you're 16, you can actually write code and do this and it's like, "WOW! This is really cool!" So that gets a lot, a lot of, a lot of buy in. CS electives . But that's-that's, us-usually the students are also taking AP Physics, or AP Chemistry or things that are gonna prepare them in other directions also. And I-I think it's one of
There should be a computer science course in every school, but it's optional. It's an elective that kids can choose. Option three. Forget all of that.
And because of some structures that we have in America, those are also divided along racial lines. So these elective courses are great to have, but it's no surprise that when you look at the courses that are being offered right now as electives , often there's a particular profile of student who winds up being in the classroom.
And I was taking nutrition at the time, and I was going through diet. And it was an elective . And in that nutrition diet class, I learned so much about the diet.
create a huge amount of data. I-I don't know how much in high school that will, that will show up. In the elective courses in the lab we try to get problems to be of a sufficient size that if your algorithms aren't good you can actually tell, but I don't know it could, it could just be too big.
And then we start off with Design & Tech in 9th grade. A series of electives just to give you an idea. So this, these are the types of courses where we can create 'cause we can develop a critical mass. So Organic Chemistry or Nanotechnology; Quantum Physics; Computational Physics; Alternative
And then you'll start taking the electives . And as part of that elective process, we can give you guidance. You'll find guidance from others in the community as well as to, depending upon your goals, depending on the things that you feel are most important for in your-
And that's what he does every single day. But he will never run for elective office, though he will always be involved in politics particularly in the whole fight for immigrant rights that we're going to have to fight in this country over the next 1,342 days.
So let's take a look at strategy number two. What if computer science were simply an elective , right? That solves some of these problems.
line of work. And I and I and I think it's but it is incredibly disturbing. And when you have folks in elective office who are willing to misstate the truth over and over again and that's why frankly everyone here is important, people lifting up um real information
I can remember a time when this wasn't so. I remember when photography was only an elective . It was optional, like high school photography.
You can take both, but we ask you to at least choose one of those two leadership core courses. And then we have a series of electives , and you will choose five from among those electives based upon the things that you've learned in those early courses about where you want to develop most in terms of your leadership style.
So you would choose between those two courses. And then you'll start taking the electives . And as part of that elective process, we can give you guidance.
That solves some of these problems. Well, the problem with elective courses is that they're not equitable, and I'll tell you why. So every school has a set of graduation requirements.
Black. Pink. Orange. Red. And a lot of people consider it an elective surgery.
courses about where you want to develop most in terms of your leadership style. And you can see a whole set of electives that we have here that have been truly successful and gotten great feedback from the participants on. So this gives you sort of the big picture of what that curriculum looks like.
what it was. But no, I graduated NYU from with a finance degree. OK. And all my electives were pre-med classes. But I graduated in '08 with a finance degree, and that was probably the first sign that I'd become a comedian, because the funniest thing you could do in 2008 was
I'm cool. OK, all right. There was a vocational school that you could go to instead of taking your elective credits in high school.
And I think that there is often something of a risk in losing rigor, and I'll tell you why. Because for a school that's just offering a single computer science elective , it's not cost-effective for them to hire, like, a full-blown computer science teacher. So what are they going to do?
legislator I was in the Arizona State senate for a while and my colleagues elected me majority leader of the Senate and that was the first time in the United States that a woman held an elective held a leadership Post in A legislature turned out and so that was an interesting position to have and I
Third, lots of public exposure. You can't deal with -- there's not too much privacy here. This is an open, transparent venue. And that's why I think the -- mastering the skills of public administration in the elective arena requires a great deal of patience, insight, empathy, understanding, all the different points of view. If you just think of it -- you mentioned Proposition 8. Sacramento has a representative from Kern County, that I think voted for Proposition 8 80%, and also has representatives from San
And she had advanced standing when she got into college, just through her really excellent grades. But so that gave her an opportunity to take extra classes-- so electives . And her sophomore year at Hunter, she took a basic nuclear physics class-- well, basic, but a nuclear physics class
You had this nice grid structure that allows for all these courses, but now there's this cascade of errors. That means that these students don't have room in the schedule to take the electives . So for students who fail these classes, they're Xed out of these options.
It's not as bad as a lot of other countries at the adult level. And that's been attributed to the fact that we all have to take science electives in college, at least one. And that's different at variance with other countries.
you can select from 15 options across a variety of topics, giving you a chance to really customize the program to meet your own goals. Now, today's webinar is focused on one of those elective course options called Crisis Management. Now, across all of our courses in LEAD, they're taught by the same senior tenured faculty who teach across our MBA program and our executive programs.
So we've put together an alumni program where we continue to provide them kind of like-- think of it as like elective courses,
And I've been in that situation both personally and professionally where it becomes your decision to do elective surgery.
And I remember thinking, this shouldn't be a college elective .
school we didn't really have to think about this a whole lot between General Ed requirements and and elective requirements we kind of had our reading
I knew I wanted to be a scientist so young that I opted out of every elective until my junior year.
It's sort in that, in that direction. So for students who are really interested we then have this-this is the more popular elective course; this would be mostly juniors; we usually have like four sections of this. It's taught in Python for the last six years, although one year we taught it in Ruby, before that it was taught in Lisp for a long time. This is in the computer systems labs which
Stanford, I'm I really get to cheat by having one of the most popular electives on campus because, you know, I give
And in our degree, they would tell us, you should take some elective papers, some papers that are outside of the eyes.
There's a question from Joel in the chat, and Laban shared some context in chat, but I think it would be great to get your perspective as well. And Joel asks, "Is there a specific framework for LEAD, or is it an amalgamation of all the required courses and electives ?" Can you kind of speak to the framework for the curriculum and the outcomes?
you lead through complexity, to navigate change and make effective decisions, especially in today's world that's being transformed by AI disruption and constant change And in the program, you'll complete two foundation courses, one leadership core course, and then you'll have the option to choose five electives that you can select from 15 options across a variety of topics, giving you a chance to really customize the program to meet your own goals.
It's also equitable. You know why? Because everyone takes algebra, which means right off the bat, you're removing the negative stereotypes that are accidentally reinforced by things like electives and after-school clubs where when other kids look at who's taking those courses, they say, oh, that student doesn't look like me.
you're 16, you can actually write code and do this and it's like, "WOW! This is really cool!" So that gets a lot, a lot of, a lot of buy in. feel a little bit like they're majoring in computer science, I mean some-some of them do major in computer science in-in-in a sense within the school. All their electives are