patricia gray and in the mission. i have the small staff of fiscal analyst and as secretary. there is a supervisor of professional learning in the mission and in the offices there are content and professional development specialists in the area of special ed and literacy and math. we also have attendance liaisons' and of the secretarial support. -- liaisons and office secretarial support. this is based on national research in the -- based on the chicago school study. there are five essential elements indicated in the study that need to be attended to. if you want to transform schools. creating a clear instructional batons and coherence, making sure they have a clear curriculum, focus on professional capacity, creating student center of learning and garments -- learning climates. parent and community ties and school leadership. it is clear from the researchers have to attend to multiple of these elements if you expect to have sustainable change. sig dictated a set of areas you could use the funds for. one of the funding areas were external partnerships for organizational refor

we have heard from patricia gray and guadalupe guerrero. i knoew you when you were a principal at balboa. >> thank you. is t is a difficult job but that is what we got into this for to make a difference. you were talking earlier about the changes that have happened at mission high school and at some of the other schools where the parents are saying that good things happen. it takes time for the reputation to really catch up. the buzz is out there now. as you know, people will sit back and wait and say, let somebody else try it out and see how it works. it will be a few years before we see the enrollment trite -- start to improve as a result. i know it will happen. my biggest challenge and i do not want to put a bus killed on anything. my biggest challenge is that two of -- six schools. they're doing wonderfully. we finally got a really good principal in one of them. the first one did not work out in one of them. and as commissioner fewer said, we listened to the community. but putting together what they needed because they felt they had los