The committee. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Committee members will be in attendance and participate in the meeting as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Participate in Public Comment by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 14674 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. You will hear discussion and be muted, in listening mode only. Press starthree to be entered into the queue. When prompted, speak slowly and clearly and turn down your t. V. Or computer. Or, in the alternative, you may email me at erica. Major sf. Org. We are joined by interpreters who are interpreting in c cantonese and spanish. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk, will you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Mr. Chair, would you like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer f
Between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach
Dr. Biden hi, how are you . Hello. Dr. Biden how are you today . Tough, right . It is. Dr. Biden i know that. I know that having taught for 30 something years. Oh, great. Where do you come from . Dr. Biden, one of the challenges of free opening [inaudible]. And you are trying to build that community. There are a lot of obstacles. Dr. Biden what will you do at this table . This is the small group work. Everything is based on the numbers. You are looking at a classroom that has 20 students typically in the room. Then the normal challenges around hybrid instruction. We have roughly 400 rooms across the district. What are you going to do . Its for the families dont dont have the other options. And then in the building is there certain seating . I can see how this is going to be a challenge. Thank you so much. Thank you. Make sure they learn their adverbs. Dr. Biden . Hes been very instrumental in getting the commission. Hello, welcome. Welcome. Dr. Biden hi. How are you . Im jill. Whatever
I want to commend to make this happen. Certainly a for effort. Ive listened to zooms, my own kids. Everyone is leaning in and really trying to make being in a place where 97 of our schools are opening in Distance Learning, theyre really trying to work. I would say that there are definitely some challenges that have not cooperated and my heart goes out, at one point, asked the remaining 30,000 students who opened in Distance Learning but yet, they big challenges in Northern California and other parts of the state but everyone is leaning in to make this work. I hear teachers with great content. I think this is really hard. Nothing about this that is easy but i have to commend those students and educators and school staff and families who are just leaning in, trying to make the most of the situation that were in. Yeah, youre right. That wildfire interruption, that is so difficult. I do want to ask you, synchronized learning seems to be going well. That seems to be the consensus. What do y
So we have been in constant communication and we have heard this concern of these classes that absolutely cannot be taught virtually but they are very hand on. How can we make the classes safer . Because they cannot be done virtual. That will be part of the guidance. And its such a big piece of the other thing and that the other thing that gets lost in inperson classes is there are classes that will not be taught in the fall semester or potentially the Spring Semester that have a negative impact on Mental Health in San Francisco. A lot of our seniors take classes at City College Even with the unfortunate class cuts in physical education in, for example, pottery and ceramics that you cannot teach online. You cannot take a ceramics class online, but we cannot teach it safely inperson either currently. The work we are doing is critical for us to do this work back in the spring. And hopefully teach the important classes that have a direct Mental Health impact and positive impact on a lot o