Liberating education: how schools can empower and transform | Trish Millines Dziko | TEDxSeattle
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Published 2022-03-16
She explains how her nonprofit organization successfully collaborates with public schools to help change school culture, implement project-based learning, center racial equity, and enable students to actively participate in their own education. Through real-world examples and stories, Trish’s talk challenges us to consider how we can promote student-centered teaching, and ensure our schools are educating, and not just “schooling” our youth.
00:55: Project based learning explained
10:20 Steps to rebuild public education
More to explore:
Learn more about Trish’s organization, Technology Access Foundation
techaccess.org/
Read about educator and philosopher Paolo Friere, quoted in Trish’s talk
www.freire.org/paulo-freire/
Watch 16-year-old E Wen Wong talk about how project based learning inspired her
www.ted.com/talks/e_wen_wong_how_project_based_lea… Meet Trish Millines Dziko: co-founder of Technology Access Foundation, and a passionate advocate for developing the genius in all children in our public schools. At least once a year, Trish has a moment where she realizes she is doing exactly what she was meant to do.
Raised with the belief that we have a responsibility to care for our communities, Trish is inspired by James Baldwin’s words, “For these are all our children. We will profit by, or pay for, whatever they become.”
Twenty-five years ago, Trish was traveling the country for Microsoft, recruiting college-level, technically-trained people of color, but finding only a small pool of candidates. Seeing this shortage, and reflecting on her own experience being discriminated against for her race and gender in the work world, Trish was inspired. She embarked on her own mission to ensure students of color have opportunities in the booming tech fields and that companies create environments where they can thrive.
With a commitment to recognizing and developing the genius in all children, Trish co-founded the Seattle-based Technology Access Foundation (TAF), a nonprofit that creates access to transformative systems of learning for students and teachers of color to eliminate race-based disparities in our increasingly diverse society.
Through Trish’s leadership as Executive Director, TAF became a statewide leader in public education, creating 2 co-managed public schools, partnering with public schools to promote the highest level of student learning, and increasing the number of teachers of color through the Martinez Fellowship. Trish has been recognized for her work with numerous awards including the YWCA Dorothy I Height Racial Justice Award, US News 100 Women Leaders in STEM, Seattle Business Magazine Tech Impact Champion, and Senator Maria Cantwell Women of Valor Award.
Where we are, Trish believes, is a moment of possibility, a crucial moment where - if we act quickly and with strength - we can transform our public schools to get rid of deficit thinking and focus instead on what would happen if every child had what they need to succeed. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
All Comments (21)
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I’m giving MY children freedom by being a non-conformist myself, I’m homeschooling them.
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As an early childhood teacher/professional.... Professional development is important!
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This has got to be one of my favourite TED talks! Truly, a well spoken educator sharing ideas. It would be wonderful bringing up kids in such an environment, we would surely have less existential crisises and better mental health at the least.
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Thank you so much for this! As a retired special teacher who worked through a time before standardized testing also known as no child left behind, this was a major reason I retired early, at the schools I worked in we were encouraged to use this type of teaching, that time is long gone, but it is so effective!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
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I strive to be a teacher in that system, and if it will not come to my country quickly enough, I will try to bring it into existence myself
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I'm 38 years old I'm jealous cause I wish this new plan was in my years of public schooling, well good luck to the next generation
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Project based learning very much an engineering mindset and design thinking methodology. Here for it ❤️
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An amazing argument against traditional teaching methods. Students deserve to be given the tools to succeed, and I’m happy you’re moving to work to give ALL students that power.
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Interesting!To transform school must to do a great rotation.Trinome🔺:-Teachers,pupels,parents
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Amaing speech! 100% agree with it!
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An amazingly creative approach! Critical thinking, team building, communication skills - all these are essential. What about the building blocks - beginning with the 3 R's and the STEM knowledge needed to take on projects such as the one presented? Or is that a given?
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Let’s promote erudition! Some are more suited for the PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM but many are ready to blast into the limitless opportunity for insatiable improvement.
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Imma have ya'll take a look at the dutch education system. Thankyou very much
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Great concept but wonder how you incorporate disabled, chronic illness and developmental delayed students into this model.
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Sure, let’s pretend public schools aren’t indoctrination camps. Student loan debt and a 10 year loan on an electric car is what every kid should be striving for.
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Best of the best
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Roots of the tree are known only to that tree, trees works harder deep inside the soli to collect minerals and water, outcome of the hardwork are seen by world in the form of trunk, leaves, fruits, people think how luck is that tree but the actual hardwork known only to that tree, likewise work hard inside your body, mind results of your hard work will be seen by world in the form of success. 😃 Have a nice day 😊
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Eliminate ideology... especially the identitarians. Decentralized and minimize class sizes. SCHOOL CHOICE NOW.
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One of the reasons I won’t have kids is because of the dreadful state of the public education. I doubt I could afford private, and then kids who go that route often end up snooty and arrogant. It’s a relic of the days of Victorian factories and mass production. Hopefully that’ll change one day though there are too many vested interests in keeping the current system going despite its manifest failures.
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Motivational speech. But What if there is huge barrier in cognitive thinking or creative thinking more than couple of generation and generations.
