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Elon Musk's views on education Elon Musk started the "Ad Astra" school which came to be in high demand and which then converted to Astra Nova, an online school for students ages 10-14.
Elon Musk Wants To Revolutionise our Education
Most teaching today is a lot like Boredville. As a result, just not that compelling. It's like
somebody's standing up there and lecturing to you, and they've done the same lecture
several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged.
People learn and are interested in different things at different paces. Some people love English or languages, some people love math, some people love music. And different abilities, different times.
You really want to disconnect the whole grade level thing from the subjects. Allow people to
progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in in each subject. From like fifth
grade to sixth grade to seventh grade. Like it's an assembly line. But people are not objects
on an assembly line. That's a ridiculous notion. That seems like a really obvious thing.
We generally want education to be like as close to a video game as possible. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling, far easier to do.
It's important to teach problem-solving or teach to the problem, not to the tools.
Let's say you're trying to teach people about how engines work. You could start by a more traditional approach. You would really say, "Well, we're going to teach you all about screwdrivers and wrenches." And you have a course on screwdrivers, a course on wrenches, and all these things. This is a very difficult way to do it.
A much better way would be like, "Here's the engine, now let's take it apart. How are we going to take it apart?" "Ah, you need a screwdriver, that's what the screwdriver is for." "You need a wrench, that's
what the wrench is for." And then a very important thing happens, which is that the relevance
of tools becomes apparent. When you see something like the Khan Academy and stuff like that,
it's probably going in the right direction.
Sal Khan here from Khan Academy, and I just wanted to give a huge shout out and thank you
to Elon Musk and everyone at the Musk Foundation for their incredibly generous support for
Khan Academy. They just recently gave a 5 million dollar donation to Khan Academy.
So, how would you educate your five boys? Actually, I created a little school. They liked it.
Going to keep them away from regular schools. No, I just didn't see the rigorous rules. They
weren't doing the things that I thought should be done.
You're maybe creating a school will be better. And I actually hired a teacher from the school
they were at who also agreed with me that there was a better way to do it. What kind of
school could you subscribe to? Sure, it's only got 14 kids now, and it'll have 20 kids in
September. It's called Ad Astra, which means "to the Stars."
That's maybe a bit different from most other schools. Is that there aren't any grades? There's
no like grade one, grade two, grade three type of thing. I'm making all the children go in the
same grade at the same time.
Do you agree with Peter Thiel about the unnecessariness of university higher education?
I do agree with Peter's point that a university education is often unnecessary. That's not to
say it's unnecessary for all people, but you've probably learned about as much or the vast
majority of what you're going to learn there in the first two years. It introduces you to
concepts you would otherwise have to learn empirically. There are examples of successful
entrepreneurs who never graduated high school, those that have PhDs. So, I think the
important principle is to be dedicated to learning what you need to know, whether that is
in school.
A lot of companies, they do want to see the completion of the degree because they're looking
for someone who's going to persevere and see it through to the end, and that's actually what's
important to them. So, it really depends on what somebody's goal is if the goal is to start a
company.
I would say, no point in finishing college. Any advice? What could we as citizens do? What
could the US government do to make this a better place, to support business, make America an
even better place to start a business?
And I think the United States is pretty great, honestly, definitely the best place in the world to start a business. I think certainly we need to take a look at our immigration laws. There are really talented people doing graduate courses in Engineering at our universities. We really don't want to send them home. We want to try to do everything we can to keep them here because for every one person who's like an ace engineer, there are probably like 10 jobs that will be created if that person stays here. It's a huge multiplier effect. And conversely, if you're missing that special ingredient, it's very difficult to create them.
I think you can learn whatever you need to do to start a successful business, either in school or out of school. Schooling theory should help accelerate that process. But I think people can choose to be not ordinary. I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) 302D
§302D-13 Start-up and conversion charter schools; establishment.
(a) New start-up and conversion charter schools may be established pursuant to this section.
(b) Any community, department school, school community council, group of teachers, group of teachers and administrators, or nonprofit organization may submit a letter of intent to an authorizer to form a charter school[,] and establish [a] an applicant governing board [as its governing body, and]. An applicant governing board may develop a charter application pursuant to this section; provided that:
(1) An applicant governing board established by a community may develop a charter application for a start-up charter school;
(2) An applicant governing board established by a department school or a school community council may develop a charter application for a conversion charter school;
(3) An applicant governing board established by a group of teachers or a group of administrators may develop a charter application for a start-up or conversion charter school; and
(4) A nonprofit organization may:
(A) Establish an applicant governing board that is separate from the nonprofit organization and develop a charter application for a start-up or conversion charter school; or ...(B)...conversion....)
Social emotional learning (SEL) is a methodology that helps students of all ages to better comprehend their emotions, to feel those emotions fully, and demonstrate empathy for others. These learned behaviors are then used to help students make positive, responsible decisions; create frameworks to achieve their goals, and build positive relationships with others." National University
SEL represents a modern and growing approach to help students develop the social and emotional dimensions of their lives. The following is one of the SEL models that HAALA is considering utilizing to help students in this area.
Yale University's RULER approach is a framework for social-emotional learning (SEL) developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. RULER stands for Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate emotions. The approach is designed to support the emotional intelligence and well-being of individuals, particularly in educational settings.
Here's a breakdown of each component of the RULER approach: Recognize: This step involves developing the ability to recognize and be aware of emotions in oneself and others. It includes paying attention to facial expressions, body language, and other cues that indicate emotions. Understand: The next step is to deepen the understanding of emotions by exploring their causes, triggers, and effects. It involves recognizing the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Label: In this step, individuals learn to accurately label and describe their emotions using a rich and diverse emotion vocabulary. This helps in developing emotional granularity and precision in articulating one's feelings. Express: The RULER approach emphasizes the importance of effectively expressing emotions. It encourages individuals to express their emotions in a constructive and appropriate manner, considering the context and the impact on others. Regulate: The final step focuses on developing strategies to regulate and manage emotions. This includes learning techniques for coping with stress, handling conflicts, and fostering positive emotional experiences. The RULER approach is typically implemented in schools as a comprehensive SEL program. It involves integrating SEL into the school curriculum, training teachers and staff, and creating a positive emotional climate within the school community. RULER provides a framework for enhancing emotional intelligence, empathy, and positive relationships, ultimately promoting well-being and academic success. The program includes various strategies and activities, such as mood meters, charter creation, and emotional check-ins, to foster emotional awareness and create a supportive environment. By equipping individuals with the skills to understand and manage their emotions, the RULER approach aims to cultivate emotionally intelligent and resilient individuals who can navigate challenges effectively and build healthy relationships. It's important to note that the information provided here is based on the RULER approach as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021. The program may have evolved or been updated since then. For the most accurate and up-to-date information, it is recommended to visit the official website of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
We were talking about O’ahu yourh out-of-season football camps this afternoon.
Here is another example…..the purpose of the camp….set a performance standard. There are many ways to do this.
Mike Sacharski 
6.14.2023
An inside look at Nick Saban's youth football camp
Kendrick Brinson for ESPN
Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJun 14, 2023, 07:00 AM ET
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TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- THE stifling heat is just beginning to show its teeth on a sun-splashed June morning when Nick Saban sees something he doesn't like on the Alabama practice fields.
"Outside foot, outside foot. Pivot and scoot!" Saban yells as he bursts into the middle of a drill to passionately show how he wants it done.
A few seconds later, he grimaces and turns his ire on one of the assistant coaches.
"Hold it, hold it. We're all messed up. We're in nickel now," he says, stepping forward with his arms restlessly crossed.
Saban is not coaching Dallas Turner, Kool-Aid McKinstry or anybody else on the Crimson Tide football team. But he might as well be. A voice over the loudspeaker, however, makes clear this is a different type of workout.
"Brent Lewis, report to the 50-yard line. We have your helmet."
Lewis is one of the more than 1,100 kids, ages 8 to 13, who have signed up for the legendary coach's youth football camp. Many are under 5 feet tall, and the vast majority won't play Division I ball. But on this day, they all are getting the full Nick Saban experience -- minus some colorful words, perhaps, and with a sprinkling of the innocence and chaos that comes with a group of kids of those ages.
"If these parents are going to pay the money for their kids to come to camp, then we owe it to them to give them the full Alabama experience, to teach them and coach them the right way," Saban says during his only break of the day, a 10-minute respite during a marathon photo shoot that involved shaking hands and taking pictures with every camper.
The campers come from as far away as Germany. They came from Canada and all over the United States, from California to Massachusetts. The youngest son of movie star Matthew McConaughey, 10-year-old Livingston, is on hand to learn from the coach who has won seven national championships and produced 49 NFL first-round draft picks. McConaughey, a huge Texas fan, has been in Birmingham filming a movie, "The Rivals of Amziah King."
The one-day, noncontact camp is intense, fast-paced and filled with meticulous instruction, as one might expect from a camp with Saban's name attached to it.
And Saban is anything but a spectator or a figurehead who makes a 10-minute appearance and lets others do the dirty work. During the early portion of the camp, he hits the ground and does the stretching exercises with the kids, the same regimen Crimson Tide players do before practice. After having hip replacement surgery in 2019, Saban started doing the exercises with his own players to open practice.
Straight leg rise series. Cut the grass series. Rocker series.
"He does them better than most of our players," Alabama head athletic trainer Jeff Allen says.
And all the while, as Saban lies on his back and whips through the stretches like he's still playing college football, he's peering out into the mass of kids to make sure they're not taking any shortcuts.
"It sure ain't babysitting," quips Ellis Ponder, Alabama's chief operating officer for football and executive director of the camp.
THE DAY STARTS with a 7:30 a.m. staff meeting, some 30 people strong, including Ponder's chief assistants: JT Summerford, Brandy Lyerly and Ashleigh Kimble. Every coach on the staff -- even the coordinators making nearly $2 million per year -- participates, working with their own individual groups. Saban passes out an 11-page packet and spells out why they are there in the first place.
"We're here to promote the game, to promote team, which you don't get a lot of in this day and age unless you play sports," Saban says as he rocks back and forth in his chair. "We're going to have to have patience. But above everything else, they need to walk out of here thinking, 'I like football.' Part of the reason kids don't play is that they have a bad experience with a coach when they're young and never play again."
The camp is hardly a revenue producer; it costs just $50 per kid. The only uniform requirement is a helmet. Registration starts months in advance and no walk-ups are accepted.
"It's important to me that every kid has a chance to come regardless of what their financial situation might be," Saban says. "We're not doing this to make money, and it's not a recruiting tool. We have a responsibility to grow the game."
Of course, in the realm of recruiting, you never know what might lead to landing an elite player.
Saban started his youth camp when he was at Michigan State, carried it over to LSU and then Alabama. When he visited highly recruited safety Landon Collins back in 2012 in Collins' home in Geismar, Louisiana, he saw a picture on a mantel of himself and Collins together at LSU's camp when Collins was just 9.
"He grew up right outside Baton Rouge, but told me, 'Coach, it was always a dream to come play for you,'" Saban recounted to his staff.
Collins, ESPN's No. 7 overall prospect in that 2012 signing class, went on to become an All-American at Alabama and a three-time Pro Bowl selection in the NFL.
The first time Saban addresses the campers, he does so in Alabama's indoor practice facility and before they are split into two groups according to age. The kids ages 8-10 stay inside (where it's air-conditioned), and ages 11-13 go outside.
"I'll ask you guys the same thing I first ask our players: 'Why did you come to Alabama, and what do you want to accomplish? What do you want to do?'" says Saban, his voice echoing throughout the indoor facility, with parents standing shoulder-to-shoulder around the artificial turf field.
"Your goals aren't any different. It's important to have goals and aspirations because that's what gives you a sense of purpose."
Saban isn't much into reflection, but he says his thoughts typically drift back to his late father every year when it's time for the kids' camp. Nick Saban Sr. was heavily involved in Pop Warner football in their hometown of Monongah, West Virginia. He drove kids to and from practice in an old school bus, coached the team and did a little bit of everything to help the league.
"My dad loved me, but when I was 9 years old, he was hard as hell on me, and I'm glad he was," Saban says, smiling and surveying the practice fields as the campers scatter to their different stations. "I'm going to be hard as hell on these kids too."
AS THE MORNING session winds down, Saban calls several of the older campers together to take a knee. He places his customary Alabama straw hat on the head of one of the kids right in front of him and doesn't mince words. They are dripping in sweat, and he notices many of them bending over and grabbing their knees during the middle of drills.
"Listen, about 90% of you are doing it the right way," Saban says, his voice rising. "But what are you telling your opponent, the guy you're competing against, when you're bending over like that and grabbing your knees? You know what you're telling him? You're telling him, 'You just kicked my ass.'
"Stand tall, always, no matter how tired you are."
Several parents sit in lawn chairs and lean in to hear every word. Others stand eight to 10 rows deep on the sideline to get a glimpse of Saban coaching their kids. Most are gathered under the shadow of Bear Bryant's old coaching tower.
Allen, the head trainer, is the last football staff member remaining who Saban hired in 2007 when he took over the program. After all these years, he knows to brace for the onslaught of campers, as the 50 athletic trainers on site will go through 2,000 pounds of ice, 1,400 gallons of Gatorade and 3,600 bottles of water. And it didn't take Allen long to figure out what the camp meant to his boss. Allen accepted the job on a Friday and asked if he could wait until the following Tuesday to report. He needed to get some things settled.
Saban's response told Allen everything he needed to know: "No, we need you here Sunday. We've got kiddie camp starting."
Saban spends most of his time with the older kids, but he ducks in to check on the younger kids. Right after Saban speaks to the whole camp, a kid wearing a No. 17 Jaylen Waddle jersey plows through the crowd, runs right up to Saban and boldly asks for his autograph.
"Not right now. It's time to get to our stations and focus on why you came here -- to get better," Saban says, patting the kid on his head.
Some of the youngest kids don helmets that seem to weigh more than they do. Dustin Owens watches his 8-year-old son, Hayden, from the sideline in the indoor facility. They drove from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and even though Hayden is dwarfed by the other kids in his league, he plays with a ferocity that makes his dad proud.
"I know I would probably get killed for saying this around here, but I don't really give a s--- about Alabama football," Dustin says. "I'm more a process, energy and military-style guy and love how [Saban] coaches, demands excellence and makes them men. That's why we're here."
For the record, little Hayden plays nose guard on his youth team.
It's a stressful job for the coaches trying to keep up with the 8- and 9-year-olds. Former LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger, an offensive analyst for the Tide, sees a tiny kid wandering around and looking lost. Mettenberger leans over, and the kid tells him, "I play running back." Mettenberger saves the day by getting him back to his position group.
Coaches are constantly counting as they move their kids from station to station.
"I'm missing four," one coach says frantically.
One Alabama staffer looks over at Saban as he walks out of the indoor facility where the focus, not surprisingly, is starting to wane with the younger kids.
"I'm glad Coach isn't in there right now," the staffer says in a hushed voice. "He might have an aneurysm."
AFTER HAVING A box lunch, the campers go by bus to Bryant-Denny Stadium. They line up around the ramps leading to the upper decks and eventually make their way down through the stands to the field. They're naturally excited, the younger kids a bit rowdy, and all of them waiting for their chance to meet football royalty.
Jeff Allen and Bob Welton, Alabama's director of player personnel, have perhaps the hardest jobs. They usher the kids through in rapid-fire fashion, keeping a nearly two-hour photo shoot from becoming even longer.
"Tuck your shirts in. Firm handshakes," tight ends coach Joe Cox bellows.
Before the photo shoot, Saban asked the kids to tell him their names and where they're from when it was their turn, but many are so starstruck they can't spit out anything.
One camper looks up at Saban and says, "Coach, can you get me an NIL deal?"
Saban, who has been outspoken about how name, image and likeness deals are being used as a guise for pay-for-play in college sports, tells the kid to come back and see him in a few years.
"I mean, the kid's only 9 years old, and he's already hitting me up about NIL," Saban says with a wry smile, shaking his head.
Another 9-year-old, Sam Phillips, from Hoover, Alabama, walks away from his picture with Saban shaking his right hand in amazement.
"I'm never washing this hand again," Phillips beams as he glances over at his position coach, new Tide offensive coordinator Tommy Rees.
Rees playfully asks Phillips what he would do with his hand when he showers if he's never going to wash it again.
"I'll put a garbage bag around it and tie it up," he says without missing a beat.
FORMER ALABAMA WALK-ON offensive lineman Jackson Roby, who is from Huntsville, Alabama, wouldn't miss working the camp for the world after attending multiple times as a kid.
"I've seen this camp from every perspective," he says. "It never gets old."
Running backs coach Robert Gillespie's daughters, Nola and Sadie, are right there front and center among the boys. Nola, 12, plays tackle football in one of the boys' leagues in Tuscaloosa. Her team, the Stampede, won the state championship last season. She plays running back just like her dad did.
One camper who stood out physically was 11-year-old Alex Randolph, who has deep Alabama ties. His older brother Kendall was a senior offensive lineman on last season's team. Another brother, Levi, played basketball at Alabama and is now playing professionally overseas.
Saban watches Alex spin a tight spiral during one-on-one drills, nods approvingly and says, "Nice throw."
Saban had joked with his staff earlier in the morning that 600 of the 1,200 kids think they're quarterbacks and "so do their parents."
Alabama safety Malachi Moore makes a brief appearance, points to Alex and his size, and jokes with his coach that he had all the talent on his end of the field.
Saban shoots back, "It's called recruiting. That's part of the game, too."
Saban's camp duties end right around 5 p.m. He takes one final look at the defensive backs -- he never strays too far from the defensive backs during Alabama practices -- before briskly walking off the field. Defensive coordinator Kevin Steele fills in for Saban to address the campers one final time before they depart.
The last meeting of the camp ends with a raucous "Roll Tide!"
But Saban's day isn't over. He hurries to his house to spend the evening with a group of his senior leaders. They are hitting the lake on boats, floats, jet skis, a little bit of everything. It's an annual outing for Saban, who loves boating and loves to see who he can shake off the float when he's driving.
For someone who will turn 72 in October, Saban's energy is boundless. He's going 100 mph (almost literally) on the water as 11- and 12-year-old kids drag themselves off the practice fields to find their parents.
"I'm not sure he's ever yawned," Ponder says. "If he has, we've never seen it."
For Jody Wade, whose 9-year-old son, Dax, attended the camp for the first time, the whole day was a reminder of why Saban has won more national championships than anybody to ever coach the game.
"I guess I shouldn't be amazed at how well it's run. Anything Coach Saban touches, it's going to be that way," says Wade, who is from Mobile, Alabama, and was a Crimson Tide cheerleader but graduated right before Saban arrived in 2007.
"My favorite part, as I told one of my friends who's with me, is that they don't let up. The standard is the same, the same standard they have here with the Alabama players."
In Saban's world, it's the only standard.
