Wednesday+Keynote

Teaches elementary in Los Angeles. Only 32% of his children were graduating from high school. 92% poverty line mostly ESL kids 4 and 5 years behind grade level starts school at 6 in the morning and ends at 6 at night, goes in the summer

Must be a role model Can not SCREAM at the children to be nice Special Ed teacher was especially inspirational to him 1967 Redsoxs ball, took all the writing off the ball.....first thoughts illegal.....must consider point of view of the child listen to the children, what are the students bringing into the classroom he became a better teacher when he stopped talking and started listening. takes 60 children on the road with no chaperones

Mission: be nice and work hard

children who study music do better in everything, sets Shakespeare to rock.

6 levels of consideration level 1- do not want to get in trouble level 2- want a reward level 3- to please people level 4- it's the rule level 5- because they are considerate of other people level 6- personal code of behavior

Strives to get all his children to level 6.

Pays the students for a job, they never make enough money to pay the rent of their seat. If they save triple the rent, they can buy their seats and call it a condominium. Use spreadsheets to show where the money goes. Students can also buy supplies, some students save enough money to buy to other seats and then charge student rents. Students learn in 5th grade how to handle money.

Historical narrative, used Ken Burns' music and violinist learned it in a key they could play.

heart breaking video on students performance in front of the Supreme Court

Film lending library- students watch classics, answers questions and evaluate - the students get extra pay for this.

Just keep trying things.

Put as many things as possible out in front of the kids.

3 great loves: baseball rock and roll Shakespeare

play with musical computer programs

play along with the music- note for note

rewrite the songs in the keys that the students can play. Develop the ear, put on headphones and listen over and over.

Ask for help. Teaching has become very isolated. Classroom joke, people do all the work, he gets all the credit. Ask for help.

When kids make music they start to do better in everything else.

Students are the best teacher. Don't play guitar hero, play guitar.

Listen to the voice of the child.

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