Quantum Learning System

On this episode of Big Blend Radio, education expert Bobbi DePorter discusses effective education through the Quantum Learning System. Listen here in the YouTube player or download/listen to the podcast on Spreaker.com . Utilizing the Quantum Learning System, SuperCamp is the world’s leading summer academic achievement program for teens and pre-teens. Established in 1982, it is the original youth empowerment program working with thousands of schools and districts on positive schoolwide cultures and engaged, effective, joyous teachers. The results are confident, selfmotivated learners, leaders and global citizens.

Bobbi is the President of Quantum Learning Network, Co-Founder of SuperCamp, creator of the 8 Keys of Excellence character education program, and is the author of multiple books including “The 8 Keys of Excellence: Principles to Live By,” and “Excellence in Teaching & Learning: The Quantum Learning System” co-authored with Barbara K. Given. More at www.SuperCamp.com and www.QLN.com. The Quantum Learning System integrates with content standards and initiatives providing a philosophy, models, and strategies that amplify teachers’ ability to teach and students’ ability to master those standards. It works on a global level and transcends grade levels, ethnic and cultural nuances, and teacher and leadership styles.

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On this episode of Big Blend Radio, litigator Marty Glick discusses IQ discrimination as outlined in the book he co-wrote with Maurice Jourdane,“The Soledad Children: The Fight to End Discriminatory IQ Tests.” Listen to the podcast here in the YouTube player or download/listen to it on Spreaker.com .

complain to CRLA staff. The CRLA attorneys knew that the problem was statewide with at least 13,000 farmworker and other second language students sent to dead end classes where they were given coloring books and magazines to cut pictures out of and, if old enough, made to wash school buses. Another generation of over 100,000 was in line to get the same mistreatment. The legal battle to stop the practice and rescue the mostly MexicanAmerican children ensued. That case was followed closely by a fight to end the use of the same biased IQ tests with African-American students. While African-American and MexicanAmerican students made up 21.5% of the state population, they were 48% of special education programs. Ten-year-old Arturo Velázquez was born and raised in a farm labor camp in the small Salinas Valley town of Soledad. He was bright and gregarious, but he was still learning English when he entered third grade in 1968. A psychologist at Soledad Elementary School gave him a culturally biased IQ test in English only and without translation. Based on the results, he was labeled “retarded” and placed in a class for the “Educable Mentally Retarded.” Arturo joined 12 other children, varying in age from 6-13, in that one classroom. All but one were from farmworker families. All were devastated by the stigma and name calling by other children and by their lack of opportunity to learn. Brand new at the time was the Lyndon Johnson and Sargent Shriver inspired national legal services program and one of its grantees, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), had evening office hours at the Catholic church. In 1969, two Soledad parents had the courage to Written by Marty Glick and Maurice Jourdane, the two attorneys who led the charge, “The Soledad Children,” recounts the history of the advent of rural justice through CRLA and the two class-action suit filed in 1970 and 1972, Diana v. the State Board of Education and Larry P v Riles. More: www.MartyGlick.com PAGE 73