routines are starting to shape up, i believe. and your first big tests and projects are probably just around the corner. your circle of friends might be changing a little bit. issues that used to stay confined to hallways and locker rooms are finding their way onto facebook and twitter. some of your families might also be feeling the strain of the economy. this is one of the toughest economies in my lifetime. your lifetime hasn t been that long. so as a consequence you might have to pick up an after school job to help out your family. or maybe you re babysitting for a younger sibling because mom or dad is working an extra shift.
at everything right away. that s why you re in school. the idea is that you keep on expanding your horizons and your sense of possibility. now is the time for you to do that. those are the things that lick make school for fun, those will be the traits that help you as well. it will lead to devices that make an ipad look like a stone tablet or what will figure out a way to use the sun and the the wind to power a city and give us new energy sources that are less polluting. or maybe you ll write the next great american novel. now to do any of those things, you have to not only graduate from high school, and i m in the corner with principle burger here. not only do you have to graduate from high school, but you re going to have to continue education after you leave. you have to not only graduate, but you have to keep going after
third grade commute far below the girls in southeast d.c. and below their affluent peers and their literacy rates were things i wanted to address head on. this is an neighborhood which has issues of poverty and single parents and a lack of especially african-american male role models. there you are as a teacher a special role for you. the area of southeast that we work in is one of the more economically disadvantaged places in the city. our school was a title i school. the kids reduced the free reduced lunch. so it was an opportunity to go in as a male as a specific role model and supporting the great role models in my school and provide a layer of support for these men. you called the class a leadership academy and call the students scholars. you raise expectations.
it means that you have to stay at it. you have to be determined, and you have to persevere. it means you ve got to work as hard as you know how to work. and it means that you ve got to take some risks once in a while. you can t avoid the class that might be hard. you re worried about getting the best grade if that s a subject that you need to prepare you for your future. we have to wonder. we have to question. we have to explore. every once in a while you need to color outside the lines. that s what school is for. discovery new passions, acquiring new schools. making this the most incredible time you have to prepare yourself and give yourself the skills that you re going to need to pursue the kind of careers that you want.
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