Present. Commissioner safai. Present. Commissioner stefani. Absent. Walton. Present. Thank you im excusing mar and dorsey who asked to be excused from the meeting and i think you have some Public Commentar nouns ams. Yes, i do. For members of the public welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or channel 26 or 99 or live at sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment remote dial 4156550001 enter access code 2499 668 6173. You will be able to listen in real time. When Public Comment is called press star 3 to speak. When the system says your line is unmuted the operator will advise you will have 2 minutes to speak. Then we move on the next caller. Best practices are to speak slowly. Clearly and turn down the televisions and radios around you. Public comment first in attendance in the chamber and after from the remote speaker on the phone line. Thank you. We have been joined by commissioner stefani. Rule 3 penalty 26 limit public for items for 30 minutes for will meeting. Will
Industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Next, the first in a series of discussions from this Years National bullying prevention summit. Officials from the National Institutes of health and the Education Department describe trends in bullying behavior over the past year. It is part of an effort to create a National Strategy that engages private and public organizations. This is 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data tha
Collaborative improvement innovation so we can really accelerate our ability to move the needle over the next five years. Thank you. I would like to give a warm round of applause to our speakers. Thank you very much. [ applause ] friday night cspans 2014 Campaign Coverage continues with a live debate in the wisconsin governors race. Incumbent republican scott walker is running for a second term against democratic business woman. Real clear politics rates the race a tossup. An average shows Governor Walker ahead by less than half a percentage point. We will take you there live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. More now from the National Bullying prevention summit. Speakers examined how to create a School Environment that discourages bullying behavior. The annual summit is part of an effort by the National Government to create a National Bullying strategy. This panel is about 55 minutes. So im going to go ahead and introduce renee and then mark will just be back in a second. So we had orig
For all students. Sorry. This clicker has a mind of its own a little bit. When were talking about what we want to do, we want to establish the capacity for improving classroom and School Climate. Other objectives that dovetail nicely with the talks this morning and our work on bullying, how we decrease reactive management, maximizing academic achievement to achieve the goals that we want to achieve broadly looking to pull all the different behavioral and emotional social issues together. A lot of people ask what is a positive School Climate . How can you see it when you go into a school. And the question is do you see it, do you feel it . Deb said this morning you walk into a school and you can know by just your first time in the school. Is it a good place to be . Is it a place that you want your children . When you walk into a school that has a positive School Climate what are the things we might see . We might see posters up identifying behavioral responses that are expected of child
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and congratulations, president yee on your election. Congratulations to everyone, but i think we covered the rest of you the last time we were here. I would like you to turn for a moment to page 71, the personnel, specifically the matter of separations. So soon . [laughter ] you wish. Standing here next to me is katharine olsen, the 10th on the list under separations. Katharine is a new teacher at Spring Valley and as the letter that she will hand over to deliver to you will attest miss olsen suffered the frustration and all that that beginning teachers often do and didnt know where to tush turn and it was suggested that she just get out and she resigned. And she rescinded it. You know and we know you have threedaes to withdraw that kind of decision and she acted immediately the next day. So she expects that decision to be rescinded. She essentially put this in for the 16th of november and when she rescinded she continued to work through to the 30th a