Relations under the Trump Administration, and economic prospects for the future. Panelists also speculate whether President Trump will change the Obama Administration cuban normalization policies. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you all for being here. A special thanks to our audience in the cspan world for joining us. This event is being recorded by cspan. Thank you for being here and for the audience for joining us. My name is frank moore. I am the director of the kimberly green Caribbean Center here at Florida University. Our friends at cspan, we are here located at the biscayne bay campus of Florida University here in miami. We have another campus where the center is located in west dade. The center that i direct is one of the institutes and programs or centers at the Steven J Green school of International Affairs and university. We are absolutely delighted to be hosting or cohosting this event. I want to thank the dean of the Chaplain School of hospitality and tourism management, m
This will move offshore and the skies will start to clear. There is the area of low pressure spinning around. We will get rid of that later tonight. Skies will clear. Wait until you hear about the warmup we have coming. The forecast tonight. Showers and thunderstorming ending after 7 00 or 8 00. Clearing skies overhead and we look ahead the memorial day weekend ahead. Back to you. Jonathan raw emotion from baltimore today as Police Officer edward nero was found not guilty, acquitted of the charges against him in the death of freddie gray. Michelle the man you saw in the video wasnt even him leaving court. We believe it was his brother. The officers departed a short time later. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in baltimore. We still have five more trials ahead. Brad that is right. That is some of the comfort people that have been protesting are drawing today. They are saying we still have the trials ahead. You saw some of the raw emotion. Tonight all i the truth is people are not
Have jim fong and we have edgar right here and then i think that is all that is here tonight. So the board wants to thank you for your work. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, as i was saying we have had a number of Program Managers that are part of managing the funds here, and we are really appreciative of all of the work that they have done to present the material to us and we have at times in the past presentations from them and we had written reports from them this year and the first area that i want to talk about is professional development and this is an area that we as an Oversight Committee are trying to understand better and where the funds fit into the Bigger Picture for the professional support, and as you know there were budget cuts a few years ago where the state funding for professional development was it was flexed and so there more funding that paid for the three days of professional development and so essentially qta took over those three days and this year, back for
They were 16 teachers from the high needs schools. This is the same . Assume so, yes. We actually just had a discussion with stephanie who heads the Master Teacher program and the first was concentrated in some of the zone schools as we have expanded we have added other critical need areas and there is an interest to go city wide and taken into consideration some of those same, critical need areas and as we go to the full implementation it is to encourage some of the master practitioners across the district. Okay. And the next area was the Study Network which was very, we were really drawn to this because, teachers are able to work in real time, and so they are forming goals, collaboratively, Planning Research lesson and conducting lesson and gathering evidence and using the evidence to improve the instructions and so it is live and collaborative but that is still happening in the same level this year, and we have 60 teachers participating, and this year, they were able to host a visit
Study network which was very, we were really drawn to this because, teachers are able to work in real time, and so they are forming goals, collaboratively, Planning Research lesson and conducting lesson and gathering evidence and using the evidence to improve the instructions and so it is live and collaborative but that is still happening in the same level this year, and we have 60 teachers participating, and this year, they were able to host a visit from Cuba University in japan, which is exciting across a Cultural Exchange with a couple of our elementary schools. And next year, there is going to be more focus on Capacity Building and teacher leader competencies. And they will be, you know, about the same amount of school sites, and about the same amount of teachers. But, what we have seen, what we have heard from miss irine is that there is a lot of flexibility and fluidty for the teachers who are participating and a lot of building capacity, and working together. The third thing tha