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The saying: “When someone plays Beethoven poorly, you don’t blame Beethoven, you blame the player.” can describe an approach we take for training at MCC/OKC because we want to encourage growth and development for multiple reasons: One very important reason is that the days of a team member hiring on and staying for 30-35 years seems to be becoming more rare. *As long as the team members are growing they are less likely to be going! Using training and development and VPO tools to encourage long term career growth and sustainable performance. #learninganddevelopment #training #vpo #careergrowth #oklahomacity #oklahoma #manufacturing

YOUNG ONES 2024 CALL FOR ENTRIES Young Ones is The One Club for Creativity 's competition for students and recent graduates across creative disciplines. Young Ones is home to four unique competitions — Young Ones ADC, One Show, Portfolio, and TDC. For countless creatives worldwide, winning a One Show Pencil or ADC Cube is a dream come true. But dreams have to start somewhere, and for that, we have the Young Ones Student Awards. This global creative competition challenges students in creative studies to put their best foot forward in hopes of winning one of the first honors of their burgeoning careers. REGULAR ENTRY DEADLINE March 1 | $55 Entry Fee EXTENDED ENTRY DEADLINE March 13 | $65 Entry Fee WANT TO SAVE 10% ON YOUR ENTRIES? Student and Faculty members of The One Club for Creativity and TDC save 10% on all entries during the Early Entry and Regular Entry Deadlines. PLUS, REGIONAL DISCOUNTS! To make Young Ones more accessible for international entrants, automatic discounts will be applied to entries from specific countries and regions to account for an unfair disadvantage from the value of their local currency in comparison to the US Dollar. For more information, visit youngones.org!

In our latest USC Thornton Student Ambassador blog, Madeline Cheng, Tanner Dodt and Celine Chen discuss the extracurricular opportunities on campus. They share some ways they've been able to explore their interests and get involved in the USC community. Learn more about getting involved at USC below.

How do you fuel the creative spark in your students? Five years ago, my 11-year-old son introduced me to his new classmate and friend, Tate Boccaccio. I left my first conversation with Tate in awe. He had a sophisticated knowledge base of theatre that rivaled my theatrically-trained friends, and he had a robust drive to want to be a part of creating the theatrical experience, not as an actor, but in the painstaking and largely invisible work done behind the scenes. Over the last five years, I've been following Tate’s progress with great interest. I have heard about his experiences in light and sound design, working in local productions, and interning at professional theaters.  In the fall, he asked me if I could speak with the TEDx group he had helped organize with his classmates at his high school.  I was delighted to accept and once again impressed with Tate's ability, but this time because of his leadership style.  Now 16 years old, I could clearly see his ability to guide the group while maintaining his naturally calm and kind demeanor.  Through Tate's leadership, coupled with the guidance from a wonderful, dedicated teacher at Nichols School, Claudia O'Keefe, they presented the first-ever TEDX Nichols Youth event this past week!  Watching eight high schoolers present their big ideas was a huge pleasure.  However, my mind was also drawn behind the scenes to Tate. Even though he wasn’t visible on stage, I could sense his creative vision in all aspects of the event. This TedX event was driven by Tate’s tenacity and dedication to a vision. He not only led the technical side but also took on the role of inspiring creativity and encouraging his classmates at every stage of the creative process. In our educational systems, we need to do more to fuel the creative sparks in our students, particularly the ones who may not fit into traditional academic models but have the incredible potential to shape the world in unique and creative ways.  How do you fuel the creative spark in your students? #tedx #creativity #ideasworthspreading #education

A beautiful article by Dennie Palmer Wolf that urges us to be more active, more innovative in providing earlier pathways to leadership in arts organizations for promising young emerging talent. How can YOU contribute the future? https://lnkd.in/gKW6gCa2

We rightly focus a lot on nurturing young people's creativity, innovation and collaboration - but it's less often that we think about whether we embody this as a global education community. It's essential to achieve our goals. Find out more from Euan Wilmshurst, who recently shared his thoughts on the power of creativity and partnerships for our blog: https://lnkd.in/eBqCvu-4

Hope to see many of you at the NAGC23 Conference Nov. 9 - 12 in Walt Disney World - home to some of the world's most innovative! What if we viewed every learner as tomorrow's innovator, today? Check out my session on Friday @10:30: Every Child an Innovator: Teach and Assess the Seven Aptitudes of Innovators. No time to teach creativity? What if your instructional goals empowered you to develop the “aptitudes of innovators”—curiosity, creativity, logical reasoning, insight, metacognition, persistence, leadership—all in the context of your required curriculum? Learn the five practical steps for creating and assessing talent-targeted goals in STEM and humanities. You can nurture and advance the aptitudes of innovators in all.

"What is your vision for the Business Department?" Dr. Spears' answer to my question is one of the reasons I accepted the offer to teach at Warner Pacific. His answer was solidly focused on innovation to meet the needs of the students and the demands of the employment market. Showcasing that he means what he says, this article introduces two new innovative programs Warner is now offering students. #withpurpose #knights #innovativelearning https://lnkd.in/gP7_frxF

MAKE SURE TO COLLECT POSSIBILITIES As I was learning the Texas two-step at Austin's historic Broken Spoke dance hall on the last day of SXSW EDU, I was thinking about how I would sum up my experience at the conference. What immediately came time mind is that it expanded ideas and possibilities. At a time when extremists are banning books, history lessons, and topics that they don't like in order to marginalize underrepresented communities and shrink possibilities, it was amazing for educators to see extended opportunities in teaching and training. There were some amazing sessions on book banning and critical race theory too. For me, I realized many of the positive things that AI will be bringing to the classroom, that using visuals helps participants learn, that humor when done in a positive way can enable concepts to stick, and so so much more. Also, the large number of varied roles in the education industry impressed me and I was reminded of the production business where the average number of crew credited on a major studio film is about 600. So as I leave, perhaps not as a better dancer but as a more informed educator, I challenge all of you to look for opportunities and possibilities to improve your life and make the world a better place. As always, I'll be pulling for you. #education #educationalleadership #teaching #teachingandlearning #industry #possible #possibilities #dance #austinevents #austin