So my name is Patrick Richardson and I am an investigative reporter for Kansas-Sentlaw. We do media and government accountability. And education reporting is a big part of what I do. And you know, through several conversations with Dr. Pitch, I came to the conclusion and the numbers back it up that, well, Buncie is different. This district is different. When other districts in the state are trending downward in test scores, you guys are trending up. And we have a lot of conversation about accountability and different satinies. And so, you know, you really realize that there was something going on here that we wanted to know more about. And Dr. Pitch was kind of saying, hey, why don't you just come on up and see? So I called my boss and he said, yeah, let's do that. Let's go find out. So that's what I'm here for today. You know, I just want to have a kind of free, willing conversation. I'll ask a couple of questions, but I just really want to hear why this community, why this district is different and why things are going so well when so many districts are short of all sizes. So that's what I'm here for. Okay. So I guess we should probably start with the introductions. Mr. Prager, would you like to begin? Yeah. I'm Brendan Prager. I'm a high school staff member. I'm Grant Perry and I'm a high school student. I'm Kendra Croner and I'm also a high school student. I'm Elisa Hall and I'm a high school physics and chemistry teacher. Rob Hoskins. I'm the Wilbunsie County Sheriff. I'm Jordan Ben and I'm a high school student at Wilbunsie. And you're also? I'm also the school counselor for Wilbunsie. Karen Wright. I am a parent and a business owner. Steve Oliver, high school junior high school. Susan Grompas. I'm a first grade teacher. Justin Frank. I'm here representing Board of Education. Robert Potter. I'm a high school student. Tayden Johnson. I'm an elementary student. Jennifer Mopower. I'm a third grade teacher at Maple Hill Elementary. Okay. So, let me just start off. What's different here compared to other districts? I mean, what really is making the difference? Do you guys think? I think it's a family culture, honestly. I'm a third grade teacher. I can tell you a good number of kids in every grade level across the district. I've either taught them. I've watched them play sports. So, I'm committed to them from the time they're in my room. And then beyond that, once they go to college, once they enter their life, I think I don't teach my class. I teach for all of the classes. So, what's creating that family culture within the district itself? Well, we have so few students. At the high school, we have about 100 to 35. When I was in the Shawnee Mission District, I could have up to 35 kids in just two of my periods. So, because everyone knows everyone else, and because we can give them all the special attention, lots of one-on-one, lots of interaction on these small class sizes, this is my fifth district, and I've never been in one like this, and I think it's all due to the numbers. I mean, I'm not discounting the family. Obviously, that's part of the three-legged stool, but the numbers, the sizes allow us to interact with kids every day, very up-close and personal. And when you have a larger school, you just don't get that opportunity as a teacher. What are the things that we discuss? I was going to say, I also think it's kind of a mindset with all of this too, because I've taught in a big district, and I did go to soccer games and things like that in the big district as well. And here, it's like Jennifer said, we are supporting them through 4-H and ball and things outside of school, but it is that family sense, and it's kind of just a mindset of our staff, of our administration, of our students, of our parents, just our whole community that we do all kind of take, it takes a village kind of thought, and we work together on all of that, and we have great support systems. If the school needs something, the parents are wonderful about supporting that, or it's just kind of a mindset all the way around. It's not just within the school, it's just within the community as well. I think to piggyback off of that, I think that there's a focus to develop the whole child. So it's not just a focus on academics, but there's a focus on character, and there's a focus on work ethic, and just that there's encouragement across the board, no matter who they're interacting with, who they're interacting with, or what setting that they might be in, that they're encouraged to really think bigger picture, not just the here and now. So from a community standpoint, I mean, we've got some community members here, what do you see on that score? I mean, what difference do you see between this district and maybe another one that you grew up in? Well, I grew up in this district. You too. That's one thing is, you know, our community service from our business owners, from our parents, our patrons across the district, our community service approaches, second to none, we have a huge 4-H following, we have a huge FCCLA following. I mean, there are so much extracurricular activities that our community gets involved in. They stand deeply behind our school district as well. I think that's important. But as a business owner, I am intrigued with USD329 because we are creating a well-rounded student as somebody that's not just good at math, not just good at science, they can show up on time, they understand responsibility, they understand goals, they understand work ethic. And that is more important than test scores, which is what made you look at our district, right? But by developing the entire student, I mean, if they're responsible, they hold themselves responsible for their grades. If they set goals, they set their grades as their goals. I mean, I have first and second grade students of my own that come home with a goal book. They sit down and they put a goal out. I mean, I'm sorry, but I didn't do that in the first grade. Some things, it's hard for me to do it today, right? But we developed that. I mean, part of what we do, our leader in me program has been, I mean, kind of all the way around to when we started to see these increases in test scores, we put the accountability on the kids instead of the accountability on the teachers to make it all work that kids have to buy into it. And I think, for the most part, they've bought into our whole round project of making a leader. And I have to say, I keep saying that there's that word again, accountability. In Dr. Pitchman's conversations over the last month, I think, we both kind of had an epiphany that accountability, that's what it's about. I mean, yes, the schools need to be accountable to the parents, and the teachers need to be accountable to the parents, but at the same time, the kids need to be accountable to the school and to the parents and to themselves. But the parents need to be accountable to the school as well. So how, and that accountability, I don't hear many places. And I find it interesting that I've heard that same word from four or five people already in this discussion. So how is it that this community has managed to foster that culture of accountability? I know one way of the elementary that we have is that we hold things like family night. And so although it starts with an academic piece, there's also another piece that a student comes with their parents back in the evening, and we have an activity that they do. Sometimes it's a fun relay type things, but other times it's we're working on math problems or on a literacy thing or something like that. So the community is always involved in the school, not only through PTOs and things like that, but with their child's academic learning as well. So I think one thing that Justin said about extracurriculars, I think our career technical education is so strong and has such a high percentage of the high school. And I went to a small school as well, pretty similar to this district. And we have a lot more opportunities here, activities to participate in than I had in high school. And I think it's, I mean, a lot of ways it's comparable to a larger district. And with our screen printing class and our ad class, FCCLA, we have a huge increase. And that's just more ways to keep kids from falling through the cracks because so many kids are participating. They have extra teachers who are watching over them, extra things they're involved in. I think that helps keep them accountable. And extra teachers, Chair Ramon. Extra teachers, Chair Ramon. I think it's the amazingness of some of those teachers that are keeping them involved in it. Like the teachers are spawning that interest in those kids so they're doing all those extracurriculars and being very, very, very successful a lot of the time. So they need applauded in my opinion. Yeah, and not just sports. I think a lot of people when they hear extracurriculars and think of sports, and those are hugely important for so many kids, but things like FCCLA and scholars, Boland Hag and all the other things they do. You were about to say something? Disagree. So, I keep coming back to the accountability because it's something that you just don't see, I think, especially larger districts. And it's not something that seems to be really important, I think, to some larger districts. I don't call it any districts by name or anything like that because we're here to talk about the positives. So, from some community members, what do you see as how you're being held to account and how that accountability is created for your kids' success, for the school's success? What is the district doing to help get the community behind them as well? I mean, I can't speak on behalf of everybody else, but I was warm and red here and I have just an interest in all of the kids. I want them all successful. I don't care who it is, what they're doing. If I can support them in any way, shape, or form, I will. I've always preached to my own children whenever there's issues or whatever, look at yourself first, focus on you. What can you do? Something happen at school? Well, what did you do? How did you react? How did you help a positive negative? And that's just what I have preached to my own children. And I have numerous, but I have a lot of, I call them my extra kids because I have a flood of children in my house at any given day time. So, for me, I have been blessed as a community member and I'm going to give back in any way that I can, whether it's my time, my money, ideas, panels, whatever it is. I think as a district too, though, we try really hard to showcase the awesomeness of our communities. We try to involve different businesses. We encourage them to come to our buildings and talk about what they do and how they do it. And then when we have things going on in our buildings, we try to reach out to those businesses and say, hey, these are things that are happening. Is there anything you can add to or any way you can help us or support us? So I think putting all of those things in place helps to keep accountable both the school and the community and the businesses. I think maybe a word you're looking for is relationships. We have strong relationships with the businesses. You know, the manner, all of the pieces of the community from the senior citizens to, you know, our actual businesses and families. So we have a relationship established. I think I can see that as a, because I did not grow up here. I came from Northern Kansas and I think what I've seen is that the kids want to come back and live in this community. And so there's kind of this reciprocal relationship where, you know, the kids really love and value the experience that they have growing up and then want to come back and invest in the community kind of like the adults that they saw when they were growing up. At least that's the impression that I get. I'm also from elsewhere and I think that I've often been put in a situation by parents and community members that they're blaming the teachers for lack of student success. And of course, teachers are often blaming the family. Well, this kid comes from a bad family or they don't have parents' support or they don't have an environment they can study and our education is not important to this family, so we blame them. And here, those two things are the one and the same. And therefore there's not the finger pointing. There's not, well, you didn't support this person and you didn't support this kid or their enemies. Here, the community members and parents and teachers, they're all unified and it's all the same people. There's no finger pointing. Why do you think that is? I just think it's because it's so small and everyone is related and everyone has known everyone forever and everyone is supportive of everyone else and I don't think you can replicate that on a large scale. Well, the reason I asked that is because I live in a small community, 4,000 people about and I've been in this business 30 years of being in a school with districts large and small and I've seen large districts that you don't have that problem and I've seen small districts where you did including the community that I live in. So there has to be some way that that's been fostered and it's got to be more than just size. I think that's a factor. I don't disagree with you. I think the size is absolutely a factor but there's clearly something here that has created an atmosphere where the school is accountable to the parents but the parents are being accountable too and that's huge. I think that it's one of those things that if any one of us had that secret we could make a lot of money. I'm not sure that it's a thing that we're all protecting here that we don't want you to know. It's a part of our lifestyle. You drive in and you get into O'Buncie County and I was born in O'Buncie County so it's hard for me to completely understand but I have enough friends that have moved from other counties into O'Buncie County that say man, you guys are different. I've lived here for 25 years and I'm still considered an outsider and that's not necessarily bad but we have such deep roots in community pride and county pride and talent pride. We're battling some things now with the wrong issue that we're trying to pass that we've got towns that are arguing against each other because they're all so proud of how hard they've worked to build from the ground up. We are the Limestone County and they have pulled Limestone out with their bare hands and built this stuff. It is so important to them to see it successful so the business owners back then got invested knowing if we build a good school district we'll have good kids and they'll come back and help foster our economy. So they started from the ground up and that's different. It's hard to become a regular here it's hard to get to be a part of the insider and that's due to pride because we don't know you yet we don't understand if you have the same level of pride that we have and we're not going to allow you in until we know that you do and so we've held each other to a higher standard of businesses, parents and then that floods into the school as well. You know another thing about our school district is it's self-policing you know I mean talk about the sheriff being here but when we set goals and objectives at the board level I don't like to be a boss top down this is how we're going to do this you like it or don't like it don't care. It's more if I create the violin then they apply the self-accountability that you've been discussing but it is a group discussion it's a group goal it's a group effort and you just get more accomplished that way I mean I've had some of these teachers that said you need to learn to work in a group and that's 25 years ago learn to work together and you'll get more accomplished instead of doing it all on your own and by it being self-policing the kids know I need to hold to this standard I don't know it's just kind of cool though that environment I want to come back and focus on the numbers just a little bit every district along about 2016 had a dip and that was from what we can tell coincides with the State Department of Education de-emphasizing academics and emphasizing social emotional work whether it's correlation is a causation but it sure tracks it what was interesting is that in of course 2020 I mean was 2020 we just got to kind of leave it at that and we don't have to test scores from that either for obvious reasons and they would be an outlier even if we did however well Buncie is trending up and everybody else is still trending down so how has this district and how has the community managed to balance the SEL with maintaining academic I think so I hear a lot of people talk about SEL and it's not like a huge part of our day it's not like we decided we're not going to do reading anymore because we're going to focus on that it's more of a guiding principle of okay so we need to make sure that we are focused on this as well this is incorporated into what we do so I don't feel like I don't feel like I abandoned anything that was important when we added that that that makes sense I mean I have a science supreme there's two people I teach physical science the other teacher teaches the life science we look at the standards we have the standards posted in our room we know that juniors are going to be taking the standardized test I get the freshmen and I try and prepare them the whole entire year for the skills that are listed on those standards for freshmen and regardless of at what level they come to me those are the standards that we are going to try and meet and then they go to the other teacher for biology and she and I are virtually lock step in our teaching methods and our expectations in our grading methods and so those students they there's a seamless flow within the science department for all four years of high school and our test scores have raised we were both hired in 2014 there was a big retirement here in the district and we both started the same year and our scores improved every year and math department is also two people and they are virtually the same and so the whole the whole attitude and expectation of the high school building these children are going to be prepared to do whatever they want to do when they leave our building regardless of whether they are going to rejoin their family and work in a family business if they are going to join the military if they are preparing for tech and trade schools if they are going to university regardless of what their parents have in hopes for them and what they would like to do we are preparing them to do whatever it is they want to do when they leave and that's my responsibility and I have done that and I take it very seriously and I think everybody in our building does and that's just I think that's part of SEL I mean I think those two things go hand in hand we've always here in my opinion for the last nine years been preparing the whole child and you can't do that if you don't pay attention to SEL you have a shellless human if you don't pay attention to those factors do I work them into my chemistry and physics? no do I work them into my interactions with every student? yeah and piggyback on what she is saying we are a data driven district we meet the kids where they are at so although we have a standard to meet we work with them and get them to those standards then by the time they are finishing with our courses we have intervention groups we work from the community we have support in our schools from our administration to take the latest research and apply that in our classrooms and use the data and continually assess so that we know exactly where our students are at so we know what interventions that might need to be put in place to help that student succeed and then when the student feels that support then their chemistry or social emotional part is wandering or nobody cares they know that you care because you are helping them succeed and so it is the research and the data and the expectations, the high expectations that bring that all around and the people I am hearing and I like that a lot is that rather than making the SEL statement you are just incorporating it into the academic statement absolutely and making it part of organizing the academics at all and that is huge because that is what happens everywhere and that is just a huge thing and I don't ever think it is the teachers I think that comes from other other areas but it doesn't happen everywhere and I think that is another key thing I would love to hear from the students a little what do you guys obviously most of you probably haven't been to other districts where you grew up this is where you've done this school since kindergarten but what ways are you being held accountable other than just being like okay mom and dad aren't going to like if I get bad grade but because they are not but obviously there is more to it than that there is a self accountability here that I am hearing about that you don't see a lot of places I would say personally at least a lot of what helps me be accountable to get it done is my relationship with my teachers I know that if I have something going on besides just the pressure from getting my schoolwork done I can go talk to them I am not afraid to talk to them or Mr. Frager or any of my other teachers about what I have going on so that they can help me get past that and still be able to accomplish good things after school even if you are not struggling with the academic side and everybody has rough days and if you are having kind of an off day and stuff just isn't going smoothly for you because of the relationships that we build with the teachers over the four years that we are here they know something is wrong they are able to reach out to us and say what is going on, how can I meet your needs what are you struggling with and if they can't meet those needs they find someone who can and that really helps us trust them I know with the academics you can go up to them and say I do not understand what is happening and they can give back the way that they know how to because we all know each other so well being here for so long I mean if that makes sense I don't know if that makes sense because everyone knows everyone and it kind of just all flows together you are not embarrassed to not know what is happening right but just because you don't know what is happening they are not going to judge you like we will take care of so I came here to a once in eighth grade I have been to more schools and I could count on my fingers most of them were really big schools I never felt like I needed to be involved here at once I feel like I wanted like it is safe to be involved the first few years it was kind of rough because everyone knows everyone they grew up together so it was kind of awkward to be like the only one here who was like the outcast but now I have gotten involved it feels like I wanted I can do better I can improve that is awesome for the community members we have talked about the schools accountability I just keep coming back to this culture of accountability all the way across the world why is you know I guess to some teachers why is the culture of accountability so rare outside of some of these smaller districts I am also a parent one of my children comes here I think what she said about numbers is a big part of it I taught at a 6a school before this and I was not a core teacher but I still had classes I had a lot more students to deal with now I have a lot of students who have had multiple times so I do have a relationship with their families I've had multiple siblings it is a little easier to keep track of a smaller number of kids I think it's just the reality in education if you have fewer kids to deal with you can spend more time on each kid and that's always going to get better and you're not teaching just a kid it's my friend from high school's kid it's my neighbor's kid it's and then as a parent my kids have all graduated from Oven City now yes I teach in the district but now I'm watching the kids that I've taught or I'm still watching the kid that lives next door to me or I have friends, kids in high school still so they're not kids at any time there's somebody who I know they belong to well that accountability that person is just as important I'm not going to let my high school friend down when they're kids in my room and they're not going to let me down and let their kid plowder when they're in my room so I'll speak to you as a parent coming from outside that I feel like my son has talked about in terms of school or how he puts into the community so he's not talked about just as Tabor and who he is as an individual in the classroom but more so where he plays into the whole building or how he plays into his classroom and I feel like he was welcomed in he feels like he's welcomed in like a family member as if he's been here all along so I think that's really unique I'd like to bounce back to the data-driven numbers districts seem to not pay a lot of attention to a test course when they come back and it sounds to me like this is a district that's paying very close attention to those numbers and using them as okay I know where this kid is weak what we need to work on I know where our student body is weak and this is what we need to work on how important is it to take I'm not a big all end all whether a district is successful or not but clearly they're a good tool and they're not always used that way how important is it to use that as the tool that was meant to be at the elementary level I know we have our core instruction but then we have intervention groups daily with those students that are needing some additional support and I believe it's the same that the other elementary school as well we will look at those test scores and then like the teacher will say okay so you need help with this problem just during the lesson and we'll just meet up together everybody that's struggling on that she'll just walk with everything everybody that's struggling and then everybody else that's not struggling and can move on she challenges us with something that she will have to walk with it so it's not the teachers aren't just looking at the numbers you guys are looking at your own numbers wow I've never heard of that I've never heard of that like the younger kids have books and we have apps where we put in our test scores this is where I was in January here's where I want to be in May I remember especially like when I was in junior high from math that's always been the subject that I've struggled with and the teachers will kind of she would have us all fill out a Google spreadsheet like Kendra said like the test score that we scored and where we want to be by the end of this quarter and almost every time you see that increase because you have you want to get better because why would you not want to we want to improve ourselves at the university or trade school or join the family business and who set that end goal did your teacher set that end goal for you or did you say this is where I want to be there's your self accountability and that is why they meet them because it is goals that are driven within their own minds and their own hearts and they're not going to let themselves down and we just support the fact that we're not going to let you down while you're working your career off of you like I don't have to convince the kids that education is important that's instilled in them most of them you have one or two kids who are checked out but the vast majority of kids want to be there, they want to learn they know why it's important background work has been set by the great schools of junior high sorry I didn't mean to but also when you're in junior high and middle school you're introduced to athletics and you have to have a certain ability to be able to compete in these athletics you have to be eligible and that's a really big thing is because you're doing a sport because you love it and maybe because your parents do but you don't want your parents down so you want to be involved in what you're doing so you work hard to meet the standards that are set and then that lifestyle is brought over to the high school and you care even more now about your results because this is what colleges look at and you just keep gradually going because again you want to improve the accountability and one thing that might kind of take you back up of everything they've said in the, for example in the math classroom and the elementary the students are actually given a problem they solve it we put their problems up on the board and they explain their thinking and then other students can ask about well I don't see where you got the nine from or whatever so they're actually discussing the problems and doing really in depth with them instead of the teacher just grading a paper handing it back and you have four wrong they're talking about those problems all the time and so then they have that dialogue and then they stretch themselves I would like to add something to what they're saying it's not just academics because when they're struggling in life when they're struggling and have problems at home or financial difficulties or everything else the same attitude that they have towards solving a math problem they have towards helping their fellow students I have, as I'm sure if I have students come to me and say hey this individual has issues one of the things I'm proud of is they have a yellow ribbon club and it's to watch out for anybody that maybe have mental health issues that maybe struggle with depression so what they take in academics they apply to their life and that is very important and I'm proud of these kids for that fact and then I what I wanted to add to what those who are saying mainly is when there was a student struggling or checking out our teachers don't just give up on us and say well they're done I'm just going to focus on the rest of the class of that student that's important they continue to try and build them and keep them with the class they don't let them give up I want to go back and it's just amazing just hearing things that are just light bulbs going off but one of the things that you were just talking about the math class and I'll give a personal example because I was never taught that one I graduated high school in 1990 I was in fourth grade and never mind but in fourth grade back then we were one of the things how to add large columns of numbers and I like you math has not been one of my better subjects it's why I'm a journalist rather than an engineer but my dad just did and he sat down and he showed me he said okay well here's an easy way to do these large columns of numbers just find a 10 put them off to the side carry what you need to carry instead of trying to add each number by the row and so the next day I go to school I'm off the board I do that and my teacher lost her mind that wasn't the way that you do it that's not how I'm supposed to do it I shouldn't be doing that my dad had to come in and jump up and down on the desk because in his mind he got the right answer how do you care how he got there as long as he got the right answer and I love that I love this and not saying well you did it wrong but how did you get there what was your thinking that is huge I'm doing it too sometimes kids feel like they're wrong and so it makes them feel bad if they think they can't get it but if they solved it another way and they can show that it works to add the 10s on the side or whatever that strategy was then they are able to share their strategy and they get validated that way as well and other students that might make more sense to that struggling student the way she solved it versus the way she solved it or whatever so most days we put up at least four or five different ways to solve one problem and it's just the richest conversation that's just amazing to me because it's not the way it usually happens it just isn't we talked a little bit earlier about your student-led parent-teacher conferences is that pretty common across where did that this is the first time I had ever heard of that and it's just awesome to me I'd like to hear more about it that's kind of where our waves came in and us writing our bowls down is when we would go to them at least from what I remember I would show my parents like here's where my test were then but here's where they are now this is how my teachers help me get better this is how I've put in the work to be better I remember we used to make I haven't made one in a while just because I haven't had the need to but we would use to have to make a slideshow presentation to show our parents at the meeting and your wave stands for wildly important goals we wanted to strive for so we would say this is what I got on my reading test and this is where I need to be this is where I want to be to me why it's wildly important and so then the parents can also see that the teachers are working with us to try to be better and that kind of builds that relationship so the parent-teacher relationship where they both have respect for each other and I think that's another really big thing too with this is that everyone has so much respect for each other the family thing everyone kind of loves everyone it's not like I see somebody walking down the hallway and I'm just like we have respect for each other it's not just those teachers being like well your kid is really bad at math so he needs to work on that so it's like yeah I'm struggling in math but I'm trying my best this is where my goals are and saying that you can improve and I'll just teachers saying that no he's not good at this and the conference usually entails a little bit more than just your goals I mean in my classroom my students share the things that they're really proud of that they've accomplished sometimes it might be a piece of writing that they've done or something a project that an art project or something that they haven't taken home yet or you know and even sometimes it's the things that they're struggling with but it's what they want to share now usually during the student conference I haven't had much to share and may share so you know they must share their goal or something like that but they may share a piece from their writing or you know things like that and it's just that relationship also the parents get much more information by hearing their child say what they're really proud of or what they're working on then then a teacher just say here's your child's score what parent has their kids come home and say I've set this goal for myself that you don't want to help them achieve I mean there are a few out there I'm sure but when my kids come home and say I've set this own goal for myself and I want to achieve it your parents are going to get involved and do whatever they can to help their child achieve it and then there's where your community pride has been you know there's always in the district there's a few families maybe just on that important education just isn't that important is this own goal setting are you seeing that improve the outcomes there as well one thing I liked about student-led conferences at the high school level is a lot of times parent-teacher conferences you want to see the kids the parents of the kids who are struggling the student-led conferences we want to see them all because the kids who are achieving at a high level are just important their goals are just important it's not like she's fine we have to deal with the struggling kids it's focusing on all of them and at the upper level it was a lot of focus on career aspirations not just goals education what do I want to do after this what am I doing now that's going to help me reach that goal well I don't care that much about this class because I want to do this that's fine so how is this class important it allows you to have broader discussions with the parents about what they're doing and I think that's that sounds like a key thing to me I know that my kids you know they're all out of school now but for a while there's a lot of grandkids in school but when we would show up to parent-teacher conferences it was why are you here we don't even see your kids are doing fine and at some level as a parent even though you know your kids are doing fine it almost makes you feel like why why am I not important why are my kids not important just because they're doing well and this is awesome because it's saying to even the parents whose kids are academically you know excelling you are important your input to us is important us being accountable to you is important and that's huge I challenge our students today I mean even seniors are getting ready to graduate you talk like hey I haven't really needed to put together my goal setting for a couple of years or my wildly important goals but life as you get out there gets so busy that you forget to put down your goals and you end up working in the minutiae every day and you forget about your goals it's easy to do it's easy to go ahead and just do the busy work every day and forget to focus on your wildly important goals and there's where you'll find yourself a couple of years down the road you'll be stagnant and you will see the personal growth that you have hoped you would have seen in that two years or three years or five years or six months so I mean it's important hopefully these are things that are instilling in them for their forever future I would like to ask you say you haven't had to write your goals down in a while but I don't think that means that you don't have it have you got it in your head you know what your goals are you just haven't had to put it down on paper and I think that comes from starting in first kindergarten first grade writing down your goals now it's just instinctive and that is just I think it makes rich conversations at home with families too probably talking with her parents about the things that she's accomplishing or the things that she's still working on so it's already started that conversation a long time ago I know my conversation with my parents and my kids' conversation with me was like oh okay so how was school life Matt fine would you learn Matt now it's where are you on your goals and that's we're back to accountability I just think I cannot and everything I'm hearing tells me that same thing that this culture of accountability that has been created here is just it's so different it is so unique and I think it's clearly why this district is doing so much better than the walls around it I can like say that a lot of the reason why the accountability is so important to everybody is because like how Karen said earlier everybody is family everybody is going to treat you like they're own they're going to help you be better no matter who they are or who you are they want you to be accountable and the follow through too I mean if my kids when they would come home and say what did you learn today nothing I said I'll email your teacher and they knew I would so then it was suddenly like oh well today oh so you did learn something today and if they went to Mrs. Hull and had no homework turned in she's going to let me know pay your kids not turn their work in and then there's going to be this conversation so the relationship, the accountability back and forth there is follow through we don't just make a threat I'm going to call your mom if I tell you I'm going to call your mom if you don't hold up your end I'm going to do it some of the teachers did too and it was real bad about putting stuff in and I would call the principal and say how come Mr. So-and-so does not have my kids great and he's got six zeros in here why are they not in the power school so yeah and that's by the end of accountability and you know if it was well no those are actually zeros oh no now you're grounded but you know the best thing is not something that can be implemented in larger districts it is economically feasible it is physically feasible in the district the size of Kansas City for example you can have 15 kids in a classroom which isn't a way to do that but I is there any reason why these wildly important goals this accountability, this self-accountability this goal setting couldn't be implemented in larger districts we don't necessarily have always smaller classes my class sizes range from 18 to 25 until this year this was the first year I had a class that was less than 18 so we do have typical to what your larger city schools would have in most of our elementary classrooms and that raises the question even harder why can't why shouldn't these same levels of accountability be done in a larger school district it's not impossible for districts out there that are large and for whatever reason you get the buy-in you get the buy-in from the community from the students and from the parents and it's just a matter of people believing in that and what makes them do so I can't tell you obviously I can make a lot of money but that's what has to happen it absolutely has to happen three-legged stool have to have the buy-in otherwise I think it's very difficult for students to make it on now how do you want to go? our teachers are amazing like Mr. Prager they're so involved with us everybody wears multiple hats and they get involved with us not just on an academic level but with a personal level back to go to them for anything and ask us for stuff we can go to them and it's just really great to have so awesome teachers I think too we get a lot of academic freedom to tailor things to our kids because my classes change each year depending on which kids I have and what their needs are and I have friends who teach at some districts where it's like here are your lesson plans and here are your tests and that is not effective and I know that's just the situation hiring good teachers giving them freedom you still have accountability but I can teach what I think the students need to teach and I follow the state standards but I have freedom to do it in a way that reaches them and interests them and kind of like back to what you asked bigger schools, bigger districts most definitely can have this environment but the students have to want to grow and the teachers have to want to help them grow and see that here the goals that the teacher our coaches have set for ourselves, well our coaches are our teachers so they help us grow not only in the class they're teaching but in all classes because they want to see us succeed in life and we want to succeed in life and we want to make their lives easier because they do so much for us and every student in here is sometimes a student-athlete and having your teacher be your coach at the same time as they're your teacher it really does help build that relationship so much so let me ask this, you know we talk about the buy-in how important is leadership to getting that buy-in that's huge you mean individual leadership well I mean the administration there's a difference, I used to talk about this to my reporter I was a fairly effective editor and leader I think there's a difference between management and leadership and real leadership requires someone to be to have, number one have a goal whether it's just being the best sonic restaurant in the world it's still an end goal they've got to be excited about it because if they're excited about it if they are passionate about it their subordinates will catch it so how important is it at the district level at the building level to foster that buy-in how important is it to have a leader rather than a manager so we have this thing and we just, like we meet up and we have, it's called leadership council and we meet up and whoever wants to do it can do it, it's not like if you have something that you're not good at you can't do it, but you can just do it and you go up and you say okay I want to do this and then you give a speech in front of the whole school and so then you learn how to do that and then you'll get to go and do school activities and then all the kids are involved in the stuff that normally just the teachers would be involved in but then the students get to go and follow in their teachers footsteps and learn how to do the real world and I think Brendan hit on it with the flexibility within our curriculum because I do have friends who teach in large districts and they're expected to practically be on the same page the same problem at the same time and that's just not catering to the student then you need to meet the student where the student's at not where your script says you should be at now you do still have to meet those standards but you need to meet the student and that's where your data and your research and all that comes really into play and you have to stay on top of those things on top of the latest research on top of your current data so that you can meet those students right where you need to be but having that flexibility from administration or the community or anyone to meet them there is really key back to your question though of maybe administration leadership I don't that has not been a factor for me at this district I don't feel that I've really ever had any administrative leadership here and I'm fine with that because I have my own agenda I guess that's a bad word these days I have my own set of goals if you will and I track myself as well as my students why I'm doing this like that's just that is the game here that I keep my eyes on we have not had leadership in my opinion that has done either professional development that was key to my job performance or my individual roles we have not had either leadership that involved themselves in our day to day operations at all and maybe interfere I feel like we have just been a ship sailing on course and there's not been a leader we as a staff are unified in our goals to make kids succeed and then we do that on our own and I want to speak for you a couple of principles one of our principles said if you have good teachers and you give them freedom it's going to go well if you have bad teachers and you give them freedom it's going to go the other way it's my job to make sure I put together a good staff and then empower them to do their thing and that's leadership that's the difference between leadership and action it's worked well and there are times when you have to go through administrators that are more effective and less effective in different ways in a variety of ways I do think all of our administrators are very involved and they care a lot and they meet with students I send my newspaper students to talk to the superintendent all the time it's always accessible and that has not been my experience in other districts and I think that's hugely important when you're passionate about a topic they try to find a way to let you go do that or to implement that so we've had some after school clubs that we've put in place because of that passion or gone to a professional development because of that passion and right now Dr. Kitch is currently trying to find some programs that we've been saying we miss these we want them please see if we can find a way financially to make that work and he's working really hard to make that happen so we have had that like he said teachers who want to seek that too and so it comes from that as well it sounds to me like good leadership at the top is what's happening because they're not good leader isn't micromanagement they're not running I always tell my reporters if I have to sell you stories every day then I've got the wrong reporters you've got your beads go find me some stories that's not my job and so you know what I'm hearing is there is some good leadership because they're staying out of your way and letting you do your job clearing off the things that interfere with that for money interference and at the same time there's a vision at the top that is also coming up from the bottom and meeting together and that to me that's huge I think to get the buy in at schools where this isn't the norm you're going to have to have some real strong leadership that has that vision is excited about it but other people will catch it's not easy to change the culture but that's what it requires the culture that's good that perpetuates success as a manager if I hire the right people I don't work a day in my life and so if your leadership is hiring the right people they don't need to get into your science class they don't need to get into your math class the teachers are getting it done so it's good that they don't feel that pressure from leadership because they're obviously doing their job to a certain extent if they don't I promise you my people do know if they're not doing their job because if I have to do it it's not going to end well and we have some great people who will put in so much energy to everything they do I have to do a couple of shout-outs Jennifer here on the end is being nice and quiet but she will jump in and pitch in and help Karen is helping not only from the business aspect she helps us with sports that's just what it is people will jump in and help at all kinds of crazy times and I know the kids have too I've seen these guys like Gar the Pool and other things and they're just really professional and all they do so I think that energy level that people are willing to commit is really important this is the clubs that you're involved in five different things and that's called leadership opportunities I don't know if one of you wants to be like that I was going to say you've got to you've got to like say what it is like student council student council yellow ribbon and FCA, fellowship of Christian athletes FCCLA Scholarship cross-century basketball baseball track baseball case choir, band FBLA I'm also class president yeah like you guys aren't very involved but you're not really outliers a lot of students are really involved in lots of different things and it's great that you have kids who are involved in one thing but I think it's I mean it's also great when you can be involved in lots of things there are challenges with that she was gone last week so she had to plan ahead and get her assignments and you know those are good lessons for the future in the collaboration across the board I work at the elementary school but I'm working at the junior high I'm creating a career day for our students I've been working with I've been creating a student newspaper at the elementary level they're helping out tipping in all across the board no matter what grade level you teach if you have something you want to try to do or encourage or create somebody in our district is going to help you with it however they can if it is acceptable also even though like what Kendra was gone at an FFA convention for four days and even though that seems inconvenient at the time and it's like oh man I got a plan four days ahead figure out what I need to get that's what's building the leadership skills and the student body and that's crucial I think being involved is one of the most important things a community needs especially at the school I will just write up on it I didn't want to take up more than you already did all this time although I think we could probably go for hours I'm hearing all kinds of really interesting things and this is really great but just if anybody has some final thoughts we're about out of time Dr. Pitch do you have any final thoughts I would love to hear of it just want to cry all the way around community cry school cry academic cry alright well I really appreciate everybody's time I'm going to be writing up a story on this I'll be here all the weekend the first part of next week to put it on the web and just talk about the things that you've heard here and I'm just I'm so impressed so impressed with the things that I've heard I've been, as I said, in and out of a lot of school districts in 30 years and I'm very very few that I've heard of some of the things that I've never heard some of the things that I've heard here today and I want to thank you all I've been appreciate your time this has been just an awesome experience thank you very much good guys back to work something is not right


Good morning. Greetings. We'll give it a few more minutes for folks to be able to come on in, but anticipating a short meeting today. Also, I know that Liz is out, so you get me this morning instead of Liz, so yeah, fun. Yeah, we'll give folks a few more minutes to come on in, and also making sure that I can see some of the app delivery folks. Thomas, you might be on the spot this morning. We'll see. Dims, I already caught you, so you're good to go. Out of curiosity, who signed in as a tech security? That's me. Okay, cool. No, no, that's perfect. I was like, I know it's a very limited amount of people that can actually be tech security. So well done. Cool. All right, we've got 26 folks in the line, so we'll go ahead and get us started in here. Welcome. Normal anti-criss policy applies here. You have made it to the meeting because this is the August 3rd meeting, then it's kept over in the TOC working doc. So our morning today is going to be tech updates, and we'll be talking about projects applying the move levels. Happy to be able to take any other items of business as well, but we will rock and roll with tag app delivery, which may or may not have updated their slides, so we'll see. Thomas, do you have anything for tag app delivery? So I'm not really sure if others will join the meeting. So there's nothing really new from our side. As we are currently dealing with the DAPO submission, they will present their project in the next two weeks. Furthermore, and this is wrong in the slides here, the operator white paper has been released, and therefore this is finished. And another thing which is also wrong in the slides today is that we sent out a request for public comments for the cooperative delivery working group, so everyone is free to comment on this, and we would like to have a vote of the TOC regarding this working group to get this started. Yes, furthermore, there's nothing really new from our technical advisory group at the moment. You have a link for the, wait, operator white paper. I know you've got it over in the slides as well, and folks can see that. I'm sorry? Do you have a link for the operator white paper ready at hand so folks can move you? Perfect, thank you. Drop it in the chat when you have it. Perfect, all right. I'm not seeing anybody else from app delivery unless they'd like to be able to have themselves now. We will hop on towards contributor strategy, and I know we've got some folks here from them. Yep. Perfect. Good morning. I'm short and sweet because it's summer of 2021, and lots of people are in PTO. So as a result, not a lot has happened in the last month. We're currently choosing a tag logo, which the designers at CNCF have given us several suggestions. The recruiting playbook is in review feedback with our TOC liaisons. If you want to take a look at that, there's gonna be some changes to it that they've suggested. And then next we'll be going to Community CRM, which is a tool recommendation. And that's kind of it for this month. All right, any questions? Anybody else have anything to add as far as we're going on and taking contributor strategy? All right, seeing no questions in chat and nothing else in here, drop onto network. And Lee, I know you're here and I know that I pinged you for slides here. So I'll just let you do it live. Okay, thank you. Yeah, the slide is, so I'm very tardy on filling it in, but it is up to date, and I'm not gonna make you awkwardly refresh it out, but. You get one, you get one per meeting, so it's fine. Okay, all right, thank you. Give me a second. Sure, thank you. So yeah, you know, it's not a dissimilar story from what Josh just said. There've been some folks on vacation. I attempted to take some myself that didn't really work out as a side note. There are a couple of projects that are under active review. So Cilium is actively under review, going through due diligence, which is concluding. I think we are ready to, is Justin with us? No. I don't believe so, but that is good updates. Thank you. But yeah. Yeah, but we're, but it's there, it's done. It's ready to, he's done, I'm done. And the write up is quite concise, but the diligence was done. And so that just needs to be sent to, or Justin just needs to take that forth and make it public, I guess. Chaos Mesh presented this last tag network meeting and they are currently a current sandbox project. They're proposing for incubation. I'll link to their incubation proposal is there. I'll just do a short couple of comments. Just they'd been like almost to the day a year since they had presented their sandbox proposal. And the project itself has done, built quite the community, has any number of adopters. They've just done very well, just watching them go from, you know, just having started up to where that project is now. So it was nice and I'm not, that wasn't my plus one per se, but it just kind of a nice reflection to see that happening and to see folks really taking community to heart. So big announcement, if you haven't seen press releases and things as Lincordy, graduation accepted, graduated, is now there. So we're clearly very proud of that project. Other sandbox projects had been accepted recently. An order of business is overdue. And I mentioned this last time that we met and that is a nomination of an additional co-chair. Currently it's myself, Lee Calcote, Ken Owens. And we'd like to nominate co-chair Ed Warnacky. Ed is a distinguished engineer at Cisco and has been quite active in tag networks meetings and helping Stuart already. So it's nice to be able to, I think this is hopefully more of a recognition of the fact that this individuals are already performing that stewardship. So we just need to get the nomination sent out. Yeah, I think we'll forego an update on the working groups because it not much has progressed since last we met. All right, thank you for the update. Like I said, you get one free refresh every meeting. No worries. That's great. Yeah, and thanks for the update on the projects. I'll watch for the nomination for Ed again. Any questions, comments, notes? All right, thank you, Lee. Moving on, tag observability. Yes, we are also feeling the summer slump. We are considering to simply skip the meeting next in two weeks. We have put that to the question in the meeting in a few. We had a few presentations which are recorded. So anyone who wants to see them more than welcome. One project is considering donating itself to CNCF. That's the Prometheus operator, which is obviously quite close to Prometheus, which is why I suggested if they wouldn't prefer to join Prometheus or Prometheus Community as GitHub orgs, they're taking this internally and we'll get back to the tag. But just as an FYI, they're considering donating themselves. And also Logano's logo news. It's currently ongoing, but we are waiting for updates from the artists. That's on me. I will check in on that one. Thank you. Happy to help. Questions, comments, anything else coming up for tag observability? Yeah, Lene, go ahead. One question. The presentation recording reached you. Where can we find them? I will get you the YouTube link while we're on the call. Thank you. If you could post it in chat, it would be perfect. It's part of the normal tag. So it's just part of the normal recording, but I'll look up that list and put it in chat. Thanks. Great, thank you. Other questions? Right, I'm seeing no one else come on in. So tag runtime. Hey, good morning. Yeah, so we've had a few meetings. So some updates on the projects and the containers and runtime space wasn't cloud presented in our last meeting. So they became a sandbox project too. So they were cold differently. They were called WA-SCC, and they changed their names and they applied for sandbox in this CSF, and they got approved. And so we have some other sandbox projects that are related that already got accepted. So one of them is Crosslet. That allows you to run web assembly with Kubernetes. Another one is Crater. And that one is a Kubernetes state machine, Kubernetes operator state machine. And another project that got accepted together was ORAS, which is OCI Registry Storage. All those projects are related and they're already in sandbox. We also have a presentation from the folks in the Kata containers community. They're going to be talking about confidential containers on September 2nd. So that's using a trusted execution environment. So we're looking forward to that presentation. In the AI, Edge, and Machine Learning Operation Space Volcano, which is a project in sandbox, they're presenting on August 26th. They're going for incubation. Yeah, so that one is Machine Learning Workloads do in batch workloads on top of Kubernetes. Another project called MLflow, which does end-to-end machine learning, it's scheduled to present on August 5th. That's our next meeting on Thursday. And then finally in projects in KubeDL, that's deep learning or Kubernetes deep learning workloads. And that's already in the CNCF in sandbox, but they're presenting to give an overview of the project on August 19th. And as far as tag runtime activities, we are also choosing a logo. So in our next meeting, we'll discuss that. So there's six proposals, so we'll choose one of them. And then we also have a KubeCon North America maintainer session schedule. And yeah, that's all that I have for the updates. Very good. I like how you seem to be partial to one particular logo. Yeah, yeah, so I like that one, but we'll see. OK, I'll watch that space for more. Questions, comments from the group? All right. Thank you, tag runtime. Security. Hello again, everyone. Just some quick updates from us. We have a new micro survey out specifically on cloud native security. We're looking to collect information from various respondents to help make the content that security tag delivers more actionable, more relevant, and useful for the community. So if you haven't already done so, please take the time to complete the survey and share amongst your colleagues and friends. That way we can solicit input from the widest audience possible. We've also got a new security resources section within our repository for projects. This was the combination of actually it's one of our oldest issues that we've had. This came out of the security pals pilot that is still ongoing, as well as some additional feedback from the community. So you'll find within that subdirectory information about embargo, how to create a responsible vulnerability disclosure policy, and some templates within it. We also recently had our half-year review of our security roadmap. We have a lot of things that are currently ongoing. Four of those major projects, we're hoping to close out very soon, with two more projects kicking off. We also had 52 submissions for cloud native security con. It is now closed. We actually had two more come in very late. So we're up to 54 now. And the quality of the submissions this go around has been stellar and phenomenal. And we've got a lot of really hard decisions to sort through everything. So this will probably be one of the most successful cloud native security events that we've had. We also recently had a presentation on shift left automatic generation of network policies, which was a proposal to automate the generation of Kubernetes network policies for just the right amount of connectivity. They had some good feedback on that that occurred on July 21st. And that is everything. So thank you. Yeah, go ahead. This is Josh. I would love to see the security resources for projects get merged into the contribute side to have everything in one place for the maintainers. So I'll ping your tag later. OK. Come up with a way to do that. Yeah, just hit us up on Slack in our channel or you can DM me directly and we'll work to make that happen. Thank you. OK, other questions? All right, seeing no questions. And thank you for the update. Moving on to tag storage. Hi, this is Xin from Tag Storage. Hey, go ahead. So in Tag Storage, there are three projects that have applied for incubation. The first one is Langhorn. We are currently doing a DD for that. Survey has been sent out to the end users. So far we received results from three production users. And so we are going through those. And Louise has been going over their project repose, doing some deep dives, and working with the project team to do the reviews. So that is going well. And the second one, Chuba FS, we have a draft DD doc. And Rafael has been reviewing the doc and providing feedback to the project team. So that is also ongoing. And the third one, Open EBS, there were some concerns regarding some of the licenses used in the project. The project team has been working on addressing those issues. I think most of those are addressed now. And the project team is working with the Open ZFS community, trying to upstream some of the changes they made to ZFS. So that is ongoing. And we are going to schedule a meeting with the Open EBS team to go over the current status and trying to come up with recommendation to TOC. And so in addition to those three projects that are under review, the three tech has been working on the cloud native disaster recovery by paper. So we have been discussing that in our tech calls. And I think all the review comments have been addressed. The doc is ready. So we're planning to send it out to the TOC mailing list to get wider reviews. And so now that the DRY paper is in good shape, we are going to go back to the performance and benchmarking web paper and trying to finalize that. So that's all from the tech storage. Great. I know we've got Saad and Harry on the line as far as for both Longhorn and Chubow. Any updates there from those TOC folks? Saad, come on in. Yeah, I need to sync up with Luis on the results of the survey. So I'll try to do that offline. OK. And Harry, Chubow. Yeah, for Chubow FS, I just had a meeting with their maintainers. So they are currently still need to update several parts in the due diligence doc. And the job is already submitted to TAG for other tech chairs for final review. So this is com status. So I will say the due diligence doc could be finished in the next few weeks. Yeah. Excellent. OK. Thank you. Any other questions around storage? All right. Thank you, TAG storage. I did jump the gun a little bit about being able to chat about projects that we're currently moving around. I've made an error on the slide. Kate is currently in voting. Questions out here, as far as things moving ahead. We've got updates from Cillium as well. We've got updates from Chubow. Anyone that anyone wants to be able to talk about here? All right. Seeing no one on mute, that basically covers our agenda today. Any other items that we need to drop in? Briefly, I'm obligated to bring up Chaos Smash. I don't know if those folks were successful in, they're currently proposing for incubation. And I don't know if that team was successful in landing as a sponsor. So I apologize. I don't know if this is the list of that. OK, yes, it's labeled. This is just the people with sponsors up here. The projects waiting for sponsors are over in the public working doc. And I will drop that into chat as well. That is a perfectly fine question. And I will take a note to add that into this slide for next time. Here is the link for it, where you should be looking for projects that aren't listed here. Other questions? Yeah. I want to think with the voting or the projects in voting, maybe we can show the number of votes that they have already and how many are remaining. So I'm speaking for Kader and that is out for voting. And that's within the scope of the tag runtime. So I'm not really sure how many votes they'd need to go into or to get passed to go into incubation. I can add these. I'm not going to do it right now, but that's perfectly fine. And where I'm pulling this data from is the public TOC working doc. So it makes sense to be able to add that in here. Awesome. Other questions, comments? All right. I will send everyone back into their days because it seems like we are complete here. So all right. Good to see all of you. Be well. Thank you. Thanks. Bye, all. Bye. Thank you.


Let's do this Hess's law problem using the heats of formation of these particular substances, so I Guess it's this problem the same Figure out the heat of The reaction of this reaction using its particular or its various heats of formation So we've got ethylene here, and it's really important that you know the state of matter of these things Okay, it's like as you can see on this table. It's got water gashes and water liquid They've got different heats of formation Okay, why because they're different states, you know, so it takes more energy to take it from a you know Solid to a liquid or a gas or whatever Okay, anyways, so the first thing we want to do so what are we looking for we're looking for Delta heat of this reaction And we know The heats of formation of these different Okay, is everybody okay with that? I guess the first thing we should do is balance this equation guys should have reminded me right so What do we got here? So What do we say it was it was three two two, right Okay, so it's very important to balance because if you don't you won't be able to do this problem Okay, so heat of formation is in units of kilojoules per mole So help me out by looking at the table if you guys could what is the heat of formation of ethylene here? Plus 52.3 What about oxygen? Gas Zero right, okay, so make sure you guys get that why is it zero kilojoules because it's it's in its It's in its most stable form at atmospheric conditions. Okay, and it's in its elemental form Okay, so I that's why I wanted to do this problem with you guys so I could give give that So carbon dioxide, what is it and water gashes? Okay, so how do we do this so the heat of the reaction? It's going to be the sum You guys know the summation symbol, right? the sum of the total so heat of formation of the products minus the sum of the heat of Formation of the reactants, so now let's see if we can fit all of that in one line Okay, so So the products are so we've got to multiply by the Coefficient two so it's going to be two times negative three ninety three point five kilojoules per mole times 241.8 kilojoules per mole minus 22.3 kilojoules per mole plus zero I'm sorry plus five Times zero Everybody okay with that equation? Okay, so now all you do is just plug that into your calculator So that's the same number as me So we'll say zero Negative one three two two point nine kilojoules so that is Is this an exothermic or endothermic reaction? Exo I can see how this is very similar to in fact this is has this law in action, okay? Any questions on this one? Pretty straightforward, I guess the thing to remember is the standard state okay, and you have to be given all those numbers


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Outsource your IT needs to Bidu so you can focus on the needs of your business without having to worry if your server is down. Bidu, the next level internet, worries about the technical stuff so you don't have to. Book now for a free consultation and use our promo code to be eligible for a free video conference solution or work from home kit. So the first thing is for the builders out there and it's about thumb screws. Kung matagal ka na sa computer, like I remember in the early 90s at least dito sa pinas, wala pang thumb screws. Sobrang hasel na kailangan mo maghanap nung screwdriver and whenever you need a screwdriver, palagay na wawala yan.  But now these things are super convenient. They've become mainstream so even budget cases have them and they're super useful because yun. You just need to use your thumb rather than a screwdriver. Pero, pwede mo rin palagamitin yung screwdriver sa thumb screw. I know, right?  To be honest, nalaman ko lang yun this year. Mag-isa ako sa shop one time. Sobrang higpit nung isang screw dun sa deep cool case. The Matrix 55 mesh add RGB 4F. Sobrang sigep talaga, like you need the thumb of Zeus to get that thing off the case. Hindi, hindi ko talaga matanggal. So I'm trying and I'm trying. And I'm looking at it. And then big lang, alam mo sa may tinatawag na yurika moment na parang makalight bulb ka na lang na, wow, wait a minute. Pwede pa lang yung screwdriver dito sa thumb screw.  It sounds super basic. Medyo, mapapaisip ka na should I really be listening to this guy because hindi niya alam na pwede pala yung screwdriver sa thumb screw. But yes, pwede pala yung screwdriver sa thumb screw. And it makes it so much easier because you don't need the thumb of Zeus to get those super yung sobrang nakasiksik na thumb screws dun sa cases. And depending on what you're installing, let's say you're installing a new graphics card tapos yung thumb screw yung dun sa likod nung case. And sometimes the positioning is really hard. And it makes a lot more sense to use a screwdriver rather than your thumb. Second tip, medyo technical naman, is for internet and it's about the NAT. NAT is network address translation or basically lahat nung information na pangapasok from the internet, pangapasok yan sa router mo. Tapos yung router mo parang traffic cop yan. Siya magsasabi na itong data na topupunta ka sa browser. Itong data na topupunta ka sa mobile via wifi. Itong data na top para sa discord. Itong data na top para sa game na sinestrimo parang ganon. Each packet of data sa go to the particular program that's requesting it, to the particular device that's requesting it and the NAT is like the traffic cop. Siya yung nagsasabi dun sa data kung san siya pupunta. Now, anong problema sa double NAT? Usually sa setups may ISP router modem where that connects you to the internet. Kung walato, di ka makakoneks sa ISP mo because you need a modem function of that router. But most of us have another router na nakakakabit dun sa modem router kasi usually medyo olats yung modem router kasi libra yun. Libra na binibigay yun nung ISP mo. In fact, I've talked about an ISP router in a previous video. You can check it out to see gana baka ganda yung performance ng typical ISP router. But most of us have a third-party router that handles the heavy lifting of the network in your house or in your business or wherever. Siya talaga yung nagsisabi na itong data pupunta dito, et cetera. Problema, since both of them are routers, both of them have NAT. Or, sibin mo nalang may dalawang traffic cop at paminsan hindi tugma yung instructions nung isa-tisa. Kung nagkaka-network issues ka, if you have some weird bug, if you have some weird latency in your network that you can't explain, it might be because of a double NAT problem. It's a bit technical about how to solve it. The easiest way would be to put your modem router on bridge mode. Basically, pinapatay mo yung NAT function modem router mo. Si nasabi mo na, lahatong data nagaleng sa internet ipastroom mo yan. Kung baga, retard na yung traffic cop ni modem router. Yung magda traffic cop na lang, yung magda NAT na lang, is yung third-party router mo. Problema, it's not so easy to get your modem router on a NAT. I've talked about my own troubles. Yung provider ko converge yung Huawei na modem router. Di ganong kadali para ilagay sa bridge mode. So, there are other options other than bridge mode. But basically, all of them boil down to forwarding your data through the modem router so that hindi na siya magi-isip. Wala na siyang control over aning pangpasok, anong yung hindi. So you just have one NAT in place which is your third-party router NAT. For the third tip, nagulatrenaw dito to be honest. And it's shut down versus restart for Windows 10.  Kong ay shutdown mo, it should turn everything off, return it back to its zero state kong baga, its pristine state for may conflict sa I.O. or things like that.  Pero sa Windows 10, hindi siya ganon. Actually, restart is the new shutdown. So Windows 10, which actually, they started in Windows 8, yung shutdown, hindi talaga completely pinapatay yung system state. They saved the kernel state and the kernel is sort of the low-level instructions and lahat mo yung driver instructions dun naka-store. And Windows 10 saves the kernel state on shutdown kasi gusto niya mas mabilis yung start-up mo. Instead niya, ilalode niya yung ulit lahat. Isasave niya yun para nakalode na yun pag-on mo ng computer. Mas mabilis na yung start-up mo. Yung problema nga, if you wanted to return to your system zero state, the pristine state, you want to restart and not shutdown because it's the restart command that tells the computer to wipe everything to start from the zero state. Don't save anything from the kernel. And, you know, it's kind of irritating kasi yung a common sense, ilisip mo na, ok, may problema, may in-update ako na driver, di ba?  Yun, ready to go na siya. The computer will have returned to its pristine system zero state. But actually, what you want to do is to restart, set everything to zero, then everything is ok. That's when you shut down.  My product, my RAM can go up to 4,000 megahertz. My desktop, my monitor can go up to 166 hertz or lampas pa doon, 200, 300, whatever. Ang hilig nila magtapon ng mga numbers, higher number better. And kasi for the manufacturer, gusto nila na maisip nung consumer, maisip nung bibilin na, ay oh, sobrang bilis nito. Ito yung bibilin ko. But what I don't tell you is na, yung ibang products, kailan mo pa i-configure para umabot doon sa speed na yun. Common example is the RAM. Usually, yung default speed nung DDR4 is only 2,400 megahertz. And yet, if you look at all of the RAM kits doon sa ibad ibang manufacturers, antatas nung mga speeds, 3,200, 3,600. May mga pampalo nung 4,000. But you need to configure it properly. Pupunta ka sa XMP settings. Kailang pa imanually set yung mga timings and things like that.  Hindi lang siya, pasok mo yun sa computer mo, 3,200 na siya. Sometimes, most of the time, some configuring, some assembly is required. Same thing with monitors. Yung usual default speed nung monitors only 60 hertz. And yet, may nakikita kang andami, 120 hertz, 144 hertz, 166 hertz, 200, 300 hertz, parang ganon. And again, it's true na aabot yung monitor na yun sa refresh rates na yun. Pero, you need to configure it manually. Usually, you need to have a driver update so that your computer knows na, oh, itong graphics card na ito, kaya yung speed na yun. Kutapos noon, you need to detect your monitor and you need to set it properly that enabled naman yung resolution and yung refresh rate na gusto mo. Hindi naman sa, nagsisilungaling yung mga manufacturers. But once you bought the item, wala na silang incentive para truean ka na, oh, ito ha, ano, kailan mo to gawin mga bago mo makita yung speed na inadvertize namin. So, that's just one thing that you need to keep in mind. Para sa ibang products, kailan mo tandaan na you need to tell it to go fast. Kumbaga, kailan mo yung configuration niya na, yes, takbuka. You know, you were born to run at 3600 megahertz, be free, run as fast as that. So, doon lang yun sa settings. Yung last na tip tungkol din sa speed or yung speed na pinapangako mga ISP providers. And if you watch their ads, parang sobrang ganda-pakinggan, di ba, parang 100 mbps, 50 mbps, fiber, 75 mbps. And when you look at mbps, you think megabytes per second. And what's a megabyte? Or 1000 mb is equal to 1 gigabyte. Kung 100 mbps connection mo, iniisip mo na grave, in 10 seconds makadownload na ako ng 1 gigabyte of data. But that's not the case because actually yung mbps refers to megabits per second, hindi megabytes. Tapos yung tamang terminology doon is maliit na B. So, sobrang liit lang noon difference noon. Hindi nga nagbago ng letter e. Nagbago lang yung case, imbis na large B, small B. Pero ang layo noon difference. Because if 1 megabyte, large B is equal to 1000 kilobytes, yung megabit small B is only 125 kilobytes or slightly less than 10% of 1 megabyte. Nakakalito, pero basically, you're getting much slower speed than 1 megabyte per second. Alayo nung 1 megabit per second versus 1 megabyte. Tapos yung nakakainispan, hindi mo rin masisi yung mga ISP kasi usually careful sile, lahat na mga advertisements nila, palaagin naka small B yan, indicating na megabit, hindi megabyte. And yet, as a consumer, you see Mbps and you just assume that Mbps is the same, regardless kung large B yan or small B. Pero, toto, the details are in the fine print. Ang layo nung speed difference between Mbps, large B, chaka Mbps small B. And so, if you get a fiber line with 100 Mbps thinking that you can download 1 gigabyte worth of data in 10 seconds, that is not the case. Yun nga, kasi megabit siya in bis na megabyte.  Pero, sa toto lang, I didn't learn all of these things at the same time. Pero, nalala ko talaga for each of these five things, nung nalaman ko sila, para nagulat talaga ako na pucha, like yung RAM, kailang ko pala iset sa XMP or yung thumb screw. When I realize that the thumb screw can also be used alongside the screwdriver. You have any tech tips that you think sobrang useful for our viewers, please let us know in the comments below. I'm very clear sa hardware sugar na hindi naman ako super techy. I still have a lot to learn. So actually, super ako matutawa like if I go through the comments and I see something na, hindi ko alam yun na and then I can incorporate that into my own knowledge, into my own building techniques, into my own network configuration, into my own settings for my own computer. So thanks for watching.


Hey what's good y'all, it's your boy Don from the Don Sean friends and we're back for another K-pop reaction and today we're actually gonna check out a tease Deja Vu dance practice that came out about four months ago So I know I haven't been doing a lot of tees, but today I definitely want to catch up on this And so I want to check out their dance practice to see what they're working with if you enjoy it Please let me know and you already know what to do.  Let's get it in. Let's see what they're doing y'all. Spend a minute Deja Vu Let's see one and two and three and four five and six and seven and eight Okay So for me like the first 47 seconds real smooth I love the cost like not the costume But the outfits at the bed and this ran with the all-black on and I'm listening to the music of the back Definitely matches, but the choreography is really like more Expressive so what I mean by that when I say expressive because I don't want to just say stuff and not explain it to you Expressive means like certain things being like hard hitting like if you see crump crump comes Wow, it'd be like that but there's times where moves can be more expressive with the hands and Just really gonna fill up that and that's that's what I see in this choreography as I'm listening to the music in the back Very arms like a lot of arm work a lot of arm work Not saying they're not using their feet, but the lot of arm work and chest work You can tell a couple of them know actually know how to crump to very expressive yet I like stat Go back go back go back. I like that. I love this right here. I Love that with the chest pops That was hard Mmm-hmm. Don't sleep on that. That was tight Hey Let's go. I Like that. I would have never thought about doing that with the feet You see what I'm saying about the arms y'all they're really expressive with the arms Like I'm not saying like no other being used their arms But this is you could tell like the choreography has a lot of more arm work than the average you can see it Hey Part I actually like what they just did we go back the part that I actually likes the most is the slide Check out the slide right here This like the artist the singer that's in the back right here with the vans on you see that slide what they did with the arms That's actually my part. I actually like that that part was cold Look at the game on the other top was dope, but that slide that did something for me. All right, let's go Uh-huh go right back into it It's really got crump feel to that's another thing that I'm people I got a real crump feel to it Everything matters with every move they're doing and the choreography looks very more intimate. It's not spread it out That's the most they really been spread it out Once again man another band with great formations and I like this. I love a little settlement I like that jacket lookie they really got like a fashion statement swag to them With the all black on very expressive they're very expressive They really is a tease is really expressive just as I'm looking at it right now Way to jump back in I saw that all these artists in these groups are like really Killing it, but a tease was real more with the artist today Real Ruby too got a real nice flow. So shout out to them shout out to them So let me know what are your thoughts on this? Did you like this dance practice and you already know and I know y'all gonna.  We're gonna do some music videos for y'all. All right, so Our schedule has been crazy. That's why we have a dead music videos But if I can least get James or a line in the room, we'll do that.  So I like this one. I Like this one. I gotta do a little bit more a tease and I will but y'all know what to do Jump in the comments. Let me know which one to do. Let me know which one you think that was the tightest And we go from there But other than that y'all I want to keep it moving. I finally got a computer here I'm gonna work. I'm gonna work this bad boy. I'm gonna get some more videos out for y'all. I will see y'all soon Peace