News on Youtube Aug 31 2018

Hi everyone and welcome to our third

annual 2018 screencast. We haven't won an

Emmy yet, but we're thinking this may be

our year. My name is Kathe Taylor, and I'm

the Assistant Superintendent of Learning

and Teaching at OSPI. And I'm Andrew

Eyers, assistant superintendent at

Capital Region ESD 113, representing the

AESD network. Hey everybody.

For first year Fellows, this short

presentation will be new. For returning

Fellows, it will be an update and again a

reminder. But for everyone, the

information will let you know where the

road is going to take us this year. We

want you to leave today with three big

ideas: Community, Ownership, Responsibility.

If you read only the first three letters

of those words, you could say it's the

CORe of our work. In the next few minutes

we'll touch on each of these. Hey Kathe,

why is that picture there?

Well Andrew, it's because each person may

feel that their work impacts only a few

people, only one classroom, or perhaps a

single building. But in reality our

collective work has a ripple effect that

goes far beyond one person's sphere of

influence. Hear that sound?

That's the sound of rippling...rippling.

We're going to pause briefly to give you

a moment to read the slide silently to

yourself.

Like school districts and agencies, it's

important to review the mission and

vision annually. We hope you see your

work manifested through our vision of

increased student learning. Again that's

at the core that Kathe just talked about

of our work. We also want to welcome

special education, English learners, and

Career and Technical Education leaders

in our ranks. So here's a quick summary

of who is in the Fellows Network in 2018-

19. From its start, we have had English

language arts, math, science, and early

learning. We represent all areas of our

state, 220 districts and communities, and

we hold really strong numbers again this

year--over 1,100 Fellows. And I should

also mention that we now have Fellows

Emeritus, and they are out doing some

great work based on the work that

they've learned from the past three

years in each of their groups. Hey Andrew,

I know the English language arts folks

and the math folks are saying, "Wait, wait,

wait.

Science and early learning weren't there

from the start." Yeah. Yes. That's true

Kathe.

But, we have now joined with those four

other areas. Right, and we're excited to

welcome early learning back again this

year and science now in its fourth year.

So it's still playing on this, "Who are

the Fellows in 2018-19?" Here's a bar

chart that shows you the distribution

across the state. So let's take a few

minutes to orient ourselves to the

colors. In this case, red is ELA, yellow is

math, green is science, and blue is early

learning. As you look at the distribution,

what you can't see, perhaps as readily, is

that there are at least nine Fellows in

each of the content areas in each ESD.

Not surprisingly, the two content areas,

ELA and math, that have been part of the

Fellows the longest have the most

Fellows, but representation in science

and early learning isn't too shabby

either. And I have to acknowledge for at

least the second year in a row, Capital

Region ESD, formerly known as ESD 113, has

bragging rights for the highest total

number of Fellows. Although ESD 101 is

closing in fast. Andrew what ESD are you

from?

We get lots of questions about how the

network is structured, so we thought it

was important again this year to remind

you how the network works internally to

support your learning and the learning

of all of the cohorts around the state.

There are two things you should notice

about this chart. We'd first like you to

find your content area that's across the

very top boxes. And then as you look down,

you're going to see columns that explain

how the network functions. So I'll take

science, since I am the science champion.

We have science Fellows. Then there are

regional science coordinators. Each of

them leads a group of science Fellows.

And then there's a science Fellows lead

that is one of our regional science

coordinators. And then those people

all come together several times a year,

and they make up what's called the

Fellows advisory committee. We join with

OSPI and the AESD Network to provide

leadership to the full state network. So

just to summarize, we have regional

coordinators, one at each ESD. Each

content area has a Fellows lead. There

are four Fellows leads. And the Fellows

leads work with the leadership at OSPI

and the Association of Educational

Service Districts. We're all part of the

Fellows Advisory Committee. And Kathe and

I are actually part of that Fellows

Advisory Committee, as well. The bottom

line here is, if you're a Fellow and you

have a question, we want you to contact

your regional coordinator. They really

have all the answers.

So now we've talked a little bit about

how many Fellows there are, how they're

represented across the state, how the

system works for leading the Fellows

network,

now we want to talk a little bit about

why the Fellows network is important. The

network is focused on developing your

professional learning and instructional

leadership. The Fellows Advisory

Committee adopted a single leadership

development framework. It's called the

concerns-based adoption model or

affectionately known as C-BAM. And we

adopted that in all areas, so we would

have a common language. If we're going to

make a difference in improving student

learning and decreasing opportunity gaps,

we need to empower more educators like

you to lead change within your classroom,

school, organization, and community. It's

why we're making this investment. If we

can help you build your knowledge and

leadership skills, then you can help us

reach more teachers, more students, and

more community members.

So let's go back to the beginning of

this presentation and that drop of water.

We told you we wanted you to think about

three big ideas--community, ownership, and

responsibility--again core, and the core

of our work. Just as we said last year, we

want you to understand that you're part

of a regionally-based, statewide network

of educators. You are part of a state and

AESD initiative that has grown

considerably in just a few years. We want

to welcome or welcome you back to that

community, and we also really hope you

have a sense of ownership. The Washington

State Fellows Network is invested in

your professional learning. It's

important that you then take ownership

for that learning and make these years

count. And finally, we hope you leave with

a sense of responsibility to pay it

forward.

The Fellows network will help you expand

your instructional leadership skills so

that you can widen the circle of

learning by sharing it with others.

Please keep the learning going with your

colleagues back home. If you don't take

that learning back, we all lose. We don't

leverage the power of the network, and we

don't scale up to increase student

achievement. So we're counting on that,

and we're counting on you. Thanks for

your attention, and now we'll turn the

presentation over to the regional

coordinators. We know you're in good

hands.

Thank you.

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Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington - Duration: 11:24.

Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

I'm Barbara Klein.

And I'm Steve Ember.

Today on our program, we visit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.

to hear how American dollars are made.

In two thousand nine, the Bureau produced about twenty-six million bills a day.

Producing money requires both artistic and technological skills.

Dollar bills are made so that they are interesting to look at but very hard to copy.

In total, there are sixty-five separate steps required to make a dollar bill.Guided tours

of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are a popular activity for visitors to Washington,

D.C.

These trips are a good way to learn new and interesting facts about the history of money

and its complex production methods.

It is also exciting to stand in a room with millions of dollars flying through machines.

TOUR GUIDE: "All right, ladies and gentlemen, once again welcome to the Bureau of Engraving

and Printing.

And this is where the color of money begins.

The money making process begins when a yearly order sent by the Federal Reserve Board.

That order will then be divided in half.

Half will be done here in Washington, D.C. and the other half will be done in Fort Worth,

Texas."

Next, the Bureau orders special paper from the Crane Paper Company in the state of Massachusetts.

The paper is actually cloth since it is seventy-five percent cotton and twenty-five percent linen.

This paper is made so that it can last a long time.

And, it is made with details that make it hard to copy.

For example, bills contain security threads.

These narrow pieces of plastic are inside the paper and run along the width of the bill.

This special paper is also made with very small blue and red fibers.

Both of these designs make it very hard to copy.

The first step in production is called intaglio printing.

This is done on high-speed presses using printing plates onto which images have been cut.

Each plate receives a layer of ink, which gathers in the cut areas of the plate.

Then, each piece of paper goes into the press to receive the printing plate.

The machine forces about twenty tons of pressure onto the printing plate and paper.

One side of a dollar bill is colored with green ink, while the other is printed in black.

Each side must dry for about forty-eight hours.

The printing plate used in this process is created from hand-cut engravings called master-dies.

Highly skilled artists called engravers copy images on soft steel to make the dies.

There are separate dies for the different images on the bill, such as the picture of

the president, the lettering and other designs.

After each master-die is copied, they are put together to make a printing plate that

has thirty-two copies of the bill being printed.

A master-die can last for many years.

For example, the master-die with the picture of President Abraham Lincoln was made in the

eighteen sixties.

It was used again in two thousand eight to redesign the five-dollar bill.

Next, the large printed sheets are carefully examined to make sure there are no mistakes

on any of the bills.

This process used to be done by people.

Now, computers do the work.

TOUR GUIDE: "OCIS is an acronym for Off-line Currency Inspection System and this is where

the money from the last phase will be inspected.

Now that blue box will take a picture to size of the sheets of the money and compare its

cut, color and shape with the master image sent by the Federal Reserve Board.

It will take that picture and break it down into over one million pixels.

Every single last one has to be absolutely correct."

In this part of production, the thirty-two bill sheets are cut into sheets of sixteen.

In the next step, a series of identifying numbers and seals are added to the bills.

TOUR GUIDE: "And this is where the money from the last phase will be put to its final state.

If you look to the left of the room, ladies and gentlemen, there is a tall machine with

green ink at the top of it.

That is the machine that will print your serial numbers, Federal Reserve seal and Treasury

seal onto the money."

The serial numbers on the money tell the order that the bills were printed.

Other numbers and letters on the bill tell when the note was printed, what space on the

printing plate the bill occupied and which Reserve Bank will issue the bill.

Once the money is printed, guillotine cutters separate the sheets into two notes, then into

individual notes.

The notes are organized in "bricks," each of which contains forty one-hundred-note packages.

The bricks then go to one of twelve Federal Reserve Districts, which then give the money

to local banks.

Ninety-five percent of the bills printed each year are used to replace money that is in

circulation, or that has already been removed from circulation.

The Federal Reserve decides when to release this new money into use.You may know that

America's first president, George Washington, is pictured on the one-dollar bill.

But do you know whose face is on the two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred-dollar

bills?

They are, in order, President Thomas Jefferson, President Abraham Lincoln, Treasury Secretary

Alexander Hamilton, President Andrew Jackson, President Ulysses Grant and statesman Benjamin

Franklin.

During the tour, visitors can learn many facts about money.

For example, the average life span of a one-dollar bill is twenty-one months.

But a ten-dollar bill lasts only about eighteen months.

The one hundred-dollar note lasts the longest, eighty-nine months.

One popular question that visitors ask is about the two-dollar bill.

This bill is not made very often.

This is because many Americans believe two-dollar bills are lucky, so they keep them.

Two-dollar bills do not have to be manufactured often because they do not become damaged quickly

like other bills.

People can send their damaged or torn bills to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

The Bureau will replace damaged bills with new bills.

However, it is illegal to purposely damage United States currency in any way.

Anyone found guilty of damaging American money can be fined or jailed.The

Bureau of Engraving and Printing first began printing money in eighteen sixty-one.

It operated in a room of the Treasury building.

Two men and four women worked together there to place seals on money that was printed in

other places by private companies.

Today, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has over two thousand employees in its two

printing centers in Washington and Texas.

The Treasury Department continually works to change the design of bills to make it difficult

to copy.

One method it uses is called microprinting.

For example, what looks like a very thin line around the edge of a picture may actually

be the words "The United States of America" in very small letters.

Also, many bills now have color-shifting ink that looks like metallic paint.

In the last five years, the ten, twenty and fifty-dollar bills have been redesigned.

All the bills are mostly green.

But other colors are added when they are redesigned.

The most recent note to be redesigned is the one hundred-dollar bill.

This is the highest value bill currently made in the United States.

More than ten years of research and development went into its new security features.

They offer a simple way to make sure that a new one hundred-dollar note is real.

For example, there is a blue ribbon woven into the front of the note.

If you tilt the note back and forth while looking at the blue ribbon, you will see bells

on the note change to hundreds as they move.

When you tilt the note back and forth, the bells and the hundreds move from side to side.

If you tilt it from side to side, they move up and down.

There is also an image of a bell inside a copper-colored inkwell on the front of the

note.

Tilt the note to see the bell change from copper to green.

This makes the bell seem to appear and disappear within the inkwell.

There are several other security features in the redesigned one hundred-dollar bill.

Last month, the Federal Reserve Board announced a delay in releasing the new one-hundred dollar

notes.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing identified a problem with creasing of the paper during

printing.

The new bills were supposed to be released February tenth, two thousand eleven.

The Bureau is working to solve the problem.