Name: TEDx】都会の若者を地球市民に。アンジェラ・ジャクソン＠TEDxProvidence (【TEDx】Turning urban youth into global citizens: Angela Jackson at TEDxProvidence)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:54:58.000Z
Duration: 16 min 49 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

現在進行形

Wow! This is going to take a moment to soak this in.

to 不定詞

I'm truly honored to be here today, to share

過去形

my idea on how I can change the world and really the story that led to it.

Because I had a very unlikely journey to get to this stage.

And it really is about the kids that you see behind me.

These are groups of kids that I work with in New York city,

but when I look at this picture, I see kids that remind me of myself.

They attend one of the poorest performing schools, in New York City.

And we know what the bars are, we know what the statistics are

when it comes to that, what their future prospects would look like.

When I look at that, I just personally thought

When I look at some of our poorest and most vulnerable communities,

I think that there is so much untapped potential in those children.

When you look at them, bright eyed, they're smart, they're full of energy...

I think what it takes is just people in our community,

people who really care about the future of our country,

to think of innovative ways that we can expand their horizons,

think about ways that we can address what statistics say are going to happen

to these children, just because they are born in a certain zip code.

So, my idea around change and what Global Language Project is all about,

is taking children from some of the poorest and underserved schools

and exposing them to world languages, and culture.

And the spirit behind the whole idea is that, sometimes,

just because of the communities they grew up in.

The thought is that if you give them fluency in a 2nd or 3rd language,

One, you are giving them a transferable skill that can help them,

but, two, you are literally broadening their horizons,

you are introducing them to places that they may not know about.

You are looking at some of the statistics here,

when some of them are just struggling in literacy,

When I look at this, I look back at that picture

of the bright kids and you see the statistics

where, again, you know that they have a better chance of getting pregnant

and being poor than graduating from college.

When I look at that room and I can just say percentage wise

how many of them are not going to graduate from High School, again,

for me, that drives me. That's my passion.

I thought about what can I do to make a difference.

What do I have from the back of my experience,

that I can bring up here and turn to these children?

The other thing I thought about when I look at the statistics is:

we know that these children have received the short end of the stick, right?

We know that they lack community support, we know that they lack family support,

we know that they are not receiving the best education.

So, I thought of how do we address that? How do we have a make good of sorts?

The idea that I had around that was giving them exposure

educational opportunities that are historically reserved for elite students.

They're reserved to students who go to private schools.

They are reserved for students who have parents who can afford

after-school programs, language programs and arts programs...

all of that great enrichment to these children?

How could it impact their lives, how could it change

This is a statistic, you know, that, again, a lot of us know,

when it comes to these children, what they are dealing with, you know.

We know that their background, what they are up against,

it's how do we take that and how do we move it forward.

So, when I was thinking about this talk and what I wanted to share with you today,

This isn't a great picture, but it's of me and my grandparents.

And, the reason why this picture is very close to my own heart is

But, what's more important is my grandparents,

which you can't really see them. My grandfather, on my right hand side,

He was not allowed to attend school pass the 3rd grade.

My grandmother only went to middle school.

So, by all accounts, they were wholy uneducated.

But, despite this, what happened was, it gave them a reverence for education.

And they raised me and they poured all their hopes and dreams...

To them, if I could just get a college education, I would be OK.

They believed deeply that if I was able to graduate from college,

that I wouldn't be destined to a life of poverty,

that I could break our families' generational poverty cycle.

And, when I look at that it gives me chills,

because, in a lot of ways, that was true.

After undergraduate, I went to a coporate career that,

You know, growing up, I remember my grandmother telling me,

I had gone to places and worked in places that they didn't even know existed.

I found myself leading teams in China, in Europe and I thought:

"Gosh, they told me this about education".

But... they didn't even know what I was up against.

But, that was about the hope that they gave me.

And when I stand here, before you, today, and I say that,

you know, again, I grew up during a time where I could be raised

I could grow up during a time, where I go to a "ok" public school,

I could still have a successfull career. I could still, again, break that poverty cycle.