that if they're really experiencing these feelings, they should get help. Vicki : Thank you for that. >> That was really long. Sorry.Vicki : No. That was great and I think -- I really appreciate that you were courageous enough to share that this still impacts you, even as adults, because I think that is what
Vicki : Thank you for that. >> That was really long. Sorry.Vicki : No. That was great and I think -- I really appreciate that you were courageous enough to share that this still impacts you, even as adults, because I think that is whatwe're seeing and it's why it's so important that as adults, we start to safeguard the health of our children and realize that these kids are still growing and developing their
and we just have to do something else for the handful of kids who aren't okay? Vicki : Thank you for asking that. That's a very good point so let me just say I didn't set out to make a film about troubled kids. I set out to make a film about the state ofchildhood and education in this country and what we found is that the hardest part of producing this film was deciding on which stories to feature because we didn't find
I wouldn't -- but, eventually, there is a price to pay. Vicki : Right. And we want young people who are willing to take risks, right? That's where where all the great thinking comes from in this country, all the innovation and creativity.It comes from taking risks and failing a whole bunch of times and so we wanna raise young people who are resilient and who aren't devastated by a C in college, or an F in high school,
of kids that are actually passing, it's clearly not working. Vicki : Right. And it's not working in the long term and that's why we're seeing so many young people who are dropping out of school because after so many years of being toldyou're a failure, you're not measuring up, I think they give up on going to school and we need to make school relevant for all of our kids, engaging. I think kids have a tremendous
at the end of the day. I think schools have to be softer on the kids and don't let them be or feel in a very strict confines. Vicki : Do you have anything to say?Jacqueline: Yeah. I completely agree with you on a couple of those issues. I think that it's important for -- every child, every student learns at a different pace. I mean, there
And you can do all of that. And Vicki Clark, who plays Kimberly, is just in the middle of that little scrum of teenagers.
So yeah, that's why I'm very excited. And Vicki , I'm going to ask you to come back and field some questions from our audience. But before we do that, you also are surrounded by George and the Giant Pledge merchandise.
And our huge respect and support continue to be with you and your family. So Vicki , we'll be seeing you a bit later to take questions from the audience. But for now, thank you.
And it's my pleasure, then, to introduce you to Adam Kay. As Vicki said, a junior doctor, but also one of the country's bestselling authors. "This is Going to Hurt, his 2017-- literally his diaries of being a junior doctor.
It's a vivid portrayal of the pressure cooker culture dominating American schools, which you got a taste of in the videos we showed. So Vicki showcased "Race to Nowhere" in more than 7,000 community sponsored screenings-- including multiple showings at Google years ago-- to millions of viewers around the globe. She is also the author of a book.
Starting tomorrow or even today. So Vicki 's films and books were a wake up call in our family and in our district where the film was shown-- both films. And it served as a rallying cry to make a difference in the lives of our children and the students of our community.
And it served as a rallying cry to make a difference in the lives of our children and the students of our community. So Vicki , welcome to Google. Thank you. So I'm going to let you do most of the talking.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. My friend Vicki Vasquez, who's a local shark researcher, discovered it.
so hi I'm Vicki Saunders I'm founder of Sho and uh you know it's interesting I have tried not to start this company for like decades um I never wanted to do
Innovative part of this I think that uh feels right um so I'm Julie trell I'm actually the city lead for the Bay Area and I met Vicki about three or so years ago we got in a conversation about collaboration and companies collaborating about solving the same problem so there was that hook fast forward three years I actually became very good friends with one of the ventures and CEO and she told me this
across the United States. I think that-- as Vicki has talked about-- the issues of stress and sleep deprivation and so forth are really common across the country. And the issues that she is talking about here and in the book are really typical, not just in Palo Alto, but everywhere.
And we had about 300 students in zero period at Gun. And as Vicki said a year and a half ago or so the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with their recommendation on school start times of 8:30 or later.
trying to find more happiness and joy in work life balance, all of this is tied together. I recommend Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez's book "Your Money or Your Life", which shows you how to really look at what expenses in your life
Thank you everybody for showing up today. Thank you especially to Auggi and Vicki who have been working with me for the last couple of months to put this together. We're really excited to be here.
So I'm super excited to have Vicki Abeles-- did I get it right? Yes. Close? Close enough.
What gives you hope that widespread change is possible? And I also agree with Vicki that working that into actual practice-- these are big entrenched
And then I wrote it. And of course, Vicki Clark is playing it now. But that was the early days of it.
of the topics we're going to talk about. So hello, Vicki . Morning, Matt. How you doing? All right.
So that's where it started. And then, as Vicki said, published this year, this amazing organ-by-organ tour of the human body. It says, "it's complete and completely disgusting." I learned some stuff from it as well.
They might sound small, but they are actually very important for the well-being of staff. We'll come to some audience questions via Vicki Woodell in a moment.
They might sound small, but they are actually very important for the well-being of staff. Hi, Vicki . Hi there again.
be like oh that's where it is and that's where we need to be right now especially everything that's moving forward and this new cre this new playing field that that Vicki and team have created so that's that's why I'm here and you know dancing with the lone nut who's no longer alone anymore thank you Visionary
And he's a Google staff engineer. I learned about Ken's passion for education reform from Vicki 's book, he was quoted. He-- as I suspect many of you know-- Palo Alto school district is known for many things.
What gives you hope that widespread change is possible? I'm just curious, Vicki , how receptive have the colleges been to your research and your books and movies.
is going -- you don't necessarily, you don't have the freedom and liberty to do that because you are -- if you do that, you're not necessarily the best student anymore and you don't fit that mold. Vicki : Right. I think there's a lot of pressure on girls to be perfect and then we do see, I think, as you saw in the film with Sam and Isaiah, that many of the boys -- and I don't wanna generalize -- end up throwing up their hands and checking out. So I think there's just a lot of different coping strategies.
start them in kindergarten and first grade taking paper standardized tests." So I have obviously my own issues with No Child Left Behind and I think just this push to place so much emphasis on these tests is really -- Vicki : And I'm just curious, what impact did you see on the young people? Because I mean we are every year it seems testing these kids at a younger age.
we are every year it seems testing these kids at a younger age. Yeah. Vicki : And we are putting tremendous pressure on them and taking things that smack of fun outside of school and outside of their daily lives. >> Well, and the way that my experience is very different from a lot of what was seen in this film is that my schools -- my whole
gonna be on the test, studying, memorizing, taking the test, forgetting it, and then moving onto the next chapter because that's not -- that takes away the love of learning. It's just memorizing at that point. Vicki : And I think what you're also saying is to get rid of this whole carrot and stick approach that we have on our schools which only encourages compliance and if we're looking to -- again, I keep going back to this. If we wanna raise a generation of innovative, creative problem solvers, we need to move
They might sound small, but they are actually very important for the well-being of staff. Absolutely. Well let me turn now to Vicki .
go to a Stanford or a Berkeley, or a Harvard, and that people's paths are very meandering and that should be encouraged. Vicki : I absolutely agree with you. Let me just ask you a question because I'm a little bit older than you and so I agree, looking back at my education what things were like and we had a lot more freedom and time to do things like just process what was going on and have jobs outside of school. But I'm
come very in nontraditional routes to what they're doing and I think those are the people that kind of make life interesting here, and I think that we should let that information get out a little bit better. Vicki : Right. We wanna encourage different pathways. Absolutely. Thank you. I was just gonna ask Jacqueline to address one of the things we are doing as we go around the country speaking to young people is we are creating a way for them to add their voice, and we are encouraging schools to include them – their
16 years ago 100 people at Salesforce have you heard of Salesforce it's now like 20 30,000 people so what I loved about that was just jumping off this clip with this crazy person and looking where it is now and when I met Vicki and I heard this story there's a wonderful Ted Talk by Derek cyers about how to start a movement it's a three minute Ted
Yes. Close? Close enough. Excellent, yes-- uh-oh, close enough-- to have Vicki here. She's an inspiration. She began her career as a Wall Street attorney and turned filmmaker in 2007 when she co-directed the award winning documentary
How unique is this story, in your research? And I'm very interested in your thoughts too, Vicki . Well, I think that-- I mean, unfortunately, our experience with suicide is unusual.
Along with a whole really overwhelming amount of research that shows the serious negative effects of earlier start times. And so to me and others in the community this seem like an obvious, to use Vicki 's word, low hanging fruit. You know, why do we have students taking academic classes in zero period.
What gives you hope that widespread change is possible? There is very little evidence that it has, as Vicki says, much of an educational effect.
But yeah, it is great having Tim. But it was also the Harvey Korman show and the Lyle Waggoner show and the Tim Conway show and the Vicki Lawrence
Host: Having been involved in this film? Jamie: Nothing really with the film. I'm excited I guess but I'm not really that nervous. >> Host: Good. That's good. Well, on that note, we wanna thank you very much for coming. Vicki : Thank you for having us and I just wanna ask all of you to spread the word. Join us on Facebook, Tweet about us. We are really relying -- aside from the great film that you saw here tonight, which was a great team effort, and also couldn't have been done without the courage of young people like Jacqueline
And we're going to hear from Adam Kay, who's a fantastic former doctor. But before we do that, I thought it'd be really nice to hear from our very own Vicki Woodell, who has a very personal connection to Adam and to some of the topics we're going to talk about.
And yet all the individuals we saw-- and here, reading some of these stories in here, really, really bring it home to me. And actually, you might think, well, what does that mean you get in the book for, Vicki ? Because yes, that's not a great story.
Host: So I have grown children but they went through the Palo Alto school system and I certainly sympathize and identify with a lot of this. We're fortunate enough today to have the director of the film, Vicki Abeles with us, who will I think be prepared to answer questions that you might have on the content of the film. Vicki : I'm interested in getting your reactions,
through the Palo Alto school system and I certainly sympathize and identify with a lot of this. We're fortunate enough today to have the director of the film, Vicki Abeles with us, who will I think be prepared to answer questions that you might have on the content of the film. Vicki : I'm interested in getting your reactions, anything that resonated with you, and then I guess first thing we should just introduce Jacqueline, who you saw briefly in the film, and my daughter, Jamie, who looks a little