Podcast appearances and mentions of Jaime Escalante

In this episode of the Better Learning Podcast, host Carla Cummins is joined by co-host Victoria Morlan as well as architect and education advocate Don Baus for a powerful conversation around the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. With decades of combined experience in designing and supporting student-centered environments, the two explore how the true story of Jaime Escalante continues to challenge and inspire today's educators, designers, and school leaders. Set in a struggling East L.A. high school, Stand and Deliver follows math teacher Jaime Escalante as he empowers his students to defy expectations and succeed in AP Calculus—despite systemic barriers and cultural doubt. Victoria and Don dig into the film's themes of belief, rigor, and resilience, connecting them to their own work helping schools design spaces where students feel seen, capable, and empowered to succeed. Don, Charleston Office President for architecture firm Little and a longtime champion of inspiring learning environments, brings a unique design perspective to the discussion. Together, he and Victoria reflect on what it truly means to curate spaces and systems that allow every student to rise—and the ongoing responsibility educators and designers have to ensure equity, access, and inspiration are built into every learning experience.   Takeaways: Jaime Escalante's unwavering belief in his students' potential shows how a single educator's confidence can transform lives and outcomes. When we set the bar high and provide support, students often exceed what others believed possible. Recognizing and valuing diverse backgrounds helps educators design learning experiences that truly resonate. Thoughtful school design - both physical and emotional - can inspire students and help them thrive.   About Don Baus: As past president of AIA Charleston, Don is deeply rooted in South Carolina and champions the delivery of Little's promise to elevate client performance while advancing the firm's reputation in thought leadership, innovation and breakthrough ideas throughout the state. Don has more than 26 years of industry experience on regional projects including K-12 education, higher education, civic, healthcare and mixed-use. He has successfully led teams through all facets of project development from conceptual design through construction, always with a focus on client success and design excellence.   Learn More About Don Baus, AIA, LEED AP: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-baus-22b445a/   Learn More About Little Diversified Architectural Consulting: Website: https://www.littleonline.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/little-diversified-architectural-consulting/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littleonline_       About Victoria Brooks Morlan, CPSI, ECLPS: Victoria Brooks Morlan came to Kay-Twelve with 25 years of experience in the education space. She has worked with schools and architects throughout the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia, helping to develop innovative learning environments for students of all ages. A teacher by education, Victoria has a unique ability for connecting with her clients while seeking to provide them with a holistic solution to foster innovative, collaborative and pedagogy-driven learning environments.   Learn More About Victoria Brooks Morlan, CPSI, ECLPS: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-morlan-cpsi-eclps-54787456/   Learn More About Kay-Twelve: Website: https://kay-twelve.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kay-twelve-com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kay_twelve/       Connect with episode host, Carla Cummins: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-cummins-01449659/     Episode 229 of the Better Learning Podcast Kevin Stoller is the host of the Better Learning Podcast and Co-Founder of Kay-Twelve, a national leader for educational furniture. Learn more about creating better learning environments at www.Kay-Twelve.com.     For more information on our partners: Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) - https://www.a4le.org/ Education Leaders' Organization - https://www.ed-leaders.org/ Second Class Foundation - https://secondclassfoundation.org/ EDmarket - https://www.edmarket.org/ Catapult @ Penn GSE - https://catapult.gse.upenn.edu/ Want to be a Guest Speaker? Request on our website

We breakdown the upcoming 2024 College Football season - new coaches, NIL, megaconferences and a new playoff system - lots to discuss with special guests Tall Sean and Jaime Escalante...plus a raft of recommendations and rampant speculation about a mysterious RV.

Závěrečný díl naší série se zaměřuje na definici toho, kdo je dobrý učitel, a přináší příběhy šesti významných pedagogů, kteří svými metodami a přístupem změnili svět vzdělávání. Jaime Escalante, který odmítl snížit nároky na výuku matematiky na nízkoúrovňové střední škole v Los Angeles, ukázal, že i ti nejméně privilegovaní studenti mohou dosáhnout úspěchu, pokud jsou správně vedeni a motivováni. Anne Sullivan, učitelka hluchoslepé Helen Keller, dokázala naučit svou žákyni komunikovat a tím otevřít dveře k vyššímu vzdělání, což bylo tehdy považováno za nemožné. Palestinská učitelka Hanan Al Hroub získala Global Teacher Prize za svou práci s dětmi traumatizovanými násilím a prosazování vzdělání jako cesty k míru. Booker T. Washington, zastánce vzdělání pro černošské obyvatelstvo po emancipaci, byl prvním vedoucím Tuskegee University a podílel se na budování vzdělávací infrastruktury na jihu USA. Kakenya Ntaiya, která podstoupila ženskou obřízku výměnou za možnost vzdělání, nyní vede školu v Keni, která bojuje proti této praxi a podporuje vzdělání dívek. Přestože každý z těchto pedagogů měl unikátní přístup a čelil různým výzvám, spojuje je víra v sílu vzdělání a odhodlání překonat překážky. Dnes je populární Montessori metoda, která vznikla jako nástroj pro integraci sociálně a jinak znevýhodněných dětí, ale její aplikace se změnila v elitní vzdělávací program pro bohaté rodiny. Metoda podporuje individuální potřeby dítěte, samostatnost a nezávislost, senzorické a praktické učení a respekt k přirozenému vývoji dítěte. Přestože Montessori metoda neklade přímý důraz na technické vzdělání, ukazuje, že kvalitní vzdělání může otevřít dveře a dát prostor talentu, což potvrzují úspěchy jejích absolventů, jako jsou zakladatelé Googlu nebo Amazonu. Tímto dílem uzavíráme naši sérii o tom, jak vzdělání a učitelé mohou měnit životy a budoucnost. Poslechněte si ostatní Wolfcasty, historický přehled naleznete na retronation.cz.

This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts University of Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Alisha Searcy interview Dr. Adrian Mims, founder of The Calculus Project. He delves into his mission to enhance math education for minority and low-income students, drawing inspiration from Bob Moses’s Algebra Project and Jaime Escalante’s teaching legacy. Dr. Mims navigates […]

This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts University of Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Alisha Searcy interview Dr. Adrian Mims, founder of The Calculus Project. He delves into his mission to enhance math education for minority and low-income students, drawing inspiration from Bob Moses’s Algebra Project and Jaime Escalante’s teaching legacy. Dr. Mims navigates through the contentious “math... Source

This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts University of Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Alisha Searcy interview Dr. Adrian Mims, founder of The Calculus Project. He delves into his mission to enhance math education for minority and low-income students, drawing inspiration from Bob Moses's Algebra Project and Jaime Escalante's teaching legacy. Dr. Mims navigates through the contentious "math wars" and underscores the pivotal role of Algebra I as a gateway to higher math. He also evaluates the negative impact of Common Core math standards, and proposes strategies to combat pandemic-induced learning setbacks and bridge the gap in math proficiency between American students and their international counterparts.

Mr. Miyagi, Yoda, Jaime Escalante - all great mentors that helped those around them improve and become better. On this weeks episode of the podcast Chris asks Chuck about this same idea, as Charles is apart of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). EO is a community of people in similar entrepreneurial roles, who gather together helping one another with perspectives and real experience. For Charles it has been a great resource for him to grow, and receive various perspectives. This idea of community, of fostering and investing in one's own personal growth is something that can become invaluable over time. To learn more about EO check out their website: hub.eonetwork.org Do you have a question you've been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at podcast@catandcloud.com and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week! Instagram: www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/
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Back around the era when this came out in the late '80's/early '90's it felt like there was a new heroic teacher drama (Dead Poet's Society, Lean On Me) being released every six months.  This particular inspirational drama was directed by Ramon Menendez and might be one of the best of that group.  It's based upon the true story of Jaime Escalante and his advanced math class at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.  Escalante was a math whiz and he taught his students not only how to be math whizzes but eventually AP Calculus.  And we follow all of their stories towards clearing this difficult academic hurdle.  Edward James Olmos stars as Professor Escalante alongside Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy Garcia, and several other talented young actors. Host & Editor: Geoff GershonProducer: Marlene Gershon https://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/

In this episode, John and Andrew unpack a few of the myths Dr. Deming identified that continue to destroy organizations from the inside. John explains how these myths also negatively impact schools and kids - and what to do instead. 0:00:02.0 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we continue our journey into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with John Dues, who is part of the new generation of educators striving to apply Dr. Deming's principles to unleash student joy in learning. The topic for today is, Management Myths that Keep Fooling Us. John, take it away.   0:00:28.3 John Dues: Andrew, it's good to be back, good to talk again. Yeah, I thought we could build on the last conversation, which unpacked these two education reports. One that had a seminal impact for the last 40 years called A Nation at Risk, and another Sandia Report that we talked about that has a much lesser known. And I was thinking what comes out of some of the reports often as a shake-up, and then there's various ideas about what to do about the crisis outlined in this case. But I think, a lot of the times, those management practices have the opposite of the intended effect. And I think... One of the things I was thinking about is that Dr. Deming, maybe his most radical idea that he put forth is that any outcome that we see within a system, like a system of education, is the result of more than the skills and efforts of the individuals who work within that organization. And what he would say is that most of the performance differences observed between individuals are generated by these complex and dynamic, adaptable systems, and workers are only one part of that system.   0:01:49.8 JD: And I think understanding that sort of core idea of Deming is one of the ways that we can start to move away from the common management and maybe understanding those management myths is maybe the most important part of understanding the new philosophy that Deming was sort of putting forth. I think one of the things that I learned in watching some of his videos from his famous four-day seminars is that he often began those seminars by saying, management is living in an age of mythology, and even though he was saying that throughout the 1980s and even into the early 90s, before his death in 1993. I think that idea applies just as well today across numerous sectors, including education, as it did when he was saying it 30 or 40 years ago, I think it applies the education, applies to government, applies to industry.   0:02:52.6 JD: And what he meant by the age of mythology, at least my interpretation of it, is that leaders in these various industries basically operate according to these assumptions and these myths, and these myths are harmful to our organization. And so when he talked about the transformation process, part of the transformation process is understanding these myths and then moving away from them, actively trying to move away from them. So I thought we could talk about a few of those myths today and unpack those myths, where they originated and what were they are and then what to do.   0:03:29.3 AS: Great, great idea. And I remember he would say something like, how could they know? They did their best efforts, that's all that they have. Who came up with the idea of rating and ranking? Someone just... And then you realize people just may make things up ultimately and then they stick, not based on science or something like that. Sometimes the science creeps in there, but most of the time, based upon emotion. You jarred my thinking process when you're talking about the role of an individual in a system.   0:04:07.4 AS: And I was just thinking about how the beauty of the individual is that the individual is malleable. We're malleable, we're able to be contorted. Whereas when you install a particular piece of machinery that only has... Can produce so many units or such level of quality, it's a very rigid part of the overall system. And I was just thinking how, one of the reasons probably why we're always chasing after the individual, despite the fact that the very, very rigid machine over there is what's setting the ultimate specifications of the output of this is because the human is so easily manipulated. Well, put them over here and we'll do this, we'll do that, we'll start early, go late, try this, try that, whereas with the machine, you just have a lot less flexibility. And so you just made me think about that as I was listening to you talk...   0:05:02.3 JD: Yeah, that brings a good point. One, I think some prescient on your part is you mentioned the myth of rating and ranking, which is definitely one of the myths that I wanna get to. And I think you talk about machines versus workers. I think a couple of things I think of there, one is our organizational systems have become increasingly complex as we moved from the farm field to more of the industrial age, and maybe even the post-industrial age now. And who bought the machine? I think that's a lot what Deming was talking about is who designed the system, who had control over the system. If the machine is a major part of the process, who designed the machine and who bought it? Probably not the individual workers on the line. And yet, they were held responsible, or maybe even still today, held responsible for the results when they didn't design or pick the machine themselves. So I think that's a really good place to start. And I think that also brings up like, where did these management myths originate? Because if we go back a few hundred years, I think there's probably the lack of complexity, there's the...   0:06:26.8 JD: Mostly what we were doing is managing the work of... Managing our own work, I think of the farmer in the field or the craftsman in their workshop, is that sort of first line of management. And then as things got a little more complex, they're management by directing. So think of the craftsman taking on an apprentice, but it's still a pretty simple system and it's the manager, in this case, the master is directing the apprentice directly. And then you get the Industrial Revolution and you get this sort of third wave of management thinking... And here I'm thinking about management by results. And this is numerical quotas come into play, this idea, this common quip of, "I don't care how you do it, just get it done" type thing. And I think this is third generation management, and I think that's the dominant sort of paradigm of the 20th century. I think that probably paradigm in a lot of ways continues to the present day. But I think what Dr. Deming was a proponent of was this sort of fourth generation management, which was "management by method." So he was calling on, especially leaders, management of organizations to work with people on these methods rather than judging them on results, to your point about rating and ranking.   0:07:57.1 JD: And I think that's sort of a big part of the Deming philosophy, is to move from just rating and ranking people and thinking about instead, what are the methods people... What are the processes people are using within our systems to get the work done?   0:08:13.1 AS: Yeah, one other thing it just made me think about is that when you manage people, let's say in the US, people don't wanna be micro-managed, they want... They like to be told, "Well, you figure out how you're gonna do it and then do it." And let me take responsibility for that, right? So it is a bit seductive to forget about the methods and just focus on the individual and say, "Make it happen." And there are times that, that can be a valuable tool, a valuable way of managing when there's just so much going on, but also juxtaposing that to the typical manager in Thailand, which I'm very familiar with, they don't wanna be told that.   0:09:01.3 AS: It isn't necessarily their desire to be independent in their work and to originate the method. There's many managers here that really appreciate the boss that says, "Here's how I want you to get there," or "how do you think we should get there?" And that there's a much bigger discussion on that, maybe it's because there was less of an industrialization over the years, and that that's a newer thing compared to where America is at, but I know that my experience with management here is that managers do appreciate that concept of, "Let's look at the method of how you're gonna get there."   0:09:46.1 JD: Yeah. I think method is important, and I think one of the first myths that I was thinking about is, now label these as we go, but I was thinking of this myth of best practices, which it wasn't exactly what you were talking about, but it sort of made me think of where do the methods come from that we are working with it in whatever sector we're working with.   0:10:12.3 AS: So is this myth number one?   0:10:12.8 JD: Yeah, myth number one.   0:10:16.8 AS: Boom.   0:10:17.3 JD: Myth of best practice, so I think you teed us up really well. And this is an area that I've done some deep thinking on this because this has been a very... With all of these myths, you gotta be careful. You gotta really think about what it is that Dr. Deming was saying. And I'm not... So I'm not saying when I say myth of best practices, I'm not saying don't go out and study what other people are doing and try to bring the best of that to your organization. I don't think that's what Dr. Deming was saying. But I think that you gotta be really careful when you label something a best practice, and then try to incorporate it into your organization.   0:10:58.9 JD: And I was thinking in my role over the last two decades or so, maybe decade and a half, I've been fortunate because I've been a part of an informal network of schools and I've been able to sort of leverage that network, and go on many, many school visits probably many than the typical educator, even one that's in a leadership position. Dozens, I counted them up a couple of years ago over the last decade and a half, I think I've gone on over 120 school visits, and that's all types of different schools. Traditional public schools, public charter schools, private schools, and all over the United States, in South Midwest where I'm based out of here in Columbus, the Western United States to northeastern parts of the country. And I think on one hand, these visits have been extremely beneficial. I was able to observe classrooms and school practices in these many different places.   0:12:00.3 JD: I was able to speak with teachers, building administrators, school district leaders about the many challenges they're facing, how they're counteracting those challenges and the solutions they've developed with. And I think I've always tried to pay very careful attention to what context is this particular school operating under - what's their student demographics? What resources do they have both financially and from a human resource standpoint? Where are they situated? Are they in a city or in a town? Are they in a rural area? Some of the factors associated with those different practices. So I pay attention to those.   0:12:45.4 JD: And every time you go into a school, each school has its own culture, it has its own feel. But I think that... Well, I have this appreciation of the context, I think as I've thought more about these various practices, I've grown more skeptical. I think there's really an under-appreciation for these contextual elements within which these best practices often operate. There's... I remember hosting my own school visit and we, in our own schools, in our elementary schools, we have these carpets where kids come to do reading, read-alouds.   0:13:29.5 JD: And after one of these school visits, one of the superintendent said, we're gonna go buy these carpets and we're gonna do this too. These carpets are great in the classrooms and I don't know how it worked out, but I got the sense that there was sort of like, there's a whole system, a whole set of processes and procedures that are set up. It's just not having the carpet in the classroom, it's how it's used, it's how the kids move to the carpets, it's what's happened once you get to the carpet. You can sort of under-appreciate all of the sort of thought went into something as simple as the read aloud carpet that you see in a classroom.   0:14:07.2 JD: And I think there's this part of about context, and then there's just also a part about, is this practice... Does it have a sound research-base as well? So you're looking at both of those things. And I think in education, those best practices, often the research base is very, very thin. And then there's this whole other side of things where you really have to understand what is the context, the different variables that went into making that practice work. It may have been something that unfolded over four or five years, and you just can't pull it out of that school and then drop it into your own setting. So I think one of the things that Deming said about best practices is "to copy is to invite disaster." And so I think there, he's not saying, "Don't go study other organizations," but it's not as simple as, "Oh, I see this curriculum or this teaching practice or this method in one place. We're gonna do that tomorrow." It's just not that simple. So I think this is, like I said, one of these myths that I've come to appreciate how important in the context that they're operating under is before you can take it to your own school or network.   0:15:20.0 AS: Yeah, a great way of thinking about this one is, imagine that you take a General Motors car. Let's take a, I don't know what's fancy these days, but let's say a Cadillac as an example. And we say, here is the design for the Cadillac and here's everything you need to know, all the parts and everything, and you deliver that to Toyota, and say, "You have a car factory, so build this car." What you don't realize is that in particularly with the Toyota production system, that the whole production operation at every company is built around an infrastructure or a context, as you said, that sets the stage for how that is done.   0:16:29.4 AS: And therefore, things are not interchangeable. And so if your idea is, I'm just gonna go around to these 120 different schools and look for best practices and bring them in, it's like an amalgamation of unnaturally developed things. And also the other thing that it made me think about is that the whole point of PDSA is that you're working in your own organization to build a deeper understanding of a particular problem and solution. And when you repeat that process, you are also building a unique competitive advantage. Now, whether that in, let's say, in the world of business, that competitive advantage may be kept secret or not necessarily shared - in the world of education, it may be made public, but it's very hard to duplicate something that has been constructed internally through process of learning. And so just putting amalgamation of different things onto a body or onto a facility doesn't make the combination of those something great.   0:17:35.7 JD: Yeah, and I think of, what's the idea of the day? For schools coming out of the pandemic currently, 'cause the impacts of the pandemic and learning loss and those things are still sort of obviously being felt by schools, and we're seeing that ramification show up and in test scores and other measures. So one of the things that has been sort of promulgated as a silver bullet is high dosage tutoring, which means like a significant amount of tutoring happening for an individual student or a small group of students on a regular basis where what happened three or four times a week. And you see this in education publications, you see this policy makers and even legislatures are pushing this idea.   0:18:33.3 JD: But the problem is, while the research base for that particular intervention may be strong somewhere and under some set of conditions, the question for a practitioner is, well, who are these tutors? How will these tutors be trained here? Who is training these tutors? What curriculum are the tutors using? What financial resources are there to pay these tutors and to acquire the curriculum? Where in the school day is that going to happen? What are kids that are going to high-dosage tutoring gonna miss in the school day to be able to attend that tutoring? If it's not happening during the school day, if it's happening before or after school, how will kids get home from that tutoring?   0:19:22.0 JD: Who's providing the management of the tutors? How are those tutors hired? How are those tutors replaced when they inevitably will turn over? I could go on and on and on and on and on and on about these things, well, someone tells me that as an educator leader that, yes, for sure high-dosage tutoring is the best practice that you should drop into your organization, those questions remain unanswered and those questions are actually the thing that will actually make the practice come to fruition and work or not, and oftentimes, when these different ideas are being thrown about, none of those questions have been answered. And so I think we do this over and over for certain in the school world that I'm in.   0:20:10.5 AS: It reminds me of that old time song that maybe our older listeners and viewers would remember, "Who takes care of the caretaker's daughter when the caretaker is busy taking care?"   [laughter]   0:20:22.9 AS: So who's taking care of all those different things behind the scenes and putting them all together? So that's a great one to help us realize that it's good to understand best practices, it's good to go out and survey and get them and consider them, but then what really matters is how do you take best practices that you see, narrow them down, the one that you think will fit in your system and then develop it slowly and steadily, so it becomes a permanent improvement in your system? I think that's what you're getting at. Would that be right?   0:21:02.4 JD: Yeah, that's exactly right. So I think of something that may come to us through something like a randomized controlled trial, like the effectiveness of high-dosage tutoring, I think looking at RCTs or other similar... That's sort of the gold standard research. But even...   0:21:20.4 AS: RCTs for the listener is Randomized Control Trials?   0:21:25.0 JD: Randomized Controlled Trial, a study where people are randomly assigned to groups and then there's a treatment for one group and not a treatment for another group, there's no real differences between those two groups, and then you see if there's an effect. I don't think there's a lot of the studies that sort of rise to the gold standard RCT, there are other types of studies in education for sure, but either way, I think that's to the difference between when an ideas come through a randomized controlled trial where it's worked somewhere for some group under some set of conditions.   0:22:03.5 JD: Versus the Plan-Do-Study Act cycle that we've talked about, I think reading the research base can give you a starting place, give you some indication of the types of interventions or the types of curricula, or the types of practices that may work, but the Plan-Do-Study Act cycle allows you to sort of take an idea in your context and try to get it to work under the very conditions under where the idea or the practice would ultimately have to be working for it to be effective in your organization.   0:22:36.4 JD: So I think that's the two differences. Those two things, the RCT and the PDSA cycles can be complementary, and I think that's how I actually think of those two things, but you can't just... Can't force these best practices into contexts that they weren't designed to be in. And you gotta figure out all those questions that I talked about with any idea, I use high-dosage tutoring, but those are the types of questions that you can start to... If you're gonna try that in your organization, you can start to hash that out through the PDSA cycle, so I may say... Instead of saying, we're doing high-dosage tutoring in our school district, what I may say is, "What would it take to provide targeted tutoring to one student for one week?" I'm gonna plan that, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna study the results and I'm gonna act on it.   0:23:31.8 JD: And in that one week, what you may find is a whole host of things in your context that you did not consider where you can't even get this to work with one kid, [chuckle] let alone a 1000 kids, or if you're in a bigger district, 10 or 15 or 20,000 kids and even those kids, even though they're in your district, they might not even be all operating under a similar context 'cause they're in different buildings with different adults and those types of things.   0:24:01.4 JD: So things become much harder when it comes to implementation, when you start to think in that way, "How would I get this thing to work with one student?" Come do that with me and you see the challenges person pushing high-dosage tutoring and then you can extrapolate that out to 1,000 kids or like I said, 10,000 kids, and you can start to see how this stuff falls apart pretty quickly in practice.   0:24:27.9 AS: Well, I think that's a great description of this first myth of best practices. So what myth number two?   0:24:37.4 JD: This is the myth I call myth of the hero educator. I think we latch on the hero stories in all kinds of walks of life. Hero stories stretch back to ancient times and they capture our attention for good reason. Ya know, they have these archetypes and we can identify with those archetypes, but when it comes to education, I think... I'm thinking about outlier educators with some type of... Some center of exceptional and rare talents, and I think one of the best known movies that captures this from an education perspective is Stand and Deliver. You may...   0:25:22.4 AS: That's what thinking about when you... I couldn't remember the name of it, but I remember that movie.   0:25:27.5 JD: Yeah, it's a prototypical hero teacher, biopic. It's Jaime Escalante in Los Angeles, basically, the movie depicts him leading his 18 inner city math students from basic math to calculus in just two years time, but then when you actually... Jaime Escalante is a real person, he's a real teacher in California at Garfield High School, but when you go study what actually happened, it's very different from... The movie is very different from what actually happened in real life, so when you look at what he actually did...   0:26:08.9 AS: Funny that.   0:26:10.7 JD: Oh yeah, can you believe it? But we latch on and say, "Oh, if he could do it... Or this is based on a true story. We can do this in two years." And what actually happened was that Escalante, the teacher, it took him eight years to build this math program that's depicted in this movie, he completely revamped the Math Department at his high school, he had to start by convincing the principal to raise the sort of math requirements at the school in general. Then he designed this whole pipeline of courses to prepare students for what they ultimately were trying to get to is AP Calculus and then he hand-selected top teachers to instruct those courses along the pipeline, and he even went to the junior high schools that fed into his high school and convinced them to offer algebra to eighth graders.   0:27:07.8 JD: So he's actually... What is actually really doing is setting up this math system basically that hadn't been there before, so he's actually thinking like Deming and setting up a system of pipeline that makes sense, and none of Escalante's actual students moved from basic math one year to AP Calculus, the following year, that's a complete misnomer, instead, it was the sort of system transformation that unfolded through the cooperation of obviously numerous educators and students over this eight-year period.   0:27:42.3 JD: Now, putting that the side, it didn't happen like you didn't move is still a pretty amazing story, whether it took two years or eight years, he set up this pretty amazing system. So I think most of us are not gonna rival Escalante and his tenacity and the results that he got with his students, his results are so far outside the norm, they made a movie about this guy. So they made the movie for a good reason, but I think my take away and thinking about this myth of the hero educator is that knowledge about variation, this component that we've talked about, part of Deming System of Profound Knowledge. Knowledge variation... Knowledge about variation tells us that the vast majority of educators perform within the enabling and constraining forces of an organization system.   0:28:35.9 JD: So most teachers, most principals, most superintendents, do not have Escalante's tenacity to set up a brand new system. Most of us just don't have that in us, but we create these mythologies around heroes like this hero teacher, they're embellished, they leave out important details, and I think these hero educators do exist, but they make up a tiny fraction of the educators in the United States, and same thing on the flip side, teachers, especially in the last decade or so, have caught a lot of slack are often blamed for test results and other sort of ills of the education system, but what I've found, and I think what the research bears out is that on the other side of the hero spectrum, those that are unfit, that really shouldn't be in front of a classroom of students, that's also a very tiny fraction of the educator workforce.   0:29:37.7 JD: And that the point I would take away is that all of this points to the fact that it's really the system where the vast majority of the improvement potential lies. So you get this hero educator myth, it makes for good drama in Hollywood, but it's a really, really poor strategy for educational transformation and improvement.   0:30:00.9 JD: We sort of go back to these myths, whether it's best practices, "Why don't you guys do it like them? They can do that over there, you make it work in your system. Well, if this guy in California can do this, why can't you do it over here?" But it's really not about the individuals, it's about creating these strong systems where the vast majority of people that are sort of in that... A majority bucket, not the heroes, not those that probably shouldn't be in front of students, how could we make the systems work for those folks? I think that's sort of my take away from that myth.   0:30:42.2 AS: Yeah, in fact... So a couple of things I was thinking about. The first thing is, I bet you if we go there and look at what's the progress in what he did, that in some cases, you could see it's all gone, because some opposing person who was upset by it or didn't agree with it, or didn't like the idea of one person standing out to that extent knocked it down. I watched the education... There was a master's in marketing program here in Thailand at one of the universities that was, I would say, world class. The lady who ran it was amazing, and what she and another guy built out of it was really about 30 years of continuous improvement. They just kept improving.   0:31:30.6 AS: And so it really was an impressive program and there was a new dean of the school that came in and he didn't like it, and he didn't like that person, and he basically, between him and his forces, knocked it out and destroyed it, and it's completely gone, and that was an interesting example that I saw. So the first point is that, is it really lasting improvement? Well, we have to admire the people who have so much tenacity, and we definitely wanna get everything that we can to improve the system, but just that one person rising up does not mean that the system's gonna necessarily be improved.   0:32:12.6 AS: So that's the first thing I thought about. The second thing I thought about was, one of the amazing defining qualities of McDonalds is everywhere you go, and I've eaten McDonalds everywhere in the world, basically. Now, we can debate about the quality of the food, but I would say that the consistency is amazing, and it's done with... That back in America when I was young, it was done with 16-year-olds on summer break, and it was done because they continually improved the system to make it so that the worker could deliver that consistent quality, and any new idea had to be implemented... Had to be able to be implemented worldwide in that system or else it wasn't gonna get into the system. So those are two things that I was just thinking about. How do those relate to this myth of the hero educator?   0:33:10.7 JD: Yeah, I think those are spot on, and I think it could be... When you build a system like Jaime Escalante did in his school, I think it could be drove...The undoing could be nefarious, a new principal could come in that just doesn't like it sort of comparable to what you were talking about, or probably what happens in a lot of cases where an amazing system has been built but it's completely reliant on that hero, once Jaime Escalante retires, it's very possible that that system then collapsed and not because anybody was working against it necessarily, but it could have been just without him and he was such an important part of it. Which would probably speak to what type of system was set up in the first place. Now, without him sort of pulling the levers, then it's very possible, but that would be enough in and of itself for that system not to live on to this day.   0:34:12.8 AS: Now, I can imagine an educator or an executive administrative, he's like, "What are you guys talking about? That was my only hope is to find this hero that could take us to the next level, and now you're just saying, no, no." I'm just curious, thinking about it from that perspective.   0:34:34.1 JD: Well, it's better because I think this is better because it doesn't rely on the hero. I think the same... I think a group of people, certainly have to be dedicated, you have to wanna change the system, but a group of people putting in place a strong process, I think is the point of all of this. That that's really what we wanna do. Do you need strong leadership? Sure, sure you do. But it's necessary, but not sufficient to building systems, you need a group of people working together and putting strong processes in place, processes that are strong enough, whether an individual or individuals over time moving on as they are inevitably really gonna do that the system or that set of processes remains intact. And I think that's what a system like Toyota, who you talked about earlier, that's what they've been able to do.   0:35:40.3 JD: People have changed over the years since the Toyota production system was put in place, but a lot of those processes, of course, they're continually being improved, but they put the process in place that wasn't reliant on any single individual to remain in, say, the CEO position and to ensure that that process or those set of processes would continue over time, that's the whole point of this, so you don't wanna be reliant on a single sort of hero educator or a hero engineer or whatever it is, you want the process... The system be strong enough that it continues to work even after that person retires or moves on to another position or whatever.   0:36:22.9 AS: So we've got two myths here. First a myth of best practices, and then the myth of the hero educator. And in wrapping up, let me just briefly summarize. So in the idea of the best practices, the main point that you're pointing out is be careful about trying to build an amalgamation of best practices, you have to understand where that best practice was developed and what was the context that it was developed under, and then you have to think about how that best practice could potentially fit into your system, and that may be the best idea here is rather than trying to just pull together a bunch of best practices to think about one or two new ideas that could be built into the system to improve the system of education. That's number one.   0:37:16.3 AS: And the myth of the hero educator is just to remember that the outlier educators, both on the great side and on the poor side, are very small group of people, very... And so to think that we can create lasting change from the power and energy of, let's say that really exceptional person is probably making a wrong bet and it's better to then think about, "How can we take from the energy of this person and implement the things that they're doing in such a way that we can build them as some lasting improvement in the system of education so that it doesn't just disappear when that man or woman disappears?" Would that be a summary? Or anything you would add to that?   0:38:09.0 JD: Yeah, it's a great summary. I think the only thing I'd add to the best practices is coming up out of a Nation at Risk, many, many times the reforms were like, if you just do X practice, whatever that thing was, standards or a certain curriculum, there's that under appreciation of context over and over and so I think the PDSA, the Plan-Do-Study Act cycle is a powerful driver for testing ideas in your context on a small scale. First, before moving on to a larger and larger scale until you get to full system-wide implementation. So I think your summary is perfect, I'll just add in the power of that PDSA as a part of figuring out what works in your particular system, in your particular context.   0:38:50.8 JD: Yeah, and with the hero educator, you mentioned you got the hero educator on one side, the positive side, those that probably shouldn't be in front of the classroom with kids on the other side, tiny fractions, a lot of what came out of a Nation at Risk, especially maybe from 2000 on targeted individual teacher performance, thinking that you could get rid of the bad teachers. But again, it's a tiny fraction of the educator workforce, and even if you did that, it's not gonna make a difference because the vast majority of people are in this sort of middle ground that needs strong leadership and strong systems, if we're gonna transform schools.   0:39:35.9 AS: So to wrap up here, we have management myths that keep fooling us, we've got myth number one, best practices and myth number two, hero educator. And we've got more myths to come up in our next episode, which I'm really looking forward to. I think these have sparked discussions and thinking about how to create lasting change and improvement in education. John, on behalf of everyone on the Deming Institute, I wanna thank you again for this discussion. And for listeners, remember, go to deming.org to continue your journey, this is your host Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. "People are entitled to joy in work.”

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Tune in to the next episode of Embracing My Markings Podcast, where I'll be chatting with my guest, Mrs. Peña, about growing up in East LA in the 80s as a Mexican American young woman. Jaime Escalante, (the teacher that inspired James Edwards's movie "Stand and Deliver"), was Mrs. Peña's teacher at Garfield High School (she was in the class of 1985) and he inspired her to become a teacher. I am happy and proud to say she is now a teacher that just happens to be my son's teacher in high school math, what an honor! Tune in now. Visit Our Website: https://embracingmymarkings.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/embracingmymarkings/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/embracingmymarkings/support

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We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of "Stand and Deliver" with Edson Melendez, the director of the production. The show opens this Friday night and runs for just two weekends. The play and film are based on the true story of a high school math teacher, Jaime Escalante, who achieved amazing success at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.

In Episode 4 we're tackling the big topic of Social Emotional Learning. We hear from teachers about their experiences with SEL in their classrooms and discuss the research behind it.If you're enjoying The Pedagogue-cast, why not subscribe to the show so you're first to know when a new episode drops? And while  you're there, please rate the show, it really is the best way for new listeners to discover us.Get in touch with us hereYou can hear more of Staś over at his podcast, Education Bookcast or learn more here.The Pedagogue-cast is proudly powered by Maths PathwayShow notes: Cohen, G. L., & Sherman, D. K. (2014). The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 333-371.https://characterlab.org/activities/my-values/Carol Dwek - inventor of Growth MindsetMindset by Carol Dweck (2012)Yeager, D. S., & Dweck, C. S. (2020). What can be learned from growth mindset controversies? American Psychologist, 75(9), 1269–1284,Marva Collins - loads of praiseMarva Collins' Way by Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin (1990)Kipp Schools in the US - calling students “scholars”Jaime Escalante - telling students they can do it by telling them it's “easy”Escalante: The Best Teacher in America by Jay Matthews (1988)Please rate and subscribe so you're first to know when the next episode drops. You can hear more of Staś over at his podcast, Education Bookcast The Pedagogue-cast is proudly powered by Maths Pathway

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All you need is ganas in order to listen to Guti, Ismael, and Ron discuss the 1988 Jaime Escalante biopic, Stand and Deliver. Rate, share, and subscribe. Follow @reellatinos on Instagram and Twitter. Send correspondence to reellatinos@gmail.com.

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"Education... is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery," stated school reformer Horace Mann in 1848. "Math is the great equalizer," preached Jaime Escalante, Edward James Olmos' character, in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. "The best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education," announced Barack Obama during his 2010 State of the Union address.   This message is everywhere, pervading political speeches, Oscar-bait films, think-tank papers, and everything in between. The key to economic upward mobility—we're endlessly told, is education—a societal building block that is, or at least should be, accessible to every child, no matter their race, gender, or income level. It's a seductive, seemingly unassailable conceit, suggesting that we live in a meritocracy where second chances and generational wealth-building are possible, even probable, with a few simple tools.   But is there any truth to this idea? There's a growing body of evidence showing that education level does not, in fact, necessarily translate to higher wages. Which raises the questions: Why has the idea that education is the ultimate anti-poverty tool persisted? Whose interests are served in its continuation? And who, in turn, pays the price?   On this episode, the Season Six premiere of Citations Needed, we detail and debunk the widespread conventional wisdom that education is the rising tide that lifts all boats, looking at the ways it reinforces themes of individualism and personal responsibility; obscures systemic issues like racism and worker exploitation in the labor market; and ultimately keeps people entrenched in, rather than liberating them from, poverty and low-wage work.   Our guest is Lake Forest professor Cristina Viviana Groeger.

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It's World Teacher Day (appreciate teachers every day, you). So, we watched some comedy, action, & drama centered around teachers. Thanks for all you do: AP Bio, The Substitute, Stand & Deliver, The Principal, Lean on Me, Dangerous Minds, Akeelah & the Bee. Follow Cort's podcast with Brad at PureFandom.comCheck out Susan's movie stats on Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/barbisu/stats/Original music by Garrett ThompsonJoin us for live tweets of our favorite shows, and Follow us on Twitter & Instagram @GeekGirlSoupContinue the conversation on facebook.com/groups/GeekGirlSoupEmail your questions and comments to GeekGirlSoup@gmail.comGeek on!Start shutting up! (For all y'all who've watched “A.P. Bio.”)It's World Teacher Day, and at Geek Girl Soup we're celebrating teachers by watching some teacher-centered movies and shows.We start with the hilarious—and totally inappropriate—“A.P. Bio” (Peacock). A philosophy professor from Harvard gets fired from Harvard and has to leave Harvard to go back home to Toledo, Ohio. He takes over a class of A.P. biology instead of teaching philosophy at Harvard. (Did I mention that he was a professor at Harvard? I don't think that I mention Harvard as many times as he does in a single episode.) Instead of actually teaching biology, he entangles his students in his schemes to bring down his archnemesis—a philosophy professor-cum-bestselling-author. Susan says not to bother watching beyond season 1.“The Substitute” (IMDb TV) stars Tom Berenger as a retired mercenary who goes undercover as a substitute teacher after his fiancée is attacked in the school where she works as a teacher. He investigates the gang that attacked her and uncovers… guess what… that drugs are being sold in the school. The school must be cleaned up!“Stand and Deliver” (HBO Max) is a biopic that features Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante. Mr. Escalante gives up a job as an engineer and takes over a basic math class in a school in East Los Angeles. He tells his students that math is “the great equalizer.” He kicks out kids who don't do the work and challenges all the students to push themselves harder than they thought possible, not only to pass algebra, but to take and pass A.P. calculus.“The Principal” (rent) stars Jim Belushi as a teacher who becomes the principal of a gang- and drug-riddled school. Admittedly, this is a paltry version of…“Lean on Me” (HBO Max), which is a biopic that stars Morgan Freeman as “Crazy” Joe Clark, who becomes the principal of a gang- and drug-riddled school in the late 1980s where he was once a hippie teacher in 1960s. His unorthodox (and dangerous) methods earned him the moniker “crazy.” He immediately expels all known drug dealers. He locks the exterior doors with chains. (Can you say, “Fire hazard”?) He walks around the halls with a baseball bat. He takes a kid onto the roof of the school and urges him to jump. He fires the music teacher. (Yeah, ‘cause the arts don't matter.) And he belittles his ever-loyal assistant principal. But… he does “clean up” the school. And the students love him. In contrast to Joe Clark's stance on Mozart, in “Dangerous Minds” (Hulu) (not a true story), Michelle Pfeiffer teaches her dropout-prone students the poetry of Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas. She lures them into doing their homework with karate moves, candy bars, an unauthorized trip to an amusement park,

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, The Outlaw, John Rocha is taking us back to 1988 to discuss one of his favorite films about an educational hero who, like The Outlaw's family, immigrated from Bolivia and made his mark in America. Jaime Escalante transformed the lives of thousands of students in East Los Angeles. His passion for education, unique teaching style and belief that his students could excel resulted in more students passing the AP Calculus test than any one thought possible. It's a great film and it led to an incredible conversation about education, privilege, Hollywood, and the world Hispanic Americans. If you haven't seen this incredible film you can buy or stream it right here. https://amzn.to/3kPzwlz Don't forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and purchase any film we feature at https://www.cine-files.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCineFilesPod/?ref=bookmarks John @therochasays Steve @srmorris The Cine-Files Twitter @cine_files Instagram thecinefilespodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecine-files/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecine-files/support

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It's our first episode of the 2021-22 season.  We're talking about Stand and Deliver, the true story of high school teacher Jaime Escalante who finds himself teaching math in East LA. He finds a group of students who find his less-than conventional teaching methods to be inspiring and he takes them all the was to […]

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Former special education teacher Gary Brady. Mr. Brady was my fifth grade teacher he taught special education for 21 years and 13 years as a substitute teacher after 34 years he retired. Here's my mentor my friend. He is a true educator A true teacher. Never looking at someone's disability always focusing on their abilities that is Mr. Brady. Mr. Brady was my Jaime Escalante. Mr. Brady stand and delivered for 34 years.

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Morgan returns to the show to talked about the latest movie rumors, breakdown a classic from the 80’s and talk have some fun movie conversation.Follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braulio_show/Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/braulioshow1Send me your emails: brauliosshow@gmail.comCheckout my website and show notes: brauliosshow.podbean.com Follow Morgan:Twitter: https://twitter.com/morganlbrooksInstagram: https://instagram.com/morganl_brooksTwitch: https://twitch.tv/hiddentimelordTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJkKUsks Full Show NotesMovie Rumors -Miles Morales rumored to appear in Spider-man 3Andrew Garfield & Tobey Maguire rumors are “unconfirmed”Sony releasing Spider-man 3 footage in Decembermarvel.com spoils that WandaVision will be more than 1 seasonPaw patrol film adds Kim Kardashian, Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Perry Main Show Discussion - MCU 6th film in chronological order review The Incredible Hulk; starting Edward Norton as Hulk, Liv Tyler as  Betty Ross, Tim Roth as Abomination, William Hurt as General Thunder Ross, and Tim Blake Nelson as The Leader.Top shows and why you should watch them Braulio’s List: Anime: G Gundam, Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas, Digimon Tri, Dragon Ball SuperTop anime with hentai themes: High school of the dead, Seven mortal sinsNone Anime: Lost, Breaking Bad, Supernatural, The Office, FriendsMost influential show of all time: The SimpsonsCurrently Watching: The BoysMorgan’s List:Anime: knights and magic, rise of a shield hero, welcome to demon school iruma-kun, high school prodigies have it easy even in another world, misfit of demon academyNon anime: into the badlands, the it crowd, doctor who, bad education, the mighty boosh, umbrella academy, the venture bros.Most influential: I love Lucy 2000’s or Earlier Movie Recap -Movie: Stand and Deliver 1988Starting: Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Rosanna DesotoIMDB summary: The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus. Tech Corner - iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max reviews. The 5G revolution is here. HomePod MiniiPad pro being used by Henny the Bizness to make a beatGaming Corner -  Microsoft to share percentage of all digital revenue it makes from xbox sold by Gamestop. Will this cause gamestop to push xbox over ps5?Fan Questions - N/A

Wow! These guys are going after Jaime Escalante now…not the actual person, but the character portrayed by Edward James Olmos in the great movie, Stand and Deliver. Of course, both of them used to like the movie but now find themselves critical of their former judgments due to their tendency to overthink absolutely everything. After a few minutes of chuckling about the cringe factor of the 80s, the two then analyze the movie as though it were a real classroom situation from the 80s. Some insights come from this exercise though all of the insights can be undermined by realizing that the movie is a dramatization, not a reality, but our two movie critics seem caught up in it, so just go with it. What else can you do?Movie excerpts from Stand and Deliver. Dir. Ramon Menendez. Warner Bros., 1988. Film.Podcast Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / CC BY-SA

In this episode we sit down with career educator and community organizer Mike Gonzales. He tells stories of his struggles with learning to eventually becoming a Leader in education. Fighting for the rights of children in poor communities and organizing against the Charter School system which promotes inequality, to his defining moment of organizing a 50,000 person march in Los Angeles! This podcast is an amazing story of a modern day Jaime Escalante, who's life story was portrayed in the 1988 hit movie "Stand and Deliver."He has 14 years of teaching experience as an elementary school teacher in Southern California. Starting in south central Los Angeles and ending up in Pacoima, CA. He was the union rep at every school site he worked at, N.E.A. National delegate, CA teaching state delegate, former Vice Chair of the Hispanic caucus, Unite Teachers Los Angeles school organizing committee member. Wrote the plan and name the school the SMART Academy. Former President of the Pacoima neighborhood council and Vice Chair of the P.T.A. Mike just recently moved back to the Bay Area, his hometown and just got hired for the Hayward U.S.D. and is running for the New Haven School board. He's also fighting for Prop 15 which is an initiative to increase funding for local public schools, to put schools and communities first!MIKE GONZALES WEBSITE http://mikeg4newhaven.com/LINKS TO AUDIO PODCASThttps://linktr.ee/blissseekers17Check us out on INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/blissseekersHOSTSIsaac J. EstradaINSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/futuregmJho INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/carpeconsequatWEBSITE: http://www.carpeconsequat.comMUSIC"The Mantra" by A Dead DesireLISTEN HERE: https://youtu.be/PO0EKknzW7gAFFILIATESBlack Henley shirt from Fresh Clean Tees use coupon code BLISS15 for 15% off: https://freshcleantees.comGRAPHICSDionn ReneeINSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/dionn_reneewebsite: www.dionnrenee.comVIDEOGRAPHY/PRODUCTIONHatem AlrifaiINSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/hatemsf3Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-bliss-seekers-podcast/donations

I am a teacher in real life, but what about those who portray teachers in film? In this episode, my good friend Mr. Washington sat with me to discuss some popular teacher movies. Spoilers ahead! *Please excuse my mispronunciation of Jaime Escalante's name* What's your favorite teacher movie? Let me know on instagram @likeitlearnitlovett! Thanks for listening!

Amy & Paul stand for 1988's rousing math class drama Stand And Deliver! They ask if this is the first major 'indie' film, learn how Edward James Olmos crafted his commanding performance as Jaime Escalante, and investigate whether the real students depicted cheated on their exam. Plus: Lou Diamond Phillips explains how he got cast as Angel, and why poker requires top-notch math skills.   This is the second episode of our "Back To School" miniseries; next week’s film is The 400 Blows! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf! Photo credit: Kim Troxall See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

In the movie, Stand and Deliver, Jaime Escalante educed things from students at Garfield High that they never knew they had. It changed their lives forever. This same skill of educing is foundational to the new paradigm of the Revolution where everyone gets to contribute when the church gathers. (1 Cor. 14:26). The rally cry is "Everyone gets to play!"

Edward James Olmos stars as the real life teacher, Jaime Escalante, in his Oscar Nominated performance in "Stand and Deliver". Hosts, Mike and Glen, discuss how a film about high school can be interesting, inspiring, and still topical to this day in this weeks edition of the KFR Podcast. Find out more at https://keystone-film-review.pinecast.co

In this short segment I talk about “Stand and Deliver” and what the movie means to me. The story behind the movie is amazing and it is based on Jaime Escalante and his teaching experience in East L.A. at Garfield High. This movie has always meant a lot to me because of the students in the movie and what they have to deal with to become “successful.” I love teachers that find ways to raise the bar and demand more from their students. I believe I can relate to this movie because the main character reminds me of my father and just seeing a Bolivian teacher push his Latinx students to the next level was amazing. I highly recommend the movie to anyone who wants to be inspired and take his teachings to their real life. I used a lot of these lessons in my high school soccer coaching days at Grant High School and currently in my classroom. I strive to create real world experiences in the classroom for all of my students. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/educadence/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/educadence/support

Edward James Olmos is an Oscar-nominated actor, producer and director. Rosa and Cat dive into Olmos' debut feature role as El Pachuco in ZOOT SUIT (1981), his directorial debut with AMERICAN ME (1992), his Oscar-nominated performance as Jaime Escalante in STAND AND DELIVER (1988) and Abraham Quintanilla in SELENA (1997).  Through these films Rosa and Cat talk about their own personal connection to Olmos' work, discuss the themes of identity, Latinx representation and the importance of watching these movies.  Please Rate, Review & Subscribe where ever you listen to podcasts!  Make sure to "Follow" us on Twitter @LatinxLens Add us on Instagram at @LatinxLens Follow Rosa on Twitter @rosasreviews  Follow Catherine on Twitter @thingscatloves & @shuffleonline  Latinx Lens is part of the ShuffleOnline.net Podcast Network.  Theme Music by David Rosen  

Introduction In the 1988 movie, “Stand and Deliver”, Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he persuades them, including gang members and no-hopers in an overall underperforming school, that they could take and pass the rigorous Advanced Placement exam in calculus.  Mr. Escalante, played by Edward James Olmos in this true story, convinced his students there should be more for them than the usual life for poor minorities in East LA. There is more for us than just being well informed and regular voters. We, too, must Stand and Deliver. The Silent Majority cannot stay silent any longer, or it will no longer be the majority. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing In an episode on voting, commenting on America’s unqualified voters, I made the point that I am not a supporter of get-out-the-vote campaigns. I am strongly in favor of getting out the well researched, well informed vote. In today’s episode, I am taking that thought process an important step forward. Even well informed and regular voting is not enough. We must act. Speak our minds. Let others know where we stand. And do it clearly and often. “But Will, my work environment is hostile to my views; I don’t want to lose my job.” I get that. Even before the new century, before we moved back to Colorado, my wife was afraid to share her thoughts about party affiliation for fear of a negative reaction from her employer, a multinational business. “They would not fire me directly for my politics, but they’d find a way.” We are in the middle of a huge upheaval in the US, a cultural revolution that is well underway. Don’t for a second underestimate what is going on; we are in a tug-of-war for our country that is no less important, no less consequential, than the one in 1776. It is clear to all of us now what needed to be done back then, but it was not at all clear to everyone at the time what was at stake, and which side to choose. In round numbers, about half of the 2.5M people in the colonies in 1776 were pro-British, and the other half pro-Revolution. And no doubt many who were leaning one way or the other were not all that invested in their choice. About 3% of the country, 75,000 people, actively supported the fight to free the colonies from the British. “Really, Will, how could such a small percentage get anything done, much less defeat the British Empire, the greatest economic and military power the world had ever seen?”  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead, Cultural Anthropologist. Three percent of our current population is 10M people. There is nothing on earth that 10M citizens cannot do. Let’s listen to some of the Revolutionary America’s 3%: "These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, December 1776. Exactly, Mr. Paine. And here we are again.  "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"-Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775. No one is asking that we make that stark choice, but devoting a part of our lives to liberty, to “...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” is well within everyone's grasp. "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale, before being hanged by the British, September 1776 We are not being called to die for our country, but we are called to live for it. "Men, you are all marksmen - don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Then fire low!" Israel Putnam, repeated by Colonel Prescott to the men, June 1775 at Bunker Hill. Unlike the early revolutionaries, we are not low on ammunition, we are not low on ideas and convictions, and we don’t have to wait until the opposition is physically upon us. BTW,

On this episode, we honor Teacher's Week by talking all about education! We begin with Quarantine Corner, where we discuss our latest home hijinx (which is mostly just Mindy playing Animal Crossing). We also introduce a special guest, Mindy's niece Becky, who teaches first grade. She shares some funny kid's prayers before Josh talks about a particularly cruel Florida Man. Mindy then talks about one of America's greatest educators, Jaime Escalante. We wrap up by playing an educational game of Spot the Real featuring strange things that have been banned at schools!

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This week on “The Learning Curve” Cara and Gerard continue coverage of COVID-19's impact on K-12 education, joined by Jay Mathews, Washington Post education columnist. They discuss the unique moment presented by COVID-19, and how it has reinforced the value of classroom teachers, but has also increased uncertainty about the future of testing and accountability. They also talk about Jay's widely... Source

Elizabeth discusses alternative methods of treating autism with Mieko Hester-Perez, and the film, Imprisoned, starring Lawrence Fishburn, and Edward James Olmos.

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In the past three episodes, we have looked at three great teachers: basketball coach John Wooden, mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante, and primary school teacher Marva Collins. Each has their own domain of expertise (basketball, mathematics, and literature) and age of students (university, high school, and primary school). Are there any ways in which we can generalise about them? A list of features that tend to make teachers likely to be nominated as "favourite" teachers are given in You Haven't Taught Until They've Learned (the book about John Wooden), and they are mostly true of the above three that we've looked at in detail. Here is the list: They make learning engaging; They have a passion for the material; They have deep subject knowledge; They are extremely organised; They are intense; They know students need to be recognised for even small progress; They treat everyone with respect; They are fair; They believe that all students are natural learners; They make it implicitly known that they like being with their students; They place priority on individualised teaching. There are also some notable absences from this list, such as giving students autonomy, focusing on learning styles, teaching generalisable skills rather than content knowledge, and having a student-centred approach. I also made my own list of features that they have in common, as follows: They use drills; They focus on fundamentals; They are highly didactic (rather than using e.g. group work or problem-based learning); They hold power/authority, and lead the class; They show warmth/love to their students; They take responsibility for the students' learning; They are very dedicated; Unfortunately, they are poorly paid; They have long-term effects on their students. Enjoy the episode.

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In Falken's Maze, technologist and former professor Jason Thomas explores the intersection of technology, history, and culture. Created for listeners nostalgic for the 80s but who also want to understand the complexities of today, our show demystifies the world's most compelling technologies and events through 80's movies, music, and television. This is where history, tech, and retro pop collide. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend, leave a review, click some stars!! Find us online at www.falkenspodcast.com. References: Binary and Data (Khan Academy) Jaime Escalante Biography Jaime Escalante, Inspiration for a Movie, Dies at 79 Stand and Deliver Clip Music: CBS Special Presentation Intro Street Dancing by Timecrawler 82 is Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (4.0) International license Paint The Sky by Dysfunction_AL (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Right About Time Open Music Revolution Innovation Open Music Revolution

In 29 years as Director of the Pioneer High School Summer Math Academy and Escalante Program – an accelerated math program for middle and high school students – Pioneer math teacher Javier Gonzalez has channeled the groundbreaking teaching approach of his friend and mentor, former Garfield High School calculus teacher Jaime Escalante, whose exploits were chronicled in the 1988 movie, “Stand and Deliver.” Joined by Pioneer Class of 2017 graduate and Math Academy tutor Alejandro Vazquez, Gonzalez discusses Escalante’s legacy, making math fun for students, and meeting President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office after being named California Teacher of the Year in 1996.

In 29 years as Director of the Pioneer High School Summer Math Academy and Escalante Program – an accelerated math program for middle and high school students – Pioneer math teacher Javier Gonzalez has channeled the groundbreaking teaching approach of his friend and mentor, former Garfield High School calculus teacher Jaime Escalante, whose exploits were chronicled in the 1988 movie, “Stand and Deliver.” Joined by Pioneer Class of 2017 graduate and Math Academy tutor Alejandro Vazquez, Gonzalez discusses Escalante’s legacy, making math fun for students, and meeting President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office after being named California Teacher of the Year in 1996.

Actor and activist Edward James Olmos has created a string of iconic roles over the past 45 years, including in 'Battlestar Galactica,' 'Zoot Suit,' 'Bladerunner,' 'Miami Vice,' and 'Stand and Deliver.' My partner Andrea Vaucher and I caught up with Olmos last month at the Panama International Film Festival, at festival headquarters in the Central Hotel in the Casco Viejo, the oldest area of 500-year-old Panama City, Panama. Olmos at the festival for a 30th anniversary screening of 'Stand and Deliver,' the biopic about East Los Angeles high school math teacher Jaime Escalante. His portrayal of Escalante brought Olmos his first Academy Award nomination, though, as Olmos tells it, cobbling together the funds to get "Stand" made was one of the more unusual film finance stories ever. Olmos also introduced the festival's closing-night film, 'The Sentence,' a documentary about controversial drug-conspiracy laws in the United States. He also talked about why 'Battlestar Galactica' remains important, a decade after its last episode, as it dealt with some of the most meaningful issues ever in a television show. Other topics include what it was like growing up in wildly diverse East L.A. after WWII, how Olmos tried, repeatedly, to turn down the role of Lt. Castillo in 'Miami Vice.' and why he takes on roles to make a difference in his own growth and that of his community. Give a listen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/davidlbloom/support

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After a short time working at Garfield High School, Jaime Escalante was asked to take over Advanced Placement calculus. Advanced Placement is a type of examination which offers "college credit", meaning that those who pass have a reduced number of courses that they need to take to get a degree. It's a hard exam, basically. Escalante wasn't sure about the programme at first, but soon became keen to take it over and expand it. He felt that it gives an objective view of his work and that of his students, and gives them something to strive towards and be competitive about. Escalante worked hard to push his students. He used every tactic he could think of, from bribes to threats to guilt trips; and he extended study time to before school, after school, lunchtime, and summer break. He worked so hard that one day he had a heart attack, and worked right through it. This story did much to add to his mystique. The calculus classes expanded: first 5, then 8, then 15, and in 1982 there were 18. That was a fateful year, when his students would be accused of cheating by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The accusation would draw attention to this burgeoning calculus programme in what all had assumed to be an academic backwater, and national fame followed. But Escalante would not rest on his laurels. Enjoy the episode.

After the events of summer 1982, when Jaime Escalante's Advanced Placement Calculus students were accused of cheating and then vindicated on a re-test, Escalante had become famous first in local and then national news. The original story about an American institution, ETS, allegedly discriminating based on race to accuse the latino students of cheating, turned into a story of surprise and applause as an "academic sinkhole" like Garfield High managed to have such a large number of students taking AP Calculus. The events of 1982 inspired a film about Jaime Escalante, Stand and Deliver, which spread his fame to an even wider audience. But the film came too early. In the years following 1982, calculus at Garfield High continuedto grow with the same momentum, reaching ever greater heights. After the 18 students taking the exam in 1982, there were 33 in 1983, a whopping 68 in 1984 (more than double the previous year!), and two years later, in 1986, a staggering 151 students took the test, more than eight times as many as in the year that brought Escalante fame. While AP Calculus was in overdrive, other AP programs also began to thrive. Garfield High now offered Advanced Placement courses in History, English, Biology, Physics, French, Government, and Computer Science, with a growing number of students taking these year on year. Within twelve years, Garfield High had transformed from a gang-ridden hole on the brink of being shut down, to an academic beacon with a waiting list of 400 students. It is truly a story worth telling. Enjoy the episode.

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One of the main lessons from the story of Jaime Escalante's career at East LA's Garfeild High School was that it was ultimately a team effort to reach the academic level that the school eventually did. Apart from Escalante himself, there are two figures who stand out as central to the story: Henry Gradillas and Benjamin Jimenez. Gradillas joined Garfield High as a biology teacher after six years in the US army and a short stint as an orchard manager. He saw clear similarities between the young people in his classroom and those who he had been training as an army captain - they were only slightly younger, and they had similar needs, desires, and problems. He would later be promoted to Dean of Discipline and finally Principal (Headmaster) of Garfield High, positions in which he would help deal with Escalante's problem students, and provide him with the resources he needed to make the Advanced Placement Calculus courses a success. Jimenez was one of the other mathematics teachers at Garfield. Impressed with Escalante's classes, he became an apprentice and later collaborator and ally to Escalante. He would go on to run many of the courses preparing students for a the rigours of calculus, and would run some of the calculus classes themselves when the program grew above 100 students. Without Jimenez, Escalante would be left with only uninterested teachers and active enemies in his department, and too much work for one individual to carry out. Escalante himself needs much less introduction, famous as he is. The title of the book is Escalante: The Greatest Teacher in America after all. The book goes into more detail about his background than those of the others. The most interesting thing we hear about his background is how he struggled as a beginning teacher, and the teachers that he admired as he went through his training. It is enlightening to see what his early influences were in terms of his approach to teaching. Enjoy the episode.

Jaime Escalante was a Bolivian teacher who came to Los Angeles in the 1960s. After joining the chaotic failing school Garfield High as a mathematics teacher in 1974, he soon began an Advanced Placement Calculus program that grew to an unheard of size for such a disadvantaged community. In 1982, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which wrote and marked the tests, suspected Garfield High students of cheating. This led to interest from the media and later fame for Escalante as people started to take notice of what was happening at the school. Soon after, the film Stand and Deliver was produced based on Escalante's success up to that point, starring Edward James Olmos in the leading role. However, even this film did not capture the scale of the success at Garfield High, as it came too early. After 1982, the number of students at the school taking AP Calculus continued to climb to stratospheric heights, from 18 in 1982 - already unbelievable to most, hence the media attention - to 33 in 1983, 68 in 1984, and an eye-watering 151 in 1986. Other AP programs also took off, including History, Government, English, Physics, and Computer Science. How did all this happen? What is Escalante's secret? These are pressing questions, as they could lead to a better understanding of how to motivate and teach students, as well as how to turn a failing school around. This book is written as a story, and so the themes and key lessons from it have to be disentangled from the narrative. We will be looking at it in four parts: Introducing the main characters (Jaime Escalante, Henry Gradillas, and Benjamin Jimenez); Considering the two very different approaches to discipline applied at the school, one with disastrous consequences and one that saved the school from closing; Examining how Escalante and his "team" managed to raise standards and achievement; and Admiring the "glory years", after 1982, when the whole school was on the academic upsurge. There are several lessons to take from the story of Escalante and Garfield High. I hope you enjoy learning from this exceptional case study as much as I have. Enjoy the episode.

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Welcome back to I'll Show You Mine! This week, Elyse shows James "Stand and Deliver" from 1988. Based on the inspiring true story of Jaime Escalante, the movie follows a determined math teacher as he tries to teach his East LA students calculus and get them to pass the Advanced Placement test.Join us as we discuss Stand and Deliver's place in the Mexican-American film canon, Elyse gets emotional over the icon Edward James Olmos, we consider our own experiences with AP classes, and we forget the name of Angel's friend (It's Chuco).Our next episode will be February 13th, when James shows Elyse "Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island" for the SNES.Follow @isympodcast on Twitter for show updates and more, and be sure to check out twitch.tv/sparkmandesigns for streaming games and art!Our theme song is:Dreams by Joakim Karud @joakimkarudCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Actor and director Edward James Olmos, best known for his roles including patriarch Abraham Quintanilla Jr. in the film “Selena,” his Oscar-nominated roles as teacher Jaime Escalante in “Stand and Deliver,” and Detective Gaff in “Blade Runner” and “Blade Runner 2049,” joins us to discuss the new Criterion Collection release of “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.”

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Join Babelito and FavyFav as they talk about the legacy of America's favorite calculus high school teacher, Jaime Escalante, with special guest Brandon Lima. They get into the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, the education system, racial-mansplaining and GANAS!

It’s back to school week here at Mass Moviecide!  This week, we celebrate a couple of great teachers (whether fictional or not)!  First up, we’re watching the true story of Jaime Escalante.  It’s STAND AND DELIVER, directed by Ramon Menendez and starring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Andy Garcia.  After that, we head on down to music class with MR HOLLANDS OPUS, directed by Stephen Herek and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, and William H. Macy. Composition notebooks and number 2 pencils at the ready, folks!  It’s time to commit MASS MOVIECIDE!