult Ed classes, but a lot of these people

haven't had much education even in their own country and so they have a huge fear of

failure. And we, that will not be overcome by a video. The only way that that is

going to be overcome is by success in the class by feedback from your peers,

from your teacher. That's why people want to come to class. So one of the things

that we need to do is teach people about growth mindset. How many of you are familiar

with the term growth mindset? Yes, very popular these days. That's all you hear is

growth mindset. Well growth, I didn't realize you know as

many decades as I've been in public education, I've heard a lot of terms come

and go. And I didn't realize the power of growth mindset until we had Jo Boaler

from Stanford University come and talk to all our teachers about math. How many

of you are not, math's not your best thing? How many of you would describe

yourselves as not good in math? Yeah it's fascinating. And we tell that to our

children right? Oh ask your father I'm not good in math. Ask Aunt Susie I can't

do this. And that message is heard clearly by your kids, and they think it's

okay to say I'm not good in math either. Yeah I got it from my mother.

Fascinating. Can you imagine any mother telling their kid oh, I'm not good in

reading, don't ask me that question. That would not be acceptable. But we say this

all the time. And what Jo Boaler said was it isn't that you can't do it, it's

that you can't do it yet. And that three letter word was so powerful for me as I

stood like a fool in my laundry room watching that video. Like, damn. I

CAN do it, I just can't do it yet. And if I keep trying I will be able to do it.

And so that growth mindset is something only you are able to give to your

students. And that those markers of success are things that you

can give your students. When I was working on my dissertation many years

ago, that's a huge project. And it's so daunting you think oh my God I can't do

that. I'll never have the perseverance to do all that. And one of the things that

my husband did was he drew a thermometer and he hung it on the refrigerator. And he

broke the job of doing this big thing into little steps. And every time I did

one of the little steps we had a family ceremony in front of the refrigerator.

And we colored the thermometer in in red. And it's like a bond campaign you

know how they show you, and we're this, this far, and that far, that was huge for

me. To see that line go up. Your adult learners need the same thing. We

need to see that yes we can do it all, but we can't do it yet. We will, and to

see something tangible that will show them that they are getting closer and

closer to achieving their goal. That's what keeps them coming to class. And not

just using technology all by itself. So when we take away those fears and we

show them that they are making progress, they, they kind of get that. That's a good

thing. But there is technology, and technology can be an enormous help to us

in our classes. So when we have kids in class, one of the things that we know we

need to do is get them moving a little bit, right? Gets oxygen to your brain,

does all kinds of things. So this would be a good time, if we could, to do

our GoNoodle. If we can do that. I'm going to ask you all to stand on the

assumption that this is going to work.

GoNoodle is a free app that you can use in class. We're going to do raise the

roof for a minute.

(Music plays, video shown on screen)

Okay! Okay! Great job everybody! Okay they're having too much fun. Enough

raise the roof! So GoNoodle has gazillions of different activities,

they are all free, and you can take what did we do maybe 60 seconds, it may have

felt like longer, but it probably was only 60 seconds but it brings back the

oxygenation and gets you energized and that's important when you have a long

class and adults remember, usually come at the end of the day. You're tired,

they're tired, and they have all these other responsibilities so, sitting is not

the best thing for them. To get them up and let them do something fun. So that's

one of the ways in which technology can be helpful. So let's talk about some

other things related to technology that we can use. Right now, we know that after

the fires, we can't find enough people who have the skills in the building

trades while we're trying to build thousands and thousands of houses to

replace the ones that were lost, not to mention the housing needs that we

already had. There was a shortage. So in Napa, our assemblymen and our assembly

woman and our state senator held a meeting and they brought all of us

together who have anything to do with Career and Technical Education and they

said how are we gonna train all these additional people? And somebody said well,

we could start some new classes. Well that's nice. So maybe we start a new

class, we have 20 people in it. That's not going to end the shortage. And frankly

the costs have gone insane because of the shortage. But with

technology, there are way - videos and sites that will teach you how to do

these skills. If you walk into our construction class at Napa High, you will

see in every area they have all these different sections set up. Electrical and

plumbing and all the things you have to do for a house, and all the kids watch a

video. That's the first thing they do. They learn from the video, then they

show the teacher and they work with the teacher to see if having learned

that skill they can be certified that they know how to do it. I was at CSBA a

couple of years ago and they gave me a headset and I virtually learned how to

weld. Virtual reality, pretty amazing thing. Now I'm sure you can tell welding

is not a whole lot in my - I don't look like welder. But there I was! And I, they

told me I did a pretty good seam! So if we need to train fifty thousand people

at the same time, that's how we do it. We use technology and we can, we can train

them in large quantities and then the teacher checks it out, makes adjustments,

shows them what they need to do in a different way, and we get them a

certification. That's one way we can use technology. Virtual reality - how many of

you use virtual reality? Amazing! When I think about how virtual reality makes

something come to life, I remember sitting in biology, open your book to

page 72 chapter 5, and now we're going to read about the digestive system. Whoopie!

And I knew there was something called peristalsis, and I knew that it kind

of wiggled around and the food went down, but on a two-dimensional page that's all

you see. With virtual reality today, we can be inside the body. We can be

actually seeing it. And the first time I saw that it was like duh. Now I understand

what they were talking about. In Napa, we have many families that one

of our teachers described to me as pedestrian families. And in my stupidity

I thought she meant they were kind of average. No! They're pedestrian families

because they don't have cars! So many of these families have never left Napa

County. They don't, they've never been to San Francisco. They are always in the

neighborhood where they can walk. Through virtual reality we can take them

anywhere. We can be in a museum in Italy, and actually walk through the museum and get

right up close to the pictures, and learn about brush strokes. We can learn about

history. We can augment reality. If we're teaching history, we can show them the

beach in Normandy today and superimpose on that beach what it looked like during

World War Two. So we can bring to life the things that we're trying to teach.

Plus, today with tech books and technology, in your classes you probably

have people on many different reading levels. Through technology they can all

read the same thing on their individual reading level. And in fact if there's

somebody who doesn't speak English at all, they can hear it in Spanish. And

listen to it. Books that read themselves. Articles that read themselves. Achieve

three thousand puts out a current events article every day that can go to everybody's

email, and on their individual Lexile level, their independent Lexile level.

Well how powerful is that? So as the teacher, you can teach the whole class

lesson, but then the part that they have to read they're reading and they can

understand it because the sentences are shorter or longer, the vocabulary is

easier or harder depending on what they need. That's a powerful use of technology

in adult education classes. Twitter! One of the other things adults like to do is

they love to collaborate. They love to share. They love to exchange ideas. Well,

they can comment on Twitter about what's going on

in class, what they learned, what was important to them and the, everybody

can get in on the discussion because everybody is a part of Twitter. And for -

how many of you use Twitter? Is there anything more fun than when people

retweet you? Oh dear God. When I first heard about Twitter and my

husband said 140 characters I said that's the stupidest thing I ever heard

of. What on earth could you possibly say in 140 characters. Well now I'm addicted.

I want to see updates. I want to see what other people are saying. And when, when

they retweet me, or when they, they put me in their tweet and says Barb Nemko, oh my

God. I think I died and went to heaven. So that's a feeling of power and engagement

that we want to get our adult learners to do. So that's something that you can

use again. It doesn't cost a dime and it's, it's certainly possible. The other

thing about our adults is they want to be practical. They're not here just

because they want to get credits, they want to learn specific things that are

going to help them. So we try to use real-world examples, right? We try to say

well this is how you would use this, and in this area this field if you learn

this you'll be able to do that. But we are their teachers. And what they really

like is to hear from people who are professionals in that job. There is a

site called nepris dot com. N-e-p-r-i-s dot com. Somebody uses it. Or at least knows about

it. Nepris is fantastic because they will

allow you to live Skype with someone in the profession who can talk to your

class about something. Want to be a landscape architect? Okay, here's a

landscape architect who's been doing it for 40 years, he's going to talk to you.

You can get one free one, you can get a subscription for a year, I think it's

about a hundred dollars? Not inexpensive, but not terribly expensive. And they

archive all of the videos. So for free, you can go to Nepris dot com, you can put

in the particular vocation that you're looking for, and then you have a choice

of different conversations that people have had with other classes. So that's a

powerful way of getting people engaged. We all try to bring people into our

classroom but maybe you don't know a landscape architect. Or maybe the

landscape architect doesn't want to come in at eight thirty at night. You can have anybody

that you want at any time that you want, and it's something that your students

can do at home too. To learn more from someone who actually does that job. So

that - Nepris. N-e-p-r-i-s dot com. One of my absolute favorites. Learning a

language. Free apps for that too. You don't have to do Rosetta Stone. Duolingo.

Duolingo has all the languages, and it's free! I was really good, I tried Rosetta

Stone. I did great with all the vocabulary and the grammar. Then we got

to the pronunciation part. We lose certain abilities to make sounds by the

time we're about nine years old. I can't roll my my Rs and Ls. I can't do it.

And so I was doing fine with Rosetta Stone until I had to speak into the

microphone, and then everything I said they went bzzzzzzzt. Bzzzzzzzt. And I'd say it again. Bzzzzzzzt. They'd

say, you want a hint? Yeah! They'd give me a hint. I'd say it, bzzzzzzzt. Until I finally

started saying some words that I don't want recorded. And then I gave up.

But Duolingo is kind of fun because you - they, it's interactive. And you put things

in and they give you a written response, well this is how you should do it, it was

much less painful than it was to do Rosetta Stone, and the price was right. So

that's a really good site to use. Kahoot! How many of you use Kahoot? Okay we love

Kahoot! I went into a classroom once, they were using Kahoot, I didn't, a couple of

years of I didn't know how to use it. I sat down and I missed the first couple

of questions because I didn't know what to do! And then when I finally figured it

out, I was so ticked off that I wasn't number one. I couldn't get there. They

were way ahead, the kids were way ahead of me. And even once I knew how to use it,

they're faster. And yet it is so much fun. That and how many of you use Poll

Everywhere? That's another fun one and I like that when you're talking about

things that may be more controversial, current events topics, because it gives you

the bar graphs and you see how many people, you see it visually how many

people picked answer one two three or four. So those two are also ways of

having the audience feel that they are very involved in what's going on. And

then Prezi, if you use PowerPoint a lot, Prezi is just a fancier way of doing

PowerPoint and it's more engaging for your students. Prezi. P-r-e-z-i. It's a

presentation website. Because anything that we can do for people who are tired

and maybe a little cranky at the end of the day to make it engaging is a good

thing. So the other thing, what do we do when we have competition? I think we,

how many of you do most of your shopping now on Amazon? Guilty! Okay, right,

guilty. Sure we do. Because it's so easy! How many of you bought something while

you're listening to me? No you don't have to tell me. And I understand if you did!

It only takes a second! You can order three new books and two

skirts! I mean it's wonderful. So what do the stores do in order to compete? They

have to make it personal. What they're trying to do now is make it an

experience. I'm not really sure I want an experience when I go to Macy's, but it's

a nice thought. And so everybody is trying to make everything an experience

because my ex, if my experience is better than your experience, they'll sign up for

what I want. And that's true in class too. So we already established that people

want the interaction with you. And people want you to be you. So there are ways

which you can make your class reflect your own personality. And I'll just give

you one example. A couple of years ago I went over to Vintage High and I was

touring around and I was brought into the class of a new English teacher. And

he had a pot of coffee going. And I said what's that about? And he said well I

tell my students if they get here early they can help themselves to coffee. Whoa!

What a cool idea! Now I don't know how many of them actually, probably only two

or three ever actually came in early for coffee, but it reflected him in a

different way. It set him apart from other teachers. So my husband, when he

taught in Richmond, he used to bring, he's a rose breeder. So he would bring in

flowers. Because he that was his hobby. And he liked to share that with other

people. So I, I ask you to think for a minute,

what do you do, or what about you, could you bring into your classroom that would

reflect you, who you are, and make your students feel like they know you a

little better, and I will give you 60 seconds to talk to the person next to

you, behind you, in front of you, and share what you think might work that would

reflect you. I gave you a topic, talk amongst yourselves!

So I'm sure there were a lot of ideas shared and probably Amazon did some good

business. But who can tell me one of the things that you thought would express

you in a classroom? Wonderful. Yeah. Anecdotal stories about your family

makes you human, you're not just a teacher. What else?

Okay. She has San Francisco Giants memorabilia all over her classroom and that becomes

a topic to start conversation at the beginning of the year. What else?

Music when they come in. Somebody who loves jazz is going to put on some jazz music.

It's fun. In fact in our court and community school they have music on when

the kids come in every day. And they have it on during the breaks. So yes, another

good idea for making it personal. What else?

Love it. Google Maps, go to museums, and then share something that they saw. What else?

Okay. She did yoga. It's so funny because we also do yoga in our court and community

school and if there was anything that I thought wouldn't work at all with our

tough kids, it was yoga, and you should see them. They're down dogging, and doing all

kinds of stuff. I go in there and I watch but I gotta tell you, it's hard. But

yes, yoga, especially chair yoga. Wonderful. What else? Yeah. Personal stories are

great. Talk about your kids, talk about your grandkids, talk about whoever, but

that makes you a human being. Some people cook - ooh okay I saw another hand.

Love it. Love it, love it. Of course you ought to be able to sing when you do

that. She can. That wouldn't work for me. Admitting what you can't do is very

powerful. I may not be an expert but that doesn't mean I don't try. I can't do it

yet. But I don't turn away from it, I embrace it. Wonderful. It IS cool that you

care! And that makes them appreciate you even more. Absolutely. We do that at the

end of our cabinet meetings, we always have a joke. And yes it does become

something that everybody expects, and even if they're terrible jokes everybody

says what, no joke? I have a joke, my husband said don't you dare tell it.

He said that's a really bad idea but I have one. So upon arriving home, a husband

was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, it's the

druggist. He insulted me terribly this morning. Immediately the husband drove

downtown to confront the druggist and demand an apology. Before he could say

more than a word or two the druggist said to him well now just wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Listen to my side of it. I had a terrible morning. The alarm didn't

go off so I was in a big hurry. I was late getting up, I didn't have breakfast,

I raced out the door to get into my car, locking my keys and my car keys in the

house. I had to break a window to get into the house to get my car and I raced

downtown and got a speeding ticket. I got back in the car, I then had a flat tire,

and when I finally got to the store, there was a lineup of people. Everybody

was in a hurry. So I opened up the store, I tried to serve them as quickly as I can,

I had to make change, I banged a roll of quarters to open it up and they went

all over the floor. I got down to pick up the quarters and I bumped into a cabinet

and some perfume bottles fell over and everything smelled horribly. And

meanwhile the phone is ringing off the hook. So I did everything I could until I

finally went to answer the stupid phone and it was your wife. She wanted to know

how to use a rectal thermometer. And believe me as God is my witness all I

did was tell her! All right I'm telling my husband I used the joke and it worked!

So yes, we all like to hear jokes, we all like to have a good time. And that only

took another 60 seconds. So one of the other things, one of the purposes of

adult education is also to help parents prepare their children for success in

school. So one thing that we use in Napa County, because our preschool population

is about 85% Hispanic, and most of the children speak Spanish as their native

language. We don't have every kid in preschool because there aren't enough

preschools, there isn't enough money and you have to be very low income to get

into our state-funded preschools. So a lot of kids are either at home with

their parents who only speak Spanish, or with an aunt or uncle while they're, an

aunt usually, while the parents go to work. So we realized that this achievement gap

that we've been hearing about for the last five decades or six decades, is

not an achievement gap that starts in school, it starts before they get to

school. And they call this the 30 million word gap. A child who comes from a

professional english-speaking family hears thirty million more words by the

time they enter kindergarten than the child who comes from an English learning

family, or a low-income family. Think about it. When you bring the baby home

from the hospital, do you start talking to that baby? Oh, wait till you see your new

room! It's so pretty. Look at that mural. Oh my, do you see the giraffe? Giraffes

are so tall! And we're gonna, we're gonna take a nap now, and then when you get up

we're gonna have some lunch, right? We narrate the day. But every culture

doesn't do that and it typically happens more in middle to upper-class families.

So I used to think that my daughter probably if she could have talked would have

said shut up already! Because I never stopped. Just talk, talk, talk, talk talk, talk talk, all

day long. So how do we give children who come from homes that don't speak English,

or who come from homes where the culture is not to talk

all day to the child, how do we give them that experience. Because the other piece

of that is when we talk, we do something that they call serve and return. So I

might say to the baby, do you see that mural, pause. And that indicates I want

them to say something, recognizing that in three days they're not terribly

conversational, but I still let them feel that. So that as soon as they can make

words they're gonna answer. Which is always interesting, we say we spend the

first two years saying I wish they would talk, I wish they would walk, and then the

rest of their childhood saying sit down and shut up.

But, so we want to give this experience to poor kids and first-five is wonderful.

They say talk, read, sing to your baby. Which is great if you know how to read.

But many of our parents don't know how to read in Spanish either. So we use an

app that reads to the children. We give it at no cost to every family in Napa

County that has a preschool child. It's called Footsteps To Brilliance. And it's

an app that goes on any smart device. iPad, smartphone, computer, and there are

libraries of stories that you just touch the button and it reads out loud to the

child, and you can toggle back and forth between English and Spanish. So a parent

who doesn't speak English can listen to the story in Spanish first and then go

to English and that way we also teach parents you put the child on your lap,

just like it was a book, only the book reads the story instead of you. But what

advantage it has over just a regular book is that in a book, it's flat. You

read it you have inflection. On the iPad it's interactive. So if we're reading a

story about a picnic, you can touch the ants and they'll start marching toward

the food. You're reading a story about farm animals, you touch the cow and that

cow may go moo, which if you're three and a half is pretty hot stuff.

So each picture may have a number of places on the screen where the child can

touch and something will happen. And there's music too. So for a child, what

did your kids say when you finished reading a story? Read it again. Read it

again. So by the time they've asked 17 times for you to read the same story,

you're thinking you want to throw the kid and the book out the window. But the

iPad doesn't! No inflection, no anything, it cheerfully reads it again!

And again! And then what will happen for, what happens for the kids who are using

that app is they will memorize the story the way your kids memorize the book, and

they will know exactly what's the last word on that page and God forbid you

turned the page and didn't say that last word, they'll say you skip a word! Go

back! But that's how they learn how to read. And that's how they come to school

prepared to read, because if I gave you a book in Spanish right now you might be

able to pronounce the words but if you don't speak Spanish it wouldn't mean

anything. You have to have the vocabulary behind it to know what it means when

you're reading. It's, it's talk out loud. But you have to understand the talk. So

that app is, has been extremely powerful for getting our kids ready.

It also has phonics apps, and it tells Nursery Rhymes in English and Spanish.

Kids can record themselves reading into it, and that's how we close the

achievement gap. We don't wait till they're in school, and that two and a

half to three year gap carries with them all through the 12 years, that's the

definition of insanity. We've been trying to close the achievement gap for five

decades, and when you do the same thing over and over again and you expect

different results you're nuts. So we said let's try something different.

Let's close the achievement gap before they ever enter school. And guess what.

There was an unintended fabulous side effect. The parents tell us their English

is getting better. Because as each word is said aloud it is highlighted in the

color red. So if a parent wants to learn a specific word they can tap on it in

Spanish and then change it to English, tap on it in English, now they know what,

how you say that word in English. Phenomenal way of fulfilling one of the

purposes of adult education at the same time as helping kids be successful in

school. And we think we have seen our teachers who've been teaching preschool

for more than 30 years who when we first said that we were going to use iPads,

stared at me like this. Read that look. It's called make me, b---h!

Because preschool teachers don't believe in technology! I get that! But technology

is powerful. And now that we are four or five years into it, if I try to take it

away, they'd lynch me. Because they have seen the power. They have seen that kids

can learn so much more than they ever thought. Technology, even if we are afraid

of it. And I got to tell you, I'm afraid of it. It's not my strength. So I have

become a great advocate for technology, and you can advocate for it without

actually knowing how to really make it all work. I'm really good at yelling help!

Nick! Somebody! But it works. It works for kids, it works for adults, it extends the

learning, you can record yourself and have people listen to your talk at home

and then come into class and talk about how you're going to use what they

just learned. Technology is your friend. And even if you're not a digital native

and even if you're terrified of it, you can use it in some ways that will

enhance what you are able to do with your students. So we started this morning

by talking about 1939, and Boris Nemko, and how adult education changed his life, and generations later changed

my life, but now I want to give you a more modern-day example of how adult

education changed lives. And this is a story about a woman named Bertha Rios.

She's a Napa Adult Education success story so if Rhonda is, I know Rhonda is

here, and if Marilyn, Marilyn is here, please stand up and take a bow because

I'm gonna read this success story. Yay Rhonda!

So Bertha was raised in Michoacan Mexico, in a house with four sisters, one brother,

and no books. It was very difficult to earn a living there, and her father was

absent for much of her childhood because he was in the United States earning a

living and sending money home. What happened to Bertha was she became

pregnant at a young age and at 17, there she was with a one-year-old, no good job,

and a real desire to have a better life. So finally she decided that she was in

the same situation her mother was in. She - her husband was in the United States, she

was, she was living in Mexico, she wasn't earning enough money, she decided she was

going to come here too. And she came to Napa, arriving in October of nineteen eighty. For two

years, she got jobs picking grapes in order to help with family finances, and

she and her husband and the baby lived with her parents. There, then she, her

daughter slept in a cardboard box. This was not the life she wanted. So she says

she tells her children the story now so that they can see what life was like.

After that she had a few other jobs. She worked, after working in the fields she

did babysitting, cleaning houses, and factory work. Her choices very limited

by her lack of English skills. Then she lost her job during one of the period

when we were doing immigration sweeps. And so she worried about how how her

family was going to do, what she was, she didn't know what to do, and so she

started running on the track of adult education to work off some of the

anxiety. So she did a lot of running and then one day she said well this is nice,

but it's not getting me a job. So the next day she went in and she enrolled in

adult education. Started taking ESL classes four mornings a week, cleaning

houses in the afternoons, and taking care of her family. She did

that for a year. She says English was not easy.

We know that. English is a very difficult language to learn.

But what motivated her, she said, was when she thought about not going the next day,

she realized the day after was gonna be even harder. So she kept on. And then she

decided that she needed to do more. And so she continued to learn English and

finally got a six hour a week job as a bilingual aide at the adult school. Then

she transferred to Napa Valley College where she took ESL and general ed classes,

but with no particular goal. Once her English got better she realized she

could do more. And she decided what she really wanted to do was to become a

teacher. So she told her husband that she wanted to become a teacher. And he said

something that would roughly translate to hell no. You become a teacher

you're not gonna have time for me, you're not gonna have time for the baby,

uh-uh. So she continued to go to school, but she continued to bring the topic up.

and finally after the third try, he agreed. So she went to Napa Valley

College, she completed her work there, she went on and completed her work, and got

her teaching certification, and the day she graduated, her husband and their

now three children were all cheering in the audience. He became her biggest

supporter, and she is now a bilingual teacher at Napa Valley Language Academy

in Napa where she has been for many years.

You change lives. You give people hope. You improve their conditions and help

their children. God bless you for what you do, and keep on doing it. Thank you.