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Trend 2: Diversity
YouTube Video: Brittney Cooper: The racial politics of time

Brittney Cooper's presentation on time has strongly impacted how I view education and society in general. Marx goes into detail about the history of diversity in the United States and how minority populations will soon become the majority in place of the white non-Hispanic population. He outlines hypothetical story headlines which I found interesting because of how they relate to the concept of time as outlined by Cooper (p. 52). 

In her TED Talk, Cooper speaks about how white people are the owners of time and “even dictate the pace of social inclusion”. She describes how white people decide the worth of a person of color's (POC) time (e.g., salary, hourly wage). This notion relates to how parents are able to provide for their families, be present in their children's classrooms and assist with homework. The vigor in which Marx describes the need for more inclusive practices that promote success of diverse populations is also an example of how white people own time. I believe that this is an example because we have always had diverse populations in the United States, however, now with the changing demographics educators are devoting resources to providing "inclusive, multicultural education" (p. 58). Despite renewed devotion to equity, outdated curriculum, high stakes testing, and facilities in disrepair are a few examples of how POC are still waiting on white people. 

Marx addressed these concerns by providing examples of change agents in education. His ideas included recruiting and hiring diverse teachers, changing curriculum, developing language and communication skills, becoming culturally sensitive, and providing professional developments that addresses diversity. I agree that these are all change agents that can impact the success of marginalized populations, the issue is when will they be implemented. It’s time.
Ariel Arnold- (Trend 2 Diversity) Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews: "The Consciousness Gap in Education- an equity imperative"
Ariel Arnold- (Trend 2 Diversity) Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews: "The Consciousness Gap in Education- an equity imperative"
Please check this out and you won't be disappointed! Dr. Carter Andrews work is phenomenal. 

(Bio) Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University where she teaches courses on racial identity development, urban education, critical multiculturalism, and critical race theory. Dr. Carter Andrews is also a Core Faculty member in the African American and African Studies program and a Faculty Leader in the Urban Educators Cohort Program, a program designed to prepare MSU pre-service students for teaching careers in urban contexts. 

What to Watch: This clip may even place you in an uncomfortable situation which challenges us to all grow! Pay attention to 40 sec- 2:00 min mark as you check out this clip.

(Youtube Clip) Her work connects with the diversity trend. In this particular Tedtalk she challenges us to consider how gaps in critical consciousness and mindsets for adults and students in schools prevent us from providing equitable schooling experiences for all students. Specifically, Carter Andrews urges educators to consider how increased critical consciousness about the role of race and culture in teaching and learning can be fostered through educator professional development and student curriculum and can ultimately strengthen teacher-student relationships. A shifted focus on closing consciousness gaps can address the equity imperative embedded in the larger discourse about achievement gaps.
Emmanuel Armstrong, III Trend: 5 - The Millennial generation will insist on solutions to accumulated problems an injustices, while an emerging Generation E will call for equilibrium
Emmanuel Armstrong, III Trend: 5 - The Millennial generation will insist on solutions to accumulated problems an injustices, while an emerging Generation E will call for equilibrium
Luvive Ajayi is the author of a New York's best selling book published in 2016 called, "I'm Judging You; The Do-Better Manual".  She began her writing career by starting with her own blog in 2003. She chooses to speak out for change by being the first, being the domino.  Luvive says, "By being the first domino, others will follow!" She feels that there are not enough people who are stepping up to become the first domino. 

Systems have been in place to ensure societal inequities. These inequities exists in business, education, politics, gender, and across the entire spectrum of human existence. Luvive and the millennial generation will not remain silent. She says that being quiet is comfortable and being comfortable will not change anything. So you should get comfortable with being uncomfortable! 

Between the 5:15 - 10:54 minute mark, she begins to clarify the reasons why she is so convicted to speak against the status quo. As you watch this refreshing take on one person's experiences in addressing adversity and inequity, ask yourself the question, what am I uncomfortable with?
Liz Cotter - Trend 14: Sustained Poverty is Expensive, Debilitating and Unsettling
Liz Cotter - Trend 14: Sustained Poverty is Expensive, Debilitating and Unsettling


Sustained and chronic poverty is not a singular issues that affects only the person(s) living in poverty. Instead, it impacts whole communities.  The necessity to end global poverty should not rise just out of duty or compassion, but also because poverty is expensive . . . for everyone.  A 2016 article articulates just how devastating poverty is for all people. “Poverty is Expensive: Everyone is better-off when no one lives in poverty, says a new report.” https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/j5dwkx/poverty-is-expensive. According to the authors, “People who are actually living in poverty are more likely to be unemployed, have higher healthcare costs, and are more prone to run-ins with the law,” says Metcalf Innovation Fellow and co-author of the report, John Stapleton.


Additionally, civil rights lawyer, Gary Haugen (6:30-13:30), speaks about the cause of global poverty and the need to act to end it. He argues that despite anti-poverty laws, global poverty is kept alive by the chronic violence that surrounds poor communities.  According to Haugen, around the world, poor women and girls suffer from chronic issues of violence and, despite anti-poverty efforts around the work, about 35 million people in slavery today. For people living in poverty, their greatest fear is not being poor . . . it is the violence that accompanies it. 

Poverty is also expensive to school districts. Students who are raised in households suffering from poverty receive more academic and social services than their counterparts, and drop out at a higher rate. This perpetuates the cycle of poverty. 


Jeff McNutt - Poverty Makes Us All Poor
Jeff McNutt - Poverty Makes Us All Poor
“The future of our nation and world depend on addressing the impact of poverty on education as well as the impact of education on poverty.”  This quote from Gary Marx’s book, Sixteen Trends: Their Profound Impact on Our Future, Trend 14, unsettles me.  I see the impact poverty has every day, as do all of you.  In my school we struggle with closing the gap between those who have and those who have not.  
Achievement gaps are directly related to poverty.  Poverty affects many but it disproportionately affects students of color the most.  Thirteen percent of white students live in poverty while twenty seven percent of Hispanic children and thirty percent of African American children live in poverty.  High poverty correlates directly with less education, lower paying jobs, and various other life issues like health and well-being.  More opportunity exists for those who are not in poverty.
Public education is supposed to be the great equalizer, the institution that gives everyone the opportunity to succeed.  As Kandace Sumner explains in her Tedx video, How America’s public schools keep kids in poverty, this is not the case at all.   She compares the education her students get to the one she received in a suburban, primarily white school.  She explains that students in poor schools know that the education they are getting is not equal to the education others get, and this impacts how they look at the world and their prospects for living in that world.
If you have time, I would recommend another video, Classism and Poverty in America’s Schools, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgrN-XYkVI.   It too, shows the huge disparity between poor and rich schools and talks about the impact this has.
Wei Zhang—Collaborative Competition applies to Sixteenth Trend （Trend 16） indicated by Gary Marx: Educators—Apply here! The competition will increase to attract and keep qualified educators. The collaborative competition presentation provided by Todd at TED introduced that the competition can offer different benefits and promote the educational development in the competitive educational market. In the video, he mentioned that the educator and leaders could find new opportunities through collaborative competition in the education sectors as he believed that “the American accept competitiveness as an essential culture ethic. I recommend educator or school leader to watch the video because of several reasons. The first reason is that Todd indicated that being the first place is the best choice because nobody remembers the second place in the competitive market. I agree what Todd said being an educator or leader should be the first. In China, there are so many private schools and parents and students have many choices when they choose their schools if they pursue to study in the private schools. If the school leader could not show the high quality of education, healthy faculty team, and professional training setting, the students might not choose to pursue their study in the schools. If they do not want the school, the school might lose the market. According to the Chinese educational development statistically reported that there are nearly 800 private schools nationwide and only the private schools in Beijing are around 100 schools. If the school wants to increase the enrollment rate, the school has to provide a standard and high quality of education to the students. Therefore, I realize that being the first position is the direction and goal-setting. However, the educators and leaders should always remember that the competition can provide many opportunities and reminders to them to reflect, to discover, to reform, and to implement the school curriculum, policy, team, operation, and marketing and other considerations. The second reason is that competition can motivate the educator and school leaders to find the school problems, weaknesses, and figures as Todd said that “there is a time for the individual race and time for teamwork. The competition provides an opportunity to the school leaders, educators, and other school team members to continuously research so that the school can ensure a quality of education to the students. Competition can help both students and school administrators to discover the school issues, academic outcomes, and learning and teaching attitudes. Aside from competition, Todd integrated the relationship between race and collaboration which can face the current educational trend. Competition can motivate school leaders and teachers to reflect and to analyze what the school brand image is now among other competitors. However, the school leaders should always remember the current educational environment is competition not only nationwide but also worldwide. The school leaders should always seek the new problems, new opportunities, and innovations through partnerships. If the school can face the current educational change and implement, the school leaders should have the ability to cooperate with parents, students, partners and government officers in the private educational sectors. Stefanski et al. (2016) emphasized the school leaders should establish the school-community partnerships because collaboration can provide full-service to the learners. Full-service school leadership can strive the school to create their culture, core beliefs and enact the cooperation with other members in the educational sectors.Therefore, partnership plays a vital role in the education sectors as Bowers & Amanda (2017) mentioned that the university-community partnership model and said that the organizations have the potential to respond to the society. Orsini & Jackeline (2016) also emphasized that the school partnerships can improve the school quality of education and they pointed out the collaborating with family, community members, private organizations, public agencies and other members in the school toward the school success. Briefly, the collaborative competition framework can satisfy what the current school needs and not only maintain the enrollment rates but also improve the quality of education through the integrated collaborative-competition model.
Wei Zhang—Collaborative Competition applies to Sixteenth Trend （Trend 16） indicated by Gary Marx: Educators—Apply here! The competition will increase to attract and keep qualified educators. The collaborative competition presentation provided by Todd at TED introduced that the competition can offer different benefits and promote the educational development in the competitive educational market. In the video, he mentioned that the educator and leaders could find new opportunities through collaborative competition in the education sectors as he believed that “the American accept competitiveness as an essential culture ethic. I recommend educator or school leader to watch the video because of several reasons. The first reason is that Todd indicated that being the first place is the best choice because nobody remembers the second place in the competitive market. I agree what Todd said being an educator or leader should be the first. In China, there are so many private schools and parents and students have many choices when they choose their schools if they pursue to study in the private schools. If the school leader could not show the high quality of education, healthy faculty team, and professional training setting, the students might not choose to pursue their study in the schools. If they do not want the school, the school might lose the market. According to the Chinese educational development statistically reported that there are nearly 800 private schools nationwide and only the private schools in Beijing are around 100 schools. If the school wants to increase the enrollment rate, the school has to provide a standard and high quality of education to the students. Therefore, I realize that being the first position is the direction and goal-setting. However, the educators and leaders should always remember that the competition can provide many opportunities and reminders to them to reflect, to discover, to reform, and to implement the school curriculum, policy, team, operation, and marketing and other considerations. The second reason is that competition can motivate the educator and school leaders to find the school problems, weaknesses, and figures as Todd said that “there is a time for the individual race and time for teamwork. The competition provides an opportunity to the school leaders, educators, and other school team members to continuously research so that the school can ensure a quality of education to the students. Competition can help both students and school administrators to discover the school issues, academic outcomes, and learning and teaching attitudes. Aside from competition, Todd integrated the relationship between race and collaboration which can face the current educational trend. Competition can motivate school leaders and teachers to reflect and to analyze what the school brand image is now among other competitors. However, the school leaders should always remember the current educational environment is competition not only nationwide but also worldwide. The school leaders should always seek the new problems, new opportunities, and innovations through partnerships. If the school can face the current educational change and implement, the school leaders should have the ability to cooperate with parents, students, partners and government officers in the private educational sectors. Stefanski et al. (2016) emphasized the school leaders should establish the school-community partnerships because collaboration can provide full-service to the learners. Full-service school leadership can strive the school to create their culture, core beliefs and enact the cooperation with other members in the educational sectors.Therefore, partnership plays a vital role in the education sectors as Bowers & Amanda (2017) mentioned that the university-community partnership model and said that the organizations have the potential to respond to the society. Orsini & Jackeline (2016) also emphasized that the school partnerships can improve the school quality of education and they pointed out the collaborating with family, community members, private organizations, public agencies and other members in the school toward the school success. Briefly, the collaborative competition framework can satisfy what the current school needs and not only maintain the enrollment rates but also improve the quality of education through the integrated collaborative-competition model. 
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Amy Jasinski
 Amy Jasinski- The Power of Youth to Change the World

Trend 5 (Pages 119-140 of Gary Marx text) “The future is already here. The Millennial Generation will insist on solutions to accumulated problems and injustices, while an emerging Generation E will call for equilibrium.” 

It is imperative that we listen to the voices of the millennial youth from around the country. They have a futuristic voice that ought to be heard. From Charlotte, North Carolina to Parkland, Florida, and even students in our own community are standing up for what they believe is right and just, but in their own precious way. Youth are taking an impressive lead on making change happen in their communities and beyond. 

In the following TEDxCharoltte Youth video, the student speaking is sharing with adults, the youth perspective and what they need to engage in social justice issues, and be the change they want to be to make life better for humanity. What adults may perceive as youth disengagement or apathy by teenagers is not apathy, but rather a very different communication style and engagement approach. It will NOT look like what older generations have done in the past. So just move over and let them engage in social issues in the way they understand the world.  

I have found several smaller yet powerful snippets of videos illuminating Trend 5, for a total of 14:00 (videos 1-4).  An extra video (#5) is highly recommended if you have not yet watched high school senior Emma Gonzalez’s speech to NRA and Trump, and can make time.

1. On youth engagement: TEDxCharlotte Youth on TEDxCharlotte. 
What to watch: (1:00-5:39) See video at bottom of this post.

After the most recent school shooting at Dorothy Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it is important to witness an impressive movement, #neveragain, led by millennials, the high school students from that school. Their movement is spreading so fast throughout the country. It is astounding that students like Emma Gonzalez and others, are so passionate, articulate, and “woke”. The students understand that they have a strong and impressionable voice in this country, even though they don’t have political voting power to change policy and put into place those government official to represent them. These millennial students are not going to let the issue about gun control go unresolved.  

2. Florida school shooting survivors rally for action on gun control. What to watch: (0:00- 5:15) Open in new window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ni_srMFPMc
 
3. Students push for #neveragain national gun control movement. What to watch: (0:00-2:36, and 3:59-4:20, and 5:40-6:30) 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuvViuwpsE
 
4.  CNN town hall in the wake of Florida school shooting. What to watch: (0:00-1:23) Open in new window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLh74eXTDo
 
EXTRA:  If you have time. This student is so moving.
5.  Florida student to NRA and Trump: 'We call BS'. School shooting victim Emma Gonzalez’s speech. What to watch: (0:00-11:40) Open in new window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxD3o-9H1lY 

Video 1.
Alissa Thelen - How to make work-life balance work
Alissa Thelen - How to make work-life balance work
Trend 13 (beginning on page 271 to 280 of Gary Marx’s from Sixteen Trends states: “Simplify your life. Enough of the frenzy. How can you step back a little – or set a new course.”  
What to watch:  00:11 - 10:00 mins

After reading trend 13 and watching Nigel Marsh speak to the balance needed between work and a meaningful life can be a great reminder. In a comical way, Marsh describes his way of a well-balanced day and visits 4 findings to think about when working towards less work and more personal meaning. Gary Marx (2006) also questions how fast do we want to go? Some people that have been so busy for so long feel guilty to have leisure time. Stated in trend 13 from American Demographics, more and more people are seeking wellness and balance, “77 percent of Americans wanted to spend more time with their families, while 19 percent thought making a lot of money was important.” Outside of our work, Marsh discusses the responsibility of living a meaningful life up to us. 

The thing that is hard as I read trend 13 and watch the Ted Talk, is that in education, it is consuming, and it does take hours before and after the school bells ring to get the full work done. So how do we balance that? What can we do to make it a little easier? Or what can the employer do? Gary Marx (2006) mentions the increasing trends of wellness programs in jobs and community as a way to promote physical and emotional health as well. There are ways to create a balanced work- life and the trends are speaking to the increasing numbers of those who believe more personal meaning is worth it even if it means less money.   
 
When we think about our day to day lives, what do you want it to look like? How can you change it to accomplish that and what will you do to maintain a balanced life?
Ian Gibson - Craft Education
Ian Gibson - Craft Education
Trend 6, pages 141 - 161 of the Gary Marx text states: "Standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for personalization in an education system increasingly committed to lifelong human development."

This Ted Talks video is from the 2017 Michigan Teacher of the Year, Luke Wilcox.  Mr. Wilcox works for Kentwood Public Schools here in West Michigan.  The video is just over 13 minutes in length and is titled “Craft Education.”  The video aligns with Trend 6 (standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for personalization in an education system increasingly committed to lifelong human development) from the Sixteen Trends by Gary Marx.  Mr. Wilcox compares an educational practice to the craft beer industry.  The talk outlines a model that can be used to find individual student success.  He focuses on the personalization of instruction.  

Trend 6 explains that the world is in a the midst of exponential change, driven by people with mixtures of knowledge, talents, skills, interest, abilities, and behaviors.  In this trend, Marx explains that educators can encourage a constant process of preparing students for a future that is beyond our imagination.  As you will see in the video, East Kentwood high school is doing just that.  

Five years ago, the state of Michigan identified East Kentwood high school (the most diverse school in the state) as a failing school (bottom 5%).  With this designation, East Kentwood set out to be a showcase model for how public schools can best serve diverse communities.  They moved forward with a very clear, intentional focus to best serve every individual in their diverse student body.  In 4 years, they went from the 4th percentile to the 49th percentile in the state, jumping past over 1500 other schools.  

Mr. Wilcox explains that in education, we use a factory model in the hope we have a standardized, ready for college “robot.”  This model does not work for students.  We do not recognize their differences and have the hopes to be able to teach them efficiently and assesses them consistently.  

Individual students have their own unique interests and experiences.  These differences are what make teaching exciting.  If we can acknowledge and celebrate these differences, we can make our work more effective.  Students need their own unique environment to thrive.  With craft education, we can create a unique process and environment for each student.  Students need to be engaged in learning that is interesting and relevant to them.  We need to use a variety of different instructional methods in order to connect with the variety of different learners we have in our schools.  

We want to send our students out into the world with a diversity of skills and a diversity of thinking.  We are in a world that demands this.  Providing a high quality education for all students are going to require some new ways of thinking.  We need to cultivate this in our classrooms right now.  

Josh Everitt - The Internet of Things
Josh Everitt - The Internet of Things
Trend 4, pages 17-21 of the Gary Marx text, states that "Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or decline."

It is important that you take the time to watch this video because we are entering a new era of connectivity and technology that will undoubtedly affect our jobs, the education system , and our day to day lives as we know them. 

So what does the future hold? Jordan Duffy illustrates that just like in the digital world where everything talks to each other, so everything will talk to each other in the physical world/physical space -through internet of things devices, artificial intelligence, and interconnected systems. The technology already exists to open your front door without a key, to turn on lights from a separate location, to control the temperature of individual rooms, to know when someone enters or exits you house, etc. Duffy predicts that internet of things (IOT) will be spending $11.1 trillion annually by the year 2025. We are 7 years out from that! His call is for ALL to find their place in the world of creativity, innovation, and humanity where we learn to invent, build, optimize, operate, innovate, and enjoy. 

My question to you...

Where is education headed? What does this mean for educational leaders?

We live in culture of instant gratification with the whole world and the knowledge that comes with right at our finger tips. Marx illustrates in his book that teachers need to pursue a higher level of teaching skills; that classrooms are now open to the world; that PD must break down old habits, the status quo and set in place mindsets. Marx states, "Teachers are becoming mentors and catalysts whose job is not to lecture, but to help students learn to collect, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information." We have a call as future educational leaders and administrators to learn to restructure and resign while developing, adopting, adapting, and effectively using technology to promote student's learning, growth, and achievement. There is also a great push for students to pursue leading edge career, technical, and vocational education because THEY ARE THE FUTURE. 
Lauren Presutti – Personalizing Education to Achieve Higher Standards
Lauren Presutti – Personalizing Education to Achieve Higher Standards 
Trend 6 beginning on page 141 of the text by Gary Marx states: "Standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for personalization in an education system increasingly committed to lifelong human development."

Greater numbers of schools are being labeled as failures because they haven't reached high enough scores on standardized tests. There have been concerns about education becoming too narrowed, focusing too much on what is going to be tested. Even parents are concerned that children are not getting the personal attention they need to be successful in the future (Gary Marx, 2006). As a result of a stronger focus on standardized testing, there have been incidences of alleged and actual cheating within schools. Gary Marx (2006) argues that educators need to make every effort to personalize the educational services that students receive. Some strategies of personalizing education include the development of alternative schools, charter schools, after-school programs, extra tutoring services, individual education plans, attention to learning styles, and more. Personalization can be a key to reaching higher levels of student achievement because it allows for schools to shape services in response to the needs of students.

It is important that you view this video below as it provides an innovative perspective on personalizing education. In the Ted Talk, Ken Grover explains why he has found that personalized education is the only way to achieve equity for all students. Recognizing that some students needed personalized learning experiences, he designed a unique educational structure for high school students that uses technology to customize education. The results of this personalized design have shown educational improvement for students. Ken argues that it is critical for educators to take advantage of opportunities to personalize education for students and embrace the ability to serve as a catalyst for change. Beginning at 1:55 in the video, Ken raises the question of why we have not transformed our educational system, and suggests that perhaps it is because nobody has been inspired to do it differently. He then goes on to introduce the way in which he and colleagues have personalized education for students and the successful results of doing so. In the video at 3:40, he explained that one of the questions that was asked to students prior to implementing a new educational system was asking the students what they would create if they had the ability to create their own educational system. I think this demonstrates the importance of using student input and student opinion when attempting to design or implement new structures to personalize education. 

Doug Busman - What's the Right Thing to Do?
Doug Busman - What's the Right Thing to Do?
Trend 9 (beginning on page 199 of the Gary Marx unabridged text)-Let's try to do the right thing. Scientific discoveries and societal realities will force widespread ethical choices. What to watch- 0:00-9:11 and 13:17-16:00

It is important that you view this video to better understand the nuances of doing the right thing and to better understand the reasons for bad judgment that often accompany leadership as discussed in the Trend 9 section of our text. "...Sandel begins his lecture with a scenario regarding ethical decision-making. Throughout his lecture he presents four scenarios where you asked to consider saving 5 people versus 1 person. Through voting, you discover that for two of four scenarios, students voted to take action necessary to save the 5 people at risk for death. In the remaining two of four, students voted to save the 1 person, instead of saving the 5 people at risk. Ultimately you discover that when making ethical decisions we use two types of reasoning, Consequential and Categorical. Our reasoning decision would produce two different outcomes."

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Trend 2: Diversity
YouTube Video: Brittney Cooper: The racial politics of time

Brittney Cooper's presentation on time has strongly impacted how I view education and society in general. Marx goes into detail about the history of diversity in the United States and how minority populations will soon become the majority in place of the white non-Hispanic population. He outlines hypothetical story headlines which I found interesting because of how they relate to the concept of time as outlined by Cooper (p. 52).

In her TED Talk, Cooper speaks about how white people are the owners of time and “even dictate the pace of social inclusion”. She describes how white people decide the worth of a person of color's (POC) time (e.g., salary, hourly wage). This notion relates to how parents are able to provide for their families, be present in their children's classrooms and assist with homework. The vigor in which Marx describes the need for more inclusive practices that promote success of diverse populations is also an example of how white people own time. I believe that this is an example because we have always had diverse populations in the United States, however, now with the changing demographics educators are devoting resources to providing "inclusive, multicultural education" (p. 58). Despite renewed devotion to equity, outdated curriculum, high stakes testing, and facilities in disrepair are a few examples of how POC are still waiting on white people.

Marx addressed these concerns by providing examples of change agents in education. His ideas included recruiting and hiring diverse teachers, changing curriculum, developing language and communication skills, becoming culturally sensitive, and providing professional developments that addresses diversity. I agree that these are all change agents that can impact the success of marginalized populations, the issue is when will they be implemented. It’s time.

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Brittney Cooper: The racial politics of time | TED Talk

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Cultural theorist Brittney Cooper examines racism through the lens of time, showing us how historically it has been stolen from people of color, resulting in lost moments of joy and connection, lost years of healthy quality of life and the delay of progress. A candid, thought-provoking take on histo…

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Ariel Arnold- (Trend 2 Diversity) Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews: "The Consciousness Gap in Education- an equity imperative"

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Ariel Arnold- (Trend 2 Diversity) Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews: "The Consciousness Gap in Education- an equity imperative"

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Please check this out and you won't be disappointed! Dr. Carter Andrews work is phenomenal.

(Bio) Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University where she teaches courses on racial identity development, urban education, critical multiculturalism, and critical race theory. Dr. Carter Andrews is also a Core Faculty member in the African American and African Studies program and a Faculty Leader in the Urban Educators Cohort Program, a program designed to prepare MSU pre-service students for teaching careers in urban contexts.

What to Watch: This clip may even place you in an uncomfortable situation which challenges us to all grow! Pay attention to 40 sec- 2:00 min mark as you check out this clip.

(Youtube Clip) Her work connects with the diversity trend. In this particular Tedtalk she challenges us to consider how gaps in critical consciousness and mindsets for adults and students in schools prevent us from providing equitable schooling experiences for all students. Specifically, Carter Andrews urges educators to consider how increased critical consciousness about the role of race and culture in teaching and learning can be fostered through educator professional development and student curriculum and can ultimately strengthen teacher-student relationships. A shifted focus on closing consciousness gaps can address the equity imperative embedded in the larger discourse about achievement gaps.

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The consciousness gap in education - an equity imperative | Dorinda Carter Andrews | TEDxLansingED

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Emmanuel Armstrong, III Trend: 5 - The Millennial generation will insist on solutions to accumulated problems an injustices, while an emerging Generation E will call for equilibrium

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Luvive Ajayi is the author of a New York's best selling book published in 2016 called, "I'm Judging You; The Do-Better Manual".  She began her writing career by starting with her own blog in 2003. She chooses to speak out for change by being the first, being the domino.  Luvive says, "By being the first domino, others will follow!" She feels that there are not enough people who are stepping up to become the first domino.

Systems have been in place to ensure societal inequities. These inequities exists in business, education, politics, gender, and across the entire spectrum of human existence. Luvive and the millennial generation will not remain silent. She says that being quiet is comfortable and being comfortable will not change anything. So you should get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Between the 5:15 - 10:54 minute mark, she begins to clarify the reasons why she is so convicted to speak against the status quo. As you watch this refreshing take on one person's experiences in addressing adversity and inequity, ask yourself the question, what am I uncomfortable with?

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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi Jones | TED

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Liz Cotter - Trend 14: Sustained Poverty is Expensive, Debilitating and Unsettling

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Liz Cotter - Trend 14: Sustained Poverty is Expensive, Debilitating and Unsettling

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Sustained and chronic poverty is not a singular issues that affects only the person(s) living in poverty. Instead, it impacts whole communities.  The necessity to end global poverty should not rise just out of duty or compassion, but also because poverty is expensive . . . for everyone.  A 2016 article articulates just how devastating poverty is for all people. “Poverty is Expensive: Everyone is better-off when no one lives in poverty, says a new report.” https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/j5dwkx/poverty-is-expensive. According to the authors, “People who are actually living in poverty are more likely to be unemployed, have higher healthcare costs, and are more prone to run-ins with the law,” says Metcalf Innovation Fellow and co-author of the report, John Stapleton.

Additionally, civil rights lawyer, Gary Haugen (6:30-13:30), speaks about the cause of global poverty and the need to act to end it. He argues that despite anti-poverty laws, global poverty is kept alive by the chronic violence that surrounds poor communities.  According to Haugen, around the world, poor women and girls suffer from chronic issues of violence and, despite anti-poverty efforts around the work, about 35 million people in slavery today. For people living in poverty, their greatest fear is not being poor . . . it is the violence that accompanies it.

Poverty is also expensive to school districts. Students who are raised in households suffering from poverty receive more academic and social services than their counterparts, and drop out at a higher rate. This perpetuates the cycle of poverty.

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Gary Haugen: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now

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Collective compassion has meant an overall decrease in global poverty since the 1980s, says civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen. Yet for all the world's aid money, there's a pervasive hidden problem keeping poverty alive. Haugen reveals the dark underlying cause we must recognize and act on now.

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“The future of our nation and world depend on addressing the impact of poverty on education as well as the impact of education on poverty.”  This quote from Gary Marx’s book, Sixteen Trends: Their Profound Impact on Our Future, Trend 14, unsettles me.  I see the impact poverty has every day, as do all of you.  In my school we struggle with closing the gap between those who have and those who have not.

Achievement gaps are directly related to poverty.  Poverty affects many but it disproportionately affects students of color the most.  Thirteen percent of white students live in poverty while twenty seven percent of Hispanic children and thirty percent of African American children live in poverty.  High poverty correlates directly with less education, lower paying jobs, and various other life issues like health and well-being.  More opportunity exists for those who are not in poverty.

Public education is supposed to be the great equalizer, the institution that gives everyone the opportunity to succeed.  As Kandace Sumner explains in her Tedx video, How America’s public schools keep kids in poverty, this is not the case at all.   She compares the education her students get to the one she received in a suburban, primarily white school.  She explains that students in poor schools know that the education they are getting is not equal to the education others get, and this impacts how they look at the world and their prospects for living in that world.

If you have time, I would recommend another video, Classism and Poverty in America’s Schools, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgrN-XYkVI.   It too, shows the huge disparity between poor and rich schools and talks about the impact this has.

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Kandice Sumner: How America's public schools keep kids in poverty

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Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at wealthier schools -- things like musical instruments, new books, healthy school lunches and soccer fields -- and this has a real impact on the potential of students.

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Wei Zhang—Collaborative Competition applies to Sixteenth Trend （Trend 16） indicated by Gary Marx: Educators—Apply here! The competition will increase to attract and keep qualified educators. The collaborative competition presentation provided by Todd at TED introduced that the competition can offer different benefits and promote the educational development in the competitive educational market. In the video, he mentioned that the educator and leaders could find new opportunities through collaborative competition in the education sectors as he believed that “the American accept competitiveness as an essential culture ethic. I recommend educator or school leader to watch the video because of several reasons. The first reason is that Todd indicated that being the first place is the best choice because nobody remembers the second place in the competitive market. I agree what Todd said being an educator or leader should be the first. In China, there are so many private schools and parents and students have many choices when they choose their schools if they pursue to study in the private schools. If the school leader could not show the high quality of education, healthy faculty team, and professional training setting, the students might not choose to pursue their study in the schools. If they do not want the school, the school might lose the market. According to the Chinese educational development statistically reported that there are nearly 800 private schools nationwide and only the private schools in Beijing are around 100 schools. If the school wants to increase the enrollment rate, the school has to provide a standard and high quality of education to the students. Therefore, I realize that being the first position is the direction and goal-setting. However, the educators and leaders should always remember that the competition can provide many opportunities and reminders to them to reflect, to discover, to reform, and to implement the school curriculum, policy, team, operation, and marketing and other considerations. The second reason is that competition can motivate the educator and school leaders to find the school problems, weaknesses, and figures as Todd said that “there is a time for the individual race and time for teamwork. The competition provides an opportunity to the school leaders, educators, and other school team members to continuously research so that the school can ensure a quality of education to the students. Competition can help both students and school administrators to discover the school issues, academic outcomes, and learning and teaching attitudes. Aside from competition, Todd integrated the relationship between race and collaboration which can face the current educational trend. Competition can motivate school leaders and teachers to reflect and to analyze what the school brand image is now among other competitors. However, the school leaders should always remember the current educational environment is competition not only nationwide but also worldwide. The school leaders should always seek the new problems, new opportunities, and innovations through partnerships. If the school can face the current educational change and implement, the school leaders should have the ability to cooperate with parents, students, partners and government officers in the private educational sectors. Stefanski et al. (2016) emphasized the school leaders should establish the school-community partnerships because collaboration can provide full-service to the learners. Full-service school leadership can strive the school to create their culture, core beliefs and enact the cooperation with other members in the educational sectors.Therefore, partnership plays a vital role in the education sectors as Bowers & Amanda (2017) mentioned that the university-community partnership model and said that the organizations have the potential to respond to the society. Orsini & Jackeline (2016) also emphasized that the school partnerships can improve the school quality of education and they pointed out the collaborating with family, community members, private organizations, public agencies and other members in the school toward the school success. Briefly, the collaborative competition framework can satisfy what the current school needs and not only maintain the enrollment rates but also improve the quality of education through the integrated collaborative-competition model. 

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Wei Zhang—Collaborative Competition applies to Sixteenth Trend （Trend 16） indicated by Gary Marx: Educators—Apply here! The competition will increase to attract and keep qualified educators. The collaborative competition presentation provided by Todd at TED introduced that the competition can offer different benefits and promote the educational development in the competitive educational market. In the video, he mentioned that the educator and leaders could find new opportunities through collaborative competition in the education sectors as he believed that “the American accept competitiveness as an essential culture ethic. I recommend educator or school leader to watch the video because of several reasons. The first reason is that Todd indicated that being the first place is the best choice because nobody remembers the second place in the competitive market. I agree what Todd said being an educator or leader should be the first. In China, there are so many private schools and parents and students have many choices when they choose their schools if they pursue to study in the private schools. If the school leader could not show the high quality of education, healthy faculty team, and professional training setting, the students might not choose to pursue their study in the schools. If they do not want the school, the school might lose the market. According to the Chinese educational development statistically reported that there are nearly 800 private schools nationwide and only the private schools in Beijing are around 100 schools. If the school wants to increase the enrollment rate, the school has to provide a standard and high quality of education to the students. Therefore, I realize that being the first position is the direction and goal-setting. However, the educators and leaders should always remember that the competition can provide many opportunities and reminders to them to reflect, to discover, to reform, and to implement the school curriculum, policy, team, operation, and marketing and other considerations. The second reason is that competition can motivate the educator and school leaders to find the school problems, weaknesses, and figures as Todd said that “there is a time for the individual race and time for teamwork. The competition provides an opportunity to the school leaders, educators, and other school team members to continuously research so that the school can ensure a quality of education to the students. Competition can help both students and school administrators to discover the school issues, academic outcomes, and learning and teaching attitudes. Aside from competition, Todd integrated the relationship between race and collaboration which can face the current educational trend. Competition can motivate school leaders and teachers to reflect and to analyze what the school brand image is now among other competitors. However, the school leaders should always remember the current educational environment is competition not only nationwide but also worldwide. The school leaders should always seek the new problems, new opportunities, and innovations through partnerships. If the school can face the current educational change and implement, the school leaders should have the ability to cooperate with parents, students, partners and government officers in the private educational sectors. Stefanski et al. (2016) emphasized the school leaders should establish the school-community partnerships because collaboration can provide full-service to the learners. Full-service school leadership can strive the school to create their culture, core beliefs and enact the cooperation with other members in the educational sectors.Therefore, partnership plays a vital role in the education sectors as Bowers & Amanda (2017) mentioned that the university-community partnership model and said that the organizations have the potential to respond to the society. Orsini & Jackeline (2016) also emphasized that the school partnerships can improve the school quality of education and they pointed out the collaborating with family, community members, private organizations, public agencies and other members in the school toward the school success. Briefly, the collaborative competition framework can satisfy what the current school needs and not only maintain the enrollment rates but also improve the quality of education through the integrated collaborative-competition model. 

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Collaborative competition: Todd Conrad at TEDxMuskegon

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Amy Jasinski- The Power of Youth to Change the World

Trend 5 (Pages 119-140 of Gary Marx text) “The future is already here. The Millennial Generation will insist on solutions to accumulated problems and injustices, while an emerging Generation E will call for equilibrium.”

It is imperative that we listen to the voices of the millennial youth from around the country. They have a futuristic voice that ought to be heard. From Charlotte, North Carolina to Parkland, Florida, and even students in our own community are standing up for what they believe is right and just, but in their own precious way. Youth are taking an impressive lead on making change happen in their communities and beyond.

In the following TEDxCharoltte Youth video, the student speaking is sharing with adults, the youth perspective and what they need to engage in social justice issues, and be the change they want to be to make life better for humanity. What adults may perceive as youth disengagement or apathy by teenagers is not apathy, but rather a very different communication style and engagement approach. It will NOT look like what older generations have done in the past. So just move over and let them engage in social issues in the way they understand the world.

I have found several smaller yet powerful snippets of videos illuminating Trend 5, for a total of 14:00 (videos 1-4).  An extra video (#5) is highly recommended if you have not yet watched high school senior Emma Gonzalez’s speech to NRA and Trump, and can make time.

1. On youth engagement: TEDxCharlotte Youth on TEDxCharlotte.
What to watch: (1:00-5:39) See video at bottom of this post.

After the most recent school shooting at Dorothy Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it is important to witness an impressive movement, #neveragain, led by millennials, the high school students from that school. Their movement is spreading so fast throughout the country. It is astounding that students like Emma Gonzalez and others, are so passionate, articulate, and “woke”. The students understand that they have a strong and impressionable voice in this country, even though they don’t have political voting power to change policy and put into place those government official to represent them. These millennial students are not going to let the issue about gun control go unresolved.

2. Florida school shooting survivors rally for action on gun control. What to watch: (0:00- 5:15) Open in new window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ni_srMFPMc

3. Students push for #neveragain national gun control movement. What to watch: (0:00-2:36, and 3:59-4:20, and 5:40-6:30)
Open in new window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuvViuwpsE

4.  CNN town hall in the wake of Florida school shooting. What to watch: (0:00-1:23) Open in new window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLh74eXTDo

EXTRA:  If you have time. This student is so moving.

5.  Florida student to NRA and Trump: 'We call BS'. School shooting victim Emma Gonzalez’s speech. What to watch: (0:00-11:40) Open in new window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxD3o-9H1lY

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On youth engagement: TEDxCharlotte Youth at TEDxCharlotte

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www.tedxcharlotte.com In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

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Alissa Thelen - How to make work-life balance work

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Alissa Thelen - How to make work-life balance work

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Trend 13 (beginning on page 271 to 280 of Gary Marx’s from Sixteen Trends states: “Simplify your life. Enough of the frenzy. How can you step back a little – or set a new course.”
What to watch: 00:11 - 10:00 mins

After reading trend 13 and watching Nigel Marsh speak to the balance needed between work and a meaningful life can be a great reminder. In a comical way, Marsh describes his way of a well-balanced day and visits 4 findings to think about when working towards less work and more personal meaning. Gary Marx (2006) also questions how fast do we want to go? Some people that have been so busy for so long feel guilty to have leisure time. Stated in trend 13 from American Demographics, more and more people are seeking wellness and balance, “77 percent of Americans wanted to spend more time with their families, while 19 percent thought making a lot of money was important.” Outside of our work, Marsh discusses the responsibility of living a meaningful life up to us.

The thing that is hard as I read trend 13 and watch the Ted Talk, is that in education, it is consuming, and it does take hours before and after the school bells ring to get the full work done. So how do we balance that? What can we do to make it a little easier? Or what can the employer do? Gary Marx (2006) mentions the increasing trends of wellness programs in jobs and community as a way to promote physical and emotional health as well. There are ways to create a balanced work- life and the trends are speaking to the increasing numbers of those who believe more personal meaning is worth it even if it means less money.

When we think about our day to day lives, what do you want it to look like? How can you change it to accomplish that and what will you do to maintain a balanced life?

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Trend 6, pages 141 - 161 of the Gary Marx text states: "Standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for personalization in an education system increasingly committed to lifelong human development."

This Ted Talks video is from the 2017 Michigan Teacher of the Year, Luke Wilcox.  Mr. Wilcox works for Kentwood Public Schools here in West Michigan.  The video is just over 13 minutes in length and is titled “Craft Education.”  The video aligns with Trend 6 (standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for personalization in an education system increasingly committed to lifelong human development) from the Sixteen Trends by Gary Marx.  Mr. Wilcox compares an educational practice to the craft beer industry.  The talk outlines a model that can be used to find individual student success.  He focuses on the personalization of instruction.

Trend 6 explains that the world is in a the midst of exponential change, driven by people with mixtures of knowledge, talents, skills, interest, abilities, and behaviors.  In this trend, Marx explains that educators can encourage a constant process of preparing students for a future that is beyond our imagination.  As you will see in the video, East Kentwood high school is doing just that.

Five years ago, the state of Michigan identified East Kentwood high school (the most diverse school in the state) as a failing school (bottom 5%).  With this designation, East Kentwood set out to be a showcase model for how public schools can best serve diverse communities.  They moved forward with a very clear, intentional focus to best serve every individual in their diverse student body.  In 4 years, they went from the 4th percentile to the 49th percentile in the state, jumping past over 1500 other schools.

Mr. Wilcox explains that in education, we use a factory model in the hope we have a standardized, ready for college “robot.”  This model does not work for students.  We do not recognize their differences and have the hopes to be able to teach them efficiently and assesses them consistently.

Individual students have their own unique interests and experiences.  These differences are what make teaching exciting.  If we can acknowledge and celebrate these differences, we can make our work more effective.  Students need their own unique environment to thrive.  With craft education, we can create a unique process and environment for each student.  Students need to be engaged in learning that is interesting and relevant to them.  We need to use a variety of different instructional methods in order to connect with the variety of different learners we have in our schools.

We want to send our students out into the world with a diversity of skills and a diversity of thinking.  We are in a world that demands this.  Providing a high quality education for all students are going to require some new ways of thinking.  We need to cultivate this in our classrooms right now.

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Craft Education | Luke Wilcox | TEDxUMDearborn

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A high school teacher and Math instructor, Wilcox has been in the field of education for over sixteen years. Recently announced as Michigan's Teacher of the Year 2017-18, Wilcox believes that every student needs well-motivated teachers and influencers encouraging them to push through and excel in life.

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Trend 4, pages 17-21 of the Gary Marx text, states that "Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement or decline."

It is important that you take the time to watch this video because we are entering a new era of connectivity and technology that will undoubtedly affect our jobs, the education system , and our day to day lives as we know them.

So what does the future hold? Jordan Duffy illustrates that just like in the digital world where everything talks to each other, so everything will talk to each other in the physical world/physical space -through internet of things devices, artificial intelligence, and interconnected systems. The technology already exists to open your front door without a key, to turn on lights from a separate location, to control the temperature of individual rooms, to know when someone enters or exits you house, etc. Duffy predicts that internet of things (IOT) will be spending $11.1 trillion annually by the year 2025. We are 7 years out from that! His call is for ALL to find their place in the world of creativity, innovation, and humanity where we learn to invent, build, optimize, operate, innovate, and enjoy.

My question to you...

Where is education headed? What does this mean for educational leaders?

We live in culture of instant gratification with the whole world and the knowledge that comes with right at our finger tips. Marx illustrates in his book that teachers need to pursue a higher level of teaching skills; that classrooms are now open to the world; that PD must break down old habits, the status quo and set in place mindsets. Marx states, "Teachers are becoming mentors and catalysts whose job is not to lecture, but to help students learn to collect, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information." We have a call as future educational leaders and administrators to learn to restructure and resign while developing, adopting, adapting, and effectively using technology to promote student's learning, growth, and achievement. There is also a great push for students to pursue leading edge career, technical, and vocational education because THEY ARE THE FUTURE.

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The internet of things | Jordan Duffy | TEDxSouthBank

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Lauren Presutti – Personalizing Education to Achieve Higher Standards 

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Lauren Presutti – Personalizing Education to Achieve Higher Standards 

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Trend 6 beginning on page 141 of the text by Gary Marx states: "Standards and high-stakes tests will fuel a demand for personalization in an education system increasingly committed to lifelong human development."

Greater numbers of schools are being labeled as failures because they haven't reached high enough scores on standardized tests. There have been concerns about education becoming too narrowed, focusing too much on what is going to be tested. Even parents are concerned that children are not getting the personal attention they need to be successful in the future (Gary Marx, 2006). As a result of a stronger focus on standardized testing, there have been incidences of alleged and actual cheating within schools. Gary Marx (2006) argues that educators need to make every effort to personalize the educational services that students receive. Some strategies of personalizing education include the development of alternative schools, charter schools, after-school programs, extra tutoring services, individual education plans, attention to learning styles, and more. Personalization can be a key to reaching higher levels of student achievement because it allows for schools to shape services in response to the needs of students.

It is important that you view this video below as it provides an innovative perspective on personalizing education. In the Ted Talk, Ken Grover explains why he has found that personalized education is the only way to achieve equity for all students. Recognizing that some students needed personalized learning experiences, he designed a unique educational structure for high school students that uses technology to customize education. The results of this personalized design have shown educational improvement for students. Ken argues that it is critical for educators to take advantage of opportunities to personalize education for students and embrace the ability to serve as a catalyst for change. Beginning at 1:55 in the video, Ken raises the question of why we have not transformed our educational system, and suggests that perhaps it is because nobody has been inspired to do it differently. He then goes on to introduce the way in which he and colleagues have personalized education for students and the successful results of doing so. In the video at 3:40, he explained that one of the questions that was asked to students prior to implementing a new educational system was asking the students what they would create if they had the ability to create their own educational system. I think this demonstrates the importance of using student input and student opinion when attempting to design or implement new structures to personalize education.

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Doug Busman - What's the Right Thing to Do?

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Doug Busman - What's the Right Thing to Do?

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Trend 9 (beginning on page 199 of the Gary Marx unabridged text)-Let's try to do the right thing. Scientific discoveries and societal realities will force widespread ethical choices. What to watch- 0:00-9:11 and 13:17-16:00

It is important that you view this video to better understand the nuances of doing the right thing and to better understand the reasons for bad judgment that often accompany leadership as discussed in the Trend 9 section of our text. "...Sandel begins his lecture with a scenario regarding ethical decision-making. Throughout his lecture he presents four scenarios where you asked to consider saving 5 people versus 1 person. Through voting, you discover that for two of four scenarios, students voted to take action necessary to save the 5 people at risk for death. In the remaining two of four, students voted to save the 1 person, instead of saving the 5 people at risk. Ultimately you discover that when making ethical decisions we use two types of reasoning, Consequential and Categorical. Our reasoning decision would produce two different outcomes."

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Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"