dr. marvin thompson coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: figuring out how to turn around and save inner-city schools is one of the most important challenges this country faces. i know firsthand from doing reports on education that there are no easy answers but there are individuals who refuse to give up. one of those persons -- dr. marvin thompson he's heading a team that is taking over a failing school in new orleans. it is the subject of a six part series airing on own. >> we are enforcing a dress code, a zero tolerance for violence. general respect for staff and students. pull your pants up. i expect a little bit of resistance from stu

dr. thompson says share your feelings. >> it helps to talk to your friends.u learn at camp is that almost everybody is homesick from time to time. >> since it was a girl scout camp i, like, ate cookies to make myself feel better, but there was, like, my friends there, too, from my troop, and they helped me. >> it's also okay to let your parents know that you're feeling a little homesick. but make sure you're not making it sound a lot worse than it really is. >> because the kid very often puts all the pain in the letter, sends it off, and then feels good and goes out to play gaga ball. it's the parent who opens that envelope and gets the pain and thinks, "oh, i have to rescue my child." many parents, in fact, make homesickness worse by continually trying to call the camp. >> well, i think in the middle of the summer, my parents definitely miss me more. >> my parents miss me more. >> here's something else to keep in mind. overcoming homesickness is an achievement you can be proud of. >> when you're away at camp, hey, that's yours. right? your mom didn't arrange

dr. chris thompson from the university of san francisco. go, dons. 1855. i have not been there that long. i am in the department of exercise and sports science. i think it is a good match for me to be demonstrating the wii, which is a good physical activity. i am joined on the stage by a student, not from usf, but from san francisco state. we actually talk to each other. this is mackenna. >> good morning. >> finally, i am joined by alicia from the independent living center in san francisco. it is great for all of you to be here today. people will be trickling in over the next half hour. we will give you a taste of what wii is like. we have set up the game. i will start by playing mackeena in a game of tennis. the interesting thing about wii is we use this little remote. just by moving our arms, we can control movement on the screen. you will be watching up on the big screen as we play a game of tennis. are you ready? all right. we will select two players. that is me. does that look like me? it kind of those -- of does. does that look like mackenna? that is

the questions but i wanted to thank leader pelosi and congressman thompson for your leadership on this and of course our own mayor and dr. joe, one of our own police commissioners, for hosting. violence from semiautomatic rifles is no stranger to san francisco. everybody is talking that 18 years ago is the last time the 49ers won the superbowl but also it was when jim gelf was killed with a national 223 semi auto when he yelled out -- now this is the amazing part, this is the capacity of this gun, he held off 120 police officers for half an hour, firing over 500 rounds before we were able to neutralize him. just a few blocks from here was murdered with an ak 47 and just in the fall chief zefferman of juvenile probation took on a gang member bound to do homicide, those officers with a mini mac-10 pistol and now he's gone. there were 45 homicides last year in san francisco by gun fire. 25 percent of those happened right here in the bayview district and that's an annual phenomenon. none of this is worse than what happened in new town. i was in washington yesterday and we heard from the city chiefs more detail than i wanted

thompson is here to explain. what will pope francis i have to bring to the table in terms of management skills, the skills of a ceo? >> that's right. you know, i spoke to dr. james o'ro o'roerk at the university of notre dame and he said there are four things he must have. first of all, a strategic vision. what does he need to change within the papacy. second of all and probably most important is he needs team-building skills. anyone will tell you if they spent time at the vatican, it's not the friendliest place. there are a lot of people that are very ambitious, they have their own agenda, one they sometimes put ahead of the holy see. so he needs to build a team and say we're here to do this for the people, for the vatican, put aside your individual ambitions and let's go ahead. thirdly, he needs strong financial skills. it's odd, would you need a pope with an mba? maybe not an mba but certainly interest and acumen about financial matters. and lastly, the professor said he needs charismatic empathy. he has to tell his followers why they should follow him. why he has a path to a better life. >> harvard business school has a new ceo training program with m

dr. mcintyre, have your local teachers brought in and responded to the district's teacher evaluation system and do they feel that it helps improve their practice in the classroom? >> thank you, mr. thompson. you know, if you'd asked me that question in about 18 months ago i'd probably give you a very different answer. i thinat the beginning, there was a lot of uncertainty, and maybe even some anxiety about this new evaluation system, and what it looked like, and how it was going to be implemented. but i'll tell you, over time, having -- having worked through it, and lived with it, last year, and halfway through this year, i think the vast majority of our teachers have begun to see the value of this evaluation system. they see that having lived through it they see that it is fair. having lived through it they say that we really do mean that it's developmental and meant to help enhance their practice. and that they've learned a few things from it. i think that the experience of -- and i say this half in jest, that we didn't fire half our teachers this summer probably helps that they realize that we really do mean for this to be a developmental process. and i think that we saw some very str