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Logistics, Educating Millennial's, Rainy Days, Vivaldi in the Hood

CHANGE - is a verb in Action, not wishful Thinking

After 30 years in Logistics & Supply Chain with experience on both sides of the industry; as a BCO/IOR, Shipper/Consignee and Logistics Provider - I went into teaching. As the lead instructor of Transportation & Logistic Technologies my experience in the field out performed my colleagues. The only women among six men.

What I brought to the College:

  • Field trips to the Port of Los Angeles, to take the yacht cruise. Containerized shipping up close would interrupt old mindsets of possibilities, replaced with a ‘new’ perspective and hope.

  • Maritime Museum Tour - San Pedro, Port of Los Angeles

  • Field trips to Intl Freight Forwarders, Domestic Truckers and Warehouses

  • Industry & Motivational Speakers invited to Lecture with plenty of Q&A!

  • Negotiated (free) SC & Logistics software program for the college almost ten years ago: Magaya

  • Business Acumen: Code of Conduct, Social Networking, Speech & Timing.

  • How to read the JOC online (Journal of Commerce) without getting lost with TMI.

  • Living proof, that anyone with an unshakable Will aligned with God; can rise above impossible generational mindsets - to break the illusion of fears that hold us back.

Value I learned from students:

  1. Empathy - is not sympathy

  2. A reminder - laughter & raw truth, is both fuel and healer among the poor

  3. MIA parents = lambs (innocence) among wolves, distorting life purpose from living to surviving.

  4. Be the example they didn’t have: Give them your best.

  5. Feed them before exams - or their brains don’t work right.

  6. Corner market has the best home made, fresh daily tamales for $2.50 😂

  7. If they became homeless while enrolled and still completing homework? Let them sleep in class, regardless of the ‘Memo’ that said otherwise.

    Whose voice is Correct? The Rule or the Life of the student?

    “Thanks for doing your homework. How bad was it last night?”

    STUDENT:

    "I can’t describe it. Real bad. People are like zombies at night. If you fall asleep you might get robbed, or rapped, so I didn’t sleep and waited for the school to open, to get warm.”

    “Fk the Rule - sleep in the corner away from the door, in case administrators need to check if students are sleeping in class. You can sleep there until I leave. Let me know if you need a ride somewhere after school.”

    Terry Leifi-Silverstein

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