Episode 137 - Changing Educational Experiences with Lasada Pippen
For parents who have school-aged children, it is the most wonderful time of the year when the children are gone from the house and return to places of learning, or at least someplace other than bothering their parents. We love are children dearly, but loving them when they are somewhere else is a welcome reprieve.
Each new school year presents some amount of changes in how education is done. Part of this is rooted in our evolving understanding and adoption of modes of teaching. Even though teaching is by no means a new endeavor, changes in society whether it be the culture, technology, social patterns, media, and the like are going to impact what happens in education. New material might be introduced, new topics explored, new things tried. Education, especially today, can be an idea incubator where experimentation not only needs to happen, but needs to be embraced.
At the same time, there are a lot of pressures being exerted on education. Political pressures around the presence or absence of implicit or explicit ideologies. The competition for children’s attention, which is being dominated and shaped by technology. Cuts in budgets, resulting in fewer staff members and resources. Teachers being asked to not only teach, but also counsel, care for, emotionally support, and mentor students. There is a lot of going on, and a lot of pressure being exerted from different directions. While pressure can turn coal into diamonds, pressure also can cause things to implode.
Good thing that today’s guest is with Lasada Pippen, who also goes by LP. LP had a career as an Exchange Administrator and Exchange Messaging Engineer, and if you don’t know what that is, you soon will. He was a first-generation college student, majoring in engineering as a way to build economic security that he didn’t necessarily have growing up. While achieving that goal, he still felt there was a lot missing, which has led him to his real passion of helping to create change.
Today he is a much sought-after speaker and advisor for a range of organizations, including educational institutions. We talk about how he is able to help kids who were just like him in the sense that they weren’t motivated to achieve much and didn’t have direction or vision. He emphasizes that rather than telling people how they should be doing their jobs, he listens and helps them to think differently about their jobs. He also shares the four simple questions for chasing your dreams: Is it something you love, are you good at it, how can you get paid for it, and how does it help someone else.
Lasada Pippen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lasada-pippen-keynote/
Lasada Pippen Website: https://lasadapippen.com
Lasada Pippen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lasadapippen/
Episode Intro Music - The Tall Pines - “The Key”
Episode Ending Music - Ketsa - ”Dreaming Days”
