And of the year that there had to occur did less. The value to our daily lives said with education comes with standard and standardized testing. Of you may hear repaid more accountability and validation but the way you spend time with students and teachers it is very different. For example, in chapter one i talked about maria from el salvador when she entered mission high she barely spoke english she really struggled with multiple choice questions and she had a big Research Paper while at the same time celebrating college. When i asked her what contributed to her success she talks about how their greatest teachers didnt look get the test scores and the grades basalt the she was a the strength and intellect and gave her a challenging assignment. With chapter two highprofile a child named george. But how to levin contributed to his success but he said the greatest thing about his education in general is what allowed him to extract from numbers and words. So talking about math with his previous classs it and try not you learn the answers quickly to become really good at but mission high he was pushed to understand what is behind the equation and water represents in the real world. Once he understood that he said i could really visualize or feel that because he was so excited because he never heard anyone talk about math. Talking to hundreds of students if you talk about the teachers and how they engaged the intellect to give them and when you talk to teachers that means did you talk about health . And individual needs of their students. So instead of looking over multiple choice questions. Theyre looking at marias work to ask how can you change that while struggling with grammar. So how do we disrupt the pattern is in our school . What if there is an anniversary with us classroom and to across the country but at the same time with those mechanisms and thats is what i wanted to highlight. And mission high is a local story. It is also the universal stories and talk to those from across the country that exact same thing and we hear a similar struggle all over the country so in chicago and seattle and new york. Thank you for coming. I do want to say one thing. Focusing in a way on that measure. [applause] we just dont know how low that i am at balancing but we will figure that out. The great joy reading the book is the amount of time christina spent at mission high and with the students. And how to take the larger issues out of that. Would want to start with today and asking is with that policy in the country that is exceedingly more federal and a nationwide than it used to be. Why you think educators and students are so much left out of that discussion . Because of that cultural aspect to have greater teaching loads if they work 15 hours a year and then when it comes to the time they are paid away from the classroom they are paid true collaboration to participate with the mental or korea or singapore but right there to get in the way of teachers having enough time to have conversations. And then i go back to Eastern Europe at all the time their respective lot more here and it is fascinating for me never involves training teachers in then they are treated like academics. To go to the art of teaching you refer to that of the art of teaching. And anything that is beautiful and complex. To witness that . With other teachers at mission high and what theyre doing . When you walked into the classroom you dont see it and you cant depreciated. And what they do before the class and after the class but reporting two years into it and then to start teaching in a complex threedimensional aspect that has all these pieces that go into wicked in the all interact with each other in ones they saw these pieces work with each other she got it. She knew she was doing. It took me years to know those plants a great lesson plan is a work of art. Teachers work so hard on content to go beyond the of classbook but the al rhythm of the class for you pieced together activities then there is work groups and discussion to think about how you keep it together so that you dont do anything to slow or too fast then to top do you look at it to see that individual . To talk about that equitable relationship and they do no more than students than that is 5 to give you a taste out incredibly cool and complex. We hear about behavior shares we have seen videos of catherine classroom size and teachers losing their torpor. But why that behavior gets a lot of control. The with classroom management but then to blame the kids. But don that part of teaching wire in day engaged . Or maybe they did not start sure the of class properly to give explicit instructions. Helping mr. Did go from point a to point to be. There are so many things that they talk about that has to do with content and academics and encourage teachers say over and over again that you will get them with the contents are with the behavioral issues we will figure it out. So they spend most of their time looking at all of that. In 2004 the superintendent of schools for San Francisco said in the interview that schools are like a business. And this is contrary to that you make a point to say any school is a community. Id like to talk about the larger community. But before i entered i had never spent time in an American High School before. It is so intangible with the test scores but and tell you into her mission high it is such an incredible place. With high standards their professionalism but also because it is a home away from home. When things with eric garner happened in the citys the classs of immigrants students to an everyday there is Something Else going on. But also for leadership roles soon there community that this social safety net is not very strong. For health care and things like that. Mission high has a very diverse population and because of that the issues that are brought along with that with second language students or passport students coming in and, i would love to hear you say more about adversity diversity of mission and how you think that makes a cookie cutter approach to National Education a real problem . It is leading in the country an incredible thing for me i feel like ive traveled all over the world but i have learned so much about Different Countries tend cultures and it is incredible. When you spend time there that we can figure out and this is the recurring theme of education reform that is always looking for the utopia that we will put it in every school. But to create a specific Charter School and when you spend some time to serve the individual needs of the students and to understand what those needs are. We hear about the achievement gap and tell us the dangers and why. It is defined very nearly dealing with test scores and graduation rates. And to blame the students and teachers and the schools of what they call the opportunity gap to working investment and for example, that this is the wealthiest eight in the union and the results at Mission High School is 9,000 per student or is 14,000 brothers. In then day get paid 1,000 less. So to start off as a disadvantage and when students struggle we blame them. Reply in the schools and teachers rather than investment that was never made. And there is a poignant and ago to the book and maria who you spoke about earlier to be poorly to say how can i be so successful . I think a lot of us miss that particular connection to be based on the path for all the students doing poorly in the achievement gap is out. It is so narrow. Everything that mission high does to highlight the absurdity because if you look at the lowest performing schools in the country then space getting any other markers 75 percent are enrolled. Then lets get graduation if you just walk through this school it is very clear so is a major problem how we define the edgy franc gap. And these are moving in the direction to find success. So what is the answer . [laughter] not to put you on the spot. We have all of the policy priorities to with the teacher evaluation so what type of test should they be and the struggle that the teachers are having there we are not finding that policy. But i think if we reduced our interest or emphasis on external measurements and to push off the stage all of the education and to allow teachers to talk about it, i really believe we would begin to close the chief madcap. Another struggling fact in this book to see the money poured into the schools with testing procedures and bureaucracies and it may go into forms of computers and technology but rarely at the level that we feel is the most important of of life to here zero talk about was a teachers life is like we suspect they work too hard and dont get paid enough. This is from my book. [laughter] 46 percent of teachers today well leave the profession before the five years are over. That is a huge absence that they are just bailing. 62 have us second job just to pay the bills. Talk about what the teacher does monday through sunday. And you spend a lot so [inaudible] no child left behind was signed by bush whose brotherinlaw is a major stakeholder in a Testing Company. It is important to remember the Testing Company all of those Monitoring Companies are making a lot of money. With 97 million and presumably with those higher test scores but i was shocked and i cannot understand looking at mission high how they keep doing that over 27 years. So she told me when she was first starting her first two years 4 00 every morning to prepare for class and got to school by 630 and she had much bigger classs 32 sometimes 45 students then afterschool she greeted all the papers. She would collapse of the mattress to take a quick nap and prepare for the next day. Day in and day out. And over 20 years and she honestly told me she became the facilitator to help develop curriculum because she was so burned out. Because there is no wonder there are shortages and attrition. I forget to put the teacher was. And they give up the cell phone and one has a fight with his mom she kicked him out of the house and then drove them over to state with a friend and somebody times hanging out with teachers after classism and they come up to get help with tutoring or recommendations and also that what they need help with that recommendation they need help to find a homeless shelter or a job and what takes place so this burnout of course, is much greater for the low income students. Talk about bad notions in terms of several cisco. The perceived standards of the Public Schools have been day why did division of the population. And of course, we educate 50 percent of kids in San Francisco are though in tom. Are low in tom. I went to the school in the soviet union a country that the gdp was not our schools have painted floors and schaede furniture but if you walk into a school and this is the countrys priorities. And i love Mission High School. So what does that say about us as a country . The then day move out as they get the funding it gets worse and worse every year. So it is just a shame. We call that proposition 13. That is what we had good schools. What is your ideal School Look Like . Right there. [laughter] and he is coming back in the amazing thing is for me around the country slid to feel like every where. The place where people treat each other with respect with understanding and with the values and it isnt just about not just to a chance aerosols the the are here together to make the country better in to help each other. And that is what attracted me. We both agree with Public Education new york with the better citizen. And to make and how that is good for the democracy as a whole. But in high school with the democracies to be in their community. To engage in your community with the documented students and the notices so those are the values around citizenship that used to be the main idea behind Public Education but you wonder with the democracy why is he not functioning . Or white is the income gap so big . Wireman not paying attention and wiring not investing in our Public Schools . That was the key at some point. Before we go to question and answers, christina begins the book talking about how difficult it is to get into a school to say why is it so difficult . She said they didnt have any time. I thought that isnt good but mission high did make the time and you have someone you want to introduce . [applause] to be an educator 27 years thank you for your generosity thank you and welcome. So with those standards i dont know about how we could take the achieve a gap to actually integrate this same as white people so what about grades schools . I will jump ben but with the achievement gap that is just a buzzword what is that . I want to be clearer that sometimes theyre not necessarily to read about 15 graduates at the Alumni Reunion who came from Mission High School from the class of 2005 through 2015 graduates d. C. Riverside and another student now is a teacher in the district. So what do we mean by that . And the district is director pretty good job to figure out in day convoluted system. You know, what i am talking about but i do think eric issam attention to have the most integrated schools. But you want to take the deepest course is possible. By students of color to have access and in some ways to figure out the system to figure out how that should happen were not just serving one population but then all we like more like the city. Now there is a percentage of 30 nofly students sarah to figure out how to bring people together everybody is a state koller it is a critical piece. Absolutely their research is behind it that we close the achievement gap in this country the most. Key think of integration but it doesnt solve everything because we create the system of tracking which is segregation within a school it is not the solution itself but as far as research shows. Thank you so much and is part of the mission high and family thank you so much. Everybody needs to read the book we want to get as much publicity nationally as we can put so many schools across the district there are some Great Schools but Public Education is under attack as a conspiracy to undermine Public Education and how do we fight back . Have to be articulate why this is important and have to be convinced . Now is ground zero. Why should they let the Public Schools . For the people that have so much . There just needs to be so much marketing. Hata may get rid of those . Just doing what you just it is the most effective tool from everything i have seen. The number of white students are decreasing because parents of the oneonone conversations toots dispel a lot of the myths and journalists with joy in an and that is one of the reasons i wanted to go to Public School because when i started to report is that all the positive stories any story of success in 2010 were all coming out of Charter Schools and not that they are not true but there are a lot of amazing Charter Schools but Research Tells Us there are just as many amazing Public Schools as well but somehow we got to the point where all the failures come from Public Schools and all positive from Charter School so theyre revisiting old ideas like integration thank god somebody writes about this again. We were not even allowed to talk about it over 10 years. Was in support of the language in any bill of race to the top, no child left behind and integration was never mentioned or parts of this did the discussion but it is now really. It is the most effective tool what you are doing. I dont have any bigger solutions. But on a hopeful note these conversations like to day are happening so much more all over the country provide finished a story for mother jones and reported in different states and the opt out is the biggest it has ever been there opting of standardized testing but really the larger message is returned teachers teaching back to the teachers than they are being heard and making a huge impact. No child left behind with data that been for any other reason but grassroots pressure is working. It really is. It is what keeps me awake at night. I do think the conversation is shifting radically right now. Is actually it is 28 years. I have seen them swing back and forth i was in east l. A. In the late 80s rerun a big teachers strike i remember laying down in front of the cafeteria truck like the idiots that i was. [laughter] but that was a real attack on teachers dennis long back to a shared Decision Making a teacher voice that disappears. So now we are back again to a point to say maybe teachers do know best and the students voice is critical and they do know the local context. That doesnt mean it will shift radically there are forces that are fighting to do things our district is doing a good job with this conversation and mission does it as well because no question but i deeply believe in my heart that Public Education is the Main Foundation of our democracy. It simply is. [applause]. With that unique perspective from anybody who has visited here to always wonder what happens inside a highschool but with another prospective one that is up the block from Mission High School according to my calculation 700 million goes to the city budget then the Public School budget with 60,000 kids a roughly 12,000 per pupil. So when i write my letters to the legislators and the board of supervisors or anyone else in the process is the cultural changes that need to happen with Public Education program as a Property Owner and taxpayer to let them go right into the Public Schools what would you suggest we do differently . We do spend a lot but perhaps no