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Northwest Newsradio
"one semester" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Those who are graduating after first semester. Some here hoping the problem is taking care of quickly. It's becoming an embarrassment. This should have been solved. And then hoping the district can move to make a superintendent decision to bring some stability and leadership in the year ahead. That's come up for as Paul Rivera, northwest news time, two O four. Let's get a check of traffic every ten minutes on the fours in the high performance homes traffic center once again can be climbed. It's looking a lot better on highway three O 5 throughout poles Bo so I have a hunch that our earlier accident or accidents that were partially blocking and just south of Lincoln road have cleared away, but we're still seeing some roadwork delays just north of there on both directions of highway three near pioneer hill or this is a right around. Yeah, pioneer way. We are seeing some traffic on the valley freeway that's a little unusual for this time heading south down between ellingson road and Sumner, but state patrol says there's nothing blocking. It's just unusually busy. It's also kind of tied up on south on one 6 7 right at Willis street in Kent, our travel time from belvi to Renton is about 20 minutes, Seattle traffic starting to tie up on south on 5 right around I 90, so pretty briefly, not too bad yet, but we're keeping an eye on it, and the Boeing freeway and effort is just starting to slow too on eastbound 5 two 6 approaching evergreen way. We also have a long-term crush in Kent that is fully blocking 55th Avenue south at south two 72nd where a truck rolled over the guardrail partially down the embankment. Your next northwest traffic at two 14. In the forecast, sponsored by northwest crawlspace services. Let's get the latest from Kristen Clark. How about a little spring preview tomorrow? High temperatures well into the 50s and close to the 60° Mark Thursday afternoon. And a little bit more sun as well to go along with that warm up tomorrow. That could the sun fades, though, and the light showers resume on Friday from a much weaker storm that produces less wind as it rolls through but the clouds return this weekend and for Super Bowl Sunday may see a few raindrops on the windshield for the drive home after the big game, mundane to Tuesday a colder storm arrives, maybe producing more of the thunderstorms, Monday afternoon and arrangements of the foothills, Tuesday morning. In the comma four weather center, meteorologist Kristen Clarke. And take a look at conditions throughout the sound, it looks like we've got partly sunny skies 45° and ever partly sunny 47 into coma, partly sunny and 46 in Bellingham. Clouds and 47 in Olympia and partly sunny 48 now in downtown Seattle, northwest newstime two O 6 despite that relatively warm forecast you just heard if you're headed across the mountain passes be ready for a rough ride. We've had quite a bit of snow in the cascades lately. As for the ski area, snoqualmie is reporting the upper mountain has 16 to 18 new inches of snow at the end of chairlift two, so way up there, lots of new powder for you to slide on. Other ski areas also reporting great snowpack for skiing and snowboarding with a real wallop over the last 24 hours if you were out and about yesterday and you looked over toward the cascades and you saw those dark clouds. That was the snow that's falling up here. So just be prepared for changing driving conditions and also a good reminder we're still in the heart of winter up here. So if you do
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in the Bahamas
"Sam bankman freed was set on his way by two Stanford law professors who are very good law professors, but law professors don't really know a lot about the world. I've been a lot of professors since 1996 and I kept my hand in private practice under the arrangement I hit with Chapman and I only teach one semester a year now, but I like being a professor, but I like being in the world more. Most professors are simply not connected to the world. So if they were giving sandbank men free advice, even if they're very good law professor doesn't mean he was getting great legal advice. He was arrested yesterday. That happened late last night. I just posted on my Twitter feed, a story from Alice news items, the last thing I read before going on the air because it's the latest breaking news and it comes in the earliest. FTX founder Sam bankman freed was arrested in The Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday. The day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The arrest marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30 year old entrepreneur, why they known by his initials SBL. Who made a boom in Bitcoin and other daily asset digital assets to become a billionaire many times over until FTX is rapid demise. That's a Reuters story that John Ellis is quoting at the top of F of Ellis news items this morning.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Morgan Zegers Is Concerned Over the Normalizing of 'Woke' Ideology
"Little bit about your personal journey. So somebody who is a patriot whose father served this nation in uniform. What was that journey like for you at the beginning to educate yourself? What kinds of things did you learn that you were surprised at that you hadn't been taught? Tell us a little bit about that preparatory phase for you. Well, so for me, the most shocking has been looking back at how I was taught about a lot of really radical and pretty recent changes that have happened in our country. All things that have been normalized. So what I mean by that is, for example, think of the Department of Education. When I was in high school, we were taught that that's a very normal and fair concept, but in reality, it's unconstitutional and the federal government should not be having their heavy hand their boot over the next of parents and school children and the actual local school districts. That's what we're seeing now. So if you think about these little things that are happening on a day to today basis normalizing them. Now, what I always think about too is I graduated college in 2018, my first year that was 2015. That's not a time when this radical gender stuff was going on. But nowadays, everybody has pronouns in their bio. When I went to orientation and had my first semester of college, they actually taught us that, oh, what do you know? The science has changed, and it turns out we need to let you guys know. Sex and gender are actually completely different things. And it's important that you know this new finding that we have. And I remember sitting there in my classroom like, well, this is really different, and that's not what I thought. I mean, I thought they were interchangeable basically. And so they really re-educated us over the last ten years or so to a lot of this new woke ideology and they are normalizing it. That's the concerning thing to me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Candace Owens on Standing Up for Parents' Rights
"What we need to empower parents again. And when I say in power parents, I'm speaking on an individual household basis, right? I don't care what the PTO moms think. I really don't. I just do not give a damn. So your kid, if your kid has ever not able to go to a camp or whatever because he's not vaccinated, just doesn't matter, right? Yeah, not for me. I'll find the ones that he's allowed to go to, right? And too bad on them. He's healthy. It's so bizarre to me. You're treating a healthy person like they're sick and fortunately because of COVID, parents are awakened to how bizarre it is, right? You're saying that there's nothing wrong with my kid. Mikey doesn't have COVID. Even if my kid did have COVID, he's a child, so he has an effective 0% rate of becoming ill from this, right? And yet you're saying to me, my child can't do activities unless they roll up their sleeve and risk getting myocarditis. That's insane. That's not worth the trade off for me. Let me just say this to parents are listening to this. You only get when it comes to your health. It's just one time, you're born with it, you get your health, right? If your child gets myocarditis, there's no cure or fix for that. You've ruined the rest of his life. Potentially for a Facebook post to say, my child graduated. I got so many emails from moms and dads. He's only got one semester left to go, right? Horrible circumstance to be in, by the way. I am completely sympathetic to that. Imagine COVID hits, you have one semester left to go. And they say, well, he's got a rope receiving at the vaccine. And parents are going, I paid all this money, man. I just want him to get the freaking certificate. Wrong decision man, right? You're playing with his health. Now, imagine if you're that parent that did that in your child, suffered from a heart attack, had mild has myocarditis. We have listeners where that's happened. Right, right paralyzed. Paralyzed. I mean, think about the guilt. Think about the guilt that that parent would have for the rest of your life and you do that for a
The Larry Elder Show
Crenshaw High Goes on Lockdown After Campus Disturbance
"I went to quench all high school. As you know, and one of the reasons I support school choice is because of my experience at Crenshaw. And at the time, it certainly was not the same kind of high school as was fairfax high where I went for one semester as well. The difference in the academic orientation, the expectation to the teachers night and day. And the school and the school system in the inner city in LA, not just Crenshaw, has gotten much, much worse since I graduated in January of 1970. Listen to this. Crenshaw high school was on lockdown all day today after fists were flying in a massive brawl involving as many as 100 students. Both LAPD and school police, rushing in to keep the peace. Kicking on his Rachel Kim has details on what might have sparked it. It's unacceptable. It's not safe, not a safe environment. It's not a place for your child to go to get education.
Biz Talk Radio
"one semester" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Jeannie Yurman. And my guest Today is Howie Bush. He is the founder of Do Grow. Hi, Howie. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thanks for having me. Thanks for joining us. So, Jude robe. It sounds kind of self explanatory. But maybe you want to explain a little bit more about it? Yeah, you know, so I'm a product developer. I've developed products and gunned them to market. So I kind of think like that. And I'm like, okay. I came up with an idea that solve the problem for me Not being a bathrobe guy. Sorry. I'm just not for you rode guys. You know, I'm not a bathrobe guy, and I'm like, what would I wear? So I came up with this idea for dude Road, which is basically a cooler bathrobe right? It hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. It's barely changed. So I came up with something that's more like the meter robe. And you have pants and shorts that you can get also, so it just changes it up quite a bit. And it is something I would wear now and do wear. So now your robe guy right now I'm a rock. I'm a do drug guy. So you This is not your first product, though. You you as you said, your product developers. So what other things have you worked on? But I'll tell you how I started. I came up a buddy of mine came up to me One day I I literally I consider myself the world's least hand the inventor because I can't make a thing literally like making an icky a desk. I get, like cold sweats like it is. I can't make anything yet like I'm an inventor makes no sense right, So friend came to me and he said, Why don't we do something together? We came up with the product. I came up with this idea to do good luck products for your favorite sports team. And pretty soon we licensed it out to somebody else. A few months later, I came up with another idea, and this was a pillow like I don't like neck pillows. I happen to sleep on my hand on an airplane. So I came up the idea for a pillow that can actually go in your hand. It doesn't have to, but it can. So when you sleep, you sleep like this on a plane or use it as a regular pillow, and I license that out pretty quickly. So you know, that kind of just became a thing that I do So if you're looking for that pillow, by the way, it's being sold at high. Two news licensed out to leaders in in whatever that industry is. Now you've mentioned licensing. You have tapped your prior career as a contract attorney for this licensing. You've been a contract attorneys. So how does it compare being an entrepreneur and developing these products versus had been in that classic white collar world of being an attorney? Oh, it is different. I mean, so Let's even back up a little bit when I was in law school, um I my first semester of law school. Some big big guy comes up to me and asked me to go to lunch. I had no idea he was Mike. Sure, Let's go. Who says no to the big guy? Right? So it turns out he was playing in the NFL at the time he just finished his second season was taking law school classes. You know, to be prepared for after his career was over, and he calls me up after that semester and said, Do you want to do my next contract? So literally? I was one semester in the law school. I'm like, okay, so During law school. I was representing athletes. I was recruiting and representing professional athletes. I then went into corporate law and I was doing contracts and corporate stuff. But the whole time I was really trying to grow my agency business because to be honest with you, I mean, I can do contracts. I'm very good at doing You know, sports entertainment licensing contracts, But I really didn't like being part of the legal profession as a lawyer working in corporate law, like you say it's so different one billable hours to there's not. I didn't find at least where I was at what I was doing a lot of creativity to it and the end of the day. I like to use my creativity. I like to think outside of the box. Um, I was doing. I was actually doing some securities work as well. And I don't know. I mean, I know, you know, You know the stock market everything, but I don't know what you know about securities law pretty dry. It is so dry. You look through the 33 34 34 Act Exchange Act. You go like you. You start going by. I was going crazy. So as soon as my sports practice got big enough to move, I moved. I moved on. So you have your sports practice. But at what point did the products start surfacing? And did you then switch gears from that to producing products, So that was later on At a certain point? I was I most. You know, I was about representation right? So as representing professional athletes hide marketing side to my company I did under armor's first licensing deal. I then started representing some broadcasters, mostly sports broadcasters. And one of my clients was a company that produced the World Series of Poker Free ESPN's house, doing their deals with ESPN and and other networks. I ended up going in house with them and started doing development like actual development of shows and pitching shows. So that got me like kind of back on my creative path a little bit. And once I was there and doing that, like a friend of my case, I really didn't plan on going into product licensing. Like I said, I can't make anything or, you know. Developing products. I can't make anything. So why would I think I could do that? And then it just kind of happened when my friend came to me and said, Let's let's do something. We just did it. So was your attitude. Just blow with it as it started evolving? Yeah, yeah, I'm a big believer in life. Just go for it and put stuff out there. I had come across something that you had said about as an entrepreneur. You can't worry about what people think. And I'm sure you've gotten that a lot with the dude drove right the name And what it is, Uh, tell us a little bit more about that philosophy of Don't worry about what people think. Yeah, you know, and what I really mean about that is like even your friends and family. If you're going to develop products more so than anything Like friends and families who work well, meaning they don't mean any bad, but a lot of times I'll tell you. Oh, that'll never sell that, you know, And they don't mean anything bad, but they don't know, right? And and then there will be random. If you put stuff out on Facebook or instagram or or Lincoln, even you know, they're going to be Trolls or haters or whatever you're going to. You're going to see it, you know, And when I say Don't worry about it..
The Three Questions with Andy Richter
"one semester" Discussed on The Three Questions with Andy Richter
"A token there's a great big. I would say that. I'm friendly with everyone is in this hundred episode and and are in these clips But i'm not as friendly with any of them as i am with the next the next clip e which is will arnett who is One of my best friends and just a hilarious mench of a guy and he's handsome. He's you know he from a privileged background but he's about as real as it gets and here he's talking about. Maybe some of the reasons for that. Did you go to college at all or did you just. I went off to new york. I went briefly. I went for one semester to concordia university montreal and and then I remember nothing not cold enough in toronto for you to get to montreal where it's real cold. Oh my god it's addictive. It's a and then i went back. The next time i went back to montreal was when we were shooting blades. Glory and i was wearing a leotard and chasing.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"one semester" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"Joe sapir trying to make him. The host was part of the show. Here a facilitator in vivian do dro- as our lead intellectual interlocutor. We are going to continue our discussion of a real philosophy for real people tools for truthful. Living by my friend in jesuit father mctigue and we didn't finish chapter three last time. We're going to continue chapter three In chapter three is called worldviews. What they are. And why they matter on. Page seventy six as normal for him. He defines what he means. You're on the bottom paragraph. a world view is a person sees understand feels counters that which in not worldview view is true in good. I wish thinking is preparing for this meeting. We have here that. This book is written by a professor of philosophy. It is really based on a one semester course which is condensed and expressed in. This book is if we're going to discuss it. What is the best method. Roy started and we can try and explain everything which would take semester course to go through. So we're in the middle the stream your but how do you think we should perceive well. I mean i made a point in my leading of highlighting spamming the on the basis. That if i didn't i would be reading anyway. Oh we would never finish the book so on average for be highlighting every ten page or so. I think the key thing is just to be content with missing good things out and hoping to be appetizer. And the people want to buy the book and and get the the main course. Vivian perhaps joseph can take us leapfrogging through what he's highlighted and and now respond accordingly or what's miss out some of the observations that you sure you informed that have highlighted. So i think it's just a question of being winning two skit leapfrogging some of the highlights if we're to behind schedule Let's move on now to to next chapter regard. This the fact we wanna go halfway through this one. I mean if you're not expecting to be able to cover the whole thing a comprehensive then let's be content with the facts are at least three chapter outline what the key structural elements are and then. We have a few quotation. We wanna read supportive that this really is s. I'm rereading it. It's a wonderful opportunity to kind of reflect on one's whole life point of view and he's so clear and also concrete it as examples. I just think it's a great way to kind of maintain. Kind of philosophic reflective life for example here in the world news. I mean he's not gonna show that in terms of your total of you reality. There's only a certain number of views that are possible. I mean there's near the csm that beyond this world there's a god who takes interest in it others deism which read it became prominent in the enlightment. Seventy eighteenth century europe france germany. That you will yes. god exists. But he's distant and we know him as a first cause and he created universe. But we're on our own now and naturalism. Which is the rejection of radio There is no god matter is older is and that tends to be associated with scientistic. I would say scientific but a scientific approach which biased very method always looking for betrayal causes firm material event but how that any lovely leads to naylor's which as a rejection of all meaning to experience in the world but he showed us out that is a As ineluctable unnecessary cost was the national enough to avoid that. They're to other world views one x gestures which says well yes absurd but i shake my fist added. I'm gonna resist it. No matter what we're living in now especially bush modernism which basically says we'll never know the truth anyways. All narrative even-par greater narrative and impose it and that we're going to deconstruct that show you that all. These narratives are ready just expressions of power. Without of course is that. Why are they constructing that narrative green. What what gives you the right to construct a narrative digress. Anyway he goes into detail in this book and charge. sean but it really is a I i find it illuminating overview. A which happened shortly. this is also true. Historically that the emphasis has been well policy. Ism you know prior to christianity judaism then theism especially monitors judaism and then after christianity for For centuries that was sort of the dominant worldview though the enlightenment and then naturalism deism which then led to nationalism probably ocean. lightning will call the modern period. Now post monitors were really into neil Interesting how the emphasis should More and more away. From god to nothing i would like to quote the author as to what his purpose is in presenting the sketch of these worldviews. And that's on can be found on page one one where he says the last paragraph where he says. My purpose is to provide the reader with the means of identifying the worldview metaphysics anthropology and ethics embedded in any moral claim. He may encounter. Once he is aware of these ebay evaluate critique clarify reject or improve upon what he is found so a he could begin to interpret the ambient culture which he finds himself can understand better. The.
Movin 92.5
"one semester" Discussed on Movin 92.5
"Did you skip? I didn't count the days but I skipped more than I actually went to class. How did you graduate? I had to do a lot of summer school and make up classes. What would you do when you skipped class? Oh, there was like so much food and local markets and things around. I would love this one around, smokes and stuff yourself or with people with people. If I could. All right, time is up. What do we think? Is Jose telling the truth? Or is he lying? That's hard for me, because I don't know how you graduate. If you don't go your senior year. It's a pretty important here. I feel like maybe they made an exception for him. They're like you know what? Just getting. I actually think he's lying because I don't think his mom would hold him accountable. His mom helped him get out of everything when it came to school. E think it's true. I think you would miss a lot of school. I'm with Brooke. I don't think that your mom would want you to stay. I think she would encourage you to be like he has 80. You can't be there. So me skipping a lot of school having a pre written note that my mom said quote if he doesn't have a fever, don't let him leave. And don't call me was true me because I missed so much school. My mom was like he has to go to class. Don't let him leave if he's sick. Graduated. Barely. I walk you guys. Thank you to Jose's mom keeping me in class for that one semester, the even even for this job. If you're just joining us, we're in the middle of True confessions. Senior Graduation edition. We're we're confessing to things that we did from back in high school were onto our social media coordinator Alexis Brooke, which envelope should she opened? One or two? Go ahead, Alexis. My senior year I hung out with a group that the school called the Blonde. There were six of us, because not I only hung out with blondes. Oh, God, that.
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"one semester" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"Anyways is that Building strategy and then us our team working with the the the demarcating pros whether it be email marketing. Seo social media and then holding them accountable and then sort of being in between for the business is working much better for us but yes even in even consulting today digital marketing. They're not going to apply everything they don't offer believe in testing because testing is expensive and marketing is moving so fast so i can attest to the fact that consulting heart which is why one of the reasons when you and i met and we started that als- for good program where we've put over thirty nonprofits through the program Was my search for doing something. Bigger was like well. What can i do to give back in and at dawn on me that i had so many interns from lynn from fau palm beach state. And i thought well if i teach them hands on instead of just giving them busy work at agency it'd be better for them in wait. I already worked with nonprofits as a board member. Why don't we do that. And then you are open to it. You were like yeah. We'll typically we've had small you know have helped small businesses but the the nonprofits to your point they are like sponges in its. The help is no. They're no stranger to helping people so they get it that those the students in your class were always. Hey let's helped you guys are working with one semester. Aren't you guess suits for seniors. And they have their final presentation in fact this wednesday Edmonds Who you know. He has another full time job and he runs this nonprofit. What's the nonprofit name and since for seniors suits for seniors. And what what they do. And they're really focusing on disadvantaged youth who are graduating or seniors in high school and them prepare financially Prepare for interviews it. The sued part is they helped them. They're helping them be successful as they go forward whether they go forward in college or go forward with another job..
Course and Career Chat
"one semester" Discussed on Course and Career Chat
"I'm going to move to canberra like she was from rural new south wales. She was like. I'm leaving She did ought science for one semester. Dropped out became a nanny for a bit worked on a cruise ship. Then she came back and studied. Communications in was doing journalism and political science did worked in the public service for. I think fifteen years. And then when i was seven she was like i wanna be a midwife now so then we moved to melbourne she went back to uni studied a midwife now. She's a midwife and she's also she's earned inside business where she is more about like the at harm care which really kind of combines the communication that she in her first degree the midwifery and i think that's great. Sir i think having a role model like that someone who's just like you know this isn't right for me anymore and being i guess courageous enough to take that leap has inspired me to do the same. I love that. That's an particularly. I think for for people was to say people that are older and rain to say something like that about. I put myself in that same category. Even when i was finishing high school even though people had started to talk about you know different careers throughout different jobs and roles..
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"one semester" Discussed on Pod 4 Good
"But they did just that and they reached out and they made sure that they were that their school was part of the next guard it passed and they are in the process of rebuilding an entire that entire school. I think they got like ninety million dollars to build a new alternatives campus. And all i did they do that. They build awareness about the importance of alternative education in diverse school district. And that's a critical piece. It's not a deficit is actually a huge addition to the school district. And so i always think back to that story of how empowering that is for students to be able to talk about their own story mega significant change like that and the looking back now. Their community can point to these students at really kind of move the needle on that issue. That's an amazing story. I love the fact that the students didn't instantly become cynical about it. They're like this this. This might not help us. But it's gonna help the next group and that's a worthwhile investment of our time but for the majority of our listeners than my fourteen year old nephew. Most of our listeners are adults. So what can we as adult do to help. Generation says and build a more civically engaged populists and education system. I think one of the main acceptable people can do is to key is to start expecting that public school. The schools have robust exaggeration. And asking questions. I get all the time eto you just assume that school looked exactly like it did neighbor growing up and maybe they went to a school where they did. They happen have vima nominal government teacher and they assume that's everywhere that's definitely not the case and we see all the time especially as education funding. Gets you know pulled more directions. These classes are getting cancelled and teachers are not getting the professional development. They me and so. I definitely get something. That every adult can advocate whether they have kids in school or not whether they have children or not and whether or not They're in public school. It really is imperative that we go to our school boards and we really make sure that they're providing these resources for their students and then the other thing that i think adults can do. I'm part of a generation. Citizen is partnered with tulsa change makers league of women voters lots of different groups and we have the civic learning coalition. And that's something that is a group of organizations and individuals who just believe that not only. Is there deficit in civics education in our schools but it extends outside of our souls. Because now we've got about thirty years where we've had not enough of that municipal and state government and so people think that those one of those things where people are bears that they don't know so they don't pass and they don't do anything about it. We really are in a time. Where i think you just ask any question. There's not a stupid question. I think we saw that in the twenty sixteen election and everything that followed. We saw that with the insurrection. We see that almost daily now at the federal level. But you know how does this even were. And so i think being was been staying engaged in really trying to push aside some of that cynicism to just re-engaged and if it takes doing it for that next generation or coun- support some of our generation citizens students while you're at it. Can we get some of the students from generation citizen to explain to us with the senate parliamentarian. Does i just want to clarify for our listeners. Generation citizen is a nonprofit correct yasser. I noticed on your website. You have per usual where nonprofits like to hide where you can donate on their website and said putting it more out there and in front. That's a buffet have with nonprofit in general but i imagine generation says and would also be fine with donations from people correct absolutely. Yes oh jerry citizen. Oklahoma is pretty much one hundred percent philanthropic rapidly primarily through foundations but then also a lot of individuals and that is one unique thing about oklahoma. Our site is. We're the only site that does not have any fee for service aspect of our budget. We had to do that because we didn't the avenues when we first started this. Not they're typically. There's just not in our public schools here. Oklahoma there's not a lot of extra dollars to move around. We're hoping to change that or changed at some point but suggests every dollar definitely counts. We have a teacher leadership donor network that it really does so much of what we do. Most of what you're paying for if you donate to generation citizen is truly going back edgy. Training guard teachers and recruiting them in helping them become leaders in their field. Because this policy work needs to happen at the state level and it needs to happen at the municipal level. but it's also a lot of our. Teachers have to advocate for themselves to about. How do you evaluate something. Like actions idex. You know this is not something that's like if you get or answers right you know you get a kind of thing like this. It's more about how how you're growing and developing and becoming an advocate and research all those things one of the toughest things when you're doing any type of advocacy work is especially the first time you fail. And i can imagine for for kids when it's their first time to try to advocate for some kind of policy. If they aren't successful how do you build them up and keep them going to learn from that and continue to try and stay engaged. That's a great question. I'm by that you have actually built into our curriculum. And our professional development reflection on impact and approach is a huge part of the work that we do so at each. There's lots of different points throughout the semester when they're working on the projects and then obviously at the very end were students are really spending time considering their efforts. What did they do right. What could they have done differently. What would they have rather seen all of those things. And then we just generally sort of operate off of the fact. That change is slow and meaningful changes. Really slow a lot of the time. But i don't you can rest on your laurels. There they will. That's enough it just takes a long time. I think really reflecting that constant reflection and that's honestly where deeper learning is happening as well because they're able to think a lot of times. It's like oh. I went to the wrong person or i went to the wrong group. We lost two weeks because we waited on this guest speaker. We didn't realize we should have gone to a different area. We were speaking to the wrong committee. All sorts of things like that and so i would say those kind of disappointments as if he would consider them i. Those are pretty frequent throughout this whole process. But i think because it's bill dennen. It's intuitive as part of the process. The reflection just bills that confidence and new we do survey students at the beginning of the end of our semester. Just to really get it. At understanding of how did they feel coming into the course about democracy in their participation in its and their agency and ability to effect change and even with those kind of disappointments. The growth is huge. Just one semester of getting to work with their classmates on one august issue. That is pretty incredible. And quite frankly. Motivate me to do what i do even though who changes slow and it can be frustrating. Well hopefully we see some of these students in our civic and municipal and state government. someday to. Because i i would say that. A lot of are a lot of the people in our state. Government could use a civics lesson based on some of the bills. They tried to pass. But that's a different topic. Yeah whatever happened with that sasquatch. Bill do they get the did that. Actually get voted on my years living away from oklahoma the very few times i heard about oklahoma like on the national news or the daily show. Or the colbert. Report or on slate or the washington post or everywhere else. I get my would. Most.
Pod 4 Good
"one semester" Discussed on Pod 4 Good
"Rich and i'm your vice admiral philanthropy. Chris miller and today i guess amy current the executive director of the oklahoma chapter of generation citizen jarash and says and is an organization that works to transform civics education so young people are equipped and inspired to exercise their civic power. We talked to amy about action. Civics why we've seen social studies disappearing in our schools and we hear a story about some norman students that make you think maybe these kids are all right and we still do not know what the senate parliamentarian does. If you know please email us. We are excited. Had been the executive director of the oklahoma chapter of generation system on the podcast today. Amy hello hello for having. I was very excited to find out more about this organization and let other people know about the smoking cessation. So why don't we start with the sort of quick two minute. Summary of what generation citizen does. Yeah so in a sense. i mean. we're here to make sure that students all have the opportunities that we were talking before the show about high social studies in government while they're in middle school and high school so our mission is to inspire students to exercise their civic power. And we do that. Through our forbidden which we have in several schools across the state and then we also have professional development for teachers to help them and hone their craft Our curriculum is action based so called action. Civis so students are actually learning how government works by engaging with policy and as you can imagine that is a lot of information for teachers to have as well and a lot of the time. They're learning right next to each other. So they're kind of learning as they go so we provide a lot of training teachers in that way as well since classes in middle school and high school or broken up into subjects. Are you working with teachers. Who mostly teach history. Yeah so we typically house our curriculum in social studies courses. So it's usually up to the school district whether they put it in middle school or high school. Sometimes you'll see it in oklahoma history which is where we are in a few of our tulsa courses and then we're in a bunch of government classes again that varies across the state where they put government. Everyone in the state is required one semester government before they graduate ahead. But we're really lucky that a few districts have a full year of government in that makes a lot more sense to put generation citizen in there. Because you can imagine there's a lot to learn if you just have one semester of government you're typically focusing on federal government which is good and really important but it's not accessible for students and teachers and so the curriculum that we do is actually really focused on municipal government and state government to a really great opportunity to partner that while they're learning federal government. How that system works translated into state and municipal government. That's really interesting. Because i know when i was in school we learned. Basically nothing about municipal government was mostly federal a little bit of comparative government between different types of national and federal governments. And maybe a little bit about state but not even much about state government that seems to be muniz added deficit. You see it. A lot of schools that they focus solely on federal government when they talk about government. That is a deficit. We see across the country in one of the big issues. That are the big problems that generation citizens sought out to solve. Because another side of that if you only teach federal government. It's not accessible to students than they don't participate in government. And then they end up in their forties or fifties where the government is you know something is really an issue for them and they don't have the skills or the knowledge to do anything about it. And so we really. That's why we focus very much on state and municipal government and that's also where all the fun is for the most part because there's all our our students do everything. Her school safety projects to. They do hit some environmental issues. But they have to figure out how you make that. How do you affect bogle policy when it comes to the environment and then you know it goes all across the gamut of what they focus on. When i saw. I believe it was an your annual report of their references to different student projects where they made changes at their own schools are there was one example where a group of students were changing. The address dress code at their school is our projects like that part of the curriculum. Or is that just encouraged as part of the process. So it is part of our curriculum is framework that essentially if you can imagine what an hourglass looks like we were very clever and and use the hourglasses sort of our model. Not everyone uses cell phones to track time but if you can think back to what. The hourglass look dyke at the very top. It's community issues. So students are looking at. What are all the community issues that they feel like the impact them and they think they could make better and then they go through a process of consensus building where they decide on one community issue that they are most interested in from there. They identify root causes. They select a policy goal. So we're very intentional. That it is a policy goal while awareness building and fundraising and all those things are really important. If it's the policy that actually is what makes you long lasting change and were teaching government. We're not teaching business marketing. So that's also why we focus on the ball goal and from there they identify. Who is the person or people who can best make an impact on that or make a decision to change the outcome and from there they create an action plan. Is that what you're referring to. Essentially as that kind of pulling it all together and creating that action plan and yes that is part of the curriculum but it's completely student driven so they determine what the issue is and how they wanna address it as we were researching and learning about this organization. There were what felt like a combination of a lot of different separate entities. That i'd heard about like there were aspects of a school debate. There was some model. Un there was some straight civics learning and engagement and it seems like generation says and combines all these things i find that fascinating someone who grew up in broken era oklahoma as liberal where there was no training on how to defend my views to other people all they had was what i knew and what was thrown at me and it would have been great earlier in life to have that government knowledge like not having to wait until the tenth grade right. Chris is that when we had our. ap government class. Yeah it would have been nice to have some sort of firm foundation on both how my city government worked and how my state government worked and then of course the federal government because the way the federal government can be a little archaic but state governments are also kind of wacky in.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"one semester" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"You hella fine all right. thank you for that. Welcome back to the shell. Rick tiller with you. Coast to coast around the globe. American forces radio network. It's our pleasure to welcome to the show. The lovely talented erica rhodes. She's a stand up comedian. She's an actress and she is at raleigh. Good night's this weekend make sure to come by and Get tickets and Eric i know lavi on roads. Your special is coming out to people. Get the edith piaf reference or. Do you just old guys like me. Get that they'd question. I didn't realize that i was dating myself by giving it title. Now now people are going to know from the nineteen twenty you know but but i hope i hope people get it if not maybe the look it up and find out you know. Find some new music that they didn't know about and there's always the marion cotillard remake too. That's a little more modern trill. Yeah i feel like la vian. Roads should be a timeless reference. But i guess we feel that way about a lot of things So i know you are a b. You terrier and you. You studied acting there and stuff What did the whole go into school and boston. I mean you just think about the ivy league in bc and everything else there. What was it like to go to college on the charles. Well i am a college dropouts. I only went for a year but it. It wasn't okay here. I was a cello major. If you can believe it and so you know. If i had graduated i really would have had a had a more stable income from getting cello major degree. Did you have a yoyo. Ma poster in your room i did not. I was more of jacqueline dupre. Fan which is also author. Date me so you know what. I love the cello and i think the chiller really shines in chamber music your thoughts. I would agree with that but you know honestly cello shines whenever cello is there because it is the best instrument objectively. So you know growing up back east. Did you have to carry it in the snow for five. Miles abraham lincoln. The whole case and everything i used to i used to carry it around new york I lived in manhattan. But then i went to queen's college for just one semester but i insisted on still living in manhattan so i would take two trains and a bus with my huge and everybody would say oh. I bet you wish you played the flu. And they think that's a really clever line. That played the flu. Well i think about comedians from queens college you and seinfeld dot that he went there. Yeah yeah. I went there for one semester and i was also a cello major there but i took some other classes to Is actually a good school. But it was a very far from where i lived and somehow i was so stubborn. I just refuse to move to queen's well and plus it's not like you were switching colleges dropping out because he were dummy. Your career was going. You were people. You're in demand. Well that's nice of you but nobody knew about me back then. I mean i was doing a prairie home companion but that was about it at that point and then i went to I went to acting school. And after that i thirty getting some acting parts. That took me a long time to get any anything from from that so on that note. What what did garrison keeler mean to you. Well he's been like a huge mentor my whole life. He put me on stage ryan's tan and You know i've been performing ever since. And he taught me how to perform for a live audience for laughs. How to write comedy i mean. He taught me pretty much everything. No i love that. That's so interesting how to wait for laughs not to step on your own joke not to talk through laugh. These are all things you have to learn the hard way Why this sort of learn by doing it. And i learned by doing it in front of thousands of people which you know isn't necessarily the normal way to learn so. I'm really lucky that i had that experience. I was really young being manhattan. I love going there and and just jumping around almost like a comic for the sets at the cellar. Gotham in the strip. And what have you and and You know the hard knocks of getting past at some of those things. Did you ever feel like throwing in the towel. I think we all felt like throwing in a towel all the time. I think i. After two years of standup i. I said to my manager. You know. maybe this isn't my thing 'cause you know maybe i'm more of an actress I wasn't doing great at it. And he said it's too soon to tell and sure enough. After a couple of years. I finally got the swing of it and i started playing around with it more. I would at least comment if something didn't work which you know that was like johnny carson thing. Were you know he was really good. At recovering from a dud and so i started to learn at least how to recover. It's really important as a comment. You're going down. You gotta learn how to be like. I am going down. And just acknowledging the audience oshii seal man. It's so that's so great and you know by the way we're speaking with erica road. She's at raleigh good night's this weekend make sure to pick up some tickets if you're in the area I had another comedian. Tell me one time. I must say who it was because she told me in confidence but she when she was starting off she used to get and i forgive me. You might have got this as well but the whole oh honey. You're too pretty to be a comedian. Did you get that. I really gone that Because i think my voice makes up for it. So i think you know. I think if they're like oh she's cute but then they hear me speak like oh but like she's not normal. How did she get your acting chops. Because i mean these are two completely different disciplines. Stand up comedy. Which is of course. You have to be a fighter pilot a ninja to get up there. But you know acting you have to conjure tears you. It's another words. We don't have to be good actors to notice when someone's about actor. So where did you learn your acting chops. Well i went to the atlantic theatre conservatory in new york. Which is david lamb at school and He would just say you know. Just get up there and say the words. Just don't over think it just say the words and so he wasn't. He wasn't like into the emotional non marie staff which i liked because i wasn't great at that and One time actually asked him. I think i have to cry on this film. Like but i'm really. I don't know how to do it and that's a really good question. She has like what do you do if you have to cry because.
Kush Conversations
"one semester" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"And today's guests. We have one of a kind individual. We have miss chef Cates with us today. Thank you for joining us. Come in so the first thing i gotta ask is the name. So you're chef award is what is the pirate part of see your flag. They're like the flag pirates. That's all that's all it just enjoy pirates pirates. Would you ever like maybe like you could open like like a higher restaurant or some shit. I totally that suffer that they have parrot bar actually here a done away. It's pretty cool. Faira up up. Pirate bar higher. It i was released. Save is tied together so the pirate bar. What yeah this is not like it then. So you are also i guess. Would you say that you are aspiring candidates. Chef or that you are already at the level that you will call a Definitely firing spiner. I'm not professionally trained as a chef. I took like one semester of school longtime ago Just for fun. Just i know you mentioned you. Watch those cooking with cannabis. Show i watch that one and then forget what the other one was. There's two of them in like yes. This is what i wanna do. Although cooked with cannabis on net flicks on that flex affect the other ones. Or apetit or something. The other two of them one of them was with one of them was like a competition. Competitions about was like where they're eating at the table live. I think you were talking about you. Watch that one. But yeah so i just started infusing things to kind of see what i could do so mostly do butter right now. I've done the job. Ocado will be. I would love to open something or do something. Without really chase it fucking. It's an industry for sure. I mean food food is always going to be an industry that's You add in the booming candidates industry filling.
The Propaganda Report
"one semester" Discussed on The Propaganda Report
"That's a very. I always found that when they brought sports. It's back they. Everyday i listen. They have an injury. But it's just cova positive tests so this is a way of propagandizing people making it real. You feel like you know those people. It affects something you care about. People are gonna care about sports as much as they used to going forward for so many reasons like we haven't been able to go when the nfl started doing the kneeling thing and the boycotting things like that kind of mead viewership go down and i've been wondering why they would do that at such a powerful propaganda tool will the. Nfl has always been a proxy for war. They even have the army sponsor. It and then i started to think that the one the sports was almost unlimited. Hang out because it really brought families together. I remember. I have shed many tears at literally. Games watching fathers and sons bond get together work towards a goal for kids to actually see that hard work and their objective. Like that's an out. That's a strike like there are objective standards and then that moment of triumph. That moment when your personal best. I just remember a dog pile kids and the still chokes me up the little boy who had caught that amazing catch that as they dog piles him. He's still sticking up from the pile was his hand with the ball in the glove. And i didn't even know what the kid was. I just saw the hand the ball and the love and it was such a great moment. And i feel like that thing where it was just objective truth. It was hard work. It was rules oriented and the dad's were there. It would really brought the dad's home from work early and stuff and i thought that was great. I think it's great for girls to and then when you see things like these battles going on of transgender teens are adolescents. Whatever entering the girls teams. Who like these are people who were born male. So they had the male muscle type and then body type competing girls so a lot of the stuff is going to move the objectivity away from sports and they always put like The volk vulgar stuff in the halftime shows and stuff and even i went to a rams game now that they're they were backer. I came out here one semester rams game and they who is just gross like they like people got so drunk and everything so i realized there was a downside to it and i just feel like they are. They're going to take all the goodness out of it like that objective stuff out of it. It's going to be a turn off and they don't need it anymore. Because we've moved from war as driving force of society. I think to information control and part of that is ice elation and sports kind of worked against that so i feel like they are that that sports is changing to a more. It's it's instrumentality in the future. Technocracy will will be different from what it has been in. The war regime is definitely changing. I think there's also an aspect here of here. Are these people that as kids. You want to be like march madness. One of the biggest events of the year. And now you see what happens to your favorite team. When a player doesn't follow the rules we tell them to follow so you may do but they do follow the rules and they still get penalized. Then it shows you that just like there's nothing you can do that. Life is unfair and we need welfare. You know what..
The Wise Fool
"one semester" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"But also the artist ego like are like complicated fragile which it should be fragile. We should even stronger. Because we're the ones who are saying how about this idea how about this idea. It's okay if you reject in your critical for me. My my was a minister episcopal minister and so i. He grew up or not. He grew when i was growing up. He was the the moral and immoral compass of the community. He set the standards kind of thing so people look to him for that. So of course i was completely contrary to that right right and then in longed form irony. I ended up becoming a teacher. And i mean even by proxy a little bit. This podcast like. I'm becoming the moral compass of the next generation kind of thing so it's one of those really interesting things like we all as creative people. We want to be contrary but we also want to participate so like i don't i don't wanna be contrary so contrary that nobody even acknowledges me or sees my worth or whatever or respects me. That's a huge word. From me. Respect by the way but but i but i need to be participating so it's a tough line to balance like i wanna be outside but i also want to be inside right right. I mean it's when you said that it also office in explained to me something. That's that is another point of tension. I've always felt was this idea about teaching and creating our that somehow one sacrifices the other. I've worked really hard for me either. There had one semester. Wasn't teaching. And i realized that i just sat around that. I need to teaching to make the art. But also what you've said to about. I forgot exactly how it was gonna take you but i think there's something really important. There is a willingness to admit that we wanna be invested in that. Were i guess. The key teaching you know..
Self Made Strategies
"one semester" Discussed on Self Made Strategies
"On this episode. We sat down with bodine sanders. The author of the new book race against against race. That book is bodine memoir. It's all about transcending stereotypes and bringing diversity and inclusion into our homes into our discussions into our board rooms into our communities. It's the story of one young athletes dream to play college football and the racial divides that unfolded as he tried to fit in bodine slowly integrated into this new cultural experience avoiding culture shock by staying positive and focusing on shared experiences like chasing dreams bodine discovered that he and his teammates learned from each other developing relationships based on mutual respect and acceptance. Something we can all learn from here are the self made strategies of bodine sanders bodine. Thank you so much for joining us. And for those who are listening you can see bodine and i speaking either live over video on our youtube channel. Go to youtube and search for self made strategies. They'll also be a link down in the show notes or if you're listening to the audio only version you'll hear bodine and i talking about a lot of really cool things today. Particularly about how to effectively incorporate diversity and inclusion into our organizations but we'll also talk about tackling issues of social acceptance race relations and cultural identity. We'll talk about learning skills to build relationships with americans from different races. we'll talk about how to transcend stereotypes through the foundation of sports. And we'll talk about coming adversity to achieve a dreamlike. Bodine has done bodine. Thank you so much for being on the show really appreciate you. Joining us remotely. Don't eat thank you for having me. And that was a mouthful. I hope we can get it all in. I have been known to carry on line. The long winded. So stop me when when when it's time new move on no worries at all. I love a good tangent for anybody who listens to the show. They know that We tend to go down different tangents on every episode so this should be a fun for sure. So let's start off the beginning. Tell me about your the beginning of your journey and growing up in the south and then eventually moving because you went to villanova university moving to the northeast and what that experience was like well. That's the premise of the book. And the title is a race against against race my journey through diversity and inclusion through sports and having that experience and and you can still. You can remember this anytime. We've had a race issue. In this country. The media will say a lot of people would say but i notice the media will say we need to have the race conversation and i'd be driving down the street or sitting in my living room yelling at the tv or radio throwing something going hold on. Athletes have had this conversation. Why because which together especially during the season all the time so mother nature makes it where we're going to have that conversation because you're gonna run into a radio issue meaning music issue of you know culturally. You talk about clothes. You wear a hairstyle how you have whatever. It may be so coming from the south jacksonville florida and then coming up. Niger grading north. They're already was a different culture. And i don't necessarily mean just the culture between north south. I mean there is a difference between culture with my black brothers and sisters who grew up in north and my white brothers and sisters who also grew up in north. It's a huge difference. And i give you a perfect example gromit growing up in the south folks here at all the time southern hospitality. I migrate from the self of north. Which means. I'm now on a campus with students classmates who are from all over but mostly from the northeast new york new jersey connecticut kit right all over and will use new york as an example. If you've ever met someone from new york. They're not the most friendliest person when you first meet them. You say hello and they look at you like keep it moving while ucla. Though but my journey started from in my book i start with graduated from high school denied. Get an opportunity to go to college. Had to work wanted to work to help my mom l. single mom older sister at a boom cookman in daytona beach. An hp cu allstone a hail. Mary given an opportunity to attend college. The first college. I attended chain university the oldest hugh in the country right here in our backyard and a suburb of philadelphia so brand. Hp sorry sorry to interrupt hbo stand for name for historically black college university correct and you might have heard that that acronym lately because our vice prints current vice president she graduated from howard university so i started a chain and from that point was there one semester had an opportunity to visit villanova went on a visit to villanova fell in love with it. Villanova dropped their football program. Eighty eighty one season and that was just when how long got drafted to the raiders. So they had no football program for three years all sudden they bring it back going to start the football program from scratch in eighty the fall of eighty four and that summer after i finished at one semester at cheney i you know went through the process of filling out the communicating with university. The athletic department gideon. And the next thing you know. I'm back on my way migrating back of north from florida to villanova vs instead of heading to cheney and so get to villanova and it's not exactly what i thought it was gonna be. Why because during my visit to villanova was a bcs black cultural society party. That happened on easter weekend so it was on a friday night. Most of the students were gone. The only students left work the the the students of color. Who were there for that party. So i assumed villanova was more racially. Diversed some miami. If i'm following stored. I might as well do it now. I literally seriously thought villanova was a black school in majority black. Whatever you wanna use. But i thought it was at least a fifty fifty if not more racially diverse even school. Well i'll tell you what my sister said. During the summer. When i broke the.
The A&P Professor
"one semester" Discussed on The A&P Professor
"Like m. p. one or two or if you have a combined one semester or if you have just a or just be one cutter award a badge for. I don't know each system of the body or each region of the body or for particular concepts like homeo- stasis or histology or for lab skills like microscopy or brain dissection or bone identification or anything that you think is worthwhile and therefore worth documenting. The caveat is that ought to be tied to something you already measure or assess and documenting your course maybe with a quiz or tasks or lab practical or a project or some combination of these measurements. Something else to consider as we might want to award badges for participation so it wouldn't necessarily be part of our great or anything but they would get some documentation and some kind of digital reward for a certain level of participation or attendance. The other thing to consider is what level of competence in that skill or concept mastery is needed to earn the badge. I have some students to not so good on one of their lab practical but still managed to pass the lack. of course. i don't think they deserve a badge for those skills or concepts where they performed under par even if they pass a practical. My view is that they deserve a badge. Only when they do -particularly well and this is tied to whether the badge really mean something or not if i give a skeleton badge to every student who passes the skeleton practical. That badge won't be as meaningful is. When i award the skeleton badge only students who reach in a or b level or splitting the difference of plus level or whatever i think demonstrates actual mastery i use canvas is my learning management system. Our lms in that course. But any lms can work for awarding badges. What i've done is.
Hustleshare
"one semester" Discussed on Hustleshare
"After porsches and whatever fancy cars you got out how much i am feeling that that sound back. I'm like twelve years old again. All of us there. You go so. I wanna understand right so you grew up here in the philippines it up like we're was there any early influences or any exposure sir did about business that you remember. Actually i didn't grow up in the philippines Most of my formative life. So up. Until i was about sixteen years old i was in canada. I grew up in vancouver. Canada pacific an honest last. That's right that's right so my an insult only move. I only moved back here In nineteen ninety six and his weren't gonna each myself a little bit at sixteen years old. So so i actually came back here. So let's suspensive this way. My dad he was a reverse ex-pat so he was actually an expert in canada and in was representing actually an asian like a paper company in canada. The office there And that's why we spent so much time there at sixteen years old. They're the ones who decided to come back to the philippines and thankfully you know i. I made that decision. Come back as well. That actually wasn't the original choice Sixteen years old with only two years left in high school. I actually wanted to stay in capital and and just finish off and just kind of live my life there now. What wound up happening was actually a kind of a seminal moment in my own personal life because you know i get on a phone. Call the summer before With a friend actually that had moved back to the philippians a year before me and he was so excited. He's like listened. Frankly you have to meet these people. There's such great kids here in the philippines. Very friendly very open Just give it a try right and actually because of that one phone call. That's the reason i moved back. I thought well. At least i know one person there i want to kind of you know even at sixteen i kind of wanted to connect with with my filipino roots and therefore made that decision and one of coming back in meeting a great community of friends from the In in the school. That i want to. Which is the international school. So i spent two years at the international school made a very tight knit group of friends. Which will actually play an important role later on in this conversation and and then you know went off abroad to the states and then and then and then went back yet i went. I went abroad. So i spent one semester. Not the nail. After high school. You know made the decision from there that that maybe be better suited in an american university and going to school concerns. Yes that's it. You're there ninety eight to two thousand two. This is mr carmelo anthony. That's right you know. Actually i kick my sean. ncw tournament. Yeah i missed it by a year until we came. If you remember that the championship was two thousand and three right. I graduated oh too so i was actually already living in that point And this is a very timely city to talk about that when i was living in washington. Dc okay and watch the championship from dc But of course still syracuse carmelo. I love that guy. Why hall of famer at there. But anyway going back to it i i..
Strength to Strength
"one semester" Discussed on Strength to Strength
"Corporation. We got introduced to like fan Friends and family program and we invited students out to our house and we home school and so my wife is like. I don't think we should go into the on campus into the university. I think we should just invite him to our house. And so that's what kicked it off for us and we Start invite students out our before the pandemic our program pretty much like First and third sunday we invite him out for a worship time sunday mornings at eleven and then the second and fourth sundays we invite him out for more of a social event just in case there were students that were. I don't know kind of anti anything religious and they wouldn't join for a worship service they would quicker come out for a social event where we were just in the summertime. Sit in the backyard barbecue and and play some games and sit and talk So yeah we did that. And of course when code hits here in the spring everything the clamps got put on everything and so we just reverted from inviting them out to san. Well why don't we just do a zoom meetings with them and it was a blessing in disguise because we ended up being able to invite students that return to their home countries. Maybe they were gonna here for As a exchange student for one semester and they went to their home country again and the tennessee is out of sight out of mind. And you lose contact with them and so we just invited students through them I think of a gal. Back in japan Couple of guys went back to italy and mexico and then there's some graduated students that state in the us and and got jobs And we can connect with all of them because yeah we were all mobile and we could come on and they seem to really enjoy that too. So.
Lifestyles Unlimited
Houston-area schools see surge in failing students as COVID wreaks havoc on grades
"Schools are seeing unprecedented levels of students failing classes in the First Amendment first semester of this school year, slightly more than half of students or attending class in person. The rest online, the current trends in grades could lead to a decline in graduation rates next May. A lot of
The Electorette Podcast
Shaniqua McClendon, Political Director for Crooked Media
"Geneva Mukundan welcome to the PODCAST. Thank you for having me. So tell me how did you come to work for crooked media because I think that I read that you were doing something completely different before you were working at the Obama Administration. And just kind of on a different path. Yeah. So it's the story. Always, it just was so simple how I got here that it doesn't even make sense but I was in graduate school I started in two thousand sixteen and my whole plan was to get out of politics completely I had been burnt out working on Capitol Hill and you know I just wanted to make some money for once you do not get paid a lot more on the hill. And I started to graduate school in fall of two, thousand, sixteen. So my first semester Donald Trump one and I just knew that. I couldn't get out of politics I felt like I had developed a skill set and I would feel I would go crazy if I was not using it to help get him out of office for years later. So now we're finally for years later. But you know as I was trying to discover what I wanted to do after school I knew I wanted to get a bit away from policy not because I don't like it I love policy but I realized working on the hill that if you don't have the right politicians in place, those policies are never going to be enacted so. You, know I thought. Okay. Where can I go? That will allow me to help elected good elected officials and so I told my friend that I either wanted to work at a media company or a company that had a lot of name recognition and could use their influence to increase civic engagement and so I told her this when she asked me what I wanted to do after school and then she sent me the Political Director job here at crooked and said Oh like this I said like literally this job So I applied to it Have you ever Newsham then after graduation I moved out here to start the job well. It's funny I was listening to you and we kind of the exact opposite kind of path because I was in an industry where it was making money I had a salary and. You know after trump won I decided to change my trajectory there a couple of other steps in between them. Fully in that direction, and now I don't have. So. It is the opposite. The opposite and I was just telling somebody the other day I was like you know we're down to the wire with the election I feel like. I haven't done enough and feeling guilty and they're like, well, you Kinda gave the job as we go. Yeah. That's right. I did do a big thing. What's it like there always wondered you know cricket media started it feels like the energy. There's kind of like the early days of a startup like twitter or something then skateboards and football tables instead anything like that. That is funny. You say that you now I only spent one day in the old office but. Office, was nothing like. Well know I don't know what those startups look like ours had the bathroom was in the kitchen how? God, and they could not use the bathroom. Guys were recording because you would hear the toilet slash in the. Studio. I heard stories about about mice, and so it was definitely like we are just getting our bearings but you know again, I only spent one day there and then we were moving over to the new office and our new offices. Beautiful. All now working from home you know we were starting to like finally fill it up. Yeah. It's just you know it's a really chill live I mean it's Chili's you can be working on politics. Coming from DC where everyday you know you had on like a suit or you address formerly, you can wear t shirts shorts to the office always you know at least three to five dogs running around the office. So you know we you know we watch things together. Some things are funny and tragic at the same time like watching trump give a speech but then you know We all watch the cavenaugh hearings together and you know not no parts of that were fun or entertaining it in any way. But I think being able to do all those things and you know they're important to our work but just being able to do all those things together has been great and specifically for me I'm used to being on the East Coast with people who? Lived in DC for seven years with people who care deeply about politics and that is not. You know what's happening in La at large, it's It's an entertainment industry town. So it's nice to have that space at work where we can all come together and Kinda obsess about these things
Short Wave
The Tricky Business Of Coronavirus Testing On College Campuses
"Today. We're looking at how one university is tackling the Corona Virus University of Illinois at her Bana Champagne. Elissa. This is a really big campus right Yep. They have about thirty thousand undergrads and it's massive and beautiful and green and kind of like exactly what you think college looks like. From the movies. Except this year of course, it's a little different. You know everyone's wearing masks on campus when you're walking around. and. There's all these signs to promote mask-wearing and social distancing. There's great. One that says it's a great day to practice sneezing. Smile with your eyes scream with your heart But. The big thing that I noticed on campus is that there are all these big white tents everywhere there, Cova testing centers. You drink. The campus actually started with seventeen places where you can get tested. So students go every few days to get tested. Confronted Denver and they're using saliva tests for royal do is they'll take your mask off. Open up the test tube and you will through into the. Into the test tube and you want the more the better is Dr. Hardest part always. I always think of Lemons in it makes like we have our saliva and my mouth. Well now, my mouth is full of saliva NAD warney. Thank you. I mean students told us that it was really hard to muster up all the spit. A that was emily gardy she and her classmates are part of this massive experiment. It's basically like become just a part of life. It's like so normal there right when I wake up, I put it in my schedule of things I need to do for the day and Cova testing is the very first thing on that list. So, Elizabeth testing every student like whether or not you have symptoms all of them. Yeah. That's right. They're testing UNDERGRAD staff Grad students everybody on campus and students need a negative result from that test to get into buildings on campus and to go to class So. It's the baked into the fabric of daily life. Wow I mean Elissa. That is I have I have not heard of this before the fact that you need to get a negative has to go to class that is wild like how how are they doing this? I'm confused on how you could do all of this. Yes I mean they're doing so many tests. A day and they're able to do it because they developed their test in house they processed their tests at the vet lab. They've repurpose to focus on these tests they're working pretty much twenty, four seven to get the results back. So they're able to get them back so fast like because they're literally working at three am in the lab like they're cranking this stuff out. And when we were there some days, they actually did about two percent of all the testing in the US done right on the campus y that is wild. Okay. It's wild. Yeah. So they're testing a lot like you know more than anywhere else. It sounds like what does that mean for controlling the virus? Are they able to have a relatively covid free semester their first semester? Well, that's what they were hoping I mean in just under two weeks of classes there were more than seven hundred positive covid, nineteen cases on campus. Wow I. mean that's a lot. Yeah. Probably more than they anticipated I imagine that's about what their original models had predicted for the entire semester. I mean not really surprised though it's a really big university. Yeah and it didn't surprise the students we talked to we happen to be on campus. When this big spike happened and the school announced lockdown. So we went to the quiet kind of see what students thought. Here's a freshman that we talked to name Noel Johnson like when I can tell you are like known as a party school. So I, knew that just because we were going to be taxing a lot, didn't mean that they were going to stop partying. So they're doing their best to keep everyone safe, but it's just. The system can't work if the people aren't working with it. So they put all of this money into testing do the university really not factor in the the students would be partying or or what. So they did anticipate partying Becky Smith, the epidemiologists leading the reopening plan. She explained that really they just didn't anticipate something else. So it's not necessarily partying. We counted for the fact that students will party. We just assume that they wouldn't party knowing that they were infected and infectious. Okay. So kids found out they were sick they were still partying. That's right. Yeah, and in one case that they actually publicized, they said a student hosted a party well positive
Back To Back
Interview with Ace Aura
"Are you out in Dallas as Iran, Yemen The Dallas area technically in Richardson right now I go to school at the University of Texas at Dallas and Richardson, and I met my apartment which is like right next to the school. It's not technically an on campus apartment, but it's like very heavily marketed towards UTD students, right? Yeah. Yeah. What what's I mean? What's going to college allegra now? Are you? Guys are there in person classes like what is even happening? So UCD did a really interesting thing. They made it where the professors could decide whether or not they wanted to do their classes in person or online, and almost all of them opted to do online classes, which makes sense because of like health stuff, and so all of my classes I'm taking our online this semester it's Kinda weird 'cause like. I never realized how much time that will spend inside if I'm not like forced to go outside and I even like being outside. So strange that like I've spent so much time in my room and I'm like I need to be intentional about like getting out and doing things in not larum. Yeah man I mean the the out from screens is very real, right? Yeah. I mean especially for what we do you already spending your free time in front of a screen. Exactly. Yeah, and so getting outside I find that I think. Way Better when I'm outside just walking around, it's also a chance to kind of unplug because like it's less of like an is drained thing for me than it is just like being constantly connected and feeling like I'm always like my attention being drawn to something when I'm inside with my phone with my computer and stuff, it's like I could be doing anything like even when I'm working on music I could be working on music I get a notification open it up I'm texting friends since I'm already on my phone I'm, GonNa check twitter. All my time has gone. It's gotta be such a weird experience. What Year in school are you? A senior kind of Weird L. explain a little bit behind that. So this is my Fourth Year Utd, but my first semester of this year and I'll be done after the semester. Was I was ahead of my degree plan because I had taken like AP classes in high school and was kind of a head, and so I was like I'm GonNa fill in an also got a pretty good scholarship and so I wanted to make full use of that As far as getting the whole four years worth to add a psychology minor to my degree plan as I did that last year and was taking a computer science, major psychology, minor classes, and then this semester I signed up for fifteen hours of classes and I just saw the workload as soon as the first week of school started like this is not going to be fun if I have a music career that I have to keep up as well as. and. So I was like Kinda Weird, I was talking to my girlfriend about it for a while I was like, I, have no idea what I'm going to do because like I wanted to take on the challenge of having that much work legs I would like for me to push myself learn how to balance things, which is a skill that I feel like I need to grow in weren't to have later in life but I was like this just doesn't seem right I knew. I felt like if I continued what I was going to be doing that semester with how many classes I was taking I just didn't feel passionate about lot of it. Like I chose psychology minor because it was interesting to me, it's something I like to look up in my free time but I had to sit back and be like do I really want to spend thirty hours a week on this? I. I was just talking to a friend about how sometimes you know we all we all have our interests and like when I I'll give you an example when I was in high school I did a ton of theater like I just tons and tons of theater and so when I went to college, I just sort of assumed I was like I like doing theater. Of course, I'll keep doing it in college and you know maybe this'll be a thing for me because I I was always pretty good at it in high school and it was always fun and then I got there and I saw the people who are really serious about theater. Really. We're going to go on to be the pros and you know immediately it's like, Oh, well, obviously, this is not for me. I had that kind of realization when I was an insurer neuroscience class hours. Yeah. First Week and I was like, yeah. I like learning about the brain neurotransmitters and things like dopamine and how they affect award system and that kind of thing but I don't want to memorize all these terms. So. I dropped my psychology minor after the first week and at the time of that worked out perfectly. The deadline to add new classes to my schedule was the Monday of the week after and I'd like just talked about this with my girlfriend and I went back home to my parents house. That's not too far from you like twenty five minutes away. I'M GONNA get my mom's opinion on this before I dislike drop it just to see what she thinks. She was like yeah. If it's something you don't feel passionate about go for it. Cool and then as I was doing that process I realized that I only had just a couple CS classes left in May like major and so I was like if i. Pull this off but I do is take all the psychology stuff off of my. Semester semester because they don't have to fill that space up anymore, I could just graduate after this one as I like, put all the classes that I needed into this semester and then had to like catch up on the first week of stuff but that's not usually that bad. But now on track to graduate after this semester. Man Yeah.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington, DC - Montgomery County Public Schools approves first semester return-to-school plans
"The Montgomery County School Board has approved the reopening plan for the county's public schools and students in Montgomery County will be learning from home until at least next February. Classes begin Monday. Student schedules will be posted online later today. For elementary school students. The day will run from 8:45 A.m. through 3:15 P.m. middle and high schools will be in class from 8:45 a.m. through 3:45 P.m.. M. C. P s Chief Technology Officer Pete 17 E says the school system has already given out Chromebooks all teachers and will continue to reach out to students over the next few months. Last week alone, we distributed over 49,000 Elementary student Chromebooks. To those students are total student devices that were distributed since the start of this code crisis is 108,500. Starting next week, the school district will offer meals to students at 74 schools throughout the county.
The Eddie Trunk Podcast
interview With Rik Emmett
"Welcome back. It's Eddie trunk on this week's podcast. Thank you so much for listening We start off as mentioned with Rik Emmett of triumph coming up second and just a bit. It'll be Rachel Bolan of skid row a very, very deluxe expanded double dip addition to great interviews for you this week I. Hope you enjoy him. We start with RIK Emmett right now. How are you rick? I'm Great Eddie how are you? Good how you in Canada how are you home? Yeah, yeah I live in Burlington, which is sort of a western city suburb, of Toronto and It's been great here. Actually you know it's I haven't minded sort of being isolated and. You know it hasn't had too much effect at actually allow me to become a little bit more creative so I've been enjoying myself. Well that's the thing you know all this pandemic time all the artists I've been talking to all seem to have a different take. Some are really chomping at the bit to go out there and do things and others are enjoying the reconnect with family and not used to being home. This long others are taking the time to do really creative things. Right record do streaming videos what what's been the focus for you. In this time I mean you you are semi retired from touring anyway weren't you? Yeah I had sort of stepped back from touring at the beginning of twenty nineteen. So I was getting used to it and I had told my agent. Well, you know I'll go out and try if you want to necessarily have to fly two gigs. But if you put some stuff together that can drive to maybe I'll try some of that and then along came covert thing and those got bumped and canceled and so but I was already getting used to being off the road. anyways. So I don't really miss the road and I mean. I do Miss Playing And and having that I interaction with the crowd and that energy you know but I don't miss you know airplanes and hotels and taxi cabs and all the rest of it. You know a And the thing. That's weird. Eddie like it was almost like a retirement was a great career move for me because. Round Hill records was putting out the triumph stuff said, he would you like us to put a all your back catalog and I went well sure that it'd be great. It's nice to have somebody believing me. So all of the albums that I made after I left triumphed they've just digitally released him and then I was sitting around going I. Think you know I still want record and stuff when I was writing tunes in When I in nineteen, sixty, two, I don the Bob Dylan record, it was just called Bob Dylan and it was just a cousteau Qatar voice voices. You know all my years I've never really done a whole album like that. So I'm going to do a project like that. So I put that out on my website and then I I was. Writing a book of poetry and it looks like a publisher wants to make a deal so that I can do book of poetry and a memoir. So it's like one thing led to another thing about to nosing before I. Knew It. I had like a completely full calendar, and now of course you know I'm doing all of this promos on calling you. What is what is strung out troubadours I saw link for that. What is after the newest thing you're doing? Now Strung out troubadours was a thing. There was a guy named Dave Dunlop who played in my band and he actually went try and fly the reunion Gig in. Sweden in an Oklahoma Day was actually in the in the triumph hand as well playing rhythm. Guitar and Stuff. So Dave and I had a little duo thing like a lot of times my touring and got to the point where I was doing a lot of solo stuff I wanted something else and so I use the piano player for a while and then I kinda got the edge to have a little bit more of a rock and roll approach. So two guitars made it a little bit more kind of versatile and so Dave is the guy and we did it for you and then I said, Hey, you know what? We should do an album together and put it out. We can sell it at emerge table, and so that was the birth of the troubadours and we did three albums. and. Yeah Round Hill bought my rights out to those days still has his side of it. He he didn't sell them. So he stands to make some more mechanical royalty. Whatever there is to be made these days, right Yeah. So I wanNA talk to you. I. WanNa ask you some triumph stuff of course but before. But before that, let's let's let me cover the reason you're calling which you mentioned the release of your albums after triumph ended for you and I think rick that people would probably be surprised to learn how many records there are, and there were a lot of people that sort of. Categorized what you did after triumph as being a jazz guitar, but that's not all you did. You really ventured into a lot of different styles. So for people that especially here in America that maybe didn't follow all that closely some of the stuff you did after triumph tell everybody what you did musically, and how many records there are in the different journeys those records took you on. Okay well, you know settle in folks make yourself a cup of coffee. This is a long story. There there was thirteen that round hill made a deal for and they ran the gamut and when I first got of triumph. So a little bit of sort of ancient history here left eighty eight. I actually made three albums for an indie either had a distribution through universal and in Canada. And those sort of started an evolution or You know I don't know a a mutation change from being sort of Iraqi. Guy To kinda be in a singer Songwriter Guy and that took me from eighty nine through to about ninety five six. And then I sort of had enough. I. I was I mean the industry had changed You know the whole thing of being sort of in an arena rock band. It's kind of converted to an MTV banned through the eighties that was dying off and there was the rise of Nirvana and soundgarden and so radio had gone in a different direction and I try and thing just seemed like it was over for me you know so I left made those three records in there and I got to the point where I went. Okay. This doesn't really seem to be working for me either and it's not really why I left triumph. In the first place I just want to indulge myself creatively artistically and I don't care if I make money or not This is not a question of chasing career. This is a question of sort of. Chasing what art in music and the music is is pulling me towards calling me. You know. So I, one was a classical guitar instrumental record next one in very short succession was a blues rock and kind of a thing because really that was like where I cut my teeth when I was first learning electric guitar was the whole Eric Clapton Jimmy Page Jeff Beck thing these guys out of the yardbirds then back into the Chicago Blues and down the Delta all of the you know the the same path that those guys went soon as you discover them, you go back down the path that they did too. So you know And then the next record was sort of top jazz because that was the next thing that happened in my life I went to college for one semester in Jazz Music Program but at the time, I was heavily deeply into everything from west, Montgomery to Charlie bird to Joe Pass and so Yeah you know swinging and that comes on playing blues and so those were the first three records I made real quick
WTOP 24 Hour News
As COVID-19 upends fall sports, student-athletes face uncertain futures
"See Cove in spreading at sporting events in Maryland High School sports in the state have been postponed for the fall and winter seasons until February 1st 2021. Students will still be able to practice in the first semester as long as they mate state and local safety guidelines. More details are expected before school starts. That delay can have an emotional impact on the student athletes who were looking forward to competing with routines upended James Hula sports psychologist who works with college athletes at the Ohio State University. Wexner Medical Center, recommends the three s is for students. First, he says, stay present and try to enjoy what you can right now. Second, he says, Shift your focus, possibly by finding other activities to fill your time catching your mind going to all these uncertainty and come backto. Well, what can I do right now? And that they're finding joy and other new avenues can bring a lot of solace during a time of uncertainty. Finally, he says, to seek connections and talk about your struggles with others.
Mornings on the Mall with Brian Wilson
Montgomery County public schools to do remote learning for entire first semester
"Official kids in Montgomery County public schools will not be stepping foot Inside their school buildings for the first semester. The county school board voted unanimously last night to do remote learning for the entire first semester. The board also canceled falling winter's fourth in July. The superintendent said. The school system will be doing all remote learning. Last night's vote formalizes that the board says it will take a look at Corona virus trends in November to see whether kids can go back to in person learning in this second semester. Montgomery County teachers made their voices heard it Last night's meeting. The Montgomery County Education Association held a speak out at last night's meeting to voice its frustrations after reaching an impasse with the school's system as the union negotiate a new contract. We are inviting the Board of Education to meet with us on Monday, August To work on coming to an agreement with us on our contract. Union director Glenn Miller
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington, DC Public School Students Will Start School Year Online
"The top of a local story we're following this hour beyond the weather, of course, involves the challenges of parenting in in a a pandemic. pandemic. D. D. C C is is now now out out with with its its planned planned for for opening opening schools schools this this fall, fall, and and the the continuous continuous rise rise in in Corona Corona virus virus cases cases has has prompted prompted school school leaders leaders to to stay stay with with all all virtual virtual learning for at least the first semester. DC Charter and independent schools are expected to make a similar announcement this week. W T O PEACE Meghan Clarity starts are covered Casey Public schools made the decision after hearing from more than 17,000 parents. Getting teacher and staff preferences and watching the health metrics. And with that in mind, we're moving forward with an all virtual start to the school year for students. Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kind, says D. C P s will reassess if it could make a change to partial or in person learning for the second term, and over 200 teachers help prepare our curriculum to ensure that or user friendly, efficient organized to support a virtual learning experience. Chancellor Lewis Farabee says attendance will be taken on the streamlined Platforms and wellness and emotional support programs are built into the school day, which varies by age group Meghan Cloherty. W T O Penis. If
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington DC Public Schools will have all-virtual start
"D. C is now out with its plan for opening schools this fall, and the continuous rise in Corona virus cases has prompted school leaders to stay with all virtual learning for at least the first semester. Also D C charter and independent schools, which instruct half the city's kids are expected to make a similar announcement This week. We start with W GOP's Megan, Florida D C. Public schools made the decision after hearing from more than 17,000 parents getting teacher and staff preferences and watching the health metrics. And with that in mind, we're moving forward with an all virtual start to the school year for students. Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kind, says D. C. P s will reassess if it could make a change to partial or in person learning for the second term, and over 200 teachers help prepare our curriculum to ensure that or user friendly, efficient organized To support a virtual learning experience. Chancellor Lewis Farabee says attendance will be taken on the streamlined platforms and wellness and emotional support programs are built into the school day, which varies by age
Parenting: Difficult Conversations
Decision Day Is Almost Here. Here's How To Decide For An Unknown Future
"May I is normally known as decision day but now what does the new time on look like yes so because of the pandemic about four hundred schools have pushed the deposit deadline to June first? So students and families now have more time to make these decisions. But even beyond those deadlines colleges are being flexible. We've seen some schools. Say they'll honor their deposit for future. Semesters they decide not to enroll. We've even seen some schools. Say they'll honor their deposits for future. Semesters if students decide not to enroll some schools have even extended their scholarships beyond that first semester. In the fall I think the idea of decision day has long been kind of losing. Its concreteness and the coronavirus pandemic has kind of solidified that so a lot of students have had financial situations which have changed a lot in the last couple of months. So what resources are available for students who might need you know more financial assistance. Absolutely we are seeing a lot of financial pain here and families are feeling it so most students fill out a federal application for student. Aid this with Ed Department this with the Federal Government in this tells you what you're eligible for so loans are in their scholarships are in their grants and you can appeal the numbers that you got so this is a super important. Not that many people know about this but you can actually go to the college and say my financial situation has changed and I need more money. The financial aid appeals happens with the individual schools to have to reach out to the financial aid office to start this process but the process can be really wonky. You've got to. You've got to submit documentation. You have to say very specific things in your letter to the school and there's a really helpful tool to do this. It's called swift student. It's online it's free. It's made by a number of nonprofits and this will help you navigate that process so this tool gives you sample letters. It helps you kind of collect all your information so that you're not wasting your time going back and forth with the financial aid office trying to figure out. What do I need to? Have you reevaluate my financial situation? But you're not alone. This is happening. I've talked with a number of folks who work in the financial aid offices. They're seeing. Lots of appeals. Lots of people are doing. This and the financial aid offices are ready. Okay so for students who have like all their acceptance letters in all their options laid out in front of them and are being responsible decision makers making their proof on lists. What kind of questions should they be asking themselves now while I think the hardest question but the most important question is the financial one that means you got to sit down with the people who are important in your life and who are part of that financial decision your family in some cases your parents or even your kids or your husband or wife? You've got to sit down and just have those. Financial conversations is this affordable. If it's not affordable water my other options Are there cheaper options? Closer to home. Community College. Is there a way that I can go out to the university and request more money? I mean that's what we just talked about. It's really hard I wanNA. I don't WanNa like sugar coat that right. Now you're having to make decisions right now and we don't know what's GonNa Happen in the fall. Yeah I mean have you. Have you talked to any you know students that had big plans right like? Oh I'm going to go like cross country and go to this Agreem- school that I've had the sweater for five years and then now have to like you know renegotiate with their own future making plants. Yeah I talked to a student named Alexis Jones. She's a senior here in Washington D. C. And she had originally thought. I think I'm going to go to California. That was like her big plan and she got into two schools in California and actually both of them offered her really good financial aid packages. She would almost have to pay no tuition in the fall but she just worried about what that meant I mean. Would he be able to come home if there was an emergency? I really didn't want to go to California but with a pandemic would if I couldn't leave ultimately she decided to go to Cornell which is a great option In in New York but she was kind of thinking worst case scenario at Cornell. My Dad can drive the six hours to come get me. And so that that really factored into her decision so our students thinking of different cheaper options you know like community colleges. Yeah so I've been listening in on calls between guidance counselors and some high school students the spring just to get a sense of kind of what decision students are making and lots of students are rethinking. Therefore your plan. They're basically saying a couple of things one. If it looks like that for your school is GonNa be online anyways. Why not take my kind of General Ed classes at the local community college tuition is cheaper? It looks the same like I'm still in my bedroom on my computer and so it might be a cheaper option. I think the other thing that a lot of students are thinking about is if their parents have lost a job or their families are facing financial hardships thinking. I need to get a job so I can help my family and so going away to college or doing full for year. They're also kind of rethinking that in. Maybe I should go part time because I now. I'm responsible for making a lot. More money for my family and so community colleges are bracing for more enrollment. And you know this comes of course as they're really hurting financially and so. I think it'll be really interesting to see this. Migration of community colleges kind of handling a number of students that decided to stay local and go cheaper. But they're doing it with far fewer resources. So that's definitely something I got my eye on and even for the people who do have the option of going to the full four year college That picture looks different right. The the idea of going to a dorm and they you know hanging out with your friends. How might the rest of campus life look different in September? Yes so that's the million dollar question. Actually maybe billion dollars colleges are planning for a bunch of different scenarios but there are so many things they don't know what is the virus. Look like how is it circulating in that specific community? What's our testing capacity? You know there's so many questions Terry. Hurdle with the American Council on Education and he spends his day talking to college presidents and he explained it this way. Every institution is thinking long and hard about this but they're doing it in an atmosphere of enormous ambiguity. It's like the fog is so thick you can't see the corner of Your Street. There are just so many issues so many actors. So many variables. It's really hard to figure out how to put something in place. Now that you're sure you will be comfortable with in the end of August. Assuming you need I can give you kind of a breakdown of some of the things we've heard I mean yeah there's a range of ideas out there of what college could look like And we're seeing. Almost every day colleges announce a plan the challenges. Yeah they're making a plan now but is it going to be still the plan in three months from now but we're seeing things like block scheduling has been floated. This is the idea that classes are in kind of shorter cycles. So you take me one or two classes at a time and then that would change every two to three weeks and so that allows a little bit more flexibility so they could do a block for three weeks on a class and then decide to go online decide to go in person always so like you you like just take calculus for three weeks and then you move onto like Greek history or whatever is that what you mean yeah exactly and there are some campuses that do this Colorado College which is in Colorado Springs. They're a small liberal arts school. They've been doing the block scheduling model for almost fifty years and so they do a number of blocks every year. I think it's nine blocks for the whole academic year and so students can kind of piecemeal. Professors love it because they're able to go in-depth on a
Latina to Latina
Elisa Villanueva Beard's Path to Teach for America
"It is such a hard transition into story. We hear again and again top of your class. Big Fish in. What you don't realize is a small pond. You went all the way to Indiana for college. You continue to play basketball. Show up a campus by yourself. I mean you must have felt so overwhelmed like a fish out of water. I can't even imagine being that far from home and sorting through all of that. Yeah it was. It was pretty extraordinary when I look back in. What gave me the guts to do that to like show up to college by my. That's it right like I never braver than when I was eighteen. That's probably true. An important part of that story as though Mr Joe disc who was who was an incredible mentor in essence passed away but he and his wife are truly. She was my biology teacher. Ms Karen disc there why I ended up at depauw university She went there and he sort of just took this interest in me. And he's from Indiana originally went to purdue and U. Law and got to know my family starting my junior year and just He just kept saying a Lisa. Your extraordinary you can do anything. I want you to get out of your comfort zone. And that's how I ended up at DAPA. He did show up that first day of school with me. I didn't know who's going to be there but as I pulled up a van that had picked me up from the airport. He was there waiting for me. And so he. He was my parent that day and it was pretty extraordinary. I felt like I had. I was at a different country altogether. Most stunning about it. I will say is that I thought. Wow getting used to just a community that was predominantly white middle upper middle class white and three percent five percent black. At the time I I was a bit intimidated by that and thought this is going to be really hard and just felt like really hard to relate to each other's lives culturally in every way but I quickly realized that that was quite energizing for me. I learned that I'm very adaptable person and conservative. Connect with different groups of people which is become a I think of a strengthened and has served me well in my career. But I didn't expect was that I would be under prepared for the rigors of college because of all you just heard me say and that was the most traumatizing thing and even when I reflect on it. I sort of get emotional because it was so hard. At least it'd be like I'm ready. I checked every box. Everyone told me I was ready. I worked really hard and then you feel completely light to. You're like Oh my God. Did everyone know this is going to happen to me? And what was like the toughest part about it was because I was quote unquote minority on campus. And you're not doing well and I'm the kid that like work. I work really hard. That's what I learned from my parents like -cation and hard work. You don't quit that's me so I'm like getting up at four. Am to study on. Saturdays and Sundays like for fourteen hours. And I'm still getting CS and C. minuses. And so you're like oh my gosh. I'm not smart enough. I can't hang with these people like maybe it's true. Maybe why people are smarter than me and when you start to internalize that. It's so dangerous in so traumatizing so I called my mom three months in and said mom. I'm not GonNa make it like truly. There's nothing more I can do. I've never been more focused. I've never been more doing everything right And I'm I'M NOT PULLING IT OFF. And my mom listened and then she she said me he. I'm so sorry that it's it's so hard for you but I said I think I'm going to have to come home. And she said you're not welcome home until you complete your degree at Depa University. That's where you said you're going. That's where you are and that's where you're going to do it. You can do this so I can't help you with that but you should maybe get off the phone and go back to studied. So how did you turn that corner? There was something about The fact that I just knew there was another option as so even the energy when you know at night. You're you're laying there and you're like maybe I should just go home. Maybe I just can't do it. That was now out of my head. I'm like there's no going home I just have to. Just keep keep doing it. I think some of the moves I started to make as I started to ask for help which was another good leadership lesson. I learned early on. I just went to my professor and finally said I am doing everything I know to do. Can you help me like who? Who SHOULD I ask? Here's what I'm doing. What am I doing wrong so I started to get different kinds of help? My professors became invested in me. I did find one. Let up professor. Who's not even my teacher. But I met her at a thing inside when made an appointment with her and she was able to tell her this like what I was really going to do and she leaned in and helped me which was extraordinary and was really helpful for me and mattered a lot in in that trajectory. And so that's what I did. I did terribly my first semester. I did better my second semester and then I was flying then I was like on the Dean's list then I was like. Oh I'm I can do this better than a lot of the kids accidentally. That was what ended up started. You'll buy deep passion and outrage for educational inequity. Because I started to understand like our did I grow up. I we place core members where I went to school. I had no idea and you know and I. I realize like wow. My Dad was the only college graduate in my whole neighborhood where we lived. I didn't understand the context in which I was growing up. I grew up in a very rich community in so many ways that have kept me grounded and I think it's why I am who I am today but hadn't realized the lack of access and opportunities so That's what set me on the path to teach for America and here we are more than twenty years later
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Staying Elevated with Robert Glazer, CEO of Acceleration Partners
"Rubber. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me so we were joking before the call with everything going on. I think we're down to rationing zoom. Here you know it's bad when you rationing Zumikon. You're not though because we have another great episode today and Robert Excited to have you join us. Your career compromises many things. You're speaker writer. Ceo You're doing a lot out there so it's exciting have your show thanks Yeah Interesting Times. They really are so. You're the CEO of acceleration partners. And if we were meeting six feet apart of course on the street and introducing ourselves how would you go about describing what you do in your work? Yes warn you in advance? I describe you what we do. And then I'll just give you an example because it does. The description doesn't do forever anyone so we manage affiliate programs or partner programs We're one of the largest agency that kind of builds a manage these programs. Which are it's a performance? Based digital channel. Where a a merchant or retailer gets together and rather than pay for. Click on impression. They enter kind of a almost a digital business about relationship with that partner that partner can promote their products and services in there actually paid when there's an outcome so the example would be you know you talk about my books and then you post this podcast and you. Your podcast has joined the Amazon affiliate program and you do affiliate links to my book so that when you drive people to buy my books on on Amazon and then they do that You know you get a cut of that. So that's a the Amazon has a pretty huge associate program. We manage it for a lot of other kinda retail brands March Brad. So did did that help. Yeah that's a good description and if we're to back it up though into your personal life who who are you. Where'd you grow up I grew up outside of Boston Massachusetts in a in a town called Brookline. You know as a kid who kind of did everything I don't want I don't think I excelled at anything but I did everything I get it. Sports Find School. I think I have a pretty familiar story to a lot of entrepreneurs which is like as I got into school. I just As sort of creative problem solver Constantly told and I think he's really living up to his ability in fact. I do a presentation. Wade's my opening book. Which I put eight years of report cards up to any literally all say the same thing. It's like wow. We think he could do better. Sounds familiar with the sort of weighed on me Because no one really. Kinda told me how I could do better. Why could do better or that like the things that they wanted me to do? Where were you know about conforming and coloring in the lines and and that's just not the stuff I'm good at so you know we can go in into that whole trip? I? I don't think my life really changes in Iffy away until I realized that all of those things that people were trying to get me not to do for years. We're actually we might unique strengths and the things that I really lean into now and in my business my personalized at what point in your life did you start to realize. That was an epiphany. Was it just? You know years of kind of banging your head up against the wall. What was that moment or series of moments? Like where they were to mean breakthrough moments for me so I. I did fine in school. I did well enough to like. Keep my parents off my back because the repercussions whereas I went to. It's GonNa be a great student and and and it wasn't until I got through in college. I got through by sort of core curriculum and I went abroad first semester and I I was exposed to business marketing and just loved it and realize like those were the things I had always been been. Good at and I was also coincidentally Kinda done with my Your prerequisites And so I came back all classes. I wanted to take I sort of was able to get independent Major I took business in industrial psychology. And like I got kind of almost you know the junior year so I really realized Ashley Loved Learning. I just have to learn things that I'm interested in. I just can't learn things that I'm not interested in. It's just I don't know whether it's part of the. Add or or whatever but it's also not worth it. And I think that's when I realized that I had sort of confuses whole time like I didn't know I love to learn because I wasn't interested in most of the stuff that I was in learning and so then when I got engaged on staff I am trying to make up for for a lot of years later after I started the business We kinda got a couple million. I went to a pretty Intensive leadership program that SORTA stripped us down understand our core values came out of that really feeling like guy. I'm still not living to my potential. And just realign my whole life and business around my core values. Once I could articulate those and that's that's kind of when I started cooking with gas. That's really interesting. You bring that up. Was that experience. Would you describe it as like traumatic difficult? How did you face that reality? Because that's kind of where now is just Taking a really honest look and Step back with the help of a you know really specialized Let's just call it like performance program. You know it's funny i. I've been doing this for so long. Have been helping our teams to now do this and understand their core values. 'cause I think it it locks so much into them but but most people i. I now accused of being a therapist but first of all I love which is good which I think all the best CEOS ultimately are the people around right. I run a large professional services business. Nothing I ever deal with isn't a people problem whether it's a client or a partner or an employee and one of the things I've learned in my journey and it's not just I mean it's just so obvious that people what I've noticed is for. Most people is that their purpose lies very close to pain and and for some people. It's obvious like they grew up in someone in their family was affected by cancer and so they went and became a doctor other people. It's really obvious and sitting in front of them but they haven't made the connection so I had a friend We work with the call me last week and was talking about some jobs that they were looking at and and all kinds of stuff and and and really trying to figure out what was the best opportunity and how important it was to help people to make connection and bring people together and help them be heard and I know this person is is is gay but you know very openly gay and and actually said after bunch because he's going around trying to understand what he was actually looking for in a job and he just kept talking about I said. Do you think that that it's maybe not related? That these things are really important to you in work. And it's basically how you lead and you kind of large part of your life kind of had to hide entire part of And there's just like thirty seconds of silence on the phone and then he was like I don't understand how I missed that right. I was just I was just listening to it. But but I've had these conversations over and over and and for a lot of people I think the connection is really clear And for others it there. They just haven't seen it and once he does really powerful because I think it's it's super motivating when you understand why you do what you do. It's not it's not about being a victim it's not about not honoring that but you know most people are really you know they're trying to solve something that that is personal it's Namur passionate in there. Either is something that would form of the happen. Usually from either positive or negative experience earlier in their life definitely. I think that you know exploring. That is so difficult right. Because you're just mean when you experience it and you experience what it's like to be blind sided with something that you've been oblivious to for sometimes a decade or multiple decades. It's not easy right. It's a confidence shake. It's a punching gut. It's whatever you WANNA call it but as you go through that and start to like reconstructor identity I think there's a lot of opportunities to emerge into something new so when you started to emerge into something new after this program What was that process like for you and was it like taking the weights off. Did you like you know? Take the emergency brake off. What was that like? Yeah I mean I it two ways right. I think yeah. It is euphoric so when you and I talked about this in my book elevate I I think that we all know our core values like when we cross them and we feel it. We just can't articulate them or we can't see them well enough to make a decision on them I was driving through the car in the dark. And you hit the side of the tunnel and then you know to bounce off and then you hit the other side writes. Your car's pretty battered. But like you know when you hit the guardrail while if the lights were on the lines were painted you'd stay from from from the guardrails so I think when you start looking at this you put this together. I did have this sort of moment. Wanted all came together for me like it's kind of like look back and someone takes this like Stencil and lays it on your life like Oh my God. It all makes sense now. Everything everything that worked in didn't work and people and relationships in jobs like I I look at it under the Stencil and it all makes sense
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Once Upon a Time in Africa with Amy Hehre, PA
"Welcome back to the WO man. I'm your host and Yell Maupin Today. I'm here live with amy era. I'm saying that right. Yeah Yeah Okay Awesome. She's the CEO and founder of Lovie Children's Hospital in western Kenya as well as a p a backer. And paediatrics oncology and nick. You I love you so much. I just can't wait to dive into your story and envisioned. So thank you for coming on. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. It's so great I just have to say like a real quick shout out to whoever. I'm sorry I can't remember who message about you. But they're like you need to go and check out amy's story everything that she's doing like I just feel like she'd really resonate while with the wall. Med and strong women with vision. So I'm very very thankful to finally do thank you So I always like to Divan kind of with your educational background was. I don't think we've had a PA on yet. So I'm very excited. Your first yes. So yeah like what What made you WanNa be a physician's assistant. Yeah absolutely so I originally was going the the premed bath and I went over to Kenya just to see. 'cause the entire reason for medicine. Was this vision this Michigan Of going reaching these vulnerable children and I saw the urgency And I knew I didn't want to be in school for thirty years. And so yes going over there. I met these people called clinical officers. It's a kind of like a middle level that term position in in Kenya and I was like I wonder if we have anything like that in the US. Very Small Town in Kentucky and so I really didn't know what was I had one. I always in a car accident and fractured my neck when I was eighteen and actually went to a Pi had no idea. Oh my God but yeah it was actually being in Kenya immediately. Clinical officers there. That had me exploring for faster ways to get to Kenya with a degree that could. Wow Oh that's so so then When did you actually? I go to Kenya when I was twenty years old so Seven years ago. Yeah Wow and that was primarily just for like Like a religious like mission trip or exploration. I felt I felt the call just pulling a question had to do anything with your life. What would it be and why in answering question That I would love to go and find older and and give them the medical treatment that they need It was such Just I always laugh a pageant girl had been I in pageants I knew the onstage and was in my heart but I didn't know it was never pursued that and just said well. Why aren't you doing that and I was so convicted? I dropped my major. I didn't know what medicine mid there's not even your doctor anything in my entire family tree that I know Major before that I did broadcasting. Yeah I was. I love public speaking. I thought about speech therapy a little bit Have is just completely. What like what is medicine. What goes into this and I had been a straight A. Student and I was like. Oh well you know this is fine. I'm in Honors College. I've a four point. Oh it can't be that bad premed. That's for smart people and remember. I felt across the first semester. I was like Oh my word like I am I am not only am I not gifted at this? But I'm really like an I I don't want to fail at anything. Yeah And so I was like God like how could you have me doing something you know that that I'm not gifted in like don't you people in what you want them to do? And I just remember finding my competence in the fact that like this degree was going to enable me to access these children know whether I was the best or the worst clinician. There ever was like getting to know their names getting another diseases. Into prayer in them and the specific things was going to be gift. And God's going to figure out the rest Oh Wow okay. So school was not that easy. It was easy it was not easy. It got better. I'm very I feel like I'm emotionally intelligent. It when I can see my patient as like I remember the drugs that were sitting next to them. I remember being on Heston because of like a clinical experience I could remember like the drugs and the doses because I put it with the person. Yeah Chemistry and like all of the pre recs. I guess for medicine that was that was my hardship of everything. I've been through and Africa everywhere like that was my sacrifice that was my hardship through that pre medical but once. I got to the place where it was. Patient centered and and the emotion. That's when school became by you to you. Play all your knowledge to practice at Ascoli. Yeah 'cause nursing's goals not easy. Oh no I literally. I don't know how I made it through there. I think like a B minus be plus sometimes see and but that doesn't negate the fact that you were an amazing provider you know. Yeah no one in my class. Yeah by the grace of God is able to get through. Pa school very well but it was. You know that was. That was a struggle and I like to be open and honest about that because I know there's so many people out there who feel like you know. Oh I can't go into medicine. I can't even sit for this interview because I have You know I don't have a four point. Oh and there were many people. There are people who got my class who had four point in interviewed five times before they got in and I had on. My transcript still had a three point seven. I was from owners. I worked hard to get things to where they looked impressive. But ultimately I had blueberries that a lot of people think that's out a class now no one will ever look at me and I did apply to one school and I got in because my passion knew by heart and my drive. I like you know they're like how do we know you? What again is because I had the faces of these children and and they haunt me and we'll reach them and I will access them in. Pa School's GonNa do that. And so I really As much as I'd love to be prideful in pretend like you know oh I was always this this. I love to share that portion of my story. Just one person that it hits. Who's already dream so that maybe they'll go back and try again. Maybe they'll Have the confidence to sit down in. No it doesn't matter what Blueberry I have on my transcript. Her one deficit that I think I have like if I'm called to this than I need to pursue well some of The greatest minds in our history have failed in. A failure is a part of growth failures. A part of the the journey to to get to where you're supposed to be you know I mean if you've ever known failure you you just. I don't think you have the same respect or like appreciation for it like once you attain it. You know completely agree