We aint running no more. Section a, general information, number one, information for the public. Number one, teleconference information for there is none tonight. Number one approval of board minutes. The approval of minutes for the meeting for august 27, 2019. Can i have a motion to second . So moved. Speaker cards for the regular agenda, roll call. [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session unnecessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that individual to complete a speaker card, prior to the item being called. Presented to our executive assistant, members of the public have two minutes to address the board, as set by the president. Speaker cards will now be accepted for an item already before the board. The superintendents report. Doctor matthews . Good evening everyone. Beginning this thursday evening, september 12, any member who goes to our district website will experience something new and different. I am excited to announce our new website goes live this thursday evening. It is accessible, and mobile friendly, and translations are available for every page, it has a modern design with content organized by topic and user. This will eventually be our home for all school, public and employee information, and it has more features. You need to check out the School Search if you are exploring what our schools have to offer. I also want to acknowledge that a new website is still a work in progress. A lot of important content is not yet built on our new website. Many links on our website will take viewers to content on other websites while we continue to build this website out. We appreciate your patience, with this transition, and your feedback is always welcome. You can find the link to give feedback on the top of every page. It goes live this thursday evening. I would like to congratulate and thank everyone who played a part in the 20th annual historically black colleges and universities fair yesterday. Over 30 historically black colleges and universities attended to meet with students. This is the first time that the event was held in city hall, and it was a great success. Our thanks go out to mayor and breed for attending the event, and for speaking to our students commissioners cook, collins and thank you to the africanamerican achievement and leadership team, the San Francisco alliance a black school educators, blacks for the future, the San Francisco human rights commission, opportunities for all, and to anyone and everyone who played a part in this event. Hundreds of students came and met with recruiters from nearly all of our high schools. Many students were accepted on the spot and they received scholarships on the spot. Congratulations. [applause] i would like to remind families and caregivers over the next few weeks, our district is having our back this week, the week of september 9, is Elementary School backtoschool week. Next week, the week of septembes back backtoschool week, and that week of september 23 is a backtoschool for our high schools. If you would like to attend a backtoschool event and meet your students teachers and see what they are doing this year, please contact your school. President cook that ends my announcements for this evening. Thank you, doctor matthews. Number three, student delegates report. Our first item, we had the Student Leadership opportunities to serve. We would like to promote leadership and engagement the Student Voice representation, as well as the funding specifically in arts, physical education, last night, it was clear that a lot of our representatives werent really interested in being a part, on monday we will deliberate, on who art interested, and would nominate for representatives in the next cabinet meeting. On student delegates, we will elect to members each. Thank you. It would like to thank mr. Diaz, who camped came to us yesterday and presented. Thank you. Thank you, betsy. On our second item which is our sec cabinet elections. Our last meeting representatives were nominated, they campaigned and were elected to serve as cabinet officers for this year. The cabinet team, and to student delegates, president kevins zell, thurgood marshall, Vice President jessica chen, secretary hanan from galileo, kenny from thurgood marshall. Treasurer megan law from burton, and ethan, congratulations. [applause] thank you. Our third item is our committee up mission. During our our retreat we discussed as a whole, companies that we would like to form, and these communities were what students were interested in, programs and ideas that they want to commit fully to pursuing this year. Our goal is to have communities that will effectively support and encourage our Community Led projects. We will continue to work on any ongoing projects, but also research and develop new ideas and our perspective communities. That is all. Our fourth item which is the Student Leadership and engagement retreat this Labor Day Weekend we hosted our annual Student Leadership retreat during which we were able to structure and help our team team build. This teambuilding retreat was held at the bohemian reservation in sonoma. Besides developing our leadership skills, we had a great time taking we would like to think mr. True attend the Outward Bound team for supporting student leaders, providing us a pathway to being better advocates. Our next meeting will be september 23, at 5 00 p. M. In the board of education room. Thank you. Thank you for your report. Number four, recognitions and resolutions of commendation. Proposal brought before this board by the superintendent, its resolution 19910 sp1, honoring the 40th anniversary of peer resources. [applause] this evening im proud to introduce this resolution to honor peer resources in 40th anniversary in advance of their celebration on september 28. Peer resources trained youth as leaders of systemic change and service as peer and mediators to 16,000 piers each year. I will now be this resolution of accommodation into record. Honoring the 40th anniversary of peer resources. Whereas in 1979, after a violent incident School District high school, peer resources was founded to give students the tools, resources and training to be first responders, advocates, and allies for young people, and whereas peer resources is committed to just change institutional change, Restorative Practices and putting love into action. And, whereas the goals of peer resources are that students are empowered as agents of change, and schools are transformed institutions. And, whereas a peer resources trains you to see themselves as leaders of systemic change by working with 700 middle and High School Youth across 14 severed cisco Public Schools as peer mentors, serving 16,000 piers each year. And, whereas peer resources is a Founding Member and lead agency for the San Francisco educator Pathway Coalition who in partnership with the District YouthDevelopment Organizations expanded learning and youth worker employers, k19 educational institutions and Community Nonprofits are committed to growing educated leaders of and for San Francisco that reflect the student population of the district and, whereas peer resources celebrates its 40th anniversary on september 28, 2019, and whereas peer resources honors 40 changemakers for their socially just and pack for our Community Engaging in advocating for their peers and acting as champions of youth leaders, making our world a safer for young people to grow, and find their purpose. Therefore be it resolved that the superintendent of schools recognizes september 28, 2019 as peer worse resources changemakers day at the San Francisco unified School District in celebration of its 40th anniversary. [applause] i need a motion to second on the proposal. Second. So moved. Thank you both. We do have people signed up for Public Comment. You will have two minutes. Whenever youre ready. All right. Good evening, my name is gabrielle de la cruz, im a coordinator. First i want to thank you say thank you for recognizing peer resources and honoring us for the 40 years of work that teachers, coordinators, behind the current staff, and young people have been doing for 40 years. Peer resources has allowed me to be the teacher ive always wanted to be. A teacher that helps young people to understand and have knowledge of themselves, and to apply to address systemic oppression. Lastly, peer resources has allowed me to elevate young peoples voices, in places that i would not be able to as a sfusd teacher. In that spirit come i would like to say a few things that young people have said about peer resources. Peer resources has given me a sense of community. We are a community was never there before me. Peer resources has allowed me to become who i am today. As a reader for my people, my school. Peer resources has affected me positively by helping me improve that my public skills and help me with both sides of arguments and concepts. Peer resources has been positive for me, and helpful, because it shows me that justice looks and sounds like. Peer resources has given me the space and opportunity to not only learn about our community, but make an impact on the struggles that we face. I also get to bond with my peers in ways that other classes do not allow me to. Peer resources has helped me realize the Bigger Picture of everything that comes my way. It affects everything in my life, it makes me want to change the world. Once again, board members, thank you for this recommendation and it has been an honor to serve. [applause] good evening. I am samantha sherman. Nice to meet you all. I first encountered peer resources, in the seventh grade at 13 years old. There was a program at my middle school. Dot provided the opportunity to hang out with my friends i will never forget how incredibly safe i felt. As i transitioned into high school, i had love, support, and coaches. In high school, i got the chance to represent Youth Council. For context, peer resources, the previous class i took was the only class in my High School Career that i discussed street violence, mental health, selflove which are all topics that should be after my father was shot and paralyzed. After high school, i got the chance to work as an intern. And then after college i was also given the chance to join the advisory board. I feel like peer resources has always given me chances to engage in our community and the most meaningful ways. In fact, i know that to be true. Thousands of young people get to engage in the topics and issues that they feel passionate about each year. Now, 27, i teach at the same high school i went to still engaging my community. [applause] so, i feel safety, belonging, social justice and empowerment. Peer resources provided that me. If you asked me what my hopes were for peer resources, i hope this program will ignite the passion, activism, and advocacy of each student in the San Francisco unified School District. I hope students can find refuge, joy, and hope and know that i and thousands of others have. In short, im here to celebrate thank you. What high school do teach at . I have been a part of peer resources since seventh grade. Im 17 now. Peer resources has been such a big impact in my life. Ive had so many multiple peer educators that have helped me become who i am today. Its something i cant say a lot about the regular teachers i had in the past we had peer resources has taught me the harsh realities of how it is in life and taught me social justice upbringing i didnt have growing up. I feel like that was big for me, because i did not know what i was missing overall. Peer resources has given me a lot of opportunities overall. I am part of the student advisory council. That was a very big issue, because we always all school. We are a school for social justice. When i joined peer resources i was a young girl, but now i see myself as a grown young adult, trying to find her way through this harsh world. They changed me to be a leader, not just in my school but as a they see i am the representative, and they see i am the leader they want to go to which is Something Big to me. I feel like peer resources have been a very big help for me. I truly dont understand where i would without it. I feel like it makes me very emotional, because its a space where people come to have their voice heard. [applause] i feel like thats a very big thing to me. Thank you. [applause] whats up, folks. My name is mario. Im a graduate of sfusd. I am mexican and filipino and i am non binary queer. I was in peer resources in Balboa High School my senior year. Peer resources allowed me the opportunity to examine my life as a person, as a non binary person. To see how i can change the world. That led me to a 20 year career in the Youth Developmental fields. Im working with young people so they can advocate to change policy on a statewide level, a city level. Helping change food policy across the bay area. I want to thank you all, that you know that peer resources has an impact and has young people who are now old people working in the Youth Development field, changing the world, changing San Francisco. Our mayor was in peer resources. There is somebody who used to do parent organizing here, i want you all to know the impact it has. Ive also had the opportunity with my niece, who came to me in third grade, and she would not have been able to graduate high School Without the support of gabe here, who is one of the teachers who supported her, pushed her through, helped her examine what it meant to be a woman of color and help push her to apply and get into San Francisco state when that was never an option for her. Peer resources has a large impact. There are popular people changing the world, their people like me who have been doing this for a long time trying to impact young people. And now i have the opportunity to be the director of programs here at peer resources to continue to support this work. Thank you for this accommodation. I am sarah brandt, i just want to say, mario, i think youre very popular. I also want to appreciate the young people who have come out to lend their voices, their passions. Some of them are doing homework right now, as they speak out on things they really care about. When i described the transformative work of peer resources to other people, they almost always tell me how different their lives would have been if they had had such a classic program. As a San Francisco unified students i feel like my life would have had a different trajectory, had i been in the program, had there been a peer resources in my school at this time. This is my 21st school year with San Francisco peer resources and sfusd. Even though i only joined as an adult, it still and continues to shake me for it to my core. I have an honored and i have been humbled to be beside the voices on the creativity of young people as i imagine a world that centers the voices and the experiences of black, brown and native youth. Pushing us to shift our systems, our decisions and our actions to be more aligned with the volumes that we say in outer core. Thanking you for recognizing peer resources and create the power of young people, not as the future, but as the president to lead us towards more equitable worlds in which we can all give free together. [applause] thank you, that concludes the comment. Any comments from the board . My name is betsy, i have been with peer resources for almost two years now. I was serving on the Youth Council last year. Peer resources makes me so emotional. It is a safe space for people of color, especially youth, immigrants, lowincome students, students do not have twoparent, or just the people who struggle in their everyday lives, and peer resources is not just a class, its a community where students can feel safe and they dont feel judged. Adults always make sure that we are the center, we have a voice. Im so thankful to be a part of peer resources today. [applause] i am really thankful that peer resources is a program for students of color. Thank you. Vice president sanchez . I also wanted to say how much i appreciate peer resources, thats the 40th anniversary celebration, that gray area at 265 mission street, there are still Tickets Available . Go online and get them. 7 00 oclock, saturday september 28, 7 00 p. M. 10 00 p. M. I also want to commend i really appreciate the leadership you provide for peer resources. I also want to say, when i spoke at your event last year, i made a promise and i hope to keep it which is that sfusd though we support, continue to support, we have made it part of one of the anchors of our peace spending print i dont think sites should have to pay any and their own money for peer resources. I think all of our middle schools and our high schools have peer resources and can use peer resources which is pretty much all of them should have that fully funded centrally. That is a commitment that i really want to keep. There are some schools that have wanted it. But because they could not avoie cannot have it. These are schools are predominantly have students of color and low income. Congratulations on your 40th year. Heres to 40 more. Thank you very much. [applause] commissioner collins . I want to say how happy i am that peer resources is getting accommodation. When i first moved to San Francisco, over 20 years ago and i wanted to make