My history began when my children were in elementary school. Today they are a math teacher, a music teacher, and a magazine editor. My grandchildren are in Kindergarten, 6th grade, 10th grade and 12th grade. My brother was in construction and wrote software to run his business. No computer store in town, he started one. That is where my father’s first computer came to his house and mine. My other brother was a programmer.
My What inspires kids now?
Babbling on … I do that when I see a neighbor or hear from a friend. For me it is brainstorming. Afterwards sometimes on second thought, I regret what I said. I fear it was perceived differently from what I meant. What is the secret language with people – trees have a secret language.
Babbling on is a quote from Chapter 7 “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” our October 2021 AAUW book for conversation. … adventure and curiosity … war … building things together.
Friends, when I babble on, please let me know. I am working on tolerance and patience and I need to know what you think as that is the best way to learn and grow from our differences. Help me to pause, breathe and listen as I do tend to go on, and on.
Thank you!!
WANT: I ran into 4 angels today on my Bella walk pathway. Now I can share the answer. I want to be able to live by myself when I am 90 and not be a burden to my children and grandchildren. Asked a friend and she said, “I want to be able to sleep all night.” I did a high-five as I do too.
ROADBLOCK: Listened to Brene’ Brown. Watched a Masterclass on sleep and one solution is to write down worries. Stress trying to do too much. Trying to decide if my times goes into free discussion or if I should censor my voice. My problem is I act on too many ideas, I do open my mouth. But then maybe that is what I want, to have fun sharing my ideas and find little steps I can help others where needed.
NEED: Educated voters! Listening to 21 Lessons for the 21st century that inspired me to going to continue on my quest get laws in place. We can ask these excellent questions form Chapter 7 and start the discussion in high school classrooms.
“If the politicians don’t understand the questions, or talk about the past instead of vision for the future, don’t vote for them.” – Why not use 5 simple words instead? I don’t agree with some of the ideas in this book such as the Post-Truth and Science Fiction chapters. Would love to have a chat about this.
Paul Castro said every random act helps. #RAKDavid
“All of those things are making the world better. And those are the things that give us the energy and the strength to face the next day. It is impossible to explain to anyone what it’s like to lose a child. I don’t know where we would be without the support of our friends and family, and really, strangers.”
Here are a few RAKs:
I am on the watch to give a helping hand when I can and share my ideas. And hope David’s memory grows kindness.
Searched the word “KINDNESS” on Ted.com and this 2009 talk was first. Researched Jonathan Zittrain and discovered he is a professor at Harvard. This is where one of our NCWIT AiC winners is going to go. Then saw he is looking for a research assistant. What a connection to make. The award application asks “Describe a problem that you would like TO SOLVE using technology and explain HOW you would solve it.” I would like to add:
Please help me answer my questions as a computer science teacher since 1985 who had an Internet connection in her classroom since the beginning. The administration did not trust teachers to have a telephone in their classroom. I asked for an Internet connection and modem to hook up to an Apple IIE. So I got a telephone in my classroom and teachers asked me how I got one when they didn’t have one.
My goal is to learn to be a better listen! Sit on a bench and offer RAKs as needed. To listen to the benches in social media.
Here is one of my brainstorms for #RAKDavid, but never felt right to add so storing here as a way to share with those who build future engineers.
Watching the launch today inspired me to call a teacher I know about a project Idea that connects to our passions. Hoping that chatting can help her through a difficult time. That was my RAK, to take time to share an idea and she is now going to do the same thing . We chatted about suggesting to Bezos to take a teacher up in the Blue Origin. Amazon is already a partner with the https://www.amazonfutureengineer.com/middle-high-school program in their schools.
July 14, 2021 – Houston Prep presentation on Zoom after years of F2F.
Brain Break – Dancing with the Bees.
I am a teacher.
I love creating and sharing lessons.
But most, I enjoy talking to students and seeing what they create.
I use EPL methodology created by Ridley Scott. That means, go with the flow. Plan as you go based on current events and the audience questions. When it snowed I took my students outside to taste the snowflakes and cancelled my lesson plan. We researched snowflakes and created digital art instead of the scheduled activity. Please ask questions to go down your pathway!!
Environmental Planning 4 Learning is our future paradigm shift classroom, I hope. Are we Frozen in time? Do you think you might want to be a teacher? My first job was as at a brokerage firm analyzing markets. After 3 children attended a career interest course and it pointed to being a teacher. Best decision I ever made.
Frances “Poppy” Northcutt is a Texas attorney who began her career as a “computress” and then an engineer for the technical staff on NASA’s Apollo Program during the space race. During the Apollo 8 mission, she became the first female engineer to work in NASA’s Mission Control.
… Loud Mouth, Warrior, unusual cases, refugees, proof, Africa, realities of the world … So … what do you think?
Rocket Scientist … Computress
… Hidden Figures, Code Breaking, Women’s Studies, 954 Wage Laws, Promotion, Technical Staff, Team Work Advocates, Progressive Contractor Advocate, Who is best? … Does this bring to mind anything on this blog site?
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… Stereotypes, STEM Program Expanding Your Horizons Valuable, Equal Pay, $7 million, Custom Yoga Pants, Secure Future, Discrimination, Lucky One – Why Involved in Women’s Rights, AAUW Great History, Equal Rights, Equal Pay Act failed by one vote this week, Violence Against Women Act still unfunded, Speed Dial Congressman, text with resist.bot, Voter Registrar, … Do you think being an educated voter should be a priority?
… Backward with computer science, dropped in 1/2, why? as money goes up women go down. You can register people in high school, do something where earn a living, need role models, that is what women do, if teaches a women to read will teach her child, her husband, her parents. If teach a man stops there …
Poppy is an inspiring champion of change!. Our next steps for AAUW-WHC can be heard at our New Member Coffee on August 28, 2021 … Please let us know if you would like to join our group of WISE Leaders.
My current listen to book while gardening – best place to have small wins when a flower grow. To grow minds education’s focus should be on quality control and feedback giving the opportunity for learners to share their small wins. For me it’s about the tiny tweak change agents. I found one of the best which comes next.
…. What was fun?
…………Having a Great Day in Houston Cleaning.
Listening to story telling from the heart with Debra Duncan as she connects the dots :))
If you would like to find out why Debra came to sit in my kitchen having a conversation with me, you will just have to log onto Great Day Houston.
Now to ingrain the habit of keeping my house clean as if there was a party happening. So, let’s party everyday. Keep the small wins going.
… with this video from my daughter who arranged for my carpet to be cleaned.
Want to be part of creating small wins for you youth?
Had a fun day watching the filming by Great Day Houston.
While J.J. Zavalla the Producer was capturing footage, I had an opportunity to chat with Debra Duncan. One takeaway was the suggestion of laying water lines when the oil companies laid pipe lines. My 12 grade grandson Gage knew her son from the after school program at Idea Lab where he learned to code Mindcraft.
That someone is my grandson. Someone Builds the Dream was my Hunters Creek Elementary 5th grade graduation gift. So looking forward to seeing his dreams of being an architect grow.