a bathetic glistening skills and report building. two hours are spent on department general order 7.01 and two hours of gang awareness. as the officers moved through their career, every two years they come back for continued professional training including interpersonal communications to enhance positive interaction. the class objective is to orientate officers to utilize communication and the escalation skills during interactions with the public. officers review techniques to recognize and interpret non- verbal cues and precursors of adult as well as a juvenile. the fact that juveniles have not developed their impulse control drive and related applications is also addressed. the officer decides that he or she would like to be a school resource officer, they go through post certified course which includes an emotional issues and fundamental counseling, interviewing, and problem-solving skills. our academy staff works closely in a program called every 15 minutes. a goes into a high school, interacts with the youth at the high school a

hard skills, marketable skills? and whether the peer resources, staff and students are connected to real life careers because there are a number of really great institutions in san francisco where retired judges ingauge in alternate skills to see people using those skills every day in their career. >> thank you, president yee. i just want to quickly tell the board members that after talking with su because i totally value what peer resources is doing for our students and i see it all the time and just the level of -- of discussion and ability to communication intellectually and communicate emotions in an intellectual way and not that that's the best way but sometimes it's needed when you're in a hurry and you need to translate ideas, by the students it's mind-blowing. even just listening to so many kids every single day, i get just a different level of discourse and i'm just amazed and proud. i can say that i am proud. these students are reflections of sfusd and go out into the community. and i have heard you speak

skills and the increasingly important soft skills of communication and professionalism. this is on by an internship of one of 21 companies, who are represented today. we expect the number of companies to grow because of the leadership we have been city hall. there is a buzz in the city because we have an administration that understands the importance of economic development, and one that understands economic development is still by workforce development. it have to attend both at the same time. it is my honor to introduce a man who knows how to create and the the economic engine, the honorable mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you very much. i have had a chance to reflect the last couple of hours on what i wanted to say today. the first thing that came to my mind was the years that i spent in every community of the city picking up trash with kids, all over the neighborhoods, just realizing what can we do to reach everybody in each neighborhood? we tried to do that through the neighborhood cleanup. more importantly, when it came to jobs and future, when i ascended to this

i knew i was missing a little extra skill set. i needed that extra something. i had the drive, but i needed the no-out. i found a job that helped me make ends meet, but it was not the job i want it. i read about the classes and they offered the actual teaching, the actual know-how, how to work this program so i can go into an interview and said confidently, yes, i can do that. and truthfully, yes, i can do that. that is something i was not seeing from the their programs. bayvac really promised that. it was a certification and video post-production. not only did it provide the glasses, it provided gay community. when i moved here, like i said, i did not know a lot of people. that can be problematic if you're trying to find a job. meeting my teachers, seeing their creators, how they made it work gave me that extra inspiration, that extra drive that i started with when i moved here. i tick class is on the weekends. eight hours a day. my friends would say, how can you go from working all week to have a class on the weekends for eight hours both days? i did not real

when they come home, they bring unparalleled skills and experience. folks like jacob, they saved lives in some of the toughest conditions. they moved tons of equipment over dangerous terrain. they tracked millions of dollars of military assets. they handled pieces of equipment that are worth tens of millions of dollars. they do incredible work. nobody is more skilled, more precise, more diligent, more disciplined. our veterans are some of the most highly trained and highly educated and skilled workers we have. these are workers every business should be competing to attract. these are the americans we want to keep serving here at home as we rebuild this country. we will do everything we can to make sure that when our troops come home, they come home to new jobs and new opportunities and new ways to serve their country. now, this has been a top priority of mine since i came into office. already we helped 600,000 veterans and their family members go back to school on the post-9/11 gi bill. we hired over 120,000 veterans to serve in the federal government

so college completion, high school completion, the particular skills were important. but several said that in the absence of that, the commitment of a community college to gear up and to help ensure that they can fill that workforce was essential in their location decisions. so i think that we as a country could have a major commitment to infrastructure which would be good for our long-term productivity and growth, but would be very helpful for getting some of those middle classworkers back into the economy back on the job. i think the commitment on manufacturing, on r&d extension, on not just the general skill increases but more specific where communities have the ability to figure out where their skill and job needs are with their major employers and orient, not ten years from now but right now, how to fill those jobs, was really at the heart of the president's state of the union speech. it really was giving a blueprint, not just for the next 20 years, not just to get out of crisis, but what we can do in the next few years to start bringing the good jobs back and ma

to practice these skills as well. ask open-ended questions-- questions that require more than a yes or no answer. teacher: what did you get a trophy for? boy: i got it from bowling. bowling. the bowling party. hendrick: questions where the teacher doesn't already know the answer. teacher: how do you know you can get a gold medal from ice skating? hendrick: answering open-ended questions presents excellent opportunities for children to generate speech and develop language, because they're engaged in dialogue and sharing ideas rather than simply responding yes or no to a question. all: ♪ creepin' crawler ♪ right up to your chin, chin, chin ♪ ♪ open wide your little mouth ♪ but do not let them in, in, in ♪ [singing in spanish] ♪ give one great big clap [singing in spanish] ♪ place them on your lap, lap, lap ♪ hendrick: a few words about bilingualism: there's no finer way to honor a child's ethnic or cultural background than by welcoming and encouraging her to use her native language or dialect at school. of course, somet

, socialization skills. it seems we are fast-tracking, pure and simple, the art of conversation, or the art of communicating with each other and having -- learning how to do problem-solving and those kinds of things. so my question to you is, how are you approaching that challenge of still having kids come up -- i mean, some are perhaps not even using computers -- and they need to develop their computer skills and work with that technology nurseversus and over utilizatiof computers for learning. has that been a challenge that you have been addressing? hasn't even been looked at as a problem that you have? >> yes, thank you for the question. we have looked at the challenge of technology, or the appropriate usage of technology, which i think would be something to offer as a refrain. maybe as a broader society, we need to a knowledge technology is here and we need to figure out how to better utilize it to help gauge our young people, to use it as a tool to teach our young people the 21st century skills necessar

it's another industry dealing with a shortage of skilled workers. you have people looking for jobs you have employers looking for skilled workers and the only thing that can link them up is the educational system. >> reporter: in addition to that link sloan says there has to be interest from students. >> people are afraid to think about a manufacturing career because they think why would i go into a career that's going to be short-lived. but that's a fallacy, that's not true. >> reporter: he says his machining classes are nearly empty despite demand for workers. >> so culinary arts, for example i have a lot of enrollment in the culinary arts whereas c.n.c. operator is one of our high-demand areas. right now we have 200 openings just within the peoria area. >> the key say some experts is a sustained effort at making manufacturing careers more attention. >> there's been attention given to manufacturing over the years but it happens in fits and starts. it hasn't been a consistent kind of long term approach that you really need if you're going to make s

imagine if this young person has the skills to help their friend. way back in 1979, this was the premise that peer resources was founded on. go forward 33 years and here we are today and here we are with young people and students who are skilled who have the learning and experience to listen to and talk to their peers and provide referrals and to provide the information about critical issues that aren't part of the core cor can you lum. we support young people to help themselves and others. i want to thank you for us to speak about where we are today in 2012. and to thank you, the entire board of your support at peer resources over these 33 years and helping us sustain the program whether we are at 33 middle schools and high schools in the city or where we are at 13 middle schools and high schools in the city. we thank you for your support and funding us through the public education enrichment fund to provide peer tutoring and peer education services. i have spoken with a number of you already and i thank you for your time and i won't go over pieces

they say i could hire seven highly skilled machinists right now, but i can't find any.the concerns for people who are retraining is they feel like maybe what companies need is going to change faster than they can get skilled up. is that a concern? >> and that's absolutely a concern. we do have to rethink how we are affording access to those ongoing educational and training opportunities to existing workers as well as those that we're trying to create as a new work force. i think the level of this conversation and this country's got to move to even a national security dimension. our economy is only as strong as our ability to supply the work force needs of our industries and our businesses, and right now, the truth is there is a big disconnect between how we finance students' education, what we're encouraging them to do as a part of their public school experience, and what we're expecting them to be able do. >> i tell you. i was with fred smith, the ceo from fedex as you saw in the clip, and a room full of economistingses, to throw borrowed guaranteed money at the educat

you might want to take these skills and go to law school someday. there is a recommendation at the table. that concludes that 30-minutes for that -- the 30 minutes for the presentations. we will look into the police department's presentation and the bocc presentation. >> i am sorry. there are two more. patricia and david are still here. >> they are gone. >> this evening. -- good evening. police youth commissioners, director, command staff, and our distinguished presenters and the public. i am commanding officer of the sfpd special victims unit. we would like to briefly present you some highlights of the many long term positive relationships the sfpd has established with our city's youth. and if we are ready to go. why don't we start out with chief suhr's vision where a police officer's role is to prepare our youth for tomorrow's challenges.