Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Thank you. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and foreclosed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. You can present it to the executive assistant at my right, to your left. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time as set by the Vice President. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board deputy superintendent . Thank you, Vice President sanchez. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, commissioners. I am standing here for dr. Matthews tonight whose youngest son, anthony, is in a commencement ceremony, he is graduating at San Francisco State University, so we extend our congratulations to matthews family. [applause] with that, i will mention a few items. This past thursday, students in the John Oconnell high school helped health and behavioral science pathway demonstrated their e. M. S. Skills, like fast stroke recognition, heart attack recognition, c. P. R. , including heimlich manoeuvre, cspine application and bleeding control to local Emergency Services experts including volunteers with the San Francisco fire department. The health and behavioral science pathway helps students prepare for a wide range of healthrelated career paths in San Francisco. Tomorrows tomorrow, 67 student musicians from the high school will rehearse as they prepare to march in the National Fourth of july parade in washington this summer. The band was invited by nancy pelosi to represent sfusd, San Francisco, in the state of california at the annual celebration in the nations capital. This will be the first thank you. [applause] first big honor for us. Thats a be the first time that the band travels out of state to perform. Congratulations to the students and staff you are receiving this honor. This thursday, students will share their research on how these topics and more could impact our climate as part of grafton elementary grad and Elementary Schools first ever schoolwide eco action conference. At the event, students will draft an ecological and Climate Change revolution, calling on the community to take action to protect the environment. They will also take the award for participating in the sfusd sustainability earth day every day challenge, and supervisor vallie brown will speak to students about the importance of protecting the environment. Also this thursday, students at Sunnyside Elementary School will him experience handson learning at their first steam night and science fair. Fourth and fifth grade classes will display their project board and answer questions from real scientists. The end of the year event will include science stations where students can explore his goals and fossils, use microscopes to make art, explore their sense of smell and vision, and play other sciencebased games. Students will also participate in engineering and Technology Based activities such as programming robots, building with kiva planks, and building electric circuits. Student artwork will be on display. The purpose of the event is to highlight the School Science curriculum while engaging families and handson science and technology. Finally, San Francisco Unified School District invites students , families, and staff to join our third annual fcf s. F. Pride contingent on june 30 th. Our district has been a leader to providing lgbtq support services and inclusive curriculum for nearly 30 years. Celebrate your commitment to all sfusd students and families by being part of sfusd pride contingents. You can check the districts website to find out how to register. I have one more special announcement to make. If i could invite kevin truitt, chief of our student Family Committee support division to come up for a very special presentation. Thank you, deputy lee. I am the chief of student Family Community support, and this is the time of year where we honor and celebrate our students, and tonight is no exception. We have very, very special students in our midst who have given their an unbelievable amount of time to provide leadership to their school, to but to provide leadership on our board, and to provide leadership for the entire Student Advisory Council. I dont know how this happens, with every year the Student Leadership in this district, and i have been doing this a long time, get stronger and stronger and stronger, and im more amazed each and every year. I really want to thank all your efforts, your time, your commitment, not just as a district, you make us look really good. This is what we put out. Thats pretty good. But also, just your commitment to your education on top of it all. You are there to be the voice of your students, and im so proud of how you represent them. I want to call up clarice. [applause] i left my notes. [indiscernible] [applause] clarice is from lowell high school, galahad is from s. F. International, this is yours. And cassandra cassandra. [applause] she maybe little but she is powerful. If you open them up, now you get to show people how have the big reveal. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much to the board of education. It has been a pleasure to serve at this as this past years Student Advisory Council president. We have grown, learned, and worked to ensure that students are properly represented at our School District. Nowhere else, i believe, there is a diverse and Strong Community of youth that exist, and i hope to carry with me what i have learned to my next step of education at ucla, and for the rest of my career. I would like to thank the board of education for offering this platform and hearing our student input. Mr. Lopez for his constant effort and care that goes into every week of sacs work, mr. Quan for his support to our Team Department and district, and finally, mr. Truitt who has been the most extraordinary student advocate and ally i have ever had the pleasure to work with. Thank you so much and i wish the best of luck to next years Student Advisory Council. [applause] so apropos. I think this is your last meeting, student delegates. Thank you so much for your service. We will miss you. [indiscernible] sorry, spee8 yea, finally we are hosting a leadership celebration ceremony on friday, may 31st, to acknowledge the dedication and hard work of our student leaders in the past year each student is going to receive 50 hours of Community Service time and an award certificate. Each senior student, in addition to what we just mentioned, his going to receive leadership status for their mentorship and advocacy. Thank you to all our student leaders for being great representatives of the Student Voice and creating a Better School community. [applause] last board meeting, we announced announce the newstead student delegate who is the First Student delegate for Mission High School. This is a bittersweet moment, as this is our last board meeting, but what we are very excited to pass on the legacy. The leaders will be presenting their findings. Thank you do all the students at our high school who attended our affairs, focus groups, and promoted the importance of Student Voice. At our next award banquet, the sac will be hosting their nominations for interim president and interim sac delegates. Thank you to all our presented to us who are to student advocacy. Thank you for all your nominations. Our next meeting will be on may 31st at 6 00 p. M. The s. A. C. Is a public council, and everyone is welcome to attend our meetings. If you like to attend, make a presentation, or like a copy of our agenda, please contact our s. A. C. Supervisor, mr. Salvador lopez barnes. Thank you. [applause]. Thank you. I transposed two of the items, so we will go back to item one, which is approval of board minutes. The regular meeting of may 14 th, 2019. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] that is five aye. Thank you. Section b. , number 4, recognitions and resolutions of commendations. Deputy superintendent . Thank you. Every board meeting, we aim to make sure to start the meeting with a celebration of our sfusd community. Sometimes we have awards and special commendations, sometimes we are fortunate enough to have students and staff here to share about the great things happening in their schools. Tonight, we are bringing a new part of our meeting suggested by our board leadership. Once a month, we will share a brief media clip that brings more of our students and staff to the room. Since it is graduation time, we thought we would start with a brief video highlighting one of our graduating seniors. We will share one tonight and one at our next meeting. Janelle hernandez is soon to be a graduate at lincoln high school. She has served as a teachers aid and regularly helps tutor students who struggle academically. A native spanish speaker, she has volunteered with organizations like the centre for urban education, and translated brochures about Sustainable Agriculture into spanish. She aspires to become an app developer for people with disabilities to improve their access and mobility. She has a passion for learning and genuine desire to connect with the world. Heres a brief video we made when she won a superintendents 21st century award for being ready to be her best. [ ] i go to Abraham Lincoln high school. I am a student of federal policy i have been in the School District for 14 years. I took a. P. Spanish because i am a native speaker. I teach spanish three four native speakers. [speaking spanish] this year, my senior year, i am taking a. P. Senior classes. Being a student here is being able to talk to teachers and know that teachers are listening when you see a kid that is motivated like her, it inspires you to work harder. I remember when i came to high school, i didnt want to speak up and go to the teachers and ask for help. They gave gave me a platform to speak. They would help me when i needed help. [indiscernible] thank you for trusting me. I know i had a hard time with you, but i overcame it with your help. My dream is to become an app developer and create apps absurd people with disabilities. [indiscernible] [speaking spanish] you are an example, thank you for that. I am a student from Abraham Lincoln high school, and im ready to do my best. [applause] thank you for that. We have student scholarships awards. Okay, so the celebrations continue. If anybody needs a box of tissues, we have some tissues from that last video. We are really excited to have our Scholarship Award winners from our various organizations, teacher organizations and other administrator organizations. We are just going to call on each organization one at a time and we hope that there will be at least one representative from each organization, if you would just approach the microphone, and then recognize the student Award Winners that your group has celebrated. First up is united administrators of San Francisco. [applause] good evening, Vice President , deputy, commissioners, student delegates, staff, im here to represent united administrators of San Francisco local three. We are here to announce this Years High School Scholarship Recipients. The awardees are selected by the principles for their academic achievement growth, citizenship, and financial need. The Award Winners are presented their awards at their school ceremony, so they are not here, unless we are surprised. Our principal, ellen wong, from Downtown High school, awarded three students 500, tori carter , ryan miller, and angelo taylor. [applause] principal eric gathers from mission high Mission High School awarded 1,500 to deshawn whitfield. [applause] principal rosen borough from Wallenberg High School awarded colette houston 1,500. [applause] the principal at galileo awarded 1,500 to gabriel strada [applause] principal barnaby pain from ruth sala school of the arts awarded 1,500 to ridge job more most of. Mark herring from Marshall High School awarded 1,500 to jay leno jolene weighing. [applause] anastasia clasped her, principal at Independence High School awarded 1,500 to another student. [applause] lastly, principal jessica weighing from june Jordan High School awarded 1,500 to cairo weasel. Thank you, and thank you to all our Award Winners. [applause] thank you. Next, we have united educators of San Francisco to present their Scholarship Award recipients. Here is elaine meriwether. Good evening, commissioners, im the deputy superintendent student delegates. It gives me great pleasure to be here tonight to give out these scholarships. We did our little ceremony early because some of the students had other things that they had to go and do, but i do our first four scholarships are named after past president s, so one scholarship went to jennifer maria, sarah baila, and she received 2,000. [applause] then our kit mitchell scholarship, which was also 2,000, went to jennifer homes, and she was here earlier, as well. [applause]. Then our dennis kelly scholarship, which was 2,000, went to benjamin bennett, and i know he is here, wave your hand, benjamin. [cheers and applause] he is still here. Then we have our other scholarships, like our past teachers who have dedicated a scholarship in their name, and two of those are Norma Mitchell hardy, and she awarded 1500 to angela amaya. [applause] and then Richard Harrington has a 500 scholarship that he awarded to joseph jah. [applause] and then we have an educational grant that we give out for 1,500, and that went to sabrina lou. [applause] this year, we got 113 essays for scholarships. Our Scholarship Community had a very hard time our Scholarship Committee had a very hard time selecting the winners. We have great students in this district that work very hard, and im really proud of them. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. Our next set of Scholarship Awardees is presented by the lines of black school educators, and i think i see this Virginia Marshall coming. I think i see miss Virginia Marshall coming. More students representing. Please come on up Scholarship Awardees. Thank you. Good evening. It is our honor each year to stand before you to let you in the public see our wonderful Scholarship Recipients on behalf of the San Francisco alliance of black school educators. This year, we had a special first i want the public to know that this year we gave out more than 60,000. Give them a round of applause. [applause] i want you to know that 95 of that money came from donors. We are very grateful. Folks know who we are now, they know our work, and they come to my office, they come to my hallway in the morning to hand scholarship checks to our recipients. We are very pleased. Many of them are firstgeneration college students. This year i did receive a call, you know we love we know that superintendent matthews lost his mom this year, she was an educator in our district for many years. I did receive a call from someone who wanted to remain anonymous at first. He gave us the first 2,000 for this scholarship. It is an honor. For a young person to go into education, i want him to come forward. This is a future teacher. [cheers and applause] i would just like to say thank you for this opportunity as a whole. If dr. Matthew were here, i would like to say thank you to him as well for this whole opportunity. It would not be possible without him. I am going to university of the pacific for history. I go to Wallenberg High School. Thank you so much. [applause] for this scholarship, we also want to thank dr. Brandon Brent Stevens who raced the first 2,000, and our deputy superintendent, and folks on the third floor who handed me the envelope one day. They helped to fund the scholarship for the next two years. We thank you so much. [applause] the rest of the young folks will tell you who they are, where they go to school and the good things that will happen to them. Good evening, everyone. My name is darrell, i go to a high school in the excelsior district. I plan on going to san jose state and majoring in bio