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Hello. My name's Esther Roginsky.

And I am talking to you here from stanford University

in California where I live and I'm so sorry, I

can't be there in person, but hopefully next year I'm

going to tell you a little bit about something that

is very dear to my heart and that is education

and parenting.

And the title of my talk as you can see

is how to raise successful people.

So I'm talking to all of you because all of

you are like 95% of you are involved in raising

Children either as parents or as teachers or perhaps both.

So I will just give you a little bit first

about me so you can see who I am And

this is a little bit about me as a person.

I have been teaching for 40 years in the classroom,

40 years.

Most teachers leave the classroom after five years.

And the reason I stuck it out for so long

is because I love doing it.

I'm also the 2002 California teacher of the year.

Um founder of the Palo Alto Media arts program at

Palo Alto High School.

I'm the co founder of a new company that has

just started within the last six months track dot app,

which I will tell you about.

Also co founder of journalistic learning, which is at the

university of Oregon and the founder of Watch I.

T. It's a training program for tech skills with the

University of California Berkeley School of Engineering.

So there's one other very important thing that I would

like to tell you about and that is my book

and my book is called How to raise successful people,

simple lessons for radical results.

And it was published in 2019 for the first time

And then published in paperback in 2020.

It's translated, it says 21 languages actually.

Now it's 26 languages and it's definitely in Spanish and

Portuguese and even in Chinese and Vietnamese, it's pretty much

all over the world.

I'm very happy to say that.

So the question I'm going to talk about today is

what should we be teaching all our students?

What should you as a parent be teaching your Children

and what as a teacher should you be teaching your

students to be successful?

So number one thing you should be teaching them is

21st century skills.

And so what our 21st century skills, let's just talk

about it a little bit.

So here is the senator from Oregon and he says

something that's very important, it sounds really simple, but it's

important. The internet has changed the way we communicate with

each other, the way we learn about the world and

the way we conduct business.

That is so important, so important and profound.

The internet is changing the way we work, live, play

and learn.

And unfortunately the school system has not caught up So

what we're teaching now, the current system was designed and

conceived for a very different age.

In fact was conceived in the 18th century and the

19th century and at that time it was agricultural society

and we even have summer vacation.

The purpose of that was to let kids out of

school so they could help their parents or the farmers

collect the crops.

Do we do that?

Now I know everybody on summer vacation goes somewhere else

on the vacation, they do not do crop collecting.

So the top four ways the Internet has changed learning

are the following.

First of all, research is conducted and connected with other

people, mostly online.

Nobody or very few people do not use the Internet

to do research.

As a matter of fact, google scholar is very popular

for that 2nd way.

Communication is vastly improved vastly.

And third is online learning is much more flexible than

in person learning.

And the kids have a lot of online learning skills

Now, thanks to the pandemic, do we want to let

those skills go to waste?

The answer in my book is no.

So the case for 21st century learning here is the

case presented by a very important person.

Andreas Lecter.

He's german and he's the head of the Pisa test.

That's the personal international student assessment test that all countries

take. And so he says something that is really important

for you to see and that is the test of

truth in life is not whether we can remember what

we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for

change, are we prepared for change?

Good question question is are we prepared?

Look at the floods in Germany happening right now, July

2021. Were we prepared?

What are we going to do about all these climate

changes that we don't expect?

How are we thinking our way through this and past

this? So, a time magazine article was really important.

It was written a long time ago that it's very

relevant today.

This is the story about whether an entire generation of

kids will fail to make the grade in global economy

because they can't think their way through abstract problems.

I see that playing out right now today, they don't

know how to work in teams and they can't distinguish

good information from bad.

We have had a major problem with distinguishing good information

from bad or speak a language other than their own.

We need to change the way we educate kids.

So what are the 21st century skills they're called?

The four C's 21st century skills have always been important,

but now they're even more important than ever.

And the 21st century skills again, four seas Communication collaboration,

critical thinking and creativity.

You have to ask yourself, are my Children or are

my students getting those skills in the classes that they're

taking right now?

Yeah, let's take a look at this critical thinking, information

discovery, interpretation, and analysis, reasoning, constructive arguments.

This is a slide that has all the important skills

on it for the 21st century collaborative skills.

We are working as a team now in collaboration.

People don't work just alone communication skills.

Are we teaching that?

And are we teaching creativity in order to be creative?

You have to be vulnerable.

We are preparing students for jobs and technologies that don't

yet exist in order to solve problems that we don't

even know our problems.

Yet. It is so important.

We need to prepare kids to think, kids need to

be able to think our schools teach kids to memorize.

Memorization is not learning and this is something that a

very famous person, Albert Einstein said, and that is never

memorize something you can look up and we all have

a phone in our pocket and we can look it

up. So, memorization often comes without understanding.

I think we can all think of classes that we

took, where we memorize things just for the test, but

we didn't really understand it.

Unfortunately, that is not a thing of the past, it's

happening right now in all our schools.

So my first book was called Moonshots and Education and

the target audience on that was teachers.

It's in spanish and english.

And the idea is how should you a teacher in

the classroom change education, create a Moonshot.

It's in the book, the second book, the one that

I just showed you how to raise successful people.

The main principle in that book is trick trick.

It's the culture of the classroom that matters.

Trick stands for trust, respect, independence, collaboration and kindness and

I'm going to go over each of those.

So this is the governor of California who wrote a

blurb for my book and what in which he said

astrology Ski is a legendary educator and parent.

Everyone has asked for her secrets to success, how she

raised such talented and accomplished daughters and how she helped

so many students excel and succeed.

This is Marc Benioff the Ceo of salesforce.

He says also every industry is clamoring for more innovators,

more creative leaders who can solve problems with intelligence and

strong sense of social responsibility, Esther whiskey knows exactly how

to instill these values in our corporate culture.

We need her insights now more than ever.

Oh look, and here is a quote from Arianna Huffington,

how to raise successful people, shows us how to be

our best so our Children can be their best.

So the book is stories about my life, my Children

and my students and stories that have a point.

It's really important to tell stories that have a point

and why stories.

I see storytelling as a change agent.

People remember stories but they don't remember just facts unfortunately.

So my number one goal with this book is helping

all kids and parents succeed.

Number two goal is helping teachers.

Teachers be more effective.

Why your child spends seven hours a day with the

teachers. That is really important.

Number three, helping managers be more effective in the corporate

world. Why managers?

Because they're providing products and services that we need and

how can they be the most effective of all so

that we get what we need.

So my goal for my Children and my students was

to think independently, think independently and be independent.

Trick is what it takes for kids to be successful

and trick you'll hear a little bit more about it.

I tried it first on my own kids.

This is trick, It stands for trust, respect, independence, collaboration

and kindness.

And this is the quote formula for how I raised

my Children and how my program at Palo Alto High

School became the number one in the United States.

Here are my three Children when they were little, when

we lived in Geneva Switzerland.

Here are my three Children now as adults.

This is Janet in the middle and on the left

and Susan on the right here is Susan L.

Susan is the Ceo of Youtube.

Janet is a professor of pediatrics at the University of

California Medical Center, focusing on nutrition on how nutrition makes

your child live a happy, productive life.

The way you feed them at the beginning determines their

body weight for life.

And this is an an is the founder of 23

and me the largest personal genetics company in the world.

So those are my three daughters.

I taught them to believe in themselves by believing in

them by trusting them.

It was so important for them to feel trusted and

it's very important for your Children to feel the same

way respect.

I taught them what it means to be respectful, by

respecting them.

How do you have respectful behavior?

You need to understand it by doing it

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