Growing Roses in Concrete

Tupac does poetic justice in this poem A Rose That Grew From Concrete.  he describes the situation of millions of kids and young adults that live in unreliable neighborhoods.  where growing up means surviving another day not getting shot at.  When it feels like  everything is against you, and it might be but it is extremely hard to be that rose that is growing from the concrete when every time you turn around  something else has gone wrong in your life, you feel like the world is against you but you rise above all that you make it and u are the rose that even when all the odds where against you, you were able to rise above all the obstacles in your live and make it.  Jeff Dunken Andrade talks about how impressionable kids are.  children teachers anybody can imprint on them.  If you can change a kid when they are young enough you can change their whole life... essentially forever.  McFarland brought up a good point the other day he said that, you are safer in Iraq than living Oakland right now.  how sad is that the death rate is so high in Oakland that a war doesn't even measure up to the death toll.  Andrade also talks about a key to children's success in school pyramid and on the bottom of that pyramid was children need clothes, food, safety, if these kids are worried about things food and clothes do you really think they are going to do good in school? 
Another concept that Andrade talks about is Maya Agelou and how Maya broke up a fight that Tupac was about to get into and she tells him do you understand how important you are?  and Tupac  cried people want to know that they matter to somebody even if it is a complete stranger.  we want to know we matter.
(Question 1)How do you get teachers to care as much as Dunken Andrade? (Question 2)And when you do find teachers like Dunken Andrade how you make your students thrive and want to learn? (Question 3)How can you change the heart of a child that is so use to seeing negative actions?