Kentucky to the World
Vicki Phillips - Public Education: Unbridled or Unraveling?
7/7/2023 | 56m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Global education strategist Dr. Vicki Phillips speaks about the power of public education.
Global education strategist and Kentucky native Dr. Vicki Phillips speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun, about taking the power of public education and transforming it into a system that can move Americans to the highest levels of performance in the world, including utilizing Kentucky's citizens, businesses, and others to help support this important mission.
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Kentucky to the World
Vicki Phillips - Public Education: Unbridled or Unraveling?
7/7/2023 | 56m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Global education strategist and Kentucky native Dr. Vicki Phillips speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun, about taking the power of public education and transforming it into a system that can move Americans to the highest levels of performance in the world, including utilizing Kentucky's citizens, businesses, and others to help support this important mission.
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line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT'S A REALLY POWERFUL line:85% position:50% size:80% CONSTRUCT FOR US IN EDUCATION TO line:85% position:20% size:50% CONTINUE TO EMBRACE.
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line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:50% size:80% WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT TEACHING line:85% position:11% size:8% ... line:85% position:44% size:78% IF THERE'S ONE SILVER BULLET IN line:85% position:40% size:75% EDUCATION, AND THERE'S NOT, IT line:85% position:40% size:75% IS A GREAT TEACHER IN FRONT OF line:85% position:24% size:58% EVERY CHILD EVERY YEAR.
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line:85% position:50% size:80% SOLUTIONS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE THE line:85% position:27% size:63% ABILITY TO ACCELERATE OUR line:85% position:13% size:23% PROGRESS.
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line:85% position:27% size:63% KENTUCKY HAS AN IMPORTANT line:85% position:44% size:78% QUESTION IN FRONT OF IT BECAUSE line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY IS ONE OF THOSE STATES line:85% position:19% size:48% IN TURBULENT TIMES.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT KEY QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE line:85% position:17% size:40% YOU GOING TO DO?
line:85% position:29% size:65% WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO line:85% position:40% size:75% LEAPFROG EDUCATION FORWARD NOW line:85% position:44% size:78% SO THAT KENTUCKY WHICH HAS GONE line:85% position:50% size:80% FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE STATES TO line:85% position:40% size:75% THE MIDDLE CAN NOW GO FROM THE line:85% position:18% size:45% MIDDLE TO THE TOP.
line:85% position:25% size:60% WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
line:85% position:33% size:70% WHAT ARE WE GOING TO NOT LET line:85% position:27% size:63% HAPPEN THAT DECIMATES OUR line:85% position:40% size:75% STANDARDS, OUR TEACHING FORCE, line:85% position:40% size:75% THE OTHER KINDS OF THINGS THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% REALLY DRIVE QUALITY EDUCATION line:85% position:33% size:70% IN THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE line:85% position:13% size:20% COUNTRY.
line:85% position:50% size:80% ONE THING THAT WE KNOW THAT THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% TAKES IS COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP.
line:85% position:33% size:70% IT TAKES UNCOMMON COURAGEOUS line:85% position:14% size:28% LEADERSHIP.
line:85% position:33% size:70% A GROUNDSWELL CONVERGENCE OF line:85% position:27% size:63% CITIZENS AND STUDENTS AND line:85% position:33% size:70% TEACHERS AND LEADERS IN BOTH line:85% position:27% size:63% BUSINESS AND CIVIC COMING line:85% position:36% size:73% TOGETHER AND SAYING, "THIS IS line:85% position:18% size:45% WHAT WE STAND FOR.
line:85% position:50% size:80% WE WILL STAND FOR NOTHING LESS."
line:85% position:44% size:78% REAL CHANGE IN EDUCATION IS NOT line:85% position:24% size:58% FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THAT line:85% position:27% size:63% NEXT LEAP IN KENTUCKY AND line:85% position:13% size:25% ELSEWHERE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WE SHOULD REMEMBER PARTICULARLY line:85% position:44% size:78% IN KENTUCKY THAT WE ARE MADE OF line:85% position:50% size:80% STERN STUFF, DEEPLY ROOTED UP TO line:85% position:19% size:48% THE NEXT CHALLENGE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE line:85% position:13% size:20% TONIGHT.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% QUESTIONS AND THE CONVERSATION.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I WANT TO THANK KENTUCKY TO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% WORLD FOR REMINDING US THAT THE line:85% position:27% size:63% INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL line:85% position:36% size:73% CAPACITY OF KENTUCKY IS QUITE line:85% position:15% size:35% EXTRAORDINARY.
line:85% position:13% size:25% THANK YOU.
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:15% size:33% >> THANK YOU.
line:85% position:44% size:78% SO, YOU KNOW WITH ALL THIS TALK line:85% position:21% size:53% ABOUT EDUCATION I WAS line:85% position:44% size:78% REMEMBERING A STORY FROM WHEN I line:85% position:33% size:70% WAS IN FIFTH OR SIXTH GRADE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% I WENT TO MY TEACHER AND I SAID, line:85% position:33% size:70% "TEACHER, WOULD I EVER BE IN line:85% position:31% size:68% TROUBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT I line:85% position:14% size:28% DIDN'T DO?"
line:85% position:22% size:55% THE TEACHER SAID, "NO.
line:85% position:11% size:13% WHY?"
line:85% position:44% size:78% I SAID, "WELL, BECAUSE I DIDN'T line:85% position:17% size:40% DO MY HOMEWORK."
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ LAUGHTER ] line:85% position:15% size:35% BUT I DIGRESS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% OKAY, SO MATTHEW BARZUN SERVED line:85% position:24% size:58% AS US AMBASSADOR TO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% UNITED KINGDOM FROM AUGUST 2013 line:85% position:25% size:60% FINANCE CHAIR FOR FORMER line:85% position:25% size:60% PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S line:85% position:40% size:75% REELECTION CAMPAIGN, AND AS US line:85% position:21% size:53% AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN.
line:85% position:40% size:75% IN 2008 HE VOLUNTEERED FOR THE line:85% position:31% size:68% THEN SENATOR BARACK OBAMA'S line:85% position:44% size:78% PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, ELECTION line:85% position:44% size:78% CAMPAIGN, LEADING THE EFFORT TO line:85% position:27% size:63% CONDUCT SUPPORTER DRIVEN, line:85% position:25% size:60% SMALL DONOR FUNDRAISERS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% HE JOINED CNET NETWORKS IN 1993 line:85% position:44% size:78% AS ITS FOURTH EMPLOYEE AND HELD line:85% position:33% size:70% VARIOUS MANAGEMENT POSITIONS line:85% position:25% size:60% DURING HIS 11 YEARS WITH line:85% position:21% size:53% THE COMPANY INCLUDING line:85% position:24% size:58% CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER.
line:85% position:50% size:80% MATTHEW IS CURRENTLY CHAIRMAN OF line:85% position:40% size:75% TORTOISE MEDIA, A LONDON-BASED line:85% position:44% size:78% NEWS ORGANIZATION, IS PUBLISHER line:85% position:29% size:65% OF LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE AND line:85% position:40% size:75% LOUISVILLE.COM, AND IS WORKING line:85% position:27% size:63% ON A NON-FICTION BOOK FOR line:85% position:36% size:73% OPTIMISM PRESS, A DIVISION OF line:85% position:21% size:53% PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE.
line:85% position:29% size:65% MATTHEW CURRENTLY LIVES IN line:85% position:36% size:73% LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY WITH HIS line:85% position:36% size:73% FAMILY WITH A STRONG INTEREST line:85% position:24% size:58% IN EDUCATION POLICY AND line:85% position:13% size:23% PRACTICE.
line:85% position:27% size:63% MATTHEW VISITED MORE THAN line:85% position:24% size:58% 200 BRITISH SCHOOLS AND line:85% position:33% size:70% CONDUCTED WORKSHOPS FOR MORE line:85% position:44% size:78% THAN 20,000 BRITISH HIGH SCHOOL line:85% position:18% size:45% SENIORS DURING HIS line:85% position:16% size:38% AMBASSADORSHIP.
line:85% position:44% size:78% HE SERVED ON THE BOARDS OF MANY line:85% position:22% size:55% NON-PROFITS FOCUSED ON line:85% position:36% size:73% EDUCATION, PUBLIC POLICY, AND line:85% position:21% size:53% INTERFAITH RELATIONS.
line:85% position:21% size:53% MATTHEW, COME ON OUT.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Matthew Barzun: THANK YOU.
line:85% position:15% size:33% GOOD EVENING.
line:85% position:25% size:60% Dr. PHILLIPS, THANK YOU.
line:85% position:15% size:33% WELCOME HOME.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Vicki Phillips: THANK YOU.
line:85% position:33% size:70% IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO BE HOME.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Matthew Barzun: I GOT TO BE line:85% position:50% size:80% UP IN THE FRONT ROW LISTENING TO line:85% position:31% size:68% YOUR WONDERFUL PRESENTATION line:85% position:40% size:75% LLS OF ROUGH.AVE NEVER BEEN TO line:85% position:33% size:70% U BROUGHT IT ALIVE WITH YOUR line:85% position:27% size:63% WONDERFUL WORDS AND THOSE line:85% position:17% size:43% BEAUTIFUL IMAGES.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I'D LOVE TO START OFF JUST HOW line:85% position:36% size:73% DO YOU DESCRIBE THE WONDERFUL line:85% position:36% size:73% COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY MORE line:85% position:44% size:78% GENERALLY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T line:85% position:14% size:28% BEEN THERE?
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Vicki Phillips: YOU KNOW, line:85% position:44% size:78% I ACTUALLY DESCRIBE KENTUCKY AS line:85% position:36% size:73% A PLACE OBVIOUSLY WHERE, AS I line:85% position:44% size:78% SAID EARLIER, PEOPLE ARE DEEPLY line:85% position:33% size:70% ROOTED, HAVE THIS WONDERFUL, line:85% position:31% size:68% AMAZING SENSE OF COMMUNITY, line:85% position:31% size:68% ARE SOME OF THE FRIENDLIEST line:85% position:31% size:68% PEOPLE ON EARTH, FIND GREAT line:85% position:22% size:55% SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULT line:85% position:36% size:73% CHALLENGES, AND WHERE I THINK line:85% position:44% size:78% THE CULTURE AND THE AMBIENCE IS line:85% position:17% size:43% ONE OF REAL CARE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I ALWAYS SAY TO PEOPLE, "IN line:85% position:44% size:78% ADDITION TO THAT, THE GEOGRAPHY line:85% position:44% size:78% IS BEAUTIFUL AND IF YOU HAVEN'T line:85% position:40% size:75% BEEN, YOU SHOULD TAKE A LOOK."
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Matthew Barzun: EXCELLENT.
line:85% position:15% size:35% BRING US BACK.
line:85% position:50% size:80% I MEAN, THE STORY THAT YOU TOLD, line:85% position:44% size:78% YOUR WONDERFUL FRIEND CONVINCES line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU THAT YOU OUGHT TO GO TO line:85% position:13% size:20% COLLEGE.
line:85% position:20% size:50% YOU GO ON TO WKU, GO line:85% position:14% size:30% HILLTOPPERS.
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT WAS AN ALTERNATE CAREER YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% CONSIDERED AT WKU OR WAS IT line:85% position:33% size:70% ALWAYS GOING TO BE TEACHING?
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Vicki Phillips: I HAD A LOVE line:85% position:44% size:78% OF TEACHING FROM THE TIME I WAS line:85% position:33% size:70% VERY SMALL, BUT I WILL ADMIT line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT WHEN I DECIDED TO GO TO line:85% position:40% size:75% COLLEGE, I WAS RESISTING THAT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% I PLANNED TO ENTER THE SCIENCES.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I TOOK A NUMBER OF SCIENCE line:85% position:44% size:78% COURSES, FOUND THAT I LIKED THE line:85% position:31% size:68% SUBJECT MATTER ON ONE HAND, line:85% position:33% size:70% WASN'T AS FIRED UP ABOUT THE line:85% position:40% size:75% CAREERS THAT I THOUGHT WERE MY line:85% position:31% size:68% CHOICES RIGHT THEN, AND WAS line:85% position:31% size:68% PERSISTING BUT KEPT SORT OF line:85% position:40% size:75% LEANING BACK TOWARD EDUCATION.
line:85% position:44% size:78% SO, FINALLY I KIND OF PULLED UP line:85% position:33% size:70% MY COURAGE, WENT OVER TO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, AND THERE line:85% position:40% size:75% WERE TWO FAIRLY NEW PROFESSORS line:85% position:24% size:58% THERE IN THE COLLEGE OF line:85% position:36% size:73% EDUCATION WHO WERE CLEARLY ON line:85% position:36% size:73% THE CUTTING EDGE OF EDUCATION line:85% position:44% size:78% PRACTICE AT THAT TIME AND WHO I line:85% position:31% size:68% JUST WAS A ...
FELT LIKE I line:85% position:25% size:60% COULD REALLY LEARN FROM.
line:85% position:27% size:63% THEY SORT OF REIGNITED MY line:85% position:44% size:78% PASSION TO TEACH, AND I HAVEN'T line:85% position:18% size:45% LOOKED BACK SINCE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Matthew Barzun: OH, THAT'S line:85% position:12% size:15% GREAT.
line:85% position:36% size:73% WOULD YOU LIST THEM, YOU'RE A line:85% position:27% size:63% STEP AHEAD OF ME, AS YOUR line:85% position:40% size:75% FAVORITE TEACHER, OR WOULD YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% GO BACK TO FALLS OF ROUGH FOR line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT?
line:85% position:27% size:63% MAYBE WE'LL GIVE YOU TWO.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Vicki Phillips: YOU'LL GIVE line:85% position:12% size:18% ME TWO?
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Matthew Barzun: I DON'T KNOW.
line:85% position:24% size:58% WE'RE A GENEROUS BUNCH.
line:85% position:31% size:68% >> Vicki Phillips: I HAVE A line:85% position:33% size:70% NUMBER OF TEACHERS THAT WERE line:85% position:40% size:75% FANTASTIC, BUT THERE WERE TWO.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY WERE ACTUALLY MY FRESHMAN line:85% position:17% size:40% YEAR IN COLLEGE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I, LIKE MANY KIDS I THINK, MADE line:85% position:29% size:65% MY WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL line:85% position:33% size:70% MOSTLY ON ROTE MEMORIZATION.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I WASN'T EXPECTED TO LEARN BIG line:85% position:40% size:75% CONCEPTUAL TOPICS OR IDEAS AND line:85% position:15% size:35% EXPLORE THOSE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT SORT OF WASN'T HOW I WAS line:85% position:12% size:18% TAUGHT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% SO, I ARRIVED AT COLLEGE PRETTY line:85% position:36% size:73% UNEQUIPPED TO BE THERE, AND I line:85% position:29% size:65% GOT A COUPLE OF REALLY BAD line:85% position:33% size:70% GRADES IN MY FIRST COUPLE OF line:85% position:13% size:20% COURSES.
line:85% position:44% size:78% ONE IN MY ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS line:85% position:44% size:78% CLASS BECAUSE I COULDN'T WRITE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS NOT A GOOD WRITER AT ALL.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I COULD DIAGRAM A SENTENCE THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% WAS AS LONG AS A PARAGRAPH, BUT line:85% position:31% size:68% I COULD NOT WRITE AN ESSAY.
line:85% position:31% size:68% SECOND, I TOOK A STATISTICS line:85% position:44% size:78% CLASS AND THAT ONE JUST SORT OF line:85% position:40% size:75% KIND OF BLEW ME AWAY BECAUSE I line:85% position:33% size:70% HAD MEMORIZED ALL THOSE MATH line:85% position:13% size:23% FORMULAS.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I DIDN'T HAVE A CONCEPTUAL line:85% position:15% size:35% UNDERSTANDING.
line:85% position:44% size:78% BOTH OF THOSE PROFESSORS LOOKED line:85% position:50% size:80% AT ME AND SAID, "I DIDN'T FIGURE line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU FOR THIS KIND OF A GRADE."
line:85% position:40% size:75% I SAID, "ME EITHER."
THEY WERE line:85% position:50% size:80% LIKE, "WELL, WE'RE JUST GOING TO line:85% position:44% size:78% DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE'S MORE TALENT IN YOU THEN line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU ARE EXHIBITING IN THOSE line:85% position:27% size:63% GRADES WE'RE GIVING YOU."
line:85% position:40% size:75% BOTH OF THEM TOOK AN INTEREST, line:85% position:27% size:63% TUTORED ME, SUPPORTED ME, line:85% position:40% size:75% ENCOURAGED ME, TAUGHT ME ABOUT line:85% position:29% size:65% LEARNING IN WAYS I'D NEVER line:85% position:14% size:30% EXPERIENCED.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I ENDED UP GETTING AN A IN ONE line:85% position:40% size:75% COURSE AND A B, I THINK IT WAS line:85% position:31% size:68% LIKE A B- IN THE OTHER ONE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, ALL BECAUSE THEY HELPED ME line:85% position:50% size:80% LEARN HOW TO LEARN IN A WAY THAT line:85% position:25% size:60% I HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: SO, SPEAKING line:85% position:31% size:68% OF LEARNING HOW TO LEARN, I line:85% position:44% size:78% THOUGHT THE TITLE FOR TONIGHT'S line:85% position:21% size:53% TALK WAS PROVOCATIVE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% IF THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER IT, line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU, line:85% position:25% size:60% UNBRIDLED OR UNRAVELING.
line:85% position:29% size:65% IT STRUCK ME, YOU HAD THIS line:85% position:36% size:73% WONDERFUL IMAGE OF THE ORANGE line:85% position:14% size:30% APPLE THING.
line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU ARE DRAWN TO THE "AND."
line:85% position:40% size:75% IT STRUCK ME THAT IT'S STRANGE line:85% position:50% size:80% TO TALK ABOUT EDUCATION AND TALK line:85% position:22% size:55% ABOUT BEING UNBRIDLED.
line:85% position:22% size:55% YOU GREW UP ON A FARM, line:85% position:15% size:35% AND I DID NOT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% I AM FROM BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT HOW DO YOU THINK ABOUT line:85% position:13% size:20% BRIDLES.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND THEIR ROLE AS, YOU KNOW.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Vicki Phillips: WELL, WHEN I line:85% position:40% size:75% THINK OF WHEN I HEAR THAT TERM line:85% position:11% size:13% IS I- line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Matthew Barzun: NOT ME, NOT line:85% position:11% size:8% ME.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Vicki Phillips: WHAT I THINK line:85% position:36% size:73% OF WHEN I HEAR THAT TERM IS A line:85% position:36% size:73% TAG LINE THAT'S OFTEN BEEN ON line:85% position:50% size:80% THE STATE OF KENTUCKY'S PIECE AS line:85% position:21% size:53% YOU MOVE IN, WHICH IS line:85% position:17% size:43% UNBRIDLED SPIRIT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% SO, FOR ME, UNBRIDLED MEANS YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% TURN SOMETHING LOOSE AND YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% MIGHT POINT IT IN THE RIGHT line:85% position:29% size:65% DIRECTION, BUT YOU EXPAND, line:85% position:24% size:58% YOU OPEN UP YOUR MINDS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU THINK ABOUT NEW SOLUTIONS TO line:85% position:33% size:70% COMMON CHALLENGING PROBLEMS.
line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT'S WHAT I THINK ABOUT line:85% position:13% size:25% UNBRIDLED- line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: YOU TAKE OFF line:85% position:15% size:33% THE BLINDERS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Vicki Phillips: YOU TAKE OFF line:85% position:40% size:75% THE BLINDERS, NOT YOU PUT THEM line:85% position:11% size:8% ON.
line:85% position:44% size:78% NOT THAT YOU'RE REIGNING IN AND line:85% position:50% size:80% HOLDING ACCOUNTABILITY SO TIGHT, line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT THAT YOU'RE IN THAT AND line:85% position:44% size:78% WHERE YOU CAN HAVE AUTONOMY AND line:85% position:16% size:38% ACCOUNTABILITY.
line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU COULD HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS line:85% position:17% size:43% AND HIGH SUPPORT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU CAN THINK ABOUT COLLEGE AND line:85% position:36% size:73% CAREER BECAUSE THE SKILLS YOU line:85% position:40% size:75% NEED ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME.
line:85% position:50% size:80% SO, FOR ME, UNBRIDLED IS IN MANY line:85% position:36% size:73% WAYS LIVING IN THAT AND SPACE line:85% position:36% size:73% WHERE YOU GET MORE SYNERGY BY line:85% position:40% size:75% THE "AND" THAN YOU DO WHEN YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% THINK OF THINGS AS AN EITHER/OR.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Matthew Barzun: EXCELLENT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WE HAD A WONDERFUL CHANCE TO BE line:85% position:50% size:80% TOGETHER EARLIER WITH SOME YOUNG line:85% position:19% size:48% FOLKS WHO ARE HERE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% WELCOME TO THE BIGGER ROOM.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WE WERE TOUCHING ON SOMEONE YOU line:85% position:40% size:75% KNEW WHO I'VE ONLY READ ABOUT, line:85% position:36% size:73% THE WONDERFUL MAN WHO USED TO line:85% position:50% size:80% RUN ALL THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM line:85% position:33% size:70% IN FINLAND [POSSI 00:22:44].
line:85% position:36% size:73% FINLAND, BY THE WAY, I ALWAYS line:85% position:33% size:70% SAID USED TO WIN NUMBER ONE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% OCCASIONALLY IT WOULD LOSE TO line:85% position:33% size:70% SINGAPORE AS THE BEST PUBLIC line:85% position:40% size:75% SCHOOL EDUCATION IN THE WORLD, line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT I GUESS, BUT YOU'LL TELL US line:85% position:17% size:40% MORE ABOUT THIS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% HE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% WHENEVER HE CAME TO AMERICA HE'D line:85% position:50% size:80% GET TOGETHER WITH GROUPS LIKE US line:85% position:33% size:70% TONIGHT WHO CARE ABOUT THESE line:85% position:44% size:78% ISSUES AND INEVITABLY THE FIRST line:85% position:44% size:78% QUESTION WOULD BE, "WHAT DO YOU line:85% position:17% size:40% DO ABOUT TEACHER line:85% position:17% size:40% ACCOUNTABILITY?"
line:85% position:36% size:73% FINNS SPEAK VERY GOOD ENGLISH line:85% position:44% size:78% AND HE SAID, "BUT WE DON'T HAVE line:85% position:33% size:70% A WORD FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN line:85% position:31% size:68% FINNISH, BUT I'VE TALKED TO line:85% position:44% size:78% ENOUGH OF YOU AMERICANS I THINK line:85% position:21% size:53% I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN.
line:85% position:36% size:73% IT'S THAT THING YOU HAVE LEFT line:85% position:20% size:50% AFTER YOU'VE REMOVED line:85% position:17% size:40% RESPONSIBILITY."
line:85% position:16% size:38% THAT STRUCK ME.
line:85% position:25% size:60% I WAS LIKE, "OOH, THAT'S line:85% position:13% size:25% POWERFUL."
line:85% position:15% size:33% IT'S A THING.
line:85% position:50% size:80% IT'S KIND OF A THIN, MEAN THING.
line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT HOW DO RESPOND TO THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% STATEMENT AND HOW DO YOU THINK line:85% position:50% size:80% ABOUT THAT WORD, ACCOUNTABILITY, line:85% position:22% size:55% VERSUS RESPONSIBILITY?
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Vicki Phillips: I THINK IT'S line:85% position:31% size:68% UNFORTUNATE THAT ONE OF THE line:85% position:44% size:78% THINGS WE OFTEN DO IN EDUCATION line:85% position:44% size:78% IS REDUCE SOMETHING TO ITS KIND line:85% position:16% size:38% OF LOWEST TERM.
line:85% position:25% size:60% MEAN, ACCOUNTABILITY CAN line:85% position:18% size:45% ACTUALLY ENCOMPASS line:85% position:16% size:38% RESPONSIBILITY.
line:85% position:31% size:68% WHEN I TALK TO TEACHERS ALL line:85% position:33% size:70% ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE line:85% position:36% size:73% USUALLY ACCOUNTABILITY IN OUR line:85% position:40% size:75% COUNTRY'S AIMED AT TEACHERS IN line:85% position:33% size:70% AN EDUCATION SENSE, TEACHERS line:85% position:50% size:80% AREN'T AFRAID OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY WANT AN EXPANSIVE VIEW OF line:85% position:27% size:63% ACCOUNTABILITY THAT SAYS, line:85% position:50% size:80% "I'M NOT JUDGED ON ONE INDICATOR line:85% position:12% size:15% ALONE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% MAKE UP WHETHER THE STUDENTS IN line:85% position:31% size:68% MY CLASS ARE SUCCESSFUL AND line:85% position:44% size:78% WHETHER THEY'RE GROWING YEAR ON line:85% position:12% size:15% YEAR."
line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY WANT MEANINGFUL FEEDBACK, line:85% position:50% size:80% NOT FEEDBACK THAT'S DOESN'T GIVE line:85% position:50% size:80% THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW AND line:85% position:12% size:15% LEARN.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY WANT THEIR EVALUATIONS TO line:85% position:50% size:80% BE ATTACHED TO GOOD PROFESSIONAL line:85% position:33% size:70% LEARNING THAT ACTUALLY SUITS line:85% position:40% size:75% THEM AS PERSONALIZED FOR THEM, line:85% position:31% size:68% HELPS THEM BE BETTER IN THE line:85% position:13% size:25% CLASSROOM.
line:85% position:25% size:60% I TALK TO MANY TEACHERS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S NOT THAT THEY'RE AFRAID OF line:85% position:44% size:78% ACCOUNTABILITY OR BRISTLE EVERY line:85% position:17% size:40% TIME YOU SAY IT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% IT'S MORE HOW WE'VE NARROWED OUR line:85% position:33% size:70% DEFINITION OF ACCOUNTABILITY line:85% position:33% size:70% JUST LIKE WE'VE NARROWED OUR line:85% position:44% size:78% DEFINITION SOMETIMES OF COLLEGE line:85% position:36% size:73% AND CAREER, OR WE'VE NARROWED line:85% position:18% size:45% OTHER DEFINITIONS.
line:85% position:25% size:60% I THINK IT'S TIME TO PUT line:85% position:36% size:73% CONVERSATION BEHIND THE WORDS line:85% position:44% size:78% BECAUSE WE TOSS THESE TERMS OUT line:85% position:36% size:73% WITHOUT TALKING TO EACH OTHER line:85% position:40% size:75% ABOUT WHETHER WE HAVE A COMMON line:85% position:22% size:55% UNDERSTANDING OF THAT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SOMEHOW WE HAVE TO COME TO THE line:85% position:27% size:63% COMMON GROUND, THE COMMON line:85% position:27% size:63% UNDERSTANDING BY ACTUALLY line:85% position:36% size:73% LISTENING AS I HEARD YOU ALSO line:85% position:25% size:60% SAY TO KIDS EARLIER, AND line:85% position:44% size:78% LISTENING FOR UNDERSTANDING AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THEN HAVING A REAL CONVERSATION line:85% position:24% size:58% RATHER THAN THE SORT OF line:85% position:44% size:78% TURBULENT OF STUFF THAT GOES ON line:85% position:24% size:58% ACROSS THIS NARROW TOP.
line:85% position:31% size:68% >> Matthew Barzun: OKAY, SO line:85% position:31% size:68% BUILDING ON THAT AND YOU'RE line:85% position:27% size:63% TALKING ABOUT WORDS, THIS line:85% position:25% size:60% LANGUAGE WE USE WITH ONE line:85% position:13% size:20% ANOTHER.
line:85% position:40% size:75% WITHIN YOUR PROFESSION, SO I'M line:85% position:50% size:80% FROM OUTSIDE OF IT, WHAT ARE THE line:85% position:33% size:70% BITS OF LINGO THAT DRIVE YOU line:85% position:11% size:13% NUTS?
line:85% position:36% size:73% THEN THE FOLLOWUP QUESTION IS line:85% position:44% size:78% GOING TO BE, WHAT ARE THE WORDS line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT YOU WISH WE WOULD USE MORE line:85% position:11% size:8% OF?
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Vicki Phillips: WOW, IT'S line:85% position:22% size:55% SUCH A GREAT QUESTION.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THE BITS OF WORDS THAT MAKE ME line:85% position:33% size:70% NUTS WOULD BE ACCOUNTABILITY line:85% position:33% size:70% BECAUSE WE'VE NARROWED IT SO line:85% position:27% size:63% TOUGH, RANKING AND RATING line:85% position:44% size:78% BECAUSE WE TEND TO DO THAT FROM line:85% position:36% size:73% A NARROW BAND AND DEFINITION, line:85% position:25% size:60% PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT line:85% position:44% size:78% CAPACITY BUILDING MAKES ME NUTS line:85% position:40% size:75% BECAUSE WE OFTEN HAVE ONE VIEW line:85% position:40% size:75% OF IT AND TEACHERS HAVE A VERY line:85% position:31% size:68% DIFFERENT VIEW OF WHAT THEY line:85% position:33% size:70% NEED, AND WE DON'T LISTEN TO line:85% position:20% size:50% TEACHERS ABOUT THAT.
line:85% position:33% size:70% SO, SOME OF THE COMMON TERMS line:85% position:44% size:78% ACTUALLY MAKE ME A LITTLE CRAZY line:85% position:40% size:75% NOT BECAUSE I DON'T VALUE THEM line:85% position:44% size:78% OR THINK THAT THEY'RE IMPORTANT line:85% position:33% size:70% PILLARS ACTUALLY OF THE WORK line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT WE NEED TO DO, BUT BECAUSE line:85% position:40% size:75% WE HAVE SO MADE THEM SEEM LIKE line:85% position:22% size:55% THEY'RE DIRTY WORDS OR line:85% position:16% size:38% THEY'RE NOT ... line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'RE SO MISUNDERSTOOD, AND WE line:85% position:50% size:80% SLING THEM AROUND RATHER THAN AS line:85% position:31% size:68% I SAID, HAVING A MEANINGFUL line:85% position:33% size:70% AUTHENTIC CONVERSATION ABOUT line:85% position:21% size:53% WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT.
line:85% position:27% size:63% SO, WE TALK AT SUCH CROSS line:85% position:13% size:23% PURPOSES.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: ANY FAVORITE line:85% position:11% size:13% ONES?
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Vicki Phillips: TEACHERS, line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:11% size:5% .
line:85% position:13% size:23% STUDENTS.
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:31% size:68% RESPECT FOR THE PROFESSION, line:85% position:13% size:23% OPTIMISM.
line:85% position:15% size:35% I COULD GO ON.
line:85% position:15% size:35% YOU WANT ME -- line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: I WAS SEEING line:85% position:25% size:60% IF IT WAS GOING TO SPELL line:85% position:13% size:25% SOMETHING.
line:85% position:27% size:63% I DON'T KNOW IF OTHER ... line:85% position:14% size:30% ANYONE ELSE?
line:85% position:17% size:40% IS THAT ONLY ME?
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ LAUGHTER ] line:85% position:19% size:48% OKAY, THAT'S GREAT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE WAS THAT BEAUTIFUL IMAGE line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU SHARED OF THE FACE WITH THE line:85% position:17% size:43% MAP OF THE WORLD.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I THINK IT GOT OOHS AND AHHS line:85% position:50% size:80% FROM LOTS OF US IN THE AUDIENCE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% IS THAT A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC line:85% position:14% size:28% PHOTOGRAPH?
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Vicki Phillips: IT'S ACTUALLY line:85% position:33% size:70% NOT, BUT IT MIGHT BECOME ONE line:85% position:13% size:20% SHORTLY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Matthew Barzun: YEAH, OKAY.
line:85% position:50% size:80% DO YOU NOTICE KENTUCKY WAS RIGHT line:85% position:14% size:28% IN THE EYE?
line:85% position:50% size:80% I THOUGHT THAT WAS KIND OF COOL.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU ON THAT line:85% position:17% size:43% MAP OF THE WORLD.
line:85% position:36% size:73% EARLIER I SAID FINLAND ALWAYS line:85% position:33% size:70% WINS NUMBER ONE AND YOU'RE A line:85% position:44% size:78% GREAT TEACHER, YOU TOLD ME THAT line:85% position:20% size:50% THIS NO LONGER TRUE.
line:85% position:33% size:70% CAN YOU SHARE WITH US WHO IS line:85% position:36% size:73% EXCELLING IN PUBLIC EDUCATION line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF, line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WHAT'S GOING ON, AND WHAT WE line:85% position:33% size:70% IN KENTUCKY MIGHT LEARN FROM line:85% position:11% size:13% THEM?
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Vicki Phillips: WELL, WE WERE line:85% position:31% size:68% HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT line:85% position:50% size:80% OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THE FACT THAT FINLAND AND line:85% position:36% size:73% SINGAPORE IN PARTICULAR OFTEN line:85% position:40% size:75% GET HELD UP AND RIGHTFULLY SO.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THEY HAVE AMAZING EDUCATION line:85% position:13% size:20% SYSTEMS.
line:85% position:25% size:60% FINLAND IN PARTICULAR IS line:85% position:25% size:60% RETHINKING MUCH OF THEIR line:85% position:17% size:43% EDUCATION SYSTEM.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'VE BEEN AT THE HIGH POINTS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE line:85% position:50% size:80% MULTICULTURAL AND DIVERSE, SO AS line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY DO THAT THEY WANT TO MAKE line:85% position:50% size:80% SURE THAT THEY ARE WELL EQUIPPED line:85% position:29% size:65% TO HELP EVERY SINGLE CHILD line:85% position:31% size:68% COMING THROUGH THEIR DOORS, line:85% position:36% size:73% EVERY SINGLE STUDENT SUCCEED.
line:85% position:50% size:80% SO, THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO REST line:85% position:29% size:65% ON WHERE THEY ARE OR WHERE line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'VE BEEN OR THE SUCCESS THAT line:85% position:25% size:60% THEY'VE HAD IN THE PAST.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY ARE REALLY PUSHING FORWARD.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT SAID, A FEW YEARS AGO ON line:85% position:50% size:80% THE PISA SHANGHAI CAME VERY HIGH line:85% position:17% size:40% IN THE RANKINGS.
line:85% position:27% size:63% IN FACT, IT OUTPERFORMED- line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Matthew Barzun: CAN I DO A line:85% position:44% size:78% LITTLE LINGO CHECK FOR THOSE OF line:85% position:14% size:28% US OUTSIDE?
line:85% position:24% size:58% >> Vicki Phillips: YES.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Matthew Barzun: JUST WHAT- line:85% position:25% size:60% >> Vicki Phillips: PISA.
line:85% position:25% size:60% PISA IS AN INTERNATIONAL line:85% position:29% size:65% EXAMINATION THAT IS A VERY line:85% position:29% size:65% MEANINGFUL EXAM ACROSS THE line:85% position:12% size:15% WORLD.
line:85% position:20% size:50% THE UNITED STATES IS line:85% position:33% size:70% PARTICIPATING IN IT MORE AND line:85% position:11% size:13% MORE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% WHERE COUNTRIES FALL ON THE PISA line:85% position:40% size:75% RANKINGS MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO line:85% position:11% size:13% THEM.
line:85% position:44% size:78% FINLAND, SINGAPORE, OTHERS HAVE line:85% position:33% size:70% BEEN AT THE TOP AND YOU HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% PROBABLY SEEN FROM THE NEWS THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% THE UNITED STATES IS OFTEN MUCH, line:85% position:18% size:45% MUCH FURTHER DOWN.
line:85% position:50% size:80% SO, A FEW YEARS AGO, PEOPLE WERE line:85% position:44% size:78% QUITE SURPRISED WHEN MANY LARGE line:85% position:44% size:78% CITIES STARTED TAKING THE PISA, line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT SHANGHAI CATAPULTED TO THE line:85% position:11% size:10% TOP.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT line:85% position:36% size:73% SHANGHAI IS THAT SHANGHAI HAS line:85% position:44% size:78% HAD SCHOOLS OVER THE YEARS THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% WERE FAIRLY LOW PERFORMING AS line:85% position:40% size:75% WELL AS SCHOOLS THAT WERE HIGH line:85% position:14% size:28% PERFORMING.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY HAD A MORE DIVERSE INCOME line:85% position:13% size:23% SPECTRUM.
line:85% position:36% size:73% A LOT OF CHALLENGES, AND IN A line:85% position:50% size:80% FEW SHORT YEARS CLOSED THAT GAP.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY CLOSED IT BY MANY OF THE line:85% position:29% size:65% THINGS THAT WE JUST TALKED line:85% position:44% size:78% ABOUT: HOLDING STUDENTS TO HIGH line:85% position:40% size:75% STANDARDS, GIVING TEACHERS THE line:85% position:50% size:80% KIND OF RESPECT AND PROFESSIONAL line:85% position:20% size:50% LEARNING AND SUPPORT line:85% position:44% size:78% OPPORTUNITIES, OPPORTUNITIES TO line:85% position:29% size:65% NETWORK AND WORK TOGETHER.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE WERE AN ARRAY OF THINGS line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT THEY DID THAT BROUGHT THEM line:85% position:40% size:75% TO THE TOP OF THOSE ASSESSMENT line:85% position:13% size:23% RANKINGS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% WHATEVER WE MIGHT ALL THINK OR line:85% position:50% size:80% FEEL ABOUT ASSESSMENTS THERE ARE line:85% position:44% size:78% DIFFERENT KINDS OF ASSESSMENTS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THE PISA EXAM IS ACTUALLY QUITE line:85% position:50% size:80% A GOOD ASSESSMENT AND SO TO MAKE line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT KIND OF PROGRESS IS WORTH line:85% position:15% size:35% LEARNING FROM.
line:85% position:27% size:63% >> Matthew Barzun: GREAT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% BRINGING IT BACK CLOSER TO HOME, line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU TALKED EARLIER ABOUT line:85% position:36% size:73% KENTUCKY THROUGH THE KENTUCKY line:85% position:44% size:78% EDUCATION REFORM ACT GOING FROM line:85% position:50% size:80% NEAR THE BOTTOM OF SOME RANKINGS line:85% position:33% size:70% MORE TOWARDS THE MIDDLE, AND line:85% position:50% size:80% YOUR HOPE THAT WE WOULD CONTINUE line:85% position:17% size:43% TO MAKE PROGRESS.
line:85% position:36% size:73% CAN YOU BRING US BACK TO THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% TIME WHEN WE WERE CLOSER TO THE line:85% position:40% size:75% BOTTOM, WHAT YOU WERE THINKING line:85% position:36% size:73% AND HOPING BACK THEN, AND ANY line:85% position:31% size:68% THINGS YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE line:85% position:36% size:73% BETTER THAT TURNED OUT WORSE, line:85% position:24% size:58% THINGS YOU WERE SORT OF line:85% position:21% size:53% PESSIMISTIC ABOUT ... line:85% position:40% size:75% I KNOW YOU'RE AN OPTIMIST, BUT line:85% position:31% size:68% THINGS YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE line:85% position:36% size:73% TOUGHER THAT TURNED OUT TO BE line:85% position:12% size:18% EASIER.
line:85% position:31% size:68% BRING US BACK TO THAT TIME.
line:85% position:25% size:60% >> Vicki Phillips: SURE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% IT WAS QUITE AN EXTRAORDINARY line:85% position:31% size:68% TIME IN KENTUCKY, AND FOR A line:85% position:36% size:73% YOUNG EDUCATOR LIKE MYSELF IT line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS A POWERFUL CONVERGENCE OF line:85% position:33% size:70% DEFINITELY A COURT CASE THAT line:85% position:21% size:53% SPURRED THE FINANCIAL line:85% position:25% size:60% RESOLUTION, DEFINITELY A line:85% position:31% size:68% KNOWLEDGE AMONG KENTUCKIANS line:85% position:29% size:65% SPURRED BY THE WORK OF THE line:85% position:40% size:75% PRICHARD COMMITTEE AND LOTS OF line:85% position:40% size:75% OTHERS THAT KENTUCKY NEEDED TO line:85% position:36% size:73% DO SOMETHING FAIRLY DRAMATIC.
line:85% position:44% size:78% A SET OF LEGISLATORS AND OTHERS line:85% position:36% size:73% WHO WERE WILLING TO SET ASIDE line:85% position:36% size:73% PARTISAN AND OTHER ISSUES AND line:85% position:36% size:73% CONCENTRATE ON WHAT THE COURT line:85% position:40% size:75% DECISION SAID THAT THEY SHOULD line:85% position:50% size:80% DO AND DID THAT EXPANSIVELY, NOT line:85% position:40% size:75% JUST IN ITS MOST NARROW SENSE, line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT DID THAT IN AN EXPANSIVE WAY line:85% position:25% size:60% WHERE KENTUCKY TOOK UP A line:85% position:24% size:58% HUMONGOUS CHALLENGE AND line:85% position:22% size:55% I THINK THE THINGS ... line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU KNOW, AS I WAS PART OF THE line:85% position:33% size:70% CORE TEAM IMPLEMENTING THAT, line:85% position:31% size:68% WATCHING WHAT HAPPENED WHEN line:85% position:29% size:65% STUDENTS WERE HELD TO MUCH line:85% position:31% size:68% HIGHER STANDARDS ACROSS THE line:85% position:44% size:78% STATE, WATCHING SCHOOLS IN VERY line:85% position:25% size:60% LOW INCOME AREAS GO FROM line:85% position:31% size:68% VERY LOW PERFORMING TO HIGH line:85% position:50% size:80% PERFORMING, ALL OF THAT WAS VERY line:85% position:13% size:23% POWERFUL.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THERE WERE ALSO THINGS THAT KIND line:85% position:40% size:75% OF CREATED LOTS OF CONTROVERSY line:85% position:25% size:60% AND WENT BY THE WAYSIDE.
line:85% position:33% size:70% THE QUEST TO DO A NON-GRADED line:85% position:50% size:80% PRIMARY PROGRAM WASN'T THAT WELL line:85% position:50% size:80% RECEIVED IN THE STATE AND DIDN'T line:85% position:17% size:40% ULTIMATELY LAST.
line:85% position:27% size:63% IT TOOK PEOPLE A WHILE TO line:85% position:44% size:78% EMBRACE SITE-BASED COUNCILS AND line:85% position:22% size:55% I KNOW THERE'S STILL A line:85% position:24% size:58% CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT line:85% position:15% size:33% IN SOME WAYS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% YET, THERE WERE THE RESOURCE line:85% position:36% size:73% CENTERS AND OTHERS, SO WHAT I line:85% position:44% size:78% THOUGHT WAS POWERFUL ABOUT MUCH line:85% position:50% size:80% OF THE WORK THAT WAS GOING ON IN line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY IS THAT THERE WAS FIVE line:85% position:44% size:78% YEARS TO IMPLEMENT THE REFORMS, line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT DIFFERENT PLACES COULD line:85% position:31% size:68% IMPLEMENT DIFFERENT ASPECTS line:85% position:25% size:60% FIRST AND WORK THEIR WAY line:85% position:15% size:33% TO ALL OF IT.
line:85% position:27% size:63% SO, YOU WATCHED DIFFERENT line:85% position:27% size:63% SCHOOLS EMBRACE DIFFERENT line:85% position:44% size:78% ASPECTS AND THE SORT OF CONTEXT line:85% position:21% size:53% THAT MATTERED, RIGHT.
line:85% position:31% size:68% IF YOU WERE IN A REALLY LOW line:85% position:40% size:75% INCOME AREA, YOU MIGHT EMBRACE line:85% position:31% size:68% THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS line:85% position:50% size:80% FIRST BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT KIDS line:85% position:36% size:73% NEEDED THE KIND OF WRAPAROUND line:85% position:13% size:23% SUPPORTS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, IT WAS A FASCINATING TIME.
line:85% position:27% size:63% THE THING I REMEMBER MOST line:85% position:44% size:78% LOOKING BACK AT IT WAS ACTUALLY line:85% position:29% size:65% SITTING IN THE GALLERY AND line:85% position:40% size:75% WATCHING THE LEGISLATURE STAND line:85% position:31% size:68% UP AND TALK ABOUT HOW NEVER line:85% position:33% size:70% AGAIN SHOULD THERE BE A TIME line:85% position:36% size:73% WHEN KENTUCKY SCHOOL CHILDREN line:85% position:44% size:78% DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR line:85% position:20% size:50% A QUALITY EDUCATION.
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:31% size:68% >> Matthew Barzun: I HAVE A line:85% position:40% size:75% SUSPICION THAT WHEN WE OPEN IT line:85% position:36% size:73% UP IN 20 MINUTES OR SO TO THE line:85% position:36% size:73% QUESTIONS FROM THIS WONDERFUL line:85% position:31% size:68% GROUP THAT WE WILL GET SOME line:85% position:22% size:55% SPECIFIC ONES ON THAT.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I'LL LEAVE THAT TO THEN, BUT line:85% position:14% size:30% HERE WE ARE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU JUST HINTED AT HERE WE ARE line:85% position:12% size:15% TODAY.
line:85% position:44% size:78% CAN YOU GO INTO WITHOUT GETTING line:85% position:13% size:20% INTO ... line:85% position:50% size:80% I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS T·.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THESE ISSUES HAVE BEEN IN THE line:85% position:40% size:75% NEWS RECENTLY IN OUR WONDERFUL line:85% position:15% size:33% COMMONWEALTH.
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU JUST ARRIVED LAST NIGHT SO line:85% position:40% size:75% I'M NOT GOING TO DRAG YOU INTO line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY MAY, BUT YOU HAVE SEEN THIS line:85% position:27% size:63% WHETHER IT'S YOUR TIME IN line:85% position:31% size:68% PENNSYLVANIA, YOUR TIME OUT line:85% position:40% size:75% WEST, AND THAT WONDERFUL QUOTE line:85% position:19% size:48% FROM CHIEF SEATTLE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I HAD NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE.
line:85% position:20% size:50% THAT'S SO BEAUTIFUL.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, YOU'VE SEEN PEOPLE TALKING line:85% position:50% size:80% AT EACH OTHER, TALKING PAST EACH line:85% position:25% size:60% OTHER ON THESE SUBJECTS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% SHARE WITH US PLEASE, WHAT HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU NOTICED ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE line:85% position:44% size:78% MISUNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER, OR line:85% position:20% size:50% MAYBE IT'S NOT ABOUT line:85% position:44% size:78% MISUNDERSTANDING, BUT WHAT HAVE line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU SEEN IN THESE DIFFERENT line:85% position:29% size:65% STATES ABOUT THESE DEBATES line:85% position:50% size:80% BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT NEW, TO YOUR line:85% position:12% size:15% POINT.
line:85% position:31% size:68% WHAT CAN YOU SHARE WITH US?
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Vicki Phillips: YEAH, THEY'RE line:85% position:13% size:20% NOT NEW.
line:85% position:24% size:58% THE TOPIC IS OFTEN NEW.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE'S TWO THINGS I THINK THAT line:85% position:17% size:40% I SEE HAPPENING.
line:85% position:40% size:75% ONE IS WHEN AN EDUCATION TOPIC line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT IS line:85% position:22% size:55% MEANINGFUL AND SORT OF line:85% position:27% size:63% UBIQUITOUSLY ACCEPTED AND line:85% position:50% size:80% UNDERSTOOD BECOMES A WEDGE ISSUE line:85% position:29% size:65% FOR A GROUP AND A LEVEL OF line:85% position:21% size:53% MISUNDERSTANDING GETS line:85% position:44% size:78% PERPETUATED, AND PERPETUATED SO line:85% position:40% size:75% FAST, AND SO BROADLY THAT IT'S line:85% position:22% size:55% HARD TO BRING IT BACK.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: CAN YOU GIVE line:85% position:40% size:75% US AN EXAMPLE FROM, LET'S JUST line:85% position:21% size:53% PICK ON PENNSYLVANIA.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Vicki Phillips: WELL, I'LL line:85% position:22% size:55% PICK ON MORE THAN EVEN line:85% position:15% size:33% PENNSYLVANIA.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I'LL PICK ON THE COUNTRY AROUND line:85% position:50% size:80% THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% THOSE STANDARDS ARE THE SAME line:85% position:36% size:73% STANDARDS THAT MANY DEVELOPED line:85% position:40% size:75% COUNTRIES THAT ARE SCORING THE line:85% position:31% size:68% BEST IN THE WORLD, THAT ARE line:85% position:50% size:80% EDUCATING ALL KIDS TO A LEVEL OF line:85% position:22% size:55% HIGH QUALITY, EMBRACE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THERE'S NOTHING MAGIC ABOUT line:85% position:17% size:40% THOSE STANDARDS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% IT'S WHAT SHOULD KIDS KNOW AND line:85% position:44% size:78% BE ABLE TO DO ACROSS THE COURSE line:85% position:44% size:78% OF THEIR CAREER, AND YET IN THE line:85% position:27% size:63% COUNTRY, IT BECAME A HUGE line:85% position:14% size:30% CONTROVERSY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I MEAN, AT FIRST 46 STATES AND line:85% position:25% size:60% THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA line:85% position:16% size:38% EMBRACED THOSE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THE COUNTRY WAS ON A PATH TO BE line:85% position:36% size:73% ABLE TO HOLD ALL KIDS TO HIGH line:85% position:40% size:75% STANDARDS WHETHER YOU LIVED IN line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY OR YOU MOVED ACROSS TO line:85% position:50% size:80% TENNESSEE OR UP INTO OHIO OR YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% WENT ACROSS TO CALIFORNIA OR line:85% position:50% size:80% MAYBE YOU WENT ACROSS THE WORLD.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT'S ALL THOSE STANDARDS WERE.
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Vicki Phillips: THEY WERE line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT DO KIDS NEED TO KNOW AND BE line:85% position:33% size:70% ABLE TO DO AT EVERY POINT IN line:85% position:50% size:80% THEIR SCHOOL CAREER AND YET THEY line:85% position:44% size:78% BECAME A HUGE WEDGE ISSUE AND A line:85% position:31% size:68% ENORMOUS CONTROVERSY TO THE line:85% position:36% size:73% POINT THAT MANY STATES HAD TO line:85% position:36% size:73% NOT ONLY CHANGE THE NAME, BUT line:85% position:36% size:73% CHANGE SOME OF THE STANDARDS, line:85% position:25% size:60% AND YET THAT IS SO HARD.
line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S HARD TO REWRITE A STANDARD line:85% position:40% size:75% AROUND FRACTIONS OR A STANDARD line:85% position:36% size:73% AROUND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I THINK WE OFTEN SWEEP THINGS line:85% position:36% size:73% THROUGH IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T line:85% position:31% size:68% ALLOW FOR, AS I WAS TALKING line:85% position:31% size:68% EARLIER, THAT DEEPER SET OF line:85% position:15% size:35% CONVERSATIONS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU KNOW, THANKFULLY MOST OF THE line:85% position:44% size:78% STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHILE line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY MIGHT NOT STILL EMBRACE THE line:85% position:44% size:78% SAME SET OF STANDARDS, THEY ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% VERY CLOSE BECAUSE THEY KNOW line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT GOOD STANDARDS ARE GOOD line:85% position:36% size:73% STANDARDS ARE GOOD STANDARDS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE line:85% position:44% size:78% WE TAKE SOMETHING SOMETIMES AND line:85% position:40% size:75% LET IT BECOME SO MISUNDERSTOOD line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT WE LOSE THE LEVERAGE AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THE POWER THAT WAS RIGHT IN OUR line:85% position:12% size:15% GRASP.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT'S KIND OF A SAD PLACE FOR line:85% position:36% size:73% EDUCATION AS A COUNTRY TO BE.
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Matthew Barzun: YOU'RE AN line:85% position:50% size:80% OPTIMIST SO I HAVE TO SAY, OKAY, line:85% position:36% size:73% SO GIVEN ALL OF THAT AND THIS line:85% position:36% size:73% REALITY, AND YOUR POINT, IT'S line:85% position:50% size:80% NOT JUST KENTUCKY GRAPPLING WITH line:85% position:11% size:13% THIS.
line:85% position:20% size:50% THIS IS COUNTRYWIDE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AS SPECIFIC AS YOU CAN, BECAUSE line:85% position:33% size:70% WE'VE GOT SUCH A GREAT GROUP line:85% position:31% size:68% HERE THAT REALLY KNOWS THIS line:85% position:50% size:80% STUFF PROBABLY BETTER THAN I DO, line:85% position:44% size:78% SPECIFIC HOPES FOR KENTUCKY AND line:85% position:40% size:75% ITS EDUCATION IF ITS CHILDREN.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Vicki Phillips: WELL, I THINK line:85% position:50% size:80% IN MANY WAYS I'VE EXPRESSED THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% HOPE BOTH IN THE COMMENTS AND line:85% position:50% size:80% THROUGHOUT THE EVENING BECAUSE I line:85% position:25% size:60% THINK THAT KENTUCKY HAS- line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: SO, IN TERMS line:85% position:14% size:30% OF NOT LUCK.
line:85% position:40% size:75% LUCK IS NOT AN INTERVENTION BY line:85% position:12% size:18% DESIGN.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THEN I THINK THAT'S POWERFUL.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I GUESS I'M PUSHING WITHOUT line:85% position:50% size:80% GETTING YOU INTO THE POLITICS OF line:85% position:21% size:53% IT ALL, BUT REALLY AS line:85% position:50% size:80% NITTY-GRITTY AS YOU FEEL YOU CAN line:85% position:44% size:78% GET ON NOT THE POLITICAL STUFF.
line:85% position:25% size:60% SO, YOU ALWAYS BRING OUR line:85% position:44% size:78% ATTENTION, WHICH I LOVE BECAUSE line:85% position:40% size:75% I'VE WATCHED ALL YOUR SPEECHES line:85% position:44% size:78% AND IT'S SO FUN, YOU ALWAYS TRY line:85% position:40% size:75% TO BRING OUR ATTENTION BACK TO line:85% position:15% size:35% THE CLASSROOM.
line:85% position:25% size:60% SO, THEN BRING US INTO A line:85% position:33% size:70% CLASSROOM AND YOUR HOPES FOR line:85% position:24% size:58% CLASSROOMS IN KENTUCKY.
line:85% position:29% size:65% >> Vicki Phillips: WELL, A line:85% position:33% size:70% MOMENT AGO I SAID THERE WERE line:85% position:44% size:78% SORT OF TWO THINGS THAT I WATCH line:85% position:24% size:58% HAPPEN IN OTHER PLACES.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I TALKED ABOUT ONE, WHICH IS line:85% position:17% size:43% THIS WEDGE ISSUE.
line:85% position:22% size:55% BUT THE OTHER ISSUE IS line:85% position:14% size:28% WHEN WE ... line:85% position:31% size:68% THEN I WILL DRILL DOWN MORE line:85% position:15% size:33% SPECIFICALLY.
line:85% position:29% size:65% IS WHEN WE FORGET THE MOST line:85% position:44% size:78% SIGNIFICANT FACTORS THAT MAKE A line:85% position:24% size:58% DIFFERENCE IN A CHILD'S line:85% position:36% size:73% EDUCATION AND FAIL TO SUPPORT line:85% position:44% size:78% THOSE BECAUSE WE GET DISTRACTED line:85% position:31% size:68% BY OTHER THINGS THAT EXIST.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS ISSUE AROUND TEACHERS IS AN line:85% position:15% size:33% ENORMOUS ONE.
line:85% position:25% size:60% WHILE I WAS AT THE GATES line:85% position:33% size:70% FOUNDATION ONE OF THE THINGS line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT I WORKED HARD TO DO WITH MY line:85% position:44% size:78% TEAM WAS TO BEGIN TO TACKLE THE line:85% position:33% size:70% SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING OF line:85% position:44% size:78% TEACHERS AGAIN WHERE ACROSS THE line:85% position:40% size:75% COUNTRY, TEACHERS WERE FEELING line:85% position:50% size:80% BLAMED AND SHAMED AND RAIDED AND line:85% position:36% size:73% RANKED AND DIDN'T REALLY KNOW line:85% position:27% size:63% WHERE THEY STOOD ANYMORE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER THEY WERE line:85% position:50% size:80% THE RESPECTED PROFESSION THAT WE line:85% position:17% size:43% ALL GREW UP WITH.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Vicki Phillips: I MEAN, MY line:85% position:24% size:58% FAMILY TRUSTED TEACHERS line:85% position:40% size:75% EXPLICITLY, AND AT A TIME WHEN line:85% position:29% size:65% YES, THERE ARE BIG ISSUES.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I KNOW THERE ARE BIG ISSUES IN line:85% position:36% size:73% THE STATE AROUND PENSIONS AND line:85% position:36% size:73% OTHER KINDS OF ISSUES, BUT IF line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU SET THAT ASIDE FOR A MOMENT line:85% position:24% size:58% IT'S A VERY REAL ISSUE.
line:85% position:25% size:60% TEACHERS ARE WORRIED AND line:85% position:50% size:80% RIGHTFULLY SO IN MANY INSTANCES.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> Vicki Phillips: BUT IF YOU line:85% position:44% size:78% SIT THAT ASIDE FOR A MOMENT AND line:85% position:36% size:73% THINK ABOUT LEARNING AND WHAT line:85% position:44% size:78% HAPPENS IN CLASSROOMS, THERE IS line:85% position:29% size:65% THIS MAGIC THAT HAPPENS IN line:85% position:31% size:68% CLASSROOMS BETWEEN KIDS AND line:85% position:22% size:55% TEACHERS THAT IS QUITE line:85% position:14% size:28% REMARKABLE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT WE HAVE TO DO AS ALL OF THE line:85% position:33% size:70% OTHERS THAT SURROUND THAT IS line:85% position:40% size:75% FUEL THAT MAGIC, AND MAKE SURE line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT TEACHERS HAVE THE SUPPORTS line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THE TOOLS THAT THEY NEED TO line:85% position:24% size:58% BE SUCCESSFUL, THE KIDS line:85% position:44% size:78% UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING line:85% position:36% size:73% OF THEM, THAT THEY SEE OTHERS line:85% position:24% size:58% LIKE THEM WHO ARE BEING line:85% position:29% size:65% SUCCESSFUL, THAT THEY HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% OPPORTUNITIES TO GET THEIR HANDS line:85% position:50% size:80% AROUND PROJECTS AND OTHER THINGS line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT HELP THEM DEVELOP ALL OF line:85% position:33% size:70% THOSE CONTEMPORARY SKILLS AS line:85% position:36% size:73% WELL AS THE CONTENT THAT THEY line:85% position:15% size:35% NEED TO LEARN.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE'S THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED line:85% position:31% size:68% TO FUEL WHAT HAPPENS IN THE line:85% position:13% size:25% CLASSROOM.
line:85% position:27% size:63% WE NEED TO FUEL STUDENTS' line:85% position:29% size:65% INTERESTS AND PASSIONS AND line:85% position:40% size:75% ENGAGEMENT AND SPARK THEM BACK line:85% position:44% size:78% THEM INTO THIS LIFELONG LOVE OF line:85% position:50% size:80% LEARNING THAT IN SO MANY WAYS WE line:85% position:18% size:45% HAVE LET GET LOST.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AS ADULTS, WE SOMETIMES DON'T line:85% position:31% size:68% STOP FOR A MOMENT AND THINK line:85% position:31% size:68% ABOUT, WHILE ALL OF THIS IS line:85% position:40% size:75% GOING ON UP HERE, THE SURROUND line:85% position:50% size:80% SOUND THAT WE ARE ALL INTERESTED line:85% position:31% size:68% IN, PUZZLED BY, OFTEN ANGRY line:85% position:12% size:15% ABOUT.
line:85% position:29% size:65% DAY TO DAY, THEY ARE THESE line:85% position:40% size:75% AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY line:85% position:50% size:80% CLASSROOM IN KENTUCKY AND ACROSS line:85% position:27% size:63% AMERICA FOR THAT MAGIC TO line:85% position:12% size:18% HAPPEN.
line:85% position:40% size:75% WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVEN line:85% position:36% size:73% WHILE WE FIGHT AND FUSS ABOUT line:85% position:50% size:80% THESE THINGS, AND I KEEP RAISING line:85% position:33% size:70% MY HAND AND PUTTING IT ABOVE line:85% position:31% size:68% HERE, THAT WE ACTUALLY FUEL line:85% position:44% size:78% THESE THINGS DOWN HERE AND GIVE line:85% position:16% size:38% IT POWER AGAIN.
line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:22% size:55% IT'S A DIFFERENT TIME.
line:85% position:29% size:65% IT IS A DIFFERENT CONTEXT.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I TOTALLY RECOGNIZE THAT, BUT line:85% position:33% size:70% KENTUCKY PROVED IN THE 1990S line:85% position:50% size:80% WITH KERA AND WITH WHAT HAPPENED line:85% position:33% size:70% AFTERWARDS AND WHAT HAPPENED line:85% position:31% size:68% BEFORE THAT IT CAN MOBILIZE line:85% position:22% size:55% CITIZENS AND TEACHERS.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I WOULD SAY THAT NOW YOU'VE line:85% position:44% size:78% PROVEN, IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE line:85% position:50% size:80% PRICHARD COMMITTEE HAS DONE WITH line:85% position:29% size:65% STUDENT VOICE, YOU'VE ALSO line:85% position:44% size:78% PROVEN YOU CAN MOBILIZE STUDENT line:85% position:12% size:15% VOICE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THE TIME TO DO THAT, AGAIN, IS line:85% position:50% size:80% NOW, TO MOBILIZE EVERY FAUCET OF line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY AGAIN TO HELP KENTUCKY line:85% position:33% size:70% UNDERSTAND HOW FAR IT'S COME line:85% position:27% size:63% BECAUSE THERE ACTUALLY IS line:85% position:25% size:60% SOMETHING POWERFUL TO BE line:85% position:40% size:75% CELEBRATED IN GOING FROM WHERE line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY WAS, TO WHERE KENTUCKY line:85% position:50% size:80% IS NOW, BUT IT'S ALSO NOT A TIME line:85% position:13% size:20% TO REST.
line:85% position:36% size:73% IT IS A TIME TO PUSH THE NEXT line:85% position:13% size:23% DISTANCE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT ONLY HAPPENS WHEN WE DO NOT line:85% position:24% size:58% FORGET THAT OUR PRIMARY line:85% position:50% size:80% RESPONSIBILITY AROUND SCHOOLS IS line:85% position:44% size:78% TO FOSTER TEACHING AND LEARNING line:85% position:50% size:80% AND TO MAKE SURE THAT KIDS REACH line:85% position:36% size:73% THOSE STANDARDS THAT ARE ALSO line:85% position:50% size:80% IMPORTANT NO MATTER HOW WE MIGHT line:85% position:14% size:30% FRAME THOSE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Matthew Barzun: THANK YOU FOR line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% CAN I TRY TO COME AT SORT OF THE line:85% position:15% size:33% FLIP OF THAT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU BEAUTIFULLY SAID HOW THOSE line:85% position:31% size:68% OF US OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM line:85% position:18% size:45% SURROUNDING IT ... line:85% position:31% size:68% THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF line:85% position:50% size:80% FUSSING AND FIGHTING THAT'S JUST line:85% position:25% size:60% BUILT IN BUT LET'S FUEL.
line:85% position:40% size:75% LET'S SAY THIS WAS A DIFFERENT line:85% position:50% size:80% SETTING AND IT WAS ALL TEACHERS.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THERE ARE LOTS OF WONDERFUL line:85% position:33% size:70% TEACHERS HERE, BUT IF IT WAS line:85% position:36% size:73% ONLY TEACHERS AND I KNOW I'VE line:85% position:36% size:73% SEEN YOU GIVE THESE WONDERFUL line:85% position:11% size:8% ... line:85% position:44% size:78% THE TEACHER'S DAY THAT NATIONAL line:85% position:36% size:73% GEOGRAPHIC DOES, OTHER THINGS line:85% position:36% size:73% LIKE THAT, BUT IF YOU'RE JUST line:85% position:36% size:73% TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN line:85% position:40% size:75% THE CLASSROOM EVERY SINGLE DAY line:85% position:29% size:65% WHERE THE TEACHING AND THE line:85% position:44% size:78% LEARNING AND THE MAGIC HAPPENS, line:85% position:31% size:68% WHAT ARE ONE OR TWO SORT OF line:85% position:36% size:73% THINGS THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF line:85% position:36% size:73% SAYING TO COLLEAGUES OF LIKE, line:85% position:40% size:75% "HEY, IF WE GET REAL WITH EACH line:85% position:50% size:80% OTHER," WHAT ARE I GUESS, HOW DO line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU PUSH YOUR FELLOW TEACHERS TO line:85% position:50% size:80% SAY, "HEY, AND ON OUR SIDE OF IT line:85% position:36% size:73% WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T line:85% position:29% size:65% FALL IN THE TRAP OF ALWAYS line:85% position:40% size:75% SAYING THIS AND THIS, OR DOING line:85% position:31% size:68% THIS AND THAT," SORT OF THE line:85% position:13% size:25% OTHER WAY.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Vicki Phillips: THERE ARE FEW line:85% position:27% size:63% TEACHERS IN THIS AUDIENCE line:85% position:36% size:73% TONIGHT WHO'VE BEEN PUSHED BY line:85% position:29% size:65% ME, I THINK, SO THEY WOULD line:85% position:16% size:38% ATTEST TO THIS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, ONE THING I DO SAY TO THEM line:85% position:33% size:70% IS THAT THEY HAVE TO ALSO BE line:85% position:50% size:80% WILLING TO EMBRACE NEW PRACTICES line:85% position:44% size:78% AND CHANGE TEACHING PRACTICE IN line:85% position:31% size:68% THE CLASSROOM WHEN IT'S NOT line:85% position:13% size:20% WORKING.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY HAVE TO BE WILLING TO LEARN line:85% position:40% size:75% FROM EACH OTHER AND BE IN THAT line:85% position:31% size:68% MODE OF ALWAYS CONTINUOUSLY line:85% position:50% size:80% IMPROVING THEMSELVES AND HELPING line:85% position:36% size:73% THEIR FELLOW TEACHERS IMPROVE line:85% position:31% size:68% AND NOT ACCEPTING LESS THAN line:85% position:27% size:63% EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN THE line:85% position:33% size:70% SCHOOLS AND THE DISTRICTS IN line:85% position:44% size:78% WHICH THEY LIVE IN AND WORK IN.
line:85% position:21% size:53% THAT THEY ALSO HAVE A line:85% position:40% size:75% RESPONSIBILITY FOR MAKING SURE line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT THE WHOLE PROFESSION IS line:85% position:31% size:68% LIFTED UP SO THAT EVERY KID line:85% position:40% size:75% EXPERIENCES THAT GREAT TEACHER line:85% position:36% size:73% IN EVERY CLASSROOM EVERY DAY.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I SAY TO THEM, THEY NEED TO line:85% position:19% size:48% EMBRACE THINGS LIKE line:85% position:19% size:48% ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT line:85% position:36% size:73% ACCOUNTABILITY IN A DIFFERENT line:85% position:44% size:78% FORM THAN IT GETTING REDUCED TO line:85% position:27% size:63% A ONE INDICATOR, ONE SHOT line:85% position:14% size:30% OPPORTUNITY.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT THEY HAVE TO BE PART OF THE line:85% position:22% size:55% SOLUTION AT THE TABLE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT THEY NEED TO BE PART OF THE line:85% position:40% size:75% CONVERSATION HELPING ALL OF US line:85% position:33% size:70% CREATE MEANINGFUL CHANGE AND line:85% position:40% size:75% HELPING PEOPLE BOTH UNDERSTAND line:85% position:36% size:73% WHAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING BUT line:85% position:29% size:65% ALSO PUTTING THEMSELVES IN line:85% position:22% size:55% OTHER'S SHOES AS WELL.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT THEY MUST NEVER, EVER, EVER line:85% position:40% size:75% TAKE THEIR EYES OFF THE PRIZE, line:85% position:29% size:65% WHICH IS STUDENT LEARNING.
line:85% position:21% size:53% I SAY A LOT MORE TOO.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: WELL, I WANT line:85% position:15% size:35% TO KEEP GOING.
line:85% position:15% size:33% THIS IS GOOD.
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU WERE SAYING THE IMPORTANCE line:85% position:29% size:65% OF HELPING EACH OTHER OUT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M CURIOUS IF YOU COME TO THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% MYTHICAL ROOM OF ONLY TEACHERS line:85% position:31% size:68% AND YOU, YOU BRING NOT ONLY line:85% position:44% size:78% EXPERIENCE IN THE CLASSROOM BUT line:85% position:36% size:73% EXPERIENCE WORKING AT A MAJOR line:85% position:50% size:80% FOUNDATION, IN STATE GOVERNMENT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU BRING THESE OTHER CULTURES line:85% position:27% size:63% OF WHERE YOU'VE MET OTHER line:85% position:50% size:80% PROFESSIONALS COOPERATING OR NOT line:85% position:17% size:40% WITH EACH OTHER.
line:85% position:40% size:75% DO YOU THINK TEACHERS ARE SAME line:85% position:11% size:8% ... line:85% position:50% size:80% IT'S JUST SORT OF PEOPLE TEND TO line:85% position:36% size:73% COOPERATE OR NOT DEPENDING ON line:85% position:31% size:68% WHO THEY ARE, OR DO YOU SEE line:85% position:50% size:80% TEACHERS AS UNUSUALLY GOOD AT OR line:85% position:50% size:80% CHALLENGED BY HELPING EACH OTHER line:85% position:27% size:63% OUT RELATIVE TO THE OTHER line:85% position:27% size:63% PROFESSIONS YOU'VE WORKED line:85% position:29% size:65% SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH?
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Vicki Phillips: WELL, THE line:85% position:50% size:80% EXPERTS THAT TEACHERS TRUST MOST line:85% position:24% size:58% ARE OTHER TEACHERS, AND line:85% position:40% size:75% RIGHTFULLY SO, BECAUSE THEY'RE line:85% position:27% size:63% THE ONES IN THE CLASSROOM line:85% position:13% size:23% EVERYDAY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY'RE THE ONES WHO KNOW WHAT line:85% position:27% size:63% THEY ARE EXPERIENCING AND line:85% position:15% size:33% DEALING WITH.
line:85% position:33% size:70% SO, FIGURING OUT HOW TO HELP line:85% position:44% size:78% TEACHERS REALLY COLLABORATE AND line:85% position:33% size:70% HELP EACH OTHER IMPROVE IS I line:85% position:44% size:78% THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT line:85% position:22% size:55% THINGS THAT WE CAN DO.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I THINK ABOUT OTHER PROFESSIONS line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THE KIND OF COLLABORATION line:85% position:21% size:53% THAT THEY EXPERIENCE.
line:85% position:25% size:60% THE KIND OF PROFESSIONAL line:85% position:40% size:75% LEARNING THAT THEY EXPERIENCE, line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I THINK ABOUT WHAT TEACHERS line:85% position:24% size:58% AREN'T AFFORDED IN THAT line:85% position:17% size:40% EQUATION, RIGHT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% TEACHERS ARE OFTEN NOT GIVEN THE line:85% position:29% size:65% TIME TO LEARN TOGETHER, TO line:85% position:21% size:53% COLLABORATE TOGETHER.
line:85% position:24% size:58% THEY OFTEN AREN'T GIVEN line:85% position:44% size:78% PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT'S line:85% position:50% size:80% REALLY AUTHENTICALLY MEETS THEIR line:85% position:33% size:70% NEEDS IN THE CLASSROOM WHERE line:85% position:13% size:23% THEY ARE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY'RE NOT AFRAID TO LEARN AND line:85% position:50% size:80% ENGAGE AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE, line:85% position:22% size:55% BUT THEY WANT IT TO BE line:85% position:27% size:63% MEANINGFUL FOR THEM ON AN line:85% position:15% size:35% ONGOING BASIS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY CAN line:85% position:40% size:75% TAKE SOMETHING BACK AND USE IT line:85% position:50% size:80% IN THEIR CLASSROOM THE NEXT DAY.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY CAN line:85% position:21% size:53% TALK TO A TEACHER WHO line:85% position:40% size:75% UNDERSTANDS THEIR SUBJECT, HAS line:85% position:29% size:65% BEEN IN THEIR CONTEXT, AND line:85% position:31% size:68% KNOWS HOW KIDS MIGHT REACT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% SO, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR MANY OF line:85% position:36% size:73% THE SAME THINGS WE ALL ARE OR line:85% position:31% size:68% OTHER PEOPLE ARE IN OUR OWN line:85% position:40% size:75% PROFESSIONS, BUT AFFORDED MUCH line:85% position:27% size:63% LESS OF THAT IN MANY WAYS line:85% position:33% size:70% BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN line:85% position:40% size:75% WHERE THEY HAVE ALMOST NO TIME line:85% position:44% size:78% TO BREATHE DURING A SCHOOL DAY, line:85% position:25% size:60% RIGHT, OR TO GRAB LUNCH, line:85% position:33% size:70% OR LET ALONE TO GET A COUPLE line:85% position:50% size:80% HOURS TO REALLY COLLABORATE WITH line:85% position:14% size:30% A COLLEAGUE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YET, THAT COLLABORATION WHEN IT line:85% position:44% size:78% HAPPENS, THEY SAY IS ONE OF THE line:85% position:44% size:78% MOST HIGHEST VALUED THINGS THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% THEY CAN DO AND HAS A DIRECT line:85% position:44% size:78% IMPACT ON THEIR STUDENTS IN THE line:85% position:13% size:25% CLASSROOM.
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Matthew Barzun: YOU HAD A line:85% position:29% size:65% WONDERFUL SLIDE UP EARLIER line:85% position:13% size:20% WITH ... line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE'S THE MAP OF THE US AND line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU HAD HEARTS PLACES YOU'D line:85% position:12% size:15% LIVED.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I THINK YOU HAD A HEART EVERY line:85% position:44% size:78% PLACE YOU'D BEEN UNLESS THERE'S line:85% position:25% size:60% SOME THAT WEREN'T IN THE line:85% position:15% size:33% OFFICIAL BIO.
line:85% position:36% size:73% WOULD YOU PUT A HEART NEXT TO line:85% position:36% size:73% WOULD YOU PUT A HEART NEXT TO line:85% position:33% size:70% THE WORD "TECHNOLOGY" IN THE line:85% position:36% size:73% CLASSROOM OR WOULD IT BE MORE line:85% position:40% size:75% NUANCED AND YOU SAY WHERE HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU SEEN TECH THAT'S REALLY BEEN line:85% position:21% size:53% HELPFUL FOR TEACHERS?
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU AS A TEACHER AND WHERE HAS line:85% position:12% size:15% IT ... line:85% position:50% size:80% I WILL POINT FINGERS TOWARDS THE line:85% position:36% size:73% WEST COAST, WHICH TENDS TO BE line:85% position:36% size:73% SORT OF INSTINCTIVELY, ALMOST line:85% position:33% size:70% REFLEXIVELY TECH OPTIMISTIC.
line:85% position:25% size:60% HAVE YOU SEEN WHERE TECH line:85% position:33% size:70% OPTIMISTS AND ENTHUSIASTS GO line:85% position:50% size:80% OVERBOARD, AND IT'S DONE HARM TO line:85% position:33% size:70% TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE line:85% position:13% size:25% CLASSROOM?
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> Vicki Phillips: I AM A FAN OF line:85% position:44% size:78% TECHNOLOGY JUST BECAUSE I THINK line:85% position:40% size:75% IT OPENS UP SO MANY ADDITIONAL line:85% position:40% size:75% OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE line:85% position:50% size:80% AND FOR TEACHERS, BUT TECHNOLOGY line:85% position:50% size:80% AS A ENABLER, NOT NECESSARILY AS line:85% position:13% size:23% A DRIVER.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE'S STILL LIMITED DIGITAL line:85% position:36% size:73% TOOLS OUT THERE THAT TEACHERS line:85% position:44% size:78% BELIEVE MEET THEIR NEEDS IN THE line:85% position:13% size:25% CLASSROOM.
line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I SAY TO line:85% position:50% size:80% TECH ENTREPRENEURS OFTEN IS THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY SHOULD LISTEN TO TEACHERS line:85% position:40% size:75% AND GET FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS line:85% position:36% size:73% TO CREATE THE KINDS OF TOOLS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THOSE ARE STARTING TO EMERGE AND line:85% position:50% size:80% BECOME MORE PREVALENT, BUT WE'RE line:85% position:33% size:70% NOT FULLY AT THAT STATE YET.
line:85% position:50% size:80% SO, I THINK TECHNOLOGY IS A HUGE line:85% position:44% size:78% ENABLER AND SHOULD BE AMONG THE line:85% position:50% size:80% TOOLS AT TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' line:85% position:14% size:28% FINGERTIPS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU KNOW, THERE'S A GREAT QUOTE line:85% position:33% size:70% BY MY FORMER BOSS BILL GATES line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT I WON'T GET EXACTLY RIGHT, line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT IT HAS ALWAYS STRUCK ME AS line:85% position:15% size:35% VERY POWERFUL.
line:85% position:36% size:73% HE SAID, "DOCTORS AREN'T LEFT line:85% position:27% size:63% ALONE IN THEIR OFFICES TO line:85% position:50% size:80% RESEARCH, TO TEST NEW MEDICINES, line:85% position:40% size:75% TO DESIGN NEW EQUIPMENT, TO DO line:85% position:15% size:33% OTHER THINGS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY HAVE A BIG INDUSTRY AROUND line:85% position:36% size:73% THEM THAT DOES THAT FOR THEM.
line:85% position:33% size:70% THEN THEY PICK THE TOOLS AND line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS THAT REALLY WORK IN THEIR line:85% position:22% size:55% CONTEXT AND WITH THEIR line:85% position:14% size:28% SPECIALTY."
line:85% position:40% size:75% BILL SAYS THAT TEACHERS SHOULD line:85% position:44% size:78% HAVE THAT SAME KIND OF INDUSTRY line:85% position:14% size:30% AROUND THEM.
line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT SAME KIND OF SUPPORT line:85% position:12% size:18% SYSTEM.
line:85% position:33% size:70% SO, THAT MEANS DIGITAL TOOLS line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT THEY CAN USE IN THE line:85% position:44% size:78% CLASSROOM AND TO HAVE KIDS GAIN line:85% position:18% size:45% ADDITIONAL SKILLS.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT MEANS GREAT CURRICULUM line:85% position:40% size:75% OPPORTUNITIES AND CHOICE AMONG line:85% position:12% size:15% THOSE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT MEANS HAVING ACCESS TO line:85% position:44% size:78% THEIR COLLEAGUES AND BEING ABLE line:85% position:16% size:38% TO COLLABORATE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% ALL OF THOSE THINGS SHOULD BE line:85% position:40% size:75% AVAILABLE TO SUCH A RESPECTED, line:85% position:24% size:58% OR SHOULD BE RESPECTED, line:85% position:33% size:70% PROFESSION THAT DOES SUCH AN line:85% position:33% size:70% IMPORTANT JOB IN THIS WORLD.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I THINK ABOUT THAT OFTEN ABOUT line:85% position:36% size:73% WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IF WE line:85% position:33% size:70% CREATED THAT KIND OF SUPPORT line:85% position:44% size:78% SYSTEM FOR TEACHERS NOT JUST IN line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Matthew Barzun: DID YOU SEE line:85% position:31% size:68% ON THE WEST COAST A BIG ... line:85% position:50% size:80% WAS IT MEANINGFULLY DIFFERENT IN line:85% position:50% size:80% THE CLASSROOM BECAUSE OF ALL THE line:85% position:40% size:75% TECH THAT HAPPENS OUT THERE OR line:85% position:33% size:70% IT'S PRETTY MUCH UBIQUITOUS?
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Vicki Phillips: YOU KNOW, IT line:85% position:12% size:18% VARIES.
line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU SEE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE GONE line:85% position:33% size:70% TO ONE ON ONE TECHNOLOGY FOR line:85% position:40% size:75% STUDENTS WHERE CURRICULUM IS A line:85% position:44% size:78% VERY MUCH TECH ENABLED THAT ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% HIGH FLYING AND DOING GREAT.
line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU SEE OTHERS WHERE NOT SO line:85% position:11% size:13% MUCH.
line:85% position:50% size:80% OFTEN THE KEY, AGAIN, IS A GREAT line:85% position:15% size:35% TEACHER THERE.
line:85% position:27% size:63% NOW, TECHNOLOGY USED WELL line:85% position:33% size:70% REQUIRES A DIFFERENT ROLE OF line:85% position:22% size:55% TEACHERS THAN USED TO.
line:85% position:50% size:80% WHEN I WAS TEACHING, YOU WERE IN line:85% position:24% size:58% FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM.
line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU WERE DIFFERENTIATING FOR line:85% position:50% size:80% STUDENTS, BUT YOU WERE CERTAINLY line:85% position:13% size:23% OFTEN ... line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU HEAR A FAMILIAR PHRASE, THE line:85% position:18% size:45% SAGE ON THE STAGE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WHERE IN FACT NOW, TEACHERS ARE line:85% position:50% size:80% MUCH MORE GUIDES AND COACHES AND line:85% position:44% size:78% FACILITATORS WHEN THEY'RE USING line:85% position:44% size:78% DIGITAL TOOLS OR OTHER KINDS OF line:85% position:27% size:63% INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES.
line:85% position:31% size:68% MANY TEACHERS ARE EMBRACING line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT, PARTICULARLY IF THEY'RE line:85% position:33% size:70% DOING PROJECT BASED LEARNING line:85% position:50% size:80% WITH STUDENTS WHERE STUDENTS ARE line:85% position:29% size:65% EXPLORING AND LEARNING AND line:85% position:27% size:63% GROWING THROUGH THEIR OWN line:85% position:31% size:68% RESEARCH AND THEIR OWN PEER line:85% position:13% size:20% CIRCLES.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Vicki Phillips: SO, IT IS A line:85% position:50% size:80% CASE OF IN EDUCATION WE CAN MAKE line:85% position:33% size:70% ANYTHING WORK OR NOT WORK IT line:85% position:44% size:78% SEEMS DEPENDING ON SORT OF WHAT line:85% position:18% size:45% OUR OPINION OF THE line:85% position:44% size:78% MEANINGFULNESS OF IT IS WHEN IN line:85% position:29% size:65% FACT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS DONE WELL, AND TECHNOLOGY line:85% position:31% size:68% IS ONE OF THOSE, THAT COULD line:85% position:50% size:80% ACTUALLY HELP US LEAPFROG AHEAD.
line:85% position:24% size:58% BUT TECHNOLOGY NOT AS A line:85% position:27% size:63% SUBSTITUTE FOR A TEACHER.
line:85% position:40% size:75% TECHNOLOGY NOT AS A SUBSTITUTE line:85% position:29% size:65% FOR THE KIND OF ADDITIONAL line:85% position:31% size:68% LEARNING KIDS NEED TO GAIN.
line:85% position:50% size:80% TECHNOLOGY CAN'T BY ITSELF TEACH line:85% position:36% size:73% KIDS TO BE EMPATHETIC OR HAVE line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT SENSE OF COMMUNITY OR A line:85% position:50% size:80% DOZEN OTHER THINGS THAT WE MIGHT line:85% position:14% size:28% TALK ABOUT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, TECHNOLOGY AS THE ENABLER, line:85% position:20% size:50% NOT THE SOLE DRIVER.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: A QUOTE THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% TECHNOLOGY CAN'T BY ITSELF TEACH line:85% position:36% size:73% KIDS TO BE EMPATHETIC OR HAVE line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT SENSE OF COMMUNITY OR A line:85% position:50% size:80% DOZEN OTHER THINGS THAT WE MIGHT line:85% position:14% size:28% TALK ABOUT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO, TECHNOLOGY AS THE ENABLER, line:85% position:20% size:50% NOT THE SOLE DRIVER.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> Matthew Barzun: A QUOTE THAT line:85% position:20% size:50% WE EMAILED ABOUT ... line:85% position:44% size:78% MY GRANDFATHER BARZUN WHO WROTE line:85% position:31% size:68% A LOT ABOUT EDUCATION WROTE line:85% position:33% size:70% BEFORE THE END OF HIS LIFE A line:85% position:50% size:80% LITTLE PAMPHLET CALLED WHAT IS A line:85% position:12% size:18% SCHOOL?
line:85% position:36% size:73% IT STARTS AND IT SAID, "THERE line:85% position:33% size:70% ARE FEWER BORN TEACHERS THAN line:85% position:21% size:53% THERE ARE BORN POETS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME STOP IN line:85% position:40% size:75% A STRANGE CITY AND ASK SOMEONE line:85% position:17% size:40% FOR DIRECTIONS."
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Matthew Barzun: I KNOW WE line:85% position:31% size:68% HAVE A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF line:85% position:11% size:13% TIME.
line:85% position:27% size:63% QUICK THOUGHTS ON TEACHER line:85% position:33% size:70% TRAINING, TEACHER EDUCATION?
line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU TOUCHED A BIT ON THE line:85% position:44% size:78% TRAINING AND ONGOING CONTINUOUS line:85% position:29% size:65% DEVELOPMENT, BUT HOW ABOUT line:85% position:33% size:70% EARLIER THOUGHTS ON MORE OF, line:85% position:13% size:20% LESS OF?
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> Vicki Phillips: PRE-SERVICE line:85% position:36% size:73% NEEDS TO DO THE SAME THING AS line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M SAYING FOR EVERYONE ELSE.
line:85% position:24% size:58% IT NEEDS TO STRETCH ITS line:85% position:36% size:73% IMAGINATION AND CHANGE HOW IT line:85% position:36% size:73% TRAINS AND SUPPORTS TEACHERS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THE PEOPLE TO ASK ABOUT HOW TO line:85% position:33% size:70% DO THAT AGAIN, ARE TEACHERS, line:85% position:12% size:15% RIGHT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% ASK THEM WHAT KIND OF TRAINING line:85% position:44% size:78% WOULD HAVE SERVED THEM WELL AND line:85% position:21% size:53% BEST HAD THEY HAD THE line:85% position:14% size:30% OPPORTUNITY.
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> Matthew Barzun: NOT TO BE line:85% position:27% size:63% MORBID, BUT I LOVE ASKING line:85% position:33% size:70% QUESTIONS ABOUT GRAVESTONES.
line:85% position:25% size:60% I LIVE NEXT TO CAVE HILL line:85% position:33% size:70% CEMETERY SO MAYBE THAT'S IT.
line:85% position:33% size:70% IF YOU HAD TO PICK, IT'S NOT line:85% position:50% size:80% OPEN-ENDED, BUT ONE OF TWO WORDS line:85% position:40% size:75% ON YOUR GRAVESTONE TO DESCRIBE line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU AND THE LIFE YOU'VE LEAD 60 line:85% position:29% size:65% YEARS FROM NOW: JUSTICE OR line:85% position:24% size:58% MERCY, TO DESCRIBE YOU.
line:85% position:29% size:65% >> Vicki Phillips: EQUITY.
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