Danny - OT Capstone

Hi, My name is Danny Burke.

And today I'm going to be talking to you about

my organizational theory Capstone, which I am presenting in conjunction

with the Claremont High School.

Young Gems, which I have been participating in as part

of this organizational theory.

Social practice, Of course, our segment of organizational theory and

so I'm working with young dims has been a nice

experience. It's sort of been rejuvenating, in a sense, like

it gives me hope, especially as a non traditional student

being an older student.

I didn't learn this stuff in high school, right?

Like I didn't understand or even know the ethnic studies

was, of course, that could be taken and to date

myself like I was in high school in your 2000

and 2004.

So cultural studies was not a class, and I did

take sociology, but I don't remember it at any point.

You know, being challenging or really bringing to forefront my

mind anything around, you know, race, ethnicity, um, have and

have nots.

Nothing like.

And so just toe have the experience toe work with

the C.

H s young dims has just given me hope that

you know society is moving in the right direction, and

our youth now are really going to be paving a

way for a brighter and more equitable and equal future.

So it's just been amazing experience.

Um, so in this I've sort of broken down my

discussion on this organizational capstone into three different segments, which

I'll get into, but through the lens of that from

the young dims I look at it as the young

dims itself is an organizational construction.

In response to the social political climate where they have

found a need, youth has found a need to organize

and create a structure in an institution, um, to combat

or in response to these, what's going on in society

in the world or just in this nation.

Um, and in such, they are advocating for change.

To shift on campus resource is to better represent and

educate the intersectionality and position ality of students, which I

think is so wholly, uh, important to have better representation

that equally matches the distribution of personalities and identities.

Um, that's on a high school campus, Um, which is

something that I just again, I didn't necessarily find in

high school being even a thought.

Um, but having still felt in high school the lack

of education from ethnic or cultural points of view where

we'd be making fun of each other because of our

cultural differences.

And then the last part is, um, talking about the

primary initiatives, which is to implement an ethnic studies program

at C.

H s and what that looks like from a organizational

metaphor, point of view, which, if I didn't which I

don't think I did is the point of this organizational

studies Capstone project to talk about organizational metaphor and apply

it into an organization.

And I again chose the young gems to do that

since I have been working with them.

So to move on, I will now talk about the

organization of metaphors that I have chosen.

So I have chosen organism political system and machine.

And then when we looking at those three metaphors through

the lens of a macro institutional organizations and the broader

society and my chrome or the social institutions and broader

individuality of people, um, and I talk about the macro

institutional organizations mawr as the broader, larger, um, institutions that

we have to navigate almost like the bureaucratic institutions, which

the school would be one of those bureaucratic institutions and

then matching that with the broader society of the entire

population. Um, using the term melting pot, which I'm not

fully a fan of, but melting pot of everybody just

here. And how do we exist within the varying cultures

that are within this melting pot, if you will of

our society, and then moving into that macro of the

social institutional where I'm using social institutions as more of

the people groups, the people organizations and then the broader

of the individuality of people and how they bring their

culture, their ethnicity, into these, um, organizations, social institutions, Uh,

like young dams being, ah, social institution or the or

the or the organizational structure or organization people, groups that

exists within the school where you have the basketball players

all hanging out together.

You have the dance team all hanging out together so

that looking at those those little social institutions or organizations

that people then make up so to define organism as

a metaphor, um, unorganized organization is a response to its

environment. And to survive, it must adapt as the environment

changes. This very much so being sort of based off

of, um the natural environment in us as us and

all things as organisms and what we do to survive

in the evolution of our survival.

And I think this is so important.

We think about this through the framework of an organization

as an organism, as which, if an organization, um, let's

say like a business wants to survive, it can't stay

the same way for 100 years.

It needs to read the environment, the social environment and,

in a sense, the natural environment to understand the shifts

that are going on.

We have climate change and we have, um, immigration.

And we have, you know, black people who are brought

here and everybody wanting this idea and concept that shouldn't

be a concept, but should be an apple and actual

application of equity and equality.

And so in doing so, these organizations didn't have to

say Okay, we have climate change and we have social

change. So how do we as a business function so

that we can then increase and ensure that there is

the social change or we move with the social change

and are not left behind and a such move with

the climate change so that we can better it so

that we have in 100 more years we're still able

to even be in existence.

Um, one because of the societal forces.

But then also because of the natural forces and so

organism extremely important.

And it really represents how, for me it represents how

an organization, whether it be people group or ah, business

structure. Hence the organizational, the institution of a school, um

needing to read what the change in society is and

being able to match.

And that match with classes, match with bureau bureaucratic changes

and just in its whole, self evolved.

So that is, providing the best learning experience for the

social. That's that that makes it up.

And the next one would be political system, which is

defined as an organization, is a game of gaining, influencing

and coordinating power.

Politics is everywhere.

I cannot stress that enough.

We think of politics being this governmental sort of system

and governmental actors, um, elected or not being the political

system. But a political system could be a family.

I don't know about you, but I very much so

operate politically in my family when it's my mom and

just my step dad and us, You know, I really

don't act too politically.

I just kind of go in there and on my

full self.

But when you get the whole family over and you

know there's gonna be questions or you want something or,

you know, whatever it may be like you go into

this kind of like, Okay, well, who am I gonna

tell? What?

Who? I don't want them in my business.

Uh, they're gonna go and tell my cousin and cousin,

you know, they talk too much.

So I know my cousin gonna go on, run their

mouth. Um, and so we get to this political sort

of system even within our family structure in our friend

circles, Um, inside a workplace, I think it's it's not

necessarily often recognized and appreciated toe how political and office

space can be and how political just getting a promotion

can be.

And so it's super important to understand what we think

about organizational metaphors.

Um, the political nature that it is just to be

human, like just to be human and just to exist,

we have to be political.

We have to be political in how we're hunting, right?

If we take away this this modern society, we go

back to when we're still hunters and gatherers.

It was a complete political system on.

Okay, how many of the tribes are there?

How are we going to solidify and keep safe our

space and hunt and not over hunt and then create

conflict with another tribe who then wants to take over

and fight for their safety and food source or whatever?

Maybe I know this kind of crazy example.

But just to show like how serious and how ingrained

political nous and having a political system within human nature

is the next one is machine.

I think this has to be one of my favorite

organizational metaphors.

Um, because it's just so broad.

Like when we think about organizations machine, we could get

super abstract and just get down to the idea of

nature as a machine like a tree.

What does a tree do it?

It generates oxygen.

And the way that a tree operates just in its

own biology is a machine like in itself, with little

machines inside of it, making it work and it's just

blows my mind.

Um, but moving that out all the way.

Let's look at like the society.

In order for society to successfully operate, it must act

like a machine where you have this entire system off

schools over fronted police force.

Uh, you have the firefighters, the hospitals.

You have job structures like all this in itself, creating

a machine that create an operation for everybody to have

a function in society, for everybody to having means in

society, which could be totally improved.

And we have a really shitty machine, but nonetheless you

can look at society and say it is a machine

because it is a machine.

You could go down to an organization and look at

an organization as machine where you have one.

The macro product.

So a business.

Let's say Nike, Nike in his whole ality, or totality

as a machine.

It's job is to pump out athletic wear or athletic

products that help athletes.

So let's just use a shoe.

Its job is to pump out a shoe.

So then everybody within that function within that acting and

themselves and acting as a machine to make the larger

machine pump out a shoe.

Um, you have this this whole task of financing product

design, manufacturing, et cetera, that then make this function of

a machine.

So in understanding how a machine like Howard organization should

work and what the product or the effect is of

the machine, it's important to look that societal at society

from a functionality standpoint.

And that's exactly what machine is, which is defined as

an organization in a Siris of connected parts arranged in

a logical order to produce a repeatable output.

Um, so as we as I move forward and we

talk about the organizational metaphors within the context of the

young Dems and the initiative that they are going thio

that they are trying to accomplish, which is the ethnic

studies, I will sort of address my thoughts on how

the two go together.

So organism metaphor and how it relates to the young

dims. So when we look at the an organizational, construct

them being an organizational construction in response to the social

political climate at their school, um, they have a large

white student base, and I would assume that they have

a large white of faculty and staff and administrator base.

Um, so most of, um, the students on dhe, the

academic or you know, how things that predict the pedagogy

that's going on is gonna be white favored.

And that would leave other students who are not or

who are non white, um, being ableto, possibly feel as

if they're not feeling represented.

They're not feeling empowered and because of that minority stress

feeling completely oppressed.

And so I think when we think about the young

gems in in the academic Institution, it's really important to

look at it from an organism standpoint where we have

the society who is becoming mawr and mawr diverse and

culture is an extremely important thing, and especially when you

think of our society and what it's been through for

the last four years, whether regardless of what your political

decision opinion is, there has been a divide where and

a huge separation where people are feeling extremely frustrated, Um,

because they don't feel that they're being represented and as

such are being treated in ways that they feel are

oppressive and suppressive and damaging not only to their mental

health but their physical health.

And so then, when you look at the institution.

Uh, step of that.

You then have institutions that are not, um, really being

conducive to what these people are needing to feel involved,

feel important and to feel safe.

And we can use the police force all of the

police force as an example.

Um in this ties into the organization organization component a

little bit.

Um, it does from the idea that why is it

that nationally, black people make up less of the population,

I believe 16% of the entire United States population, but

our upwards in the 80% of those jailed It's not

because black people are more prone to be criminals on,

but that is such have been labeled criminals.

And are they overly police pulled over for non traffic

offenses, but just pulled over Thio have a reason to

search and try to find something.

Um And so that being sort of that example, where

you have the society and then the institution, that then

perpetuates, um, an act.

And then you have the people group of black people

who then are affected and angered and frustrated and then

lashed out in protest and then are antagonized into riots

and then you get black people who are continually and

still killed.

Um, and you have this repeating cycle.

So we take this context into that of the school.

You have this social change as moving forward in black

people saying we want to be seen.

We want to be heard.

Just take a moment, toe listen instead of rejecting because

you don't believe racing exists curious out.

And so you have these students, like the young dims,

who are saying, Hey, we recognize what's going on in

society and the issue we feel they feel being lack

of education.

Um, and that education coming way too late, Um, in

college, like let let's educate ourselves earlier on so that

we're not trying to knocked down stuck point barriers from

already ingrained beliefs.

Um, in college, and we could do it now.

And so you have the young dims who are saying

Okay, we understand that in our school is part more,

primarily white, and we want to bring more education, the

opportunity for education, because it won't be required.

So bring the opportunity for education so that more students

and more faculty can be socialized and educated to what

it looks like in a modern society, culturally and ethnically.

And so the young Demps have created this organization and

then as a people group are putting in their effort.

As you have white students, you have immigrant students.

You have people of color, black and brown and Asian

students who has people.

Groups are saying, Okay, this is what we want to

do. Um, And then again, for all the way down

to the self, you you have just these individual students,

um, who are wanting just to make a difference, wanting

to educate themselves and really bring that opportunity to the

school. And so young dims what each person then is

evolving to say, This is what we're seeing in society

and this is the change that we know we want

to see made.

So then they get another people, they get a larger

people groups and they have an organization and they turn

that organization of people groups into this institutional organization of

the young dims and in the societal context of the

school, are moving to use young dims as a environment

sort of a response to the external from the school.

So you know, the whole society and to the internal

of the school, which is the social school society, and

for them to feel that the school needs to shift

in order to survive and to be most effective.

So their adaption was young gems and the ethnic studies

institution. So next we will look at the political system.

So in society, clearly, we have a world political system

where you have the nations who are represented, um, to

try to get along, which we often don't successfully do.

Historically. Um, and then we have mawr of the national

societal and Societal institution.

And, um, where we have the president, the two cabinets

and, you know, more of the local than we're not

at state and local on gun within their we have

organizations, um, like bureaucratic institutions of school systems, the school

system as a whole, um, federally, the school system.

Um, nationally, I mean, uh, per state.

And then you have the system of that of a

county. And then that of so it would be crap

through the district.

That was weird housing for the of the district.

Right? And then you have the school system, the school,

the individual school itself, and so within that entire hierarchy,

each level is its own political sis.

So you have The whole thing is a political system,

and then you have each level with his own political

system within it, um, all the way down to the

student level, having student government within the school just And

so it's super important to understand how to navigate the

political system.

And again, this definition, which I just love this definition

organization is a serious from when we look at the

political system is a game of gaining, influencing and coordinating

power. And then we match that with what the young

dams are doing, which is advocating for change.

To shift on campus resource is toe better represent and

educate the intersectionality and position ality of students and society

as a whole.

So when we look at the political system and the

idea of advocating for change, you have to understand how

to gain.

This is the system to influence and coordinate the power.

And so what further on in this presentation, I actually

go into a little bit of the strategy that the

young dims can utilize and how Thio better understand or

organize. Um not themselves but also increase in how to

navigate the system.

And so that's what I'm not gonna talk too much

on. I'm gonna leave it a little bit dry because

I go into a little bit detail later on.

But we think about this political system.

The young Dems need to understand how to gather a

constituency who will side with their initiative and what they

wanted to do, which also growing, growing as a growing

their base, they then need to, and that's on the

student side.

And then when we think about on the faculty and

staff side and administrative side, they need to find their

allies. They need to find their key champions, the people

who they're going to bring in who on that adult

side, um, is really going to lead the way and

help open up the doors for them to get there,

Um, but then they're also gonna have to find their

opposition in the same manner.

And so, yes, the political system is extremely important for

them to understand.

It's extremely important for them to know their own politics

and how they're engaging with each other so that not

they're not in a sense bumping heads.

But their political strategy, individual political strategies to navigate just

the young dims infrastructure itself is conducive to the young

dims as an organization being successful.

So next and lastly we'll talk about the machine.

And so we know that education as a machine its

function is to push out students with knowledge.

Um, and we can, either.

We can even say that the manifest function is to

indoctrinate Children, indoctrinate students to that of colonial ized colonial

ized views on being American and following orders right and

then the late one of the latent functions being that

of having students then pushed out with knowledge of mathematics,

mathematics and, you know, English, how to write and you

know, the stuff that you need to then make it

in society.

Um, and so we have to look and think about

what are the functions of the Machine of education or

the machine of anything but in this case is focusing

on the young Demps and what it is they're doing

shooting. They're trying to change the machine of education.

Specifically, change the machine of education at Claremont High School.

They're trying to implement an ethnic studies program so that

students have the ability to better understand the modern societal

society from a cultural ethnic point of view which would

then help them interact better with this diverse population that

we have and hopefully destructing the racial hedge, hedge of

money that has been, um, such a huge factor because

of lack of education, Um and then just again because

of the population of of what it ISS.

But so their idea is to change this machine that

is clear about high school exchange, the function of the

machine where there's still the similar function.

But they're trying to get a different output.

And so then, when we look at the young Demas

as machine, we need to then say, Okay, what is

the output?

The output is social change.

The output is institutional change.

Now that institutional change could be anything but in the

context of their initiative that they're trying to do, we

then need to look at what is the function.

Well, we know from what is the internal functionality to

create this output and which is super, super, super important

because we need to look at what each person within

the institution or the organization, That is, um, the young

gems. What are they each individually trying to accomplish?

What are their own personal goals?

And then when we think All right, so then the

people groups within the young dem what are there goals

and then the young dams itself.

What is its goals?

Oh, and so we know that they want Thio.

I know that they want to get rid of one

of the resource officers and they want to implement the

ethnic studies program.

So how do they accomplish that?

How do they make sure that the machine that is

the young dims is able to create this output?

And so we have to look at they need to

build themselves a workforce.

They need to make sure that whoever it is that

they have on their team is all privy to the

goal of the output of the young Damn, they need

toe. All have a mission set up.

So what is the organizational mission for the young gems?

And then when you have these initiatives, because you can

have multiple initiatives with within an organization hard within the

young dims so then you need to know.

Okay. What is the mission of this initiative, and we

need to make sure that everything we're doing is to

better or to accomplish the initiative based off the mission.

And you assess that from the mission because you want

to make sure that okay, if I'm doing something and

it doesn't align with my mission, it's not going to

help me reach the output that I'm looking for with

this initiative and young damps, which in this case is

the Ethnic Cities Program and the Resource Officer.

But we'll focus on the ethnic studies program so they

didn't need Thio recruit people who they can get to

buy into the goals and the mission that they're trying

to accomplish, and then they need to step upset job

roles within that each person specializes in doing and bring

that all together for get the machine as a machine

individual machine and the the whole the totality of the

machine to then reach that output.

So we think about the machine.

It's super important to understand how the young dens and

a need to operate in order to have as a

need to function in order to create an output which

is their result for the ethnic studies.

But then we need to understand that of who's surrounding

this young dams, which is, ah, bunch of students that

have no idea about ethnic studies.

A bunch of students that have no idea about the

young Dems.

Ah, bunch of students who don't give a shit about

the young Dems on Don't care about ethnic studies, a

bunch of teachers who either care or don't care or

who are impartial.

Then you have, you know, the staff and the administrators,

administrators being like the principal who are impure, completely political,

bureaucratic mode.

And so, like in looking at that and so thinking

about them as a machine, right?

Most of those students are just going through the machine

on autopilot because they're just trying to get done through

the day because nobody recognizes what these students are going

through on the outside world, um, or outside of the

school, and then same with the teachers.

I don't know what the teachers going through outside of

the school, but inside the school, this is what they're

doing. This is their function.

They just coming to school to teach right there.

They're fulfilling their machine role to the actual machine that

is clear about high school.

And so young gems need to understand how to communicate

to the students and to the faculty and staff and

to the administrator, who are really fulfilling their own machine

rolls for that of the greater institutional machine.

Oh, and this is where the strategy comes in and

really being ableto organize to create the change.

And which is why I chose the three metaphors that

I that I did because we we we need to

understand that with young dims, it's okay to evolve your

plan. It's okay to evolve yourselves, and it's a great

idea to the all evolve the organization.

But you also realize that it is uphill battle because

you're trying to to We're trying to change an organization

or institution that isn't necessarily meant to change.

It is a well oiled machine that is outdated and

will always be outdated.

Or at least when I say outdated, it's change will

always be behind society.

Um, because of the bureaucracy and it being such a

well oiled machine, it's hard to turn it.

When you think about it as a big boat, it's

hard to turn a big boat.

That's why the Titanic sank right?

If you have a smaller boat, you could do to

make a little quick turn, you know?

And so look at the young gems is a small

boat and Claire, my high school is the Titanic.

Let's just hope that it doesn't crash and we're young.

Dams were ableto wake them up and turn it.

Oh, because it's crashing because people, the young devils wouldn't

be doing this unless there's people in the students, unless

their students there that are crashing because off clam a

high schools lack of being able to turn quick enough

to match societal changes.

So next move, then talk about the affecting change.

So we in looking at life from a macro and

micro point of view, it makes being able to see

what's going on in society.

What's going on as a nation as the world, how

are people being affected?

Who's hurting, who's collecting all the money and hoarding it

while with billions and billions and billions of dollars while

people are starving and I can't even get access, let

alone opportunity to health care, toe education to living wages

and being able to look at that macro and then

say All right, So who are these people?

Where are they at?

What are they going through?

What's causing them to them, Not be ableto find a

job that pays a living wage?

Is it because of education?

I don't know.

Should should they need Ah, bachelor's or master's degree.

Thio make a living wage.

Should they need that?

Eso? Then we go down this rabbit hood, you rabbit

hole, using our sociological imagination to then say we see

this macro, Let's look at the macro.

Okay, then what?

Let's look at the micro Go down the rabbit hole

to see what's causing this stuff.

Well, from the young damn standpoint, they see this societal

change of diversity in appreciating and celebrating diversity in being

up front and taking big steps for inclusion and then

really saying Okay, but inclusion is not enough because you

we we can't include people when there is this lopsidedness

because of have have not in social structure.

We need to create more equitable circumstances and and young

them the same.

They see this being an opportunity to say, Well, let's

better educate our ourselves, our youth to see some of

the cultural differences and the ethnic differences, and that then

hopefully will bring light on some of the social structure,

the racial hegemony, the the whatever that perpetuating this lack

of opportunity and access.

So being able to look at life from that macro

and micro gives them the ability to not only see

an issue but be able to look down a rabbit

hole to understand where some of these problems might be

happening. Because it's not pull yourself up on the bootstrap

problem. It's where is the access and opportunity, um, kind

of problem and so to be able to analyze the

access and opportunity problem.

And I believe that's what the young dims have been

working to do.

And so then to say that moving to that change,

the macro and Micro is implementing initiatives like the ethnic

studies program within Clear my high school, which is then

trying to get that make that change and organizing the

work in which they're working to do, which is creating

a base constituency of students and understanding who the stakeholders

are in having ethnic studies program and finding the key

champions within the actual institution that could help it and

then finding the key champions outside of the institution that

can help the cause and then taking that and doing

petitions and trainings and information sessions so that you can

get the word out so that there's a backing.

And when you bring that backing all the work that's

been done by to the bureaucratic level, to the bureaucrat,

the administrator to the principal to the school board, you

then can effect the change that you're wanting and implemented

through organizing the work.

So when we think about the initiative of ethnic studies,

I mentioned, it's so important.

Um, when we think about the machine itself on the

young Dems machine, Andi toe look at the initiative that

they're do using as machine in order to recruit people

in order to the game of gaining in political system

and the organism.

So you need to find people and you to make

them realize that they need to survive, that there's a

response that is needed to the environment in which they

are inhabitant inhabiting and that they need to adapt to

change. And so, in doing this sort of looking at

okay, we need to get people on our team.

We need to politically organized, and we need to understand

our machine.

You need to have a goal or a mission that

people combine into.

So I created this initial this this mission to the

initiative, which is to advocate for the adoption of ethnic

studies at Claremont High School, providing education and activism that

expresses the importance of cultural representation within the standard of

pedagogy we need to have and a class or classes

that not only provide a safe space because it shouldn't

just be about a safe space.

It should be about teaching in a way that is

inclusive to everybody that would be in this class.

So many times I've been in the class and we're

talking about black people and I'm sitting there thinking damn

like I just feel like I'm a fly on the

wall listening to people talk about black people, Um, as

if like black people don't exist, you know, it's like,

oh, like Okay, because here I am hearing about Rodney

King watching Rodney King get his ass beat and I'm

sitting, going crap like I have to then walk out

this room thinking about Rodney King and his ass beat,

feeling triggered and having this trauma re traumatized to the

idea that Don is my reality.

While I walk out this room.

I know that at any point in time a police

officer come up and beat my But yet when these

white kids walk out the rules, they walk up to

him going.

Oh, yeah, that was said.

Okay, well, does the shoulders often keep on moving?

And so being able to have ethnic studies program where

you topped by a African American black teacher taught by

Asian American teacher, taught by whoever right, like being able

to a Mexican American or Latin American teacher?

It just creates this difference in the way that it's

able to be taught where if you have in Asian

American class or having an Asian American teacher, it's been

able to be taught in a way that's from the

lens and the perspective of an Asian American.

And it's not being pushed on the throat from a

white perspective where there's a loss of context.

Um, because I could just imagine this is not no,

no, no hit toe, a white professor.

I could just imagine the discomfort off having to talk

about what what was done toe black people in the

reality. Not not not the washed version, but like the

nitty gritty, disgusting holy crap or evil, humans are evil,

kind of like talk like the guilt, the do whatever

I can see just wanting to just barely touch on

it, because it's a hard topic that have.

But when you have the passion of a black professor

talking about slavery and wanting to keep it a xrt

Eolas possible, it's a different kind of conversation is able

to be had.

Now that maybe is totally subjective.

But, you know, that's my thought on that.

And so then the why to provide opportunity and access

for students, faculty and staff to better understand the dynamic

and evolving sociological and anthropological anthropological makeup off the modern

society. Society will continue to change.

Culture continues to evolve, society will continue to evolve.

So as society evolves, we need to make sure that

the institutions evolved and so that with the institutional evolution,

you then have students, faculty and staff evolution, who then

better understand the modern makeup of society and how to

navigate it equitably, equally and inclusively.

So the how so looking through the lens of the

macro and micro as they as they relate to the

organization of metaphors by understanding how society, institutions, organizations, people

group and self function and effect of change can be

planned and implemented.

So understanding the need to evolve to match and environmental

changes. Understanding the political systems in which we operate from

ah, World National state, um, local level and all the

way down to family structure is imperative to be able

Thio. Really?

Oh, create the change and then understanding how each of

those how the entire political system operate, how the entire

institutional system operates.

And look at that from the machine.

If you know if you could look at it from

machine machine point of view, you can then pinpoint where

some changes need to happen in order to create a

different output.

So all that being super important.

So I believe that basically makes up the organizational social

practice capstone.

And now I go into a little bit of the

strategy and I'm not gonna talk about strategy.

This is just really something that I wanted toe reiterate

from a meeting I had with young dims, um, just

so that they have this also on record or video

if they wanna go back to it.

Um, but looking at the strategy they need to create

key champions of organizations and people, these key champions or

people that they know are going to back the idea,

the concept and the implementation off an ethnic studies program.

The higher and bigger the key champion, the more power

it has.

Eso Let's find the person who is the people who

are the biggest key champions.

Make a list, then look at the organization's what organizations,

How many people on the Board of Education or the

school board would back this.

So can you get the entire school board?

Probably not, but which ones can you get?

Add those to the people what actual nonprofit organizations and

even what businesses are in the local Claremont area that

you can get to back it.

Make a list stakeholders who's gonna benefit who's gonna benefit

from having an ethnic studies program?

How so?

What teachers do you think would appreciate an ethnic studies

class on campus, teaching young folk about cultural, about culture

in society and different mawr?

Realistic versions of history find those professors or find those

teachers, those air stakeholders.

What organizations are out in the local community that would

benefit from having mawr.

Socially conscious people moving Graduated from high school.

What colleges air around Pitzer, CMC, Pomona Can you get

those professors?

Can you get some of those organizations tow back this

program? Can you get a dean of students or can

you get a statement from the Claremont colleges?

So maybe one of the president's who represent organization to

write a letter saying why ethnic studies and a social

consciousness is important for society and for the local community.

Those air your stakeholders?

They benefit andan on the opposite side.

You need to find your opposition key champions.

You need to find the opposition stakeholders.

You need to know what organizations would be opposed to

having an ethnic studies program.

What people would be opposed.

Um, what stakeholders who's invested in not seen, um, an

ethnic studies program or social changes?

Right? Um, steak opposition stakeholders can easily be republic Republican

candidates, um, or political, uh, Republican politicians.

Not all Republicans, but I mean, you don't know.

So do the work.

See what assembly members, maybe Republicans or you know what

your local what the local senator is and really see

who is going to be opposed, who has a stake

in not seeing this happen?

I mean, when you look at the strategy, you want

to understand the institutional bureaucracies and how those, um, how

they are.

So, like your admin faculty and staff like, what's gonna

be the benefits or ah, hindrance in them in ethnic

studies program isn't gonna create more work.

Is it?

Going to what hoops are they gonna have to jump

into, like, jump jump through to make this happen?

Um, is it gonna make them look good?

Is it gonna make their resumes look good?

Understand everything from a bureaucracy standpoint on how this will

benefit or hinder them professionally and so that you can

then make a case and understand attacking points to say,

like, Okay, if they add this, this helps create the

first one in the school district.

It can.

It can widen their horizon and and really benefit their

resume so that maybe some of the staff who want

to get to an administrator level some faculty and staff,

right? You want to get to the administrative level who

who will someday be a ah principle or ah.

Oh, the name is going out of my head.

Uh, anyways, whoever is writing the district and all that

kind of stuff, um, those are the people you want

approach. Some of these people wanna build up their resumes,

and this is a great opportunity to understand the institutional

structure off a bureaucracy.

And what motivates them to actually want to do something

because they may all be cool with it, but they

might not be motivated because what?

They may not understand what the benefit for them will

be in the long run.

So find that out.

And then the organizational beneficiaries, Let's look at the organizational

beneficiaries as, um, the students, right?

How is it gonna benefit them?

They may hear ethnic studies and think, OK, well, heart.

Well, I don't know.

So then you have to understand what's going what's going

to show them the benefit.

And how do you do that?

What, like, what is life?

What is school going to look like?

Once there's an ethnic studies program?

How how may that change the way that students interact

on at school?

And then how is that going to change how they

interact off outside of school.

So you have to find and understand what the how

the students are gonna benefit, how, what the institutional beneficiaries

and then organizational.

And it's super important because you need to know what

is going to benefit these people, um, or hinder them

so that you can then create the best and biggest

or most effective argument.

So in the lastly, the direction I think it's a

Su is super important to say that when we think

about any metaphor and how it applies into society, how

it applies from organization.

Um, society is dynamic.

Life is dynamic people.

Humans are dynamic.

We can't be boiled down to just a number.

We will continually change.

And so insects, when we think about this from what

young dams are trying to accomplish in building out an

initiative within the machine that is climate high school.

What's so important is that is, as that culture changes

and more relevant books are brought into the classes and

whatnot. Um, it really helps understand and and capture the

shift in society.

The shift in culture, um, because equality, equity inclusion, it

is not and will never be a destination.

It is a direction that continually needs to be assessed,

reassessed, assessed, reassessed and the direction altered pending upon society

and not just pretty part of society, but pending point

the Mawr individual group, people, cultural forces that then how

culture shifts and evolves as well.

So really, there is no destination in what young exams

is doing.

But what they are trying to set up is an

initiative that points in a direction of equity, equality, uh,

inclusion, opportunity and access, which are also very important when

we think about trying to build a more just society.

So I hope this helps.

I hope this capstone makes difference.

And I really, really, really appreciate Barbara in this class.

It was beyond my expectations of what it was gonna

be like to take organizational theory.

I when I first got the picture, I wanted to

take Barbra's class, but she was on a high.

It is doing her book so you get a pass.

But I really appreciate you, Barbara, and thank you.

And I wish you the best of luck

Danny - OT Capstone

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