services. so it is knocking down the barriers so that the parents and the community can be a part of the school. what is next for jon rolle? what are your goals? one of the thing that i ve been thinking about is really wanting to make a larger systemic change. wanting to go back to school and learning about what it takes to lead a large enterprise and be a superintendent or do something that is of that great magnitude that day. teacher of the year. you have your masters. you are working hard as an assistant principal and on your way to one success after another. thank you for having me. topping the headlines as we continue to wait and watch for the president s speech here in d.c., topping the political headlines, rick pery s plan hitting his rivals harder as some worry that a widely planned debate performance and deflating straw poll loss have hurt the
special guest, innovative teachers are doing amazing things. one of the best teachers in fact the best teacher in washington, d.c., jon rolle is here with me now. great to see you. you are now in a different charter school but you won the award for teaching third grade boys an all boys class. 27 eight-year-old boys in southeast washington, d.c. it was a great experience to do something that was innovative and special. were you part of a decision to have an all-boys class. there are different reports on whether having same-sex classes helps learning or doesn t. that was prompted the idea to have the all boys classroom. i looked at masculine city and issues of aggression and how they played out and one of the things that was just jarring was the fact that in southeast washington, d.c. young males in
heart we can t wait another four years to 2016. we need you. your country needs you to run for president. anybody who has an ego large enough to say oh, please, please, please stop asking me to be leader of the free world, it s such a burden. [ laughter ] if you could please just stop. my answer to you is just this. i thank you for what you re saying and i take it in and am listening to every word of it and feeling it too. he certainly is taking in every word of it. mark many youy joins us from the newsroom. what a performance. and i know that he is playing the game and saying that he s ruled it out before but he did not slam the door. how are you reading it? exactly. last night s venue gave him an opportunity to end all speculation about a presidential bid but he didn t do that. he did leave the door open. of course he said many, many times before that he is not going to run for president. even once saying that he would commit suicide before running for president. but
my answer to you is just this. i thank you for what you re saying and i take it in and am listening to every word of it and feeling it too. he certainly is taking in every word of it. mark many youy joins us from the newsroom. what a performance. and i know that he is playing the game and saying that he s ruled it out before but he did not slam the door. how are you reading it? exactly. last night svenue gave him an opportunity to end all speculation about a presidential bid but he didn t do that. he did leave the door open. of course he said many, many times before that he is not going to run for president. even once saying that he would commit suicide before running for president. but last night he avoided doing so, let the audience and people in the news media to interpret his remarks in many different ways. i will say an associate to christie told nbc news that what he said to that questioner at the very end does amount to some type of reconsideration and he will take