1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: It's that time. 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 2: Time time, time, luck and load. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 3: The Michael Varry Show is on the air. 4 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: I hate. 5 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 3: Continue education, I hate sexual harassment, seminars, all of it. 6 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 3: And our company uses what many of you probably use, 7 00:00:54,080 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: which is workday and I hate getting notification. And I'm 8 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: not a very technological person. But after that whole discussion, 9 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: I get an email there is an action pending in 10 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 3: your workday. Oh hell, So I start clicking and trying 11 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: to get through, and I don't know my password. If 12 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 3: you miss it the first time, it kicks you out. 13 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 3: And you get a call somebody in New York and 14 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 3: it's Michael Berry down in Houston again. And I get 15 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: there and I click all the way through, and you 16 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 3: know what it was. You can't make this up. You 17 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: have a pending item that needs to be completed. The 18 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: pending item is HR for you help case customer service survey. Honestly, 19 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: they got something wrong on my paycheck. They had to 20 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 3: send me an email to fix it. Well, I'll tell 21 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 3: you because it's too funny not to tell you. They 22 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 3: had misdirected money that was supposed to go to Ramone 23 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 3: to me. 24 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: True story. 25 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 3: There's no way you're going to believe that, nor should you. 26 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 3: But it happens to be true. So Ramone comes to 27 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 3: me one day a couple. 28 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: Of weeks ago, Hey, how should I handle this? 29 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 3: I went in my workday and there's two thousand dollars 30 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 3: that I'm supposed to have that I don't have, and 31 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 3: it goes back to January, and I'm what should I do? 32 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, I'll tell Eddie. So Eddie he 33 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 3: doesn't know what to do either, So he calls in 34 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 3: the people and they start working on it. And he 35 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: calls back and he goes, well, guess what, hot shot, 36 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: no good deed goes on Punni. He is owed two 37 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: thousand dollars. It's actually seventeen hundred fifty dollars. He is 38 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 3: owed seventeen hundred and fifty dollars. And guess what happened 39 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 3: to the money? 40 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 1: Somebody stole it? 41 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 3: No, it went to you. So now they're going to 42 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 3: do a clawback from you and give it to Ramon. 43 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 3: I swear to you that happened. I said, Okay, that's great, yeah, wonderful. 44 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: So I'm I have to my next paycheck. I had 45 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 3: to have money taken out, So then we had to 46 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 3: go through this long drawn out I said, I called 47 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: the lady. Teresa's her name, Teresa. Yeah, you can do it. Okay, 48 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 3: Well I need you to fill out the forum. Why 49 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 3: do we need to get documentation involved? So she sends 50 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 3: the forum. I can't open it because it's in some mody. 51 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: I said, can you just scan it send it to 52 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: me by email. I'll print it out and sign it, 53 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 3: and my assistant will scan it and send it back. 54 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: Okay. 55 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: So it's a two page document. 56 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: It's so simple. 57 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I erroneously receive the money. Now give it to ramonoop. 58 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 3: So I signed page two. Emily scans it and sends 59 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: it back. What was next? 60 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: I need both pages? 61 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 3: Oh, Mike, this is like the Mitch Hedberg bit on 62 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 3: when they hand him a receipt on his sixteen cent 63 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 3: donut and he said, now, I'm not filing that on 64 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 3: my taxes. You can keep that receipt. Why would I 65 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 3: need a receipt? So we had to send it again, 66 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 3: had to call Emily back. She'd left the studio. Oh man. 67 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 3: So after all of that, all of that, I get 68 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 3: an email that I have a function and I don't 69 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 3: know if y'all do workday or not. For those of 70 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 3: you who do it, keeps pinging you, Hey, you hadn't 71 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 3: done what you was supposed to do. There's something waiting 72 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: over here. And I thought, do they not know that? 73 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 3: I filled out the dang form twice, sent it twice, 74 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: and it was a customer service survey on how did 75 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 3: my experience go in filling out a document? 76 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: Back? 77 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 3: There were five options. I've logged out of that site. 78 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 3: Did we really need to do all that? Was that 79 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 3: really necessary? I'll tell you why it's necessary because in corporations, 80 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 3: as you grow, people don't have anything to do. The 81 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 3: number of patrol officers in a police department is often 82 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: ten percent or fewer of the total number of cops. 83 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 3: You think I'm lying. The number of men actually firing 84 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 3: at the enemy in a war is a small percentage. 85 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: Of the overall, You've got a lot of people. 86 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 3: Sitting around doing things that are not related to what 87 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 3: they need to do. In the school system, you've got 88 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 3: a lot of the number of actual teachers who are 89 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 3: educating the children, especially in a big district like HISD. 90 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 3: You be shocked, speaking of which, I've got a master 91 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 3: tutor who's going to be our guest in just a moment, 92 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 3: and he's the best I've ever seen at He's tutored 93 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: my kids for years. He has something called a study blueprint, 94 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: and I have asked him to share that on the air, 95 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,239 Speaker 3: not just with my kids, not just with my kids. 96 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 3: And if you're thinking to yourself, yeah, but my kids 97 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 3: are in school right now, don't worry. You're going to 98 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 3: share that segment. They'll be coming up next with your children. 99 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 3: He's incredible. He's helped my kids do very very well 100 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 3: in school. He's very very good at what he does. 101 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 3: But first we have Tony Hopkins, the president of the 102 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 3: FISD board Friends would school Board Tony. 103 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 4: Good morning, Michael. 104 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 3: How come you don't go by Anthony Hopkins. 105 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 4: My first name is actually Daniels, so I've been known 106 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 4: as Tony since the little kid. But I will say 107 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 4: on my resume over the years, I did put the 108 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 4: Anthony Hopkins for many a years. I mean they give 109 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 4: me a few interviews. 110 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 3: I will tell you that Anthony Hopkins goes by Tony 111 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 3: to friends. And I happen to know that because Lee 112 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 3: Majors told me a great story about having lunch with him. 113 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 3: And Lee Majors was leaving lunch when Anthony Hopkins was 114 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 3: coming in. It was about three or four in the afternoon. 115 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 3: Lee Majors was by himself. He had a newspaper. He'd 116 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 3: read the newspaper. Anthony Hopkins is strolling in and Lee 117 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: Majors is walking out of the restaurant and Anthony Hopkins Sir, 118 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 3: Anthony Hopkins to you. Tony says, Lee, how are you? 119 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 3: And he said, well, Tony, I'm doing great. I said, 120 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 3: you call him Tony Sai, yeah, Tony, Okay, keep going. 121 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 3: And he said, Lee, how are you. I'm good. He said, 122 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: I'm by myself for lunch. Have you had lunch? And 123 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 3: Lee Major said, I told him no, I'd love to 124 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 3: join you. He said, So I sat down and ate again, 125 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: and I wasn't about to admit that I'd already eaten. 126 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 3: And what I love about that story is, you know, 127 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: if somebody like that asks me, I'm gonna jump and 128 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 3: do it. But to know that Lee Majors became a 129 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 3: little boy super fan at seventy, at almost eighty years old, 130 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 3: when that happened, that just delighted me. Hang tight with me. 131 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 3: Tony Hopkins is the president or president of the Friends 132 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 3: with Independent School District Board. I want to give you 133 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 3: and your board a hearty congratulations for lowering the tax rate, 134 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 3: and I want to know how you did it. And 135 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 3: then hang tight, We're going to talk to Derek Moore, 136 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: tutor extraordinaire with some tips to help your kids succeed 137 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 3: this school year. And trust me, he gets paid a 138 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 3: lot of money to teach kids how to succeed in 139 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 3: school without having to be stressed out. So hang tight, 140 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 3: that's coming up. 141 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. 142 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 2: Onds on the goood. I never found anyone who fulfilled 143 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 2: my leads about how. 144 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 3: Important school was to me and what good schools I had, 145 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 3: what good teachers I had, Miss Hardy who taught me 146 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 3: to love literature, and how literature is relevant to my life, 147 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 3: how the great writings by the great writers and the 148 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 3: great ideas, how important they are, and that they give 149 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 3: voice to my ideas. They help me explain how I'm 150 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 3: feeling because they've done it before. Or Miss Martin, who 151 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 3: gave me a or helped me with a passion for debate, 152 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 3: or Miss Evans, who gave me an understanding of good government, 153 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 3: or Miss Clytie Lee who taught me to love English, 154 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 3: our language and how it's structured informed and the different 155 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 3: influences on it. I just think about all of those things, 156 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 3: Miss Tally, who taught me to appreciate the theater and 157 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 3: everything that goes in it. In this little bit of 158 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 3: rural school, she would put on the best one act 159 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 3: play in the state. Didn't always win it, but it 160 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 3: was good. 161 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: It was good. 162 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 3: Coaches, And this is why I get so angry when 163 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: I see schools doing things wrong, and when I see 164 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 3: people who were heading schools. Rodney Ellis's staff member was 165 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 3: the president of the HISD board. She got indicted and 166 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 3: pled guilty to taking kickbacks from people who were overcharging 167 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 3: the district, and she would sign off on it and 168 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 3: they would give her some of the money that they stole. 169 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 3: So it makes me very happy, Tony Hopkins, when I 170 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 3: see y'all lowering the tax rate for the friends, would taxpayers? 171 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 3: Good for you, sir, Good for you. It's a model 172 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 3: you deserve that your board deserves the credit for that. 173 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 3: What did y'all do? Did you cut expenses? Did you 174 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,719 Speaker 3: find that a lot of things weren't necessary? 175 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: How did you do that. 176 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 4: Well? In Friends with I see we run pretty thin. 177 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 4: We're about sixty two hundred student district. So roughly eighty 178 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 4: percent of our eighty three percent of our budget is people. 179 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 4: So when last December, when the last special session ended, 180 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 4: we looked at it and said, Okay, the funds that 181 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 4: have already been appropriated for schools four billion dollars for 182 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 4: public schools and a billion dollars for security are not 183 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 4: going to be enabled and that money is not going 184 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 4: to flow through to schools. We started looking at cuts 185 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 4: and so we started trying to find efficiencies. It's putting 186 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 4: a higher workload on all of our employees, but we've 187 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 4: done that. Then the other thing that we've done is 188 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 4: we've looked at ways to increase funding. One of our 189 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 4: big focuses this year, this past year and again for 190 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four to twenty five has been on attendance. 191 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 4: Schools only get funds if students are in a seat 192 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 4: every single day, and so we've tried to end the 193 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 4: COVID hangover. Did a lot of school districts have where 194 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 4: attendance wasn't necessarily as important during COVID because if you 195 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 4: were sick, you were told to stay home. And I 196 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 4: think one of the things that's really helped us out 197 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 4: friends with I believe was the first urban suburban school 198 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 4: district back in person in twenty twenty one. We've started 199 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 4: out seventy six percent in person. By January of twenty 200 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 4: twenty two, we were ninety or twenty one, sorry in 201 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 4: twenty twenty and then by twenty twenty one, we were 202 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 4: ninety six percent in person, so we haven't had the 203 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 4: learning loss. We also didn't have as much EZRA funds 204 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 4: to ramp up with and ramp down, and so you know, 205 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 4: we looked at positions. We brought in coaches to try 206 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 4: to help our kids get back up to speed after 207 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 4: being out, even though our kids weren't as far behind. 208 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,719 Speaker 4: Then we cut those positions back or absorbed into the 209 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 4: budget and made other cuts. 210 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: So it's a. 211 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 4: Combination of increasing revenue, lowering expenses such that we could 212 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 4: make it through. And then of course property values are 213 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 4: growing up. And so most of our reduction this session 214 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 4: or budget is from our debt service side. We're dropping 215 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 4: our debt service side three point three cents, and then 216 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 4: we're dropping on the M and O side point eight cents, 217 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 4: and that's because of the compression laws that are on 218 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 4: the books from the state. 219 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: Do y'all provide meals for students. 220 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 4: Yes, we have. Our low sees population is extremely small, 221 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 4: about eleven percent across the school district, so we really 222 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 4: only have two campuses that provide meals. The rest of 223 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 4: the campuses do not. 224 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 3: How many campuses do you have. 225 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 4: We have a total of seven, and. 226 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 3: That's elementary, middle and high school. 227 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 4: Yes, we have basically basically four campuses that are K 228 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 4: through five, one junior high, one high school, and then 229 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 4: one special school that's a partnership of three districts for 230 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 4: special education students. 231 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 3: How many special special ed students do you think you 232 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: have at. 233 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: The special school? 234 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 4: And that one is a very defined program. It's called 235 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 4: the Therapeutic Education Center. We used to send parent Land, 236 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 4: Alvin and Friendswoo and now der Park is joining us 237 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 4: as well. Used to send the kids into Houston at 238 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 4: a cost of seven year, eighty or ninety thousand dollars. 239 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 4: We're now doing it internally providing much better services. But 240 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 4: it's a school of literally right now ten people because 241 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 4: their level of need is so high, and that's not 242 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 4: something that we get funds from the federal government under 243 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 4: Title I or the state to cover the level of services. 244 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 4: But it's the services that are needed for those students, 245 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 4: and so we figured out we could do it cheaper 246 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 4: and better in partnership with our neighboring districts, and we 247 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 4: had a building where we could actually house those students. 248 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 3: When we talk, I mean, I'm sure it varies per kid, 249 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 3: but are we talking dyslexia? Are we talking severe autism? 250 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: This is severe behavior This particular one is severe behavioral. 251 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 4: But you know it's across the entire state of Texas. 252 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 4: Special education numbers are ballooning from dyslexia to autism across 253 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 4: the So you know, I think in our district right now, 254 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 4: we're fourteen percent of our students are thirteen percent. Dyslexia 255 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,239 Speaker 4: and autism have definitely skyrocketed, I think tripled, are quadrupled 256 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 4: over the last five to six years. 257 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 3: How many teachers do you think you'll have across the 258 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 3: district who meet the bilingual standard because you needed them 259 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 3: to be bilingual, not just that they happened to be bilingual. 260 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 4: I do not know that off the top of our 261 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 4: top of my head. Friends with we're a little bit unique, 262 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 4: and that we do not have is high a number 263 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 4: of students and that population, and so we don't have 264 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 4: the same programs that a bigger district may have, just 265 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 4: because of the demographics and Friends. 266 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 3: With Well, it sounds like a special place and it 267 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 3: sounds like you'll have your heads on straight. So bully 268 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 3: for you giving money back. Lowering the tax rate for 269 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 3: your taxpayers is unheard of. 270 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic. 271 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 3: Tony Hopkins, president of the Friends With Independent School District Board, 272 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 3: thanks for being our guest. 273 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 4: Thank you. 274 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: Michael. 275 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 3: Coming up, we will talk to a tutor who I 276 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 3: happen to personally know is really really good and I've 277 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 3: been trying to coordinate with his schedule to get him 278 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 3: on our show for quite some time. Kind of funny story, 279 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 3: Derek Moore came to my attention because Stogy's, which is 280 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 3: one of the places where I smoke cigars, has a 281 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 3: member's lounge in the back. You wouldn't notice it if 282 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 3: you go in there to buy cigars, but you can 283 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 3: pay extra and there's a lounge in the back that's 284 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 3: just for the members. And so many days in the 285 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 3: middle of the afternoon over the years, I would go 286 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 3: over there and prepare for the evening show in the 287 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 3: in the middle of the afternoon and have a cigar 288 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 3: and you know, nobody bothers anybody. There are TV's on 289 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,479 Speaker 3: and most people are on their computers working, and there 290 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 3: are people who can work from home or they have 291 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 3: a few hours to kill before meeting or whatever. And 292 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 3: Derek would be there and. 293 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: He'd have his backpack and he'd get his work out. 294 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 3: And he was preparing for tutoring somebody that night. And 295 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 3: the owner said, you know who that guy is? 296 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: And I said no. They said he tutors Will Smith's kid. 297 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 3: He flies to Los Angeles to tutor Will's. 298 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 5: Remember the actress at a rate of something turns out Michael, 299 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 5: because the past. 300 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 3: Is just a good test. First day at the University 301 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 3: of Texas was Monday, and he and I are very close, 302 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 3: but we have a father son relationship. He and mom 303 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 3: are very close and they have a mother's son relationship. 304 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 3: So he will tell her about a lot of the 305 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 3: picka une details of the day that he wouldn't share 306 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 3: with me, because that's more kind of things you tell mom. 307 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 3: So he had his math class and we had I 308 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 3: think three or four classes, four classes that day, and 309 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 3: he was going through them with her and he said, 310 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 3: my math class, the important thing is this, this and 311 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 3: this and the quizzes count for. 312 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: This percentage and this percentage, and. 313 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 3: So where I need to focus is on I think 314 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 3: it was the quizzes because they will end up at 315 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 3: up to seventy percent of the grade. And she said, Michael, 316 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 3: I am so impressed that you focused on day one 317 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 3: on where the grades come from. And he said, Derek 318 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 3: taught me to do that. It's one of those little 319 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 3: tricks that you may not know. And by the way, 320 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 3: I understand that a lot of people cannot afford a tutor, 321 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 3: but every person, every adult, can help their children with 322 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 3: school using just common sense that you apply in your 323 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 3: day to day. What Derek Moore does is a step above. 324 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 3: Derek Moore is our guest. I had three things I 325 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 3: wanted to ask you about. Number one kind of what 326 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 3: we just talked about. My wife gave me the notes 327 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 3: of things she wanted me to ask you about because 328 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 3: you've applied them to our life. The schedule simplifier. Why 329 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 3: is this important in what a parents need to know 330 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 3: in helping their kids succeed in school. 331 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question, and I'll tell you what 332 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: you nail bit because I have been working This is 333 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 2: my fortieth school year with students, And I ask college students, 334 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 2: high school students, in particular middle school, anybody who's at 335 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 2: that level one of the most important weeks. What are 336 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 2: the three most important weeks in a semester? And they say, oh, finals, 337 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 2: it's hard, it's crammed in. And then I say, well, 338 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 2: what if you are behind at the beginning, yeah, yeah, 339 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 2: I can catch up, And they realize after a few 340 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 2: moments that the first three weeks of a semester are 341 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 2: the most important. And that's what Michael t was talking about. 342 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 2: The schedule simplifier system is simply going through your syllabi, 343 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 2: going through how everything is weighted in your AP class 344 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: or your school class, and deciding where am I going 345 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 2: to put my energy. You have to get the details out. 346 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 2: You have to look ahead and smooth out your workload, 347 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 2: especially in college, because you're on your own. And that 348 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 2: allows them to control the balance. So I see that 349 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: it reduces their stress because you know what the worst 350 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 2: thing is surprises. Right, you have a professor and you 351 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 2: prep for a test, but you might have left off 352 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 2: a chapter that is not going to be a good day. 353 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 2: You've got to quiz over three chapters you thought it 354 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 2: was over two chapters. Those little things at the beginning 355 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 2: really set the table for the rest of the semester. 356 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: And I tell you what, when you know you've got 357 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 2: everything taken care of, you're free. You're free to have fun. 358 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 2: And that's what's so great is a little bit of 359 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 2: work on the front end will get you great rewards 360 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 2: in the back end, kind of like it in life. 361 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 2: I don't know how you do Sundays particularly, but my 362 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 2: Sundays after five are getting me ready for the week. 363 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 2: I can't wake up at six or seven or eight 364 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 2: Monday morning and get ready for the week. It's already going. 365 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 2: And so those Sundays are huge for each week. Well 366 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 2: in the same way the first three weeks of a semester, 367 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 2: those are huge of the semester. So that's a great 368 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 2: start for Michael T. And I'll tell you what the 369 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 2: schedule simplifier it just it does that. It systematically takes 370 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 2: our students through every syllabus, extracting what you need, and 371 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 2: then you put it in this top to bottom first 372 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: day of semester to last day of the last final 373 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 2: and it's just liberating. 374 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 3: You know, when I was growing up and I'm a 375 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: couple of years ahead of you. 376 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: I had a trapper. 377 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 3: Keeper, and I loved my trapper keeper. I have always loved, 378 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 3: as you know, organization, filing things, organizing things, labeling things. 379 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 3: Everything has to be clean and neat and orderly. And 380 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 3: I find that other than artists and certain people, people 381 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 3: are more successful when they are organized. And I think 382 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 3: that's what you've taught our kids to a great degree. 383 00:22:59,160 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: If you see it. 384 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 3: Kid coming home dumping their backpack and you see papers 385 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 3: crumpled up and things like that, that is a bad sign. 386 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 3: And one of the things that Derek has taught our 387 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 3: kids is let's get these things out, let's look at them, 388 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 3: let's organize them, Let's know what's important and what's not, 389 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 3: and learning how to take out the unimportant and focus 390 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 3: on the important. I'm looking at my wife's notes. She 391 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 3: asked me to ask you about the study blueprint to 392 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 3: manage time. 393 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 2: Better, right, And that's that's a great segue because ultimately 394 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 2: what you're talking about is kind of a buzzword phrase, 395 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 2: is executive functioning, right, and so being able to take 396 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 2: my week. You're a math competition guy. Everyone knows there's 397 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Michael 398 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 2: twenty four times seven, oh meet one eight there you go, boom, 399 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 2: I need you know, So we call it a one 400 00:23:58,720 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: hundred and sixty. 401 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 3: Eight I know you're ready eating blueprint. 402 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: I know I knew you'd know fast. But we call 403 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 2: it the one one hundred sixty eight hours study blueprint 404 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 2: and really just taking one step at a time. You know, 405 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 2: the average student needs about sixty eight hours of what 406 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 2: we call m AS in maintenance M level energy in 407 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 2: a week. That's sleeping, showering, and shaving. That's essentials every week. 408 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 2: High school might need more, college might need more, a 409 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 2: little bit less, depends on the student. You take those 410 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 2: sixty eight hours out, you have one hundred hours, that's 411 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 2: one hundred percent of your week available to allocate. So 412 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 2: then the study blueprint takes them through prioritizing that. So 413 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 2: what is the most important thing? We call those a 414 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: student activities. That's going to class, that's getting there early, 415 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 2: that's being prepared, that's doing your homework, that's studying also, 416 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 2: that's working out. You know, if you're going to church, 417 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 2: that's going to church. If you're going to a Young Life, 418 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 2: you're going going to uh Shabbat, you're going to your mosque. 419 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 2: You're going to do your yoga, whatever your spiritual exercise 420 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 2: is too. You've got to be balanced. 421 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 3: So Derek Moore is our guest. 422 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 5: He is a tutor extraordinary and even if you can't 423 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 5: hire any for your own household, he has some great. 424 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 3: Life lessons for your kids to help you with your kids. 425 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 3: Damn it all right, This is Mark Chestnut and Jar 426 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 3: Bizaar of Talk Radio. 427 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: Choice. Mom. 428 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 3: My friend is a very high level tutor. 429 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: He teaches my kids. 430 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: And he's sharing advice on how to help your kids 431 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 3: succeed in school. 432 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: And you play hot for teacher. 433 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 3: Actually, DLR man, I mean, DLR makes everything okay. Derek 434 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 3: Moore is our guest. 435 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: Folks. 436 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 3: I know you tune in for politics, but I love 437 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 3: the process of creating structure, creating. 438 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: Order in a world of disorder. It gives me joy. 439 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 3: It also gives me comfort if things are clean and 440 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 3: not dirty, if they're organized and not disheveled, if things 441 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 3: are in their place. If it creates an environment in 442 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 3: which success grows. And many people don't know how to succeed. 443 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 3: They've never been taught, they never learned, and then they 444 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 3: don't have anything to pass on to their children. And 445 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 3: this is generational. This is why some families succeed and 446 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 3: some families fail. If you can in any way interject 447 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 3: into their Hey, here's just a couple of tips that 448 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 3: you'll be surprised as a parent. Your child's success in 449 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 3: and out of school should be a huge focus of 450 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 3: your concern it should you get it. A lot of 451 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 3: parents I see this. They'll drag their kid to every 452 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 3: hitting coach, every pitching coach, every fielding coach, every select 453 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 3: ball team, but won't have anything to do with their education. 454 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 3: I don't understand that. Derek Moore has been my kid's 455 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 3: tutor for years. He literally flies around the country tutoring 456 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 3: the children of movie stars and singers and billionaires, and 457 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 3: he is so incredibly good. And my wife said, why 458 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: don't you ever have Derek one to explain what he does? 459 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 3: And I agree, And we've been trying to make this 460 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 3: work with his travel schedule for a while. My kids 461 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 3: can tell you about the More Method m O O 462 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 3: R E. Which is his last name, Derek, take five 463 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 3: minutes and explain what that is. 464 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael, thanks for having me on. And it is 465 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 2: officially the More Mastery Method. And actually just finished the 466 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 2: first manuscript for the book, uh and world class tutors 467 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 2: dot com, World class tutors dot com. I've actually got 468 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 2: a free chapter two there for anybody who wants to 469 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 2: pick it up. It's an overview of this way to 470 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 2: optimize learning. It's five very simple, repeatable steps m O 471 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 2: O R E. As you said, and what we do 472 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: is we begin by memorizing every student who takes a quiz, 473 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 2: who takes a test. Anytime you have a job interview, 474 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: you're talking about a new field, you need to memorize 475 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 2: the jargon, memorize the terminology, memorize the lingo, or you 476 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 2: can't even talk about the topic. So we begin by 477 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: attacking memorization, and our goal is to memorize perfectly. Then 478 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 2: the second step is the first. Oh, and that's overview overview, 479 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 2: and it's like today's legs where you have a nice 480 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: cake and it soaks up the three milks and it's 481 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 2: just getting the flavor in there. So if you look 482 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 2: at a chapter, let's say a biology chapter on history chapter, 483 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 2: but does it, sir, is. 484 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 3: The icing more of a meringue style or is it 485 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 3: a heavy Because you know the icing of trace letches 486 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 3: is underrated. 487 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 2: You know what the milk soaks in that top. You 488 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 2: might want it a little crispy, you might want a 489 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 2: little fluffy. That's where you get the specialization right where 490 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 2: that's okay, Hey, go for it, man. So thanks, man, 491 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: that's great. We want to soak up everything but the tech. 492 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 2: And so this is a system where you say, I've 493 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 2: got the vocabulary memorized, and whatever sized chunk I can handle. 494 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 2: Maybe it's one section, maybe. 495 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: It's a whole chapter. 496 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 2: Then I read all around the words, the pictures, the charts, 497 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: the graphs, the previews, the summaries, the end of chapter questions, 498 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 2: everything but the text, because that's going to give me 499 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 2: the framework and help my brain relax. I'm only going 500 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 2: to cover this much material on these pages. It's not overwhelming. 501 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 2: You know, the fight flight or freeze mechanism. It brings 502 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 2: your stress down when you can bite sized chunk it. 503 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 2: So the memorize is first, overview is second, and then 504 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 2: we need to organize. The nice thing about learning nowadays 505 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 2: everything is organized. It's chapters, it's outlines. It's done pretty 506 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 2: well for you. So we just extract those outlines from textbooks, 507 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 2: from literary pieces of work. Wherever we're getting our knowledge 508 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 2: from we have to organize it, and we want to 509 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: do it in a way that's methodical. We want to 510 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 2: be very systematic. The fourth step is the R and 511 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 2: that's read. I can't tell you the number of students 512 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 2: who go to class and they haven't read what the teacher, 513 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 2: what the professor, what the lecturer is going to present on. 514 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 2: In our more mastery METHODR are all done before lecture. 515 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 2: You know, if you go to class and you've memorized 516 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 2: all the vocabulary words, you've overviewed, you've organized, and you've 517 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 2: read the chapter, you're sitting back and you're now able 518 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 2: to listen in a stress free way. You're going to 519 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: know ninety percent of what's presented, and that ten percent 520 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 2: you may be able to jot it down. You may 521 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 2: want to make some notes, draw some pictures of it, 522 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 2: and really make it sync in. And this hit me 523 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 2: when I had a student who was a C student. 524 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 2: He was a C student and actually it was for 525 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 2: years in science. He applied this. In the first year 526 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 2: he applied this in his science course. He had one 527 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 2: hundreds on four separate exams in his science because he 528 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 2: was able to go to class back then with his 529 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 2: note cards, with this outline. It's such a stress reliever. 530 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 2: So we go through this. But I have a biomedical 531 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 2: science degree. I have a background in science, so I 532 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 2: love the scientific method. This is not just one and done. 533 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 2: Most students are going to get about half maybe two 534 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 2: thirds of the material if you go through at once. 535 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 2: So what we do what they didn't master? We go 536 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 2: back to the top and we dig a little deeper. 537 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: Did you know the vocabulary words perfectly? Did you memorize them? 538 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 2: Let's look at those again. Let's look in the overview. 539 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 2: Where does this appear again, Let's reorder, reorganize, Let's reread 540 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 2: a few words or a few paragraphs. Then you evaluate again. 541 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 2: It's an iterative process and students will come out with 542 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 2: a's over and over and over again. It's most unbelievable 543 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 2: secret one moment. 544 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 3: Coming up our last segment together, I want you to 545 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 3: think about advice you would give to parents. Maybe we're 546 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 3: not trying to raise the valedictorian, but parents who say 547 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 3: I'm a working mom, I'm a working single dad. Ways 548 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 3: that parents can help their children from when they wake 549 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 3: a child up in the morning till they put them 550 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 3: to bed at night to succeed and I believe educational 551 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 3: excellence is not necessarily the determiner of success in life. 552 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 3: You can do well without being good in class. But 553 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 3: the skills you learn that lead to educational success, those 554 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 3: translate into whatever you do on the sporting field and 555 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 3: the corporate office and the military.