News on Youtube May 22 2018

Do you have room for one more? Good morning are you ready to go to school?

Thanks so much well thanks for picking me up. We're on our way to school today

right? Everybody's super excited for school, it's so fun. Superintendent

McCord thanks so much for having me on the school bus today. We appreciate you

being with us this morning. I'm glad to be here. There are so many amazing things

about Gilbert but our schools are the number one reason that people still

choose Gilbert and it's because of the great work tell us about some of the

accolades that you guys have. You know what, we were recently named the fourth

best school district in the nation and I believe that we're really number one but

we'll take fourth and because we have the very best support staff, we have the

very best teachers, we have the very best parents, but most of all we have the very

best students they're right here.

Well that's great and it does not surprise me that we have the very best

students in the town because we have amazing families and businesses and

people that are contributing on such a regular basis. We love our teachers, we

love our administration, we love our support staff and the day doesn't get

started until we get the wheels on the bus moving.

that's exactly we have to move in order for us to get to school.

(singing) The wheels on the bus go round and round all through the town

(singing) The doors on the bus go open and shut

(singing) The driver on the bus says move on back move on back

Okay now that we're in the last quarter of the school year, how does that

feel for teachers how does it feel for the students what's the excitement

energy level at the school? Of course the students are excited because it's it's

almost the end of their year. The parents might be a little sad because school's gonna

be out and then they're gonna be home with them so it'll be a pleasure to exit

them into the summer but we can't wait to see them again next year. I always say

my absolute most favorite day of the whole year is the last day of school and

my second most favorite is the first day of school so I totally get that. I can

feel the energy in the excitement but on that last day school you guys have to be

excited there's got to be a lot of energy and it's that moment of when you

get to really scream school's out for summer!

(singing) School's out for summer

Our teachers do a great job no doubt about it

but there are so many other people at all levels of education that contribute

and I think we have one in the bus right now probably the most important

person in the bus right now Carol. Carol, thank you for being here we couldn't do

this without you that is a literal statement. I love what

I do I love driving the bus I love being with the students and they make me cry

because they are all so special from the regular bus students all the way to our

special needs kids they all have given me so much over a 25-year career. You are

the first touch point for a kid and you're the one that starts their school

day. We are where the we're the faces that they see first and the last faces

they see when they go home. And you make a difference so thank you. Thanks for the

work that you're doing this doesn't happen without you. There's a lot

of amazing things for us to celebrate in the Town of Gilbert and it's really our

opportunity to shine right now this is our opportunity to shine.

(singing) Do you ever feel feel so paper thin like a house of cards one blow from caving in

(singing) and do you ever feel already buried deep six feet under screams but no one seems

(singing) to hear a thing Do you know that there's still a chance for you

(singing) You've just got to ignite the light and let it shine just own the night like the 4th of July

(singing) Cause baby you're a firework

Bye guys! Bye!

For more infomation >> Carpool Karaoke: Gilbert Mayor + Gilbert Public Schools - Duration: 6:27.

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Why Public Health? Bobby Brooke Herrera - Duration: 2:26.

I grew up in a small New Mexico border

town near the US/Mexico border, in a town called San Miguel.

I went to New Mexico State University,

where I studied biology and minored in chemistry

and religious studies.

I was interested in the relatively unexplored interface

between science and religion.

And so I decided to pursue a Master's of Theological Studies

at Harvard Divinity School.

After I graduated from Harvard Divinity School,

I decided that I would apply to the biological sciences

in public health PhD program at Harvard TH Chan

School of Public Health.

I decided to join the lab of Dr. Phyllis Kanki, who is an expert

virologist and has studied HIV in West Africa for the past 30 years.

We decided to adapt our tools for HIV

to respond to the Ebola and Zika outbreak

in West Africa and Latin America.

In Nigeria, West Africa, for example,

we collaborated with researchers from Jos University Teaching

Hospital and identified individuals

who were exposed to Ebola virus, but never

knew they were infected, or never became ill.

And so these individuals had asymptomatic Ebola virus infection.

The fact that we were able to identify individuals

who experienced asymptomatic infection,

that also have stronger cellular immune responses compared

to survivors, has potential important implications

for the development of vaccines.

If we can develop vaccines that elicit

cellular immune responses, like they

do during an asymptomatic infection,

those vaccines might be more potent and more effective

against the virus.

After I graduate, I plan to continue my work at a lab

at Harvard Medical School, where we

will be using different biological strategies

and approaches to develop more effective vaccines to viruses.

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[MY TRAN] Lack of confidence and Fears of Public speaking - Duration: 5:45.

What's up everyone? Welcome back to my channel

So today video I'm gonna explain for you guys that why you're so lack of confidence and you always always

afraid of doing a presentation

so I know a lot of people who are wondering like even in my case when I set a goal I

want to get something done. I really really want it but there is something inside me stopping me from doing it

There's a voice there's a bad experience

You can't do this this the emotional come from my body like fear, or they have a lot of hallucinations

Where does this come from and a lot of people they don't understand it and we don't know what's happening.

So this is right. Our life is made up of memories memories before we were born

they have been headed from your parents memories memories mean good and bad experiences so every

Experience is a memory

Like is a like a little movie

So let me take you an example if you have a presentation

But you shiver you sweat and you stumble on yourself what's going on?

you cannot speak in front of

thousand people where does this voice come from is maybe also once upon a time when you were a kid in school

You're students University and the teachers they asked you to do a presentation

And you prepared for yourself, but for some reasons you forgot and you told to yourself

You're a useless person that could be a significant emotional experience

There's bad imprint will stay with you for the rest of your life

When you set a goal and you say I want to get out there

and talk to thousand people

But that voice appears the voice come from your bad experience appears that holding you back

So, how can we deal with this? And how can we solve this problem? You need to observe yourself? You need to observe

self-sabotaging things. So what do you do?

So because it's not your present is not your future is your past?

We should not let your past affect us

All the voices, bad experience, hallucinations

When you recognize them through your own observation learn to overcome

How do we value all the good experiences and look at all the bad experience and do them good and do them great

Every experience come to us to teach us something to prepare us for the next big things

Why do we have these bad experiences? Why do we attract these bad experiences? It is because of our thoughts our

intentions you have to conquer them get rid of all the bad experiences learn how to overcome it

So let talk about learning English. Why are you so afraid of talking in front of other people?

Because you're always always afraid of making mistake you afraid afraid of judging by other people

You said that to yourself. Like you are not good enough and you're not confident enough you have to

clean up your mind you have to get rid of the bad things get rid of all the bad memories from your mind

just like

you have a lot of

affirmations from yourself like I was not born to learn English and I don't have abilities to learn English

or like I am lazy or you have you make a lot of excuses?

If you want to speak English confidently and fluently

You have to practice you have to practice it can make a lot of mistakes

But you don't use that mistakes like your weaknesses

you have to learn how to use your weaknesses as your strengths use all your weaknesses as a

momentum for you to move forward and

to make a progress

and make progress

If you use all your mistakes in learning English, and you apply it

in the present and you thought in your mind. You're not good enough and you

never ever learn English right you

use all your weaknesses use all your failures use all your mistakes in the past like a

Momentum I like a

motivation to you to move forward to try to

put a lot of effort to it and to try as much as you can to become the best version of yourself

Like when I learn English, I don't care what other people think about me what other people judge me

it's just one to bring me down and then not help me anything why I have to follow their

thinking. Oh, that's it for this video. I hope you guys can learn something from my video and if you like it

If you love it, you can like it share it

If you love it, you can like it share it and subcribe to my my channel

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Top Tips on Public Speaking | Gem Turner [CC] - Duration: 5:34.

when I was in high school I had this quite traumatic experience I was doing a

speech I was head girl it was traumatic I got on stage got my notes had my

microphone but my notes were folded I couldn't open them and I panicked and I

literally dropped the mic it was awful it basically started a massive phobia

of public speaking which is actually really hard to have when in life you know

you might be asked to do certain things to present things not telly or anything but

like you know local things and so today I thought I'll talk about how I

eventually got over that experience and some top tips of what to do when you're

asked to do public speaking or any kind of event that involves talking to more

than one person because it is scary it's a good skill to have when you can't

speak to a large number of people and we've all got to do it at some point

in our lives which is really annoying. Have you had to do it Charbs? yeah yeah it's one of those things

Here we are top I don't know how many there are

there's probably about five or six but we'll roll with it number one don't tell yourself

you don't wanna do it like most of the public speaking that you're asked to

do it's probably for school probably something that you've got to do so get that

negativity out you doing it so just accept that you've got to do it and take

those negative vibes and look at it as a challenge rather than something that's

like you're absolutely dreading I know it's easier said than done but once

you've sort of accepted that you're gonna do it so you might as well do it to the

best of your ability number two is basically practice so much that you

know what's coming so rather than like thinking oh I'll just do it I'll improv

when you're that nervous that you literally shaking your brain

doesn't work to its fullest capacity so practice it so much that it just becomes

natural you know what's coming up but don't practice it to the point where you

read it word for word but this it's not going to come out natural don't try and

get like good balance so you know what's coming you know what's what you're gonna

be saying but you're not doing it word for word so it just looks fake

the third thing, now this blew my mind but when you start to

think about this it's true you are the same person before the speech during

the speech and after the speech so just try and imagine that you're having a one-way

conversation you probably just had a conversation before that speech so it is

true when someone says focus on one person then it's a lot easier that's

what I do because I'm just literally we just have what was I just saying oh it's

conversation conversation something basically what all saying was you know

we all have a chat with people you're just having a chat but with more than one person

I know it's easier said than done but all of these tips together really

helped me and now I can do it without like dropping the mic so the 4th point is

when you're planning the speech don't put in any words if you can help it that

will make you stumble so make sure that everything that you write down is

what you would naturally say I know that sometimes obviously you're studying and you've

got you certain words you've got to use if you have got some of those words just

make sure you've got them down I know easier said than done but practice practice

practice so when it comes to it you might even laugh because you you've done

it that final so basically everybody absolutely dreads doing public speaking

even if you're the the best public speaker in the world it's still

something that's a bit like Oh god how is this gonna go because there's so

many variables what can happen that's uncontrollable that's the scary

thing so just enjoy it everybody is admiring you

well they're either admiring you or they're just not even listening anyway

do what you're able to do and honestly once you've done it it will

feel like you're absolutely buzzing now every time I public speak I get like a

buzz because I've gone from that to actually being able to public speak but

it is a really good thing to have for the future in any kind of job really any

situation school uni work life you know it's all part of a life package so

get practicing let me know what you've done recently whether it went well or not

whether you've got any goals I think my goal was to basically try and speak now

without looking at my notes as much that's my next goal just do it as me

I'll let you know how that goes right

thank you very much for watching hope you enjoyed it as always get in touch with me

tweet me, Facebook me let me know if you enjoyed it and let me know if you didn't enjoy it as well

because I won't do it again! thank you for watching bye!

For more infomation >> Top Tips on Public Speaking | Gem Turner [CC] - Duration: 5:34.

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MPT Public Square: Democratic Gubernatorial Contenders Face Off - Duration: 57:06.

For more infomation >> MPT Public Square: Democratic Gubernatorial Contenders Face Off - Duration: 57:06.

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DIGITAL PHOTOS: Sisters Baby Chubby Tubby Me PUBLIC CHILDHOOD pictures - Duration: 9:23.

okay I'm going through I hope that came through hi guys I'm going through my

baby pictures of me when I was when I was a little kid so I was born in 1963

February 7th 1963 and I'm estimating that I'm anywhere from four to six

months old here I'm just guessing nope there's no date back here I don't

know what that says oh there's boats I don't know if there's

a there's something portraits or there's a bunch of flags up there but I just

wanted to look at me I was so cute baby okay so and then the next one this one

does have a date and there's that that haircut that haircut my mom called it a

pixie cut okay so November 1964 and there's a

little swish on the back there's numbers a seven we're looking at the back side

of the photo let's go back to the front but okay there we've got the hair oh so

cute and then the little dress the little

dresses are fun actually this dress would actually be very fitting for today

even you almost look like a little doll like a little toy doll and then the

shoes a lot of younger folks may not remember these but these were those like

white shoes that's all they had they were oh they were I don't know how they

were like solid plastic sort of the little baby shoes yeah we didn't have

many choices for shoes even when my kids were born they were just starting to

come out with and this was in the early 80s or just starting to come out with

some different types of options for shoes and things but oh that dress that

dress is so cute and then this is me and my sister we're a little bit older there

is a date on the back yay I love this picture this is so cute this is so cute

so my sister has her hands crossed and I've got a pow of this bump kind of

fist bump girl when we got we still got our little hair

is going on there let's look at the date and so Teresa gene will age om for and

Tamra dawn will almost three years may 1967 oh okay do you see that and then

here is my senior graduation picture but I got more I actually got more here I'm

going to show you guys more than this okay so this is all the proofs this is

the proofs of my picture that's me 1981 well this was probably taken in in 1980

I would think before before well the year before I graduated so 1980 I would

say and so yeah and so this one the interesting part about this one look

about how different my hair is but it was just kind of I was like so

particular to about trying to get my hair to look exact I mean I spent so

much time wasting my time back then doing all this nonsense with my hair and

yeah it's it was just one of those things it's like oh my gosh you know

getting up an hour early to do to put use a curling iron and and

it's like yeah oh this was a curling iron it was a poofed up there was like a

hairstyle poofed up and I just really always liked part in my hair down the

middle but I gotta share this with you about this particular picture that was

so funny I loved the trees and I loved being outside but the photographer now

so I met him outside and for the outside pictures and I'm and I asked him I said

well he was my teacher though too and so he had like a another business so he was

like my photography teacher when I was in high school and so I asked him I said

I said um doesn't the Sun have to be out and he

was like no he says actually days without

son the colors pop more and so so I learned that from him I think that he

was my photography teacher in high school I could be wrong but because it's

you know but I I think that he was my photography teacher and he had he had

the business taking senior pictures too and so yeah but I just wanted to show

you guys this this was a lot of fun oh look look how oh how small I was and you

know the funny part about this I used to think when when I was this age I used to

think I was so fat I mean I did I thought it was so fat and I bet I

probably thought that the same thing you know thought like my youngest son he

actually would tell me I had a big butt and I'd let him do it because I thought

it was funny and I thought and the thing that I processed in my brain is like I

think it's funny and I think it's cute and and I was I wasn't taking it

personally because I thought him as a little person like this he probably

views older adults as having a big butt so that was his little literal mind

thinking that and I just let him say it because I just did you know and I can

see now how in dialogue so if I'm I always tell my son Caleb stop saying

that that person has a big butt the mole the more than I tell him to stop the

more he's gonna do it and or he's just gonna hide it so that that's basically

teaching self-censorship so yeah this was my grandma grandpa's picture this

was a picture they had and so they have they had a little glass here and then

there was they put some gold leafing around my picture this is the actual

well some of them came with paper kind of similar to this but yeah but I had to

share that about the self-censorship thing I don't you know because I was

just thinking of like me and my self-esteem at this age and I'm thinking

I'm ugly and I'm thinking I look so terrible and I'm thinking I'm so fat so

yeah but that's just how oh I love that shirt

too but that's just how we were raised you know to be superficial basically is

you know what it is were raised to be superficial and I and you know yeah

okay so that that's all I have to say I mean I'm being honest here and that's

just my opinion and I can't think for other people and

in order for me to talk I have to be able to talk freely and if people don't

agree with me even if that's family that's fine because otherwise then I'm

still soft censoring myself by not speaking by not sharing my true feelings

and even back then you know for me it was a little bit painful I think this

day even I was told that my hair didn't look quite right for the picture but I

had an appointment so I had to go you know so so I spent like hours trying to

get my hair to look perfect and that was kind of like even gosh even on the

wedding day too you know it's like well if I didn't have it looking quite just

perfect that you know then there was something wrong with me you know oh your

hair looks awful your hair looks awful your hair looks awful it looks awful

that what's that's just the whole my whole childhood childhood your hair

looks awful your hair looks awful so anyway yeah I had just had to that's

that's what I heard that's what I heard my whole childhood your hair looks awful

and so but this gives a little bit of context so but I was a cute little kid

cute little kid acute teenager who had really terrible self-esteem grew up in

terrible self-esteem that which you know I I blame the indoctrination the

indoctrination that filtered into church and school and you know so then it then

it kind of you know word of mouth or you know the way think things are done then

it filters out into society and that was previous to the Internet

but you know but we still have sort of a well the matrix of life is basically

what it is when all this stuff is put out into society

for these reasons right so yeah but that's it I've gone my gosh I've rambled

a lot about my pictures here I've got a lot more to share with you guys though

to look a little baby yep okay see you guys soon

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How to Get Around VANCOUVER by Public Transit (2018 UPDATED Incl. Tap to Pay) - Duration: 3:32.

so you've just arrived in Vancouver and you need to figure out how to get around

the city by public transit determine whether you will be using transit a lot

or only occasionally if you're only using it a few times you can just buy

single paper fares as you go by cash or credit card or just tap the card readers

with your credit card or mobile wallet and it will charge you automatically if

you're going to be using transit more often you might want to get a reloadable

compass card blue cards are for adults Orange concession cards are for those

from ages 5 to 13 or those over 65 you can get these cards at any skytrain sea

bus or West Coast Express station as well as some London drugstores load the

cards of the machines using cash debit or credit card you can also load them

online using Visa or MasterCard you can load them with however much you'd like

and be charged fares automatically as you go single fares are cheaper when you

use the compass card versus buying a paper fare you can also load the card

with the day pass which allows unlimited travel for the day across all zones or a

Monthly Pass which allows unlimited travel for that month based on how many

zones you need note that if you ever travel across more zones than what your

Monthly Pass includes you will be charged an AddFare on the additional

zone so if you already have some stored value on your card it will cover the

cost a single fare or ticket is valid for 90 minutes of unlimited travel or

transfers starting the moment you tap in when you travel by bus it is all one

zone with all other modes of travel note how many zones you're traveling

across after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends and holidays

everywhere becomes one zone so now that you have your card or ticket

how do you use it on buses just tap in with your card or ticket no need to tap

out since it's all one zone note that if you pay by cash on the bus

you will get a bus transfer which you can use to transfer to any other bus

within the 90-minute period but if you transfer to skytrain or Seabus you need

to upgrade to a compass ticket or a card to tap in on sky trains and the Seabus

you must tap in and out at the gates for it to calculate the zones you've

traveled the readers will turn green with a check mark and beep so you know

that it has gone through apart from the regular buses there are also B-Line

buses which are Express bus lines they don't make as many stops as the regular

buses that may be running between the same two points next we have the sky

trains we have three main lines the Expo Line Millennium Line and Canada Line

when traveling away from downtown on the Expo Line pay attention to the

destination of the train if you are traveling beyond Columbia station where

the trains will split off in different directions the same applies if you are

traveling away from downtown on the Canada line beyond Bridgeport station

where the trains also split off in different directions then we have the Seabus

this travels between Vancouver and North Vancouver departing every 15

minutes it leaves from Waterfront station and arrives at Lonsdale Quay

which connects you to buses on the North Shore lastly we have the West Coast

Express this train travels between Waterfront station and Mission City most

tourists will not need to use this you're almost all set a few more things to know

the new tap to pay function allows you to tap in and out gates with your credit

card or mobile wallet so make sure you tap the card you want charged and not

just a wallet with multiple cards in it if you would like to return your compass

card for a refund at the end of your trip you can either go to the office at

Stadium-- Chinatown station or the West Coast Express office at Waterfront

station don't forget you can use Google Maps to figure out which routes to take

have fun in Vancouver!

For more infomation >> How to Get Around VANCOUVER by Public Transit (2018 UPDATED Incl. Tap to Pay) - Duration: 3:32.

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#BostonUncovered: Abandoned subway tunnel under City Hall - Duration: 1:47.

So we are inside the 1898 tunnel that used to go between Scollay Square and

Adams Square station that was decommissioned in the 1960s

and has since been abandoned.

So in the 19th century of Boston, we're essentially

rebuilding Back Bay, we're building Downtown Boston from scratch after

the great fire the 1870s, horses and buggies are traveling down the streets, and the

City had the brilliant idea of putting an underground train through the streets

of Boston. So in 1897 they built the first subway in America between Boylston

and Park Street that was kind of the proof of concept, and then from there, the

following year, they extended the line out to Haymarket and beyond, and we're

kind of part of that second phase of construction in the 19th century.

Everything you see is pretty much as it was when this was closed down, to the

vaulting of the ceiling, the archways in the ceilings, the support structures

behind me – that was all here in 1898 when the first trolley cars came down this

space. Since then, there's been a couple of utility lines put into this space, and

at the far corner we have one small wall that was built across the space , you can

just see it on the right side of the wall is one of the corners of Government

Center T station, but other than that the space is pretty authentic, it's also very

raw, there has been very little improvements done to it for the past 60

years, so it's got its original peeling paint, its original rust, its original

dirt, and you can just make out the original tracks, the rails, and the

cross beams. When this was functioning the trains would have been coming at us

in two parallel rows, one coming from Boylston station one coming from Scollay

Square, but it was a one-way tunnel back then. More or less it's been left alone

for 60 years, but it's concrete and metal so it's held

up pretty well for this time.

For more infomation >> #BostonUncovered: Abandoned subway tunnel under City Hall - Duration: 1:47.

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Minneapolis Public Schools Launch Summer 'Strong Reads' - Duration: 0:31.

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Lamar Odom Seen Out In Public With Khloe Kardashian Look-alike - Duration: 2:01.

Lamar Odom Seen Out In Public With Khloe Kardashian Look-alike

Lamar Odoms former marriage to Khloe Kardashian came to a crashing halt after video evidence revealed his infidelity and drug habit during a trip to a Nevada brothel. Since then, the former pro-athletes romantic involvements have been sparse.

However, Odom was recently spotted out with a women who eerily resembles his famous ex-wife.

Stepping out in Los Angeles on Friday, the 38 year-old was photographed with a buxom blonde. This unidentified womans bleach-blonde tresses and curvaceous figure echoes that of Kardashian.

The duo were seen grabbing lunch together before hopping into Odoms whip and driving off together. Odom could be seen wearing a t-shirt with the Rich Soil Organics logo emblazoned on the front.

This new business venture personally resonates with the pro-ballers newly-acquired affinity for marijuana, which helps him cope with his anxiety following his much-publicized drug overdose and his subsequent hospitalization.

For more infomation >> Lamar Odom Seen Out In Public With Khloe Kardashian Look-alike - Duration: 2:01.

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Heated night in North Augusta as neighbors talk of new public safety building - Duration: 2:13.

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Upham signs contract for Billings Public Schools - Duration: 0:56.

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Hillary's Scarf Accidentally Slips Off In Public - Duration: 10:55.

Sean

Hannity

Trashes Shep Smith on Live TV "I've Had Enough"

A source is saying that Fox News host Sean Hannity blasted his colleague Shep Smith while

hanging out with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last weekend.

"Hannity was denouncing Shep and Trump was eating it up," a source told Vanity Fair.

Mediaite reported that another source said that Hannity was "overheard trashing"

Smith to the president.

Though Hannity claims that this allegation is "a total lie," it would not be the

first time he has publicly butted heads with Smith.

Last month, Smith took several shots at Hannity and his fellow evening Fox News hosts in a

brutal interview.

"I get it, that some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining," Smith

said.

"I get that.

I don't work there.

I wouldn't work there.

I don't want to sit around and yell at each other and talk about your philosophy and my

philosophy.

That sounds horrible to me.

You don't talk about your money, you don't talk about your politics, and you don't

talk about your sex.

Right now, everyone wants to talk about those things, and I'm not one of them.

Not going to do it."

Hannity fired back by saying, "While Shep is a friend with political views I do not

share, and great at breaking news, he is clueless about what we do every day."

SHARE this story if you stand with Sean Hannity against Shep Smith!

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Transforming Computer Science Education in Public Schools - Duration: 4:30.

DIANE LEVITT: When I was in middle school,

I played the viola.

I played the viola very badly.

And they didn't take the viola away from me,

because I wasn't going to Julliard.

They wanted me to learn viola because they

knew I would leave them and enter a world full of music

and that I would understand music differently,

because I had made it.

That's exactly the reason why we want

students to navigate technology with that same fluency

and purpose.

The city of New York, 1.1 million children

in the public schools, the opportunity to help

empower schools to lift children out of poverty,

to prepare students for full citizenship

in the digital age, that is a very, very powerful lure

for a person like me.

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Cornell Tech is a graduate school.

And yet we play an essential role in the tech ecosystem

in New York City.

The mission of Cornell Tech's K-12 work

is to catalyze computer science education in New York City's

elementary, middle, and high schools.

We have adopted PS/IS 217 on Roosevelt Island.

Principal Beckman said, you know,

what we really need is a specialist who

comes in once a week, somebody who can talk to teachers

and help drive better classroom experiences.

MEG RAY: What's unique about the Teacher-in-Residence program

is that we're not just parachuting in a curriculum.

We're not just training teachers for a week

and then letting them go.

We're looking at what is sustainable in schools?

What will be there in a year from now, five years from now,

10 years from now?

It's about equipping that school to incorporate computer

science into its culture.

We are working with teachers directly.

Our biggest emphasis is coaching in the classroom.

DIANE LEVITT: We don't think there's

any substitute for the kind of relationship

you build between a teacher and a coach.

MEG RAY: Teachers need to learn a lot of new material.

And it's been just wonderful to see

the commitment of the teachers that I've worked with.

Kids are very capable of creating

complex projects, programming.

When I'm in classrooms, what really excites

me is when I see students who really

wanted to give up in the beginning,

but have learned that they can problem solve.

They can get to the end.

They can create something.

And they feel empowered by it.

It's really exciting to see them doing this rigorous work.

SPEAKER 1: You're sort of learning

what the computer is, like, capable of, what

it's not capable of.

SPEAKER 2: There are lots of different types of computers.

SPEAKER 3: There's more to technology than I thought.

SPEAKER 1: The computer, it doesn't have a mind of its own.

You have to create the mind for it.

SPEAKER 4: What does debugging mean?

SPEAKER 2: Fixing the problem.

SPEAKER 1: Something that I really

like is challenges, because they really push my mind.

DIANE LEVITT: As soon as we decided

that having someone in a long-term relationship

with the school was going to be the factor that

made a difference there, we started to see real change.

I'm very proud that PS/IS 217 went from zero computer

science four years ago to computer science

in every classroom every week in the K-5 and several times

a year in the middle school.

We're certainly the only university

in the country putting these kind of resources

into the K-12 space in computer science.

Our goal here is to figure out, is this something

that can be broadly applied throughout the country?

I want students to be able to build something digital that

has meaning to them so that every time they

interact in the digital world, they have that same sense.

I was there.

I made this.

I know how they did that.

That's what I really hope for kids.

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