a summit would not be possible without the support of so many. i would like to acknowledge a number of individuals who made this believe. ilona sullivan. larry roberts. kathy asadda. all of the volunteers. michael freed man from sf govtv. our city library. our sponors. kecker and argu edez.

i also want to give a special thanks from anderson and anderson counseling. if you have ever seen the movie anner management, george was the consultant on that movie. he is an expert in conflict mediation. i want to thank george as well. i am so very honored to introduce our key-note speaker this morning. doctor francisco revelez. and mta director annette ford all were people who were self made, are self made.

doctor revelez was born in el paso. he labeled as a migrant worker. he also served as a division one principle with credentials in biology and chemistry. how did he get from biology and chemistry? today he is a senior faculty member at california university and he has dedicated his entire career to get out of survivor mode to empowerment mode. he believes that when young people are made to feel successful, they are better able to take a stand and feel empowered. he has expressed that in so

many ways. he is a researcher. each mind is a world with carlos santana and edward james almost. he is a research for center of life research. omb re al omb re. he just finished a film called latie on youth. he is a father and his 2

children are here. daniel and elma and his daughter in law and megan m burns and suggested we contact him. we are so happy to have you here and look forward to hearing your address. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. you know i got to share this with you. i know how to drive a tractor. don't forget what you come from. culture cures. it's like coming back to our

mom. i want to first and formost jeff adachi, thank you for the opportunity. patty lee. and sury to all the students. can i see the hands of the high school students? you know what i like about that? mihose means my children. look where you are sitting. in the front. i did a presentation for 2 thousand students and they were 25 hundred chairs. where do you think they sat? it breaks my heart. they sat in the back. i had all the ushers remove the first 5 hundred chairs and we started getting closer. how does it feel to be in the front?

if you see yourself at second best, how do you think people are going to treat you? when you sit in the back. who sits with you? your a little brothers, sisters. now growing up in texas. i can't tell you how many times they were making fun of me. i am going to share and comments. thank you for letting me be here. by the way also, my children are here. thank you. actually, they make me feel very nervous. there's a saying in latino culture. foreign language. it means men should be ugly and strong. i am ugly. i can do 50 pull ups. comes from being a field worker

and certainly i come here in a respectful way. this is a beautiful gathering. can i have you do one thing for me. could you turn to the person next to you. i don't want this to be a southwest airline flight. we are in lafamillia. >> excellent. excellent. there you go. now i know some of you. i saw some telephone numbers being traded here. it is what it is. seriously. whenever i go, i want to be apart of famillia. if i speak in spanish.

i am speaking in all languages all. if you don't understand, please translate. how many of you saw that movie, a few good men? remember that movie? there was a pivotal moment. i want the truth. do you remember the response? that's right. tom, you can't handle the truth. many times we have to think about strategically. it's about more than that. i have done work at chad. a lock down facility. we are approaching young men they are incarcerated than attend the csu colleges. we become the keepers of the

cages. very serious statistic. as an educator. i came out on a radio show not too long ago. an interviewer kept insisting being part of a gang like al-qaeda. that dehumanizes. i have spoken to so many of these students. when he shared that with me. i said, i refuse to go there. it perpet utes that paradigm. our paradigm changes ladies and gentlemen. what i would like to do is this. i want to pull the lens back to use that metaphor. what's feeding that monster. to think strategically.

if anything, if you leave here today, you will leave with my accent. one last thing. i do speak to children an awful lot. i have a doctorate. education has meant more for me. i am under no illusion. i also know that having a doctorate doesn't confir wisdom. when people made fun of me. i remember me mom coming home. foreign long speaking. >> we had beans at breakfast, lunch and dinner. bean pudding. i stop counting them after a while. we even had american cuisine.

we made rainbow bread. you remember that. i speak to children and listen to them. it's beautiful to hear you, mr. adachi, say that. probably because of this, more one saying how is that. the only people who speak the truth are children and people who have had too much to drink. that's called wisdom. you think about it. i am going to share one more thing. i will speak briefly on the concepts of that. if i asked you right now, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you would have considered yourself at risk? could you raise your hands. and there was probably a lot of pain with that, huh. in the book i wrote.

i interviewed 60 role models and all of them were at risk astronauts. it made us who we are. i have scars. i have a doctorate, but also scars. wisdom comes from making mistakes. i have made a lot of mistakes ladies and gentlemen. i am going to speak about collaboration. i am going to talk about the role of expectations. i will speak to the value of hope. because when you're in an ugly situation. hope means so much. it's a global concept. in the research i do with

resilience of children. close your eyes. bear with me. go ahead and hope them. i am not going to take you through a visiblization. i charge for that. some of you did not close your eyes. you looked at the other people closing their eyes. i asked students why? because i don't trust people around me. there are islands when children run to the nearest adult. if i am not dressed like this. i am dressed like i do at home. that guy must be a gangster. when i speak about at riskness, i asked this gentlemen, a school administrate or.

what makes a student at risk? we talked about gangs. we treat the symptoms. it's the symptoms we're treating. that's just an expression of other forms of repression. teen pregnancy and drug abuse. i said, what's going on? well they speak a different language in the home. it's a disconnect. they don't have enough money. i knew he had money because he always picked up the tab. he drove a nice car. i happened to have a hood accept and am proud of it. people distinguish between accents. i have spoken to students about that. are you at risk? no. i like jewelry too. what if i took your jewelry and

i dropped you right in the middle. in a really high crime area. would you be at risk? sometimes we attribute at risk to perform characteristics. sometimes the environment. we adjust. growing up. i needed to leave the environment. i am talking straight up. to survive, i grew up on the streets. the word i did at chad. the number one book that's popular, what book do you think it is? i hear the bible. beautiful. what is it? i have heard that one too. you know what it is? it's called the art of

seduction. the first section is called choose a victim. what has happened is this. as an educator. someone who works with gang units. we created oxymorons. we created good people who i think it's good to be bad. we teach them them that passing the standard is success. there is a difference. 3 words they taught me. do you think what 3 words. this is from their world, at riskness. you know what the 3 most powerful words are? i tend to think in love, faith. you know what they said? hate, jealousy and revenge.

i am listening to that. i said, we need to go beyond that. what do you think strategically. i still remember. i went to a debut taunt ball. vice president of the university, and they were talking and then she looked at me and i was dressed in a suit. she looked at me with respect and she jumped. what did she do? she grabbed her earings, ladies and gentlemen. because i don't know. i think she has never seen a latino closeup and my cilantro cologne. i mean no disrespect. it was her gut level reaction. i said, today i choose not to

rob you. let me do this. i could go on and on. i want to respect the time. let me talk about expectations. on the research i have done, what kind of teachers are assaulted by youths? what behaviors were they exhibiting? some people say comfortive. and people say intolerant. you know what it is? teachers where low expectations tend to be assaulted the most. you don't have respecto for someone. the work that i have done started with with a primitive of respecto. i expect something from you mihoe. because i respect, you are always angry. no it's the fire in me. the day i stop being angry is

the day i stop caring. let's talk about collaboration. i did the best practices paper. sb 95. we have programs throughout the state. they had money. funding. staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn't collaborate. that's the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn't see. i learned an important lesson

and it's this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home sometimes and i said, look what i bought you on special. people were making fun of me. do you know what color the shirt was? a bright yellow shirt. i looked like a light bulb. the role of the elders is important. when you talk about hope, ladies and gentlemen. i want to remember the works of

victor franco. he looked, he was one of the survivors of a/sweuts. this too shall pas. the best way to build hope is have a plan. when i talked about being on the streets. it's very operational. have bigger brother and cousins. that coalition building. i was flying back.

i did a key-note. going to nasa, you have 3 big panoramas behind me. my people. i will end with this, ladies and gentlemen. i got on the airplane. i was tired. i got in and i was on a good airline. i got in the window seat. a gentlemen, an african american. people were getting on the plane and they were bypassing us. they would look and keep going. i knew something was up. they looked at the same chairs. i said, it is what it is. until a young boy came. and he sat between us. that gave me an awful lot of hope. it took him to teach us.

children have a renewed effect on us. finally to conclude. i had a great complement. most teachers who are here with respect. you are the reason we are here. you give us hope. this complement, he said, doctor revelez. you are pretty cool. nice, huh. but then he said. do you want me to hook you up with my mom. doctor adachi, thank you very much. >> all right. my name is is an swan right. according to a 2001 survey.

84 percent said they were satisfied with high school safety. 22 percent said they were not. >> my name is matesh. whether students were asked if they felt safe on their way to school. 43 percent said no. they do not feel safe riding the bus. >> my name is daniel, i live in san francisco. when youths were asked where they carry weapons, 77 percent said it was for protection. >> hi, my name is scott, i live

in oakland. 66 percent of youths surveyed believe it is never right to carry a gun to school. >> my name is bianca. when asked if they believed it was a good idea to have are a gun 17 percent students said yes and 40 percent said it was sometimes okay. >> 61 percent of the same 8 thousand students said lack of jobs is a more serious problem than fights in school. they also felt violence was a problem. >> according to the juvenile justice community assessment

and referral center. 1147 juveniles were arrested between july 2007 and january 2008. of these. 122 happened at school. >> all right. can we please have a round of applause for our young people? thank you. all right. so gad to be here. i am evet, we are now going to move into our first panel which was going to address violence at school. i am one of your moderaters and we're going to go ahead and start. thank you so much for being

here. >> if you are asked in seeing those statistics, we will have the power point at www.dot st public defender.org to make them available. i am excited to introduce each of of the panelists. if we described all of the achievements we would here all day. it's available online on the website. the first is bianca, she is the junior at thorough good marshall high school. she the part of the united players who is in the house here. and we came to meet bianca when she started interning.

so thank you for being a part of this. carlos garcia is the super intendent of the city and county. we are so lucky to have him in san francisco. we served in the fifth faster growing school system in clark county. he worked as a principle including horace man in san francisco. thank you very much super intendent for being here. nathaniel ford is the director

of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work