VOA CONNECT
EPISODE 79
AIR DATE 07 19 2019
FULL TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
The Moonwalk
((SOT))
((NATS))
Its burning! Its moving! The rocket is lifting off the pad!
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Deep Time
((SOT))
Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Saving Earth
((SOT))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
To get to scale, you've got to think about conservation in a
completely different way.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Planting Trees
((SOT))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
I mean, trees generate happiness.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Expat Adventures
((SOT))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
First, I couldn't believe it and I was thinking it could be a
scam.
((Open Animation))
BLOCK A
((PKG)) FOREIGN TEACHERS IN THE U.S.
((Banner: Help from Abroad))
((Reporter/Camera: Deepak Dobhal))
((Map: Julesburg, Colorado))
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
That one is my bank. Right across the street is the grocery
store. This is the theater where we watch the movies. And
then, there is the pharmacy and the only cafe that we have
in town. I was surprised because I didn't expect America,
because in the Philippines we think of America, we just think
of New York or California, and we didn't really expect that
there are rural areas too in America.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I'm Charmaine Teodoro and I grew up in Manila. Here, I
teach 7th through 12th math and that is the core subjects,
pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2.
((NATS))
The graduation for the Julesburg School District..
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
This is her second year with us. My name is Sean Ehnes
and I'm the principal, superintendent of the Julesburg School
District which is located in Julesburg, Colorado.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
Didn't really think about it until I got in that place where I
knew that I was totally out of options for hiring a teacher from
the United States.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
Two years ago, had a longtime math teacher that resigned
and moved away from the area that he had been with our
district for about the last 12 years. And so, we ran that
campaign for about three to four months trying to recruit and
get applicants to fill that position. I ended up getting one
application from someone in the United States. Wasn't able
to recruit the one application that I had. So, I knew that I
needed to look for other avenues and options and that's
when I contacted a recruiting company which works with J1
visas for teachers out of the Philippines.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
Did five interviews using video conferencing, and Charmaine
ended up being one of the five that we felt, like, was the best
fit for our situation what we're looking for her to teach and
work in a small school district.
((Pop-Up Banner: In 2018, more than 3000 teachers from
20 countries taught in the US))
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
First, I couldn't believe it and I was thinking it could be a
scam. Up until my flight coming here, I still, I'm still not
believing it until Mrs. Ehnes, and she's a dean of students,
she's the one who fetched me at the airport, that was the
time that I said, OK, this is real because they're actually
here.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
First they thought that I am also a student because they said
I look young and I'm short. I'm just a fellow student, like a
foreign exchange student, and they are huge. I was telling
my friends about the height of the students that I am
teaching and they all get shocked.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I've had some challenges during my first year. I had some
students, not all of them, like, some of them will just test you
and just see how far they can go with what they were doing.
So, I would say, it's really different behavior-wise, because in
the Philippines you don't have to do anything. They see you
in uniform, as a teacher, they respect you. Here, I think, you
have to prove yourself before they respect you.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
I think she connected with the kids really well and she's a
very good mathematics teacher.
((Parents))
And I've noticed, and, of course, nice, good grades are
always a nice thing but just her confidence in math, and that
she's able to come home and do it by herself.
Thanks so much for being here, for teaching, everything
you've done for our kids. Appreciate it. Thank you.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
So, you're finishing your second year with our district. And
so, did the second year go little better than the first year?
Do you feel more confident and at home?
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
Very smooth this year, because last year I had some
classroom management issues with some of the kids, and
this year it's very different. Would want to stay.
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
OK. And do you know what that process looks like to be
able to extend the visa.
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
No, I will probably do some research about it.
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
We'd love to have you back. You've done a great job.
Thank you very much.
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
Thank you.
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
We're in a area here where all the schools around us are
small districts of 200-300 kids, and I talk to other
superintendents and principals, and in the state of Colorado,
even in our neighboring states, and hiring and recruiting
teachers is a big task and a difficult task to acquire those
folks to come to a smaller school and community to teach
and live.
((Pop-Up Banner: An estimated 40% of rural school
districts in the US face staffing problems))
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I think, I'm comfortable living here now. So, I am planning to
stay for as long as I could.
((NATS))
She says she is shy.
The challenges are, it's difficult to find friends of my age with
the same interests. But again, Im just lucky that I have a
host family with me, has been helping me.
((Lynda Pitzer, Landlord))
I had a stipulation with Mrs. Ehnes. Did I ever tell you this?
That, you know, if it wasn't working out, you know, by
Christmas time, you know, we were going to change the
situation. And, I think, she asked me around Christmas time,
and I go, oh no, there's no problem. She's part of the family.
Mom would fix the meal, I'd fix the meal, Charmaine would
fix a meal. Then, you know, we just kind of rotate around.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I usually eat rice because I can still get that here. Finding
the ingredients is also difficult. There are some vegetables
that I cant easily find so I cant cook some of the food that I
want. The food, the food because, well, when you eat it, it
makes you feel at home because you can only eat that, I
mean, the taste of the food will feel like home.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
The only times that you would probably feel loneliest is
during your birthday and Christmas.
((Pop-Up Banner: Experts estimate by 2020, the US will
need more than 100,000 new teachers))
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up..
((Banner))
Shaping our Future
((SOT))
((Scott Wing, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
And since we know we are causing very big changes in
climate, studying the past may help us understand how the
future will play out.
BREAK ONE
BUMP IN ((ANIM))
BLOCK B
((Banner: Our World))
((PKG)) CLIMATE IN DEEP TIME
((Banner: Climate in Deep Times))
((Reporter: Deborah Block))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((NATS))
((Pop-Up Banner: The Deep Time exhibit traces the
changes on Earth over the past 3.7 billion years))
((NATS))
((Kirk Johnson, Director, National Museum of Natural
History))
The mission of this museum is to understand the natural
world and our place in it, and this exhibit does just that. It
takes the story of life on Earth and puts humans right in the
middle of a story and challenges a visitor to understand their
place in planet Earth and its incredible story. As they do
that, you've got to deal with things, topics like geologic time
or evolution or climate change, extinction by asteroid. These
are complicated topics that science itself has only recently
wrapped its head around.
((NATS))
((Scott Wing, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship and the
spaceship has a logbook and the logbook are the fossils and
the record of changes in the past. And if we study that, we
can sometimes understand how life responds to these very
big changes in climate, and since we know we are causing
very big changes in climate, studying the past may help us
understand how the future will play out.
((NATS))
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
You're never going to go to a fossil hall anywhere else,
where the message feels as timely as it does here. We
really explain and let you explore for yourself, what the
meaning is in something that might have happened 55
million years ago. And these are moments ripped literally
from the geologic record, hidden under all of our feet, as we
walk on the planet today, that tell us a lot about the impact
we're having now.
((NATS))
Coal connects the climate of the deep past to the climate of
today. Ancient carbon has fueled our modern way of life.
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
I think we can really change the world with this exhibition,
and I know that sounds idealistic, but I think we can,
because we're going to see 50 million people through this
hall in 10 years, and that's a massive number of people.
And what I would really like is to see people getting
connected to this story of the impact that we're having on the
planet today, and to really wake up and see our impact, and
start making smart choices. Start looking at the things that
people are doing around the world to direct our planet
towards a hopeful positive future.
((NATS))
((PKG)) SAVING FORESTS AND JOBS
((Banner: Saving Forests and Jobs))
((Reporter/Camera: Steve Baragona))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Middlesboro, Kentucky))
((Pop-Up Banner: The Nature Conservancy, an
environmental group, recently bought land to preserve both
nature and jobs))
((NATS))
((Stuart Hale, Manager, Nature Conservancy Forest))
We are here, kind of, right on the border of Tennessee and
Kentucky, looking at the entire property. It's about a 100,000
acres [40,000 hectares]. The property is used primarily for
forest management, carbon sequestration, outdoor
recreation, and then, of course, supports a wealth of
biodiversity.
((NATS))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
To get to scale, you've got to think about conservation in a
completely different way. Buying a piece of property and just
locking people out is probably a non-starter. We are in one
of the poorer areas in the nation, right, and the landscapes
are part of the local culture and heritage.
((NATS))
((Spencer Meyer, Highstead Foundation))
((Mandatory Chyron: Skype logo))
Hungry people make lousy conservationists. And so, if there
aren't jobs that still are relevant on the ground, then deals
like this just don't work. They might work in the short term,
but they'll collapse in the long term if they don't have strong
local support.
((NATS))
((Stuart Hale, Manager, Nature Conservancy Forest))
We see some oaks around which is really good. We like
those. There's a nice big poplar growing over here. And
then, mixed in, there's a handful of these beech and maples
and other trees that we may not be as interested in or may
not be as well suited to this site.
((NATS))
((Stuart Hale, Manager, Nature Conservancy Forest))
It's a huge economic driver. Everybody, from the loggers in
the woods cutting the trees down, to the truck drivers hauling
that to the sawmills, to the folks manufacturing at the
sawmills, to the convenience store clerks that those guys
stop and buy a soda pop from. It's a major part of the
economy.
((NATS))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
To make these types of projects work from a business
aspect, you really have to think of it not just from a
conservation, but you've got to add a business dimension to
it. One, these properties, a 100,000 acres, it takes quite a
bit of money coming together to be able to, sort of, pull a
project like this together. It also has to generate revenue
and it has to have the support from local citizens and
politicians, our state agencies and our federal agencies. So,
there are a lot of people that we have to work with to be
successful.
((NATS))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
When we think about conservation priorities, we really are
thinking about what are the challenges to nature and
people? Where can we make impact in terms of conserving
our landscapes, securing our water, and doing that to benefit
people as well?
((NATS))
((PKG)) FREE TREES
((Banner: Free Trees))
((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry))
((Camera: Adam Greenbaum))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Hyattsville, Maryland))
((NATS))
((Pop-Up Banner: Power company PEPCO and the Arbor
Day Foundation are giving away trees to local residents))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
I work on sustainability and climate change and I'm trying to
do a lot of that now in my free time, like working in the
garden, planting trees that save energy. They help us
reduce CO2 output.
((NATS))
((Kristen Bousquet, Arbor Day Foundation))
The Arbor Day Foundation, just this spring, launched an
initiative along with our partners, called the Time for Trees
initiative. Through that initiative, we will be planting a 100
million trees and inspiring five million tree planters around
the globe.
((NATS))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
Getting a tree, what we notice is when we come in from the
streets into our area, the temperature actually drops by
several degrees, probably 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit [3 to 6
degrees Celcius], because of the tree cover, because it's not
paved. So, trees make a huge difference in the, say,
microclimate.
((NATS))
((Kristen Bousquet, Arbor Day Foundation))
So, I think we see in the news every single day that the
necessities of life are at risk, when it comes to air quality,
water quality. Temperatures in our cities are rising and just
planting trees can be a solution for all of these things.
((NATS))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
I mean, trees generate happiness. I'm very happy in the
garden. A lawn does not generate happiness, but flowers
and trees do, in my view.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up..
((Banner))
The Moon Landing
((SOT))
((NATS))
Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.
I'm going to step off the LEM now.
Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.
BREAK TWO
BUMP IN ((ANIM))
BLOCK C
((Banner: ))
((PKG)) APOLLO 11 -- 50th ANNIVERSARY
((Banner: Man on the Moon))
((Reporter/Camera: Kane Farabaugh))
((Map: Chicago, Illinois))
((COURTESIES throughout: VOA, NASA))
((NATS))
((Caption: October 4, 1957))
((Harrison Schmitt, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 17))
In 1957, I was a Fullbright student in Norway, and I was out
in the field gathering geological information. The only
American radio I could get was Voice of America out of
Algiers. And it was during one of the Willis Conover
broadcasts, Jazz from A to Z, that they interrupted and
announced that the then Soviet Union had launched the first
artificial satellite of the earth, which was Sputnik One. And
thats when I finally decided well, I better start paying
attention to space.
((NATS))
((Caption: September 12, 1962))
((President John F. Kennedy))
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the
other things, not because they are easy, but because they
are hard.
((Jim Lovell, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 8, Apollo 13))
When President Kennedy made the announcement, we were
planning to go to the moon, and get there before the end of
the decade, I really couldnt believe it. I said no, hes just
saying this thing to give us confidence, but I dont think its
possible.
((NATS))
((President John F. Kennedy))
No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations
can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
((Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 10, Apollo
17))
Exceptionalism in space. Being number one. Being a leader.
Anything less than that is unacceptable to the people of this
nation.
((Fred Haise, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 13))
It is a very dramatic expression of what can happen if you
assemble the right people, the right skills that work together
as a team with the right leadership, what miracles can
happen.
((Michael Collins, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
It was a wonderful example of organization within a large
government agency.
((NATS))
((Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
We invested a good bit of time, effort, and human endeavors
to gain that leadership with the Apollo program.
((NATS))
((Caption: July 20, 1969))
((NATS))
This is the Voice of Americas Apollo 11 news center.
Its burning! Its moving! The rocket is lifting off the pad! Its
lifting beautifully into the sky!
((SOT))
The next critical point for the lunar landing flight comes in
about two hours from now.
((NATS))
((Caption: July 20, 1969))
((NATS))
Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.
I'm going to step off the LEM now.
Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.
((Jim Lovell, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 8, Apollo 13))
The space program was a positive that gave people
inspiration and hope about what this country was doing.
((NATS))
Houston weve had a problem.
((Gerry Griffin, NASA Flight Director, Apollo 13))
Apollo 13 is what a prepared team can do.
((Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
The team that was trained to handle emergencies like that
and like many other things did their job with great credit.
((Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, Apollo Program))
I was the flight director for Apollo 17, when Gene Cernan
and Jack Schmitt lifted off. We read a message up from the
President that basically stated this might be the last time in
this century. This was a very bittersweet time for us
because we were surrendering our drive as a nation to be
explorers.
((NATS))
((Caption: December 14, 1972))
((NATS))
Leaving the planet earth and going forward into the universe.
I think no more significant contribution has Apollo made to
history.
((Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 10, Apollo
17))
Well go back to the moon.
((Michael Collins, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
My friend Neil Armstrong thought that going back to the
moon was a proper and necessary precursor to a Mars
expedition.
((NATS))
((Harrison Schmitt, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 17))
To say that I thought it would be fifty or sixty years before
Americans were back on the moon, I would not have
guessed that at all.
((Fred Haise, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 13))
It surprises me for the way that I felt at the time that we
havent been to Mars.
((Michael Collins, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
Im a Martian. I think Mars is the next great destination.
((Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
Im looking forward to the fiftieth anniversary because it can
be and should be a very crucial reaffirmation time of the
pathway that we chart.
((Caption: Apollo 50, Next Giant Leap))
((PKG)) PIA -- NANCY GRACE ROMAN
((Banner:
Beyond the Planets
In Memorium
Nancy Grace Roman 1925 - 2018))
((Executive Producer: Marsha James))
((Camera: Kaveh Rezaei))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
Much of our modern life depends on science and the
background that science gives to engineering. The engineer
is trying to find out how. The scientist needs to find out why.
My name is Nancy Grace Roman and I'm known as the
Mother of the Hubble.
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
I have no idea how I became interested in astronomy. Most
children are interested in astronomy between the ages of 10
and 12 and I never outgrew it. I wanted to know what stars
were like, how they behaved and what astronomy was all
about.
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
In my junior year, I went to my high school guidance teacher
and asked for permission to take a second year of algebra
instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at
me and sneered, What lady would take mathematics
instead of Latin? That was a general attitude towards
women going into science. In spite of that, I made up my
mind in seventh grade that I was going to be an astronomer.
((Photo: Courtesy of Nancy Grace Roman))
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
It was about six months after NASA was formed that I was
asked to set up the program in space astronomy. Or really I
was not asked. I was asked if I knew anybody who would
do it. I took that as an indication that they were asking me,
and that was more than 50 years ago. And I think that parts
of my program are still influencing astronomy.
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
One of the ways that astronomers study objects is to spread
the light out into a rainbow. And that rainbow has lines
which tell you what the object was made of, how hot it is,
how dense it is. And it also tells you how fast the object is
moving towards you or away from you. That was the main
reason for the Hubble.
I will be remembered for the Hubble I'm sure. But I guess I
would rather be remembered as a successful person and as
a good human being.
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EPISODE 79
AIR DATE 07 19 2019
FULL TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
The Moonwalk
((SOT))
((NATS))
Its burning! Its moving! The rocket is lifting off the pad!
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Deep Time
((SOT))
Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Saving Earth
((SOT))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
To get to scale, you've got to think about conservation in a
completely different way.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Planting Trees
((SOT))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
I mean, trees generate happiness.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Expat Adventures
((SOT))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
First, I couldn't believe it and I was thinking it could be a
scam.
((Open Animation))
BLOCK A
((PKG)) FOREIGN TEACHERS IN THE U.S.
((Banner: Help from Abroad))
((Reporter/Camera: Deepak Dobhal))
((Map: Julesburg, Colorado))
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
That one is my bank. Right across the street is the grocery
store. This is the theater where we watch the movies. And
then, there is the pharmacy and the only cafe that we have
in town. I was surprised because I didn't expect America,
because in the Philippines we think of America, we just think
of New York or California, and we didn't really expect that
there are rural areas too in America.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I'm Charmaine Teodoro and I grew up in Manila. Here, I
teach 7th through 12th math and that is the core subjects,
pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2.
((NATS))
The graduation for the Julesburg School District..
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
This is her second year with us. My name is Sean Ehnes
and I'm the principal, superintendent of the Julesburg School
District which is located in Julesburg, Colorado.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
Didn't really think about it until I got in that place where I
knew that I was totally out of options for hiring a teacher from
the United States.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
Two years ago, had a longtime math teacher that resigned
and moved away from the area that he had been with our
district for about the last 12 years. And so, we ran that
campaign for about three to four months trying to recruit and
get applicants to fill that position. I ended up getting one
application from someone in the United States. Wasn't able
to recruit the one application that I had. So, I knew that I
needed to look for other avenues and options and that's
when I contacted a recruiting company which works with J1
visas for teachers out of the Philippines.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
Did five interviews using video conferencing, and Charmaine
ended up being one of the five that we felt, like, was the best
fit for our situation what we're looking for her to teach and
work in a small school district.
((Pop-Up Banner: In 2018, more than 3000 teachers from
20 countries taught in the US))
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
First, I couldn't believe it and I was thinking it could be a
scam. Up until my flight coming here, I still, I'm still not
believing it until Mrs. Ehnes, and she's a dean of students,
she's the one who fetched me at the airport, that was the
time that I said, OK, this is real because they're actually
here.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
First they thought that I am also a student because they said
I look young and I'm short. I'm just a fellow student, like a
foreign exchange student, and they are huge. I was telling
my friends about the height of the students that I am
teaching and they all get shocked.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I've had some challenges during my first year. I had some
students, not all of them, like, some of them will just test you
and just see how far they can go with what they were doing.
So, I would say, it's really different behavior-wise, because in
the Philippines you don't have to do anything. They see you
in uniform, as a teacher, they respect you. Here, I think, you
have to prove yourself before they respect you.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
I think she connected with the kids really well and she's a
very good mathematics teacher.
((Parents))
And I've noticed, and, of course, nice, good grades are
always a nice thing but just her confidence in math, and that
she's able to come home and do it by herself.
Thanks so much for being here, for teaching, everything
you've done for our kids. Appreciate it. Thank you.
((NATS))
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
So, you're finishing your second year with our district. And
so, did the second year go little better than the first year?
Do you feel more confident and at home?
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
Very smooth this year, because last year I had some
classroom management issues with some of the kids, and
this year it's very different. Would want to stay.
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
OK. And do you know what that process looks like to be
able to extend the visa.
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
No, I will probably do some research about it.
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
We'd love to have you back. You've done a great job.
Thank you very much.
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
Thank you.
((Shawn Ehnes, Superintendent & Principal, Julesburg
School District, Colorado))
We're in a area here where all the schools around us are
small districts of 200-300 kids, and I talk to other
superintendents and principals, and in the state of Colorado,
even in our neighboring states, and hiring and recruiting
teachers is a big task and a difficult task to acquire those
folks to come to a smaller school and community to teach
and live.
((Pop-Up Banner: An estimated 40% of rural school
districts in the US face staffing problems))
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I think, I'm comfortable living here now. So, I am planning to
stay for as long as I could.
((NATS))
She says she is shy.
The challenges are, it's difficult to find friends of my age with
the same interests. But again, Im just lucky that I have a
host family with me, has been helping me.
((Lynda Pitzer, Landlord))
I had a stipulation with Mrs. Ehnes. Did I ever tell you this?
That, you know, if it wasn't working out, you know, by
Christmas time, you know, we were going to change the
situation. And, I think, she asked me around Christmas time,
and I go, oh no, there's no problem. She's part of the family.
Mom would fix the meal, I'd fix the meal, Charmaine would
fix a meal. Then, you know, we just kind of rotate around.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
I usually eat rice because I can still get that here. Finding
the ingredients is also difficult. There are some vegetables
that I cant easily find so I cant cook some of the food that I
want. The food, the food because, well, when you eat it, it
makes you feel at home because you can only eat that, I
mean, the taste of the food will feel like home.
((NATS))
((Charmaine Teodoro, Math Teacher, Julesburg High
School, Colorado))
The only times that you would probably feel loneliest is
during your birthday and Christmas.
((Pop-Up Banner: Experts estimate by 2020, the US will
need more than 100,000 new teachers))
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up..
((Banner))
Shaping our Future
((SOT))
((Scott Wing, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
And since we know we are causing very big changes in
climate, studying the past may help us understand how the
future will play out.
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((Banner: Our World))
((PKG)) CLIMATE IN DEEP TIME
((Banner: Climate in Deep Times))
((Reporter: Deborah Block))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((NATS))
((Pop-Up Banner: The Deep Time exhibit traces the
changes on Earth over the past 3.7 billion years))
((NATS))
((Kirk Johnson, Director, National Museum of Natural
History))
The mission of this museum is to understand the natural
world and our place in it, and this exhibit does just that. It
takes the story of life on Earth and puts humans right in the
middle of a story and challenges a visitor to understand their
place in planet Earth and its incredible story. As they do
that, you've got to deal with things, topics like geologic time
or evolution or climate change, extinction by asteroid. These
are complicated topics that science itself has only recently
wrapped its head around.
((NATS))
((Scott Wing, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
Earth is sometimes compared to a spaceship and the
spaceship has a logbook and the logbook are the fossils and
the record of changes in the past. And if we study that, we
can sometimes understand how life responds to these very
big changes in climate, and since we know we are causing
very big changes in climate, studying the past may help us
understand how the future will play out.
((NATS))
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
You're never going to go to a fossil hall anywhere else,
where the message feels as timely as it does here. We
really explain and let you explore for yourself, what the
meaning is in something that might have happened 55
million years ago. And these are moments ripped literally
from the geologic record, hidden under all of our feet, as we
walk on the planet today, that tell us a lot about the impact
we're having now.
((NATS))
Coal connects the climate of the deep past to the climate of
today. Ancient carbon has fueled our modern way of life.
((Siobhan Starrs, Curator, National Museum of Natural
History))
I think we can really change the world with this exhibition,
and I know that sounds idealistic, but I think we can,
because we're going to see 50 million people through this
hall in 10 years, and that's a massive number of people.
And what I would really like is to see people getting
connected to this story of the impact that we're having on the
planet today, and to really wake up and see our impact, and
start making smart choices. Start looking at the things that
people are doing around the world to direct our planet
towards a hopeful positive future.
((NATS))
((PKG)) SAVING FORESTS AND JOBS
((Banner: Saving Forests and Jobs))
((Reporter/Camera: Steve Baragona))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Middlesboro, Kentucky))
((Pop-Up Banner: The Nature Conservancy, an
environmental group, recently bought land to preserve both
nature and jobs))
((NATS))
((Stuart Hale, Manager, Nature Conservancy Forest))
We are here, kind of, right on the border of Tennessee and
Kentucky, looking at the entire property. It's about a 100,000
acres [40,000 hectares]. The property is used primarily for
forest management, carbon sequestration, outdoor
recreation, and then, of course, supports a wealth of
biodiversity.
((NATS))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
To get to scale, you've got to think about conservation in a
completely different way. Buying a piece of property and just
locking people out is probably a non-starter. We are in one
of the poorer areas in the nation, right, and the landscapes
are part of the local culture and heritage.
((NATS))
((Spencer Meyer, Highstead Foundation))
((Mandatory Chyron: Skype logo))
Hungry people make lousy conservationists. And so, if there
aren't jobs that still are relevant on the ground, then deals
like this just don't work. They might work in the short term,
but they'll collapse in the long term if they don't have strong
local support.
((NATS))
((Stuart Hale, Manager, Nature Conservancy Forest))
We see some oaks around which is really good. We like
those. There's a nice big poplar growing over here. And
then, mixed in, there's a handful of these beech and maples
and other trees that we may not be as interested in or may
not be as well suited to this site.
((NATS))
((Stuart Hale, Manager, Nature Conservancy Forest))
It's a huge economic driver. Everybody, from the loggers in
the woods cutting the trees down, to the truck drivers hauling
that to the sawmills, to the folks manufacturing at the
sawmills, to the convenience store clerks that those guys
stop and buy a soda pop from. It's a major part of the
economy.
((NATS))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
To make these types of projects work from a business
aspect, you really have to think of it not just from a
conservation, but you've got to add a business dimension to
it. One, these properties, a 100,000 acres, it takes quite a
bit of money coming together to be able to, sort of, pull a
project like this together. It also has to generate revenue
and it has to have the support from local citizens and
politicians, our state agencies and our federal agencies. So,
there are a lot of people that we have to work with to be
successful.
((NATS))
((Terry Cook, Director, Tennessee Nature Conservancy))
When we think about conservation priorities, we really are
thinking about what are the challenges to nature and
people? Where can we make impact in terms of conserving
our landscapes, securing our water, and doing that to benefit
people as well?
((NATS))
((PKG)) FREE TREES
((Banner: Free Trees))
((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry))
((Camera: Adam Greenbaum))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Hyattsville, Maryland))
((NATS))
((Pop-Up Banner: Power company PEPCO and the Arbor
Day Foundation are giving away trees to local residents))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
I work on sustainability and climate change and I'm trying to
do a lot of that now in my free time, like working in the
garden, planting trees that save energy. They help us
reduce CO2 output.
((NATS))
((Kristen Bousquet, Arbor Day Foundation))
The Arbor Day Foundation, just this spring, launched an
initiative along with our partners, called the Time for Trees
initiative. Through that initiative, we will be planting a 100
million trees and inspiring five million tree planters around
the globe.
((NATS))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
Getting a tree, what we notice is when we come in from the
streets into our area, the temperature actually drops by
several degrees, probably 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit [3 to 6
degrees Celcius], because of the tree cover, because it's not
paved. So, trees make a huge difference in the, say,
microclimate.
((NATS))
((Kristen Bousquet, Arbor Day Foundation))
So, I think we see in the news every single day that the
necessities of life are at risk, when it comes to air quality,
water quality. Temperatures in our cities are rising and just
planting trees can be a solution for all of these things.
((NATS))
((Anka Meyer, Homeowner))
I mean, trees generate happiness. I'm very happy in the
garden. A lawn does not generate happiness, but flowers
and trees do, in my view.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up..
((Banner))
The Moon Landing
((SOT))
((NATS))
Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.
I'm going to step off the LEM now.
Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.
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((Banner: ))
((PKG)) APOLLO 11 -- 50th ANNIVERSARY
((Banner: Man on the Moon))
((Reporter/Camera: Kane Farabaugh))
((Map: Chicago, Illinois))
((COURTESIES throughout: VOA, NASA))
((NATS))
((Caption: October 4, 1957))
((Harrison Schmitt, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 17))
In 1957, I was a Fullbright student in Norway, and I was out
in the field gathering geological information. The only
American radio I could get was Voice of America out of
Algiers. And it was during one of the Willis Conover
broadcasts, Jazz from A to Z, that they interrupted and
announced that the then Soviet Union had launched the first
artificial satellite of the earth, which was Sputnik One. And
thats when I finally decided well, I better start paying
attention to space.
((NATS))
((Caption: September 12, 1962))
((President John F. Kennedy))
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the
other things, not because they are easy, but because they
are hard.
((Jim Lovell, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 8, Apollo 13))
When President Kennedy made the announcement, we were
planning to go to the moon, and get there before the end of
the decade, I really couldnt believe it. I said no, hes just
saying this thing to give us confidence, but I dont think its
possible.
((NATS))
((President John F. Kennedy))
No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations
can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
((Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 10, Apollo
17))
Exceptionalism in space. Being number one. Being a leader.
Anything less than that is unacceptable to the people of this
nation.
((Fred Haise, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 13))
It is a very dramatic expression of what can happen if you
assemble the right people, the right skills that work together
as a team with the right leadership, what miracles can
happen.
((Michael Collins, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
It was a wonderful example of organization within a large
government agency.
((NATS))
((Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
We invested a good bit of time, effort, and human endeavors
to gain that leadership with the Apollo program.
((NATS))
((Caption: July 20, 1969))
((NATS))
This is the Voice of Americas Apollo 11 news center.
Its burning! Its moving! The rocket is lifting off the pad! Its
lifting beautifully into the sky!
((SOT))
The next critical point for the lunar landing flight comes in
about two hours from now.
((NATS))
((Caption: July 20, 1969))
((NATS))
Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.
I'm going to step off the LEM now.
Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.
((Jim Lovell, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 8, Apollo 13))
The space program was a positive that gave people
inspiration and hope about what this country was doing.
((NATS))
Houston weve had a problem.
((Gerry Griffin, NASA Flight Director, Apollo 13))
Apollo 13 is what a prepared team can do.
((Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
The team that was trained to handle emergencies like that
and like many other things did their job with great credit.
((Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, Apollo Program))
I was the flight director for Apollo 17, when Gene Cernan
and Jack Schmitt lifted off. We read a message up from the
President that basically stated this might be the last time in
this century. This was a very bittersweet time for us
because we were surrendering our drive as a nation to be
explorers.
((NATS))
((Caption: December 14, 1972))
((NATS))
Leaving the planet earth and going forward into the universe.
I think no more significant contribution has Apollo made to
history.
((Eugene Cernan, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 10, Apollo
17))
Well go back to the moon.
((Michael Collins, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
My friend Neil Armstrong thought that going back to the
moon was a proper and necessary precursor to a Mars
expedition.
((NATS))
((Harrison Schmitt, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 17))
To say that I thought it would be fifty or sixty years before
Americans were back on the moon, I would not have
guessed that at all.
((Fred Haise, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 13))
It surprises me for the way that I felt at the time that we
havent been to Mars.
((Michael Collins, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
Im a Martian. I think Mars is the next great destination.
((Buzz Aldrin, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11))
Im looking forward to the fiftieth anniversary because it can
be and should be a very crucial reaffirmation time of the
pathway that we chart.
((Caption: Apollo 50, Next Giant Leap))
((PKG)) PIA -- NANCY GRACE ROMAN
((Banner:
Beyond the Planets
In Memorium
Nancy Grace Roman 1925 - 2018))
((Executive Producer: Marsha James))
((Camera: Kaveh Rezaei))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
Much of our modern life depends on science and the
background that science gives to engineering. The engineer
is trying to find out how. The scientist needs to find out why.
My name is Nancy Grace Roman and I'm known as the
Mother of the Hubble.
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
I have no idea how I became interested in astronomy. Most
children are interested in astronomy between the ages of 10
and 12 and I never outgrew it. I wanted to know what stars
were like, how they behaved and what astronomy was all
about.
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
In my junior year, I went to my high school guidance teacher
and asked for permission to take a second year of algebra
instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at
me and sneered, What lady would take mathematics
instead of Latin? That was a general attitude towards
women going into science. In spite of that, I made up my
mind in seventh grade that I was going to be an astronomer.
((Photo: Courtesy of Nancy Grace Roman))
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
It was about six months after NASA was formed that I was
asked to set up the program in space astronomy. Or really I
was not asked. I was asked if I knew anybody who would
do it. I took that as an indication that they were asking me,
and that was more than 50 years ago. And I think that parts
of my program are still influencing astronomy.
((MUSIC))
((Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope))
One of the ways that astronomers study objects is to spread
the light out into a rainbow. And that rainbow has lines
which tell you what the object was made of, how hot it is,
how dense it is. And it also tells you how fast the object is
moving towards you or away from you. That was the main
reason for the Hubble.
I will be remembered for the Hubble I'm sure. But I guess I
would rather be remembered as a successful person and as
a good human being.
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