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About Me
Bob Barboza is an educator, journalist, author, and educational distance learning project designer. He is the CEO and Founder of Super School University. This online university has the following educational departments: Jr. Business School, Jr. Medical School, Jr. Law School, Jr. Engineering School, Jr. Urban Planning School, Jr. Environmental Science School and Jr. Art and Music Schools. Bob Barboza is on the governing board of the American University of Health Sciences and he has created Jr. Medical School distance learning intern programs for some our nations future doctors.
- Location:
- United States, Long Beach, CA
- Current organization:
- Kids Talk Radio
- Current role:
- CEO and Founder Kids Talk Radio
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Technology Supported Project-Based Learning, journalism - radio, tv, print, web, journalism - Education, software designer, Science & Technology Communications
- Associations:
- CUE Computer Usining Educators, California Association of Resource Specialist, California Teachers Association, CAG California Association of Gifted
- Languages:
- English
- My website links:
- Kids Talk Radio USA, Kids Talk Radio Los Angeles, Super School University
- Universities:
- California State University, Los Angeles, California State University, Long Beach, Mount St. Mary's College L.A.
More About Me
I'm passionate about
Kids Talk Radio, Super School Teen TV, Super School Press and Youth World News are my passions. I have created an international team of student backpack journalists.
An idea worth spreading
My team of gifted and talented student backpack journalists are helping me work on another one of my passions. Together we are working on the Cabo Verde Tenth Island Distance Learning Project. Our students are building the Santa Luzia Island, Cabo Verde. Our languages for this project are English and Portuguese. Together we are helping President Obama promote his STEM Program. STEM is all about helping American schools to do a better job in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Our Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project allows our team to help to get other students excited about science and other STEM subjects. We want our students to get passionate about chemistry, biology, physics and all forms of mathematics. To keep everyone motivate we have decided to pay students to become interns for Super School School University. You can find more on this story by visiting: www.KidsTalkRadioUSA.com.
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We want to create jobs for our youth at Kids Talk Radio Science and Super School University. We want you to help kids to become science backpack journalists working at for Kids Talk Radio.
People don't know that I'm good at
I find creative ways to get kids excited about studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics at Kids Talk Radio.
My TED Story
Bob Barboza is an educator, journalist, composer, and software designer who founded Super School University. This new virtual university offers the following high motivational distance learning programs: Kids Talk Radio, Teen TV, Super School Press, Youth World News, Jr. Medical School, Jr. Business School, and Jr. Law School. Barboza trains student backpack journalist to cover the news coming from Antarctica, the Amazon Jungle, Japan, Russia, Brazil, England, USA and the North Polar Regions. He designs programs for teachers that love to teach and students that love to learn. Apple Computer has made it possible for our student backpack journalists to publish on the Apple iTunes Store. Youtube has increased our video time and now we can get our science and STEM messages to the schools. I am traveling to Africa to setup nine Kids Talk Radio. We will have one radio station on all nine of the Cabo Verde Islands. Our Tenth Island Project involves students creating a perfect island.
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A comment on Conversation: what are ideas of writing class for students? and what are good ways to make people to help each other in a community?
Here is my idea to get your students writing and learning and helping the community at the same time.
Ask your students to interview members of your community. Collect good community stories. Get your student to retell the stories by writing them for radio. Send the stories to me and I will publish them on Kids Talk Radio. Students in America would love to hear your stories from China. Students need a good reason to write. Once they have a good reason they will write. You help the community by having students tell their stories.
I am happy to help
Kids Talk Radio
Suprschool@aol.com
http://www.KidsTalkRadioUSA.com
A comment on Conversation: What will it take to make special education in America even better?
The U.S. Department of Education’s high-level Equity and Excellence Commission—formed in late February to examine education disparities and identify ways financial systems can be improved to increase equity and student achievement—met this week to discuss findings from its three town hall meetings and begin formulating its recommendations for how federal policies can improve school finance systems.
Commission members who attended the town hall meetings heard firsthand how the ongoing fiscal crisis is seriously eroding the gains made by states to adequately and equitably fund public education. The commission agreed that if our nation’s haphazard approach to education funding isn’t improved, our economic vitality and competitiveness will be threatened.
As they discussed the direction that their recommendations could take, committee members expressed that student needs must drive education improvement and funding, instead of the other way around. They wrestled with how much to emphasize adequate funding versus equitable funding, suggesting that a focus on adequacy is a politically easier sell. And in what was a generally amiable conversation, some tension cropped up about whether the commission should submit new ideas for how federal policy can encourage state innovation and improvement of their education funding systems or package tried-and-true ideas in a fresh way that resonates with the public.
Transcripts from the initial town hall meetings are available online, and the commission will continue to solicit feedback from the public throughout June in Dallas, Tex.; Boston, Mass.; the Mississippi Delta; and Milwaukee, Wis. Ultimately, the commission has about a year to present Secretary Duncan with a report summarizing its findings and recommendations.
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I am working hard to get special education into this conversation about finance reform. Help me with this conversation
A comment on Conversation: What will it take to make special education in America even better?
Using technology in special education is solving some important problems. Thank you for sharing the success that you are having working with teachers. I am sure your comments will help others. Please continue to share.
A comment on Conversation: What would it take to create the worlds most perfect island? The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project.
A comment on Conversation: What would it take to create the worlds most perfect island? The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project.
STEM: High School Science Reading Challenge:
Arid Zone Geomorphology-Third Edition
Process, Form and Change in Drylands
Editor: David S. G. Thomas
ISBN 978-0-470-51908-0
Project: Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project, 2011-2012
Your challenge is to read Arid Zone Geomorphology and report on the advances that have been made in recent years in the investigation and explanation of landforms and geomorphological processes in drylands. We request that you read and report on regional case studies that will play a role in helping the Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project. We are looking for additional information about Large Scale Controls, Variability in Drylands, Surface Processes and Characteristics, The Work of Water and The Work of Wind, and the geomorphological hazards and the human impact of deserts and arid regions.
Extra credit can be earned by collecting Cabo Verde Tenth Island video and audio podcasts interviews of instructors in the school of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Interview Topics:
Climate Frameworks
Desert System Variability
Pavements and Mantles
Desert Dune Processes and Histories
Geomorphological Hazards in Drylands and Arid Zone Geomorphology
21st Century Global Warming
Additional information can be found at Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project: http://www.KidsTalkRadioUSA.com
A comment on Conversation: How can a talented teenager prepare himself for a scientific career? What do you scientists recommend? (Personal experiences, please).
A comment on Conversation: What would it take to create the worlds most perfect island? The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project.
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