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Welcome to Just minding my business Vinia today, I am
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so excited to bring to you Liz Galo, who is
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passionate about bringing real world hands on learning into classrooms
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as she has dedicated her career to empowering educators to
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embrace creativity and problem solving. Wow, I am so excited
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that you're here today, Liz. So tell us about Liz
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and Witness does excellent.
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Thank you, Thank you for having me. So. I was
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a technology teacher for ten years and I started Hymakers
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six years ago to help students have better days all
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throughout their days by supporting their teachers with really great
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professional learning and coaching and support. So six years into
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being the CEO of Whymaker, we have a team of
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educators who travel the country, in the world a little
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bit to provide professional development to educators in a variety
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of different topics and categories, from just instructional strategies to
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we do a lot of work in the clean energy space.
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We do a lot of work with career and technical
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education teachers, a lot of work now with performance based assessment.
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So we are really reaching out educators and our goal
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is to train one million educators in the next ten years.
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I k you have definitely won your way for sure,
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So give us a little snippet at a day at
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Whymaker and with.
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Them a day at Whymaker for me, yes, every day
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is different for me. At Whymaker. Some days I spend
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at conferences. I've been doing its conference season now, so
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I've been going to lots of different conferences across the
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region to engage with school leaders and teachers there. I
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also spend my time working with my team to create
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really high quality professional development experiences. So we review content
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that they're going to share with teachers and make modifications
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and edits. And then other times I'm in meetings about
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finance and meetings about insurance. So every day is a
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variety for me and I love it.
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So basically, you prepare your students for future careers. So
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tell us what that looks like for that type of development.
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Yeah, So we do a lot of work with careers
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and helping teachers understand what careers exist for their students.
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So a lot of teachers went to school and then
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went back to school, and then went back to school
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after they got a job, so they really haven't had
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much experience in the outside world outside of classrooms and schools.
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So what we are trying to do with teachers is
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bring in private businesses and government agencies to talk to
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teachers about careers that exist at that company or at
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that agency, and with that information, teachers can then go
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back to their classrooms and say, hey, kids, this company
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came and visited last week, and I learned that you
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could be a drone operator on an e at an
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electrical substation, or you can be a grant writer at
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this company who's trying to get solar panels installed on
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low income homes. So the exposure teachers need more exposure
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to what careers exist, and we're trying to help teachers
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understand what careers exist and then provide pathways and conversations
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to start with students so that students can get into
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interesting and fulfilling careers quicker than it has happened in
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the past.
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Yes, absolutely, So, so you do some stuff with clean
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energy education, so talk a little bit about that.
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So our country is really the world is really taking
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a shift to different types of energy sources and respecting
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our planet in different ways, and we are working with
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lots of different government agencies and private businesses to get
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that message out there. So in New York State. We're
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working with the New York State Energy Research Development Authority NICERTA,
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and we are training six hundred teachers in New York
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State about the New York State Climate Act, which is
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the nation's most aggressive climate policy to move our state
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to a just energy transition. And we are traveling the
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state and working with teachers to teach them about how
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electricity is generated and transmitted across the state. Why wind
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turbines in the Atlantic Ocean are going to be a
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huge part of our energy portfolio. How the switch to
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electric vehicles, our zero mission vehicles is happening, all with
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that same goal of providing opportunities for kids to get
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meaningful careers that is something that they're interested in and
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something that they're good at.
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Now, let me ask you first of all, how do
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people connect with you and support your initiatives.
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Yeah, so we love talking to school leaders who are
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thinking about high quality professional development for their teachers, so
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they could reach out to us and send us an email,
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They send me an email or head to our website
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hymaker dot com Why m aker dot com to find
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and all the information about us and find our contact
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information as well.
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Yes, Yes, Wow, this is amazing. So my question is
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the teachers are getting educated about what's available for the students,
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how do they bring that back to the students?
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Great question. We work with all types of different teachers.
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So we might, you know, be working with an English
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teacher and the English teacher has a unit where they
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have to write some nonfiction text. So we might work
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with that English teacher and coach that English teacher to
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convert that unit to be you know, writing a grant
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proposal for a new solar field in your neighborhood. And
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we might be working with a math teacher. I'm going
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to give another solar example, but there are so many
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other examples, and the math teacher might convert an inequalities
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unit to figure out the difference of the electricity that
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the solar panel is producing over time. So and while
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the teachers are doing that, they're talking about the careers. Hey,
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did you know that you could be a solar panel installer?
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And you know you can get a certification to do
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that and go get a job and do that right away.
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That job is in high demand and we'll be in
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high demand for many years to come. So that's kind
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of how we're building it. We're trying to redesign their
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curriculums little by little so that they include future ready
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skills and ideas and career talk that kids really aren't
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getting anywhere else, right.
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And that's important because they have to go to school
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every single day, and right now, our world is more
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to it than English, math and you the stuff that
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we grew.
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Up more right, our world is very interdisciplinary, and no
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matter what career you have, you are using a combination
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of your English skills, your math skills, your science skills,
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your essential skills, the things that make you a good human.
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You're using that all at the same time. And our
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school system doesn't really build for that, isn't really built
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for that. So we're trying to find ways that we
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can embed that interdisciplinary into a typical standard classroom.
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Now does the Board of Education are they welcoming that?
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How they're receiving it?
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Yeah, lots are. We work with lots and lots of
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innovative schools who are looking for change. We know that
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when we work with teachers and we encourage them to
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take risks and we support them through it, that they
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improve their quality of their life and their job. They
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want to stay at school when they're doing projects like this,
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and boards of education are really receptive to that retention
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of teachers through high quality professional development.
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And that's important because I know in Baltimore they have
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a lot of you know, time off with professional development.
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I don't know what that looks like in Baltimore, but
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I'm certain it doesn't look like what you're doing.
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Well, actually it does. So we've worked a lot with
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Baltimore City school Yeah, we worked a lot with their
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CTE department and their CTE teachers to help them create
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really great projects. And let me tell you, those ct
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teachers are doing amazing work already.
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I am so happy to hear.
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Yes, it's incredible what they're doing there, and we're really
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happy to support them and continue to improve their instructional practices.
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Wow, that's you know what I got, I got misinformation.
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Yeah, so we're working with the CTE teachers. Right, that's
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only a small chunk of the teachers in Baltimore City Schools.
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We would love to work with all of them to
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help improve. Wow, the instruction is on the top of
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my head.
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Then I'm going to send you a way because what
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you're doing is so critical to the development of our
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kids as well as our country, community, country.
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The whole.
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You know, it's going to touch everything. Yeah, everything. Wow,
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that is amazing. And how do the kids. I'm sure
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they pumped up.
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When kids are doing hands on, real world relevant work,
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they show up to school. There's a reason for them
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to be there. They don't feel like they don't feel
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like they're just being told what to do when we're
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asking their input. There is an adjustment period. So if
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students are not used to school being this way, we
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have to support them through those changes, and teachers have
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to work hard to make sure that those changes are
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being explained to kids and continue to push kids to
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think creatively. Because it's easy for kids to just tell
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you the right answer. I know the teachers looking for
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a right answer. Let me just get the right answer
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and give it to the teacher. That's what they're trained
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to do. And what we're trying to have builds with
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schools and teachers is that there's not necessarily one right answer.
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We want you to use all of your ideas and
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your thoughts and your research and your creativity to come
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up with a solution for this problem or this challenge,
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because in reality, you can get the right answer by
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googling it and that's in your pocket. So we want
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you to use that knowledge, uh to figure out some
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solutions and help and help solve some solutions.
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And be a part of the solution. Is a whole
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lot different than just sitting around talking about it and
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feeling that you can do anything about it.
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Right, So I want to give kids that confidence before
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they head into the world.
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So what other states are you in?
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Yeah? So we work in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're doing work
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in California, Texas, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
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Pennsylvania last week, Yeah, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. We're around trying to
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do some work in Mexico, cometry of Mexico, and some
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work in the Middle East.
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Oh this is amazing, I mean amazing. I am so
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happy to hear this because, you know, as we need
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to care about our young people period, because they are
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our future of tomorrow and when we get older, we're
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going to be looking up to them.
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Mm hmm.
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So getting the right attitude, the right mindset early on
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is going to be critical to not only their survival
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but else as well.
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I also think we need to be really mindful of
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our teachers and how we talk about our teachers, because
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without them, the kids are are going to struggle. They're
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going to suffer the most, and that's gonna, you know,
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have an effect on us. So we all have to
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think about how can we support our teachers. How can
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we reach out to a local school and say, Hey,
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I'd love to come talk to your class about what
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I do for a living. Hey, you know I have
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some leftover craft supplied. Do you want me to donate
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it to you? Just this like low hanging fruit that
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there's so much that you can offer your local school,
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you know. And then I, you know, I have some
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time to volunteer. My corporation gives me some time to volunteer.
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Can I come to your school and help you out
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for a day in your classroom? And we can't wait
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for the teachers to reach out to us, because we
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the teachers have so much to do. We need the
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community to reach out to our teachers.
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Yes, yes, And I think that's very very important because
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I look at teachers like doctors. You know, teachers develop
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our brain our minds, help us to be creative, and
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without them, where would we be?
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Yeah, who's watching all the kids all day, right, and.
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Welcome to Just minding my business Vinia today, I am
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so excited to bring to you Liz Galo, who is
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passionate about bringing real world hands on learning into classrooms
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as she has dedicated her career to empowering educators to
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embrace creativity and problem solving. Wow, I am so excited
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that you're here today, Liz. So tell us about Liz
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and Witness does excellent.
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Thank you, Thank you for having me. So. I was
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a technology teacher for ten years and I started Hymakers
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six years ago to help students have better days all
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throughout their days by supporting their teachers with really great
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professional learning and coaching and support. So six years into
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being the CEO of Whymaker, we have a team of
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educators who travel the country, in the world a little
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bit to provide professional development to educators in a variety
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of different topics and categories, from just instructional strategies to
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we do a lot of work in the clean energy space.
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education teachers, a lot of work now with performance based assessment.
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So we are really reaching out educators and our goal
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is to train one million educators in the next ten years.
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I k you have definitely won your way for sure,
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So give us a little snippet at a day at
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Them a day at Whymaker for me, yes, every day
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is different for me. At Whymaker. Some days I spend
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region to engage with school leaders and teachers there. I
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also spend my time working with my team to create
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really high quality professional development experiences. So we review content
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that they're going to share with teachers and make modifications
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and edits. And then other times I'm in meetings about
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finance and meetings about insurance. So every day is a
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variety for me and I love it.
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So basically, you prepare your students for future careers. So
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tell us what that looks like for that type of development.
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after they got a job, so they really haven't had
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bring in private businesses and government agencies to talk to
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teachers about careers that exist at that company or at
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that agency, and with that information, teachers can then go
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came and visited last week, and I learned that you
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electrical substation, or you can be a grant writer at
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this company who's trying to get solar panels installed on
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low income homes. So the exposure teachers need more exposure
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to what careers exist, and we're trying to help teachers
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understand what careers exist and then provide pathways and conversations
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interesting and fulfilling careers quicker than it has happened in
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energy education, so talk a little bit about that.
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a shift to different types of energy sources and respecting
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our planet in different ways, and we are working with
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lots of different government agencies and private businesses to get
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that message out there. So in New York State. We're
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State about the New York State Climate Act, which is
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the nation's most aggressive climate policy to move our state
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to a just energy transition. And we are traveling the
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state and working with teachers to teach them about how
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electricity is generated and transmitted across the state. Why wind
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turbines in the Atlantic Ocean are going to be a
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huge part of our energy portfolio. How the switch to
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electric vehicles, our zero mission vehicles is happening, all with
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that same goal of providing opportunities for kids to get
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meaningful careers that is something that they're interested in and
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something that they're good at.
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thinking about high quality professional development for their teachers, so
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they could reach out to us and send us an email,
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hymaker dot com Why m aker dot com to find
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and all the information about us and find our contact
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information as well.
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Yes, Yes, Wow, this is amazing. So my question is
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the teachers are getting educated about what's available for the students,
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how do they bring that back to the students?
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teacher and the English teacher has a unit where they
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have to write some nonfiction text. So we might work
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with that English teacher and coach that English teacher to
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convert that unit to be you know, writing a grant
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proposal for a new solar field in your neighborhood. And
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we might be working with a math teacher. I'm going
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to give another solar example, but there are so many
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other examples, and the math teacher might convert an inequalities
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unit to figure out the difference of the electricity that
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the solar panel is producing over time. So and while
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the teachers are doing that, they're talking about the careers. Hey,
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did you know that you could be a solar panel installer?
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that and go get a job and do that right away.
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high demand for many years to come. So that's kind
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of how we're building it. We're trying to redesign their
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curriculums little by little so that they include future ready
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skills and ideas and career talk that kids really aren't
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getting anywhere else, right.
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every single day, and right now, our world is more
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to it than English, math and you the stuff that
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matter what career you have, you are using a combination
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your essential skills, the things that make you a good human.
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school system doesn't really build for that, isn't really built
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for that. So we're trying to find ways that we
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can embed that interdisciplinary into a typical standard classroom.
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Now does the Board of Education are they welcoming that?
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innovative schools who are looking for change. We know that
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when we work with teachers and we encourage them to
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take risks and we support them through it, that they
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improve their quality of their life and their job. They
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want to stay at school when they're doing projects like this,
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and boards of education are really receptive to that retention
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of teachers through high quality professional development.
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And that's important because I know in Baltimore they have
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a lot of you know, time off with professional development.
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I don't know what that looks like in Baltimore, but
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I'm certain it doesn't look like what you're doing.
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Well, actually it does. So we've worked a lot with
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Baltimore City school Yeah, we worked a lot with their
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CTE department and their CTE teachers to help them create
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really great projects. And let me tell you, those ct
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teachers are doing amazing work already.
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I am so happy to hear.
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Yes, it's incredible what they're doing there, and we're really
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happy to support them and continue to improve their instructional practices.
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Wow, that's you know what I got, I got misinformation.
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Yeah, so we're working with the CTE teachers. Right, that's
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only a small chunk of the teachers in Baltimore City Schools.
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We would love to work with all of them to
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help improve. Wow, the instruction is on the top of
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my head.
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Then I'm going to send you a way because what
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you're doing is so critical to the development of our
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kids as well as our country, community, country.
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The whole.
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You know, it's going to touch everything. Yeah, everything. Wow,
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that is amazing. And how do the kids. I'm sure
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they pumped up.
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When kids are doing hands on, real world relevant work,
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they show up to school. There's a reason for them
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to be there. They don't feel like they don't feel
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like they're just being told what to do when we're
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asking their input. There is an adjustment period. So if
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students are not used to school being this way, we
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have to support them through those changes, and teachers have
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to work hard to make sure that those changes are
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being explained to kids and continue to push kids to
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think creatively. Because it's easy for kids to just tell
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you the right answer. I know the teachers looking for
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a right answer. Let me just get the right answer
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and give it to the teacher. That's what they're trained
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to do. And what we're trying to have builds with
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schools and teachers is that there's not necessarily one right answer.
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We want you to use all of your ideas and
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your thoughts and your research and your creativity to come
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up with a solution for this problem or this challenge,
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because in reality, you can get the right answer by
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googling it and that's in your pocket. So we want
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you to use that knowledge, uh to figure out some
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solutions and help and help solve some solutions.
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And be a part of the solution. Is a whole
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lot different than just sitting around talking about it and
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feeling that you can do anything about it.
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Right, So I want to give kids that confidence before
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they head into the world.
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So what other states are you in?
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Yeah? So we work in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're doing work
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in California, Texas, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
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Pennsylvania last week, Yeah, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. We're around trying to
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do some work in Mexico, cometry of Mexico, and some
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work in the Middle East.
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Oh this is amazing, I mean amazing. I am so
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happy to hear this because, you know, as we need
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to care about our young people period, because they are
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our future of tomorrow and when we get older, we're
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going to be looking up to them.
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So getting the right attitude, the right mindset early on
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is going to be critical to not only their survival
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but else as well.
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I also think we need to be really mindful of
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our teachers and how we talk about our teachers, because
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without them, the kids are are going to struggle. They're
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going to suffer the most, and that's gonna, you know,
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have an effect on us. So we all have to
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think about how can we support our teachers. How can
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we reach out to a local school and say, Hey,
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I'd love to come talk to your class about what
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I do for a living. Hey, you know I have
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some leftover craft supplied. Do you want me to donate
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it to you? Just this like low hanging fruit that
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there's so much that you can offer your local school,
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you know. And then I, you know, I have some
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time to volunteer. My corporation gives me some time to volunteer.
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Can I come to your school and help you out
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for a day in your classroom? And we can't wait
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for the teachers to reach out to us, because we
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the teachers have so much to do. We need the
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community to reach out to our teachers.
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Yes, yes, And I think that's very very important because
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I look at teachers like doctors. You know, teachers develop
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our brain our minds, help us to be creative, and
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without them, where would we be?
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Yeah, who's watching all the kids all day, right, and.
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As parents, sometimes you know, we can't. It's hard because
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our homeschool, and I'm telling you it can be challenging,
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especially at the lower ages, because you know, you really
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have to hand hold them when they get older.
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You just gotta double check right and motivate them when
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they get older. They have to There has to be
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some sort of internal motivation for them to keep doing
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what they're doing.
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Yes, I can't. Wow. So what age groups do you
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work with.
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We work with teachers who teach kindergarten through twelfth grade.
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So everybody, Oh, that's amazing. So how does it look like?
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What does it look like for kindergartens? Just give me example.
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Kindergarten teachers are amazing, incredibly creative and very in tune
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with developmental appropriateness for five year olds, and they have
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lots of patients. So when we're thinking about, you know,
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this project based approach, oftentimes with our little kids, we
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talk about it as like a class group project. We're
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all kind of doing this together. And you know, we
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talk a lot about with younger teachers about the skill
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development is necessary. You still have to teach how to write,
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how to read, how to do math, like. Those skills
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are very necessary up until seventh grade. Really like eighth grade,
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all those fundamental skills that we teach kids are still
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really important to teach. We just need to make sure
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that we're teaching them skills so that they can then
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use them to think later and not just get the
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right answer.
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Yes, and that's a huge thing. You need your brain
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to think. Yep, that's a huge wow. But I I
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am so amazed at what you've been doing, and it's
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very proud of it because people that look out for
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our kids and our teachers are my heroes.
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Yeah, teachers are amazing.
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They are amazing. They are so again, how do people
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connect and support what you're doing.
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Yeah, so we're all over social media on whymaker or
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just at whymaker and our website whymaker dot com. We
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just got a website update, so definitely go there and
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check it out and send us an email. We'd love
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to chat with anyone who's interested in professional and development
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or any private businesses that are interested in reaching students.
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So you want to do like a family day activity,
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we can help you with that. You want to do
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some trainings with teachers about careers at your company reach out.
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We'd love to help with that.
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So thank you so much for taking time out of
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your busy schedule because I know you are busy.
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Yeah, today is busy.
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You appreciate you sharing this and audience support where you
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can in every little bit helps and I feel like
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it's our as adults. It is our responsibility to make
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sure our children succeed. Thank you, Thank you to our
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guests and you our values audience at Stop you.
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