Members of the public, Public Comment is closed. The sfcta is adjourned. [gavel] president cook peace, peace, and glad youre here. This is the meeting of the San FranciscoUnified School District on december 10, 2019. The meeting is now called to order. Roll call, miss casco. [roll call] clerk thank you. President cook thank you. Tonight, id like to open this meeting in honor of flo kennedy who said dont agonize, organize. Section 1, general information, accessibility for the public. Number 2 is teleconference information. There is none tonight. Section b, opening items. Number 1, approval of Board Meeting minutes of november 21, 2019. May i have a motion, please . Motion. Second. President cook okay. Discussion . Seeing none, roll call, miss casco. [roll call] clerk seven ayes. President cook thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and for closed 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. Miss casco, members of the public will have two minutes to address the board and or time is set by the president. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, the board will not accept a speaker card for items already in front of the board. Number 2, directors report. Superintendent matthews . Thank you. What proved to be a fantastic weekend for High School Sports in San Francisco. Congratulations to lowe. After a thrilling norcal final victory over sacred heart prep in which they lost the first two sets before pulling off a come back for the ages, the cardinals, facing south pasadena, who had a record of 37 wins and 8 losses, and they were the number two seed from southern california, lowell won the next two contested sets and took the finale, 2523, so congratulations to the lowell cardinals for becoming the first aaa program to win a state volleyball championship. Lets give them a big round of applause. [applause] this week, thousands of San FranciscoUnified School District students are celebrating Computer ScienceEducation Week by demystifying code and giving it a try. Computer science is increasingly important in todays world and its just one day were redefining San Francisco, preparing students for a rapidly changing world. The San FranciscoUnified School District is the first large urban School District in the United States to develop and implement a comprehensive prek to 12 Computer Science curriculum. The number of students participating in a Computer Science curriculum has dramatically increased since 1314, currently reaching about half of our students in the district. Im excited to attend the upcoming Fourth Annual qtea innovation awards space night. Ten kids have spent the fall going through a libertory design process and will pitch the ideas for how they plan to tackle challenges using the qtea innovation awards funding so they will develop the idea. The evening will include a gallery walk, followed by tenminute pitches to the qtea review committee members, along with the San FranciscoUnified School District community. It promises to be an inspiring evening, along with a delicious light dinner for those present. We hope to see you there. The San FranciscoUnified School District and our nonprofit partner, spark, announced a new partnership to help teachers tap into a network of 4 million to support classroom projects and more seamlessly align with District Strategies and operations. By giving teachers the ability to design and promote their own initiatives, donors choose helps San Francisco teachers improve their students experiences directly. To date, our teachers have raised over 7. 8 million and completed over 120 projects. These projects range from purchasing chrome books to spanish immersion lessons to healthy snacks to funding learning centers to expand learning outside of the classroom. Im also excited to join access San FranciscoUnified School District students and other guests at the 11th annual holiday singalong on december 16. Sfusd has hosted the holiday sing along for the past decade to spread cheer as part of learning in inclusive holiday settings. There will be special performances by access balixclass, the access sfusd minute men performing their feature their formance was featured at hamilton and the dance debut for change makers award. Finally, all of our district schools will be closed from december 23 through january 3 for the winter break, and the district offices will be closed on wednesday, december 25 and wednesday, january 1. Offices and schools resume operations december 6, 2020. And that what did i january 6, 2020. That yeah, did you just say, were not closing for the whole year. So we will resume operations january 6, 2020, and that concludes my announcements, president cook. President cook thank you. Thank you, dr. Matthews. Number 3, our student delegates report. Good evening. Fellow student heart shares update. Help us support our peers who are needed by supporting our fast campaign. All of our proceeds will go to our tran transitional students. Can we please have a round of applause for all of our students and all of our [applause] we would like to thank all of our students who have dedicated their time and effort to help this campaign. Please dont forget that tomorrow is your last day to purchase a share or make a donation. Thank you. At our last s. A. C. Meeting, we appointed two students from the s. A. C. Who will represent student interests when discussing the implementation of ethnic studies at our school on the equity studies task force. We appoint kathy correa from june jordan and her from june jordan. Before i announce the next item, can i please get a drum roll from my partner . From me . I thought from everybody. From everybody. Okay. On behalf of the s. H. D. , we would like to announce our youth summit our annual youth summit, and this is our poster. Everybody has one. This is our 17th so its a long time, actually. Our 17th annual youth summit, and our theme is united beyond our leadership, more than just a voice. Our goal in these Leadership Summits is to encourage students to step up and become leaders. We are one of the students who attended these, like, three years ago and theyre super fun. Food is provided. There will be workshops and inspirational speakers and entertainment. When and where . It will be friday, march 20 at the fort mason center. Yeah, okay. Lastly, can we have kevin truitt come up to the front of the room . We would like to give you a thank you. No crying. Okay. Im going to try my best not to cry. Oh, my god. On behalf of s. A. C. , we want to thank kevin truitt for dedicating 34 years to the youth in San FranciscoUnified School District. Without him, s. A. C. Would not be as successful as it is today. We are grateful for all you have done for students and all you have done for student Advisory Council. We would like to wish you the best in your retirement. Please dont forget about us. We want you to know that we want you to know that you will always have a place in s. A. C. S heart. Thank you. Since this is your last year, and this is your last s. A. C. Team youll work with, we just got our jacket today, and we decided to get you one, as well. [applause] [applause] president cook you want to say a few words, mr. Truitt . It is your last meeting, but i do mean a few. Give me a mic and say a few words . How is that even possible . No, i just want to say, coming from the students, a thank you, thats the way i would want it. The students have been the center of everything that ive done here in the district, and i really thank them for enriching my life, teaching them more about myself than i thought i would ever know about myself. My students are the best part of my job, so i thank you. I thank the board, my colleagues, and everyone for a great career. Thank you so much. [applause] president cook commissioner norton . Commissioner norton dont try to leave. You dont get to leave, sorry. It snuck up on me that this was your last meeting, kevin mr. Truitt, excuse me, and i just want to thank you, truly, for your long service for the School District and to the students of the School District. Its really, truey bely been a incredible career, and youve made incredible contributions to the School District. I wish all the best to you. [applause] president cook thanks. Well be loving on kevin for the rest of the year, you know, and beyond. Number 4, recognitions and resolutions of commendation. There is none tonight. Number 5 are recognizing all valuable employees, our rave awards. Dr. Matthews . So this evening, we have two awards. Well start with the award coming from the Mission Education center. This is the rave distinguished service award. This is going to be awarded to Adelina Duncan. She is the family liaison at the mission ed center, and this is going to be presented by carla llewelyn vasquez. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much. I want to thank all of you for being here and for being part of this celebration of Adelina Duncan who is our family liaison. Everyone who knows me knows i love to rave about Mission Education center, but tonight, i get to rave about adelina and all the amazing work shes done for this community. Adelina is not just a liaison, but she is an integral part of our community and part of what makes mission special. She supports the families, teachers, and even the community outside of Mission Education center. She helps to bring services into the school to support our families as they transition into San Francisco as new residents into San Francisco. One of the focuses of Mission Education center is to really provide Parent Education and support parents in supporting their children. And like i said before, adelina is not just a regular parent liaison, she is amazing. She is in the time that i have been there, she has got to get trained in a program for families to learn about supporting their children in literacy. She has gotten trained as a triple p, which is positive parenting i forget the other p, but a positive parenting workshop, and the parents come in, and they learn about different ways to parent their children here in the United States because its different than in our country. She has also done which we started last year, a family latino literacy workshops, which is a series of ten workshops that our families come from, and they get books so they can start libraries with their students with their kids at home, and they learn about teaching their kids reading at home and becoming and loving books. So it is my absolute pleasure to present this award to adelina. Our community, we love you, and we just embrace you every day, and wed just be lost without you, so thank you for all of your hard work. [applause] okay. Thank you very much. Its an honor to receive this recognition. At the same time, i love to work for this School District. And i want to thank miss vasquez, our current principal, for trusting in my work, for giving me the opportunity to continue working in this school, and for motivating me to do better. I also want to thank my first principal, who is here today. Where is davi . He opened the door 11 years ago because before being employed by the district, i was a student with my daughter who is here. And im thankful for this opportunity also because i have grown not only personally but professionally. Thank you for all my coworker who are here today. Thank you for supporting me. This is a team effort. I will not be half able to do it without your support and trust you place in me. Thank you so much. And thank you so the people who nominate me. This is important to me because it shows that the work i do is appreciated. Finally, to my husband and my daughter who are here today and who always supported me, thank you so much. [applause] [applause] our second rave special service is ward is from Thurgood Marshall high school. He is a paraprofessional coach. This is mr. Andre williams, who will be receiving this award, and this will be presented by the principal of Thurgood Marshall, mark herringer. [applause] thank you so much. It is very much my honor to talk about andre williams. Andre williams, when i showed up as the principal at Thurgood Marshall this is my third year i showed up, and you get to kind of take a little bit of stock of whos there and who does what. And it became very apparent ho our community in our school. So im very, very honored because ive learned a ton from him as a principal, and that is invaluable to me and everybody else. Our p. T. O. President , we call her jam affectionately, miss magnone, brought this award to the table, and everybody said absolutely. This is something we knew hed be honored for. So andre williams, congratulations. Thank you very much. [applause] i dont have a long speech. I just want to say thank you for the recognition. To see all these people out here, its really warming. We do it for the kids. The people that are here, they know why we do this, so for me to stand here and just talk a lot, we do it for our babies. If you aint doing it for them, then why you doing it . So thank you. [applause] president cook lets congratulate again our rave award winners. [applause] so im going to make a brief quick change to the agenda. Im going to move up our parent pack presentation. If you are here, could you make your way to the dais . Parent Advisory Council. Hi. Good evening, president cook, commissioners, superintendent matthews, the staff, the student delegates, and our Community Members here tonight. My name is naomi liguana, and i have a sixth grader that attends aptos middle school. We just want to give some some updates. So the third annual advisory alignment summit will be held on saturday, february 8, 2020, from 9 00 until 1 00 at rosa parks school, and we want to thank the principal, darryl, for opening up the school site to this event, so i want to say that. The summit will bring together parents serving on a number of committees. The African American parent Advisory Council, the Community Advisory council for special education, the district english language learners Advisory Council committee, excuse me. The Early Education department, foster youth services, Indian Education and migrant education, Pacific Islander families, and the parent Advisory Council. The theme of the summit this year is sharing our stories. Next is the lcap task force dashboard review. So on thursday, december 12, 2019, the lcap task force will do a focus review on the latest Data Available for sfusd students from the California Department of education schools dashboard. We will be joined by myong lee, deputy superintendent of policy and operations. This meeting will go from 3 30 until 5 30, and we encourage anyone who is interested to attend that meeting. Sfusds Assessment Committee update. The Assessment Committee will be held will hold its first meeting on sunday, december 19 from 12 30 to 2 00 in the irving g. Breyer room, here in this building. We will be looking to see what will be prioritized for this school year. So the p. A. C. Priorities for this year include several items, and were still building that list. We have a new coordinator, michelle, so we are a new team this year. And we are doing Student Health and nutrition as a focus. In november, p. A. C. Members attended two different tasting Services Provided by the nutrition services. We hope that a diverse array of students are also provided with the opportunity to sample more foods and give meaningful feedback. We are impressed with the comprehensiveness of thought and inclusion of previous outreach findings that weve gone into the student redesign process so far this year and were excited to have begun meeting with staff and sfusd staffs for early this coming year. The next p. A. C. Meeting is tomorrow, wednesday, december 11 in the main Conference Room at 601 mcallister. P. A. C. Meetings are open to the public and all are welcome. If you have questions or youre a parent in this room that would like to join the p. A. C. And would like Additional Information