tools necessary to have a successful life in school and everyday life. >> when you see how rewarding it is to be giving back, does it make that much easier to recruit potential volunteers. >> i think so. absolutely i think so. we're seeing a demographic change in our organization. we're getting a lot more younger group of ladies volunteering, single women. we have the whole gamut. >> what kind of impact do you think the junior league of san jose has made in south bay? >> i think we have made a great impact. we have given almost $5 million back in assistance and we donate 27,000 hours worth of volunteer time per year. >> and your big event is coming up. >> it is. our favorite event. league member favorite. the greatest garage sale on earth. march 9th at the fairgrounds in san jose. it's from 8:00 to 6:00. we have a newly ex expanded community will health and

services fair. it is pre-admission. community members can come and give different health screenings, blood checks. we have caye ser permanente coming in. >> this is a huge undertaking. you probably start planning the day after your last event. >> yes. we have been planning this since 2011. our fund-raisers take well over a year to plan with all the bells and whistles that go into it. >> besides getting some bargains, why come out and support. >> we're looking to raise over $100,000 with this rummage sale. community members come in and get the things they need. it could be a bicycle, baby furniture, clothing for all, books, kitchen appliances. and they get it at a bargain

price and the money goes straight back to our community through programs and grants. >> is this something new, the old health screening aspect of it? what a great concept. >> not the whole day. 9:30 to 2:30 right outside the hall. and we have expanded this year to include other services. so we have lowe's coming in to it a do it yourself demonstration. other agencies will come in talking about free legal services. >> tell us why you keep coming back for more? >> i like the life balance. i have made incredible friends. it's like giving back. >> absolutely. junior league of san jose having their annual huge rum acknowledge sale. you need the fairgrounds for the rummage sale. any final thoughts? >> we just hope to see everything out there looking for

some great deals. >> thank you very much. continued success. thank you very much. >> up next on comunidad del valle, a preschool doing innovative things with our kids.

it's a special preschool called yikes taoeubgs. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> tell us what makes -- i saw your clip. what makes your school unique, do you think? >> one thing that is really wonderful about our school is it is a parent involvement. there is a great community of families who are together supporting yikes tikes. additionally, we are an inclusive preschool which means

we are in the classroom both typical developing kids. children who may have disabilities. there's a wonderful sense that everybody is important and part of the classroom and equal partners. >> now, we have a superintendent coming up next with allen rocks school district. how do you think a school like yours would prepare a child to enter the elementary school, kindergarten classes if they are developmentally disadvantaged or whatnot? >> i think kids who have developmental disabilities will always need support. but starting early is really important. we work with kids at risk who may not be identified as disabled but are showing red flags. we get them to the services they need. we don't start at at a disadvanta disadvantage.

parent involvement is so important. >> tell us why you chose this school. >> i have three children. 8-year-old daughter who is developmentally delayed. and two sons, 4-year-old and 2-year-old. my daughter was attending a partner -- sorry. the partner. that's how i found out about the program. i began my 2-year-old there and enjoyed the program so much i pulled my 4-year-old out of the other program to include him in the yikes tikes. they get exposure at home but i think it's wonderful they are learning from a young age. they're not different. it's okay to communicate with these kids and have friendships with children who may not be a typical child. >> how do you teach your child to fight the stigma.

whether we accept it or not, it will always be there. other kids may not understand the consequences of any language they might use. how has your daughter been able to handle it. >> we treat them no different. disciplinewise, praisewise, just raise them exactly the same. there should be no difference. so it's been a great program for my boys. they have learned so much in the time they've been there. teachers are wonderful. and i do think the parent involvement is definitely a huge key. your child is getting free education and you should be more than willing to donate your time to help your children and be prepared for kindergarten. because it's a huge step for them to take. >> you are all over the bay area. there's a sliding scale if you need to pay a certain tuition. >> we are actually operating on a membership basis. our services are free to

members. 70% of our members are hispanic or from the hispanic community. we operate based on donations. we need all the help we can get. there's no requirement but as miguel said it's important to donate time as well as money. >> my child is in second grade. they require 30 hours volunteer time. as a parent how can you not spend 30 hours minimum doing that. talk about maybe what you have learned being able to participate more with your children while going to school. >> them seeing the presence in the classroom. it makes a really big difference. they're excited to show you what they have learned, what the teacher does with them in the classroom. like i said, it's just a great

way for them to get started with early education. having parents involved. as kids get older they're going to need more involvement when it comes to sports and education. it's just great stepping stones to get where you need to be when your kids are in grammar school and high school. >> what about children who are not disadvantaged. what -- i can see folks at home thinking children are in there, is my child going to be held back. >> because of all the legislation that surrounds inclusion in the general education sector, it has -- there's no detrimental effects on a typical developer. 95% of parents who bring their children to classrooms that are inclusive would choose to come back and do it again.

all the therapeutic support that these developmentally delayed kids are receiving are in the same classroom as all the normal typical developing kids. so they get all the therapeutic muscle, all the professionalism and all the sort of point of view of the therapist trained to help kids develop appropriate skills. so there's that very concrete benefit to the kids. >> and i can see the children learning from each other on both sides. >> they're called yikes tikes. any final thoughts? you have a couple bowl-a-thons. >> $20. all funds go directly to yikes tikes. there's one in april in fremont at cloverleaf. >> continued success.

>> thank you. >> thank you very much. up next here on commune tkatd dell val, a superintendent of will lessen rocks school district. stay with us. mom, i invited justin over for lunch.

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[ male announcer ] save the day in an instant. at&t. ♪ test scores have improved dramatically in the ellen rocks in san jose. the superintendent of the school district, welcome to the show, sir. for the longest time as a news reporter, and i've been here at channel 11 for going on 17 years, whenever we visited the alum rocks schools it usually meant something negative had happened, that things a lot of times a lot of negative things were happening. that includes the board. here we're talking about something very, very positive. and the test scores, for you to have 14 schools scoring above 800 api where you have high poverty, what does that tell you about the tenacity of the kids you are teaching there?

>> we have always had wonderful students and families in alum rock. we want to make sure every student succeeds. our goal is 100% will meet or exceed grade level expectations. we don't believe one student should be left out of that discussion. we're working hard to provide quality instruction through great teachers. we're looking at data consistently now and we're finding our teaching practice on a regular basis to meet individual student needs. and i think that it is that alignment, that strategic vision that's helped us improve scores over the last five years. i jokingly say when i look at the scores from alum rock we're going straight line improving. and a lot is because we're aligning all the resources in our decision-making, our instructional practice towards

improving our students's performance. >> are we talking about more resources? >> that's a great question. we have partnered with outside agencies to help bring in additional resources to the district. as you know, the state funding for education is rather restricted of late. so if we're going to make the differences we've been making, we need to combine our internal resources with external providers. so we have funding coming from sisco, from applied materials, new teacher project, the county office of education. i could go on and on. we're aligning those all with one common goal, improving how teachers teach and students learn. >> that to me is outside the box thinking. when you start talking to the siscos and whatnot. in a way you're helping children, you're training their future workforce. if they want to stay competitive

in a decade or so, these are kids who are going to help them stay competitive. it behooves them to give you a hand. >> that's what they tell us. if you look at any of the studies from business roundtable they want workers who leave high school or career college bound or collaborative workers or independent thinkers or critical thinkers. so they want to enjoin with public education and help us make a difference. it's just reaching out to them. and what some of them have said is we want to make a difference so we want to go deeper. i think we have had always had foundation support. but now the kind of support that we're getting from businesses and foundations and nonprofits are helping us go deeper in the process. and they're staying with us for longer periods of time. >> but when you're giving kids ipads in elementary school, boy, it opens their imagination and

it's limitless what they can accomplish once they have the technology in their hands. many kids are doing it right now. >> absolutely. probably for you or i technology is second -- >> i'm still integrating. >> i'm still learning. i have to ask my grandson about using it. >> when i watch the way our students use technology, how natural it is for them. and we're happy to have those. we're still learning. the best application to maximize student learning. they are highly sophisticated learning devices. we have to figure out the best way for students to use them. so it's not just fun and engaging but it makes a difference in how they learn in aside from the state budget, we know that's a big burden on every school in the state.

how high can we go? >> internally we were looking at all our schools improving. it's a continual cycle of improvement. for the schools that are already there, they're looking how to get to their next level. we want all our schools to be 800. we're folksing on improving our instruction to middle school. there are schools of choice now. and we want parents in the community to say we choose our schools because we want our students to attend the best schools that they can. and i know in the dual immersion academy is one where parents want to come in. in part because of the parent engagement. it is so fundamental to strong schools. >> perhaps they come from the east side, drive-through the east side to a school of their

choice that is maybe not alum rock. we'll be back with the superintendent and talk more about the success when we continue.

>> we're back with the superintendent of alum rock school district. just to be honest, my daughter is a second grader at the dual language academy. so full disclosure on this show. but the reason, and i go back to the reporting i have done the last decade and a half about some of the bad things happening. so that's why we're overjoyed to have you here. so overjoyed that there have been two recent principals in alum rock named principal of the year. i was there for the announcement of one of them. i'm sure most of your principals are.

but to actually get it is quite an honor. >> i think they would both say they were representing all the other principals they work with in alum rock. jason surge at san antonio. renee sanchez at cesar chavez are both great leaders, student centered. and i was i so proud when i found out they were named principal of the year. >> talk about your teachers. because we hear about strive and dischord and budget has a lot to do with it. i see it in the classroom and you see it more than i do. >> we have a great core of teachers. i was with alum rock 12 years in the '80s. i'm back because of the great stove we have. the heart is the teachers. they're interacting with students on a day to day basis. sometimes we get negative press

about things that happen in our community. our teachers are among the best. they're committed to our students and the community. teaching job is incredibly difficult from when i started 40 some odd years ago. teachers have to know so much and focus on every single student and how to take all that curriculum and be able to interpret it in a way that makes sense for kids. then they have all the pressure dealing with family and children and the scores they have to achieve on state tests which are so visible today. >> give us a state of the district if you will. i can't imagine where we would be without prop 30. how is that going to help you move forward? we budget wise? >> a couple of positive things.

alomar community approved a bond with almost 80% positive for bond measure to help many prove the physical school, part of schools. and infuse technology in schools. we're happy to have that. voters in the past approved a parcel tax going in large measure to keep classes small in k3. we have had a recession, which everybody has felt in over area of their life. school districts are no different. since 2007, we have decreased in revenue by about 22% per student. if when i play it to my own budget, if my own home budget had 22% less funding, less available resource and i've been using my bank account, i would have to start making some decisions. alum rock is at the point where we have to look at our budget and make hard decisions about

where we're going to spend our money in order to correct for the deficiencies in state funding that had occurred for the last seven or eight years. the economy is getting better. that's a good hopeful sign. prop 30 did pass. the public should be aware of this, prop 30 didn't provide any new money to schools. it only protected against further cuts. am i happy we didn't have to cutmore? absolutely. it's not providing new money for us. we have to look at that in the next several months. we're putting together a fiscal recovery plan that will help us erase the deficit spending we have been engaged in. >> if you need ideas where to spend that money we will give you a list.

>> got you on speed dial. >> amazing test scores. they have done wonderful things there. thanks to everybody from top to bottom. students, teachers and administration, everybody there. good job. thank you for coming on our show. here's what's happening in your comunidad del valle. dinner's ready.

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