Chris bunin. He shows how Geographic Information systems can be used to trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. He coauthored the book jamestown to appomattox mapping u. S. History with gis. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from nelson county, virginia just outside of our Albemarle County this is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to this bitly, it is not a perfect alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it to line up perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. I said, lets see, i wonder if anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at
To trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from virginia outside of albemarle county. This is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to a perfect, it is not alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it pp perfectly and to line u perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. Ifaid, lets see, i wonder anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at how we can use gis and geographic inquiry to teach medical geography historically and can temporarily. We will then discuss how we can use gis to support your students a
Thank you. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and foreclosed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. You can present it to the executive assistant at my right, to your left. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time as set by the Vice President. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board deputy superintendent . Thank you, Vice President sanchez. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, commissioners. I am standing here for dr. Matthews tonight whose youngest son, anthony, is in a commencement ceremony, he is graduating at San Francisco State University, so we extend our congratulations to matthews family. [applause] with that, i will mention a few items. This past thursday, students in the John Oconnell high school help
Right thing. [applause. ] if you could all line up. I came here earlier. I thought it was an naacp meeting. This is the first time i have been in a School Board Meeting in more than 30 years. I took my daughter out of San Francisco Public Schools more than 30 years ago for the same problem that exists today. She is fine because i took her out. I am sure she wouldnt have been if i left her in it. I think that the problems are seriously systematic, and i was really surprised you took it upon yourself to come to a school where the africanamerican girls and we could not manage to have a conversation with the principal, we could not manage to get a meeting space for these young women to meet, they feel isolated. They didnt have africanamerican History Month at marina junior high school. This is just last year. If shamann hadnt intervened we wouldnt have the programs. I get to see what is going on. On a real micro level, last week we got a boy who is a senior with straight i asked to see his
Engaged. Dont be scared to say how we feel. Finally, we should you talk about transparency, mr. Superintendent, let us know what you are doing. How you are spending the money. Who are you recruiting to help with the problem . We do that we might be able to say that we have done a good j job. Never leave it until it is done. Do it well or not at all. It is time for us to stop half stepping and start high stepping so that when black children succeed all children succeed. When black children are excellent in getting awards not just for sports, singing, rapping. We can do more than that. We have got a brain and we have got to expose our children to achieving in the academic and scientific programs. More importantly, make sure they also know how to behave in school. Teacher need to know how to not be scared of black children. Love them and respect them and dont overlook them in the classroom. I was out to lincoln the other day. I must say this. I know where the problem is. Some think i am b