Clerk thank you. Id like to start this meeting with grab of broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Section a is general information. Number one is accessibility information for the public. Number two is teleconference information. There is none tonight. Section b, openended items. Number one, approving of the board minute approval of the board minutes of aoctober 22, 2019. May i have a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Thank you. May i have a roll call please, miss casco. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk five ayes. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and for closed session are necessary. If y are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Individuals are reminded that they can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called by miss casco. Speakers have two minutes or the amount set by the board. Speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. Number two, superintendents board. Doct dr. Matthews. Good evening, everyone. October is National Educators month, and id like to take a minute to National Principals month. Id like to please join me in thanking all of our principals. [applause] last wednesday, students at claire lilianethal alternative school learned that its building is a Carbon Neutral building, the first of its kind. We are committed to eliminating fossil fuel usage and Carbon Emissions by 2040. The districts carbon Reduction Plan spells out three main goals. Reducing the energy usage of our buildings, switching from electrical power to battery equipment, and using all renewable energy. The new building at claire lilianethal brings us one step closer to recognizing those goals. The event featured a mission high graduate as a guest speaker, offered a variety of workshops and student performances. The entire event was coordinated and planned by students from the b. S. U. This week is halloween. Want to wish everyone a safe halloween, and also our offices will be closed on monday, november 11, in observance of veterans day, and that ends my announcements. Number three, student delegates report. Good evening, everybody. Our Health Committee has finished creating the logo and fund raising for students in transition. Our goal as s. A. C. Is to support our peers for students who are in need of things others take for granted. We would like to thank our Committ Committee for the hard work they have put into this campaign, and they are right there. Can i get a round of applause . [applause] and we would really appreciate your support on this campaign. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Our student leaders are driven by advocating for our conti constituent student body. Our goal is to Work Together on resolutions that touch and concern Student Support services. We invite our Board Members to our meetings to foster ongoing projects. We would like to thank commissioner sanchez and commissioner lopez for taking the time to meet with our student leaders. Thank you. Our v. R. Project update. This year, the v. R. C. Is working on a project, creation on local topics of social justice. Our s. A. C. Goal is [inaudible] taking with v. R. To foster experimential learning so as to connect students to economic, social and cultural realities of our local environment. Thank you. Our next meeting will be november 4 at 5 00 in the board of ed meeting. The s. A. C. s a Public Council and anyone is welcome to attend our meeting. Thank you. Thank you for your report. Number four, recognitions and resolutions and commendations. There are none tonight. Number five, recognizing all valuable employees, our rave awards. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, mr. President. This evening, we have two awards. Our first rave award winner is the distinguished service award. This award is being presented tonight to Tanya Sanchez manu. I hope i said that right. I did. Shes a paraprofessional at the Tenderloin Community school, and her principal is here to present the award. It is my pleasure to present this months distinguished Award Recipient to Tanya Sanchez manu. I nominated tanya because shes dedicated to serving students as well as providing support to teachers. She perseveres in the most challenging circumstances and looks for ways to help out in our school community. She jumps in to help others, has High Expectations for students and at the same time knows how to provide support that students need in order to be successful. Tanya loves tenderloin school and is truly committed to the students. Tanya is special because of her work ethic, her patience, her positive cando attitude, and most importantly, her compassion and empathy towards students that she demonstrates on a daily basis. Tanya, congratulations, and thank you for all that you do for the Tenderloin Community school, San FranciscoUnified School District, and our school community. Thank you, tanya. [applause] [applause] our next rave award winner is receiving the special service award. This will be presented by the assistant principal of raul wallenberg, christopher rosenfeld. Thank you so much. It is my pleasure to present mr. Batt to the board of education. Not only does he do a fantastic job of meeting the needs of all of our students, he goes above and beyond in so many different ways. Last year, i was struck by the fact that he was analyzing his own data and going over the d. N. F. And noticed some results and trends and the result of that work on his own that he did is that his d. N. F. List is virtually nonexistent. All of the targeted groups that he was interested in supporting are now achieving mastery and mr. Batt has done that all of his own accord. In addition to that, he is a teacher leader. He led our culturally sensitive pedagogy. He is an honor among us all. I am honored to work with him and thrilled to present this award to him tonight. Thank you, mr. Batt. Hi. Good evening. Ill keep this short. I think id be remiss as a teacher to not say i feel fortunate to be a part of this community, so thank you very much, and much appreciated. [applause] just give it up a little more for our rave award winners. [applause] so im going to make a quick change in the agenda. Im going to move up section dangerous drug, number one, the report from our African American advisory council, if you can make your way to the dais. Good evening, commissioners, dr. Matthews, distinguished colleagues on the dais, members of the general audience, and of course miss ester. My name is leticia irving. It is my pleasure to introduce you to and in some cases reintroduce you to a few of our incredible district aapac members. Over the past four years i have worked closely with these ladies and those that precede them in order to build and maintain a space where african ladies are welcome and ensure Academic Excellence to all students. I want to throw thanks to these ladies who spend very long nights with me and very long meetings such as this, and countless hours at education sites. So without further adieu, i would like to turn your attention to the screen for a very short video to give you a look at the work that guides us and work that we do that we do. [video] hello and good evening. My name is lila nelson. I am the cofounder of our sites African American advisory parent group. Hi, everyone. Im mary lahorry and im the parent of a student attending ulloa school. And [inaudible] i have a daughter whos attendi attending George Washington high school. I submit to you the greeting of the masai warriors and how are the children. Its our dream that one day, your response will be, all the children are well. Due to time constraints, we ask that you put your attention on the screen or on your printout. We will also make this powerpoint Available Online and via our monthliy updates. We, in 20182019, we held seven meetings, all focused on family literacy. We had an average of 62 unduplicated participants per meeting. Thats 25 up from what we had the year before. That number is representative of 25 of San FranciscoUnified School District k12 schools. Please note that these are not all of the families that we interface with as we see via presentations we hold or events we attend in the community. With our Program Coordinators leadership, we also led the development of six new aapac sites, bringing the total number of sitebased groups to 24. As you can see, we continued our efforts to distribute books with African American protagonists and African American authors. One of the events we held last night was learning in the sfusd. We partnered with various district proponents to engage in a moderated panel. This past week, we also had the pleasure of joining mr. Lester on a panel of the California Association of school psychologists. On the screen, youll see a number of events that the district wide aapac has participant participated in. Were very proud of our partnerships and are looking forward to see how we can grow those relationships next year. On this screen, youll see it says different year and same challenges and its a repeat of our challenges from october 2018. Now we decided to keep this slide as all the challenges still remain the same. Were finding that theres still adversity despite engagement, that theres still school sites that resist what were pushing out or what aapac is educating families about. We still face the same challenges when responding to the feedback you see below. So whats up for 2019 and 2020 . Well, on the left, youll see last years goals, and were going to continue focusing on those areas. However, were adding unpacking pushout, racism within sfusd sites, and increasing sense of belonging for black students and families. And strengthening our Collaborative Partnerships for this current year. It also goes without saying that in order for us to succeed, were going to need the help of everyone in this room. As you are able to see in the previous slide, we are focusing our energy on sense of belonging and why sense of belonging is important amongst our families. If you look in the clusters located on the left, you will see words used by participants at our september 2019 African AmericanParent Advisory Council meeting which defines what sense of belonging means for them. Words like valued, welcomed, heard, understood, respected, cared about, and genuinely loved. Ultimately, a sense of belonging is about love and that felt experience for African American children within sfusd. As pooh told piglet, you dont spell love, you feel it. At the end of the Academic School year, we hold a Community Meeting to hear the issues that they want us to focus on in the coming left. Participants wrote principals are insensitive and dont know how to address issues of race especially when race is involved. My black second grader is already feeling the difference in treatment than that of his white school mates who are treated better. Someone else said we need to build a space where black and brown Families Build trust in the Larger Community and these are just a few quotes from the many we captured. We also look at the s. A. L. Spring survey level from 2018. We noted that there was a 1 drop in the favorability of families feeling a sense of connectedness to their schools. Last year, it was 91 . We would like to note that only 598 respondents completed the survey. Those African American population in San Francisco though African American population in San Francisco is declining. We know that many more families are here. We dont believe that 598 families is a large enough number for us to have an accurate feel, but it may be an indication of how families are truly feeling, and for us, thats not truly connected. We also looked at the response from the sites of aapac. While the ultimate responsibility of increasing sense of belonging for students and families in this district rests primarily on district officials, us families are doing our part to take the lead in ways that we can. These pictures are aapac meetings across the district. Some school sites are working on simply building affininy, while others are looking to build relationships on their sites. And pulling partnerships to supplement the learning for those children. We have some of those aapac based people in the audience and hopefully during Public Comment they will speak on what theyre doing to increase sense of belonging at their sites. Finally, here are recommendations for 20192020 school year. We are asking that sfusd work closer with the city and county of San Francisco to address the conditions outside of the classroom that impact learning and overall wellness. We have added a link to a study that was done in los angeles for more information as to what went through a study called beyond schoolhouse. We are asking that there is increased support for access and completion of a through g requirements. Beyond basic graduation requirements for African American students. Many of our students are graduating with ds, and while they are graduating, theyre not graduating and u. C. Eligible, therefore, not competitive in the world after high school. We want adults to transform their mindsets, to raise standards and expectations for African American students. We are asking all sfusd sites be required to attend the Pupil Services acclimate team committees. Currently two of us sitting on this dais attend and we find information valuable for all schools to have access to. Again, we want all sfusd staff to be mandated to take or attend implicit bias training. Were asking that sfusd mandate training plans for cohorts of african Elementary Students at every school. Many of us were part of this conversation that was happening in some of our west side schools a while ago, and we believe in order to look at the whole child and to serve the whole child to increase academic outcomes, these plans must be in place. Lastly, we want to thank the board of education for passing the equity studies resolution, which will ensure that black history will be acknowledged and celebrated. We ask that you continue to prioritize and develop the implementation of the resolution. We believe that the resolution will directly impact our students connectedness to their school sites, thus supporting Academic Excellence and achievement. So as we close out, wed like to share with you our 20192020 aapac District Meeting dates. All meetings begin at 5 30. Dinner and child care are provided. In an effort to make sure that we are making these meetings accessible to all families of African American students, we are moving the meetings to Different School sites each month. That information will be made Available Online or on fliers or via our monthly email updates. And through calls. We are definitely in need of more parent volunteers. As mentioned before, there is a lot of work and time that goes into creating this form. In order for us to sustain and grow, we need the help of more families. To get involved, please see us, call leticia, or email the aapac email. And we would like to vice all of the commissioners to attend one of our aapac meetings just so you can see whats happening and the growth that were making. Thank you so much for your attention. We look forward to the day that we can ask, and how are the children, and our collective response will be, all the children are well. [applause] thank you for the presentation. We have two public speakers who signed up for Public Comment. When you hear your name, make your way to the dais for Public Comment. You have two minutes. Aleta jackson, and julia fisher. Good evening, commissioners. I cede my time to monica jones. Hello. I am monica jones. I joined the p. T. A. To be on the on the board, and maybe that the summer after my son hes in second, so the summer after kindergarten, i ended up going to an aapac meeting kind of on accident in a way, but i was excited i was really excited and motivated when i leave the aapac when i left the aapac. I got the p. T. A. To fund the aapac at my school. Now the issue that we have here is theres not many African American families that are involved like we would like. Theyre for many different reasons, many that i dont know. I am a product of children being bussed outside of their School Districts back in the 90s, and im from louisiana. That can sum some of it up. So with that being said, i feel like a lot of the parents feel worn and beat down by what they experience in their personal lives, being African American and having someone in this world where a lot of things can be hidden, but you cant hide the color of your skin. And child