Christina: Coming up on Inside California Education:
Dr. Kotowski "Flight lifts you up,
not only in the air, but also in what is possible for
you in your life"
Christina: At-risk students in Salinas are inspired
to finish high school through an innovative
program that combines flight with academics.
(Cutting tool)
Students discover career pathways in Chico that may
guide them towards future professions.
Coach: That was a good football team
that you just beat right here.
See a day in the life of a Oakdalel
football coach!
And we'll meet special education students in Fresno
who are learning important work skills - and social
skills -- at a district-owned café.
I'm Christina Salerno.
It's all next...
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Christina: Thanks for joining us on Inside California Education.
Our first story takes you to the agricultural town of
Salinas, the hometown of famous stunt pilot
Sean Tucker.
He's partnered with education officials to
create a program that helps students fly high - while
also ensuring they're well-grounded on the path
towards high school graduation.
(Plane engine starting)
Carol: I'm a flight instructor for the Bob Hoover Academy.
They're fragile students, some of them can have a lot
of trouble at home.
Their environment is not necessarily good.
The main purpose of the program is to get the
children through high school.
Not necessarily make pilots out of them.
"Clear!"
(Plane engine starting)
Dulce: I'd never been on a plane, ever.
Because like, I'm really terrified of heights.
And like the school told me, that's how the
school is going to work.
If you don't get your first flight you,
then won't be able to do anything,
like you have to get your first flight.
And I had to like conquer my fears.
Carol: Clear takeoff 26. Looking 757 Kilo Foxtrot.
Now with the throttle. Move positive.
Full power.
Push it all the way to the wall.
Dulce: When you're up there you feel free like a bird,
you know.
Dr. Kotowski: The Bob Hoover Academy has just been a
tremendous asset to the Monterey County Office of
Education, to our students who are most at risk,
who need to have an opportunity in life.
Because flight lifts you up, not only in the air,
but also in what is possible for you in your life.
And I think that's the greatest asset of the
program, is that our students can see that they,
too, can soar to boundless heights in whatever they
choose to do.
Sean: What a wise old man told me a long time ago:
No matter how rich you are or famous you are,
you're not relevant unless you're giving back.
And this is my way of giving back.
Sean: My name is Sean D. Tucker,
and I fly upside down for a living.
I travel across North America and perform in front
of about six million people a year.
I tumble and flip and twirl through the sky.
I'm in the third dimension.
I fall backwards for eight, 900 feet under control,
recover, and I provide thrills.
Salinas is my hometown.
This is where I'm from.
I'm very proud of this community,
such a beautiful valley, it's so lush,
there's so much abundance here.
But we do have an issue, and it's called gangs.
♪♪
Diego: If you want to become someone in life,
you have to be a known gang member.
So that's what I got into the path.
I wanted to be known as a gang member,
nothing but gangs.
Sean: You know, gangs are very seductive.
It's a community.
And it's a safe place.
And it's cool.
This is more seductive.
Diego: I found out about this opportunity.
At first it was like, OK, this is going to be hard,
I don't want to be doing this.
But then I tell myself that if I change my attitude and
I change the way I think, I can be able to be flying.
Every time I go up in the air and I look down,
I tell myself, wow, look at I'm actually flying.
Sean: The Department of Education Monterey County
has courage.
This is an out-of-the-box program.
We're actually teaching kids younger than 18 to fly?
And let them solo an airplane?
That takes courage to take that risk.
So I fund this, I fund only the flight program.
I've partnered with them, and I have to go
raise money.
And this can be replicated in other communities,
but it's gotta be a partnership.
Carol: Your first job as pilot in command
is fly the airplane.
First thing in an emergency is,
get your best glide.
Dr. Kotowski: The program is very structured and so the
students have to go from one level to the next level.
And as they proceed through the program,
there's a process of formation that's actually
occurring in their lives.
They're learning that they can accomplish great things
if they have the commitment and the perseverance and
they follow through.
Carol: They learn about systems of the airplane.
They learn about the four forces of flight,
they learn how to do a pre-flight,
they learn the controls.
Then we get in the airplane, go out there and work what
we talked about.
Then we come home and talk about what we did and how we
could make it better next time.
We're aiming them to solo an airplane,
and that means that they have the confidence,
and the instructor had the confidence,
that we can go out, we fly a little bit,
make sure you're greased up, ready to go,
and then I jump out.
And then you do three landings and take-offs by
yourself.
Emilio: You gotta take everything serious.
You can't mess around.
I feel like being in this program helps me a lot
because I stay focused on my main thing - which is like
I want to fly.
I've been wanting to do that since I was a little kid.
Before coming here, I had dropped out of school and
I was working construction.
That's not what I wanted to do my whole life,
you know?
So I decided to come back and follow my dream.
Dr. Kotowski: They have come from some very challenging
backgrounds.
And they have had failures in their lives.
Then they enter into this program and there's hope.
There's hope for what they can do.
Emilio: It's changed a lot, like my life,
because I feel like I'm actually getting to where I
want to be in life.
Dulce: Before this program, I struggled with what to
after high school if I wanted to go to college.
I see myself I wanted to be a pilot or mechanic or both.
Diego: Everyone cares about what you're going to do with
your life.
What you want to become, somebody in life.
Getting paid.
Not stealing cars, not doing this or that.
You get paid $120,000 salary?
Cool with me.
Sean: To see that transformation is,
is unbelievable, to see them finally get that
'aha' moment.
They go, "I'm relevant."
"I'm worthy," and that's powerful.
♪♪
Narr: The Bob Hoover Academy is named after Bob
Hoover, the famous air show pilot who flew until his
retirement in the 1990s.
Students at the academy work toward a high school diploma
while also learning to fly.
The core curriculum ties into aviation through
lessons in history, aero-science,
engineering, math and English.
Christina: Students today face tremendous competition
whether they're applying for college,
or looking for a job.
Fortunately, more California schools are providing
"pathways" to lead kids in the right direction.
Michael Sanford visits to Chico High,
where an award-winning pathways program is giving
students a wealth of opportunity for
real- life learning.
♪♪
Lindsay: "You will make your cuts next to it,
you then have the roots, then you're going to need to
come to you pot.
Michael: Wander around Chico High School...
and you may think you're actually
visiting some vibrant business park..
with a busy plant nursery...
(Welding)
Michael: ...an industrial plant,
with welding and sophisticated plasma-cutting
machines turning out designs that are then powder-coated
and baked to a shiny finish.
Or, even an architectural and engineering firm,
where you'll see three-D models of new buildings...
or the latest labor-saving kitchen devices.
(teacher talks to kid)
Michael: But all this is part
of Chico High's ambitious effort to
provide their students a half-dozen college and
career pathways in technical education
starting in their freshman year.
Principal Mark Beebe says the goal is to guide them to
their choice of community college,
a technical school, or Cal State or the
University of California.
Mark: "The more relevant we can make it at the high
school level to send a student out college and
career ready, that's extremely important to our
students and our families."
Michael: The school's pathways include health,
the arts and media, and information technology.
Eighteen schools in the Butte and Glenn county
region successfully applied together for a Career
Pathways Trust Grant from the state
Department of Education.
Chico High's success earned it a Gold Ribbon Schools
Award for meeting the state's new academic content
and standards.
Courtney: "What seed did you plant?
Cilantro?
Are you guys going to take it home and eat it?"
Michael: Appropriate for this rural community,
one of the biggest and most popular pathways is
agriculture.
Ag Chemistry teacher Courtney Champlin is
challenging her students to identify and analyze the
best fertilizer for these seedlings.
But she and other educators say it's much more than just
learning chemistry and plant biology...
it's also life skills.
Courtney: "Are we producing people that are going to be
going citizens and be a positive person in the world
and within their community?
With us, I think with the ag industry and with our
pathway, we really take that to heart,
and we make sure that's something we pursue with our
students."
Lindsay: "A lot of times in high school and even in
college, most students have no idea what they want to
do, so this even gives them the opportunity to dabble in
those pathways.
And so having that available to them really gives them
motivation and drive, and then it helps them by
organizing their classes for the next few years and
really giving them those skills that they need to be
successful."
Michael: A key component of a pathway education is
clearly defined class schedules.
From ninth through twelfth grade,
students know exactly what classes to take each year to
satisfy all their requirements,
and meet all state academic content and performance
standards.
Their path can be customized to best prepare them for
technical or community college,
Cal State, or U.C.
And they're provided academic "exit ramps" should
they change their minds and decide on a different path.
Miguel: "A lot of people are confused in what they want
to do, and a career pathway really sets you on like,
how it's called a pathway to your future."
Elizabeth: "If there's not a pathway,
then you kind of have to go on your own and I think a
lot of kids have trouble figuring out how to go on
their own because there's a lot of options.
So the Pathway really sets it up for you."
(Welding)
Michael: Here in the Agriculture Mechanics
and Manufacturing section, even the freshman
14-year-olds are wielding the acetylene torches.
They go from designing to cutting to welding to the
final powder coating of their metal designs.
Kalynn: "I think it's super-duper cool because you
just get a list of classes you need to take and then
you can just have that career from then on and
you're just set."
Cole: "Even though I'm not really sure what I'm going
to do in the future, I think that this could,
like definitely be something I could do."
Ronnie: "So these kids can literally take the skills
that they are learning currently,
right now in this CTE program,
and get a job right away with a great foundation to
run or be highly trained in that particular piece of
equipment."
Greg: "The architect wanted us to do a rock texture,
correct?"
Michael: Administrators, teachers and students all
say these pathways simply wouldn't be as successful
without extensive involvement from local
businesses.
These students in this architecture pathway are
creating three-D models for a local architecture firm
for an actual building project - a new animal
shelter.
Greg: "The people they're trying to hire right now
don't even have the understanding of the
programs that we have as high school students.
It's really given me a focus into maybe I want to do with
the rest of my life and so I think that pathway has
created that opportunity for me."
Student: "I tried working on the hinge..."
Michael: Over on the engineering team,
students are designing a new line of wooden sunglasses
for a local manufacturer.
Designs that may actually become part of the
companys product line.
Hallie: "We're not just a bunch of high schoolers
doing projects that we're going to get graded on.
These, we're working for professional industries and
it really ups the standards that we have to do,
so it ultimately makes us all better students."
Michael: Some of these pathways provide college
credit at nearly Cal State Chico or Butte College.
Others, like welding, offer certificates that lead
directly to jobs.
Career tech programs can be challenging to set up and
expensive to maintain.
But studies show that kids in pathways have higher
graduation rates.
State funding is still available to start new
programs and can be built into schools' local funding
formulas.
Kristin: "They want high schools and districts to see
that CTE is important, and to build that into your
local budget.
So you can sustain and maintain the programs."
Michael: Students and educators say Chico's
success convinces them it's something nearly every
California school should try.
Mike: "Career pathways gives students purpose and opens
their eyes to other options available to them.
I think the businesses would be the first to tell you,
'We need more of this.'"
Michael: Perhaps this school's most
dramatic success story?
Engineering pathways inspired Hallie to invent
some new Mason jar lids, a cutting board,
and microwave-safe thermos.
Products that earned this senior third place in a
national design competition.
Hallie: "It has definitely opened up my idea of how
engineering is involved of every aspect of life.
So I'm very grateful for this pathway because I've
learned so much throughout the years."
♪♪
Narr: Architecture is a popular career pathway
for today's students looking for a high-skill,
high-wage job.
But 100 years ago, people may have had a different
motivation - like an Olympic medal.
For the first four decades of the modern Olympic Games,
medals were awarded to architects for
sports-related submissions.
That included athletic stadiums,
playing fields, swimming pools and even ski jumps.
Christina: Coming up, special education students
are learning life skills at a café owned and operated by
the Fresno county office of education.
But first, a day in the life of a football coach.
♪♪
Trent: Oakdale is a tremendous community to grow
up in, to raise children in, population right around
20,000, the Cowboy Capital of the World.
This is a little piece of Americana here.
It's a one high school town, and I couldn't think of
anywhere else I'd want to raise my kids.
My name is Trent Merzon, I'm the Head Football Coach at
Oakdale High School, entering my,
we're almost through with my 18th year.
I'm a product of Oakdale High School,
graduated in 1985.
I was three-sport athlete, it was a great place to go
to high school, I had great friends,
great peer group, we had great coaches,
they instilled a sense of loyalty and love and
community in me and I still think that's what motivates
me today to want to coach here.
When I took this program over my biggest worries I,
I really wanted to keep this train on the tracks,
there was tremendous pressure here to run this
football program in this town because it means so
much to so many people.
And you know, I still feel that pressure today,
18 years later.
♪♪
Let's go, let's go!
I think one of my main responsibilities here is,
you know, teaching kids how to set lofty goals for
themselves, to want to be the best.
You know winning the state title last year was awesome,
now our kids want to do it again.
That's one of my jobs, I think to just encourage our
kids to have a growth mindset,
to accept struggle as a natural part of life.
That's football.
You know sometimes in life you can do everything right
and still not have success, and that's what life's all
about, I think with athletics that's what you
get, you know, you have to learn how to work with each
other, and I think sometimes only through athletics can
you learn those things.
I'm blessed to have coached a lot of great kids here,
when kids go on to college and graduate with a degree I
find that successful whether they play sports in college
or not, really isn't relevant,
I want our kids in college, I want our kids educating
themselves, and get four year degrees and I really
want our kids to be successful businessmen,
be successful fathers someday,
and to learn how to give back because that's what
this community is all about, and that's why I'm here now,
and wanting to give back, and I want our kids to come
back and want to give back as well.
I'm a faith, family, football guy,
and I just truly feel blessed to have this
opportunity to coach, not just coach high school
football but coach here in
Oakdale, California, a school that I love,
a community that I love,
I just truly feel blessed to have this opportunity.
That was a good football team you just beat
right there, that was a very good football team
you beat, so congratulations
Christina: If you find
yourself in downtown Fresno, don't miss the opportunity
to stop in for lunch at Kids Café.
Not only is the food fresh, but the service is
one-of-a-kind.
That's because special education students make up
the staff, working everything from the blender
to the register.
♪♪
Jamie: Nikki!
Christina: At the Kids Café in downtown Fresno,
every customer here is delivered their food
with a smile.
Jamie: Erica!
Angel: She has the best smile.
Everyone who comes in just compliments her,
her smile, even when I'm away at the office and they
come up to me and they're all,
"Oh, Jamie. She's such a, she's so lovely."
They bring smiles to other people.
Christina: 21-year-old Jamie Murphy works at Kids Café
every weekday.... delivering orders,
running the cash register and prepping food.
She's one of about 50 special education students
learning job skills at this public restaurant owned and
operated by the Fresno County Office of Education.
Angel: We have autism, students with autism,
students who are intellectually disabled,
uh, we have a student, uh, who has a,
uh, traumatic brain injury, um,
we have a student who is hard of hearing,
so we really have a wide range of,
of students and their disabilities.
For students with a limited, work skills,
we usually do the real simple tasks,
like we have them, wipe down tables,
chairs, basic cleaning, sweeping,
mopping, things like that.
And then for our students with higher abilities,
such as Jamie and Jesse, we have them on,
um, the register.
Jamie: What I like about it is like they teach you like
what to do if you don't know and um.
What else I like about it is,
when the customers come in they say hi to you.
The first time I was shy, and then I got used to it,
what's it called, I wasn't shy after that.
Christina: Fresno County Office of Education
serves about 1,700 special education students,
including 18-to-22-year-olds enrolled in an adult
transition program.
Superintendent of Schools Jim Yovino says he wanted a
place where those young adults could learn
real- life skills.
Jim: Really the main focus is to,
one, socialize them, make sure they're out in the
public, that people, uh, get to meet them,
they get to meet the public.
But also, uh, prepare them for life,
and, and what I mean by that is to live independently,
to seek employment and so what better way to do that
than to open our own café?
Christina: Of course, opening a café takes some
expertise.
So the county turned to Paul Romero,
who previously managed a Cheesecake Factory
restaurant.
Paul: We tried really hard to uh,
to use the same equipment, the same uh the same types
of food, the same ingredients that they would
see in a, in a full-service restaurant in the private
sector.
Um, we felt like it was important for our students
to see where their food really comes from and how uh
how the industry really works,
rather than just giving them sort of a,
a crutch to lean on while working here in the café.
Jim: We wanted our kids to have an opportunity to learn
the restaurant industry.
We wanted to partner with our local restaurants and
say, "Come on in, watch our young men and women.
They're all employable.
Christina: The students must earn a food safety
certification in the classroom before they begin
working in the café.
Besides cooking and cleaning,
they also learn important social skills.
Angel: He really enjoys the register.
That is like the one task here that they all
love to do.
Jesse: Ten
Angel: We let them do what they have to
do, and whenever they need our assistance we step in
Leah: We started in January, and by June,
we had totally different children.
Parents were really surprised how much they had
grown in so many areas.
Much more than we had ever anticipated when we started
the program.
Christina: The downtown Fresno community has
embraced Kids' Café, hiring them for catering jobs and
filling tables at lunchtime.
Antonio: I think it is amazing that they have a
place that they can connect with the community,
a place they can serve the community and gain the job
skills they'll need as adults and be able to
interact with people.
I think it's amazing.
Christina: And, they say the food is top-notch.
Nikkie: Food was amazing.
Antonio: Food was great.
Nikkie: Chowder - poblano chowder soup was so good!
Jim: We thought we were doing it for our kids.
And what we found quickly, it was as important for our
community.
Most people are, they just don't know how to act,
uh, around particularly kids with special needs.
So what it's done is it's, it's really kind of opened
up the eyes of many people to say,
"Hey, these are beautiful children,
they have g-, they have great gifts to give,
and, uh, and we want to be part of that.
Paul: This is more than just enriching the lives of the
students individually.
This is a call out to the restaurant industry
as a whole.
Uh, we need to start embracing uh these students
as part of our workforce.
Our students uh just want the chance to show that they
can do and once our industry as a whole comes to accept
that, I think uh I think everybody will be happy.
Christina: That's it for this edition of Inside
California Education.
If you'd like more information about the
program, log on to our website insidecaled.org.
We have video from all of our shows,
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Thanks for joining us.
We'll see you next time on Inside California Education.
♪♪
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based on $1.5 billion contributed in fiscal year
2016-17.
With caring teachers, committed administrators,
and active parents, every public school student can
realize their dreams.
The California Lottery: Imagine the Possibilities.
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