up not speaking english, has informed a specific decision or choice you made as an educator, as a distribute administrator, as the u.s. secretary of education? >> you know what i'll do is flip it a lit ill bit. i have a fourth great teacher and celebrating three kings. looking at different cultures and had a -- at putnam elementary school. it was like a first or second-year teacher and i remember the joy in the students' faces. latino students and nonlatino students. i remember how that brought people together to learn about a different culture through music. to the values i was raised with. i remember how the music and the food and the cull chu created a sense of community in that school and that shaped me. significantly because i know schools are more than places where people learn how to read and write. or physical activity. schools are families. schools are communities.