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Arizona Idol: Josh Rosen supporting education - Duration: 2:20.
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Say Yes to Texas Education - Duration: 3:35.
♪ (uplifting guitar music) ♪
In the College of Education, I have found my home and my people.
Everyone is invested in your education.
Majoring in Special Education has been a transformative experience.
Working in the classroom with young people with disabilities
is the best part of my day. It's purposeful.
So if you want to teach, there is no better place to do it than here.
I am passionate. I am Texas Education.
>> My time in the Navy taught me the value of learning within a group.
Now in Athletic Training at UT, I continue to learn within a tight-knit cohort
pursuing careers in health.
We work with highly trained athletes, even Olympians,
and use state-of-the-art equipment.
It's a rigorous program, but worth the effort.
I am driven. I am Texas Education.
>> The great thing about UT is that even though it can seem big and overwhelming,
you can always find a smaller group to fit into.
For me, that's been within the Minorities in Education student organization.
The experience has helped me connect with my students doing student teaching,
encouraging my love for working with young children.
I am inspired. I am Texas Education.
>> UT was my first choice because it's known for its amazing research
and academic toughness.
My professors and peers in Exercise Science are the best in the field
and they've pushed me-- hard.
Because I'm at UT, I'm better prepared for everything the future holds.
I'll graduate with an incredible degree and limitless opportunities.
I am bold. I am Texas Education.
>> When my daughter was diagnosed with cancer,
finishing my degree seemed impossible.
But the College of Education community of professors and students
wouldn't let me quit.
I persevered, and soon I'll reach my goal of making a difference
in bilingual classrooms, and creating a future for my daughter.
I couldn't be prouder.
I am determined. I am Texas Education.
>> Say yes.
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Nursing Education Major - Duration: 2:59.
I'm Marilyn Oermann and I'm the lead faculty at Duke School of Nursing for
the Nursing Education Major and what is unique about our program is we offer
about five different options to prepare for various roles in nursing education.
We still offer a master's program because there's many students who come
to Duke and they want to be nurse educators, they want to do clinical
teaching or they want to be educators in health systems. We have a master's
program that prepares them for those roles but what's really unique about us
is we have a brand new certificate in nursing education. This is a nine credit
certificate and it's designed for students not majoring in nursing
education but who want to be teachers or want to be faculty, DNP prepared
faculty, nurse practitioners, PhD prepared faculty who entered a school but they
haven't been prepared as teachers so now we offer courses that they can take. And
what a strength is of Duke is because we are known for our research, our nursing
education courses are built on evidence and built on research so what we say is
we have developed not just evidence-based teaching courses but
we've built our courses based on evidence. We have a real significant need
for nurse educators across the United States and actually internationally as
well. Years ago, people would prepare themselves with masters and doctoral
degrees of nursing education and then about the 1980s we shifted more towards
nursing science and nurse practitioners and not as many people
prepared for education. We realize now we need people who are prepared as teachers
and faculty and compounding that is that many current faculty are retiring and
there's not a large pool of faculty coming up who are prepared for those
roles. One of the advantages of preparing particularly at Duke for a role as a
nurse educator is that it provides the education that you need to teach in any
setting and that's what's unique about the role it's not just preparing to be a
nurse practitioner with one particular type of patient but with a nursing
education background you can teach in a community college and a School of
Nursing you can do any kind of education, clinical education, patient education,
staff and professional ed in a health system and we have graduates who move
into industry and do training and education for nurses and other health
providers so preparation as a nurse educator is a is really a broad
preparation that you can take in a lot of different roles and settings.
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Voting Accessibility - ASL Voter Education for Florida Deaf Voters - Duration: 5:54.
my name is Amanda with the League of
Women Voters of the st. Petersburg area
this is Betty
she is a certified deaf interpreter and
today we're going to talk about
accessibility did you know that roughly
17% of the population has at least some
form of hearing loss and the Tampa Bay
area is home to the fifth largest deaf
community despite this many deaf voters
have a hard time casting their ballots
they have frustrating experiences at the
polls that drive many hard-of-hearing
people to not vote at all the help
America Vote Act of 2002 created
guidelines to make it easier for people
to vote the Act covers things like
increasing voter information and helping
people with disabilities this includes
things like having wheelchair access at
the polls audio guidance for the blind
and and help for people who are deaf
if you are one of 300,000 deaf people in
the Tampa Bay area you shouldn't have to
give up your right to vote or have a
negative experience at the polls your
rights are protected and the League of
Women Voters is here to make sure you
have a positive voting experience you
have many options and services available
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registered voters can request a vote by
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your own time with the resources that
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Meilin ballots will typically be sent
out a month before the election and
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at the polls volunteers and poll workers
should provide written information for
any information they give verbally this
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if you have a service animal you are
allowed to bring them with you to the
polls
poll workers should also be trained to
approach those who are deaf with
respects and have the proper resources
to help them vote
if you are unsure whether or not there
will be a trade interpreter to help you
reach out to the local Supervisor of
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now before you cast your ballot make
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Pinellas residents can visit Pinellas
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Construction Vehicles | Early Childhood Education | Super Fun Box - Duration: 20:17.
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Music Education Push - Duration: 2:55.
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Hexham Priory School extension will boost special needs education - Duration: 1:56.
it's great to be here at Hexham Priory School in the Hexham East Ward and we're
here today for the official handover of the new classrooms that have been built
as part of the development of the school it's an outstanding school with
outstanding features and now it's got the facilities to match.
Can you tell us a little bit about the school
and why we're here this morning.
Hexham Priory School is an all through special school, serving
West Northumberland and we have children aged from 2 to 19 with a range
of severe and complex learning needs. We're here today because we've got a new
extension to our building which we're very excited about.
So with the new extension which has cost over a million pounds
as part of the wider council strategy
of supporting children with complex and special education needs
how many more places is this generating for this area?
Well this is going to enable us to increase our capacity of students
we've already taken additional students in this year
because we knew we were getting this extra space and on top
of that we'll still be able to offer more spaces to students.
Fantastic!
It's great to have this facility right here in
Hexham so local children can go to school in their local environment and that
really does make a huge difference, not only to the young people
but also to the families.
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Wayne County (NC) Public Schools Board of Education meeting - October 22, 2018 - Duration: 59:32.
I need a motion to come out of
closed session please second
all in favor show by raising
your right hand thank you good evening everyone
we appreciate you being here and
all right we will have an update a C.
T. E update
Dr Dunsmore will you give us an update on the
Carver Heights >> yes ma'am thank you
Carver Heights was put on the list for
the innovative school district takeover by the state from the
last meeting they've listed seven criteria which they used
to make that decision we're in the process and
speaking to those seven criteria with our response as I
had shared with our commissioners there's always
options and this point our opinion is and of our
legal team they didn't follow their own statutes and what
they're doing in this case and quite frankly we wanna hold her
toes to the fire I have been in contact with Miss Barnes and
some of the community groups that I would like to give a
shout out for the amount of people showed up at Carver
Heights that evening and spoke on our behalf and the work is
being done behind the scenes for our students and I just
want everybody to know that we are going to fight for our
school we are going to fix this and we're going to keep it in
Wayne County or to do everything we can in order to
make that happen there some things going this week that
we're going to get out in front of with the newspapers and get
information to our state board members so they understand our
objections to some of the criteria they used and how they
didn't follow their own guidelines
>> thank you very much at this time we need approval
of the agenda >> I would
like to make two changes we do need an amendment for a future
meeting to discuss our minority businesses and I would like to
add that as an Item F
under that and also
item G. under the consent agenda
the C. T.
E. surplus computers to Jones
County we had offered those computers to Jones County and
speaking with their superintendent and the folks
down there because of the damage several their buildings
and the outpouring of help and support they didn't need them
at this time they did thank us for our thoughts and just
politely declined because right now they didn't have
anywhere to use them weren't sure what they can do with them
and they're not back in school so
I would ask that be removed at this time of item G.
under the consent agenda >> okay and then
L. M we want to pull >> and also policies L.
and M. policy number twenty one twenty
three and policy seventy one thirty for
further discussion so I would suggest the
policies be moved through G. and H.
under I guess that's my board action
we can do the consent agenda and
then just to have a discussion on those two policies
>> at this time we need a vote for the amendment to the
agenda and to our consent vote >> madam chair I like my motion
that we approve the agenda
on the consent agenda this time
and that would be pull items L and M for further
discussion >> Second
>> thank you very much any discussion
all in favor please indicate by raising your right hand
good evening Mrs Bolinhouse is
accompanying a student to national conference so she
was out of town this evening she had presented at the
curriculum committee that C. T. E
update that included having a public safety program at three
high schools Goldsboro High School Southern Wayne high
school and Rosewood high Goldsboro high school
would continue to use its public safety position in the
firefighter academy as has been done for several years and
Southern Wayne high school will continue with the EMS program
as has been done for several years and the request is for
the Rosewood high school position to be law enforcement
the principal Mrs Rogers had surveyed her students and found
that she had many students who were interested in law
enforcement as many as they were interested in other
options and was pleased that that would allow for three
different branches of public safety at three of our high
schools with the contingency that students who were
interested in one program that wasn't offered at their high
school could request as they do for many programs should be
allowed to attend the high school where the program that
they are interested in is being offered
>> do we need to vote on that time
[inaudible]
there was one
additional item on that they have a student who is
requesting to take classes at the University of Mount Olive
and so C&I is requesting permission completing an MOU with
University of Mount Olive to allow students to receive dual
credit for those classes that would provide some a career in
college promise opportunities for students in that area of
the county because Wayne Community College is such a
drive for students
>> she's asking though our
permission to proceed with the MOU >> yes ma'am >> so we need to
vote on that as a board I need a
motion please >> So moved >> Second
is there any discussion >> clarity on the motion
>> the motion is that we are we're giving her the direction
to work with Mount Olive and create the MOU
>> the MOU with law enforcement would allow for
a law enforcement branch of public safety at Rosewood high
school and so the same way that Goldsboro High School has an MOU
with the Goldsboro fire department
you have to have an MOU with the sponsoring agency so
that's one MOU request the other MOU request is
to have one with the University of Mount Olive to allow for
dual credit courses two different
>> my question would be relative to the M.
O. U you foot a dual credit yes that
would be opened up to any student not just the one that
is making the request at this present time >> that would
certainly be my understanding
>> understand this MOU but when they're when they're
not be in need for a written articulation agreement if we
read into it later we don't like it we can vote against it
yes I got >> all right any further
discussion okay on all in favor please
indicate by raising your right hand
any opposed all right and now we need to
have a motion for developing an M. O.
U.
which I just there may not be
able to respond to this out and I heard you mention it but I
want to be clear that even if they don't have that one at
their school >> yes are provided that there's room in the
program so for example
Goldsboro high school the specific discussion in
curriculum committee was that a Goldsboro high school student
would not be bumped from a fire academy class
to make room for a student that's from a different
school because those programs have caps but if there were
space available students from other schools would be admitted
it was actually we talked about two different contingencies one
is when students provide their own transportation and they
travel from one school to another of course Goldsboro
right now has a different calendar than the other schools
the other questions or concerns all right all in favor indicate
by raising your right hand any opposed
now we need to vote and approve the minute
October first two thousand eighteen
>> So moved >> I need a second
>> Second >> any discussion
all in favor indicate by raising your right hand
any opposed approval of closed session
minutes October first twenty eighteen
>> make a motion that we approve and release the closed session
minutes from October the first season
this is October first I after to you know we did have a
meeting on the eighteenth so we talk about the first of October
okay so the >> Second
discussion all in favor please indicate by
raising your right hand any opposed the same
Dr Dunsmore you have a parent and family engagement
month proclamation >> yes madam chairman thank you this is so
a parent family engagement month thought I would ask that we
accept the proclamation that reads as the following whereas
we recognize that the children of Wayne County our most
valuable resource and that a sound education is the key to
producing the next generation of successful productive and
conscientious citizens and whereas the parents or their
child's first and most influential teachers and all
parents have hopes and goals for their children and whereas
it is important for schools early learning settings and the
community to welcome families to plan for parents and family
engagement and to provide meaningful ways for parents to
be involved in their child's learning and whereas when
schools parents families and communities work together in
partnership our children succeed and whereas the Wayne
County Board of education partners with those that
support enhance and celebrate the growth of our children
including various faith and community based organizations
colleges and universities to promote ideas education and
resources to support parents and families in the full
participation of the educational journey of their
children and whereas it is appropriate to Wayne County
Board of education pauses to recognize the outstanding
contributions made by parents and family of the children to
foster a love of learning and to recognize educators who have
knowledge of the importance of their parent and family
engagement and take action to make and an integral part of
the school community now therefore we the Wayne County
Board of education Wayne County public schools do hereby
proclaim November two thousand eighteen as parent and family
engagement month in the county of Wayne we urge
all citizens to join us in the recognition of this important
role of parents that they have in their children's lives
education and school community dated this twenty second day
of October in the year two thousand eighteen by Miss
Patricia A Burden chair of the board and Michael Dunsmore
secretary of the board Dr Dunsmore I like
to call Mrs Carolyn Brown we have representatives here
from thee district parent advisory council
all right
>> do we need to adopt that proclamation >> yes madam chair I
like to make a motion that we adopt the proclamation
>> second
>> any discussion
all in favor please indicate by raising your right hand
thank you very much it is time we need
a motion to approve our nomination
of Mister Richard Pridgen who will be
serving on the business Advisory Council representing
the board of education >> I'll make the nomination
>> I'll second that
>> all right all in favor please indicate by
raising your right hand any opposed
all right at this time I need
for the board to give me a date and time for us to hold a
public hearing regarding businesses with minorities
I would like to suggest that that is held separate from
our board meetings because it would be early in the afternoon
and many people will be working so we need to pick a date and
time prior to our November board
November twenty six
madam chair the week prior is the thanksgiving holiday
other than that MOnday if you want to do Monday the
nineteenth
six thirty or six o'clock
is that the of the eighteenth and nineteenth the fifteenth
and sixteenth is a Thursday or Friday board members you will
be at the statewide conference earlier but Thursday and
Friday fifteen through the sixteenth would be a
possibility if you would like to do it
the fifteenth is the Thursday seven PM Miss Burden if you
think that would be a good time
where is this going to be held
it will be here in the board room what date is
saying November fifteenth November fifteenth at seven
o'clock PM and I will get a notice out the board members
tomorrow and just everybody can have everything calendars
coming to give them the opportunity to speak before us
regarding inclusion
that the only order of business for us yes yes it is just for
the public hearing okay
all right so it is November fifteenth seven o'clock PM
public hearing one of the we we have a public comment
one of the right okay moving on all right Mister Smith
okay the Wayne County Board of
Education request to appear before the board
the Wayne County Board of Education welcomes the
opportunity to hear from the public during its regularly
scheduled meetings if you wish to appear before the board
please review the following procedures
appearance request forms are available to the public at the
reception desk in the lobby thirty minutes prior to the
meeting anyone wishing to speak misplaced your appearance
request form along with any handouts in the basket located
at the receptionist's desk in the lobby the basket will be
collected at five PM and only those who have an appearance
request request form in the basket will be allowed to speak
public comments are scheduled to take place at five thirty PM
presentations are limited to a maximum of three minutes the
chair person shall call time on any presentation which exceeds
the three minute time limit organizations or groups wishing
to speak about a particular topic may be asked to reduce
the time of each individual or use a spokesperson to share
comments on behalf of the organization or group steps to
speakers will not be permitted and speakers may not donate any
portion of their time to another speaker no presentation
shall include any complaint criticism or negative comments
regarding the conduct or performance of identified
school personnel no Presian Tatian shall include
information about a particular student which is privileged and
confidential under state and federal privacy laws first up
we have Mister Darron Flowers of Fremont North Carolina not
representing an organization wishing to speak about the
classrooms at Fremont Stars elementary Mr Flowers
>> thank you for the opportunity to speak
I'm here to inquire as to the status of the classrooms
at Fremont Stars a couple years ago to this
board identified building construction needs presented up
to the county commissioners who funded those
needs and also included in those needs were classroom for
Fremont Stars since that time
your staff met with the town board staff
and they discussed the
construction of those classrooms
since that time we've heard almost nothing about their
classrooms it's my understanding that
Meadowlane is under construction
Northwest is now in the bid process and that Southern Wayne
high school is in the pre-bid process
we're here to inquire as to the status of those classrooms
I have been to the commissioners and made the same request I was
coming to you first but the storm kept me home
I met with facilities committee but because of your structure
you did not permit conversations at the facilities
committee so I sat there quietly and did not get a
chance to ask my question if I asked it there I probably would
not be here asking here but that is the reason for
being here I put that I'm representing
myself but I am actually representing the community
because this is becoming a community concern over the lack
of talk about what the status is
it it the least we could do is know who to talk with have to
find out what their status see thank you
>> next we have Mister Keith
Copeland
and he wishes to speak regarding the
stop the I. S.
D. take over
>> distinguished board members
can't see anybody's eyes right now wonder what's going on with
that whole I see out that's good now do I have your
attention I'm still waiting to hear
what's the plan what's the fight we are ready to fight
this I. S.
D.
takeover we so frequently hear about
the federal government coming in and taken over what
the state wants to do and now the state is coming in
taking over what our local government may want to do
so I'm still waiting to hear what the plan is are you all
with this or not or what are you gonna do
because we as a community we need to hear that you may be
talking about it what we don't read in the
papers we don't hear you say it
that kind of leaves the community out there and and we
said once before we need transparency
and so we want people to the talk about this plan that we
have because the community doesn't want people
coming in from the outside experimenting again with their
children and I believe that the teachers that you have in place
if you give them enough support and resources they could do the
job and believe me don't think
it's just that one school because the plan is for
it to spread it will spread and I'm not for
you know anything happening to those schools but there are
people out in the community who say
just shut it down all right ya know what happens
if it shuts down those kids got to go somewhere I'm
not for that because I realize that some of those other
schools may not be the best place for some of the students
who need a little bit more nurturing and
support so we want to hear some from
this board about what is the plan what do you want to do
what are you going to do in regards to this takeover I know
it's an election year
>> now it has to vote on the consent agenda for we will
discuss those two items that were pulled first and and then
move forward from there policy twenty one twenty three board
members opportunity for development
Dr Mason can you address that please
>> yes ma'am policy twenty
one twenty three this policy was brought back to us and
brought to our attention that we needed to revisit this
policy to make the amendment that you see in the second
paragraph this was discussed in our policy committee meeting
where we revised the board members legal requirement to
receive a minimum of twelve hours of training every two
years and then as you see we amended the areas with the
minimum two hours of ethics education within twelve months
and then within twelve months after each subsequent election
or appointment to office and then the final sentence
there the ethics education required under this paragraph
may be counted towards the annual twelve hour training
requirements and so these are discussed in our policy
committee meeting with those necessary changes
>> this is just bring this in compliance with state law >>yes
>> I move that we approve policy twenty one twenty three
>> second >> any discussion there is okay
>>you made the statement that this was brought before the
committee who brought before the committee
actually Miss Strickland brought it back to our attention that
we needed to revisit this Ms Strickland would you like to elaborate
a little >> this is actually something that back
when Mrs Pridgen was still on employed by the board not
retired of the it came up because we were having to
create another another grammatical error from the
state that had rolled around and the state policy had
changed at that point we had open discussion about it and it
was voted on to my memory
but to my memory we voted on and then to change it to every
two years to be in compliance and then when this policy came
in front of us a month or two ago for a different tweak I
can't remember what it was it caught my attention that it had
not been changed so I read that the past minutes they cannot
find it so we could just go back to the minutes and change
it to the revised date so felt was important right back in
front of the board to be done properly
>> okay I will finish my
comments by saying that I am against it
I think that we should get twelve hours of continuing ed
of some type each year we've done that ever since I've
been on board with some board members have not some board
members have signed up for things and
left to come back home and
and not fulfill those hours and I feel like if you're going to
spend the county's money or spend the school systems money
you need to sit in there and you need to get your education
that's my personal opinion a guy also have an opinion that
more the more you are going and with education and
trends that are going on across the nation across the
country the better suited you are to come back and be
prepared to innovate ideas in our own
system that and also more familiar you are
with some of the laws and how monies are controlled
I feel like we should get twelve hours each
year as we always have or were supposed to and
so we can be of better informed board but you can vote the way
you want to but I'm voting against it >> Dr Mason this
is not something that we brought up for change this came
to us from the school board association they have changed
their requirements is that what it is
>> I can speak to that the state law requires that
it's twelve hours every two years your policy had
a requirement of every year twelve hours you all can
continue the twelve hours every year but you must meet at least
twelve every two years
the change would have it twelve hours every two years okay you
currently have it twelve hours every year
>> any other comments or questions about this as well
>>clarification because this is the first
reading are you saying that you want it approved as a second
reading >> yes >> and truthfully the only reason
I brought it up I'm sorry go ahead Mr Smith
>> I was just gonna echo what Mister
Pridgen said I mean the whole point of being on the
board of education is to stay abreast of with the current
trends the current research and I think it is a tremendous
disservice if we're sitting on this board and we don't want to
learn anything you want to wait every two years I know what the
policy says it state level but I can't wrap my mind
around not wanting to stay up on the latest trends in
education so that's all I have to say about that
>> I'm not sure who
the fingers are being pointed owners board when I'm will
speak from my perspective I get my time whether they tell me I
have to have two hours or twenty two hours I get far more
than that and I kind of take exception
insinuations being made I mean I don't know who the fingers
are being pointed at I don't have many hours any of you got
I'm speaking for myself I get my time
>> I feel certain it's probably coming it's probably
coming my way but I've never signed up for anything that I
did not attend but when this was discussed and I would love
to find a video because I know we passed as a board three and
a half years ago but when this came to the board then on
I had my hours and knowing that it had not changed or
thinking that everything had been corrected in policy no I
didn't get twelve hours last year I had twelve hour actually
had probably twenty five or thirty the first year and then
twenty or so the second year so that covers me for the full
time so it's not a lack of education I think a lot of
times I'm trying to save money and so
if I can go to the state conference or the national
conference and get all of my hours in and get all the
education that covers these topics there's no reason for me
to take beach trips to get a few extra hours in for a
different year so that was why this came back up was because
I would lay my hand on the Bible that I have a memory that
we have already passed this but I can not find it but no I did
not get my hours last year because I thought this was
changed so as far as paying for
conferences and not attending no
>> I wanted to clear that up with
whoever but I might also add that not only do we need to get
out was we need to attend school functions I'll put that
before the board and I do that as well
we have a lot who don't >> I think we're steering away from
the point >> Don't sit there and point the finger at somebody
>> I did not point a finger >> I'm not saying you >> but I think we have
moved away from what we're here for now it came to us from the
school board association is if we do not want to follow their
their their their requirements we always have a right to
upgrade am I correct yes we so if the board wants to be
required of board members want to be required to earn twelve
hours each year then we can vote to say that if whether we
whether we if we go to a conference each
year you're going to earn 12 hours so some of us are going when we
don't have to have the new way of ours but we are going to
learn about new and different things so if you want to do it
the way that has been done in the past which was every year
fine if we don't want to do that then we vote not to change
the policy so
at this point in time do I have a motion
for the policy as it is stated >> motion and a second
okay I have a motion and a second then I had discussions
so at this time if you are in favor of changing our board
policy to indicate that we earn twelve hours every two years
then let's have a show of hands okay
are those opposed all right we all right so I'd
like to make a motion that we make this a first reading
policy twenty one twenty three to give Mr Flowers an
opportunity to return for the next board meeting
>> Will Mr Flowers be seated at
the next board meeting when this vote takes place
>> Yes he will
>> madam chair I got a question
the relative to the policy okay can you tell me the difference
between these two statements each board member will fulfill
the legal requirement to receive a minimum of twelve
hours of training every two years
and then it says the ethics education required under this
paragraph may be counted toward the annual twelve hours right
so you've got contradiction in policy that we need to be
corrected that would have to be correct
because it means that it would just count will be the bi
annual it would count back and
all right so now we have a motion on the floor to
to put this as a first reading and vote on it in
November any other discussion border turning could you advise
on that since first first vote with a second
reading see your your first vote was no
action because it was split so now you're saying you're going
to bring it back for a first reading at the next board
meeting at which Mr Flowers would have been sat with us she
said not tonight with the first rate in the
so that then the second reading would be when Mr Flowers is
here okay that's how you currently
have it this is the first reading nothing changed
they're bringing it back for second reading
all right the motion >> OR the question that I would have for
you is to just remove the motion it would come back up
next month anyway since it was a three three split with
what's the best
way to handle>> my recommendation is to bring it next month first
reading and start all over >> then I rescind my motion
do you rescind your second okay now moving forward
do we have another motion
so wait a minute I want
clarification because it did not pass or fail
right all right we start over again so you will come back as
a first reading correct it will come back next month as
a first reading is that necessary why can't
come back as a second week to make the change that Mister
Henderson mention there'll be a first reading
the ethics of time okay all right
okay we'll leave it as it is all right now policy seventy
one thirty licensure okay
>> this is a board policy that came down as well from the
state board to be amended under section B
exceptions licensure requirements where you see the
adjunct C. T.
E. instruction for
where it states that an unlicensed individual who meets
that established criteria for specific C.
T. E instructor may be employed that
has been added as well as under number three
strike formal for formal for former I think that was
just a clerical error if that's correct
as well with that seventy one thirty A
under section E graph
adding the language in bold continuing professional license
as well it added
and then under seventy one thirty B we have changed H.
to G.
okay and then the revised
information for legal reference
and the rest remains the same those are the changes from the
state board can that again
that was just some language clarification because
of the changes that have come from the licensure
information just to get us in line with those new updates
>>thats's correct right
>>I need a motion >> I make a motion that we approve
of seventy one thirty as a second read
for a second any discussion
any questions all in favor of approving
policies seventy one thirty as a second reading please
indicate by raising your right hand
any opposed thank you very much thank you
all right I would like to have a motion for the approval a
consent vote for the
consent agenda is a group of items pass with a single motion
and vote these materials and are items are routine business
or have been thoroughly discussed in committee meetings
open to the public and attended by board members debate is
allowed on any item included on the consent and if a board
member wants to separate consideration of any items may
be removed by request madam chair I'd like to recuse myself
from this vote I have a cousin who is being
considered for the position and I I don't want
to be seen as improper about
voting thank you very much Mister
Smith at this time because I have a motion please to approve
the consent agenda from items B through K
with the exception of G with the exception of G
right remote >> I make the motion
that we the
as outlined through items B through K
with that I need a second
thank you high any discussions all right all in favor of
approving the consent agenda as indicated please raise your
right hand thank you very
the spotlight so we are now at comments
all right miss Emma so let us start with you
are right I'm coming from
I is the first and
thank you madam key I would like to first of all tip my hat
to Dr Harrell exhaustive research on the
conditions of our current facilities and the research
that he's doing towards that hopefully within the next month
or two we will be able to examine all the schools would
have been able to examine the conditions of every school in
Wayne County and with the better prepared to make some
decisions as it looks to our construction needs in the county
Dr Harrell I do want to say thank you for that
that hard work and I know it's been very exhaustive
I did also attend the curriculum committee meeting
this past week and one of the issues that came up with our
our plan for our low performing schools I would like to ask Dr
Ishee if she would be prepared at some point in time in the
near future to give the board a look at that low performing
schools plan so that we can identify areas of concern
I'd also like to commend Miss Manning
for all of her work coming in and taking over the
role as the AdvancEd coordinator for the district
and she met with the district chairs and the facility chairs
last week she did an awesome job
and trying to get us prepared for the AdvancEd review
coming up in March would ask all board members that if you
receive notification of AdvancEd meeting in which
you are a member I would ask that you please make every
effort to attend those meetings because I'm certain that as the
review teams come they will be interviewing us as board
members and then nothing looks worse than have a board member
that does not know exactly what's going on in the school
system so I want to again ask all of the board members to
be very cognizant of that and be very participatory in
that process as well and lastly I would like to just
make some remarks to Mister Copeland relative to the ISD
takeover I think that you could feel rest you can be rest
assured that our board is going to do everything in our power
off in our power to try to make sure that the school system
Carver Heights school remains here
however you know that that's not necessarily all of our doing
but we are developing plans as Dr Dunsmore has mentioned
earlier to kind of address that and get on the front end of
this and hopefully make some make some strides in
overturning that decision
>> I just want to thank everybody who was able to go
to the fair
I did make it out there quite a bit it was nice to
to see a lot of the exhibits our students did and we've got
a lot of talent also in our community
thing I want to say is for everybody get out and vote
a lot of us are
busy at the polls but anyway it is everybody's duty to vote and
I would certainly hope that everybody in our community will
do so the other thing I've got really
is is a question and
we had two good speakers and I don't know we don't normally
comment but we had two good questions
that were posed to us by community members
and these communities want to hear something because I am getting
phone calls from the northern part of the of the county and
also I'm getting phone calls about Carver as well or
Carver Heights and I would really love to see is there anyway we
can respond partially to that tonight while they are here
so they can carry a message back to their community or
would that be out of line normally don't at public
speaking but I think there are people present room that have
some answers I can certainly okay thank you
>> I was gonna say no comment but Mr Harrell
thank you for the work that you have done on our
facilities assessment I have been dreading
yet looking forward to seeing that
for awhile now and the county does need to know that there
are some severe needs and we know it and now we have it down
and we are taking steps to address it
>> my comment is that I know that
Dr Manning had her first official meeting with the
chairs for AdvancEd and it is my understanding that within
two weeks period of time they should be having their
committee meetings so I'm asking board members to please
check your emails because many times that is the way that we
are notified about these meetings and their locations
and time the next thing that I'm gonna
say is as a board would if we have concerns about our
performance as a board what ever it may be we have a right
to develop plans
policies to address those concerns and
and I think that we might need to consider that in terms of
attending workshops conferences
meetings here locally and as well as activities in
support of our students so that is something I would like for
you all to think about and then we can move toward through
policy committee to address that concern
rather than to do it here
>> just follow up for
Mister Copeland we are aggressively fighting this
there are things that we've been working behind the scenes
very closely with our legal team is I already said with
Miss Barnes we wanted to get our facts
together and get everything putting this politically
correct I want to do our facts checks before we go public with
anything that they're gonna shoot full of holes
actual statements are going to be rolling out this week
through NC Policy Watch as well as state
wide through the media and we are addressing each of
their seven concerns of which as I said earlier
I'm very disappointed and upset that
they made a listing of items of why we were chosen and
they didn't follow their own legislative mandate of how they
do that so I don't I'm not an attorney I didn't stay at a
Holiday Inn last night that just as a layman I think we
have a real real strong case I'm confident if we get that
information to our state board members they're gonna see what
we're capable of doing and I think what you said about our
children and our staff I don't need to repeat because
your spot on Miss Barnes and I are going to
be attending a state forum Wednesday morning
and and believe me were were vehemently fighting this it as
far as Fremont and this far as I know we've talked
for your more welcome to call me anytime
we are waiting the engineering studies as we've said many
times if we put a hammer on that building we're required to
bring it up to code and and some of the issues is where
some of those discharge pipes for the sewage out of that
building you're going we have four separate pipes two of
which when we did the smoke runs Dr Harrell
not sure there's pipes are going
one of our concerns as we move forward with those classrooms
and the county commissioners obviously they want us to be
very prudent with public funds we have some prices out of
Northwest we're prepared to go out to bid at Fremont I have to
have there's engineering studies done exactly what we're
getting into and if we do a free standing building up there
what all requirements go behind the scenes
those monies were allocated they're still there they can't
be used for anything else until we resolve these questions
but I don't wanna speak for Dr Harrell but we'd be more than happy to
sit down with you at any time to go over that more detail
but we talk about
the sewer lines that are replacing talk about it just
went through it we're talking about a new set
of classroom such as well came out of the
which would be independent of any plane dealing with twenty
three building that's that's and that's what I just said our
problem is a freestanding building because the rules and
regulations we have to look at cafeteria space bathrooms and
some other things the cost projections obviously
attaching to the nineteen twenty three building or on the
face of it would be less expensive if we start doing a
freestanding building we get into some areas that we have to
add to that project and we're trying to price all that out
and be able to compare apples to apples and oranges to
oranges the only thing I will remind
everyone we talk about twenty three if we have a twenty five
really sure way
and I would hope that we would be
dealing with th esame concerns
with the twenty five building
we are at a loss quite frankly
why th e twenty three building is a factor
and the addition of standalone classrooms
could be connected even if connected to an existing sewer line
the sewer would cost you no more
with twenty lines than with one
I appreciate this courtesy
I'll try to convey it back
the concern is growing and I don't think we need to have
issues out there you have too good a situation
I 've heard rumors and most of them are false
>> I would like to ask Mr Flowers
and Dr Dunsmore and Dr Harrell if they could
schedule a meeting not a committee meeting but a
meeting with Mr Flowers to go into specific details about
his concerns and the concerns that we may have is a district
so I would like that to happen
>> the reason I asked for that tonight is
I've received in the last two weeks
seven different phone call from people in Fremont and
everyone had a different story and it's like Mr Flowers said
there doesn't need to be the rumors out there floating
around but it's gotten to the point that the rumors are
floating around from that we're going to close the school all
the way to we're not going to build the buildings and keep
school like it is and and it's it is very difficult
as a board member especially when you're not serving on the
facilities committee we get our
minutes but as we don't know exactly what the discussion is
been in the facilities meeting as far as moving
along with that but we do get phone calls
and I'm sure some of the other board members of gotten some
phone calls to but I just wanted to I just
feel like we need to be more in the communication phase of
where we're at and I think Mr
Flowers is a great representative from Fremont
be able to spread the word of where we're at with that situation
and I actually have even recommended to someone
to to talk about Mr Flowers as far as we can about see if he
could come to the board meeting and and I'll see if I could
gather information
>> thank you very
much Mr Flowers madam chair yes I like to make a motion that we
adjourn always I don't have to ask for that one all right I
need a second though also all right all right all in
favor indicate by raising your right hand
thank you very much
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Campus Management uses Dynamics 365 for Higher Education - Duration: 3:15.
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The Open Mind: Truth and Lies of Education - Arne Duncan - Duration: 28:40.
HEFFNER: I'm Alexander Hefner, your host on The Open Mind.
We're honored to welcome former U.S.
Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan,
to The Open Mind today.
Prior to joining the Obama administration,
Duncan served as CEO of Chicago public schools and
won praise for uniting the city stakeholders behind a
consensus education agenda.
Today as managing partner at Emerson Collective,
Duncan has returned to Chicago on a mission to
improve the livelihoods of young adults in his
hometown and create job and life
opportunities for disconnected youth.
Established by Laurene Powell Jobs,
Emerson Collective spearheads social justice initiatives.
Now, Duncan is author of the new Simon and Schuster book,
"How Schools Work: An Inside Account of
Failure and Success From One of the Nation's
Longest Serving Secretaries of Education,"
an authentic account of these real world
struggles, Duncan focuses acutely on the big
political lies and crises plaguing American
education from the halls of Congress and state
houses to the principal's office and classrooms.
Welcome Secretary, an honor to be with you today.
DUNCAN: Thanks so much.
Appreciate the opportunity.
HEFFNER: What is the lie that you think you most
effectively combated as Secretary of Education
that may not be as pervasive in the culture
of education today because of your service?
DUNCAN: We challenged lots of things and had some
successes and places where we would love to have
gone further faster.
I think one of the things that we really tried to
challenge was the idea of dumbing-down standards
where standards were very low where we were telling
young people they run on track to be successful
beyond high school and they weren't,
and actually I tell a fairly lengthy story in
the book about a young man I worked with years ago in
Chicago, who in his junior year was on a B honor
roll, was a great basketball player,
was trying to get ready to go to college.
I started working with him and found he was basically
functionally illiterate and that was just devastating.
There's a young man who'd played by all the rules,
had stayed out of the gangs,
stayed away from the violence in his
neighborhood and he genuinely thought he was
prepared to go to college and he wasn't close.
As a nation, we spend 7, 8,
9 billion dollars a year on remedial education in
college where people who graduated from high school
are taking high school classes,
paying college tuition, and not getting any credit for it.
So challenging states incentivizing states to
raise standards over the long haul I think this can
be very, very important to make sure that we're not
lying to children anymore and that we say they truly
are college and career ready. They will be.
HEFFNER: The bigotry of low expectations in urban
centers and more broadly in America,
you faced scrutiny from Senator Alexander despite
the fact that he praised your approach and
commended the good work that came out of the department.
How were you able to successfully confront
those folks who were unwilling to accept modern
standards today?
DUNCAN: It's an ongoing conversation,
again, you try and work together,
but for me this is really a triumph of common sense
and who benefits the question not asked,
the retort would be who benefits when we're lying
to kids who benefits when we're lying to parents who
benefits when we're lying to the public.
And the short answer is nobody.
And so change is hard in education and we'd
definitely challenge the status quo and we ruffled
some feathers and that that's,
that's, you know, maybe a little bit tough.
But as I always just feel this huge sense of urgency.
Our kids have one chance to get a good education
and we have to go further faster.
We have to work harder. Our competition isn't, you know,
Illinois or Indiana or Montana or Wisconsin.
The competition is China and India and Singapore
and South Korea and our children here in the
United States are as smart as innovative,
as curious, as hard work as children anywhere in
the, on the planet.
I just want to give them the best chance in life.
I want to keep high wage, high skilled jobs in the
United States and do that we have to have the best
educated workforce on the planet.
HEFFNER: And what are the political lies that are
imperiling and you even say or suggest demolishing
or potentially demolishing education in this country today.
DUNCAN: Well there are a few things that concern me
in a very, very serious way.
The first is that we all say we value education.
And the truth is Alexander,
that almost no one votes around education
and politicians, local, mayor, state Gov,
DC, Congress, White House, whatever.
I've never met a politician who's anti-education.
They like the sound bites. They like to visit classrooms.
They like to pat kids on the head,
but how many politicians do we hold accountable for
increasing graduation rates and making sure more
of our babies have access to high quality pre-K so
they enter kindergarten ready to be successful.
And the honest answer is, they're not held accountable.
And actually I don't blame them as politicians.
I blame us as voters.
And for me, education should be the ultimate
bipartisan or nonpartisan issue.
No one has a monopoly on good ideas.
We should unite as a country behind this,
but we all have to vote on this issue and that's
simply doesn't happen.
And I think that does a great disservice to our
kids and ultimately to our country. So that's, that's one.
The second is, we talked all the time how much
we value teachers. I don't think we actually do.
Teachers are doing, I think some of the most
important, most complex, most difficult work
imaginable, and you know, they are literally helping
the future to emerge and spark their curiosity.
We don't pay teachers adequately,
we don't train them effectively.
We don't have good career ladders for them and we
don't treat them as the professionals they truly are.
So I think that's, that's dishonest that's a lie.
And then maybe the toughest one in one
I've been focused on for unfortunately for most of
my life, having lost friends to gun violence
and I'm obsessed with it now is as a nation,
I honestly don't think we value our children.
And that's a hard thing to say,
but in other nations, you simply don't have the loss
of life that you have in America, not even close.
And our teens today, we've basically raised a
generation that are raised on mass violence,
on a mass shootings and gun violence,
and they're fighting back.
They're saying it's not acceptable,
but I think we as adults have absolutely let them
down and let them live with a level of fear and
trauma that makes no sense whatsoever.
HEFFNER: This hubris that we don't really need to
acknowledge global standards.
That is the politics and the brand of politics,
of the present Administration.
I don't think that necessarily is something
you're running up against in Chicago public schools,
it may be, but how have the nativist politics
infected the education debate because that seems
to be the biggest lie of all that we do not need
to be concerned with the rest of the world.
DUNCAN: Yeah.
So again, let's sort of step back.
If we want to have a thriving middle class,
if we want to break cycles of poverty,
if we want to have a vibrant,
civically engaged democracy,
the only way I know how to get there is through high
quality education for all and the truth is the vast
majority of our kids, 90 percent of children in
America always have and always will go to their
neighborhood public schools and we have to
make sure that every school is a great school
and the most important thing we can do is get
great teachers in front of every single job and have
a great principal in those buildings.
And again, when we do those things,
I'm actually very optimistic about our
country and where we could go because I see how smart
and how committed our kids are.
But if we don't take those responsibilities
seriously, then we actually exacerbate the
divide between the haves and the have-nots in our country.
We exacerbate the cycles of poverty and social
failure and so that for me,
the stakes here are so high.
I go back to growing up on the south side of Chicago.
If you dropped out then, and I had friends who did,
it actually wasn't great, but it wasn't the end of the world.
You could go work in the stockyards and steel mills
and get a pretty good job and support a family,
and own a home and as you know so well those jobs
are gone and they're never coming back.
So for me the fundamental model has to change.
We have a k through 12 model now that served as
well, like for the past hundred years,
but I think we have to be thinking about a pre-K
through 14 model at least now starting earlier
again, making sure our babies are ready to enter
kindergarten and be successful academically
and socially and emotionally and then,
even if you get a high school diploma today,
that's not enough. That's great.
That's a very important step stone,
but some form of education beyond high school,
four year university, two year community college,
trade, technical, vocational training.
We have to make that the norm here.
We have to educate our way to a stronger economy.
We have to see education as an investment,
not an expense, and again, challenging political
leaders on both sides of the aisle to understand
that we're fighting for our country here.
The stakes are extraordinarily high.
HEFFNER: In that fight, where is the most
innovative work going on at the state level?
DUNCAN: There are lots of places,
I like to point out, my good friend,
Governor Haslam in Tennessee who happens to be Republican.
I talk in the book about profiles of courage and
him and Governor Kasich in Ohio who fought for higher standards.
I talk about Governor Markell in Delaware and
what President Obama did, the federal level,
but just a couple of examples with Tennessee,
Tennessee had some of the lowest standards in the nation.
They raised them significantly.
That was tough, but they did the right thing.
They have been improving much faster than most states.
And then more recently, Governor Haslam has made
community college free for every resident in Tennessee.
Now historically that might be seen as more of a
Democratic, you know, strategy,
but he just thought it is an effective tool to help
strengthen his state and help strengthen the
economy of the state?
And so there are governors like that.
Again, Republican, Democrat doesn't matter to me.
He's done some remarkable work.
Again, never mission accomplished,
long way to go, but very, very proud to partner and
to see that progress.
HEFFNER: And the universal crisis that you point to
is the absence of suitable wages,
adequate wages for teachers.
And in Kentucky and other states,
there have been protests, marches,
West Virginia demanding better treatment for those
public servants who seek to steward the next generation.
Where is that lie and where does that truth lie?
DUNCAN: That goes back to again saying we value
educators saying we value teachers and we don't.
And I actually talk about those protests and strikes
in my book and just the fact that I don't like the
politics of it, but the fact is those are all
Republican led states where governors have
starved those educational systems.
And, you know, Oklahoma just go right down,
went right down, West Virginia, the list
HEFFNER: Kansas.
DUNCAN: Kansas.
And when we starve public education,
when we don't take care of teachers again,
who are we benefiting?
What's, you know, where's the win there?
I'll never forget talking to a teacher in my office
in DC from North Carolina and it really hurt because
North Carolina historically did a great
job educationally, Governor Jim Hunt
was one of my heroes.
We still work together.
But then things change and priorities change.
And I've talked to a teacher who was selling
blood, selling plasma to make ends meet.
And that was, it's untenable.
And here we are saying, yo,
please educate our babies, our children,
please give them a chance in life.
And then we're also asking you to sell blood to pay rent.
It's wrong, it's wrong.
And we should be paying teachers a lot more paying
principles a lot more.
We should hold them accountable for good results.
This has never familiar about,
you know, a blank check or a free lunch.
But that's the best investment we can make is
in great teachers.
And we need to think differently about teachers
working in, whether it's, you know,
inner city Chicago or here in New York or in
Appalachia or on a Native American reservation.
Some jobs are just harder than others.
How do we better support them?
How do we better reward that?
How do we better incentivize great teachers
to go to the kids and communities who are the
furthest behind who need the most help?
There's so much in terms of creativity, we're not doing.
HEFFNER: And this, Secretary is how it may
relate to the, our civic consciousness overall and
the gun issue because one of my critiques or
concerns associated with common standards is that,
and you said to me before, maybe you
weren't moving fast enough.
We did not integrate civic education as fully as we
should have in what was common core,
what was shepherded through the stimulus
money, and the first years of your tenure as
Secretary of Education.
So, reflecting on where we are now,
how can we get to a point?
Does it take candidates who are campaigning on
raises for teachers?
Can we get through state houses a more formidable
civic education that resonates for people's
lives on an issue like safety,
mental health, and school safety.
DUNCAN: We absolutely can.
If, and this is the caveat,
if we vote on these issues and again,
whether it's far left far right,
liberal, conservative, Democrat,
Republican, it doesn't matter to me.
No one has a monopoly on good ideas.
HEFFNER: We don't really have candidates who run on
teacher wages, right?
DUNCAN: We don't, we don't have them running on education.
And again, let me very clear,
I don't blame them, I blame us,
I blame us as voters, because we don't demand it.
And for me, what I call it is a well-rounded world class education.
Yes. Civics education is a huge part of that,
but for me, so is financial literacy...
HEFFNER: Right.
DUNCAN: So is foreign languages,
so is the ability to code and these are things that maybe,
you know, 30 or 50 years ago you didn't need,
but every child needs and deserves access to a well
rounded world class education,
and they deserve access to great teachers and great
principals and school buildings that aren't crumbling.
And again, these are investments.
These aren't expenses, these investments in our future,
and so we need candidates across the
political spectrum who will fight for these things,
but we as voters have to demand it or it's
not going to happen.
HEFFNER: From your tenure, was the principal
impediment to achieving those common standards
in a way that would garner consensus,
the school prayer issue or the underlying resentment
of the secular civic code?
DUNCAN: No, I wouldn't say that it was.
And you know, there's a clear divide in,
you know, in our nations or should be between
church and state and you know,
folks understand that.
And so that was of all the things that I worried
about that wasn't wanted so much that I was proud
of that we were able to get done,
invest more than a billion dollars in access to high
quality pre-K, which I think is the best
investment we can make and have hundreds of thousands
of additional children enter kindergarten ready
to be successful.
We're able to get high school graduation rates
to all time highs.
We were able to get additional $40 billion
dollars for Pell Grants for economically
disadvantaged young people to be able to afford
to go to college.
We did that without going back to taxpayers for a nickel.
That was wildly controversial in DC.
We thought it was common sense,
so we were really able to move things I'm very,
very proud of, but again, so much further still to go.
HEFFNER: But what is the source then of the
political gridlock and the refusal,
was it just that President Obama was a Democrat and
if a Republican President like a Jeb Bush,
who in fact in Florida and forced his own rigid standards?
DUNCAN: What was so interesting to me was the
disconnect between, and I'll be honest,
primarily Republicans in Congress and what their
states are actually looking for.
I spent as much time as I could out of DC out of the
bubble and out in communities and traveled to all 50 states.
I'll give you one on one example.
That's always stuck with me.
We invest a lot, as we talked about in high
quality early childhood education and really
trying to give kids a chance so they don't enter
kindergarten a year to 18 months behind in one of
the dirty secrets and educations.
Often we don't catch those children up and those
children enter kindergarten behind too
often become the dropouts down the road,
so we were able to do some grants for a,
for states at the state level for increasing
access and we had like 36 states apply,
but we only had funding for 18 and one of the
states we weren't able to fund was Mississippi.
Now on any measure Mississippi's at the
bottom, nationally, 48th, 49th,
50th, and that governor at the time,
Governor Bryant, who's a staunch conservative,
he and I may have disagreed on 90 percent of
issues, but he called me and he was devastated that
we couldn't fund high quality pre-K in his state.
And guess what? I was equally devastated.
I desperately wanted to do that. So that's what he wanted.
That's what he needed, but we weren't able to get
enough of folks in Congress from places like
Mississippi to say, this is not a federal mandate
is not a must do, but where states want to
invest, could we match, could we leverage money to
help more students get in?
That for me was the biggest challenge,
was a disconnect between what local political
leaders and their communities and their
citizens we're looking for and the bubble in DC.
HEFFNER: Chicago today compared to when you
entered office as secretary of education, how has it evolved?
DUNCAN: You know, you go back and I talk about this
to the then Secretary William Bennett in
Chicago, the worst public school system in the
nation, and I can't say whether it was or wasn't,
but it was a system that had struggled for a long time.
And that for me was a motivating cry.
And it was part of the reason I went to work for
the Chicago public schools,
was to see, could I help to see it improved,
could I help it to progress?
You may have seen recently a report coming out of
Stanford University, that shows Chicago's the
fastest improving urban school district in America.
That's amazing.
So I'm so proud of that progress.
Again, not where it needs not where we want to be,
a long way to go.
This is not a time to rest on our laurels,
but to see the progress and being called the worst
in the nation, to now being the fastest
improving school district in America.
That feels fantastic.
HEFFNER: That is ground zero for gun violence,
but there are many ground zeroes. Chicago is one.
It can hit any.
That's why it's called every town for gun safety.
It can hit any community, rural, suburban.
You've seen that accelerate since Donald Trump has taken office.
What are you doing, what is the Emerson Collective
doing together to tackle the challenge?
DUNCAN: Well, let me give you a,
if I can briefly just a little history.
I grew up as a part of my mother's intercity
tutoring program and that was a formative experience
and my sister and brother and I have all tried to
follow in her footsteps.
She did that work for 50 years until her health gave out.
But when I started to be a teen probably 12,
13, 14, I started to lose friends to gun violence
from, from the community.
And I think that shapes you and honestly scars you
in ways that are a little bit tough to talk about.
Fast forward to running the Chicago public schools.
Obviously lots of issues you deal with trying to
raise academic achievement,
tough budget issues, you know,
labor management negotiations.
I don't say any of that was easy,
but that was all much, much easier than dealing
with the level of violence that we faced.
During my seven and a half years running the Chicago
public schools on average, we lost a child every two
weeks due to gun violence, none in the schools.
Schools are safest places, but in the streets,
in their homes and going to those funerals,
going to classrooms where there was an empty desk
and trying to make sense of the senseless,
talking to family members.
That was by far the hardest thing I did,
nothing came close.
And unfortunately that violence in Chicago has,
you in the seven years' here in DC,
increased violence across the nation has increased.
And I want to be very clear this,
for me, it's never a school issue.
All those schools are a small piece of it.
This is an American issue.
This is a made in America problem,
and whether its malls, whether it's baseball
fields, whether it's.
we're coming up on the year anniversary of
Charlottesville, we just, there's a pervasive love
for guns that puts all of us, our families at risk.
And my worst day in DC, President Obama's worst
day in DC was the day of the Sandy Hook massacre.
And prior to that, this is another tough thing to
say, but when my kids were being killed in Chicago,
the vast majority were black and brown.
I really thought our country just didn't care
about black and brown kids.
And then when Sandy Hook happened and 20 white
children and five teachers and a principal were
killed, unimaginable. And still nothing changed.
Who got zero done in terms of gun legislation.
And that for me was the biggest failure.
And I became unbelievably pessimistic.
But since the tragedy of the Parkland massacre,
those young people have stepped up and took my
family to the March on Washington.
Our kids from the south and west side of Chicago
have been doing a ton of work with the Parkland students,
and I am more hopeful now than never
that the young people will win and they'll lead our
country where we need to go where frankly,
we as adults and educators and leaders have had
failed to take us.
HEFFNER: Where do common standards fit into civic
standards, has this Administration's efforts
reversed most every change that you made?
DUNCAN: This Administration is trying
to dismantle some of what we'd done some places
they've done that a little bit effectively some places,
thankfully they've been less effective.
What I take great heart and it's so much of what
we've done is now routed in states and in
communities where the real work is going on.
And for me, again, it's not about left or right
or Republican/ Democrat.
I think there are a couple goals that we as a nation
need to unite behind.
One is I think we should try and lead the world in
access to high quality pre-K right now we're like 30th, right?
We were so proud to get high school graduation
rates to 84 percent there.
The goal of the current administration
should be to go to 90 percent.
Keep that going.
We should make sure all of our high school graduates
are truly college and career ready,
again, high standards and then finally we should try
and lead the world in college completion.
The tough truth, Alexander is that we're top 10
and nothing right now internationally. Nothing.
And we can have lots of honest and vigorous debate
and lots of innovation around the best strategies
to achieve those goals, and again,
what works in rural Montana will be different
than Watts in LA, but we should unite behind the
goals and then watch and scale what works to get there.
HEFFNER: Also not punish people.
There was the perception and sometimes this was
experienced, that folks' individuality was somehow
compromised in adhering to strict standards.
If someone is more gifted in the humanities,
or passionate about the humanities,
that they would be dragged down by their inability
or dislike for other subjects.
DUNCAN: That's obviously never the goal.
You go back to having a well rounded world class
education for every child. Let them thrive.
I do think we have to move to more individualized
instruction and if a child is gifted in math,
let them fly and if a child needs a little bit
more help and more time, we need to do that...
HEFFNER: And not punitive...measures
DUNCAN: And not punitive.
It's always about catching up or for me,
it's always about growth.
How much are students improving and whether
you're gifted or average or whether you have some
learning, you know, learning challenges,
are we getting better faster?
HEFFNER: That was my concern about common core,
that just putting myself in the shoes of
prospective students now, that I would have been
accelerating in one discipline and not in
another and wanted to keep riding that discipline.
DUNCAN: I think we should do both.
Again, for me, it's not an either/or wherea child can
fly and has real passion, let's discover that.
Let's grow that, but where a child needs some more
help and more resources, let's not hide from that
either and let's get them that help and I don't like
when I hear young kids say well,
I'm not good at math.
HEFFNER: Right.
DUNCAN: I don't, I don't believe that.
Somehow they've internalized that.
We need to light that fire.
We need to light that spark and we define ways
to get to them and you know, jobs in STEM. Something.
You know, let's do that.
If you love the humanities, let's do that.
HEFFNER: Final question, Secretary.
How do you operationalize the Heckman equation?
How do you do precisely what you just outlined,
which is, provide superior attention,
education opportunities from pre-K up.
DUNCAN: For me, this is not rocket science.
It's not finding a cure for cancer.
This is political will. This is political.
We know how to do this.
HEFFNER: Universal pre-K
DUNCAN: Universal pre-K. Access to great early childhood teachers,
access to AP classes, the chance to go to college,
you know, chance to develop vocational skills.
If we had the political will to provide universal
access to pre-K, we would do it tomorrow.
One again, tough example, I was a two summers ago
with my son playing basketball in the
Netherlands and they have universal access for
four year olds to pre-K and they were then working
on bringing it down for three year olds
and when I told them about how hard
I was fighting in the battles and the challenges
and they almost thought I was lying, they couldn't quite believe it,
and then they asked me the question,
how come your country doesn't value children,
and that was a very tough question.
They decided that that was a priority.
Every four year old had access and they were
working on every three year old.
HEFFNER: How did you answer that though?
DUNCAN: I struggled with it and I still struggle
with it and I think the honest answer is,
again, we say these things,
but I don't watch what people say, I watch their actions.
I look at their policies, I look at their budgets.
We say those things I think it is dishonest.
I think it's a lie.
I don't think we value our children in the way
that other nations do.
We don't educate the way other nations do,
we don't keep them safe and free of fear
the way other nations do.
HEFFNER: Meaningful progress.
Secretary, thank you so much for being here.
Amen to you and your work.
DUNCAN: Thanks for a great conversation.
I appreciate the opportunity.
HEFFNER: Thank you and thanks to you in the audience.
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MFNERC Special Education Department Retreat - Duration: 2:41.
We decided to bring out our whole staff from the special education unit to bring
them out to a land base gathering and the way we set it up is we had three
areas. We had a sweat lodge, we had traditional and Western
perspective of what we do as an organization and we also had an area
where we had indigenous physical health activities. Yes, it was my first sweat ever
it was wonderful I got my name it was day woman I still have to figure out what it
means but it was fantastic.
I really enjoyed the tipi talk with Mr. Robertson.
What a got out of that was our children are very knowledgeable of
their community and their surroundings and it's not necessarily book knowledge.
and also that communication is two-way like we bring our our knowledge to them
but it's a sharing from them that we have to take with us when we leave the
communities. As we come in and we don't spend an awful lot of time in the
communities but when we do we go build those relationships and try and build
that trust with the community members and I think the other thing that we got
out of there is the importance of developing the relationships with the
parents and the families in the communities. There's a lot of knowledge that you can share with
kids with the games. Math knowledge, problem-solving, socialization, sharing
taking turns, memorization, so there's lots of skills in the games that they
taught us today. We planned this event and hopefully have more because you know
when you start thinking about us as a First Nations Organization I think that
we may we need to start realizing as First Nations people
our home is the land and so being out on the land and taking part in
communicating working together. It's so much more powerful in a setting such as
that as as opposed to sitting in a in a meeting room and trying to discuss
things about what we're going to do when we're out in the communities.
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