Seeds of change: Enrique G. Legaspi at TEDxBoyleHeights 2014
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 2014-06-16

"A teacher opens the door, and you enter by yourself"
~Chinese proverb 

Enrique's mantra is access for all to the best education, and to the power tools technology  develops in traditional and non-traditional settings.

His is an invocation, a call to action to educate youth so they have a fighting chance to change our future and their personal situation.

His talk starts with "a chalk" and closes with a passionate call and promise. 

Enrique is proud of his dual heritage.  He is a "Flipxicano". This blend of cultural heritage enriches the world, as diversity naturally does.

Innovator, Teacher, Chief of Staff - Boyle Heights, Technology Evangelist of Boyle Heights, and its Native Son.  wil.i.am founder of the Black Eyed Peas and his foundation kidnapped Enrique from the classroom to oversee educational policy, program operations with inspiraton and develop key partnerships with global technology companies. He is a "tweacher", because he promoted the use of social media and Twitter in the classroom as a key component to his pedagogy for the new century.

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