we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler.com. until next time, may the force be with you. ♪ ♪ >> first of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. one, that they try something they've never tried before. be it food or be it dancing or doing something. and if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. >> we're going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. >> get ready. and you diet tomorrow.

>> i'm warren corn field and we are doing a series called stay safe, we are going to talk about staying in your home after an earthquake and taking care of your pet's needs. ♪ >> here we are at the spur urban ken center and we are in this little house that was

built to show what it is like in san francisco after an earthquake. we are very pleased to have with us today, pat brown from the department of animal care and control and her friend oreo. >> hi. >> lauren. >> could you tell us what it would take after an earthquake or some other emergency when you are in your home and maybe no power or water for a little while. what it would take for you and oreo to be comfortable and safe at home. >> just as you would prepare for your own needs should an earthquake or a disaster event occur, you need to prepare for your pets. and i have brought with me today, some of the things that i have put in my disaster kit to prepare for my animal's needs to make sure that i am ready should something happen and i need to shelter at home. >> what are some of the things that people should have in their home after an earthquake or other emergency to help take care of their tasks and take

care of themselves. >> i took the liberty of bringing you some examples. it includes a first aid kit for your pet and you can also use it for yourself and extra meds for your pets. and water container that will not tip over. we have got both food, wet food and dry food for your pet. and disposable food container. and water, and your vet records. in addition, we have a collar and some toys. >> yeah. to keep oreo busy. >> he needs toys and this is san francisco being a fruity city and come on oreo. this is your dinner, it is patte style chicken dinner with our foody seen here. >> what they say now is that you should have at least a gallon of water and i think that a gallon of water is small

amount, i think that maybe more like two gallons of water would be good for you and your pet. >> does the city of animal control or any other agency help you with your pet after an emergency. >> there is a coalition of ngos, non-governmental organizations led by the department of animal care and control to do disaster planning for pets and that includes the san francisco spca. the paws group, the vet sos, pets unlimited. and we all have gotten together and have been getting together for over four or five years now to talk about how we can educate the public about being prepared for a disaster as it involves your pets. >> a lot of services. i understand that if you have to leave your home, we are encouraging people to take their pets with them. >> absolutely. we think that that is a lesson that we concerned from karina,

if you are being evacuated you should take your pet with you. i have a carrier, and you need to have a carrier that you can fit your pet in comfortably and you need to take your pet with you when you were evacuated. >> i am going to thank you very much for joining us and bringing oreo today. and i am go >> we are very happy here in the heart of the sunnyvale you community to showing up show you off the san franciscans events in this community urge to see

hands on exploration and listedcy rich environments and a mass rich environmentalists and languages celebrated and a multiple of cultures and heritages that are slnd relevant here at the early learning center reserve extremely proud to start out first day which school the earliest education is the most critical i know that students that don't have an advantage of kindergarten enter behind their children in other learning vichls so it's really not a matter in san francisco of wondering if we're going to have the expense of the education we look at it as an

environmentalist in our children an environmentalist in our community and so proud that san franciscans have continuallyly voted to support initiates that fund early education in our community we'll have the opportunity in the not so distant future to do that again and commit to education as a superintendant in the unified school district i'm extremely proud to have a school board that is focused on equality in our policies in how we serve our communities our equality resoluted that means this year you'll hear us speak and see us do many things around closing the chuchlt gap? near future we'll have on board a special assistant to the superintendant that will focus on african-american students learning in san francisco. and you may ask why well, the

reason is that we are indischarge oflogies our african-american population in san francisco we know a city as diverse as san francisco can't be the world-class city we are if we don't have our students achieving so we're ushering banished this are about how we're going to double down on our services and supports of inclusion of all students in the communities this year and what gives me great hope and sole list not only boo do we have a school board that's focused on this task we also have a city government it is equally focused and a faith based community that is equally focused i'd like to welcome with us today and everyone will get an opportunity to introduce themselves introduce a member of the faith

based organizations he's the president of the naacp he is a partner with us. and he stands shoulder to shoulder with us the reverend green amos brown (clapping) thank you very much mr. superintendent. for you're very substantive and kind words regarding our partnership that we are annually today with our mayor standing here with us indicates. that in san francisco we know how to do the right thing to do when it comes to making education everyone's business. and as we earlier walked through the classrooms and saw the children engaged in early learning experiences given that

i'm a baptist preacher i immediately went back in my minds eye and recalled that the proof at the time nasal reduce told a story of a man that plowed up a field to plant weight he did a great job of beginning the task. but when he slept somebody sold sowed some tears? weight when we walk through the doors we saw good wheat being plant in this early childhood education experience and the research of the facts reveal that children basically early childhood education cases in elementary school are all on par with each

other in terms of achievement, however, as they moved to middle school and high school somebody sows some tears in the wheat. tears of savage inequality tears of power neglect, tears of lack of discipline tears of lawlessness and violation but we are standing together to say in the words of george berry marred shaw some people see things and say why but others dream of other this are not and say why not we're saying why not come together caveat and teachers and

parents the community the faith community and make sure that we make a difference in the lives of our children so that when they come to the end of the field in the evening at graduation time particularly in the african-american community it will not be the says that the graduation rate will be a low for us, but we'll be graduating on par with those who started in the field early in the morning. so what are we going to do about that we're going to make sure that we keep things going by having after school tectorial programs back on track students of promise and in public housing we're going to make sure that their wrap around services for

partners r or challenged with keeping pace with what they need to do in terms of education in their children we're going to make sure that we have wrap around services to provide safety and security in our schools at the middle school to high school levels that no child need to go to school in fear and trepidation but they'll go to school and say i will learn and gladly teach others how to find the way to the good life. so thank you very much my friends for progressively we can come together and make sure that we pull those tears out of the field that have no business there and when we do that the day will come when all of those children will be able to say i'm

black and proud and yellow and i'm mellow i'm white and i'm all right. and i'm gay and godly and i'm straight and sensible i'm read and ain't dead that's the goal wheel keep the tears out of the field of this educational process. now i present to you our honorable mayor he uses the bloult pull pin of his office to make sure that this city knows he is an educational a mayor working together with the entire community (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you referred brown. you know this is great to be here on the first day of school fresh faces the subsequent is not only awake but eager to

provide that essential link that education provides and i think reed brown is absolutely correct i wanted to talk this morning and welcome over the course president chiu and supervisor malia cohen who's district we're in this morning and give a harder i didn't welcome to our superintendant and two school members that are working hard to make that happen reverend and that's hydra mendosa and emily who is also on the boards she serves as the director on the status of women we're all here together i see barbara carlson she and first 5 are working in the community with us but we have a lot of our members working together with our school district. long ago i believe it's going to get longer ago the unified

school district had to struggle by itself they saw the state as their challenge and the city was not there with them we've learned a lot of through a lot of tragedies tragedies of failure and of not supporting each other and our hearten guarantee again to opening statements opening obama we're going our brothers keeper and make sure we succeed so the school district is not isolated, in fact, i think more and more you'll see those public-private partnerships that occur particularly with the school board the way their listening to the community and all of the exciting work we're doing with the corporate's and the city agencies working together with superintendant carr responses and our office of early care our first 5 program but all the children's program through the

leadership of all the others working together to make sure that we connect up. and so it is that while we invest in what occurs in the classroom support the teachers the school administrator we don't leave it to chance that it only occurs in the classroom that's what the reversed was talking about we have to do it in our public housing settings in our community of bayview and all the other communities throughout the city in sxoovr and other preschool programs in a family home sector there are a lot of other services that we want to make sure happen. when this tragic incident that happened a few blocks away occurred this summer we had to make sure that the kids coming here and into visitacion valley

will be ready to educate themselves and not be traumatized horrible as it happened we need to care of them and say our public health officials we want to make sure our parents see us here they can believe there's wrap around services that support not only in tutoring but other things that will distributor those kids effort to focus and concentrate on their education will disturb and miss direct the parents so necessary feel the parent is not for them this is our city we work constantly to make sure this happens for your children a that's how we remain and grow our african-american community we have to give them our sfath and when you see the classrooms actual see how important it is

to go from every step of the way that we not only leave when the kids leave the classrooms their reinforced they know that our city cares for them. and so we're here not only to welcome the kids on the first day by to continue keeping positive announcements and whether it's working with reversed brown and the educators alliance or our preschool applicants or our corporate sins like the sales force people that help us mist the middle school where we know that if we don't side something more kids and families drop out we already know that we're embracing those

facts and most importantly that we communicate with the parents that that this city cares we'll not rest until everybody feels the misconduct and equality of the city we'll bring it into the bayview or the sunnydale and those folks will know we're lessor from the first to the second through the holidays we'll be showing up and working together; right? rich >> right. >> right reverend. >> that's right. >> the first day you'll see more announcements as we re-up our effort we've got huge things to pass supervisors on the ballot this november and front and center is our children's fund one of the most important thing that are worth over

$250 million that will keep kids coming and excited about the city (clapping.) thank you player we absolutely appreciate you speak ordinance this and do it reversed we're going to be joined. >> at the hip we're in agreement we're working closely together get used to the three of us. but i'm to had an opportunity to invite supervisor malia cohen to come forward >> thank you happy first day of consulate everyone. this is a joyous occasion to celebrate the completion of the summer and transitioning from fun play into a structural academic play we need to take a moment we're giving ourselves a

pat on the back but recognize the family that those children are connected to the moms and dads that got them up and fed them and got them sykesed up this weekend we have a bunch of backpack give a ways i was at an emergency room to look at the new kids and the kindergarteners with their brand new backpacks you nightmare it was civil right and clean no marks this is really a symbol of where we are today a brand new slate a everybody is having perfect attendance 88 today it's our job 0 continue to protect and sure their traveling down the pathway

to success and this academic second success is critical not only for the kids and families but to our lives and our neighborhoods and city and country when you look at the strikes that are happening all across the world and others parties or part of our city and region and the first day of school symbols a fresh start and new beginning it feelings wonderful to be here with the members of the clergy rae the school district we're symbolizing a fresh start to bring all the young folks to a completion point to quality education i'm excited i just fired up this is not the beginning or end of the speech we've got that a lot of things

to roll out this academic school year we're going to be opening up a new school with the billing i didn't brown academic next year and continue to beef up our after school program we're not stopping with in classroom education but taking it out and making sure we have an opportunity to present to our young people thank you for being here and excited i hope our excited all right. all right. pursue the first day of school thank you. thank you >> and i'd like to invite president chiu the president of the supervisors. >> happy first day on this sunny and warm san francisco do i day i want to reflect a second on what the good reversed said about the fields we know it

takes a village to raise all children i want to thank you for being the vitamin to our mayor to the broadband and other dcwf and all the parents our educators and in particular this is wonderful have our civil rights community and we know that the quality of education it would be of the greatest questions off our day i know that at san francisco we're skeptic on so many levels mayor ed lee and supervisor malia cohen and i know that the quality of our education making sure that our most challenged neighborhood and making sure that everyone is kaetdz and our african-american students receive the best education this

will be 2014 the best and years to come i know that inform has been leading the way when it comes to pre k and universal preschool we want to set the model for the country california is ranging 49 out of 50 states where what we spend for kids that's not a good civil rights progression i look forward to working with you who are part of the vinyl and moving the students forward have a good first day. >> thank you i'd like to invite our vice president of the unified school district school board. >> good afternoon, everyone. i want to thank you all for being here on this special day the first day of school i'm proud to be serving on the

school board with hydra mendosa we are one of the top performing schools in the state we have the blue ribbon schools and the california distinguished school that starts in the preschool level at the kindergarten level p is where the excellence begins and face champs as the reversed mentioned we have an opportunity with our disabled students we are addressing those champions and making this the best school year thank you to the mayor ed lee and the mid grade and making sure that our families choose our public schools first and i see behind us is the executive branch and all who help to make

our schools great >> thank you dr. murase with that let's get on to learning and we look forward to many successes and thanks to the incredible staff for being great hosts thank you for welcoming us and thank you for being here.