Because we have been locked out. But my question is with teach for america, to me its kind of a peace corps kind of a project because we get all these 22yearolds that really dont get it, and our kids are under [applause] to where it doesnt even matter anymore because they didnt [inaudible] or they were slouching. And a lot of teachers who are seasoned and [inaudible] yes. You mentioned the services that arent there. The social workers and the tutors and the seasoned teachers that understand the children and where theyre coming from. So my question is to you is teach for america, how can that change so that they are benefiting the children and the children just dont feel hopeless and be helpless and helpless . And they are a big part they have no choice because theyre shut down. All right, thank you. Ryan, why dont you give a shout out on that one. When i was a 21yearold teach for america teacher in new york, i definitely did not have a clue, so youre right about that. [laughter] and its probably debatable whether i have one now. [laughter] that said, there are and i know teach for america has that reputation. I think theyre Getting Better at keeping people in the corps and in teaching, i should say, longer. I also think that we have a lot of Great Teachers who are from teach for america who have lasted, you know, many, many years in this [applause] in this work. [laughter] and we have, and we have teachers, Great Teachers who did not go through that program. I dont think its beneficial to sort of cast teach for america in one light or the other. I think what we need is great educators who are committed to our kids and are committed to staying here and typing the hard work and doing the hard work for a long time because this is not a twoyear project, its not a fiveyear project. [applause] yes, sir. Be your question. Good evening. Okay. My name is charles love, im a north resident, lifelong north resident. Actually, i was ms. Bennett she was my principal when i was in high school. [laughter] so i remember walking into ms. Bennetts office, 1994, and she said, mr. Love, i have a [inaudible] for you. I said, what happened . And she said youre not doing too well, and she transferred me to central high school. People didnt realize i was living in my grandmothers onebedroom apartment. My mother was in and out of situations, drugs and alcohol. My father was in and out of situations. I was living with three brothers well, two brothers. And my grandmothers born 910. 1910 in alabama with a third grade education. And she taught me that life was about working hard and going to school, but there were some things. I had kids driving bmws in high school, 1994. There was drug, crack epidemic ran rampant through the city. Ran rampant. I lost friends, families. I lost so many people, one year i counted on facebook, i had lost 200 of my closest friend in a five block radius. Central ward whats your question, young man . I taught in the Public School system for 15 years, and now im a parent. I dont see charter, i dont see public. I see newark students. Where is the collaboration tool . When are we going to come together and put kids first . Playing political games as kids are are dying every day, suffering. Thank you. And from my experience, i want to know whats going to happen after this, you know . Everybodys in the room and, yeah, but whats next . Thank you, sir. We have to collaborate. Okay. Lets answer your question. Collaborate. [applause] and take one further. Whos going to take the first step . Because we already know that theres a whole, you know, the whole board is lined up, right . But whats going to happen when these kids come out like, these kids, they dont just need teachers. Listen, ryan hill . I salute that dude. Coming into newark and doing what hes doing . At least hes doing something. [applause] all right. Lets answer your question. Thats fine, lets try and answer your question. God bless you. Okay . All right. Who wants to try . Well, i saw dr. Jackson, who is at George Washington carver, sitting over there next to Joanna Belcher who shared, who was the principal of spark and who and they shared a building together and had one of the best, most collaborative relationships ive ever seen educators have. And i think that, and i think thats a model. I dont think its the only model, but i do think that steps have been taken. And i think that whether its when you talk about community schools, for instance, a lot of the tenets of community schools, empowering educators, getting them resources and connecting the schools to the families in meaningful ways, those are things that a lot of Charter Schools do too, and thats a natural place where we can learn from each other as those start up. And so, so i dont know what the very next step is, but i think those are some ways we can do it. Anyone else want to comment . I think, again, i go back to my fist reflection is first reflection is what can we learn from this opportunity of having the last four years captured in the book. So, one, i would encourage everyone and those of us who have not yet read the book to read it, to reflect. And then also, how do we come together and at least have a starting point, develop a shared vision of what we want the citys Education System to look like. I think if we havent even as a community done that. And i think as we do that work, then we can backwards map on what are the right strategies that we need as a community, need to take in order to reach that goal. And thats something that were committed to continuing to do and really looking for solutions to build the infrastructure to allow that to happen. Thank you, shanae. I want to thank dale [applause] i want to thank Dale Russakoff for a very accessible treatise on what has been going on in the Public Education sector in newark over the last several years. Her book is a very interesting read, and i think the opportunity to meet her here and to hear her talk about her book was also very, very important. Dale will be signing in the gallery, so if you will line up the righthand side you will be in line for the book signing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you are watching the tv, television for serious readers. Watch any program you see here online at the tv. Org. Hes got stuff over his mouth and he just had to me a pile. I said thats it. Hes mumbling something. Get on the radio. Now im the Incident Commander of that fire. Thats what we do. We are there to know. We do a lot of different things. If we need to feed you, give you water, we have that as well. Does the military have smokejumpers . Do you want to get that . Right here. Does the military have smokejumpers speak what they dont. They have airborne units and will not interrupt train jumping. Today still to this day we train some of the folks. I got an email a few weeks ago, theres always politics in government and ill probably get in trouble and im going to invite you guys over. I called my buddy and i said hey, im not military us adore these guys . Those guys are cool. I know some of those guys. We crosstrained within. He read my book and use are interested. We do train some of those guys and they crosstrained and we have hero rescued after base. Those guys are interesting folks. But we are the ones. Any other questions, folks . How are we doing part time . Following the protocol. Well done. You see on tv the guys fighting a big fire, cutting firebreaks with bulldozers and setting backfires with the torches and all this kind of stuff. In the backcountry you guys are not using that equipment i dont think. How do you put out a fire that is an acre in size speak with another quick question. It just depends on where were at the it will download and a bulldozers and fire engines and count the rule, thats a great day because we have help. We need help as well. Wind we are out of ourselves we are taking food away from the fire. That is our main objective. Thats cutting fire lines down to slow. Most of the folks at our base, our tool of choice, murphys law is sometimes undergo to take this often cut myself in front of everyone. This is your acts in here and this is your grubbing. This is what we just to cut down the mineral soil. And we can cut small saplings and even decent size, not to large trees the likud. This becomes a tool of trade. When youre in the Fire Specialty and rookie training you will learn to use left hand, right hand. This is your tool. Its by my side when i sleep at night. Going down hills sometimes we slide down employees this to slow us down. If you fall its a walking stick. Sasquatch protection. Guys are very good at throwing this. Its amazing. This is our tool. It was designed around 1911. How to jump without . Go grab her and then my question is what inspired you to write your book at how long did it take . Quick story. Long story short. Im very lucky to meet a bunch and amazing people are either business, amazing people. Im just in awe. I get a call one day and i go home and asked my assistant, keynote harper something, publishing . I dont read much. She looks at me and says jason, who called you . Harper something, she said harpercollins . Yeah, thats it. She said give me your phone. She says i said what come is at that . She said you know this is . No. One of the Biggest Publishing Companies and they dont cold call people. So i remember i was on duty at the time. So i remember i text one of my very good friends. Hes an advisor, an investor, just an amazing man, professional business. And i called them come you guys remember Rodney Dangerfield . Just that kind of demeanor. I can see him. He said jason, someone is messing with you. Someone is messing with you. They dont cold call you. Give me that information. He hangs up. I give them the information and later on that day i had a phone call or something, he says call them back immediately. I called and we talked a little bit. I kind of knew who he was at the time. I was honored, you know. And i said, at first i said no. I dont want to do this book and have it turn into something, i was scared. I dont write. Scared, im nervous, all these things hit you at once. You put yourself out there, awful, harpercollins, ive got to talk about myself. So that went on for a few months and i finally said, i felt comfortable with, i make a harpercollins has been great but i cant see anything from a publicist, kb, to peter, such an amazing and amazing support. And let me do my book. That is my book. My coauthor helped with that. Tremendous lovehate relationship at times. Again, pulling hair out. Imagine getting 20 something years. My bag a definition to his bad the definition are two different things. So you can imagine the hard work everyone to make it happen. [inaudible] and that was part of, peter, remember he called me one day talk about the answer. Johnny cash, black, i like the artwork. I want elegant. I want surprise me. And he did. Its just amazing i tell people if you dont like the book, its reflective. I said you can hold it up and it makes a great target. If you dont like my book you can take it out and shoot and send it back and i will refund you. Know, i will refund you. Its been such a pleasure spilled how long did it take . Just under two years. You can imagine, psycho to duty, eight hours in my smokejumper job and then i come home and then i start my prg job covenant between the. Im writing. There was a lot of, there was a standard about 3 a. M. I want to be in bed by 3 a. M. Almost every day. And im not lying to you. I look at my clock, its 2 00, take a shower, a little hungry, ive got to get up at six or seven, get to work. So there were days literally, smokejumper tourney, you can sleep standing up take a break, a cat nap. They were days i was really starting to get overworked. There were days i was falling asleep i drive an expedition vehicle, overland vehicle. Its a fully selfcontained vehicle that pretty much handle a lot of things if youre left alone. Solar power, all this cool stuff. It would take me from my natural washington to the base which is not that far. I would take a nap. Im totally exhausted. So yes, hard work between my coauthor and me, and everyone involved. Steel, just the next chapter but on that up until three in the morning. Satellite. The movie, ive been in contact with some folks at hollywood, just amazing folks. They contacted me just after the book deal and just a pleasure to meet some of these folks. Im not going to see some of these actors. Ive been very lucky to meet and they are just people. Its funny because i remember a guy but too much ago he sat with me and hes looking in my van and he says jason, do you know that is . He wants one of your books. He tells me. All, nice to meet you. I dont watch that many movies and yet, be interesting to meet these folks and be very humble and they take her under their wing. I think day, i dont know, its just, if osha mind when you text someone. E. Standing right next to you . Yeah. I dont, im not, you know, just normal i guess, in a weird way. Speaking of sleep. How do you sleep while youre fighting that fire . I have a tree hammock. So i hate sleeping on the ground. With i started in 89 we were not allowed, we didnt have, what were the rules . No tense. You issued a sleeping bag. Nomad, which is fine. I like hardcore stuff. And your ipod, an old military cant. If you could build it you can sleep on it but they were broken. They always say it would build character, edited. Theres a character in the book, i love them to death and he would always say, you know, mcdonalds is hiring. We can take you down there. Ill call your dad. He was friends with my dad. I will call your dad and we will take again until help future job at mcdonalds. I dont sleeping flexibility ground. In about two and half minutes i can have it directed at him on the bed. If theres a small cliff, i am in bed. Uk the guy behind you with the pulaski trying to make tournament huge trying to make a hooch site. Creepy crawlers, scorpions. So i sleep in a tree hammock. For a few hours but it depends. We have a work restoration. We have to get, you can work six, 16 hours, we are supposed to eight hours. If theres homes burning or property we will make at that time the next burn period. Those are some of the rules they never had back then and they cut a big your stomach turn. Ive got to do what . Is a tree hammock the right place to be sleeping in the middle of a forest fire . Good question. At that point the fire is not near me. We are in a safety area where we are sleeping. [inaudible] are you could . Are you good . A breathing apparatus like you guys seen tv, selfcontained breathing apparatus, we dont wear those. But when firefighting arena so we move away out of that small. You can imagine we have a tank system. They only last about 20 minutes, depends on how hard you breeze. In training your the bell ringing, hello . Phone. E. Always know the rookie because hes out and about 10 minutes. So the good guys get almost 30 minutes. What do you guys get today on your tank . Twentysomething . Into training trailer you can hear the guy breathing. You would have guys that actually slow down there briefing so they can get the longest tank ride and get the mission accomplished. Its Pretty Amazing and thats our thing to do a treasure in all that gear and sometimes it just doesnt work. There are devices out there that kind of help called the big chunks, but you can imagine the heat exhaustion of working and arduous triple digit having some cover your face now. I test them and use around 10, 15 minutes they are flying in the air. One did save my but one night but just the weight and the bulk dozen workforce. So were going to get most out of the thats no, but sometimes we are sucking spoke for hours but we dont always have that choice. You can always tell, these guys havent coughed yet. Sound like. Can you comment on the fires in washington and california where they are this year relative to other years . And where will we be in the next 10, 20 years . Is it getting worse . Hard question. Theres a lot of politics in that. We know theres stuff happening in the climate. Theres something happening. Im not going to get in an argument and say theres no greenhouse effect, this nothing happening. Theres something happening. We are seeing glaciers, Mother Nature doesnt tell us. Theres a lot of scientists out there, just watched an interesting, last week they went right to the giant sequoias, some of the oldest ladies on this planet and theyre getting stressed. That means something. Something is happening. I dont have an answer for that. We are seeing, the problems im seeing in some of these states is i wouldnt say california for some states theres a lack of response and using the right tool for the mission. About the politics, whose land is at . Article innocent people in or are they going to get hurt . I dont want to hear any of that stuff. People are, its imminent, im so, theres going to be fallen folks. Thats a tough barbara did we do something about what we dont do something about it. The practice that fire is going to get bigger. Weve seen it happen in some of the states. I was there. We get on these folks commitment how can you say that . Because i was there. Ive seen that fire when it was manageable. Now its not. We actually hiked out one of those fires which is called tasha i could talk about it but probably get someone made. We went out there and put it out. Direct action and no one knew we were there. But the banking outcome of an let that sink in a bigger. We hiked out there, put out and got back to base. They said that fire came over the radio, it was inaccessible. But to a jumper, if you know what that definition is as a smokejumper. So when i set the base, come to the office. I would come in and hear the fire is inaccessible. What do you think . Is this a joke . At this point there were some homes burning, some serious stuff going on. Are you messing with me . And then they heard on the radio, you take a second, you do this and no. Do you want to go . Hell, yeah. So we went out, grabbed the cure, loaded up. I remember getting there on station and it was another crew from another state and they turn down. Thats fine. Those guys turn it down. They felt unsafe and thats fine. Thats fine. I was a little upset. All right. I was taking a very and look at it. He said are you guys smokejumpers . Yes are you guys going to put it out . Yes. We walked away. He stared at us as well as. We got there like i said good time. We were a little off and it is k us about to post ours in some of the worst walking ive had some bad walks and a jump our guys with ive never seen them on the ground. He got hit in the ribs by something as he fell and he thought, you know, this is kind of cool. Ive never seen on the ground. You must be in pain. Whats going on . So this is like 11, 12 00 at night. So we navigate them get out and the fire was done. We know for a fact that we are not, some these folks are not using as to the fullest potential and thats all the fire service. I think are some upper management stuff that just needs to be fixed. Not Rocket Science at all. Dispatch center should have a command center captain in there. Its a high response meaning low relative humidity so you take a piece of bread out and its toes within it few seconds. That is a higher high fire that day. Weve got to go check it out. We will see, politicians office and see what they want to do about it. Californias profession got those guys are very good at that. They have low, medium, high response but if youre out there burning your ribs on the barbecue, guess what come pictureinpicture front door and about five minutes. You have a strike team, although those are, a hotshot crew, probably two helicopters, two air tankers, a lead plaintiff in an attack and a chief. [laughter] barbecues all over. Because wants some ribs . He had no idea. He that we just showed up. He had no idea. He had no idea and they call the dispatch. Barbecue fire. Return all responding units. Its pretty, some states are so honored but still Mother Nature sometimes when the devil high response shes already met. Cant do anything. But for a fact when it if you wait for a fire to get big, so the prt