Explains is what the valley is that teachers are adding to our daily lives. Those are philanthropists. When you listen to them talking about education and the road you drive a new cycle, which are most like to hear about our common core standards, standardized testing, you might hear about that we need more accountability of more teacher evaluations and we also need to copy were things from countries like finland and china. But when you actually spend time with students and teachers, the conversation is really, really different. And so, for example, in my chapter one ipo by a student named maria from el salvador, and maria lugar in 2008 and when she entered Mission High School she struggled, she barely barely spoke english. She really, really struggled with multiplechoice questions and yet by the 11th grade i watched maria stand in front of the classroom and present her 12 Page Research paper on the war in iraq. She presented it with confidence and poise and at the same time celebrating accepting letters to colleges. When i asked maria what contribute to her success, she would talk about how the greatest teachers didnt look at her and look at those test scores and grades, that they really saw her for who she was. They saw her strength, her intellect. They saw her interests. And they gave her challenging assignments despite all of her struggles. And in chapter two i profiled a student named george. Hes from china. George didnt start with multiplechoice questions at all. But yet when talking to him about how Mission High School contribute to success, and she said uc berkeley right now, he told me that the greatest thing about mission high and the quality education in general is that it set up with these things that allowed him to extract meaning from numbers and words on his own. George and i spent a lot of time talking about math. He loves math as we talked about math. He said in previous clashes in china has been a longtime sort of learning how to get to the edges quickly and become good at it. And admission the teachers pushing dust and whats been these numbers from whats behind these equations . What does represent in the real world . When george talked about math he would say things like i could really visualize it. I could really see. I could really feel math. He was s so excited about it and ive never, never ever talk about math. Ive talked to hundreds of students in the last four or five years and a comment seems always come in large and have to do with the same thing. Students always talk about teachers who know how to engage their intellect, that can see with r r learning trajectory and can give them what they need to progress. Thats not exactly what you ever hear about in the news. And Mission High School when you talk to teachers, that means that they do talk about standards and to be talk about tests but they spend the pride of their time spent on individual needs of their students and intense focus on the craft. So instead of looking over multiplechoice questions and standardized testing figure out who is sailing, theyre looking at marias work in small groups of people and a look at it and ask all do, how can we teach writing to maria washes struggling with grandma but without crushing her rucksack and we teach math to everyone in the way thats engaging and accessible . Whicwhat should we do if our advanced math classes of old white and asianamerican students how do we disrupt these patterns in our school. What does it mean when there is an anniversary Ashley Mike Brown happened and people are shot. How we talk about in a classroom . How do we talked about it from a white teachers in front of the classroom for all students are students of color . So these are the sorts of conversations that happen in many schools like mission across the country. They are completely invisible but yet at the same time these are the conversations, these are the mechanisms through which we close the achievement gap. Thats what i wanted to highlight through the voices of students and teachers. In the second thing i wanted to say is that even the Mission High School is a local story, its in San Francisco, and i chose it because its in my backyard. I can walk to a. I can see from the window of my house. Its also a universal story. Ive talked, ive reported from many schools across the country. Ive talked to students and teachers. The right to overtime pay taxing things happen in my school. Its a universal story and a similar struggles and conversations that the teachers and Mission High School are having, there have been over the country. So it is a story about San Francisco but also about schools in chicago, new orleans, seattle and new york. So with that i wanted to thank lewis for coming. I do want to say one thing about louis. I am reading the blackboard right now to just what you said education i highly, highly recommend it. Its such a gorgeous, deep meditation on the classroom. And all of the invisible things that happen in the classroom that contribute to building an amazinamazing human beings and e a Kindred Spirit in the way that we both focus on these invisible things. So i highly recommend it. And im so honored that someone who knows bookstores in the classrooms has a great has agreed to come and talk with us. [applause] absolutely. I dont know how good i am at balancing it. We will figure that out. The great joy of reading this book is the amount of time that kristina spent at mission high and with the students. And how she takes the really, the larger issues out of that come out of all those great details. So what i wanted to start with today and ask you is, its very clear in reading the book that educational policy in this country, which is exceedingly more federal and nationwide than it used to be, where used to be more statewide, why you think that educators and students are so much left out of that discussion . Its a Perfect Place to store. I think theres two pieces, a policy aspect, a cultural aspect to it. A policy piece of it has to do with the fact that an american teachers have greater teaching loads that almost other industrialized country. In japan and finland teachers spend about 215 hours a year stand and teachings to the inuit its about 715. When it comes to time that there is aid and to work away from the classroom, so preparing lessons, collaborating with their colleagues or put a spring in these debates, talking to media, about the complexity of teaching, in the u. S. And teachers have about three to five hours each week allotted for this kind of thing. In a country like finland, south korea or singapore teachers have 1525 hours a week to do all of this work. So right there, the policy thing gets in the way of teachers have enough time to actually come out and have these conversations. The second thing i think its a cultural thing and is completely relates to the policy. I grew up in latvia and i go back to Eastern Europe all the time. Im in western europe all the time. Teachers are respected theyre a lot more than they are here in the traneight and they are paid more. They are paid more. It was nothing for me to read the history of education in the traneight and theyre sort of current of treating teachers like theyre basically content Delivery System and then there testing boxers. Another country i think theyre treated more like academics, like intellectuals. I think is also another major difference in why youre remotely hearing from the socalled experts whove never pot in the classroom and you never hear from actual practicing teacher. To go to the art of teaching can you refer to in the book as the beauty and complexity of the art of teaching. And i think that standardized testing is incapable of measuring anything thats both beautiful and complex. Can you tell us a little bit more from your experience about your witnessing that, but beauty and the complexity of the teachers at mission high and what theyre doing . I think my favorite part of reporting of the book, i would say its just, when you walk into a classroom you dont see it. You cant really appreciate it because all of it is so invisible and so much of it has to do with what teachers do before they enter the class and what they did after the class as they pore over student work together. At some point in my reporting i think two years into it is incredible teacher that i profiled in what my chapters come shes been teaching for 27 years. She told me any completely blew my mind. She told me at some point in her teaching career when she reached about eight years she realized, she started seeing teaching as a complex threedimensional jigsaw puzzle. Theyre all these different pieces that go into it, and how they all interact and reinforce each other. And once she saw how all these different pieces she had been studying for years work and reinforce each other from chicago. She started feeling confident about what she was doing. It just did hard to figure what those differences with the pieces are. And some of them are, its about a great lesson plan. Its a work of art. Its about content, teachers work so hard to go beyond textbook. Its about teachers talk about the rhythm of the class, you piece together different activities, not just in it for an hour and lecturing. Students get bored 15 minutes into it so its about a quick lecture and it is individual practice ended work groups. Theres discussion as a really think about how youre going to piece it together so theres a good reason to the class integrates this energy in the classroom. They talk about the pace so you dont do anything too slow or too fast. And then they talk so much about sort of how you look at the students. Are you looking at an empty chest your phone or to see the individual Company Looking for that like youre going to engage somehow . So they talk about equitable relationship with the students. Its not just about the relationship. Its about the equitable relationship. They do no more than a student at the same time the students also is a very important part of that relationship. Thats just 5 of everything that goes into counted to give an indication how incredibly complex and beautiful and fascinating it is. We hear a lot about behavior issues in the classroom and weve all seen youtube videos of classes that are out of control, teachers being tied to chairs, teachers losing their temper. That seems all the point that seems to be put on occasion but a good fascinating by some of your anecdotes about why that behavior gets so out of control and having those teachers deal with this. Thats so true. Summary stories i think an immediate have to do with come its about classroom management. Has so much to do with behavior but the way teachers talk about classroom management and mission as very little to do with behavior of the kids pictures of because that sort of blends the kids. Want to look at is intense focus on the teaching. Why our kids disengaged or what are they bored works or why are they confused . Maybe you didnt structure class properly to explain the assignment and then give explicit instructions on how to do it. Maybe theres some, the scaffolding is missing something the student go from point a to point b. Theres so many things that teachers at Mission High School talk about that has to do with content and academics before they talk about behavior. And i for teachers said this over and over again to different new teachers they coach, when classrooms out of control they will say youre going to get them with your content. You know, behavioral issues have to do with academics. We will figure it out. You get them with your content. So they spent most of their time looking at that. In 20042005, superintendent of schools for San Francisco said in an interview that schools are like a business. And this book is really contrary to the. You make a point of saying that the school from any school is a Community Come and i would love to talk about that in terms of what happens within the school and also where the school is in the larger community. Such a big lesson for me has been spending time at Mission High School. Because before it entered Mission High School, it was an abstraction i couldnt quite understand. Ive never spent time in american high schools. I spent four years at mission high. Its so intangible. As soon as you enter Mission High School, than it feels realy good. It feels like a real community. You know its a result of high standards and professionalism at a lot of education but also feels that way because its a home away from home for so many students. The social center, a cultural center. So, for example, when eric garner, when things with eric garner happened, Mission High School became the center of a four likewise move but had the first meeting with the city. Mission High School Students classes for parents of immigrant students. Every day theres Something Else going on the site math and reading that prepares thats heres the real need for the students. Not only teachers prepares them for reading that prepares them for leadership role in their community and provide Vital Services that a lot in the u. S. Our social safety net is not very strong so they provide a lot of Vital ServicesLike Mental Health and basic health care and things like that. So Mission High School has a very diverse population. And because of that, because of some issues that are brought along without with a lot of second language students or others for an students coming in. Id love to hear you tell us more about the diversity at admission, what kind of diversity that is, and how you think that makes a cookiecutter approach which is what you call it in the book to education, tol education a real problem. Mission high school is one of the most diverse of schools not only in our city but in the country. And incredible thing for me, a kid from latvia, i feel like i traveled all over the world in the last four years but i learnt so much about Different Countries and schools in Different Countries and cultures in Different Countries. Its incredible. But at the same time it also, we spent time at mission high it seemed so absurd. Theres some kind of ideal system that we can just figure out and you can scale up and then you can sort of export them to every school in the country but as i studied history, and recurring theme of education reformers. They are always looking for some sort of utopian one best system, you know, and were going to put in every school. You hear it in the news today as well a lot of folks who created specific Charter Schools because they do think this is the best way to educate all urban youth across america, and to lobby an advocate for it. When you spend some time in mission high, it seems completely absurd. Uniteteachers are the best professionals who understand what those needs are and how to serve them best. We hear an awful lot of talk about the big achievement gap in education. Id love you here defined of force and tells what the dangers are, what kind of students fall into that gap and why . In our country the human gap and the public debate is defined very narrowly and has a much to do with usually with test scores and graduation rates. One of the things that a lot, the scholars are racing today is that come and again its sort of blame to the students and the teachers in the schools, and it completely shifts our attention away from what they call opportunity gap, and sort has to do with, what kind of inputs and investments are making these schools. For example, Mission High School, and this is really a travesty. California is the wealthiest state in union and we rank at the very bottom. And 2014 we were at the very bottom on funding per student. And the result Mission High School gets about 9000 per student and a school in palo alto with so many more resources is about 14,000 per year. And then so mission high has already started out as a disadvantage. Theyre supposed to take the same tests, and also teachers also Mission High School get paid. 10,000 less than a teacher in palo alto. This basic input. You start out at a disadvantage and youre supposed to reach the same markers at the same time. When students struggle we blame them. We blame the schools and the teachers rather than talking about the investments that have never been made. A really poignant anecdote in the book about maria. Its maria who spoke about earlier, who was told that the scores for the school had come in, and the schools were doing poorly. She said, i think to you, she said how can i be so successful if the school is flunking . I think a lot of us miss that particular connection, that if the school is doing poorly, based on these tests, then all the students then are doing poorly. The achievement gap leaves out also that kids who are really succeeding. Exactly. Such a narrow slice of everything that Mission High School does. I think i can get sort of highlight the absurdity of it, because if you look at standardized test scores as one of the most if you look at any other marker, 80 of students are accepted to college every year, these are the numbers you see with higher income students. When you look at attendance, graduation would look at the gap it creates, when you look at students having sexual experience, you just walk through the school, it becomes very clear that what you call a failing school. Its a major problem how we define the achievement gap. The good news is i think a lot of states are moving in the direction of redesigning that system and defining success differently. So what is the answer then . [laughter] not to put you on the spot but i figured you would have went. In my analysis i feel like in the last 13 years under the no child left behind, we have put all of our priorities, our policy priorities into design and redesign different systems, teacher evaluation forms, debating standards and different tests, kind of tests should they be, should there be more or less of them . We are completely ignoring to me most important thing which has to do with the craft of teaching. And those small, those struggles and those conversations that teachers are having in the school at Mission High School that i tried to illustrate in one book. And those of the mechanisms for which they are closing their gaps. We are not funding that. Our policy is not prioritizing that, not soon enough money that way. I think if we reduced the amount of testing i think you reduce our emphasis on external measurements. And if we pushed off the stage all of the education experts and allow teachers to talk about in their own words about more, i think i would then we would begin to close out achievement gap. Want other struggling fact that comes out, these attacks the comes out of reading this book, we also suspected of any. Credit society is that we see a lot of money getting poured into schools and most of that money is stopped at a certain place. It goes into new testing procedures, into bureaucracies. It may go into the schools and forms of computer it really makes it down to the level that christine and myself both the of is the most important level, which is the teacherstudent interaction in that classroom. I would love you talk a little bit more about what a teachers life is like. Because we all suspect that the work too hard and dont get paid enough. So i will give you two figures, this is from my book, this is from the National Teachers dollars project. 46 of teachers today will leave the profession before four years are over. Five years are over. Thats a huge absence. They are just mailing. 62 of k12 teachers have a second job just in order to pay the bills. I would love to you talk more about what a teacher actually does monday through sunday. To become a teacher just been a lot. You spent a lot, yes. I take it and one thing i would like politics. No child left behind was signed by george bush whose brother neil is a major stockholder in a testing company. Thats a real important aspect because that really shifted education its important to remember that the testing companies, evaluation companies, all of those Monitoring Companies are making a lot of money. They are very large corporatio corporations. This with a 97 million in 1992, to 2 billion this year. A lot of money. Its all moving other computers now. So presumably, just like this one best [inaudible] theres probably also one best way to get the higher test scores so that all biting new textbooks, and everything, new software this post up you teach to the new, cortex. I was shocked to see how hard teachers work. I dont, i really, i can understand how they can, looking at [inaudible] how they can keep doing it and day in and day out for 27 years. Its incredible. When she was starting out in her first 10 years, she woke up at 4 a. M. Every morning to to get to class complete emails. She got there by 6 30 a. M. She thought, back then she taught much bigger classes. She taught five classes in a row with 32, sometimes 45 students in the classroom. Then after school she graded all those papers. She collapsed on the mattress to take a quick nap and then went home, prepared for the next day come back and look at student work, adjusted her legend, day in and day out. She worked she said every single saturday for 20 years, and sometimes sunday evenings as well. She honestly told me that she became the instructional reform facilitator, a teacher who coaches teachers now and helps them develop curriculum because she was so burned out. It doesnt happen in any other country. So its no wonder theres a teacher shortages and teacher attrition. Tell the story, i think its about pablo and eating a ride. And i forget who the teacher was. Theres also, in a school where teachers have such Good Relationship with students, they give up their cell phone numbers. So when students come is not just about of course preparing classes and teaching, theres so much individual support that they provide. Pablo had a fight here he came out and had a fight with his mom and didnt go well. She kicked him out of the house and pablo texted his teacher on a sunday who came and picked him up actually near here. They got together and she drove over to stay with a friend. He spent his weekend, theres also sometimes when im hanging out with teachers after classes in the rooms and students come up to get help with college recommendations, tutoring. So they students in classrooms, [inaudible] they come to classes and asked for help. They need help with recommendations. They need help to find a job. They need help to find out which children. Theres no good things that in addition to academics happen and same place. This kind of burnout of course is much greater in schools that serve low income students. Talk about that notion in terms of San Francisco. The proceeds of following standard of San FranciscoPublic Schools have created a wide division among the cities population of the area youre talking about. Such a vicious cycle, right . We find these schools less than any other state in the country. And, of course, a struggle to provide. We also educate, we also, 50 of kids in San Francisco are low income. So we when schools the struggle and you walk through schools and some of them are sent. I went to school in the soviet union, a country whose gdp was not as big as it is in the united states. Our schools were shiny. Our schools have new furniture. Our schools had clean floors that you walk into a school and its just not the priorities. This is where most important things happen. And while i think Mission High School is gorgeous, i love Mission High School, i walk in and i look at the furniture from the 40s, you know . Chairs that have cracks in them. Path from the 70s. Just what does i that say abouts as a country . Parents walk through it and they feel like our schools are crappy, and in about. Of course, thats a vicious cycle because funding is determined by students. Schools get more funding. It feels like it is getting worse and worse everyday. I think its important for us to get engaged in the issues around this. How can we be, its just a shame. How can we be a state that makes more money than any other in the union and we find our schools in so much need . Recall that proper 13 proposition 13. Thats when we had good schools. Whats your ideal School Look Like . Mission high school right there. Thats why, you know, but i got stuck there for four years. That wasnt the plan at all. It was supposed to last a year. I just kept coming back and back and back. One of the Amazing Things for me as an immigrant, yes, its about math and reading and about intellectual academics, but its also, the school just feels like what i would like it if you like everywhere. Its a place where people from all kinds of backgrounds to each other with respect, treat each other with a lot of understanding. And i think that people all over their model, these values of community. Is not just about, its not just about we are in a school to advance ourselves and get to the best college and climate sort of the career totem pole. We are here in a together, we are here to make a city better, we are here to make a country better. I love being around that and i think that to me is what attracted me to come to the united states. Ini is our country at its best. Kristina and i both agreed agree on one possible end of education is that it creates better, more engaged democratic citizens. So id like to talk about how a good teacher makes a good democratic citizens and how that is good for the democracy as a whole. It is sort of relates to this repeating theme i think, this is also this something i think were giving up on a lot, but in many schools Mission High School for acted as a mini democracy. Students learn skills to be stronger citizens, to be leaders in their community. Every single student in my book was in some way engaged with their community, being the advocate for parents who didnt speak english. For example, with maria shes an undocumented student and some of her aunts, relatives got notices so she became the leader. Not just a relatives, friends and the community. She could be the translator and the advocate and met with lawyers and went to court for them. Thats the sort of values around citizenship, community. Those who used to be sort of the main ideas behind Public Education, but we never talk about it anymore. So much about creating the Human Capital for capitalism to fuel our economy and all these other really important functions of Public Schools are overlooked. We wonder whats going on with our democracy, you know, why is it not functioning . Wide is the income gap so big . We are not paying attention, we are not investing in our Public Schools. I would say money is the key at some point. Just before going to the question and answer period, kristina begins the book by type of how difficult was to get into a school. What i met with her and were talking about the book, i said why was it so difficult to get into a school . And she said they didnt have any time for me because i thought thats not good. So we are very happy that mission high did make the time pick and just some of you want to introduce. Yes. I have a surprise guest for us today. Eric guthertz is here. [applause] principal guthertz has been an educator for 27 years. He has been that mission high for 14 years. I really want to thank him for his generosity and is time to participate. He always had time for me, for all of my questions that made it easy for me to stay there for four years. Thank you. Thank you very much. If anyone has a question villages pass around the mic we are just going to pass around the mic. A lot of, we could go to your doctor with a multitude of problems within the education system. [inaudible] i dont know if you looked into [inaudible] its about how we could take the achievement gap, and it turns out the most effective ways to actually integrate schools. Allow minorities to the same resources as white people, but that simply is not being done. And for San Francisco specifically a lot of white students are going to private schools. Resources are not cutting and to Public Schools. So mike, sorry, but what would be some ideas for integrating schools . So im happy to jump in, kristina kim respond as well, one thing i want to say, i heard this before when we are taught by the achievement gap, when we say thats just a buzzword, so what is the achievement gap . Or everybody in this room it probably means something very different. I do want to be going to see the achievement gap, sometimes we are talking about the oppressive system, races and things like that. Were not necessarily speaking about what is really cheap and going to college, graduating, having a good life. The other day i met with about 15 of our graduates at an alumni reunion, and these are students who came from Mission High School, and there from the classic 20052015 to our graduates at uc merced, another student whos a manager of a business with two beautiful student. Another student who is now a teacher after completing standard. We have to be more clear when you see the achievement gap, what do we mean. Entrance of integrated schools i think its critical. And i think the district is doing a pretty good job of trying to figure out how to work that in a very convoluted system. Im not about to speak to control the system. Asperger you laugh, you know what im talking about the its complex by do think there is some contention about can figure out how to have most integrate schools but you cant forget why you want to do that. The reason why is want to make sure all students have access to the richest, most rigorous, the discourse possible. Do students of color, africanamerican, latino, deserts of access to those courses as well as white students and Chinese Student . Absolutely. In some ways its about trying to figure this isnt in to make sure that happens. Want other things that mission high spent extr this regard proe are very diverse. We are not just serving one population. I think we may be one of the most diverse schools in the area, maybe the country. We now look very much more like a city. Im messing with a whole lot of white students although we do have a percentage. Its about 13. Thats funny but it serious. So trying to figure out how to bring people together, how to make people feel included in the building, everybody is a stakeholder. I think its a critical piece. And i think, i mean, its absolutely, the research is behind it. We close our achievement gaps in this country the most at the peak of integration. But its also, it doesnt solve itself because one of the things we cant out even with an integrated school is that we created a system of tracking which is essentially segregation within a school. Its not a solution in and of itself but as far as research shows, that is how we close our achievement gaps the most in the mid 70s. But Public Education is under attack and how do we fight back . How do we articulate why Public Education is important . How do we convince [laughter] why they should look at the Public Schools and have real conversations with people that have so much . How can we get rid of this conception that Public Schools are not working, because they are. I mean, just doing what you just did is honestly the most effective tool from everything ive seen. The number of students are increasing in Public School system and its because parents like you have oneonone conversations. Im hoping that a lot of more will join in and tell stories about Public Schools. One of the reasons i really wanted to go to public when i was reporting on schools, all the positive stories and any stories of success in 2010 were coming out from Charter Schools, its not that they are true. Theres a lot amazing Charter Schools. Theres just as many Public Schools as well, all of the stories were coming from Charter Schools. Thank god someone is writing about this again. We werent even allowed to talk about it in 10 years till no child left behind started. Integration was never mentioned and it wasnt a part of the discussion. What you are doing is really is the most effective tool. I dont have bigger solutions. I dont have any bigger solutions. You know, on a hopeful note, these conversation that is we are having here today are happening so much more all over the country. I just finished a story for mother jones for September Issue and i reported, you know, in different states and the movement is huge, its the biggest its ever been, most students are opting out of standarized testing. Their message is actually quite sophisticated. Theyre being heard and making huge impact. No child left behind is written only because of it. It wouldnt happen for any other reason. Our grassroots pressure is working, it really is. Its the thing that keeps me awake at night. When i do think the conversation is shifting radically right now, ive been 28 years. Its a while. Ive seen the conversations back and forth. I used to be in east la when we went on strike. I remember laying down in a cafeteria truck like an idiot that i was. [laughter] it swung back and become about teacher voice. Youre laughing because you know what im saying. Were actually back to a point where we say, wait a minute, maybe the community at that school know what the local context is and are going to support that. I do think our district is doing a very good job at trying to frame this conversation and it does worry me because theres no question i do deeply believe in Public Education is like the Main Foundation of democracy. It just simply is. [applause] getting a perspective and i see Mission High School up the block but ive also been familiar with anybody who has visited here and have seen the iconic building and i always wondered what happens inside the high school. Now i know a little bit more. [laughter] i am a lucky buyer of a home that is up the block from Mission High School. According to my calculations about 9 billion a year go into the city subject, 7 million plus goes to the high school, Public Schools subject. Roughly 12,000 per pupil. When i write my letter and everybody involved in the teaching process, the cultural changes in Public Education are as neighbor of the school and Property Owner and taxpayer, how should that be spent and what would you suggest that we do differently . We did spend a lot on the schools, but obviously not enough. Perhaps spended spent wrongly. I worked at a local tech company. Is there anything that has happened out of that, that was a volunteered program Like Companies like mine to get involved. I learned from public coworkers that my own high school in virginia was torned down and replaced with a new school. Theres definitely investment in Public Education in rebuilding the schools, but is it just buildings or investment in faculty and the culture of students that we need . Thank you for your investment in support of Public Schools. I think that one of the things that ill be paying attention to is we implement common core in the new tests. Theres actually Governor Brown is sending unlike so many governors is sending quite a bit of funding for professional development and and support for teachers. One of the things ill be watching is to make sure that this funding just like, you know, i learned in history, that that funding does go to teachers like it does in Mission High School. It goes directly to teachers to support time to learn and lead, to support their time to grab whats not working in the school and do plans to solve them and doesnt create bureaucratic level, state level that come into school and teach teachers how to adopt standards and improve test scores. We have to ask our policymakers that they support teachers, maybe that means reducing loads because they simply dont have time to collaborate and focus on their craft, it means supporting them, leadership positions at the district and state level, support so they can participate in conversations. So hard to get them to come because they are overwhelmed and busy. Intense focus on the teachers ability to learn. What do you think . I use the critical question a school has two major grants sunset. Two negative 2 million, we have had to figure out, shorting some work given that while we are seeing more money from the state and district no question as the company has gotten better, the school that lost a little bit because of the major grants, but weve been given a lot of flexibility. Thats what i want to say. Obviously materials, desks and chairs, the school does have a huge amount of voice in admission, collectively students and teachers have identified areas. So even though we lost some money we continue to try to maintain smaller classes and we will be able to do that fairly well. I heard a number that the average has five hours of prep a week. That includes collaboration as well. The third is around coleadership, trying to figure out ways coaching and teachers, theyre actually working and mentoring teachers to support them at the highest level. So i think thats critical. One last thing, i dont want to go too long, i was they have been incredible partners. Its been a wise way to partner with Tech Companies in the city and actually come together to actually help maybe dismantle myths they both have about each other. [laughter] ive been involved in education in San Francisco since 1963 and during the 60s we hand unusual thing happen. [inaudible] some of those at alternatives with good, many of them lost their jobs if some of those schools succeeded. One of the problems i see is getting administrators flexible enough to change with the times. I thought it was a great excerpt to experiment to begin with and it got sabotaged. The guy was a stupid jerk. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] i was a successful teacher there. Now, the thing is it has nothing to do with the with the chairs, desks, it has to do with the relationship with the student. I think one of the most important things is that teachers should be counsels, take and integrate counseling thing with teachers so they are counselors because they see the students every day. The counselor only sees them when theyre in trouble. You have to integrate the school and the students, and students work together. Really important. Great book where you have democratic classrooms. I had kids who walked in and the students would throw them out of the classroom. I think theres some important stuff to learn about the interrelationships with student, teachers and administrators. Ill shut up. [laughter] [applause] i just want to say the one thing they count successes on is the foundation. They dont have methods, if you dont have the beginning in kindergarten its going to go out ive written books. Its not the teachers fault. Colleges do not train. That has to be addressed. Yeah, youre correct in a lot of ways, although well say that we are seeing a different as kids are coming in. They are much more prepared than the years past. Im talking about doing studying since 88. Actually just like a medical residency for teachers to be teachers. We work with stanford. Teachers embedded in the school all year long and its like browns and get to see best practices and thats helping a little bit. We spend time with skills. One of the teachers other there. Maybe they just moved to the country. El students. Making sure that they get the support they need while not losing the context. That is the craft and its very complex. I got to work [laughter] [inaudible] im just curious whether the success of admission are being in other schools and other hools in high schools in the district or colleagues have come to you to learn from some of the things that you are doing . Its actually very reciprocal. We have tight administrators in the district. We have the schools and we call them equity centers, we learned together for years and years. The principal, were all and others very close and literally texting each other ideas. Its been incredible growth for them and i think for them as well. Its fun. [inaudible] and i had spoken and ive been curious how its being implemented . Is there any kind of effort maybe in like the sciences or math, how thats affected the general School Culture . Actually amy and kat reyes, we looked at how they create the units and relef relevancy to two other cultures and perspectives and how to integrate that into chemistry, for example. Its been happening. We have this vision around antiracism teaching. The center is curriculum. For that, its been a incredible piece. We now have several advanced courses that seniors can take. Thats another way. Weve actually invested considerable amount of money in sustaining, building and will continue to do that because i think that is, you know, its Mission High School, thats what you do. [applause] we have the books up in the front. Im sure well be talking about this for hours and hours. I want to thank you guys for comes. [applause] youre watching book tv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Book tv covers hundreds of author programs all year long. On monday former state Department Director of policy and planning discusses womens movement. Author will discuss new life of First African American Supreme Court Justice marshall. Coming up wednesday evening, lawyer looks at the impact of solar power at town hall in seattle. Coming up thursday, book tv in delaware at the book awards honoring the best award in con verve coster next saturday on the Detroit Historical museum. 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