The day started off everyone signing in and waiting to be told what to do. Because I wasn’t only going to attend the conference I had to find my own folders where the presenter folders were. The workshop started at 8:30. I and the rest of my ALLIED family went to the room in which we were going to present along side with some nursing majors. This section had to do with building a system in which students whose intended major is education could come and get support with this. The point of ALLIED is for under represented people. For all people from LGBTS as well as African American, Spanish, Asian, even American students who feel in some way under represented. As we waited I listened to the nursing students talking about there group. They talked about they are trying to achieve diversity in the nursing school. This is another point which allied is very strong about teaching. As I said before the nursing school wanted to achieve diversity within there community this is a Johnson moment because we have to white most likely middle class women talking about diversity. They want the students who are in the nursing school to join there group called the NSNA which is the National Student Nursing Association. They feel that the SON students would benefit from joining this group. They said that by the students joining this association they would be about to learn more about there future career. The students would be able to experience different things. I felt as though there whole presentation was about having the RIC students join this bigger then starting there own chapter here at RIC. To make it a more local group where the students didn’t have to be so inconvenienced with traveling so far to attend a meeting with hundred of other nursing students in other schools. I think this is a Christensen moment because he talks about we should stand up and talk back to authority yet theses women want the students to do to meeting that wont help the current students in the school of nursing the support they need to stand up for themselves. At first I thought the whole presentation was supposed to be about diversity but they barely said anything about improving there diversity in the nursing school. How ever they did have a lot of statics about the NSNA and the amount of RIC student who are attending these meetings. But again a presentation that was supposed to be about diversity really felt like more a recruiting presentation more then anything. After about a half an hour listening to them speak I started to get mad because I felt that they just stood there and told me nothing about diversity. They just really wanted people to join the NSNA which also you had to pay for. Coincidently they talked about how some of there students had to work full time to support their families on top of them going to school. So for them to ask these students to pay to join an association is pointless in my eyes. At the end of there lecture we had a Q&A someone asked if they had any specific classes that taught only on diversity and in there own way they really didn’t answer the question instead they said that they have diversity intertwined with pretty much every class. So in other words they don’t. After they were done, it was our turn. Or section of the conference was to educate the nursing school how we were able to make our group work. I was very excited I felt as though we were able to help them understand what makes ALLIED work. As I stated before ALLIED is a place were a student who is going to or currently enrolled in the school of education can go to seek help. Or even just go and talk about there problems. It’s set up so that no one is judged and everyone is able to give there own opinion to what ever the topic of the week is. After the workshops were over we went to the Teen Empowerment section. To be honest I think it was so boring as I sat there and they were talking about how teachers should relate to the students by telling them about something they went through when they were younger. They think by doing this that the students will react better in class when in reality this doesn’t happen. Student don’t care about what happened in there teachers life they have way too much going on in their own lives to care so by doing that it doesn’t matter at all to them. And then the rest of the presentation they did a lot of ice breakers. This just toped off how boring it made the presentation. I seriously didn’t want to sit in my seat and watch them play different ice breakers. All in all I think that this was very pointless. I also didn’t see how the youth panel helped at all either. So I guess for my first year going to Promising Practice wasn’t as fun as I was hoping but then again there next year :)
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