Christina: On the next Inside California Education
Danielle Yount: "They had two things they were really
focusing on, a new environment,
and I just lost a home or I just lost my school."
Christina: Discover how Sonoma county schools are
recovering from devastating fires that displaced
thousands of students.
Brian McDaniel: I give them an alternate.
I give them a pathway to success that's been proven
time and time again.
Christina: Meet the state's Teacher of the Year who
overcame childhood trauma and homelessness to teach in
his hometown of Desert Hot Springs.
Linda Liebert: Of the 120 right now in our program,
probably 80 percent are second-careers.
Christina: And professionals leaving the corporate world
are helping fill the teacher shortage in Sacramento.
It's all next on Inside California Education!
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Welcome to Inside California Education,
I'm Christina Salerno.
We start in Sonoma and Napa counties.
Fires there damaged or destroyed multiple schools
and uprooted thousands of students,
teachers and others.
Let's visit schools impacted by this natural disaster to
discover what lessons their experience might provide for
other communities.
♪♪
Tim Daly: Sunday, October 8th, 2017
winds were unusually powerful all over
Northern California.
But no one could predict the sort of death and
destruction that would befall Napa and Sonoma
counties.
Dr. Nemko: When I went to bed the Sunday night,
before the fire, I saw fire, but it was far away.
It never occurred to any of us I think the night before,
that that fire was going to be so serious it would
close schools
Tim: The fires that night didn't just close
schools, eight in the Santa Rosa area were heavily
damaged or destroyed.
Getting those schools re-opened or replaced,
as quickly as possible, is a priority,
says Sonoma County Superintendent Steven
Herrington, who's dealt with more than one disaster
through the years.
Dr. Herrington: The more schools we could open,
we would create a greater sense of normalcy.
And for children normalcy is important.
So our goal was, and I learned that from floods and
I learned that from the earthquake,
you need to create an environment of safety and an
environment of normalcy.
Tim: Though no schools in Napa County were damaged by
fire, schools were closed for two weeks because air
quality was so poor.
In Sonoma County, it wasn't just losing two weeks of
teaching and learning.
An estimated 1,500 public school students lost homes.
So did nearly 400 teachers.
Well more than a thousand students have been relocated
to new campuses, like the 430 students who attend
Roseland Collegiate Prep.
Thomas: You guys are the ones who are going to bring
this place to life.
So when you see purple on the walls,
ignore that, look at each other,
right.
Remember you guys are what makes us come here
every day.
And that's what's going to keep us coming.
Tim: There's a good reason for that little pep talk
from English teacher Tomas Salinas.
These students from Roseland experienced perhaps the most
disruption in Sonoma County.
Their school is heavily damaged,
so they first relocated to two different elementary
schools in Santa Rosa that had space.
Then they relocated to this high school building when it
became available.
Roseland kids have dealt with a lot of change this
school year.
Danielle: To get them back in the groove of school took
a little longer because they had two things they were
really focusing on ━ a new environment,
and I just lost a home or I just lost my school.
TimL Roseland principal Danielle Yount is racing to
keep up too.
In addition to unpacking and setting up yet another
office, she was looking forward to some fresh paint.
Purple is the previous tenant's school color.
Roseland has something a bit lighter.
Danielle: Yeah, they're green and blue,
and we're living in purple right now.
Yeah, so we're hoping to get some paint on the walls,
maybe over the winter break, so when they come back,
for a semester or two, it's a nice fresh start
Tim: Because it's become more common for California
administrators to deal with disasters,
superintendents aren't just sharing information on
curriculum, test scores and budgets ━ they're sharing
tips on disaster recovery.
Dr. Herrington: This is how you do FEMA forms,
this is how you do all of that.
Because it's becoming a new common place situation
for us.
We just kept taking notes as a protocol and basically
have shared that information to the next county that
experiences the fire.
Tim: Not long after Dr. Herrington was dealing with
fires in his region, he was on the phone with educators
in Santa Barbara, who were reeling from the monstrous
Thomas Fire.
Glen: We put people who could help each other,
in contact with each other immediately.
So for example we were able to put Sonoma County
superintendent Steve Herrington in contact with
Santa Barbara County superintendent Susan
Salcido, so that they could learn from each other peer
to peer because we know that's one way people learn
very effectively, is learning from their peers.
Tim: Glen Price is the Chief Deputy Superintendent for
the state Department of Education.
He says every school in California is required to
develop safety plans that instruct staff and students
how to respond when a disaster or emergency
arrives.
Napa superintendent Barbara Nemko showed us the colorful
and extensive plan that's supposed to be posted in
every classroom in her county.
Dr. Nemko: If you look at it covers duck and cover,
shelter in place, it covers lockdown,
offsite evacuations.
It covers animal disturbance,
bet you hadn't thought about that one.
Biological or chemical release,
bomb threat, earthquake, explosion or risk of
explosion, fire, flooding, pandemic flu.
So yes, teachers know what to do,
schools know what to do.
And we're pretty good at following this,
we train people in it.
Tim: Surviving one of those disasters and re-opening a
school can happen in weeks.
But Glen Price says because schools and surrounding
neighborhoods can be so heavily damaged,
complete recovery can take a very long time.
Glen: Don't think this is going to turn around for you
in the next 3 to 6 months.
You're going to be looking at where you're getting back
your students and your families over a 1 year,
2 year, 3 year period.
Tim: There's also the issue of missed class time.
Teachers and their students are scrambling to make up
for lost instruction.
Wendy: Math is something, you have to,
it's like a sport.
You have to keep practicing, practicing,
practicing.
They get out of practice and it takes a few days just to
get them back to where we left.
Tim: Wendy Momsen says by summer she and her students
will be caught up.
It'll be much longer for her life away from school to be
back to normal.
This was her Santa Rosa house ━ she's one of those
nearly 400 teachers who also lost their homes to the
fires.
Wendy: I'm fortunate to have a wonderful fiancé,
and children and family.
So you know we're pretty tight group and so we kind
of are just getting through it together.
Tim: Experts say this unfortunately may be the new
normal in California; preparing for and getting
through some sort of disaster.
Principal Yount needs just three words to sum up what
might be the best approach
Danielle: patience, understanding and flexibility
♪♪
Narr: Just like schools, families should prepare
for emergencies.
Experts recommend signing up for communication
notifications from your child's school,
and ensure that emergency contacts are up to date.
Prepare a Disaster Preparedness Kit at home
with items such as personal documents,
first aid supplies, flashlights,
blankets and water.
Christina: Next, we'd like to introduce you to one of
five California Teachers of the Year for 2018.
His name is Brian McDaniel, and he overcame significant
childhood troubles to teach in his hometown of
Desert Hot Springs.
Discover why students say he's more than a music
teacher...he's also their mentor.
♪♪
Aaliyah: It's less of a band and more like
a family because we're really close and when we
play together, it feels like you know,
you're just doing something with your family,
not exactly playing with the band.
♪♪
Kristen: THEY'RE A FAMILY OF BAND AND CHOIR STUDENTS ...
KNOWN AT THIS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MIDDLE SCHOOL AS
'THE REGIMENT'.
A TOTAL OF 230 STUDENTS MAKE UP THE MUSIC PROGRAM AT
PAINTED HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL IN DESERT HOT SPRINGS.
IT'S A COMMUNITY THAT HAS LONG STRUGGLED ...
WITH MORE THAN A QUARTER OF ITS POPULATION LIVING BELOW
THE FEDERAL POVERTY LINE.
MANY OF THE KIDS HERE WOULD TELL YOU ...
IT'S A TOUGH PLACE TO GROW UP.
Michael: The schools in Desert Hot Springs,
for the longest time, have always had a bad rap,
uh, when it comes to, uh, student discipline.
Kristen: BUT PRINCIPAL MICHAEL GRAINGER SAYS IN HIS
FOUR YEARS AT PAINTED HILLS, A WHOLE LOT HAS CHANGED.
Michael: We've seen over a 50% reduction in our
student, uh, defiance and disrespect discipline
incidents, uh, over the past 12 months.
Kristen: AND HE ATTRIBUTES A LOT OF THAT TO
THE ROLE THE REGIMENT HAS PLAYED IN THE SCHOOL'S
CULTURE, AND IN PARTICULAR, THE ROLE THEIR TEACHER ...
DOCTOR BRIAN MCDANIEL HAS HAD IN LEADING THEM.
Michael: Brian, through his mentorship and leadership
has taught these students what it is to be,
um, a true citizen, um, in terms of showing empathy for
each other, for role modeling appropriate
behavior.
Brian: Everybody has choices.
My kids can choose to join a gang.
They can choose to be teenage parents.
They could choose to do drugs.
I give them an alternate.
I give them a pathway to success that's been proven
time and time again.
Kristen: MCDANIEL ISN'T SHY ABOUT SHARING HIS OWN
PAINFUL PAST, ESPECIALLY HIS TROUBLED CHILDHOOD.
HIS MOTHER WAS THE VICTIM OF GUN VIOLENCE.
HIS FATHER SUFFERED FROM MENTAL ILLNESS AND COMMITTED
SUICIDE.
MCDANIEL SPENT TIME IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.
AFTER BEING REUNITED WITH HIS MOTHER,
THE ENTIRE FAMILY BECAME HOMELESS...ALL IN THE SAME
TOWN WHERE MCDANIEL NOW TEACHES.
THOSE EXPERIENCES ALLOW HIM TO CREATE A SPECIAL BOND
WITH HIS STUDENTS ...
MANY OF WHOM CAN RELATE TO THE STRUGGLES HE OVERCAME.
Itzel: So I know what he overcame,
I know how he suffered.
I know what he went through.
So that inspires us.
That shows us that we're- we are not the only ones.
That other people went through it,
and that we can succeed over that.
(Choir Singing)
Kristen: COLLEAGUES SAY MCDANIEL HAS AN ABILITY TO
CONNECT WITH KIDS THAT'S RARE ...
PROVIDING EMPATHY AND SUPPORT ...
AS WELL AS A SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT THEY HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO ACHIEVE.
Jennifer: He's been through the things that a lot of
these kids are going through right now.
Um, and he's come out on the other side and so I think
that is very inspirational to our students.
And, and they trust him, they trust him.
He's not just talking the talk,
he's walked that walk.
He's been in their shoes.
Kristen: AND NOW HE'S WALKING IN EVEN BIGGER
SHOES.
BRIAN MCDANIEL HAS BEEN NAMED ONE OF FIVE CALIFORNIA
TEACHERS OF THE YEAR FOR 2018.
HE'S ALSO THE NATIONAL NOMINEE FOR THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
SUPERINTENDENT TOM TORLAKSON SAYS MCDANIEL STOOD OUT
BECAUSE OF HIS DEEP COMMITMENT TO HELPING OTHER
STUDENTS OVERCOME THEIR CHALLENGES.
Tom: He wants to pay that forward in terms of helping
other students, mentoring students,
helping them gain self-confidence,
set high goals and so I like that optimism,
and uh that that part of him is you know so dedicated to
helping other students overcome the challenges he
faced.
Kristen: MCDANIEL CREDITS HIS EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE
TEACHER DAVID ZIMMICK, FOR BELIEVING IN HIM,
SAYING ZIMMICK WAS A ROLE MODEL,
AND THE FATHER FIGURE HE DIDN'T HAVE.
Brian: He revolutionized how I thought about life and my
purpose in it.
And so seeing the power of a teacher is something
I wanted to have; I wanted to replicate.
Kristen: WHICH PERHAPS IS WHY MANY OF MCDANIEL'S
STUDENTS SAY THE REGIMENT FEELS LIKE FAMILY ...
AND THIS CLASSROOM, LIKE HOME.
Henry: When you need comfort,
he's always there for you.
When you're alone, he's always there for you.
Even when you are at lunch and you're sitting by
yourself, he sits with you.
Aaliyah: When you think of a band teacher,
you think of someone, like, you just learn,
like, music theory from and how to play an instrument.
But in his class, you get these life lessons along
with that
Kristen: LESSONS THAT INCLUDE BEING A GOOD CITIZEN ...
HAVING FAITH IN THEMSELVES ....
AND HAVING EMPATHY TOWARD OTHERS.
MCDANIEL REMEMBERS HIS OWN DAYS AS A HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT IN THE BAND, AND HOW IT FELT TO BE PART OF A
GROUP AT A TIME WHEN HE OTHERWISE FELT ALONE.
Brian: Band and choir in particular is a team sport.
We're all in this together.
We live in this communal fish pond.
And if somebody does something that is negative
it affects us all.
At the same time when things are going right in band we
all celebrate each other.
Kristen: AND THEY'VE HAD A LOT TO CELEBRATE ...
THE REGIMENT TOOK HOME A NATIONAL TITLE LAST YEAR AND
THEIR WIND SYMPHONY WAS THE ONLY ONE TO GET THE GOLD.
NUMEROUS TROPHIES DEMONSTRATE THEIR SKILL
AND SUCCESS...
BUT MOST OF ALL, THEY HAVE A GROWING CONFIDENCE IN
THEMSELVES, ALONG WITH KNOWLEDGE THAT AN ADULT THEY
TRUST ...
CARES ABOUT THEM TOO AND BELIEVES IN THEIR ABILITY TO
SUCCEED.
Brian: There are no bad kids.
There are bad behaviors.
If you can give your child a better choice,
if you can talk through that you don't have to be the
clown, you don't have to be the enemy.
You could be the hero of the story.
That's where music is amazing.
Every kid is the quarterback.
Every kid is the hero.
(singing) Set me free to find my calling
and I'll return to you somehow ....
Kristen: MCDANIEL KNOWS FIRSTHAND,
IT IS THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE AN ABILITY TO INSTILL
CONFIDENCE ...
TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND A SAFE SURROUNDING ...
AND TO TEACH NOT ONLY THE LESSONS IN THE BOOK,
BUT THE LESSONS THAT EXTEND OUTSIDE THESE WALLS,
AND INTO THEIR FUTURES.
LESSONS THESE STUDENTS ADMIT,
ARE CHANGING THEIR LIVES.
(Singing) ♪ And the Sky is clear and well
Itzel: Being in choir helped me a lot.
Um, he believed in me even when I didn't believe in me.
Even when other people didn't believe in me.
He always found something good to say and always made
me want to push forward.
Evelynn: He serves as like a father figure for a lot of
students.
He's not just like a teacher,
he's like a counselor too, And it is really helpful,
and whenever I leave his class I always feel better
than when I entered.
Aaliyah: Some of the greatest life lessons I
think I've learned is inside his classroom,
you know, because he wants us to do good.
He ...
He wants us to want to do good.
♪♪
Brian McDaniel: Are you guys having fun yet?
Narr: Since 1972, California has been recognizing
outstanding teachers through its Teacher of the Year
program.
The goal is to honor the teaching profession and
heighten interest in teaching as a career.
To qualify, teachers must be named a finalist in their
local county competition and have taught for at least
eight years.
Christina: While some teachers are driven from a
young age to join the profession,
many others take a longer path to get there...
..maybe even decades before they realize their calling.
Let's meet several teachers who've left the business
world to become teachers in Sacramento,
a trend that's helping to fill the state's teacher
shortage.
♪♪
Jon: We owned a family business,
a travel store here in town, for 40 years.
My mom had a good idea, and her idea was to supply the
traveler with everything they need in one spot.
We kind of went out with a little more of a thud
and a whimper.
And so I think it was more of a message from the
universe that maybe this wasn't my path anymore and
that there was something new for me to do that I was
meant to do.
This is the same as a book.
I want you to start in on this,
everybody.
Being a new teacher, it's why I have my gray hair and
my lines on my face.
It's challenging, but it's also incredibly invigorating
and rewarding, unlike my past business career.
Christina: Jon Holloway is embarking on his second act.
He's teaching fourth-through-sixth graders
at the California Montessori Project's
American River Campus.
Not only has it given him a new lease on life -- it's
also filling a need.
Lisa: There's definitely a demand for teachers out
there, there's a demand for quality teachers.
There was a time a few years ago were I would receive
hundreds of applications for just a handful of jobs,
and now within the last couple of years I'm
receiving 30, 50, 70 applications for the same
handful of jobs.
Linda: There is such a teacher shortage in
California right now.
We have a lot of teachers retiring.
And post-recession, people are now able to afford to
retire and so there is a huge shortage in California.
And with that shortage, it's really built intern
programs.
Christina: Linda Liebert is the director of the Teacher
Intern Program run by the Sacramento County Office of
Education.
The two-year program provides a non-traditional
pathway to the classroom for people like Jon Holloway.
After 160 hours of prerequisite classes,
the interns are hired as full teachers.
They spend the week teaching,
and on Saturdays take classes to earn their
credential.
Linda: Of the 120 we have right now in our program,
probably 80 percent are second-careers.
They're burnt out from being out there in
Corporate America.
They're not feeling fulfilled anymore.
They're feeling that there's not a purpose,
and so a lot of them bring those talents into teaching
and they feel like they're actually serving and making
a difference.
Christine Anderson: Even if you've had the best week of
your life, it's been a tough week.
Because teaching is hard.
Our interns and especially our,
our, second-career interns are juggling many things and
giving up their Saturdays.
But, I, they really see great value in the time
because the things that we're doing are applicable.
And I think that's one of the strengths of this
program is that immediate application and that
immediate feedback for them in the midst of the work
that they're doing.
Christina: Interns also get immediate feedback in the
classroom, in the form of a teaching coach that visits
twice a month.
Coach Phil Romig is a former principal and teacher who
helps interns hone their skills.
Phil: If they know that you are kind of - they never
know where you are going to be,
but you're are aware of what's going on.
-Right.
Jon is a great new teacher.
He's excellent at what he does.
He has skills that he does not know that he has,
as far as his calmness and his demeanor,
and his respect for the students.
Um, he is a business person.
In teaching it's a little bit different,
it's not dollars and cents, it's how kids are growing
and moving along a continuum.
Christina: Sharon Ferrell and Jon Negin are also
second-career teachers in the Sacramento County intern
program.
They're both spending their first year teaching at
Natomas Charter School, where Jon teaches biology
and health and Sharon teaches chemistry.
Sharon: Before I was a teacher,
I worked in molecular virology,
which always has everyone make this sort of like,
"ooh" expression.
Um, I worked for UCSF in research institute,
we actually were on the campus of San Francisco
General Hospital and I was researching HIV.
After I left molecular biology,
I stayed at home to raise my children and I thought,
you know, I can combine those two loves,
so I decided teaching science was where
I wanted to be.
It's more complex than just one thing.
Caden: I really enjoy this class.
It's very hands on.
It's not all paperwork, which I've been in a lot of
science classes that are like that.
Ms. Ferrell is a really, really good teacher.
And it's an organized classroom, too.
So yeah we may get a bit out of hand,
but she does tend to keep us in order,
so she's a great teacher.
Sharon: I think that as an, especially as an older
person, the kids they think of me almost as a mother
figure so they, they feel confident in me right from
the start even though I'm a new teacher.
And I have enough confidence to straight up to them,
"Look, we're new, we're doing this together,
I'm a brand new teacher this year and we're all going to
learn together.
We're going to see what comes out and if it's not
where we thought we'd be, we're gonna start over and
try a different tact.
Christina: Across the hall from Sharon Ferrell's
chemistry lab is Jon Negin's classroom.
His students were surprised to learn that their teacher
is a retired military officer who spent nearly 30
years in the Army.
Sierra: I thought he was a college professor before.
Just like, there's just something about him that's
just so official and he's very knowledgeable,
but I had absolutely no idea he was in the military.
That just kind of makes me think higher of him,
like he's more of an official,
more of a person to look up to.
Jon: As an Army officer, a lot of your job is about
teaching and training young soldiers as individuals and
teams and I really enjoyed that aspect of the Army.
That's one of the best things about the military,
maybe a lot of people don't think about that,
but you have a tremendous opportunity to impact young
people.
I think it's actually a fairly normal transition to
go from serving in the military to going back into
a classroom and teaching at a lot of different levels.
You're responsible for their lives,
literally, in the military, and in teaching you're
responsible for their academic life and their
growth academically and it's a tremendous responsibility
that you can't take lightly and you have to be all in.
Christina: As an added challenge....teacher interns
at certain charter schools are not only learn how to
teach, they're learning a very specific style of
teaching.
For former business owner Jon Holloway,
that means taking intensive Montessori training classes
on top of his credential classes.
Phil: In the Montessori model,
students are asked to do more self-directing on their
own and the students take more ownership of their
learning.
You have to then monitor multiple students doing
multiple things at the same time,
so the skill set is different.
In a regular, traditional classroom it might is more
of 'I'm going to do this one thing with all these kids
and have them all try to do really well."
Jon: I guess the most difficult thing is trying to
meld the two types of teaching that I'm learning
simultaneously.
And being in charge of 21 lives is an awesome
responsibility and you have to have the commitment to
match that responsibility.
Lisa: They just want to be remember to be kind to
themselves.
We know that they are new teachers coming in,
and a lot of times they will have very high standards for
themselves based on their success in their previous
field.
They just need to give themselves that time to grow
in this new field, just like they did in their previous
successful profession.
♪♪
Christina: That's it for this edition of Inside
California Education.
If you'd like more information about the
program, just log on to our website insidecaled.org.
We have video from all of our shows,
and you can connect with us on social media as well.
Thanks for joining us.
We'll see you next time on Inside California Education.
♪♪
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With caring teachers, committed administrators,
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