401: Brent Haken—A Farmer is Fixing it

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The former farmer and lifelong educator works as director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education (CTE) where he brings his get-it-done farming mindset to education. Brent discusses how Oklahoma’s Central Tech is using competition to help prepare students for real-world opportunities and focusing on a mastery of skill rather than a time-based curriculum.

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, it's the way I heard it.
0:05.0	And what we have for you today is what you call a very special episode of the way I heard it.
0:10.7	It's called A Farmer Is Fixing It.
0:14.4	Chuck, tell us all about it.
0:17.8	I knew you were going to do that.
0:20.2	Well, you see, Mike, the thing about this one is that I wasn't there when you recorded this,
0:25.3	so I don't know a whole lot about it as yet.
0:28.5	Well, when I say it's a very special episode, I mean, it's very special for that reason,
0:33.1	in part, but also the timing is just something I couldn't ignore.
0:40.3	Microworks will be 16 years old on Labor Day, and in real time, that's just about a week
0:47.3	from now.
0:47.8	So this would be our Labor Day episode.
0:50.4	I think it's episode 400.
0:52.7	Is that right, Jeff?
0:54.1	That is wrong, but I'll tell you what it is. It is episode
0:58.8	401. 401. Well, file it under who cares what number it is. But it's a conversation that I
1:10.0	absolutely love to have in part because I had no idea I was going
1:14.5	to have it. The backstory is this. I was in Oklahoma filming a new tranche of materials with my friends
1:24.5	over at OERB, the Oklahoma Energy Resource Board.
1:29.7	And in the course of this year's campaign, we are tying in a lot of the messages to trade schools
1:37.9	because, you know, there's a ton of opportunity in the energy industry and the people who are pursuing those
1:45.4	opportunities need to learn a trade. So it's a great thing for our foundation, but it's also a
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