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Or down and wave our hands. And before we get to the next speaker, i have one additional card, to jennifer scarlott. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is angela pedia and i have lived in district eight with my wife amy who is a fourth generation san franciscan and we are passionate about this city and passionate about helping this citys homeless animals. I am the founder of Northern California family dog rescue and i am also a former commissioner of animal control and welfare. And family dog ...

25yearolds, more or less. Talk to me about what are the major characteristics of this cohort . I really think our ability to connect using social media and all the other Technology Resources are really a strength and a defining characteristic of this age group. Very good. Alison, obviously, we have heard of the many challenges in the Mental Health area that this generation faces. Can you describe some of those challenges for us . Sure; this generation is facing Mental Health challenges that we h...

Have in your presentation, figure it out. Whatd they do . They engaged with other students and they filmed movies where they demonstrated the difference between speed and velocity, developed rubrics, they filmed each other, wrote a narrative and were able to give feedback using software that allowed them to give realtime feed back on the presentation, what was powerful, what was not. Thats 21st, 22nd learning. Thats san francisco. So were very excited about how we go forward and we look forward ...

Would have this kind of technology. Now, i wont say this is going to be an easy lift. Itll be a big lift for us. Itll require us all to row in the same direction, require us to make a compelling case to the community and Business Community in san francisco, but i know we can do it, because as i read through our vision 2025, this is what were talking about, vision 2025. The graduate of 2025. And i had the opportunity this afternoon to attend an event with auto desk with several of the commissione...

Approximately a zero percent Response Rate that had very high proportions of African American and latino students. We got about 900 percent more responses and about a percentage point or more each for the Response Rate for the latino and African American families. Our main finding is most households have internet. The district average is about 94 percent. It ranges from the high 70 percent for American Indian and alaska native families, up to 98. 4 percent for our white families. As you can see ...

Year in education. I remember with fondness with my master teacher, taking the mimio and going to the staff office and putting in the mimio graph and smelling the chemicals and running my mimios for my class that day and thinking wow, i hit the big time. Then we got a xerox machine and before you knew it we had a desktop that we could keep grades on and i didnt have to use the slide ruler. Technology is contextual. The technology of that time was appropriate to that time. What i dont want us to ...

Our current state. Mr. Ryans commented that teachers dont have a common place they can go for the curriculum. They dont have a place of materials embedded by the district that aligns to our curricula goals to access videos and documents and other artifacts that are used. Our employee system is over ten years old and it barely supports really the basic transactions of managing an employee. When i was a new hire i had 12 different forms and filled out the exact same information on moegs of those f...

Were only at 7 percent right now. Devices need to be current and reliable. If theyre more than 4 years old, that the time devices start having issues and become unusable. We need to get one to one device ratio, right now were 1 to [inaudible] device ratio. At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district fun...

Investment were incentivized to pay the lower tax rate, sell the investment and reinvest in a maturing developing investment rather than that hold on because they didnt want to pay a confiscatory tax. There is not one of us in this room that doesnt make decisions every single day on our personal financing where we dont consider in some part, in whole or in part the tax consequence of it. That is why you have a tax code. But we ought to look at fair and equitable Corporate Tax relief. We ought to...

Is that the u. S. Market share there has declined. I think that the federal government must continue its efforts to help develop small modular reactors, and i think that we can do this without putting International Security at risk or violating nonproliferation controls. Mr. President , the energy resurgence has fueled a beneficial expansion of u. S. Energy trade, and the evidence is clear that exports can help facilitate enhanced production by opening up u. S. Supply to global markets. Trade is...