what we did all the time, conferencing, working in small groups an conferencing with two or three kids. you're conferencing with individual children. a lot of times you're conferencing about their writing, and giving them, working with them individually on their development. it's -- s. that just the teacher in front of the blackboard, it's not. >> not at all. >> with 30 students sitting quietly at their desks? a much more hands-on. >> basically me standing up there with 20 kids around here. >> you see the kids responding more? with just a few kids, you can pull them out. >> you can differentiate your curriculum. these are my kids struggling with short vowels. i can pull those kids. these are the kids struggling with long vowels. do a group on long vowels. it's great, because you really have to focus on what the students need. >> i want to highlight another example of what is working in the classroom and bring in ronny sim, the principal at brenda scott academy, a public school for grades pre-k to eight. you teach reading, writing and arithmetic. you have respect, responsibility and rea

so what we do all the time is called conferencing where you're working in small groups and conferencing with two or three kids, conferencing with individual children. a lot of times you're conferencing with their writing and giving them -- working with them individually on their development. it's -- >> it's not just the teacher in front of the blackboard with 30 students sitting quietly in their desks. it's a much more hand on active. >> it's never me standing up there with 20 kids around me. >> you see kids responding when it's a few kids. >> you can differentiate your curriculum. i can say these are my kids struggling with short vowels and i can pull them to work on that. these are kids struggling with long vowels. i can pull them to do a group on long vowels. it's great because you really get to focus on what the students need. >> we'll highlight another example of what is working in the classroom now. i want to bring in ronnie simms, the principal at brenda scott academy. it's for pre-k to 8. welcome to program. >> thank you. >> you teach reading, writing arithmetic and you have res

of the sites that regents will be meeting because interestingly enough the regents will be tell conferencing each other for today's meeting, from this campus and merced and davis ucla. >> back to you guys. >> i'm sure they will be at all campuses. thank you. >>> 4:33 now. two of the nation's biggest cities are telling their occupy protesters enough is enough. done in l.a., protesters are still gatheredded near city hall despite a deadline to vacate the area by 12:01 this morning. >> this is not something that you can just stop. like you cannot stop it. >> police say there will likely be arrests at some point and they hope they don't have to use force. no word on a time line for when the arrest might begin. >>> more occupy protests in l.a. this is a live picture right now, from ktla our sister station down there. mayor antonio villaigarosa released a statement late last night saying protesters would get ample time to remove their belongings. he has said he sympathized with the protesters but is concerned about public health and safety. >>> and in philadelphia, dozens of occupy tents are still

even though the main meeting is happening here at the mission bay campus, recents are tele conferencingnto the meeting from three other satellite campuses, ucla, uc davis and merced. >> when does the meeting start? and how many students or how many protesters do you think will show up? or do they have any idea? >> i talked to campus police a few minutes ago. and they don't have an idea of how many student protesters might show up. they are expecting some to show up. they said they are not beefing up security. they're just going to be a regular staff. but it is going to start at 9:00. we don't see any protesters here but they might show up in the next couple of hours. frank? >> still early. thanks, gill. >> for college students and everyone alike, okay, gill, thanks. >>> well, right now, california's biggest city is telling occupy protesters enough is enough. in l.a., we've got some live pictures from our sister station, kcal, this is chopper video in l.a. protesters are still gathered near city hall. despite a deadline to vacate the area, a little after midnight this morning, and police

this one includes slashing travel budgets, conference-related expenses, focus instead on video conferencing federal vehicles and printing costs. and this is to follow on something the commerce department has already done, the white house says, saying they have saved millions of dollars year for snag is going to probably make your eyebrows go up. they actually disconnected more than 2,600 wireless phones, phones that had been given to people who had retired or quilt and those phones and those accounts have never been turned off. so this sort of speaks to his strategy to bypass congress in his we can't wait campaign, fred. >> all right. thanks so much. brianna keilar at the white house. very noisy white house today. >>> all right. in just under a minute, millions of americans will witness history. for the first time ever, the government will launch a nationwide test of the emergency alert system. it is designed to allow the president of the united states to address the country within ten minutes from any location at any time. the system was not used on 9/11, which some critics say proves the

i started thinking with the technology that we have and now where you can have video conferencing reallynternet wouldn't it be wonderful if there were stores like walgreens where people can come in and get -- >> it's happening already. walmart. >> wellness checks. >> here is the big -- >> and flu shots. >> you've got to change the way we pay for medicine because right now illness gets rewarded not wellness. >> right. >> financial incentives have everything to do with people's behavior. it's not enough just to do what walgreens is doing or the fortune 500 is doing on wellness. you have to have the whole system geared toward paying people for wellness and not for illness. >> all right. governor pat quinn -- >> thank you, governor. good to see you guys. >> good to see you. eugene, thank you as well. your column, another great one online at "the washington post".com. >> thank you, gene. >>> coming up, the fight to keep jobs in new jersey. we'll have mayor cory booker how he helped convince panasonic to bring its north america headquarters to newark. a great story coming up on "morning joe."