our teach for america to teach that way. it took us many time with our outliers. it turned out the same thing jaime was doing differently. we know what teachers who teacher in otherwise not very successful teachers in low-incomed communities do to produce incredible results with their kids. so we know so much at the classroom level but, you know, at the school level, too, i think one thing you realize it takes a total superhero to do that. classroom by classroom. but it's possible to create whole schools that foster good teaching and enable, you know, teachers to sustain that kind of work. and to think that we now have hundreds of those schools. i mean, it is dramatic progress. and the question is different, you know, it used to be can we -- can education overcome poverty? and today we know that it can. the question is, how do we do it at school? how do we create whole systems full of transformational schools? >> you're implying something really interesting which is that you think that the task of providing a quality educati

this is my 30th year teaching, so i am really excited. about getting this award and about 30 years ago, i had an little boy in my class in my kindergarten class, and he grew up, he got married, started a family, and lo and behold, he had a little girl, and his little girl is now in my current kindergarten class. so he is actually here. michael, can you stand up and say hello. [applause] those are the kind of stories that make it really cool to be a teacher, making all these connections and developing relationships and bonds with people, so i want to thank my family, especially my mom and dad for being my rock and for teaching me to always work hard, doing the best you can, and for my husband and sons, andrew and sarah, for giving me a quiet time when i go home, and knowing that if i need to be by myself, that i'm not trying to ignore you, thank you for being so supportive, and thank you to everyone that i work with and all the people in our community. you guys have been wonderful, and as my kindergarteners would say, teachers rock. [appla

and they did by teaching differently. we didn't know how to tell our people to teach. now we can say okay, here's what it takes. it takes being very clear about what beijing are working toward. like where are we going to be by the end of the year? what are you going to accomplish with your kids this year that will make a meaningful difference in their lives. once you figure that out then you spend half your time getting the kids, the kid families, their influencers, to believe that. that's important in their lives. and if they work harder than they have ever worked before they will get there. so you get your kicks working with you and everything is so much easier. you have to be goal oriented, maximize every second, you realize i don't have enough time to i've got to get my kids here early, get them here to stay late that many other things happened. the level of resourcefulness required to meet all your kids extra needs, but, you know, what? they accomplish the goals. so you sort of redefined the role of the teacher. that was the first learning experience i think, and

that's the frame of reference that i teach. we all teach from that same frame of reference. people who had the opportunity through this music to gain a platform and spread the mess oovepblg this commuske it is -- message in this community. kids are distracted a lot of times. they are marketed to a lot. they are seen as a commodity. our kids are beautiful. tavis: dudamel and i had a deep conversation about this back in december for a special we did on pbs. i would be anxious for you to get in town so we can talk about this. what is the price that we are paying as a country for the abandonment of music education in our schools. i ask you that because you are the one person in this country more than anybody else who is cutting against the grain. you are still finding the worth and value in spending time and teaching these kids. ain't nobody else doing that. the school system doesn't quite see it that way. what is the price we are paying long-term for abandoning music education? >> first of all, let's not just music education. let's call it arts. we make very bad decisions how w

we can teach them all the math. we don't have clue one to teach them how to feel and express it appropriately. it's the same thing i start with in in-patient or out-patient. how do you feel and how do you express that. the sel is very important. social, emotional learning. one is illinois, they have laid out an entire track. the teachers have to be taught before they graduate and become certified. and texas just recently passed the law, every middle school and high school student has to go 3 anger management and emotional training before they leave school. what makes more sense? how do live with yourself and others at the same time. >> thank you. i am going to ask officer parillo to talk. often people are intimidated by police presence. how have you been able to work collaboratively with parents to gain trust and how have you used community policing, that term can mean many things to see a police officer as an ally as an friend rather than perhaps an authority figure who is simply going to be disciplinaryian? thank

it becomes impossible to teach. people say teachers -- like the fellow from massachusetts who called a while ago -- teachers teach 180 days. that is baloney. teachers do not get a whole summer off. to say that is to show total ignorance of the education -- public education today in the united states. host: crosses for the call. frank luntz will be joining us later on -- thank you for the call. frank luntz will be joining us later on. he is out with a new book. later, the president of the american federation of teachers will be joining us from new york. "unimpressed and angry as ever." more on the ongoing budget battle and the role of the tea party in the midterm elections last year. now in the budget debate this year. joy from casa grande, arizona. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. my personal philosophy is that the teachers are -- the best teachers are in local communities. my parents were teachers. there were also missionaries to mexico. i went to school in mexico. down there, the school day start

too bad you do not teach the true to your kids." that line says so much. -- a scholar i went to school with. it is not just about changing lives of black people, but changing the lives of everybody by teaching true history, which includes jim crow and slavery before it -- but before that, the first people to walk the planet and develop situation -- civilization came along the nile river valley. if we teach african history as human history, history will require that you incorporate our story and tell it the right way. [applause] >> just to say that in terms of how teaching history can make a difference to these test scores that we are also obsessed with, i had a piece of news from mississippi where the book, "putting the movement back into civil rights" -- are you familiar with that? the superintendent has agreed -- and your piece is in it, awele -- the superintendent has agreed that it be used districtwide. just this week, i was hearing that the rigor and relevance of the material actually got students engaged and got the score is u

and that's why when we talk to those ideologists we ask them to change their math and so for teaching. and also to pay closer attention to their students they're going to do this if. how do you view these ideologists you for you put you as the head of the republic for are they enemies or just political opponents. they're not my enemies and they're not my political opponents they're just people who think they do their work don't you do you respect them. well at least i can say i don't hate them but i have to admit i don't have much respect for them either that. is just that we could have used the gift. and methods and tool harshly with them right but you prefer to be soft but i understand the harsh methods one get us anywhere and if we remove these people others will take their place with the best ways to change them encourage them to teach differently or change their mindset. let them know that we are aware of what they are doing because when we just tell them that they teach an extremism they deny everything when they're with so instead we give them the numbers see eight i don't know

it teaches us how to work hard, gives us a work ethic and they teach us how to manage our money. it is good to be able to get up and work hard and know you are contributing to the community and doing good for not only san francisco but for everyone by you helping the environment. births to words is a program that sam francis -- births e -- arth stewards brings us together and teaches as we have a lot of opportunities in san francisco that we can find if we look for and strive at something we can do good in this world. it is a program most definitely need in san francisco and our boss is an incredible woman that you guys should be proud that she is the share of. thank you. [laughter] supervisor chu: thank you. any other members of the public want to speak on this item? seeing none, the item is closed. >we have a motion to release the reserves. i just want to say thank you to everyone has cannot today to speak out on this item. we can do that without objection. do we have any other items before us? >> that complete the agenda. thank yosupervisor chu: we are adjourned.

that can't be transferred in a way that teaching possibly gets better. i believe that is very possible. when we talk about measuring effected teaching, there are many different ways to do that. test scores will be one element of that. in some subjects, reading, mathematics, those things really do tell a great story about if the kids are learning to multiplied and divide and the basic things they need to know. as you go into other subject areas, that is more difficult. you want to measure but provide feedback and you want analysis tools to get more granular in terms of saying to a teacher, what is it you are good at and what do you need to get better at? we have been pioneering taking a camera and putting it in the classroom with the magic of digital technology and that camera is very inexpensive and captures the teacher but also the students. as the lesson proceeds, you can see exactly when the students stopped paying attention. you can get a sense of what might have been done differently there. this photograph is a teacher, reviewing her own video. when

kids against you know that bullying is is not a good day parents can teach how to teach are so good forty fifty kids in some of these classrooms they don't have time to teach you know basic arithmetic they don't have time you know in a fifty minute hour with fifty kids in a class that's one minute per child how. our teachers are overwhelmed in the united states after thirty years of reaganomics and cuts to education but here we might also agree on is that i do think that teachers are overwhelmed and maybe a little bit scared to actually punish kids for this or they're terrified of being sued or or parents being angry at them for teachers. but i think this here i think that teachers are afraid to. acts a little act with a little bit of punishment towards these children you know so well i think kids get thrown out of school they get expelled they get attention they get it there's there's. it's only different than it was thirty forty years ago we've passed laws against against you know if anything in fact we have more kids into in criminal detention now than we used to having in many c

teach for america really isn't about -- we are about, teachers are critical, but teach for america is about building a movement amount our country's future leaders to say we have to change the way our education system is fundamentally, and i think in your article in the new yorker about, about the formation of movements captured the whole theory of teach. it's the experience of teaching successfully in ways that, i know, i think we're creating a core of people who are absolutely determined to expand the opportunities facing kids in the most absolutely, you know, economically disadvantaged communities. you know, who are pouring themselves into their work and trying to put their kids on a different path and having varying levels of success and taking from that experience, incredible lesson. you know, they realize through their firsthand experience the challenges the kids face, the potential they have, and they realize it's ultimately possible to solve the problem, and that experience is not only important for their kids, but completely transformational for them. of course, they are all

>> yes, she teaches english as a second language at lay knee college. >> as she been a teach era long time too? >> yes. >> did you meet in new hampshire? >> no, we met out here in san francisco and then actually, we took a trip to zimbabwe and south africa for several weeks in february 06 right after i made a decision that i would be leaving mcc san francisco, and we met this child and her name is mercy. >> mercy. >> and you mentioned earlier that my kind of life motto is to do justice, love, mercy and walk humbly with god and who would have known literally loving mercy is a major part of my life because she came with that name and she is -- >> how old is she now? >> seven. >> how is they adapting to this area? >> unbelievably. she -- since day one we had a bigger adjustment than she did she just loved everything from day one, the food, i always tell her the story you know how kids love to hear stories about themselves i tell her that when she was first here she ate everything on her plate and everything on my plate so that i lost all this weight when she was first here but she is jus

i teach, i teach 80 wonderful students international business transactions. it's a little weird but a lot of their parents have read this book. obviously it's, you know, the lives are very public now. there have been a lot of changes but i have to say my kids have been great about it and their community and their friends. >> charlie: you mean sophia and lulu. >> yes. >> charlie: when you look at the students in your class, is there a difference in terms of how they respond to those that were raised in the valley of this book and those that might have been raised what some people would consider traditional western ideas about parenting. >> i don't know. >> charlie: have you seen a difference in terms of these students, the way they -- >> certainly students from south asian families or nigerian families. >> charlie: they get the book. but how about in the way they are law students. >> you can't make a generalization, you really can't. my students are bright creative. it's absolutely not the case for example that kids raised with more strict parents are in less

we're talking about students-- what are we teaching them?st encounter with slavery. it shouldn't be their only one. but that's one of the reasons we can't mess around with it. there is a reality there that you cannot avoid. >> pitts: but do you... do you lose that reality when you take out the "n-word" and replace it with "slave"? >> bradley: yeah. "slave" is a condition. i mean, anybody can be a slave. and it's nothing for anybody to be ashamed of. but "nigger" has to do with... with shame. "nigger" has to do with calling somebody something. "nigger" was what made slavery possible. >> williams: it's... well, the word is poison. >> pitts: you used the word? >> williams: oh, i used to. i grew up saying the word. it was all i knew. i never gave it any thought. >> pitts: williams runs newsouth books in montgomery, alabama, cradle of the confederacy, and where jim crow was once king. >> we don't want the niggers going in this school. it's a white school. >> pitts: williams, a son of alabama, says the civil rights movement changed him, as it did

but if you love teaching and you want to be in the olympics of teaching, this would be the place to doproject are demanding on the front end as to whom they hire, and even after all of that, they're still prepared, after the first year, to say to two teachers, "this is not the right place for you." that's a very different model from the public school system. >> couric: but is the model working? when the fifth graders took the new york state math and reading exams, the results were disappointing. on average, other schools in the district scored better than tep. some people watching this might be thinking, "hey, they're paying teachers $125,000 a year. they've attracted the best and the brightest." these results don't really add up. >> vanderhoek: we don't have a magic wand. we're not going to take kids who are scoring below grade level and bring them up in a year. >> couric: you're the head of the school, the principal. why do you get to keep your job? >> vanderhoek: ultimately, to build an excellent organization is going to take time. and if that doesn't happen, let's say four years fr

see it's not like a person opens a school for terrorists and people come to him you know they just teach scripture them and people come to them for counseling or psychological help. but if you listen to what they see and we know that from our undercover agents there is nothing stream ist on the surface and what we see that most of those who join terrorist groups and you can sue side bombers were first instructed. by these ideologists. which of course it could be that not all of these eight ideologists influenced people to sway them five or six of them could be ok but two or three of them definitely have this kind of influence. that we're dealing with these people's personally as you yourself ever met any of these eight with the dog. not only do i know them i talk to each one of these eight. so you have a dialogue with people who basically recruit bandaids that when you go in for a while we can say they recruited and it's you have to realize that extremism is here to keep in their teaching and they're all religious leaders write of yes well the most part of what we can only suspect that t

she started a little business, but she can't get a teaching job. and she's living at home with her parents and has a student loan to pay back. where does she start? >> she just has to start working. she needs to find a way to make a living. even if that means a day job and a night job. you need to build savings. there's still a lot of opportunity for jobs. i think you have to lower your expectations sometimes and maybe do something for awhile that's not your perfect choice. i think it's harder for younger people now than it has been. the the cost of education is giantic. i have so many people come into my office with student loans in the $80,000 range and they decided they want to be a pilates instructor. >> we're going to talk about spending in a little bit, but another question is if somebody is at home living with parents, which might be the only thing you can do at this point, at least if you're with mom and dad you're home, does that tend to encourage the overspending in the sense that i'm still with mom and dad. you're kind of still a kid. yo

[applause] >> good evening, i'm jonathan woolen, i teach at weely brown in the bay view. in february, the board engaged in an email exchange with an anonymous source concerning my school and heightened state of education emergency. from my perspective, this is due to a lack of leadership at every level. the wheelie brown staff was given copies of what we were told was the entire email exchange involving eileen murphy. the only cry for help was to believe the word of the administration, not much has changed since principal russ -- this is not true. while mr. russell is our principal, yeah, we were battling low academic expectations but we had enough trust and respect from our staff and most importantly our students and their families that discipline or lack thereof was never a major issue. i will give the district the benefit of the doubt and assume it had valid reason for reassigning mr. russ midway through the year, but the action to replace him without input from the staff of our school and community was reckless and poorly calculated. i recognize action had to be taken

techshop will teach you how to run and operate everything, and the classes are very reasonable. it's the brain child of jim newton. he created an inexpensive sanctuary for artists and inventors of all types, just off highway 101 of san jose, california. that's the site of the original techshop location. i say original, because his one-time local idea has matured into a nationwide need. >> our goal for techshop is to open hundreds of these things, so anybody who has an idea has an outlet to actually make their ideas into reality. >> while silicon valley is famous for entrepreneurs working out of their basements, techshop is aimed as those who need just a gun or programming skills, they're aimed as those who want to manufacture something, looking with all kinds of materials and who may need to saw, mill, mold or do a host of other activities that could require expensive machinery. that could be a roadblock for those who can't afford material like that, don't have access or don't know how to use it. but it's not just about heavy t embroidery, silk screening, and how to make glass b

how have you managed to take control of the teaching issue?a number of years in a tough neighborhood. >> god bless. i will tell you the problem is multi-pronged. of course, we have bat teachers, but the bigger reality as kelly pointed out is most of the teachers are smart, they're well-intelephone ond, but many of them are ineffective and that's where the big of the part of the problem is. not the horrible teachers, but the teachers who really do try, but we're not properly training our teachers for the reality of the classroom that we face today. >> as you all know this is an issue that toughes everybody, everyone has a child in school or went to school themselves and there's a position. we went to the community and talked to some people and got some questions from them. i think you ought to respond to some of them. >> hi. i'm marie con te and we're seeing a lot of black children raising babies today upon. how does that affect the value of education in. >> parents are younger and younger and they're having children in school, 15 and 16 after