2020 GlobalMindED
The Future of Work is Diverse, Inclusive, Just and Equitable
GlobalMindED closes the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline through connections to role models, mentors, internships for low-income students, returning adults, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.
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This week and next, readers will meet our outstanding GlobalMindED Ambassadors like Kya Welch thanks to our partnership with Every Learner Everywhere. You will learn first hand what these strong students have been through and how their determination defines their destiny. You will see why working with these students in your own diverse talent pipeline will enrich your company and your mission. Kyra is part of our cohort of students who produced two reports, Student Speak: Student Voices Informing Educational Strategies and Peer to Peer Students Speak, and for whom our 2020 Inclusive Leader Awards (link to view the ceremony) and mentors are some among many role models. Students like Kyra are our guides to a better future- one of respect, unity, collaboration, judgment, service and resiliency are some among many role models.
Sign up below for our January Equity Team events:
- 1/19 Higher Ed - Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: This Time is Now - How Do We Stop Deferring the Dream?
- 1/21 Black Women Democratizing Tech: Creating Space for Success
- 1/26 STEM - Downstream Impact of Unconscious Bias and Subconscious Discouragement
- 1/28 K-12 - Recognizing Our Collective Cultural Identity: Teaching and Leading with Truth and Tolerance
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Being Strong vs. Strength
My name is Kyra Welch, hailing from the wonderful city of Louisville, Kentucky. I am a second year psychology sophomore at the illustrious Bethune- Cookman University.
“Strong” is a word that has been used to describe me my entire life. When I was called strong at the age of eight, it was because I could lift up my mother using all of the power in my body. However, at the age of ten, the word strong had lost all of its physical connotations. In the span of two years I had gone from lifting my mother to show her my strength, to having to lift her name in the light of injustice. The kind of strength some people never have to channel within their entire lifetime.
In 2011, I lost my mother to police brutality. Present day it is so common, it almost sounds like I lost her to an illness. But police brutality isn’t a disease, it is a crime. That day a mother was gunned down in front of her two children. I was ten at the time and my brother was six. She wasn’t just my mother she was my mentor, guide, light, and superhero. Much like a real superhero I thought she was invincible. Despite the trauma I had witnessed that day, I still believed that she’d fly in from the magical planet of Virgos and resume her motherly duties. I prayed that I had been a part of some sort of social experiment. The thing about being a witness to a crime so heinous, is that people look at you in so many different ways. I was a victim, a witness, and a mouthpiece. A victim that was robbed of her single mother, a witness who had to give depositions to grown men trying to win a legal case (only to settle and still have to find a way to pay for college years later), and a mouth piece for an uncreated black lives matter movement. Before Black Lives Matter officially became a thing, 11- year- old me was speaking on local panels to share my story. It didn’t receive the traction of course but it felt like I was doing what needed to be done. I didn’t feel like a witness, I felt like a warrior. In the early on stages I would hate being told I was strong. I didn’t want to be strong, I wanted to cry like a child who lost their mother because I was a child who indeed had just lost their mother.
The funny thing about strength is that you don’t get to choose when it develops. It just happens. And when it happens you become unstoppable. And that is exactly what I’ve become. My high school years were filled with fighting and being a mouthpiece for injustice. Instead of a victim I was victorious. And I still am. Although I have taken a break from the physical fight, I have begun the fight for peace in the mind. Along with my studies in psychology, I am also on my spiritual journey. This journey has helped me realize that healing the soul as well as the mind is crucial to living a meaningful life. A principle I hope to carry over into my career (as soon as I narrow it down). Anyways, the point is that strength doesn’t have to be brooding or loud. It is an inner power that we channel when we least expect it. Don’t waste all of your strength trying to show people you are strong.
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IT'S IGIANT TIME FOR PRECISION INNOVATION IN SPACE
an EXPLORE MARS Web Event
Join us at 1:00 pm EST on Thursday, January 14th for our first webinar of 2021, which is entitled, "It's iGiant Time for Precision Innovation in Space." This session will feature Dr. Saralyn Mark, President and Founder of iGiant. The discussion will be facilitated by Explore Mars President, Janet Ivey.
As we prepare to send both women and men to the Moon and on to Mars, mission planners must take into consideration that men and women adapt to space differently, where even small differences significantly impact the quality and safety of life, including astronaut work performance. It is imperative that NASA and its commercial space partners address these differences in how they plan and conduct missions, how they develop products such as spacesuits, high performance clothing including liquid cooling and ventilation garments, tools, hardware and machine-human interfaces, and how they establish extravehicular activity (EVA) training protocols and medical guidelines for countermeasures and precision medicine.
Panelists will include:
Facilitator: Janet Ivey (President, Explore Mars, Inc.)
Dr. Saralyn Mark (President and Founder of iGiant)
When: Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm EST
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Join a special panel of educational leaders in the second webinar of our two-part series in partnership the School Superintendents Association (AASA) to discuss building equity in schools in difficult times.
The Resilient Schools Project: Sharing Strategies with Superintendents – PART 2
Thursday, Jan 14 @ 4pm ET
We will cover such questions as:
- What are leaders learning by coming together as a cohort of leaders committed to reimagining school for their students?
- How has equity played a role in the decision-making process to reopen schools?
- What types of strategies are being employed to leverage the parent, and local community, voice in supporting what schools need?
- Where does technology fit in driving an increase in access and equity to level the playing field for ALL learners?
The Resilient Schools Project (RSP) is a collective of 12 districts across the country that have been at the forefront of near, short and long-term school transformation. Schools that plan for today, tomorrow, and an unknown year to follow are proving to be in an incredible position to serve their students, teachers and local communities in powerful way
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GlobalMindED and the SDG Impact Fund are delighted to announce GlobalMindED's Donor Advised Fund. 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Women's Declaration and Action Platform. Many from around the world are thinking of 2020 as the gateway to our most vital decade for delivering equity, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a world where all can thrive. Our key time for these outcomes is 2020-2030.
GlobalMindED DAF and the SDG Impact Fund are a powerful combined force for good as the 2019 year comes to a close and we reflect on the gratitude and the commitments we make to the causes we care most about. The DAF offers immense power and flexibility for giving prior to the year's end as you plant seeds of generous intention for 2020 and the decade ahead.
When you contribute to GlobalMindED, you support First Gen students. We have served more than 400 students by connecting them to role models, mentors, internships and jobs. Your generous support will allow us to take our work 10x and reach these talented students at scale who lack the resources and support we provide. Your support also helps teachers who can't afford the conference fees, faculty at colleges which are under resourced and students who persist at those universities despite food insecurity and/or housing insecurity.
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Links to read about Inclusive Leaders, many of whom are African American and people of color:
Curated sessions from GlobalMindED 2020 YouTube channel:
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From the Center for Positive Organizations:
From the Economist:
From Forbes:
From Harvard Business Review:
From the World Academy of Art & Science and UN; Geneva Global Leadership in the 21st Century econference:
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Listen here for an interview with Pam Newkirk, GlobalMindED speaker and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business.
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Meet GlobalMindED Founder, Carol Carter as interviewed by Tim Moore on his podcast Success Made to Last: From Success to Significance
Listen to Part 1 of Carol's interview
Listen to Part 2 of Carol's interview
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Recent GlobalMindED Newsletter Profiles:
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Since 2006 when the flagship TGR Learning Lab opened its doors in Anaheim, CA, TGR Foundation has had a lot to celebrate, including its most recent milestone of one million students impacted by TGR EDU: Explore, alone.
Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, TGR EDU: Explore is a free digital resource library that offers interactive web experiences, lesson plans, training videos and tools for educators, students and families to explore new disciplines and gain skills for a modern and expanding workforce.
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As you start the New Year, are you looking for ways to re-engineer your classroom culture? Check out Designing the Future: How Engineering Builds Creative Critical Thinking in the Classroom. The associated website has lots of activities, projects, and resources you can implement immediately. Our fall workshops using the book as a roadmap for change have been highly successful. Start designing the future today - try using the customized Study Guide for a book study in your PLC. Or contact ProjectEngin or Solution Tree to learn how you can bring professional development based on Ann's book to your school, district, or conference.
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THE FLYOVER NATION
Energy's Role in a Troubled Heartland
By J.C. Whorton
A unique and timely discussion of the challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland.
Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has played a historic role in shaping its communities. Today, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population.
As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”?
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J.C. Whorton is a senior level energy and financial professional with over forty years of essential experience. Having a ranching and Native American heritage, Mr. Whorton is a strong advocate for rural education and economic development initiatives.
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