The PluralNet team are members of Cohort 6 of the Educational Leadership program in the the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.  Bringing our various backgrounds together in the field of education, we were brought together through a year-long course in EDUCATIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING.  The PluralNet team members are:

Nancy Greenstein University of California, Los Angeles

Scott Heimlich University of California, Los Angeles

Rhonda Hyatt California State University Northridge

Walter Jones Los Angeles Southwest College

Gloria Martinez Malibu High School

Jerry Ternes Gardena Valley Christian School

Kimberly Young Wadsworth Elementary School

UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies Educational Leadership Program

We sincerely wish to thank the following individuals at UCLA, all of whom provided us with their time and knowledge:

Yesenia Alvarez - President, Latin American Student Association

Albert Carnesale - Chancellor

Winston Doby - Vice-Chancellor, Student Affairs & Co-Chair, UCLA Outreach Steering Committee

Stacy Lee - President, Undergraduate Student Association Council (USAC)

Blanca Madrigal - External Vice President, American Indian Science & Engineering Society

Henry Perez - President, MEChA

Linda Rose - Executive Director, UCLA Educational Leadership Program

Jack Sutton - Executive Officer, UCLA Outreach Steering Committee

Noluthando Lisa Denise Williams - Chair, African Student Union

The Evolution of the PluralNet Team Through the Tao of Teamwork

Our PluralNet team evolved by cultivating our minds with increased information.  We limited our desire to solve the problem of increasing diversity at UCLA and focused on raising awareness of efforts made by student groups and administration.

We jumped in with our input freely.  We were not intimidated, nor embarrassed to share and ask questions because we accepted and respected our teammates.  We evolved because we acted without self-interest for the success of the team.

We evolved because we recognized the subtle power of Tao.  No one team member usurped more power than the other because the evolved team realizes the more subtle the use of power, the greater its effects.

We were pleased with our preliminary presentation, but we were cautious not to dwell on this success.  Evolved team members know that to stop and admire one's accomplishments for too long fosters decline.  We knew we still had more to accomplish.

The process is what gave us knowledge and the process was not a burden because the responsibilities were shared.

We evolved as we established trust as a result of the presence of ease.  No one person was overbearing because we realize team leadership is a subtle influence. We evolved because the calm made our group meetings a good place to be.  We did not mind meeting weekly. Afterall, the evolved team members create a calm that serves as the foundation of the team.

We evolved because we realized how much we needed each other.  The evolved team members consider the interdependent connections of all team relationships.

We have evolved as Team PluralNet because we learned how to guide events.  We guided the problem based learning(PBL) project through to completion through combined efforts.  This PBL event began with each of us and comes to a close with each of us.

last updated 6/99