[Music] I recently got into surfing, which has been super fun, just a really nice way to you know. I'm not from California so, I grew up in Canada, a very landlocked place. So being close to the ocean, I realized and was like, "Hey, I should take up surfing that'd be really cool." [Music] Our program is a graduate program, so the first students who are getting their EdD's, which is a doctoral degree. We're trying to engage them in this community of scholars now. By coming in to get your EdD, you know, you're taking that next step. You're not just a practitioner anymore, you're someone who contribute to the knowledge base that we have available to us. And so, helping them understand how the research process works and how to conduct good rigorous research, and then how to contribute back to that. So, engaging them and really, you know, inviting them into this scholarly profession and trying to structure my class activities so they lead to them doing productive activities in that way. [Music] Thinking about how to design a course or a curriculum or learning experience, however matter how long or short it may be, that really engages someone in the real things that someone in that field would do. [Music] I think it's when you get one of those moments where a student comes back to you, either it's the next class or the next semester, and they say, "Dr. Apedoe, I remember that assignment we did" or you know, "I submitted that paper like you said I should" or "That assignment we did where we evaluated that thing, I showed it to my boss and he loved it." So, it's really those moments where students come back and let me know that the work that we've done in class has impacted them in their professional life in some way or impacted their students or however it may be. [Music] I think it's really engaging people and forcing them to look at things in a different way. Cause I think we often get really stuck in our ruts of where we have this particular framework, and I think, you know, part of education is to open up people's minds to that, you know. You may think of this issue in this particular way but there are all these other perspectives available to you and, you know, you may not resonate with this perspective but it's helpful to know about it cause then you can understand where other people are coming from and then you can have a real conversation about it. [Music] Whether they leave here and want to go off and be a professor, they want to continue working in their current place of work, but that they're better at it for having been here in the program. [Music]