Education | Taking Care Of Business

March 14, 2025 | S25:E1

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Taking Care of Business | Education | Taking Care Of Business | March 14, 2025

Bylnda lane: from the digital revolution transforming
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Classrooms to the rise of personalized learning and the
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Unprecedented challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic,
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Education in america is changing right before our eyes.
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So what are the forces driving change?
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What are the obstacles we're facing and what solutions are
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Paving the way forward?
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Who is and who should be leading the way for our young people?
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Robert isham: and the teacher's job is to like a ladder,
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Scaffold them up to where you're wanting to go.
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With the idea of backward design, what you're doing is you
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Have the idea, you're the teacher, you understand where
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They need to be and you understand where they are.
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And then each step up is just a challenge just a little beyond
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Their abilities.
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Cindy skalicky: you are the parents of your beautiful
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Children and they are counting on you to guide them toward the
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Education pathway that is best for them.
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Kristi krings: imagine being a teacher trying to teach math and
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You've got kids who are addicted to tiktok and you're trying to
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Compete with that kind of content.
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It makes teaching and learning really difficult.
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Sandy stoltzfus: a school like ours, it's a public tuition free
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Charter school.
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Any child, any parent who wants this education for their child
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Has the opportunity to have, i call it taxpayer
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Subsidized education.
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Bylnda: today's program explores the impact of technology, the
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Surge in home schooling, and the overall future of learning,
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Ultimately emphasizing the importance of adapting to create
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A brighter educational future for all.
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Dr. rex corr: i think that if we build the program right, we're
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Building a firm base for our students.
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We're creating sturdy individuals because we are
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Instilling in them a great deal of confidence.
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Kurt hoyer: being homeschooled, of course, i got to work much
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More at my own pace, which is definitely a huge help, but it
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Can be a burden in some ways because you do need to have
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A lot more self-motivation in order to make yourself do all
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The work.
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Lee ann hayen: i think we take great pride in the diversity
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That we see coming to vale, and it's such a great opportunity
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For kids to get curious and ask questions and learn.
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It's not our job to tell you one way or another, it's our job to
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Teach them the skills to ask the questions and find their own way
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In this world.
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Bylnda: education in america has undergone a remarkable
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Transformation over the years.
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From the traditional classroom set up to the digital age, the
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Landscape of learning has evolved, reshaping the way we
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Teach and the way we learn.
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Join us on a journey as we explore the changing nature of
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Education in america.
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♪ taking care of business, taking care of business. ♪
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Bylnda: welcome to "taking care of business."
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Today we are taking a look at the changing nature of education
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In america.
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On this program we will uncover the forces that are driving
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Change, the challenges these changes create, and the
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Innovative solutions that are paving the way forward.
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In the digital age, technology has become an integral part of
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Education revolutionizing the way students interact
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With information.
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Digital innovation has demonstrated powers to
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Complement, enrich and transform education.
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It can enhance the quality and relevance of learning, broaden
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Inclusion, and streamline education administration
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And governance.
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In times of crisis, distance learning can lessen the effects
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Of disruptions and school closures.
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The adoption of digital technology has resulted in many
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Changes in education and learning, yet it is debatable
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Whether technology has truly transformed education
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As many claim.
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Evidence is mixed on its impact, teachers, administrators, and
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Students all weigh in on the topic.
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Kurt: we have a lot more opportunities to do things
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Online through things like google classroom and power
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School, you know, and that actually has been
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Hugely beneficial.
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That is one thing that i like.
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It gives you a chance to really have all your resources together
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In one place online so that you can deal with all of that, not
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Have to worry about paper often.
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And you can turn things in digitally instead of physically.
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I would say it has been beneficial mostly in most of the
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Ways of course there is distraction necessarily that
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Comes with that.
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So if i had total unrestricted access to my phone all day, i
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Would probably lose my mind, you know, not get any work done.
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I probably wouldn't have as good friends as i do right now, but i
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Would say overall it has improved the efficiency and
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Students output of work.
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Kristi: the adoption of smartphone technology, social
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Media usage, and all of that is only becoming more and more
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Pervasive in young people's lives.
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I think that the rise in the use of that kind of technology has
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Kind of, for lack of a better term, hijacked the dopamine
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Centers in young people's brains, and dopamine is just
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Motivation and attention span.
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I think it's ironic that in the information age, we're having a
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Crisis of truth.
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That we have more access to people's opinions and to data
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And to news than we ever have and because it's too much and
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Because a lot of it is not necessarily meant to convey
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Truth, it's meant to gain eyeballs to make the algorithm
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Happy to make a trend.
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That it's caused people to not believe what they see and hear.
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Robert: they have a love and an understanding and a fascination
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Of technology, but they don't have the moral turpitude to
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Watch over where should it be done.
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And there are things that kids shouldn't be on.
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There are controls that shouldn't be done and it's not
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Really a school system's job to do so because one of the things
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That's missing in technology is the morals to go along with it.
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Technology was never meant to say a question of what should
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You do.
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That's a parent's job and it's the job not of congress or of
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A state or of me as a public employer official to police
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That, it's the parents' job who took a hold of that child when
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That child was born at a hospital and before they ever
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Knew what the child's name was going to be, they had a sacred
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Right to make sure of that.
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I'm saying this to you as a person who wants the best for
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Your child.
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And as a public school teacher, sometimes i fight the system, i
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Fight the child, and i fight the parents for the betterment of
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That child.
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Now why do i love to teach?
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It's because of that.
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Bylnda: virtual reality and augmented reality are providing
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Immersive learning experiences, transporting students to
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Historical events, distant planets, and microscopic worlds
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At the same time, numerous educators and parents are
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Falling back to time honored proven methods of teaching.
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Core knowledge curriculum have been a proven winner at liberty
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Common schools.
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Bob schaffer, headmaster at lcs whose students consistently rank
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Among the top act scores in colorado, talks about the values
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Of a classical education and how a dependence on modern
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Technology comes with challenges.
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Bob schaffer: at this school we're very much of the opinion
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That one must know lots of things and commit very much to
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Memory as much as a human brain can in 13 years that we have
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Them in a school and so that ends up being a distinction
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Between what a classically oriented school tries to offer
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And the philosophy that we offer here versus what most of public
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Education represents today.
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Technology is a tool.
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If it can facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, then
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We view it as a good thing.
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If it is a substitute for knowledge, then we regard it as
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An impediment and actually dangerous.
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It's interesting, the country came to the conclude, political
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Class, came to the conclusion influenced by industry that we
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Were not graduating enough young people in stem science
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Technology, engineering, and math, right?
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So stem education has become a thing.
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The t part was a mistake.
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That's the technology part.
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So let me focus on that.
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We drop it here.
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We talk about sem: science, engineering, and math.
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The t is the tool.
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In some schools it becomes a toy because a robot is a cool thing
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To manipulate and build.
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A remote control airplane, that is technology.
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If students get the idea that science, engineering, and math
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Is expressed through the tool, that's an unfortunate mistake.
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That creates a lot of enthusiasm for kids who think they're
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Interested in engineering and in primary and secondary school and
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Then they go to a college of engineering and throughout the
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Land throughout america, the washout rate in engineering
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Schools is enormous and this is part of the reason is the
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Emphasis was not on the hard part science, engineering, math.
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Bylnda: sandy stoltzfus is the school principal at the plato
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Campus of liberty common school.
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She talked about the personal approach of instilling knowledge
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And values.
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Sandy: classical education was, you know, the
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Passing of knowledge from one generation to the next, even in
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The early history of our nation, the common school became a part
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Of our nation so that all children, the farmer's child
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Could also have access to education and there was a common
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Foundation and common knowledge that was given and transmitted
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From one generation to the next and a more traditional
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Education, great books, classical literature, history of
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Western civilization, music history, art history, fine arts,
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The art of reading and mathematics.
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So at our school, technology is something that we utilize a lot
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More on the back end like on our operations side.
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We're very grateful for all the ways in which you know, our
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Teachers can easily log grades and calculate them and create
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Powerpoints and do the things that they need to do.
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But on the front end, we believe that knowledge should be
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Personal and transmitted from a teacher directly to a student.
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So our students aren't going to be on screens.
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They're not going to--we don't have smart boards.
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Our students are, you know, pen to paper, pencil to paper
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Writing, calculating.
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Robert: the teachers of my generation are still trying to
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Do like they did for my grandmother, which is getting
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Them to know lower level education.
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And kids are bored with it.
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And they also have the right answer, which is, "i don't need
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To know this.
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All i have to do is go to google."
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They can use translators, they can use all kinds of things
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Which they know, but those of us who are in charge don't know
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'cause we've come along with technology to go with it, but we
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Haven't grown with it.
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They don't know what we know is our generation uses the internet
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For information.
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They use it for social media and games and there's a huge
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Disconnect with that and that can be integrated as far as
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A teacher uses it.
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So in the way in which technology is used, kids need
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Someone who's older and wiser to help them know how it
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Should be used.
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Bylnda: the us education system is not held accountable for
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Ensuring that students are properly equipped with the
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Skills and capabilities to prepare them for a career where
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They can obtain financial stability.
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Additionally, many employers continue to rely on
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A traditional four year degree requirement as a primary means
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Of determining job eligibility.
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The result is nearly 15 million
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Un- or underemployed
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Individuals.
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Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all education.
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Today, personalized learning is on the rise, catering to the
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Individual needs and interests of each student.
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At one state-of-the-art campus, dr. rex corr showed us
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An innovative program of classroom learning and on the
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Job training opportunities.
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Dr. rex: a legacy campus is a new central offering of career
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And technical education pathways for the students of douglas
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County school district.
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They engage in one of our nine pathway programs that span areas
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Of interest from culinary to aviation pilot, from robotics to
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Nursing, nine pathways.
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Each of our pathways have both college credit and industry
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Certifications involved.
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And they have a leg up over the other students who may be
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Entering that same field.
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I think our students are having a blast.
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It is roll-up-your-sleeves work in every one of our pathways.
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It is intense.
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It is rigorous, but it is exactly what they're
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Looking for.
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Our future educator students serve time in all of our
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Elementary schools doing observation and field work so
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That they get the best experience possible.
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Every one of our pathways culminates in some level of
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Work-based learning, so we're getting them into workforce to
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Experience that learning and that environment firsthand.
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Bylnda: teachers are adopting innovative teaching methods such
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As mastery and project based learning to encourage deeper
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Engagement and better critical thinking skills.
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Community partnerships and grassroots initiatives are
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Playing a vital role in bridging the gap and providing
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Opportunities for all students to succeed.
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At the nearby campus of vale venture academy, self-titled
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Chief learner and disruptor lee ann hayen talks about living her
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Dream as an educator.
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Lee ann: vale is my dream child.
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So, 20 years in education now, i have spent a long time in the
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System frustrated at the pace of change and constantly thinking
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Outside the box for what can be for education.
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And as i went on my journeys, i kind of picked up little pockets
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Of gems and kept them to myself in a dream for what education
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Could be.
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So vale is small by design, so even at max capacity we'll have
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160 students in the building and there is a reason for that.
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And so one of those reasons is so that we can personalize every
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Learning experience here at vale.
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I believe every kid should have a learning plan and so we really
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Truly can make sure that their learning and their needs are met
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By the providers in this building.
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The second part of this is every friday, our students are out
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In industry.
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So this isn't just a junior or a senior, right, but from freshman
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Year, our kids are out in industry experiencing what it
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Might look like or feel like to work in a career field that
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They're interested in.
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So that's promise one for us, but promise two is to get them
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Ready for a world that doesn't exist and that really is
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Vale's playground.
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Bylnda: the coronavirus pandemic has been a major challenge on
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A global scale, imposing radical transformations in many areas of
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Life, including education.
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The impact of the lockdowns on k through 12 student learning was
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Significant, leaving students on average five months behind in
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Mathematics and four months behind in reading.
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The end result has been most noticeable with historically
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Disadvantaged students.
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High school principal ryan hollingshead addressed some of
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The challenges they have faced.
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Ryan hollingshead: we lost a lot of engagement during covid.
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So we lost kids they kind of did the bare minimum just
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Getting by.
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We lost families too in a lot of different ways that they just
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Kind of became detached from the school in varying ways and so as
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A result when we came back and tried to get back to normal,
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I think you've had a lot of struggles with attendance, a lot
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Of struggles with kids and anxiety and being in school
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All day long has been an issue.
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I think the mental health thing really has become more of an
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Issue in schools even pre-covid.
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And i think a lot of us are looking back now to when kids
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Got phones in their hands and social media that might be a lot
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Of it, but we were just really starting to see kids in the, you
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Know, 2010 to 2015, starting to see more and more anxiety, more
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Suicide assessments happening at schools, just more kind of
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General stress with kids.
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As a result, a lot of districts have hired a lot more mental
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Health personnel, so we've doubled our ratios in the last
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Ten years in our school district with counselors, psychologists,
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Social workers just to have somebody there because there's
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So much need and kids utilize them.
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I mean kids aren't shy about it.
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Kids will come seek out help, come talk to people.
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I think we're getting away from some of the stigmas that you
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Weren't allowed to talk about that at school or you don't want
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People to know.
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So kids are seeking out but it's not going away.
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Bylnda: mental health issues among school students have risen
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To alarming numbers due in part to the covid lockdowns and to
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The fears raised by violence on campuses across the country.
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Kristi krings, ceo of rachel's challenge, talks about some of
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These challenges facing students today.
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Kristi: i would say something that's really good that's
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Happening in education is a movement towards sort of the
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Whole child understanding that if young people are not having
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Their basic needs being taken care of, that they will have
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An inability to learn, right?
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And if you are distracted or impacted by bullying or mental
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Health concerns or if you don't know where your next meal is
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Gonna come from, then you're gonna struggle to
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Succeed academically.
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There's been such a rise in youth mental health issues and
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Youth mental health issues go hand in hand with violence, and
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So we're seeing this massive uptick in both of those things
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And it's really having an effect in the schools.
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The decade really before the pandemic, there was an almost
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62% increase in youth suicide in this country.
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And then the pandemic hit and it accelerated that trend and
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There's been a 31% increase since the pandemic hit.
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Everything that coincides with youth suicide, such as anxiety
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And depression and loneliness or the precursors to that, have all
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Risen in kind and i think that while correlation doesn't equal
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Causation, there's absolutely no doubt that that increase has
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Correlated alongside with the adoption of smartphone
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Technology, social media usage, and all of that is only becoming
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More and more pervasive in young people's lives.
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Bylnda: like many parents, cindy skalicky expressed her concern
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Not only about mental health issues in school, but about
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Parental rights and the challenges of instilling
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Positive values in their students.
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Cindy: i think there are, there are situations where parents are
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Prevented from knowing certain information about their child
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When it comes to, you know, a wide variety of topics, but you
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Know, certainly, whether or not a child is considering harming
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Themselves or considering, you know, letting their parents know
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That they're in a relationship that's unsafe, sometimes they
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Can confide in a school administrator, but that school
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Administrator doesn't have to share that information with the
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Parents, which is heartbreaking and not aligned with most
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Parents who want the best for their child and deserve to be
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In the know.
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So we have a lot of confusion amongst not only the children,
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But the parents as well in terms of who's teaching my child, what
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Type of morals and values does that person have, and do they
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Align with mine.
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Bylnda: ultimately, there is much work to be done and the
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Challenges for students, educators and parents are many.
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But this may be a moment when decades of educational reform,
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Intervention and research will pay off, relying on what we have
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Learned to create a better road ahead.
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Home schooling has become by a wide margin america's fastest
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Growing form of education as families from upper manhattan to
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Eastern kentucky embrace a largely unregulated practice
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Once confined to a small segment of our society.
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The growth demonstrates home schooling's arrival as
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A mainstay of the american educational system.
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With its impact on society, on public schools, and above all on
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Hundreds of thousands of children, learning outside
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A conventional academic setting is now being felt in practically
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Every community in our country.
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Evelyn marchman: our three reasons for home schooling,
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First of all, to provide an excellent education for
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Our children.
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The second one is for our children to stay close to each
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Other because as you're home together and you're learning
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Together, we do a lot of activities together and field
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Trips together.
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I wanted them to stay close and they have and that's amazing.
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And then the last thing is to be able to incorporate our
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Worldview into our education.
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Barry marchman: i think a really key aspect of home
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Schooling is that community and talking to people who have the
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Result that you hope to have and then building a community of
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People like-minded that want that type of result.
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I don't really call it home school 'cause we're not
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Home much.
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I would call it hacking our education.
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And every kid has gotten a little bit different experience
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Based on what their interests are and what their needs are.
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Owen ilg: well, i go to a homeschool group called
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Classical conversations, and that is where i like get my
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Homework and that's where i learn most of my stuff.
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I work right there, that's my desk.
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And i do math on mondays.
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It's another school.
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I'll do a bunch of other things like spelling, logic, latin, or
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Spanish, reading on tuesdays.
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Ashley ilg: we incorporate faith into our education because
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Faith is the foundation of our whole life.
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We aren't christian homeschoolers, we are
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Christians, and so our business, our life, our family, for sure,
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Our homeschooling is all built on that.
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And so for us, that's truth.
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That's really the only way we know how to do it.
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We can't not include our faith.
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I can't imagine thinking that everything was about me.
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I've had people say, you know, "you're a super mom.
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You homeschool."
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And i'm like, "i'm not the one wearing the cape.
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I just show up.
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I tell god, these are your kids, you love them more than i do.
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What do you want me to teach them today?"
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Andy ilg: the ultimate goal training our children is that
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They make a choice that they feel like they're called to do.
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We don't try to instill into our kids a specific mindset.
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We want our kids to develop their own mindset, but we try to
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Give our our kids the ability of understanding the
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Whole spectrum.
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Ashley: i think at the end of the day knowing, you know, like
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History for us like teaching our kids history means that they are
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Gonna learn from our past mistakes.
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Math means that they're going to be successful with balancing the
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Books and creating profit in a future business.
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Reading and writing means that they're gonna be great
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Communicators and being able to share truth, you know, with
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Their, as leaders for, you know, as they grow up.
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All the subjects aren't just curriculum to us, it's what does
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It mean for you as an adult and in your profession wherever you
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Might land.
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Bylnda: as we look to the future, the possibilities for
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Education are limitless from ai driven tutoring to hybrid home
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Schooling and experiential learning, innovation continues
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To shape the way we teach and learn.
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Male: and when parents are involved in their
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Child's education.
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Whether it's at a parochial school, public school, or home
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School, kid's gonna do well.
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Every kid should have a backpack full of money that they can take
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Anywhere they want to.
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They can take it to their home school, they can take it to the
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Public school, the private school, the christian school,
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The muslim school, the montessori school, and i believe
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That if every kid could take their money to their school, you
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Wouldn't need a lot of state and federal accountability.
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Sandy: we are just advocates for really for parents for parental
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Rights and education, we believe it's the right and the
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Responsibility of parents to direct the education and
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Upbringing of children and so parents should be able to choose
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The type of education they want for their children.
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Robert: i've taught private school, i've taught
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Homeschooling, and public education.
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That's why it's a beautiful thing to be in public education
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Because a public school is the place where all different
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Faiths, all different, you know, be it you have a faith,
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You don't have a faith, all different cultures, all
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Different races of people can come together and synthesize
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What is valuable for american education.
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Ryan: i've always enjoyed working with high school kids
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Because they wanna do something great in their lives and they
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Know that teachers care about them, that their administrators
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Care about him, everyone that works in a school cares
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About them.
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And so if you build that trust in a school and you have this
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Community of learners, you can have a pretty special
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Environment and i think most high schools are still pretty
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Special places to be.
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I don't think it's changed that much and i think a lot of times
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People think that, "oh my gosh, kids are crazy these days."
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People have been saying that for 100 years.
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"these kids these days," right?
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Kids are great--
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Male announcer: nobody's born smart, can't talk, can't walk,
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Thankfully we're born to learn.
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Slowly, surely you stumble, slip, crawl, fall and fail and
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Fall, frustrating, confusing, trying, struggling until
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One day i walk
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One foot in front of the other, one idea on top of the
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Next, each wrong answer making your brain a little
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Bit stronger.
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Failing is just another word for growing, and you keep going.
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This is learning, knowing that you'll get it even if you
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Haven't gotten it yet, because the most beautiful complex
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Concepts in the whole universe are built on basic ideas that
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Anyone anywhere can understand.
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Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know
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One thing.
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You can learn anything.
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♪ taking care of business ♪
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Bylnda: education is not just about
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Imparting knowledge it's
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About empowering individuals to reach their
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Full potential as we adapt
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To the changing landscape of education,
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Let us remain committed
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To taking care of business
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By creating a brighter
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Future for all.
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I'm bylnda lane.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Education | Taking Care Of Business

March 14, 2025 | S25:E1

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