Teachers: We are charged with exposing students to other cultures. Here's a sound that many lovers of (c)rap music might not know (sent to me by the people behind EEWANA)

One of the functions of school is to expose students to new idea ("new to me and my family and culture" even if the idea is thousands of years old).    I was 42 years old before I heard of Borobudur.   (Tip:  the spelling is  O O U U   borobudur)

Nil showed me this music...

What have I neglected to show my students?   I am motivated to show you something about Turkey because a new REGION is emerging.  It's more than "the Middle East" and more than "Eastern Europe" or "North Africa"... it's EEWANA.   This singer is from Turkey, which is the center of

UDE EE WA NA

EEWANA.  (CLICK HERE to learn more... about TOJDE) I have never heard of her and I doubt if many of my students have taken time to explore mideastern music.  I found this link because a colleague of Ugur Demiray, a translator named Nil Goksel, posted this video on her Facebook wall.  That's the sort of purpose of a teacher, to be a filter.   "Here's what my net caught today" is that reason why I invite students to follow me on Twitter and Facebook.

Here is the LINK that Nil posted
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152410559276052&set=vb.311521866051&type=2&theater


Here is Nil's Facebook page... she is an able translator and she is my "net" for finding remarkable singers.  She did it once.  She might do it again.  She also has translated Richard E. Clark into Turkish. 

Thanks to Nil, I have this link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3v_d9tLqg

Look at these articles that she put into Turkish

We are also responsible for the environment that the students experience in our classrooms, so let's post lots of quotes to inspire them.  Here are some links to lists of quotes from Forbes

100 Best Quotes On Leadership - Forbes

www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/10/.../quotes-on-leadershi...

Forbes

Oct 16, 2012 - Below are my top 100 leadership quotes of all time. (Have a favorite quotethat didn't make my list? Share it out in the comments section below!).

Top 100 Inspirational Quotes - Forbes

www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2013/05/.../inspirational-quotes/

Forbes

May 28, 2013 - I write about wholehearted leadership and employee engagement. ... So in the spirit of self motivation, here are 100 inspirational quotes. 1.

‎13 Things You Should Never ... - ‎Best Business Quotes From ... - ‎Inside Forbes

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Top 100 Ideas And Quotes For First-Time Leaders - Forbes

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Forbes

Apr 2, 2014 - As a refresher on the fundamentals of leadership, this highlights 100 of the best ideas and quotes for first-time leaders from my New Leader's ...

Empower and Lead Forbes 100 Best Quotes On Leadership

womenworkingforfinancialfreedom.com/forbes-100-best-quotes-on-lead...

Sep 10, 2013 - Below are my top 100 leadership quotes of all time. (Have a favoritequote that didn't make my list? Share it out in the comments section below!).

100 Best Quotes On Leadership - Forbes - via Mars-ax ...

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6 days ago - The first 10 here: A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

100 Best Quotes On Leadership | Innovation and ...

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Nov 25, 2013 - Below are my top 100 leadership quotes of all time. | Innovation and ... From www.forbes.com - November 25, 2013 10:47 AM. A great quote ...

Do the right thing.  Click here and give a hit
and share this sound with a teenager



This is the sort of help that I get from Nil and Ugur  ... they are academic
people in Turkey who expose me to Turkish culture...

and then I can share these elements with my students.

Education Documentary Filmmaker Erik Friedl delivers a story about Los Lobos and Music at Highland Park High School in Los Angeles

By bringing in the community and bringing in music, we can help yong people find their passions and it changes the school."   -- Enrique Gonzalez, principal, Highland Park High School

Louie Pérez of Los Lobos drops by for a visit to Highland Park High School in Los Angeles. Louie is joined by fellow mentors Luis Torres and Luis Ruan as they creatively mix it up with the students, sparking new directions and ideas about music, school and life. 

Directed, filmed and edited by Erik Friedl

All inquiries about the programs welcomed by Principal Enrique Gonzalez at 323-254-3421 or via e-mail: exg0368@lausd.net

"I'm going to come back!  This is a great bunch of kids"

Private and corporate donations may be made to: 

"Highland Park High School Music Department"

Highland Park High School

928 N. Avenue 53

Los Angeles, CA 90042

Three questions to give to a professional: "Tell me how you came to become a ___________? When did you know that this was your talent? What did you do to develop your talent?"

I met a musician recently.  I asked her how she found herself part of three bands.   She admitted that she had just quit one of the bands be

So I quoted to her the tenth principle from Austin Kleon's "Steal Like an Artist":  Creativity is Subtraction.   She agreed.

Here's what she told me:

My path

by Radha Windham

LifeSoFarMusic.com

I've been asked by one of my fans to trace my development as a musician.   

When I was twelve i took piano lessons.  Then I got interested in other instruments

By the time I was 15 I hadn't played piano for two years and when I tried the piano again, I found I still remembered a lot of what I had learned.

I started learning really complicated pieces on the piano.

I also taught myself a lot of guitar after taking a few lessons from teachers.

After learning to play by myself, I wanted to get more instruments to produce the sound that I wanted to hear.  I wanted to play with people to get that sound.

I wanted to learn drums and the teacher asked me if I had ever played before, he said I was a natural.

we rehearsed 

I found an Elvis impersonator and he wanted to create  a cover band.  He plays a guitar and so I play the drums in that cover band.

I went on to make a teen band (with some local teens).

Then I saw an ad on Craigslist:  

they were looking for a female 23 to 30 and I'm 17.  

the bank leader sent me six songs.  I memorized them and then I did the audition, all in about two days.   I was really nervous.... but they told me, "you have the part!"

Radha is under the "o"

so suddenly i was in three bands.     ... So when it became obvious that I had to actually travel for gigs (we're being booked by a national company), I realized that I had to get out of one of the bands.   

That's my story so far...

Radha Windham  

You can find her band at LifeSoFarMusic.com.  

What questions can we teachers ask to spark the generation of a testimonial?

What can we ask to empower a person to share their path to "how I find my bliss"?

What do we teachers do best?  "Tell me how you came to become a ___________? When did you know that this was your talent?  What did you do to develop your talent?"


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