Bringing Computer Science to Students Experiencing Homelessness with Code In Motion

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Hi, this is Aurora from the Educating All Learners Alliance,
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and today, you're listening to highlights from Bringing Computer Science to
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Students Experiencing Homelessness with Code in Motion.
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In June of 2026, EALA teamed up with the folks behind Code in Motion,
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a program that brought computer science education to the students and adults in Skid Row, LA.
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The following is an excerpt from that webinar, and to listen to the full presentation,
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head on over to the Educating All Learners Alliance YouTube channel.
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So a little bit of background.
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This group came together during the EALA Community of Action in May 2025.
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And I've spoken a lot about the EALA Community of Action.
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It's our annual in-person convening where we bring together,
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an uncommon group of educators, leaders, and allies.
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We come together, we identify a problem, we propose a solution,
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and then we pitch an idea, we pitch a project for actual funding.
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So during the May 2025 convening, this group came together comprised of Coach
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Ron, Kelly, and Heather.
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They came together, they came up with this idea for Code in Motion.
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They pitched it in our dolphin tank, like a shark tank, but it's nicer,
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so we call it a dolphin tank.
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They were granted funds based on community participatory grant funding.
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So this was voted on by the community.
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It's been a privilege of mine to advise and ensure that this project goes smoothly
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from a logistics point of view, but the folks doing the hard work are the folks
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on the panel today that I just introduced.
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So I'd like to pass it to, I believe I have Heather up first.
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If you can give us, Heather, just talk us through the origin story of Coded
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Motion. You know, how did this team come together and what problems were you trying to address?
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Thank you, Aurora. It originally started with Coach Ron and I at the convening.
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We were both focused on community engagement and really understanding how that
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works in his community and how it works in our community.
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He was really focused on workforce development and supporting people that are
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going through housing instability.
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And obviously, Boot Up is all about supporting pathways for equitable computer
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science education at the K-8 level.
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So we kind of went, it took several rounds for us to really figure out how we
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could blend those two together.
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And then Kelly came in as well with Terc and computational thinking and really.
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Kept narrowing it down until we decided on creating a project where we would
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bring computer science education to Skid Row.
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And Coach really was adamant about making sure that the community was,
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you know, involved in every step of the process, which is where we have our coaches.
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That instead of bringing in teachers from outside of the community,
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we build the community up itself and taught teachers within the community.
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So Timothy and Ta are two of the coaches that have been in that training program
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with us and are now teachers themselves.
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So it's been a beautiful collaboration. Thank you so much for that,
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Heather. It's been, like I said, really cool to see these three organizations come together.
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So on this next slide, we're highlighting Zoombinis. So I'm going to pass it
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to Kelly to dig a little bit deeper into the content, right?
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What are some of the aspects of the computer science education that you're doing?
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You mentioned computational thinking.
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So, Kelly, tell us a little bit about that.
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What makes this program unique or what really makes this program successful? Right.
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Well, let's see. We're three different groups, three different organizations
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who all came into one place at the same time.
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Coach Ron is obviously bringing the people in the space, and we'll get to more of his story in a bit.
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Heather and her wonderful organization Boot Up, they're bringing the Scratch,
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which is a block coding program, materials and resources and all their great
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PD they do with teachers.
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Terc is bringing not only our Zumbini's logic puzzle digital games,
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but also all the unplugged activities.
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So we really like that balance of on-screen work time and also some unplugged
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activities that complement and support all the coding work.
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And I think one of the most important things we try to remember when we're thinking
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about this as coding and computer science,
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that in addition to introducing students and adults to computer science,
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we are training and encouraging thinking skills, not just coding skills.
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So yes, they're coding, they're learning introductory block coding,
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but they're really learning how to be great thinkers, which is important, whether or not you're.
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Coding for a job or trying to walk out the door in the morning wearing the right
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clothes for the right weather.
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Which leads us to workforce development, right?
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What's so unique about this program, when I have Coach Ron speak to this,
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is that it's not just the children who are learning and we're not importing
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teachers from somewhere else.
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We're training and working with folks right in the community.
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So Coach Ron, I'm going to pass it to you.
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Just tell us more about the program,
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from the workforce side and how your organization, FunZone, I don't know.
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You know, kind of really brings it all together. Hey, once again,
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thank you, Aurora, for hosting us. Thank the team for being here.
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Thanks to everybody out there in this public space.
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You know, workforce development is very dear to my heart because I understand
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that, you know, every man and woman would like to have a job.
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And so when I look at how opportunities come into skid row, community.
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It's the homeless capital of the United States of America. You have thousands
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of veterans that's on the streets.
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You have women, kids. You have thousands of men.
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And it's like, to me, they're all able to buy. And so why not give them an opportunity
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to earn their way to housing?
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And that's my whole concept. That's my whole vision.
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And if you're homeless, I give you opportunities. You earn your way to housing. then we're reducing,
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homelessness. And so I believe that individuals should have that opportunity.
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They shouldn't be pandered or be exploited. And that's what happens in Skid Row.
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I've been there for 20 years and exploitation is rampant.
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So when this opportunity was brought to myself, I says, hey,
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you know, And I always say this, I always say, I'm always in a good position
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to receive gifts, to receive opportunities.
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But at this point, I need to play it forward. So I just don't want it for me.
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I want it for the community.
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When people say, Coach, here go $40,000, here go $50,000, here go $30,000 to
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implement this initiative. I said, no, it's not for me.
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You know, let it be for organization so we can build capacity,
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so we can demonstrate that the need can be met if the opportunity is presented.
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And that's where the coaching come in. And that's where I'm really so,
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you know, excited about Heather and Kelly and Aurora.
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It's like, you know, just to have these opportunities to come together,
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to have a planning, strategic think tank to say, you know what,
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we can implement this. even though it's underfunded.
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And that's something we communicated to the community.
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Look, Skid Row, it's underfunded, but we can demonstrate if the opportunity
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is presented, we will take advantage of it.
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And that's what we've done. We have 15 coaches who went through our certification process.
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They get their certificates. They are actually coaches for COVID in motion.
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Now, when I say workforce, that means you got to go to work.
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So we give the coaches opportunity. Remember, it's all no barrier.
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And they come, they perform. They all tell me, coach, thank you.
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They thank Heather. They thank Kelly.
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They really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
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truly enjoy the training.
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That's what they like the most. It's like, we love, we want to work with the
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kids, but it's the training.
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It's really understanding what coding is about, the responsibilities that they
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are receiving, and the opportunity to exercise that.
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And that's what I enjoy the most, because the coaches are really compassionate.
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They really have lived experience. And when it comes to mentoring and leadership,
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this is with kids that are suffering, that are unstable, that are coming from
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broken homes, that are lacking financial support.
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Opportunities, this is where they get their motivation from.
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People who look like them, who live in their communities, who are compassionate
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about seeing them through.
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And that's what workforce development is about at Code in Motion.
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It's making sure all our coaches, our lived experience, understand that compassion,
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and love is our only approach.
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I wanted to really dig in here and introduce, we have two of the community coaches
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that were able to join us today.
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I'm so excited to hear more from Ta and Timothy.
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So I'll start with Ta. Timothy, I'll cue you in next, but let's just get started
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by just tell us about how you got involved with Code in Motion,
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what the program means to you, and,
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what's the impact that this program has had on you.
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So, Todd, tell us a little bit about your story and how you got involved.
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Okay, how I got involved, been a long time, comrade of coach.
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And he came up on me and said, man, I got this new program about coding.
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We're going to be teaching the youth.
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I'm like, coach, I'm all for that. You know, we got to teach our youth.
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We got to teach our youth our culture and our narrative. So he told me the day
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I showed up, I met Heather.
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Met Kelly, and it was great. I fell in love with it.
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That's how I got to get in with coding.
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And your other question was, what do it mean for me? What does it mean? Yeah.
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It means a lot. I would say this, being that this year is the second international
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decade of African descent.
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I think it's coming at the right time that, you know, and then we coach getting
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us, the leaders from the community.
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So, we're coaching our culture and our narrative.
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And also, we're teaching something that could change the world.
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I would like to look at it like this, that we're teaching these young youth
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and adults, and I want to be that one who,
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inspire, that spark in that young student or that middle adult that make them
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think differently and create this new thing that's going to change the world.
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And I'll be happy. I'll be happy. You know, I coached that one right there,
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you know, and I'll be happy with that. So I do want to leave a legacy and an
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image of what we are doing. And I think this is a great...
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Opportunity for it to happen. And I appreciate Coach and Heather and Kelly for coming together.
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And you as well, Aurora. You're the quarterback in it. You're throwing the passes.
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And we're, I guess, we're the receivers.
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And these are the team captains. I like to say, I'm the Rodman.
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You guys are Pippen and Jordan. There you go.
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I set you up. You guys do it, though. about so you've got it i'm the rodman i'm the rodman.
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You said it's up so you know it is great i have so much i will be sitting here
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talking forever about the scenarios
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anything else okay you say when i started and what i love about it,
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and i want to continue i already do yeah.
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Thank you for that we're going to talk more about your like more specific experiences
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but thank you for that overview and that,
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you know, this, like a ripple in the pond, right?
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You know, this one small thing we're doing, you know, can hopefully spread out,
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you know, try to find future funding or just spread the word.
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Even people attending this webinar today or watching the recording back,
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you know, spread the word about this work that we're doing because it has such
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a great impact. So let's hear from Timothy. Tell us a little bit about you, how you got involved.
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What does this program mean to you? What have you gotten out of it or.
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All right. Well, thank you for allowing me to be here, number one.
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Peace and blessings to everyone that's here.
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Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am an individual with street-lived
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experience. Let's put it like that.
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And, you know, it was a blessing for me to be able to do this.
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I found out about it when I moved into my first apartment here at the Eumaeus.
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They had this little thing going on where, you know, you can train to do coding
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motion. I didn't know what it was at that present moment, but I had nothing
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else better to do. So I wanted to learn more about it.
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I went there for the first day and I got hooked ever since then,
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you know, because it's right up my alley.
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You know, I love giving back to my community because like at one point I was
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really, really terrible to my community.
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So as maturing in life and becoming the person that I am today,
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I love to give back to my community because my community is my home.
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That's where I live and I will never forget about my community.
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My community made me who I am today. So for the.
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So it's a pleasure to be able to, you know, help the next generation out.
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You know, it's a blessing to be able to do that because, you know,
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as a leader, the greatest thing that a leader can do is teach another individual how to lead.
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And I believe this is where Code in Motion comes in at, especially in our urban
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area where young men and women need to see, you know, leaders.
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You know, because we don't have that down here. You know, we really don't.
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A lot of fakeness going on. So when they see this, that inspires them to want
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to do something different in life than what they're accustomed to seeing in the streets.
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And when we come around for, no matter if it's just for like two hours,
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one or two hours, you know, it brings a positive impact to their life,
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you know, where they want to learn.
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They're willing to learn. And, you know,
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it brings me joy to see that they catch on so fast and they're willing to do
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this to the point where now, you know, they're teaching us a lot of things. And that's a blessing.
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That leads me to my next question for you. Here, I'm going to go to the next
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slide, because I love looking at these pictures.
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Let's talk a little bit about some specific experiences, maybe a specific example or...
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Timothy, tell us about, like, when you're working with a student,
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how do you know they're getting it, right? Like, how can you tell that they're learning?
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What are some things that you see happening?
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It's when they take the wheel.
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Yeah. You know, that's the whole thing. When they take the wheel,
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I can step back for a little bit, you know, and watch them, you know,
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because I might learn something, you know.
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And that's when I know that they're in the zone on what they're trying to do
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and what they're trying to learn and what we're trying to teach them.
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And that's, man, you don't understand how much that's a blessing.
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That's really a blessing to me.
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I taught folks in the universe who've listened to my podcast or know me,
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know that I spent about 10 years teaching arts, teaching dance in Brooklyn in public schools.
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In some of the poorest and most underfunded neighborhoods. So that,
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you know, seeing my students, you know, being able to like choreograph a dance
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or say, hey, Ms. Dreger, look, you know, let me show you the step.
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Remember the step you taught me? Here, I'm going to show it to you, right?
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Like when they turn it back and teach you something, that's incredible.
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And I love to see that. And it's happening in this program.
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To kind of bring it home, I want to do a, you know, I want each person to give me one big takeaway.
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People who are listening, if you want folks to walk away thinking about remembering
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one thing from today, I want to start with you, Timothy.
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Then I'll go Timothy Ta, Coach Ron, and I'll keep going. So,
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Timothy, last thoughts, closing thoughts, big insight.
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What do you want people to walk away from this experience thinking about?
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That whole emotion is worth it.
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But it's really worth it. And I'm going to say this.
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I would like to thank Heather Kelly and Coach Ron for, you know,
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bringing this to the UMA apartment, you know, because.
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It, it helped me throughout school, you know, like I,
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I learned how to focus more when I was doing coding motion and when I was learning
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coding motion and when I was out there in the field teaching kids about coding
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motion, I learned a lot about myself, you know, and it helped me throughout school, you know,
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when I was, you know, like when I'm with the kids and I'm presenting, you know, it,
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it gave me the confidence and the experience to be able to go in class and present
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my presentation in front of the whole class.
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And that, that meant a lot to me, you know, and I know that if that did that
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for me, for me, for me, I know what it can do for a child.
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You know, I know what it can do for another adult.
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You know, it's all about planting seeds. you know, and watching it grow.
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And that's what we're doing within our community.
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We're planting seeds, you know, not only for the kids, but for the adults.
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The adults want to learn also, you know.
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Education is infinite. Knowledge is infinite. Everybody has the right to learn, you know.
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So just being able to teach in my community and, you know, with help.
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We're going to plant more seeds in other communities that, that really need it, that deserves it.
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You know, we're trying to kill stigmas of our community and this is where it starts at.
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You know, and I'm a true firm believer at killing the stigma of Skid Row.
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You know, I'm a true firm believer of that. And, you know, with the help of
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coach Ron, Todd, and a few other people, I mean, we're gonna end the stigma of skid row,
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you know and by doing this this is just the start this is just the start and you know,
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With health, we should go far. I mean, extremely far with this.
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This is just the beginning of it.
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This is a tip of the iceberg, really. Tip of the iceberg.
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I love that. I'm going to go to Todd for your close cuts. Thank you so much, Timothy. Yes.
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As I salute you, Timothy, I want to share my appreciation for you,
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Timothy, working alongside of you.
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I want to share my appreciation for you, Coach, for having the idea of bringing this to the community.
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And I want to say thank you, Heather and Kelly, for meeting Coach and putting it together.
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And I'm going to talk to you today, and I want to leave the last one, Dennis Rodman.
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You know, the feeder, Aurora, you know, for bringing us all in, you know.
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And I just want to say this, reflecting off this picture, learning,
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healing, and growth, it happens collectively.
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It happens collectively As in the picture, you've got an elder teaching the
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two youth And believe me.
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If one of these students have a question The other one is going to get the information
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as well So if they both ask the right questions, they're going to have everything they need
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So learning, healing, it works together That's why we're out here learning,
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healing, and progressing our future I love that. Thank you.
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We have two minutes left. I want to hear from Coach Ron. Closing thoughts.
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Summer's coming up. Support the summer program.
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The school is out June the 12th, so we got a few weeks.
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If you guys feel the need to see this continue past the funding cycle, summer is needed.
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Support the program. Not that.
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Oh, sorry. Heather, closing thoughts or final words?
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Really quickly, I know we're almost done. I want to thank you really quickly,
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Aurora, for convening a space where I could meet Coach and Kelly in this cross-sector
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collaboration, which I never would have had a chance to meet them.
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And more importantly, not more importantly, but just as importantly,
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Ta and Timothy and being exposed to the Skid Row community, which by far is,
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one of the most beautiful communities I have ever stepped foot in.
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I've learned so much, and this is the most impactful, profound project of my life. Thank you. Kelly?
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Agreed. We're open from all sides.
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We brought stuff to Skid Row. Skid Row brought stuff to us. We've never seen
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such a love of community as we saw there on the ground.
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It's great. And we hope to keep doing it. We're putting in proposals.
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We're looking for funding to keep things going. and we'll get there.
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I want to quote Timothy really quickly. You said this a couple meetings ago,
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learning should be free.
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Fortunately, we need some funding to get there.
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I'm going to keep it going. Yeah. Thank you all so much for joining us today.
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Thank you to folks who are listening, folks who are watching back and for my panel.
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And you all kept thanking me, Aurora, for bringing you together, which I appreciate.
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Again, like the organizer, but it's the funding that we got from EALA,
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from Innovate EDU, and further up the chain from this funding was made possible
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through the Oak Foundation.
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So thank you to them as well.
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So I've been really excited and happy to be able to facilitate all these years
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especially this one not allowed to have favorites but
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this one has a special place in my heart if you want to stay involved and remain
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connected to EALA shoot me an email aurora at innovate ebu nyc.org,
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if you've got resources you want to share shoot them my way email me um you
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want to get involved want to learn how to become a partner send me an email
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we'll figure out make it happen you want to look for some free open access resources,
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free, completely free, no catch,
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visit educatingallrunners.org.
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Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. I'm Aurora from EALA,
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and this was a fantastic webinar with Code in Motion by Sparks. Thank you, everybody.
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