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Elizabeth Bader always thought her main "career" would involve being a wife and mother. But by her early 30s, she was the divorced, single mother to a toddler and desperately in need of career advice. In this Career Talk podcast,

Elizabeth Bader always thought her main "career" would involve being a wife and mother. But by her early 30s, she was the divorced, single mother to a toddler and desperately in need of career advice. In this Career Talk podcast,

Elizabeth Bader always thought her main "career" would involve being a wife and mother. But by her early 30s, she was the divorced, single mother to a toddler and desperately in need of career advice. In this Career Talk podcast,

Elizabeth Bader always thought her main "career" would involve being a wife and mother. But by her early 30s, she was the divorced, single mother to a toddler and desperately in need of career advice. In this Career Talk podcast,

Elizabeth Bader always thought her main "career" would involve being a wife and mother. But by her early 30s, she was the divorced, single mother to a toddler and desperately in need of career advice. In this Career Talk podcast, Bader explains how she got back into the workforce, offers advice on those seeking similar careers and provides tips for others who may have been out of the workforce, by their own choosing or otherwise. Transcript: Welcome to Brandman Speaks: Career Talks. I’m Cindy O’Dell and recently I spoke with Elizabeth Bader, an executive briefing consultant at Experian. Elizabeth always thought she was destined to be a wife and mother. But when she was in her early 30s, she was newly divorced and the single mother of a young child. Like so many Brandman students, she realized she needed a career. She just wasn’t sure what it would be. I was very fortunate that I learned about the Women’s Opportunity Center, which sadly no longer exists. But it was a wonderful place where women in transition could go to get a career counseling, resume assistance, interviewing skills on a sliding scale. And I had the great fortune of meeting a woman who became my mentor and my friend and she was able to coach me into identifying the next step in my career path, which included starting a master's degree program at Chapman University. But before starting back to school, Elizabeth needed to know what to study. I took some aptitude testing, which I highly recommend. I took the Johnson O'Connor Center for Human Engineering testing in Los Angeles, which is a two-day commitment with a financial,  but I highly recommend aptitude testing whether its Myers-Briggs or Strength Finder or many that are available. I believe that some are available through the Brandman Career Counseling Center, either at nominal or no charge. If you haven't taken aptitude and interest testing, it's a great way to learn about yourself and to find out perhaps how you're naturally made, which always makes school and work a lot more enjoyable. So I did this aptitude testing and I discovered my strengths were in psychology and sociology. And so as I started looking for occupations or vocations within those segments, I stumbled upon graduate school programs. And initially, I thought I was going to be a career counselor and get my master's degree in career counseling. However as I was researching graduate programs I came across the organizational leadership program at Chapman and decided to pursue that, and that, you know, fundamentally changed the trajectory of my career and myself as a person. I had read a book by Warren Bennis in the late ‘90s that actually was on the bestseller list on becoming a leader. And I think it was probably one of the first books that ever crossed over into the mainstream. And I read it and I thought,  “Really? People do this? This is the career?” And I had no idea. So when I found the organizational leadership program. I said, “Wow, this is awesome!” so I decided to pursue the organizational leadership program. It just made so much sense and my career counselor just said, you know, I lit up -- my whole .. my eyes, my person,  and my demeanor changed when we were doing talking about that curriculum. Being in school also introduced her to a new network of connections. I was very fortunate. A classmate of mine was that Ingram Micro at the time and she was in the training development department, and I desperately needed to get back to work and start honing my skills and I was willing to work for free. And at the time, there was a gentleman there who was a like-minded soul who was the head of the department and gave me a chance, which is what everyone usually needs someone to open the door and invite you in to participate.

Kevin Bailey, President of VF Action Sports and CEO of Vans (VF Corporation) spoke to a group of business students at the Irvine campus and it was recorded as a podcast for this episode of Brandman Speaks. Joining in the discussion is Joe Cockrell,

Kevin Bailey, President of VF Action Sports and CEO of Vans (VF Corporation) spoke to a group of business students at the Irvine campus and it was recorded as a podcast for this episode of Brandman Speaks. Joining in the discussion is Joe Cockrell,

Kevin Bailey, President of VF Action Sports and CEO of Vans (VF Corporation) spoke to a group of business students at the Irvine campus and it was recorded as a podcast for this episode of Brandman Speaks. Joining in the discussion is Joe Cockrell, vice chancellor of Communications for Brandman University. During the podcast, students asked questions about Bailey's role as CEO of Vans, social media, global branding, current issues facing the company and its global mission, and challenges Bailey has faced on the road to becoming an executive. Transcript: Joe Cockrell: [00:00] Welcome to Brandman Speaks. I'm Joe Cockrell, vice chancellor of communications at Brandman University, and this episode is being recorded with a live audience of select students here at the Brandman campus in Irvine. [00:12] It is my pleasure to have special guest Kevin Bailey. Mr. Bailey serves as president and CEO of Vans Americas, owned by the publicly traded VF Corp., which also has such brands as The North Face, Wrangler and Timberline. Back when VF bought Vans for $370 million in 2004, Vans was publicly traded as well. The company expects the 50-year-old brand to do $2.3 billion in sales this year, up from around $2 billion -- a measly 2 billion -- last year, making it the fastest growing part of the VF portfolio. So Kevin thank you so much for joining us today. Kevin Bailey: [00:49] Thanks for having me. Joe Cockrell: [00:50] I have questions here that some of the students have submitted. And let's start with the basics. Can you describe a little bit about how you came into this career and your background? Kevin Bailey: [01:03] Sure. It's kind of a crazy story and I've had a very interesting ride, I guess. I'm from the East Coast originally. Grew up in northern New Jersey just outside of New York City. And I guess my first ... I was a typical high school kid, right, going to school for honors math, honors science all that stuff, probably targeting pre-med at the time, not having any clue what I really wanted to do. But I started working in retail and if I'm honest about it I started in retail as a stock kid at the Gap because I thought I could meet girls. [01:34] I'm just going to be honest about it. [01:36] That was the plan as I school kid and I there were college girls who worked there and I thought that was cool. And the Gap then sold multiple brands. It wasn't just a gap so they sell Levi's and other stuff. But I started my ..really then that sort of got the bug in me for retail. And that's really where I first got bit a little bit by having some good managers that oversaw me gave me a lot of different responsibilities and helped me learn some things that I didn't know about. And then, as well, I found retail to be a real problem-solving environment. Every day you're dealing with consumers, different issues. You're dealing with inventory in and outs; you're dealing with a variety of situations; and you're learning how to sell, which I think is a big valuable skill. I also was an artist. I tried art school after graduating high school because I was confused and thought I was going to go to med school and pre-med and I changed my mind and went to art school. Final act of rebellion from my parents and then went off to University of Vermont. And through all of that though I stayed in retail and I always worked in retail and after school that's ... I got asked to take on an assistant manager job in a retail store -- then it was an American Eagle Outfitters store that I worked in part time while in school. American Eagle then sold other things other than just American Eagle product too then. And I just sort of stepped into that life then and began the business career really by working in retail and grew up in retail. [02:58] I was blessed and got to work with several founder-led companies in the time and sort of s...

Kevin Bailey, President of VF Action Sports and CEO of Vans (VF Corporation) spoke to a group of business students at the Irvine campus and it was recorded as a podcast for this episode of Brandman Speaks. Joining in the discussion is Joe Cockrell,

Kevin Bailey, President of VF Action Sports and CEO of Vans (VF Corporation) spoke to a group of business students at the Irvine campus and it was recorded as a podcast for this episode of Brandman Speaks. Joining in the discussion is Joe Cockrell,

When Adam Coughran graduated from Chapman University with a degree in political science, he knew he wanted to be a police officer. It wasn't until he started working on his Master of Arts in organizational leadership (M.A.O.L.) and graduated from Brandman University that he realized that there might be other career options in store. Now he has his own consulting business, Standards Training and Consulting, and works with a variety of companies on a security issues. In this Brandman Speaks: Career Talk podcast, Coughran talks about how his education benefited his career. More Brandman Speaks podcasts can also be found on iTunes, or subscribed to on Android devices or by email. Or download directly from www.blubrry.com/brandman_speaks. Transcript Welcome to Brandman Speaks: Career Talk. In this episode, Adam Coughran talks about his journey from police officer to officer training to entrepreneurship. It's a transition he doesn't think he would have made without the Master of Arts in organizational leadership he earned at Brandman University. But before that came a degree in political science from Chapman University. Adam Coughran: When I graduated Chapman I was tracked right in to being a police officer. So I graduated in May and I found myself in the police academy in July of the same year. His focus on law enforcement began to shift after earning his master's at Brandman, and it wasn't just what he learned that helped. There were also new connections that proved fortunate. Coughran: And I got really interested in teaching are really interested in the training and around the same time span I had become a field training officer at my agency and there was an offer to come teach at the police academy I said,'Oh, what a great way to get in.' And I initially ran into a couple obstacles here and there and had to push and fight my way through but eventually got myself an application and initial job offer to teach it academy. Well, unbeknownst to me as I go in for my final interview none other than at the time Lt. Toni Bland was sitting behind the desk of the commander's office and we looked at each other and it was like old times at Brandman. We had gone through the M.A.O.L. program together we'd had classes together. It was like seeing an old friend and we you know we give each other a hug and how have you been and it was very maybe a year or less out of the program. And everyone standing in a room looking around going who is this guy and why is he hugging our lieutenant? And of course through her podcast and everything, we now know that she's done, very successfully, very well for herself. But I would not be tracked as a trainer as an entrepreneur or as an instructor in higher education had it not been for my Brandman connection in the real world. Field training other officers lead to training opportunities and other industries. Coughran: You know I started initially my training career as a field training officer, in the field training brand new police officers and through a number of specialty details that I worked and eventually into a college training I found there's a large need. A lot of people was at were asking me to do training videos, to come speak at conferences, to come train their particular industries. And throughout this, there was a lot of, I start getting honorariums here and there. And I was never asking for money and I never treated it like really a business or an entrepreneur. But eventually my tax man's like you have to do something yourself. There's too many, too many 1099 forms that are coming in. And it was through that I go, 'Well, you know, maybe I should a business license just for a tax purpose.' I just enjoy teaching. I enjoy training and that has evolved over the last few years now into a full-fledged train...

When Adam Coughran graduated from Chapman University with a degree in political science, he knew he wanted to be a police officer. It wasn't until he started working on his Master of Arts in organizational leadership (M.A.O.L.

When Adam Coughran graduated from Chapman University with a degree in political science, he knew he wanted to be a police officer. It wasn't until he started working on his Master of Arts in organizational leadership (M.A.O.L.

When Adam Coughran graduated from Chapman University with a degree in political science, he knew he wanted to be a police officer. It wasn't until he started working on his Master of Arts in organizational leadership (M.A.O.L.

When Adam Coughran graduated from Chapman University with a degree in political science, he knew he wanted to be a police officer. It wasn't until he started working on his Master of Arts in organizational leadership (M.A.O.L.

In this episode of Brandman Speaks, Dr. Sheila L. Steinberg talks with her colleague Dr. Lata Murti about Murti's education, the value of a liberal arts education and what Murti has in common with the students she teaches and mentors in the Santa Maria...

In this episode of Brandman Speaks, Dr. Sheila L. Steinberg talks with her colleague Dr. Lata Murti about Murti's education, the value of a liberal arts education and what Murti has in common with the students she teaches and mentors in the Santa Maria...

In this episode of Brandman Speaks, Dr. Sheila L. Steinberg talks with her colleague Dr. Lata Murti about Murti's education, the value of a liberal arts education and what Murti has in common with the students she teaches and mentors in the Santa Maria...

In this episode of Brandman Speaks, Dr. Sheila L. Steinberg talks with her colleague Dr. Lata Murti about Murti's education, the value of a liberal arts education and what Murti has in common with the students she teaches and mentors in the Santa Maria...

In this episode of Brandman Speaks, Dr. Sheila L. Steinberg talks with her colleague Dr. Lata Murti about Murti's education, the value of a liberal arts education and what Murti has in common with the students she teaches and mentors in the Santa Maria community. Murti completed her Ph.D. in American Students and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and joined the Brandman faculty in 2011. She has taught or revised most of the sociology courses the university offers and developed two new courses, one on globalization and social change and the other on the sociology of health care. Her greatest inspiration is her family. Transcript Welcome to Brandman Speaks. In this episode, Brandman Professor Sheila Steinberg talks with Assistant Professor Lata Murti about her education, her connection to the Santa Maria community where she teaches, and about the value of a liberal arts education. Sheila Steinberg:  This is Dr. Sheila Steinberg. I'm here with yet another leader of Brandman University, Dr. Lata Murti who is assistant professor of sociology at the Santa Maria Valley campus. Lota has worked for Brandman University for about five years since 2011. She teaches sociology. So Lata, I know we've been talking a lot lately about the podcast and your work in general and you said, 'the personal is political,' and we thought that would be a good theme to discuss. So do you want to expand a little bit on what the statement? The personal is political. Lata Murti: Sure thank you. So that's just a saying that really arose from the feminist movement in the '60s and '70s but I see it as applicable to really all of us and certainly my journey, in that, often what's going on in my personal life, inspires what I want to study and the political stance that I take on it and how I analyze it. So when I think about my major academic research projects and publications, I feel like they've all been inspired by something in my personal life. Steinberg: You teach a great variety of classes here at Brandman and do you want to tell us a little bit about that. Murti:  Well I mostly teach sociology and social science courses but I feel like I bring an interdisciplinary perspective to it. And in many ways, I mean, sociology and social science art are inherently interdisciplinary, I feel. And and yet also when I'm teaching a course like globalization or social inequality, stratification, social theory, social and political theory, I feel those are interdisciplinary and to have a perspective inspired by different fields and different experiences really helps. Steinberg: So Lata you've had an interesting academic path. Can you share a little bit about your interdisciplinary, liberal arts background and your various degrees schools that you went to. Murti: So I did two bachelor's degrees at the University of Kansas, the home of the Jayhawks. I grew up partly in Kansas. Those degrees were in Spanish and humanities. Humanities was interdisciplinary and I had three concentrations there. Then when I was done at my bachelor's degrees I worked for a while in the Kansas City area and was mostly in jobs involving Spanish. And then I decided I wanted to go on for graduate degrees, so I went to USC, the University of Southern California, for a master's and Ph.D. program and one in American studies and ethnicity. Steinberg: OK and can you really quickly tell us what American Studies is. Murti: Right so American studies started as a program that really looked at what defines America, what defines American in terms of history literature culture. And it was grounded in this idea of American exceptionalism - that America is an exceptional nation and what about it makes it exceptional. That's the tradition of American studies.

Toni Bland, Ed.D., is an assistant sheriff with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She leads field operations and investigative services, including all street operations, investigations, the crime lab, the coroner’s office and emergency services.

Toni Bland, Ed.D., is an assistant sheriff with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She leads field operations and investigative services, including all street operations, investigations, the crime lab, the coroner’s office and emergency services.

Toni Bland, Ed.D., is an assistant sheriff with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She leads field operations and investigative services, including all street operations, investigations, the crime lab, the coroner’s office and emergency services.

Toni Bland, Ed.D., is an assistant sheriff with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She leads field operations and investigative services, including all street operations, investigations, the crime lab, the coroner’s office and emergency services.

Toni Bland, Ed.D., is an assistant sheriff with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She leads field operations and investigative services, including all street operations, investigations, the crime lab, the coroner’s office and emergency services. During her 27-year career in law enforcement, Bland continued to advance her education, including a bachelor's degree, two master's degree and a doctorate in organizational leadership. She was part of the first group of students to earn a doctorate from Brandman University. In this podcast, she talks about her law enforcement career path. For more about Bland and her education, read Learning to lead opens new paths for assistant sheriff Transcript Welcome to Brandman Speaks: Career Talk. In this podcast, Orange County Assistant Sheriff Toni Bland talks about her career and her education including the two degrees she earned from Brandman University. Thinking about a career in law enforcement started early. Dr. Toni Bland:  Ever since I was young, I wanted to be in law enforcement. For me, it's kind of a cliché but I wanted to be able to help people, to make or to have an impact on the communities where I live. I live in Orange County and I wanted to be a part of how the community is policed and how citizens are helped. And I also want to have a role in taking bad people off the streets who, you know, cause harm to others. She also had a family connection. Bland: My mom joined the Los Angeles Police Department and so I felt that that was a place for me to go work. I decided to get into law enforcement after that. I did apply for the LAPD. I was turned down because I have asthma, joined Orange County Sheriff's Department and I have not looked back. Wanting to be in law enforcement doesn't automatically mean you get to be in law enforcement. Here are some of the steps she had to go through. Bland: I was initially in the military for about eight years and when I left the military, I applied had a couple different agencies and I was called by Orange County and once I began the process, I was hired in about three months. The hiring process includes a written test, an oral interview, a medical exam, a psychological exam and a background investigation. Once you are hired, you go through a six-month academy program and you learn everything there is to know about policing in the state of California. The academy comes with its own set of challenges. Bland: But there were times during the basic academy that I thought I wouldn't make. It's pretty grueling physically. There's a lot to learn in a short period of time. In an Orange County, the academy is a disciplined academy, so there's a, you know, a lot of yelling and a lot of chaos to get you ready for handling the community. So it was stressful at times. I got through it and I'm happy that I stuck with it. Her education helped her advance in her career. Bland: When I hired on to the Sheriff's Department 27 years ago, I had some college and a high school diploma and because the Sheriff's Department offers tuition reimbursement I decided to get a bachelor's degree. And once I did that, I had a couple of assignments, I became an investigator and realized I should know a little bit more about criminal justice and the criminal justice process. So I got a master's degree in criminal justice. I continued to work. I had a few different jobs, a few more promotions and we got a new sheriff in 2008 and so I went through another master's program related to organizational leadership to help just expand my knowledge on what's contemporary in business. After that I decided that I had enough education and continued to work different jobs in the Sheriff's Department. Recognizing that I was on the end of my career, I thought a doctorate would be helpful in garneri...

Herb Callahan is senior director, human resources, McDonald's Distribution, for Golden State Foods. He also runs their in-house training program, GSF University, and is an MBA graduate of Brandman University and working to complete his Doctor of Educat...

Herb Callahan is senior director, human resources, McDonald's Distribution, for Golden State Foods. He also runs their in-house training program, GSF University, and is an MBA graduate of Brandman University and working to complete his Doctor of Educat...

Herb Callahan is senior director, human resources, McDonald's Distribution, for Golden State Foods. He also runs their in-house training program, GSF University, and is an MBA graduate of Brandman University and working to complete his Doctor of Educat...

Herb Callahan is senior director, human resources, McDonald's Distribution, for Golden State Foods. He also runs their in-house training program, GSF University, and is an MBA graduate of Brandman University and working to complete his Doctor of Educat...

Herb Callahan is senior director, human resources, McDonald's Distribution, for Golden State Foods. He also runs their in-house training program, GSF University, and is an MBA graduate of Brandman University and working to complete his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in organizational leadership. Here are his thoughts on his career. Podcasts are also available for download on iTunes. Read more about what he's gained from the Ed.D. program here. Transcript: Welcome to Brandman Speaks: Career Talks. In this episode, we'll hear from Herb Callahan, senior director of Human Resources at Golden State Foods, a nearly $7 billion company based in Irvine, California. Herb earned his MBA from Brandman University and is about to earn his doctorate in education or Ed.D. from Bradman. Here's what he had to say about his career path. So a kind of a great story. So I'm retired military. I retired in 2005. I knew I was going to go into the human resources field. About halfway through my career I got into a lot of training and development. I was a drill instructor. I taught at UCLA for a little bit. I really enjoyed teaching and making folks better by teaching them. So when I retired from the military in 2005 and went directly into a H.R. position for a small logistics company and really enjoyed helping folks be more effective. I used to say in the Marine Corps that if I could make a better Marine, I could make a better Marine Corps, so I kind of took that to the civilian world with me. If I can make better associates by providing the tools and the benefits they need to be really productive, then I help make a better company. So I was at a a small logistics company. I got recruited to a larger logistics company. The great part of the story is I went back and worked on my my MBA at Brandman and while I was doing that I wrote about supply chain operations, and I wrote about McDonald's and I read a little bit about Ray Kroc. So later in my career when Golden State Foods reached out to me, I knew who they were from the classes and things I've done for my MBA. So just out of pure curiosity, I said well I've got to go see them. So I came down and saw the company and met with a couple folks, got called back, you know got another call back in and kind of the rest is history at least getting into Golden State Foods. I started with Golden State Foods as a regional human resources manager for the Southwest overseeing the H.R. for City of Industry, California, the corporate IT. Phoenix, Arizona --see if I'm missing anything -- oh, in Hawaii, was the region that I had. But a year and a half into my role our GSF University continued to grow as the company grew, so I was asked to come down to the corporate office in Irvine and oversee the university. So I did that and continue to work very closely with the university. But in that role I was asked again the come back to the distribution side and oversee the distribution for all of the McDonald's distribution. So I'm kind of a couple hats as many folks in this company, you know, we wear multiple hats as most people do. So I'm very involved with the university and I oversee the H.R. for the McDonald's distribution centers of Golden State Foods. He didn't grow up thinking he would be in human resources. But there is a connection between his first ideas about a good job and what he does now. I often talk to my older brother, who's another retired Marine, and I can remember us walking home from school talking about 'let's be a truck driver like the Dad' who was a truck driver and I'm not sure we went stray but we ended up joining the military and taking another path. But I think as a as a young kid, I was just envious of my my dad . He was the strong silent type and he had a real manly job so maybe the connection is I'm back in distribution working with drivers, working with warehouseman folks who are making it happen every day...

In this two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education, about the paper Brannock asked Greene to write about teaching the 21st century learner. That topic is the focus of a certificate program designed by Greene for the School of Extended Education. The second half of the podcast can be found here or on iTunes. To get a copy of "The 21st Century Learning Landscape for Elementary and Secondary Students in the United States: The Current State of Blended and Online Learning Opportunity" upon publication, email brannock@brandman.edu. Transcript Welcome to Brandman Speaks. In this two part podcast from Brandman University, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programs for the School of Extended Education talks with Associate Professor Kimberly Greene from the School of Education about the 21st century learner. There's a lot to say about a topic that touches on everything from Common Core to how we learn, so we've divided the podcast into two segments. Vicki Brannock: [00:00:28] So Dr. Greene it's really good to see you again. I think the last time we met was back in the fall when we were talking in a faculty meeting. And I was wondering about any research that been done on 21st century learning. And you had said that there was a lot of studies done but there wasn't much independent research. And so I ask if you undertake this research task and here we are today. So tell me a little bit about what happened between then and now. Kimberly Greene: [00:00:59] Well, when we first started talking and you asked me the question all I kept thinking about were little individual piecemeal studies. And that's when I came to the realization that there really wasn't a big umbrella study -- at least not a recent one that I was aware of -- that would enable me to give you a straight answer. There really was this recognition of somebody needs to put the time and effort into looking at this from a bigger picture so that we can have a more informed discussion about making decisions. We didn't even know what questions to ask back when we first started this conversation. Brannock: [00:01:46] And it's my understanding that you also have someone who coauthored this with you. Greene: [00:01:50] Yes. Dr. William Hale. Brannock: [00:01:52] Well I'm sure as you guys started that there was a lot that you could have said about this topic. Could you talk a little bit about that? Like what did you discover? How do you define 21st century learner? Greene: [00:02:03] That's a great place to start because it's one of those terms that gets bandied about so much but everybody tends to have a different vision in their mind what it means. Basically after looking at ideas and definitions and concepts from tons of groups, and I do mean tons because there's so much out there, it really boiled down to active critical thinking. Which if you look at what so much of what 19th and 20th century learning was, it really wasn't focused on that active critical thinking, It was more about gathering knowledge that existed and being able to replicate or reproduce it. Active critical thinking, 21st century learning, is based upon verbs. It's being able to use knowledge to do things to create new understandings to be able to solve problems in a creative fashion. So the easiest way to boil this down is to think about 20th century learning is all about nouns. It's about a canon of knowledge to be memorized. Twenty-first century learning is about engagement, in doing things with all of that information. It's about the verbs. Brannock: [00:03:41] And it's I think that's very ... correlates very well to how we're how we're tasked to work in the workplace nowadays.

In this second part of a two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this second part of a two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this second part of a two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this second part of a two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education,

In this second part of a two-part podcast, Vicki Brannock, senior director of programing for Brandman University School of Extended Education, talks with Dr. Kimberly Greene, associate professor in the Brandman School of Education, about the paper Brannock asked Greene to write about teaching the 21st century learner. That topic is the focus of a certificate program designed by Greene for the School of Extended Education. The first half of the podcast can be found here or on iTunes. To get a copy of "The 21st Century Learning Landscape for Elementary and Secondary Students in the United States: The Current State of Blended and Online Learning Opportunity" upon publication, email brannock@brandman.edu. Transcript Welcome back Brandman Speaks and the discussion between Vicki Brannock of the School of Extended Education and Kimberly Greene from the School of Education. This is the second of a two-part podcast looking at 21st century learners. We'll pick up with a discussion about deep learning and project-based education. Vicki Brannock: [00:00:25] What is deep learning? I know that I have an idea about what that what that would look like. And it's, I believe that we've been teaching to tests and we've been doing a lot of other things in the schools, and because that was that was the directive and so it wasn't that anyone was doing anything wrong it's that's what they were that was the marching orders. But now we're getting down to, we're hearing things about deep learning and Common Core as a tool and some other types of things. Could you tell me is that deep learning? What is deep learning? Kimberly Greene: [00:00:55] Deep learning is taking the idea of metacognitive skills and really putting that into practice for the individual. Now when I say metacognitive, what I'm talking about is understanding how to learn. It's being aware, if you want to pull in some pop culture terminology, it's mindfulness in the learning process. And for a very long time, again it tended to be kind of pat pat pat on the head, oh hippie dippy, isn't that lovely. But what we're finding, again thanks to neuroscience as well as educational research, is that when an individual is aware that learning is the focus, not just memorizing my vocabulary words but what is it that I can do to really make these words have meaning for me, and I can use them outside of the environment where I've learned them, and I can apply them in creative ways to do different kinds of communication -- that awareness adds a layer of complexity for the individual that not only gives them a stronger neurological pathway structure of whatever that concept is but it empowers them to then build other bridges of understanding, where that learning is now tied to multiple ways of expression and multiple actions and multiple other scaffolds. So it's more translatable and transferable into real world action without having to be conscious about it. A beautiful way of kind of helping people get a sense of this is, I ask my students to clasp their hands and then interweave their fingers. And look at your thumbs which thumb is on top? All right, be aware of that. Now open your hands, clasp them again, and purposefully put the other thumb on top. It sounds so silly. But it feels so weird because you're so aware of it. When you initially are thinking about trying to build a new habit or do something different, you tend to be soon so aware of it that it doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel normal and you're self-conscious about applying it or trying it out in the real world. Whereas with deep learning, because it is not just the individual skill or the individual piece of content that you're working on but you recognize it's all part of your learning in your growth process, you're not so uncomfortable by that awareness. You know that awareness. It's a good thing. That means you're stretching yourself,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn't need a bachelor's degree when he started as a journalist — he worked at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn’t need a bachelor’s degree when he started as a journalist — he work at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn’t need a bachelor’s degree when he started as a journalist — he work at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn't need a bachelor's degree when he started as a journalist — he worked at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn’t need a bachelor’s degree when he started as a journalist — he work at the Anaheim Bulletin, the Daily Pilot and the Los Angeles Times community editions before switching to public relations — […]

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn't need a bachelor's degree when he started as a journalist — he worked at the Anaheim Bulletin, the Daily Pilot and the Los Angeles Times community editions before switching to public relations — he knows that anyone seeking those jobs now would need one. With the help of his academic advisor, Rebecca Warner, and supportive faculty members, he completed his degree in 18 months. In this second Brandman Speaks: Career Talk podcast, Posner talks about why he went back to college, what he had to overcome, how it has helped shape his current role at Cypress College and his plans for the future. More Brandman Speaks podcasts are available here or on iTunes. Transcript Cindy O'Dell: Welcome to Brandman Speaks: Career Talk. I'm Cindy O'Dell, communications manager at Brandman University. In this episode of our series focusing on the career choices of Brandman graduates, we'll hear from Marc Posner who completed his bachelor's degree a year ago. Marc is the director of campus communications for Cypress College, a community college in North West Orange County, California. Like many Brandman students, Marc had a big gap between when he started college and when he finished. But first we wanted to know how did his current career match his earliest career goals. Marc Posner: When I was younger, I really wanted to be a photographer. And you know I always had this sense of chasing after fire trucks, chasing after police cars, so I think I knew real early on that there was a journalist hidden in me. I just didn't quite grasp the writing part of it at the beginning. I had a neighbor who was a professional photographer for Rockwell, and he kind of talked me out of that path. And then when I took journalism classes when I got to high school, I was told you have to take journalism classes to be on the newspaper. I tried explaining I wanted to be a photographer and they said, yes and you still have to understand the fundamentals of news. And I really fell in love with writing, early in high school, probably my freshman year. O'Dell: Marc says he was lucky to get his first job in journalism, but like so many first jobs, it grew out of a personal connection. Posner: I attended classes at Fullerton College, enough classes I probably could have earned a bachelor's degree there if they had offered them. But I had amazing faculty. Julie Davy was my primary journalism instructor there, and I had a friend who was at the Anaheim Bulletin at the time and they were looking for a production editor so I stepped out of classes kind of directly into an editor's role and bypassed what a real traditional path starting with the journalist aspect of it. That paper ended up going from a daily to a weekly, and I ended up moving into a reporter role so that was a little bit more traditional from there. And then I had covered Golden West college as one of my stops in journalism and I heard their public information officer was leaving for another job and I called to wish her well and by the end of the conversation she had convinced me to apply for her job. So I made the transition from journalism to public relations in 1996, which is way early for that trend to occurred, and I'm extremely fortunate to have done it with you know essentially no college degree at that point. That really wouldn't happen today. O'Dell: Making the decision to finally complete a degree didn't come easily. Posner: Well it was really hard for me to go back. I had probably 18 years in higher ed at the point I decided to go back and complete my bachelor's degree and I had completed my associates along the way. I had a college president here at Cypress who had talked to me about completing my degree probably on a monthly basis...

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn’t need a bachelor’s degree when he started as a journalist — he work at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn't need a bachelor's degree when he started as a journalist — he worked at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn't need a bachelor's degree when he started as a journalist — he worked at the Anaheim Bulletin,

Marc Posner had a more than 20 year gap between starting college and earning his degree at Brandman University last spring. Although he didn’t need a bachelor’s degree when he started as a journalist — he work at the Anaheim Bulletin,

A new subseries of Brandman University  podcasts, Brandman Speaks: Career Talk, launches with Master of Arts in organizational leadership (M.A.O.L.) graduate Essraa Nawar talking about how she got her job as coordinator of development at Chapman Uni...