then rather than after school and after school kids disperse to many areas. they hang out with friends, stay at schools with sports and clubs and activities after school but to get to school everyone must be there at the same time so they're saying many times buses pass them up. every single student has been late for school multiple times because of muni and they say it's the over crowding. buses will not pick emup if it's too crowded and students gave a recommendation for racks and the barack backpacks and they said what isn't on the list and i thought i would mention it. >> >> so the 48 apparently serves many schools and not just public schools so it's greatly impacted so those students on a 48 and also the 44 they say it's a constant problem but they also mention the 29 and it serves so many schools on the route and they don't often get picked up but i see it's being addressed here but the 48 service ends -- it doesn't run after 9:00 a.m. and not before 3:00 p.m.. now i never heard of that frankly and i am not familiar with the route but they said the 48 -

this year from four sites to five schools and at each of the schools we're trying to have additional teachers in order to meet the needs so where we had 2,000 students participating i am hoping to increase it by several hundred and we had 35,000 -- 3500 courses completed and i am hoping to increase that to 4,000 and we hoping that the students are engaged in summer learning primarily for 12th graders and going down to 11th and tenth and ninth and new english learners that didn't have an opportunity to take some of the courses: thank you very much. >> thank you ms. fong. any questions or comments on this item? thank you so much. it's great to see summer school grow at the school district, especially after being on the board in the one summer we didn't have summer school and the immense gap in the city due to budget cuts and it's great to see it happening again. did you want to make closing comments? >> i have a few slides about activities. did you want me to postpone that? i am fine. >> thank you very much mr. eagleson and i wanted to thank all of the departments on this program now o

our school nurses. another critical piece of our effort to make sure students are safe and healthy and ready to learn is to build staff capacity, and that takes the form of both training for health ed teachers, training for all staff so they're prepared to respond to a crisis, and provide support. we have been doing a lot of work for building capacity under trauma informed practice for a number of staff including social workers, nurses and high school wellness program staff -- excuse me, and then some ongoing training specific to some of our most vulnerable youth, in particular the lgbtq youth and the work with minors and youth in foster youth and just recently did a presentation last week to all of our wellness staff around human trafficking and commercial exploitation of children. so some next steps. to the question of how folks can help? how the city and school district can partner? certainly resources are needed to support this work and build on some of the efforts under way. we are currently prepar

to keep growing like we have ♪ school we're ready for a school like this thank you >> thank you veryh. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> yes good evening. i'm shannon my son a joshua robinson a student others bayview he's his reading level has improved four levels and his math levels has skoktd and loves to teach the taefrpdz are approachable the kids don't get out until four and he's existed to be there you can call the teachers up to 8:00 p.m. at night the school he previously attended it wasn't like that he didn't have a behavior problem but needed help academically and kip has met the needs they have a reading program that's excellent rb i it's tremendously helping him with the tutoring so i'm forever grateful to the kip bayview academy. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm brenda i am an my third child at kip bayview my son goes to reardon and my son is a 6th grader there i put my child in kip he wasn't doing well in public school anyhow in the 11th grade applying to stanford university and the university of portland all alleyways becaus

>> i would say the high schools are where we concentrate our work and most of the high schools we have been in since i have been there except lowell high school and we focus our efforts because we're three folks and have a contracted person as well within the neighborhoods i mentioned and usually one or two middle schools per academic year. >> okay. great. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. i wanted to call up professor and others. >> i am with the lead educator in the project survive program and proud to stand with the sisters against rape and we work with them and sf program and we started 20 years ago. we offer workshops through peer educators. over the 20 years we have served 80,000 students through 4,000 work shops. in addition to the standard workshop we offer bilingual workshops in english with spanish, cantonese and mandarin so i read the thousands of evaluations that we get from the workshops and in the early years what i read over and over and over again from our students at city college was go to the high schools. okay. it took some time. we went to the comm

out of my school. i first rode the one california from mission to chinatown and the bus drove students from my school and from washington school and prisido and ucsf and the communicate i spend everyday during middle school was two hours and now i am waking up every morning at 6:00 a.m. to go catch the 3045 or another -- or k line to go across the city to lowe and i notice there are students from ccsf, sf state, balboa, mercy and [inaudible] all riding the same bus with mean and muni is our school bus. we all need to go to school around like 8:00 a.m. and sometimes there's like -- you know, sometimes i will like -- sometimes i would miss it just a few minutes before and it's 30 minutes before the first class and i check the timer and it's 16 minutes before the next one and those are the only -- those two lines are the only way to get to school, and i feel that the metro station should like make the k line more abundant and reliable for like the sake of the early school riders, early student riders and

that would never happen so i just want to let everyone here know that the school district, the school site, [inaudible] is a very night knight and close working relationship. >> >> and i appreciate when hamilton says they will have someone out there within three days even before the three days before the arrival they give the kuftacy and the professionalism of the phone call to let us know they're coming. >> thank you principal chiu. it's good to see you. >> hi. i am tara and a counselor in the school district and work in a kindergarten through eighth grade school and working for the support department the last eight years. supporting homeless youth is near and dear to my heart. in our position as you know we have a lot of respond it is but mainly. >> >> responsibilities but mainly to build relationships with staff and families and within the school and families and other community members. in

school it is our school thank you (clapping.) thank you, mr. brad again hoping hold the applause for all the speakers. >> i'm a tenth grade student ever since i was enrolled that or there was no support for my color at mission high school we have small business that worked with us and it is quite ironic the school board want to help to get to college but the money is disappearing this year we had over 34 historic black colleges come to our school and accepted students on the spot as a st. joseph i was advised to wait we need an african-american advisor advisor. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm a senior at admission high school as well as the vice president of the high school ami i've been to the mission high school during my four years no one has supported like mission african-american advisor as an accepted to a college i never would have thought about or heard of our advisor gives support to those who don't have it at home removing her from her position makes it a loss for her and the family she's

is there's not a lot of room for innovation in public schools because the schools are being held accountable for this week in limited standardized tests in the test scores don't capture what teachers are trying to accomplish with these other sorts of experiences and models. so that is why it feels like not very convincing innovation story here. my agent said you've got to write about that. you got to write about the gorilla in the room, which is standardized testing. so i set out bravely but afraid to combat what i thought would be very dense project in terms of -- and it turned out to be sordid history policy. when you read about higher education, it is very diverse and independent sector of our society. in case 12 this is really america. this is public. this is one of our biggest public expenditures. it is again nine out of 10 schools come the 50 million children. half of these children are poor. you can't write about a school in america without writing about politics, race and class and all of these issues come into the testing story in a really strong insert an unsettling way. you have t

the charlotte is an explanation of that not actually looking at specific schools but schools in general and looking at 9 types of schools that were under whether concrete and wood frame and the approximate year that's how we're performing in an earthquake the pie chart on the right there was a huge part we didn't understand again quite a few reinforcing the idea of an evaluation those i realize we have a mix of engineers and contractor and school administrators so i'm going to talk at a level that hopefully everyone can follow me we're happy to explain that but essentially schools under the building code ann are an e occupancy they have their use and jobs because of that we want to make sure that is an easier place to start by evaluating outlets occupancy schools are complex sometimes audios church associated or a a residentialcy those buildings have not tied up to be elevated so after a lot of months working with the stlrld is stakeholder a group of over 4 hundred and having of you create trademark from so people are comfortable moving forward people are asking me is there other things

school and it is so bend the students of our district and fobd that the sunny side elementary school newly completed wing of the school i help to build should henceforth be known as the ruby bell wing a plague should be responding and be it resolved this this resolution suspends the policy of the board of education to allow the name of this school to a living person due to the honorable attributes of ms. ruby bell thank you (clapping). >> thank you very much mr. golden i understand ms. bell is with us here not audience please stand and be recognized (clapping) i have (clapping) - - i have two public comment cards the principle of sunny. (the following proceedings were held in open court, outside the presence of the jury:) i have to limit public comment to one minute please. good evening board members and truth and others i'm the principle at sunny side i wanted to law a few minutes for the people resolution to stand at at sunny side and honored to have ms. bell if you're here from sunny side in support of this resolution if you could please stand yeah stand stand oh, they're standing

and high school sucks in health education. topics related like this were never mentioned. i remember always being taught how to protect myself and also being taught how to help my partner put on a condom before having sex and i feel because of these focus -- these issues and a lot of female students feel victimized and at fault. it was mentioned earlier that most calls to the confidential hot line are made by adults and i believe one of the reasons that the current health curriculum focuses on too much of accepting rape culture instead of fixing these issues in society. instead of teaching our youth not to get raped why not teach them not to rape and hurt others and i suggest we should focus on targeting the root issues of sexual harassment and teach them about these issues as early as possible. i first learned about sex in fourth grade and i believe that students should be able to learn about these issues right from the start. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here. [applause] >> my name is sally and a sophomore and h

against him about the school i love the school my kids love the school i feel that is important no one should speak for my family thank you for hearing me and at sometime i'd like to see you each and everyone to see how we're working with our students thank you, thank you very much (clapping.) i understand that mr. rosenberg is ask schedule for a is a basic loaf. >> i'm lisa i've worked with principle rosenberg for over 10 years i'm here to tell me the principle of john mirror school self also served for example a group of students were bullying and miss bother opening on the yard mr. rosenberg has assigned himself to the school yard bag back to the students mr. rosenberg intoxicate the group of students off the yard to perp guide and tutor them to learn strategies to allow them to safely play with other children public utility number 2 a regular feature in the classroom not a a supervisor but a teacher number 3 i've never in my life seen an educator that has a better rapport with parents than chris rosenberg especially families that have been disfranchised and family that feel negativ

i was just wondering what a school policy is with students that arrive late to school and they're late for class what response the teachers have and how sympathetic are the schools are to the situation. that's all. thank you for sharing. >> my teachers don't really care. they see me enter a class and you're here. that's it. >> okay. they're probably really glad to see you. thanks. >> what is the start time for you? >> 8:00 o'clock. >> 8:00 o'clock. thank you. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. i am steven chang from the bay view district and i currently attend galileo high school. personally when i take the bus to school it usually takes around 10 minutes to wait for the bus if one leaves and for the 54 it's very inconsistent and usually takes around 20 to 30 minutes. that's why when i come home from school i usually have to walk back home, so the inconsistency of the 54 really like makes the time for me to get home longer. besides that i see a cluster of buses every time i go to school or go somewhere because when i go somewhere i see that the time waiting for the bus is around 1

middle school. (clapping.) i hate to start with on apologize but my grandmother would admonish me for not be a good host for having a it is my duty i didn't place to come to espouse my different it is a boy product of a dawn of a new day when we opened the doors of willie brown jr. middle school this fuel 2 hundred pioneering significant graders will experience the best education that san francisco, california provide i'm honored to serve as is founding principle of willie brown jr. middle school and deeply 40u7b8d u humbled by the coordination and support within sfusd the commission on the board of education the department of public health the public works the department of children youth and their families and all corporate partners to provide the resources to insure the success of our school between our 2014 and january of 2015 did project manager and myself engaged over 43 families visiting 25 elementary school p t organization and hosting citywide information and registration seconds families employed to w

or a good school. is that the only--it's not the only marker that you use-- michael: correct. and i think it's so important to point this out to students and their families, that the university of california as a whole conducts something called comprehensive review. so we have 14 different criteria that we use when we're assessing students at any of the 9 general campuses. jessica: what are some of the other criteria? michael: so we use gpa obviously, the kinds of courses that a student has taken. we have the college prep courses, in california known as the a through g courses. but we also look at things like leadership, awards and activities, special projects. we look at things inside the classroom and outside the classroom. and what we're really doing is we're looking at the whole picture of a student, so the comprehensive review says, "use multiple measures to look at what a student has achieved." and the test scores are only 1 of the 14 criteria. jessica: people feel that it's so competitive gettin

her to a public school. i wanted to send her to our neighborhood school which was right on the block which was a beautiful idea. send your kid a amok with him to school however when i went i actually put her in a school i was to say the least super disappointed because basically school, her first school experience was basically one of massive amounts of homework, sitting at a desk listening to a teacher talk at the front for a 15 minute blocks of time. no recess. if they were good at the end of the day they would get to do choice time which to me was what most of the school day should've consisted of which was playing which is how i think young kids actually learn. so it was not a great experience for her. she was super sad. she would wake up every morning and say that her stomach hurt, that she fell sick and it was clear to me that there was something going on that i needed to address. and i think what i came to understand was that it wasn't just her classroom or her particular teacher. they were actually r

silver (clapping). >> hi my name is scoffing i can't i'm in marshall school and came to this school it's a stem school i really like science and there's going to be a robotics class (clapping). >> hi, i'm senate file i can't see mother i'm existed as well for my daughter to attend this school yes, ma'am because of the introduction to the stem education it is especially because my daughter is a girl a female she'll get a head start with career choices and other things thank you (clapping). >> thank you very much that is extremely important the work at willie brown jr. middle school our students know they're capable of doing the work they'll be presented to take the higher level math and science classes and enroll in college a lot of our students i talked to the families they're talking about the daughters attend the schools their concern because of boys are more the population we want to make sure they feel confident so next mr. nolan to come up and share with us her joy and passion for willie brown jr. middle school and introduce the mayor. >> thank you (clapping.) great morning everyone

and middle school. >> yeah. i'm not going to support - i'm not going to support the motion because i don't support of the second part i don't want to take away - i think yeah. - i don't want to take away from the middle school proposal i feel uneasy about making a decision like this in this kind of fashion without a sort of discussion or staff vetting on that i appreciate 20th century it came from you. >> i'm not going to support the motion. >> there is a motion and a second is there further discussion open the proposal. >> yeah. i want to say that i think that if we're going to entertainer proposals on the floor right now i would i could spend two hours addressing more stuff i could do that, too it's a protocol let's move to another night i have full conversation the superintendent supports this i'm not willing to actually do this right now in this arena about because then i have a whole list of stuff i'd like to add to the budget also to i'm willing to entertain the conversation at a later date but not willing

now we have francisco middle school come on up. >> (clapping.) francisco is receiving $36,000 to pursue a group around ucla. >> great job (clapping.) next up we have hover middle school sinclair and her team to come up and join us on the podium (clapping) hover is receiving 385 thousand dollars for the pathway for school (clapping.) >> congratulations. >> we could have mission high school principle eric so join up here (clapping) >> mission actually received an impact and notation reward $10,000 for a summer bridge program as well as a design process in reimagining the country (clapping) >> all right. next up we have paul revere tracey and her team to join us up here (clapping) paul elsewhere vera is receiving the high end $71,000 to pursue yes, their plan around the arts programming (clapping) all right. if principle julia could join me for san francisco international high school yes applaud they're receiving nearly $20,000 to implement casey and smart programming (clapping) all right. now we have sunny side elementary could principle renee marc

in fact the school's graduation rate is 74%. almost identical to the baltimore city school system.her words, one in four students who enroll here will not finish. >> it's not for the masses. i don't think it's realistic. >> monique is a radio show host and legal analyst who says crystal ray is not the answer for many students. and that the school is skimming the best and most motivated students out of the public school system. >> here is what's. you take the best and the brightest student. you put them into private schools, and then the public school system is left to handle the masses. where you normally would have students who have a great shot at entering college and matriculating through the public school system and have parents invested in not just their own students their own child's education, but also investing into the public schools in their area, you lose the involvement. >> presley says schools like crystal ray offers opportunity, the corporate money could be better spent - improving the public school system for all students. >> i think that there needs to be a way for

sites the school sites thirty should be funding that at the schools they're assigned to and taking money away from students that are on track not to graduate thank you very much. >> can i ask for clarification i did have a conversation with mr. sanderson about this earlier in the week my understanding is and correct me if i am wrong i thought that student who took health and college and career had transferred to another district they're not on track to graduate in the sense they have the courses but they don't have all the requirement those are students that are off track if they didn't take the required classes at the home district that's what that means that's correct. >> i'll have to actually soak exact clarity there is a couple of reasons i'll electrohave to drill into the data i know that sometimes they don't fit into the schedules of the students based upon what the mr. superintendent said about the scheduling issues at the school sites so that's one issue. >> jennifer fong director of college and career readiness students are primarily students not enrolled in the district in any

his willingness to open his schools for our cbo to come in and provide high squault after school and summer program is amazing. he has broken down barriers that have been historical for many years. he made the commitment of equity and of quality and that is amazing so thank you for that. also, thank you to all our elected official because they also share our vision and they share the mont ruof quality programs for all. everywhere they are going they are talking about enroll in summer school, enroll in after school program, participate because you are participate at every levlt within the city, within the big classroom of ours. thank you to all the elected officials. most-importantly we cant make this work without key community based part nrbship. partners that have been with us thick and in the through the good and bad times and they hung with us to make sure we get to this day where we can say if you have a kid on your wait list we are committed to allow that kid a slot that. that is 6 years in the making because we have never been able to say that in the past. we have never been ab

to a public school. i wanted to send her to our neighborhood school which was dust on the block and was a beautiful idea to have your kid walk to school. however when i went and put her in the s chool i was to say the least, super disappointed because basically school herba first experience, was one of massive amounts of homework's, sitting at a desk listening to a teacher talk at the front 450 to a minute blocks of time, n o recessontfor a if they were good at the end of t the day they would get to do choice time which to me was whatoice most of the school day shouldperien have consisted of witches .playing, which is how i think young kids actually learn. it was not a great experience for her. she her. she was super sad. she would wake up every morning and say that her stomach hurt that she felt sick. th it it was clear to me there is something going on i needed to address. paicular but i came to i came to understand was that it wasn't just her classroom or her teacher, her teacher was super sweet but f

brown middle school at third marshall school many of us have seen when medical school they have a celebration to get they're white coats they're being welcomed into the family that is akin of the 2 had had students 2 hundred seats and 3 hundred applicant for willie brown many were present and we in2kuk9d them spot willie l. brown middle school family gave them their acceptance certificate and principle hobson get his punish i picture taken i ever tweeting about that all night it is a wonderful, wonderful example of energy that is the renaissance and also thank the parent and families that are opening their hearts and minds to this wonderful opportunity we call the willie l. brown middle school in the heart of bayview the students were awarded certificates and took they're first class picture they look great, thank you everyone that was there i have some exciting news the governors committee in the higher education announced $50 million in what wards to the university of california and california state and community college who are expanding higher access to higher education i'm very happy to

did you, in the back of your mind, say i really want to be in school, i should be in school?lt like at that point, school wasn't the greatest opportunity for me. i felt like fast money was the greatest opportunity for me which now that i look back on it is stupid. >> uh-huh. >> it's real stupid. >> when did that thinking change for you? what prompted the change? >> well, basically my father passing away. i made a promise to him i would get myself back in school and do right before he passed away. >> so you're keeping a promise now? >> yeah, to him, and to myself also, you know? i got to do it for myself, not only for him, but for myself. >> how much progress has the district made in addressing the dropout issue, according to the pew research center, the trend across the country is that fewer hispanics and african-americans are dropping out, and in fact dropout rates high school dropout rates, are much lower than they've been in a long time. >> so, yeah dropout rates have decreased across the nation in general. we're still struggling to address those issues in the district. i

a misdemeanor, school gave him five months. in north carolina being arrested as a teenager has enormous consequences. it's only one of two states in the country that considers 16 and 17-year-olds to be adults. which means misdemeanor charges are on your permanent record. >> wade county has one of the largest school to prison pipelines in history. for years they were short term suspending kids, over a,000 kids were being suspended for the rest of the school year. told get out you're on the streets come back next year. >> fast forward to new evidence. a new study ranks north carolina 12th in referring student offenders to police and the center for public integrity finds disproportionate right for black hispanic students. and hawaii and washington, d.c. had the lowest referral rates. next, how to begin a conversation about the end. >> we want people to go to the kitchen table, with the people that they love and have a conversation about what it is that they want. people are not dying in the way they would choose. >> the words that

you put them into private schools, and then the public school system is left to handle the masses.re you normally would have students who have a great shot at entering college and matriculating through the public school system, and have parents invested in not just their own students, their own child's education, but also investing into the public schools in their area, you lose the involvement. >> presley says schools like crystal ray offers opportunity, the corporate money could be better spent - improving the students. >> i think that there needs to be a way for corporations to invest in the educational system across the board. >> before joining crystal ray, most of his career was spent in public schools. >> reporter: if you had the power... >> okay >> reporter:..would you make this available to every student in the city? >> if i had the power for every - wow. excuse me. oh, my goodness. here is why i get emotional about this. not every student wants this. and it would there are kids that want change. thank you. there are kids who want better. so those kids that truly want bette

and also the after school program. i know that the youth commission and the advisory committee has been discussing this item and back in 2012 when they did a survey 38% of the students stated they took more than one bus to get to school, and i do represent a district that doesn't have any high schools in the district so i know many of the youth have to commute very far to get to the school of their choice or the one that they get into and while i think we have been successful with the youth commissioners and leaders ensuring free muni for youth which has been a tremendously successful program we. to make sure that the city and school district. >> >> discusses how we can best serve our youth and families. commissioner fewer. >> thank you supervisor kim. i requested this item to be heard to get an update media relations with the san francisco unified school district but also to get an update on muni service to the students. san francisco unified school district we are constantly asking ourselves how well we're serving ou

of the school body with the program after-school program with second and third grartdz the thing about it any one of the kids up through middle will easily going git-go into the school of the arts i left you with a dvds a promotional video for it that basically you know shows you a thump nail have you it is a minute and a half long i hope you'll please take a look at it i wanted to say that this can be replicated again with almost no costs to the school district other than place and the last thing i want to correct a misconception people is had a couple of weeks ago i was the person responsible for a rejection and two kids were successfully at the school he was so happy with the school he did two major fundraiser and the instructor would have enjoyed that he did spain and the introduction was concerto i wanted to correct that. >> commissioners you should have received the dvd in our speaker materials >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening superintendent and commissioners so i only have a minute i want to dedicate the first thirty seconds for justice for freddie gray for th

or how many schools or middle schools and high schools do you work in? >> as many that call us and have us. we go into bay view and hunters point and do support groups at mission. i was at both schools this week at marshal, at walenberg, at galileo and in every school including the continuation schools and some less middle schools and -- >> do you get funding for the work? >> we get some funding and sandra can speak to the funding. >> there is so much that can be done. >> -- [inaudible] >> and i know the programs that -- >> i know you are. how are you currently funded for the outreach workers? >> state and federal funding. >> okay. >> and we could definitely -- to decrease that 44% we would love to sat wait the city with education and prevention and i don't know the stats for the schools and 80% do not report. there needs more report from the community city wide response around sexual assault. >> thank you so much and i appreciate you being here and thank you for your comments and feedback on how to strengthen the curriculum and programming in the school

and what i mean, i left high school, i went to college. i went to school in the daytime. and although i only took on average 11 or 12, 13 credits a semester because i was working 3:30 to 12:00 at night, i was a traditional student in many ways and participated in student government particularly when i went full time. but we have such a high percentage of nontraditional students. we have a lot of students who never go to a campus. who are on line. my granddaughter took a number of courses on line. a lot of courses, probably most of her courses she took on line. she was working and she had a child. she is now 28. so i think you raise a very, very good point about focusing on nonwhat we used to think of the traditional student or the traditional school. so a good point. >> congressman if i might add for mr. williams' benefit you might be aware there is a lot of discussion going on about the rarninging system now. and our universities are very much involved. we share some of your concerns. it's not only oobleleptsdz of time. it's about other criteria for success. how much doe

school and high school maybe base in the general fund but i wanted to ask you know i'm presuming there is based on this kind of data there's like interventions directed at the latino groups that are lagging behind. >> i'll ask someone else to fold that question and i'm the sprint a lot of the investments we've made to the newcomer pathways really focusing on students with interpreted form education we've been able to make through our title iii grants the purpose of those federal grants to target and provide interventions for the ms. most at risk we'll have having had a surgery ever investments from the private foundation that supported us we have a very great collaboration with expended learning through college and career folks can talk about that but for the last couple of summers we've had the english learn vinyl that is designed for newcomer students during the sunday morning we report the provision of work this year to balboa and galileo for students to catch up and get intensify english learn development and fill in any crediting credit recovery they may need at the same time inte

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it's about the failure of testing in american schools. children are more than test scores but in the last 20 years, schools have dramatically increased standardized testing. in the era of no child left behind and the common core america's schools are sacrificing learning in favor of testing. how we preserve space for self-directed learning and development especially when we still want all children to hit the mark. npr education explores all sides of the question and what parents and teachers can do to help. with abundant data in the accessible form format this book is a must read for everybody in the educational system or any parent that has a child old enough to enter preschool. please give a warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you for coming. i am so thrilled to be able to visit this community. i was here five years ago for my last book and it's such a great pleasure to get to the bookstores because they are my favorite thing. so, i wrote a test to bring the persona of a mama how to educate my daughter. i'd previously written about innova