[roll call] we do have a quorum. Item indiscernible i want to make sure i have the right one. Hello . Thank you very much. Item 2, general public comment. Any members of the public or on the phone who would like to address us on items not related to the agenda . Seeing no public comment. Next item, please. Three, consent agenda. Approval of the minutes of april 21, 2022 meeting and july 21, 2022. So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed . I guess the aye have it. Four, interim space activation plan. So, this planning effort was undertaken in partnership with one Treasure Island and Treasure Island Community Development, and i like to invite Sherry Williams to provide a little more background and context. Good morning, Sherry Williams. I like to briefly acknowledge director tsen and richardtion for your incredible leader 147 ship in the project and how involved you are and how fortunate we are to have directors like you. I just wanted to say that publicly because im feeling it
If you have resources in your structures why not open those up a little more freely. If we have a learning opportunity where learners build a 3d printer from scratch they are going through the entire process of putting together. Only ten are filled. Why not throw out the additional five Community Partners and bring them in, Multigenerational Community members running sidebyside so providing content, why not open the facility for shared resources, whether it is the cnc machines or laser engravers, whatever it may be, why not put structures in place where local Community Members, and those are 3 pieces of the downtown campus. The new campus we opened up which we have gone beyond the date of manufacture for learning to customizing learning and Community Revitalization leveraging Community Members for internships, mentoring and bringing those Community Members to connect. Corneal Regional Charter School and a quick snapshot. [applause] my name is nicole, the cofounder and ceo of thrive Pub
But helping us find ways to measure them. I applaud all the innovation around this table and i just hope we can all help to bring some of these innovators that are in our Public Education system back into education as the new leaders of the next century. Thank you very much for that, michael, and thanks for the conversation. We will take a short break now and will start again at 10 45. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all right. Were going to get started to get and keep us on track. So we are moving into the next and final topic of customizing learning, and again we with the presenters we are excited to hear from. First of will be the ceo of Summit Learning, diane tavenner. And then the executive directod principal of cornville regional Charter Schools travis works and finally ceo of thrive Charter Schools, nicole assisi. Good morning. Its good to be here. I have the good honor of leading summit Public Schools, and we have what i i discovered this summer i
Later, 43 people were dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson said send in 5000 troops and Property Damage was estimated at more than 30 million. Affected areas still bear the scars today. Are lingering questions about how far depart detroit has come in addressing the issues that led to the writing. Rioting. We are joined by professor heather nan heather and thompson and we will be live for the next two hours taking her calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that we hear this event that took place described as a riot, would you describe describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and suggests everyone showed up and destroyed the city for no reason and it suggests how we should understand how what happened and the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger act and activism that went into that moment had long been predict
And one more comment id like to make is that my son, who is a white male, was pulled over tonights ago by the police because he had a low beam out. So i think things have really changed in the past 50 years. My main question is how can you say you cant make it today based on something that happened to your family 150 years ago . Id like to hear an answer to that. So i mean for starters, this idea of 150 years ago, its true slavery ended 150 years ago. But the discrimination thats baked into our system continues even today. I tell the story all the time about my father, not somebody i read about in a book somewhere, not some ancient relative. My father was born in 1933 in mississippi. Goes off to fight in the korean war. Comes home to a mississippi where he cant sit at a lunch counter, where he is not allowed to vote, where he does not get to participate in the gi bills that are offered to people coming back from war to go to college where he cant get the home loans that are offered as