Wow the diamond such a beautiful jewel
that everyone covets especially women
right we all want one we all dream about
the day that hopefully someone somebody
somewhere will find us alive is enough
to actually give this to us propose to
us look at it is explicit in all of its
glory doesn’t really mean much it’s
beautiful it’s priceless but now take a
look that’s a diamond natural state
where’s all the glamour now not so
beautiful anymore and he’s kind of
stuffing that rock you can see it it’s
gold so appealing there’s nothing
attractive about it at all however
there’s still value there and that
precious don’t we don’t really think
about the process that it takes from
going to this to making its way to a
display case attempting now speaking of
process the diamond and other gems of
precious stones sapphires amethyst
rubies are all formed in the Earth’s
crust under extreme pressure and great
heat not only that the process of
extracting them from the earth is even
more rigorous we have to dig deep
sometimes 5 kilometers down into mines
to actually unearth the rock to grind it
and process it and refine it and do that
over and over again and then polish it
until it’s ready and I would argue that
the process and the approach that we’re
taking to STEM education for girls
really needs to be more reflective of
the process of taking a jewel from its
natural state into its unto into a point
where it’s ready to be put on the play
and I say that because I have been a Mac
sure for 85 years and I know I’ve been
guilty of calling on the same students
over and over again
and research shows that it’s usually
boys overgrowth and not only that
calling out that one student who always
has their hand in the air but neglecting
the ones that maybe perhaps sit at the
back of the classroom but are equally
capable and not to mention that but we
also have girls that we’re not reaching
simply because they’re not found in our
private schools they’re not in the post
when you think about it globally there
is an inequality in terms of access to
education
some pros can’t even get to school
because they’re responsible for getting
water and that’s what they do all that
so we have to change our approach if we
want to find our gems and they are worth
finding they are precious they are
beautiful I was looking at this young
one here where she is but I was looking
at her place I thought of how precious
and beautiful she is and her own
confidence at wet and her mom said did
you mom she’s in there like yeah I know
I made it girls are rare and their job
think withstand the pressure despite
what we’re told
now a student in the US I attended the
University of Texas that often
I got a Bachelor of Arts degree in
mathematics now that might seem like you
know a great thing and lots of people do
it but as a person of color as a
minority that was very uncommon back in
the 90s I recall sitting in classrooms
of this size and looking around and
seeing nothing but guys and maybe one of
the girl well we know that 30% of all
world science researchers are women less
than that there is a problem and there’s
a gap and in order to fulfill the
pipeline the stem we need to change our
methods and our coaches of reaching
girls to make science and mathematics
more interesting but not only that
create the environment in which they
want to explore these groups now a study
by the New York Academy of Sciences oh
the bubble of global stem paradox talks
about an issue that we have woke right
now worldwide we have more stem
graduates than ever before that’s a huge
accomplishment but on the other hand we
actually have jobs that are continuing
to go in the film how is this possible
well there’s this report the study that
looked at 50 different scholarly reports
and Industry and interviews by leading
experts in X taymiyah and business it
looks at a deeper complexity that we’re
overlooking we need to focus on an
ecosystem that fosters the desire in
students to want to learn we can’t just
say oh it’s the university’s fault
order the school’s fault because they’re
not teaching math and science with the
rigor that they need to we can’t place
the blame there anymore we’ve seen
ages and the academic standards
especially in the states where I’m from
and how those even affect here in other
countries around the world choosing till
not those students even with those
changes it’s still not enough so this
study actually advises us to create a
system or community that involves
businesses government policy community
activism that will create the right
environment in the right circumstances
for students to want to choose STEM
careers now what does that mean for
growth and how are we going to make that
change now that’s the issue globally and
we see shortages for example in the
United States who have world-class
universities that produce these stem
majors however the skills that we’re
teaching in class they don’t match what
our employers need whereas you go to
somewhere like China or Brazil and they
in India are turning out graduates and
an extremely fast pace yet they don’t
have employment opportunity and then you
look at a country like Rwanda or Vietnam
who has incentivized private sector to
invest in stem however their top
graduates their breakfest and bright
students are choosing to work in another
country so no nation is really doing
this well but I would like to suggest
that UAE is actually in a nice position
why because your drugs are actually
outperforming boys of math science in
International Studies sorry guys
not to mention in your universities your
student population is 71% female that’s
in front you have a reverse gender gap
and within your stem graduates 50% are
female that’s outstanding
and with the advancements of Technology
and aviation and green energy that you
are exploring your girls are in the
prime position to actually fill the
global Civic one now I would suggest
that the process for which we do this is
called the five carat Jim these are the
poor areas that I fundamental believe as
a math teacher and stem educator we have
to focus on four groups and those areas
are academic career creativity
leadership and service I think when we
talk about girls and I think of myself
as a young girl always interested in
math and science never really interested
in playing dog I needed to have these
certain themes dynamics in place for me
to be successful so academics we have to
have the rigor girls have to feel
confident enough specially starting in
middle school grade six our research
shows that’s when their self-perception
of what they can do mathematically
change they self opt out of taking
advanced courses in AP classes for some
Greek but we have to keep the standard
high with it we can’t lower the bar and
have high expectations for boys and
lower expectations for girls but at the
same time we have to go further as
educators and look within the standards
and look at the data to see where girls
falling behind and we have to create the
right curriculum and the after-school
program
and summer learning programs to catch
girls up in those areas now secondly we
must provide career exploration
opportunities now for some reason in
first grade I want to do fire fire
hoping it has to be a field trip where
we went to the fire station and we got
some equipment we got to slide down the
pole and get on the truck and
reason ice that’s what I want to do so
the power I use that as an example to
show you that the power of the child
seeing himself or herself in the future
is great
so we have to find career women who work
for oil companies or architectural firms
or what have you are willing to come
back into the community and mentor girls
and volunteers and tell them about the
challenges that they’re going to face
because they have already walked the
path that our students are walking right
now now further creativity certain rods
and one of the most famous Ted speakers
of all time
he said that traditional school is
Jillian created and I believe it I’m
former teacher now what this means for
growth is that we have to give them
project-based learning opportunities I
heard about today they have to be
willing this building’s repurposed
materials create these charities apart
they have to be willing to evaluate
their work going through process looking
at prototypes learning from their
mistakes documenting all of those things
have to be in place to think to generate
creative I’m going even further we have
to develop growth and leadership I work
for a tech company for cane teeth before
I came into teaching and I was in on the
product development team for Texas
Instruments now I was young at the time
and I was through this full of men I
remember that but I remember feeling
like in meetings no one’s really
my idea and I don’t think because that
yeah it’s just because it’s coming to me
and so we have to teach girls how to
persevere to that those are the 21st
century skills that all students have to
have how to have the concept how to work
through how to overcome challenges how
to communicate your idea how to
re-evaluate this work is being critical
so that leadership development has to be
in place and it doesn’t have to be adult
driven I work with girls for the past
ten years where I don’t find high school
and college students for extant
academies or they’re studying a stem
major at the University and they come in
and they teach leadership to middle
school girls how powerful is that and
then laugh but not these hair dwyer
really think we’re missing the March is
service learning opportunity girls have
this this named natural state of wanting
to help wanting to help mom I hope that
wanting to help anyone and I believe
that when we take that natural desire
and we give them opportunities to go
serve in the community and apply their
content knowledge at the same time I
think we can get some better ideas for
example I took a group last summer to a
senior living home and what we did and
what those girls did they came up with
their own curriculum and they spent all
day teaching seniors basic technology
skills how to surf the internet how to
set up an email account how to clean up
your female how to download facebook and
participate in social media so they
correspond with their grandchildren it
was great watching girls give back the
technology field that they had to the
older generation and I believe that
their role in this
in fact and all around the world who
have a solution using apps to assist
deaf and blind children to be able to
communicate with autistic children we
have the power to find those solutions
now we can’t stop there with that
curriculum we actually have to go
further sorry about that and this is my
main point right here I think we’re
we’re failing is not only that holistic
approach but also the global connection
the network that actually is formed if
we were able to connect girls
internationally so I can imagine a
student in South America and a student
and Riyadh Saudi Arabia for example
doing some type of exchange via
technology sharing their expenses their
experiences and what they’ve learned and
what they’re going through in their stem
studies I think that’s a powerful thing
to do but going to even a step even
further and giving them the opportunity
to participate in the exchange program
like most University students are doing
why I take that down to the middle
school and high school level for girls
creating similar experiences all around
the globe where they can participate and
learn from each other any women of
different cultures we know that there’s
amethyst and studying abroad not only do
you build confidence but you also gain a
valuable skill set and you need to
understand your own personal values as
well as those vices and we all have
about particular cultures now this is a
picture from last summer and I told you
earlier that I get together with about
20 girls they
I viewed part of the program from the
Dallas Fort Worth area Texas and we take
them through an extensive half of the
building building confidence that they
can choose to be engineers or choose to
be site or choose to be mathematicians
these roles are not going to bin they’re
not going to be frail that when the
pressures on we’re going to stain those
forces they’re going to pass those exams
and they’re going to be all they were
created to be and I say that because I
know this is true diamond start here but
they’re an extenuating process we polish
them and then put them on display for
all the world to be because they are
beautiful
our girls are rare Thanks
[Applause]
that everyone covets especially women
right we all want one we all dream about
the day that hopefully someone somebody
somewhere will find us alive is enough
to actually give this to us propose to
us look at it is explicit in all of its
glory doesn’t really mean much it’s
beautiful it’s priceless but now take a
look that’s a diamond natural state
where’s all the glamour now not so
beautiful anymore and he’s kind of
stuffing that rock you can see it it’s
gold so appealing there’s nothing
attractive about it at all however
there’s still value there and that
precious don’t we don’t really think
about the process that it takes from
going to this to making its way to a
display case attempting now speaking of
process the diamond and other gems of
precious stones sapphires amethyst
rubies are all formed in the Earth’s
crust under extreme pressure and great
heat not only that the process of
extracting them from the earth is even
more rigorous we have to dig deep
sometimes 5 kilometers down into mines
to actually unearth the rock to grind it
and process it and refine it and do that
over and over again and then polish it
until it’s ready and I would argue that
the process and the approach that we’re
taking to STEM education for girls
really needs to be more reflective of
the process of taking a jewel from its
natural state into its unto into a point
where it’s ready to be put on the play
and I say that because I have been a Mac
sure for 85 years and I know I’ve been
guilty of calling on the same students
over and over again
and research shows that it’s usually
boys overgrowth and not only that
calling out that one student who always
has their hand in the air but neglecting
the ones that maybe perhaps sit at the
back of the classroom but are equally
capable and not to mention that but we
also have girls that we’re not reaching
simply because they’re not found in our
private schools they’re not in the post
when you think about it globally there
is an inequality in terms of access to
education
some pros can’t even get to school
because they’re responsible for getting
water and that’s what they do all that
so we have to change our approach if we
want to find our gems and they are worth
finding they are precious they are
beautiful I was looking at this young
one here where she is but I was looking
at her place I thought of how precious
and beautiful she is and her own
confidence at wet and her mom said did
you mom she’s in there like yeah I know
I made it girls are rare and their job
think withstand the pressure despite
what we’re told
now a student in the US I attended the
University of Texas that often
I got a Bachelor of Arts degree in
mathematics now that might seem like you
know a great thing and lots of people do
it but as a person of color as a
minority that was very uncommon back in
the 90s I recall sitting in classrooms
of this size and looking around and
seeing nothing but guys and maybe one of
the girl well we know that 30% of all
world science researchers are women less
than that there is a problem and there’s
a gap and in order to fulfill the
pipeline the stem we need to change our
methods and our coaches of reaching
girls to make science and mathematics
more interesting but not only that
create the environment in which they
want to explore these groups now a study
by the New York Academy of Sciences oh
the bubble of global stem paradox talks
about an issue that we have woke right
now worldwide we have more stem
graduates than ever before that’s a huge
accomplishment but on the other hand we
actually have jobs that are continuing
to go in the film how is this possible
well there’s this report the study that
looked at 50 different scholarly reports
and Industry and interviews by leading
experts in X taymiyah and business it
looks at a deeper complexity that we’re
overlooking we need to focus on an
ecosystem that fosters the desire in
students to want to learn we can’t just
say oh it’s the university’s fault
order the school’s fault because they’re
not teaching math and science with the
rigor that they need to we can’t place
the blame there anymore we’ve seen
ages and the academic standards
especially in the states where I’m from
and how those even affect here in other
countries around the world choosing till
not those students even with those
changes it’s still not enough so this
study actually advises us to create a
system or community that involves
businesses government policy community
activism that will create the right
environment in the right circumstances
for students to want to choose STEM
careers now what does that mean for
growth and how are we going to make that
change now that’s the issue globally and
we see shortages for example in the
United States who have world-class
universities that produce these stem
majors however the skills that we’re
teaching in class they don’t match what
our employers need whereas you go to
somewhere like China or Brazil and they
in India are turning out graduates and
an extremely fast pace yet they don’t
have employment opportunity and then you
look at a country like Rwanda or Vietnam
who has incentivized private sector to
invest in stem however their top
graduates their breakfest and bright
students are choosing to work in another
country so no nation is really doing
this well but I would like to suggest
that UAE is actually in a nice position
why because your drugs are actually
outperforming boys of math science in
International Studies sorry guys
not to mention in your universities your
student population is 71% female that’s
in front you have a reverse gender gap
and within your stem graduates 50% are
female that’s outstanding
and with the advancements of Technology
and aviation and green energy that you
are exploring your girls are in the
prime position to actually fill the
global Civic one now I would suggest
that the process for which we do this is
called the five carat Jim these are the
poor areas that I fundamental believe as
a math teacher and stem educator we have
to focus on four groups and those areas
are academic career creativity
leadership and service I think when we
talk about girls and I think of myself
as a young girl always interested in
math and science never really interested
in playing dog I needed to have these
certain themes dynamics in place for me
to be successful so academics we have to
have the rigor girls have to feel
confident enough specially starting in
middle school grade six our research
shows that’s when their self-perception
of what they can do mathematically
change they self opt out of taking
advanced courses in AP classes for some
Greek but we have to keep the standard
high with it we can’t lower the bar and
have high expectations for boys and
lower expectations for girls but at the
same time we have to go further as
educators and look within the standards
and look at the data to see where girls
falling behind and we have to create the
right curriculum and the after-school
program
and summer learning programs to catch
girls up in those areas now secondly we
must provide career exploration
opportunities now for some reason in
first grade I want to do fire fire
hoping it has to be a field trip where
we went to the fire station and we got
some equipment we got to slide down the
pole and get on the truck and
reason ice that’s what I want to do so
the power I use that as an example to
show you that the power of the child
seeing himself or herself in the future
is great
so we have to find career women who work
for oil companies or architectural firms
or what have you are willing to come
back into the community and mentor girls
and volunteers and tell them about the
challenges that they’re going to face
because they have already walked the
path that our students are walking right
now now further creativity certain rods
and one of the most famous Ted speakers
of all time
he said that traditional school is
Jillian created and I believe it I’m
former teacher now what this means for
growth is that we have to give them
project-based learning opportunities I
heard about today they have to be
willing this building’s repurposed
materials create these charities apart
they have to be willing to evaluate
their work going through process looking
at prototypes learning from their
mistakes documenting all of those things
have to be in place to think to generate
creative I’m going even further we have
to develop growth and leadership I work
for a tech company for cane teeth before
I came into teaching and I was in on the
product development team for Texas
Instruments now I was young at the time
and I was through this full of men I
remember that but I remember feeling
like in meetings no one’s really
my idea and I don’t think because that
yeah it’s just because it’s coming to me
and so we have to teach girls how to
persevere to that those are the 21st
century skills that all students have to
have how to have the concept how to work
through how to overcome challenges how
to communicate your idea how to
re-evaluate this work is being critical
so that leadership development has to be
in place and it doesn’t have to be adult
driven I work with girls for the past
ten years where I don’t find high school
and college students for extant
academies or they’re studying a stem
major at the University and they come in
and they teach leadership to middle
school girls how powerful is that and
then laugh but not these hair dwyer
really think we’re missing the March is
service learning opportunity girls have
this this named natural state of wanting
to help wanting to help mom I hope that
wanting to help anyone and I believe
that when we take that natural desire
and we give them opportunities to go
serve in the community and apply their
content knowledge at the same time I
think we can get some better ideas for
example I took a group last summer to a
senior living home and what we did and
what those girls did they came up with
their own curriculum and they spent all
day teaching seniors basic technology
skills how to surf the internet how to
set up an email account how to clean up
your female how to download facebook and
participate in social media so they
correspond with their grandchildren it
was great watching girls give back the
technology field that they had to the
older generation and I believe that
their role in this
in fact and all around the world who
have a solution using apps to assist
deaf and blind children to be able to
communicate with autistic children we
have the power to find those solutions
now we can’t stop there with that
curriculum we actually have to go
further sorry about that and this is my
main point right here I think we’re
we’re failing is not only that holistic
approach but also the global connection
the network that actually is formed if
we were able to connect girls
internationally so I can imagine a
student in South America and a student
and Riyadh Saudi Arabia for example
doing some type of exchange via
technology sharing their expenses their
experiences and what they’ve learned and
what they’re going through in their stem
studies I think that’s a powerful thing
to do but going to even a step even
further and giving them the opportunity
to participate in the exchange program
like most University students are doing
why I take that down to the middle
school and high school level for girls
creating similar experiences all around
the globe where they can participate and
learn from each other any women of
different cultures we know that there’s
amethyst and studying abroad not only do
you build confidence but you also gain a
valuable skill set and you need to
understand your own personal values as
well as those vices and we all have
about particular cultures now this is a
picture from last summer and I told you
earlier that I get together with about
20 girls they
I viewed part of the program from the
Dallas Fort Worth area Texas and we take
them through an extensive half of the
building building confidence that they
can choose to be engineers or choose to
be site or choose to be mathematicians
these roles are not going to bin they’re
not going to be frail that when the
pressures on we’re going to stain those
forces they’re going to pass those exams
and they’re going to be all they were
created to be and I say that because I
know this is true diamond start here but
they’re an extenuating process we polish
them and then put them on display for
all the world to be because they are
beautiful
our girls are rare Thanks
[Applause]
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