Good evening. I am lisa miller the newlyelected chairperson for the parent advisory committee. I am from northern california. I have a child that is in the middle school and i have a grandchild who is attending the redding elementary school. We are back. Good evening, guys, i am melanie gordon, an enrolled member for the nation located in arizona. I have two students in ssusd. My student represent galea high school. I am amy anderson. I have a child who is a senior at the high school at 600 32nd avenue and a child about to start tk in the next fall. Hello. I am your Program Coordinator for Indian Education program. I represent the pit nation. Thank you again. So we are going right into it. I am going to read out our mission. The Indian Education programming title vi supports the academic needs of the American Indian students in the San Francisco unified School District. The Parent Advisory Council is a group of parents and teachers that help determine the Indian Education goals and advices on distribution of funds for the Program Services that will be provided. They elect new representatives each year. Currently, our elected pac members for the 20192020 year. Lisa miller, chair, secretary is me, student representative is kai anderson. Teacher representative amy anderson, parent representativ representatives. Indian Education Program staff coordinator flores and mentor tutor lucas agular. You can see some of our brief timeline of nativeamerican history. I am going to go over a few. You can read the rest. In 1879, Carlisle Indian school was the first established boarding school to colonize American Indian children. It was a great experiment led by general richard pratt. In 1924 indian citizenship act. We as native people were the last people to have citizenship for our own land. Not even all states honored that. They did honor it in 1957. In 1968, indian civil rights act. San francisco was a huge part of the movement with the alcatraz occupation. We just recently celebrated the 50th Year Anniversary of alcatraz o ok cue participation. More havent in 2019 the california state legislators have 10 native democratic members. Oon may 5th it is San Francisco city and county days of missing, murdered Indigenous Women awareness day. For the school year 1819, i am going over highlights and successes. Indian educational alumni returned to support the program after they graduated. Collaboration and teamwork with the San FranciscoSchool District we can empower the community and increase academic achievement. The Indian EducationProgram Students and alumni created a mapping project and build leadership skills and entrepreneur motivevation. The opportunity enabled our students to learn about technology and ability to exploit the knowledge for new opportunities. Students are engaged in developing resources for incoming bay area residents which is not public at this time. The Summer Science Program engaged in the second trip to seahorse ranch to reconnect to spirits and earth based values. Research confirmed horse therapy is a powerful way to get in touch with behavioral disorders, learning differences, add, a. D. H. D. And trauma andy operation. They take care of oneself and others, sense of pride and appreciation of the simple joys of life. San Francisco Bay area outreach to Indian Education for support for foster and adopted families. The families are connectedded to the bay area collaboration of American Indian resources. When that happens there is a pamphlet de distributed and that connection is being made. As you can see, representation matters. The photos we see at the top of this slide are depicting the American Indian heritage night at city hall here in San Francisco hosted by the mayors office. Beautiful Indigenous People. We are still here. We have not been erased. Bottom left of that slide. A photo of the Democratic Convention held in sacramento recently. For the first time that i know of a nativeamerican caucus came together at that Democratic Convention and one of the delegates reached out to the American Indian program to include members of our community in sacramento and also a huge success that we still count as a very happy and successful day was the day that you, commissioners, did those who were present unanimously voted to paint down the life of washington mural on june 25, 2019. Unfortunately that vote was later compromised and changed. Continuing on with our successes. The Summer Science Program was a huge success, including the horse therapy at seahorse ranch, wisdom moving forward is an event we hosted prior to the summer program. It is every end of the school year. We honor our elders in the community. We also honor the students who are graduates and those transitioning from eighth grade to high school. We had the privilege and honor of having the keynote speaker joe lee proud fit. Continuing with some on goings. Family support providing direct support to families and connecting to the district and community resources. Examples of the agencies the nativeamerican Health Service youth program, Friendship House is a collaboration between all of those. It is something the youth needs. That will be all ways ongoing. The last one i wanted to highlight. We are proud of the ongoing collaboration with nahc, Friendship House, the tribe of nevada, cimcc and united indians it is integral to supporting students and families as a whole. It takes a village. Socioeconomic challenges to educational success. The San Francisco bay area housing crisis. There is a need for curriculum in cultural humility and respect. The Indian Education is unique in the following ways. It focuses on the Educational Needs reaffirming the special responsibility related to the education of American Indians. The lack of training to not criminalize students. The training around Youth Culture is imperative because they eventually become adults. As adults we need to model that behavior for change. Continued violation of agreements made with and on behalf of students. Original vote of Washington High School murals that was retracted at our childrens expense of equity is the work of eliminating oppression, ending biases and ensuring high outcomes through creation of multicultural, multiethnic and racial practices and conditions. I will stop there. The focus doe did not unity but glorifies oppression. The next slide shows the Indian Education program successes. Some of the schools represented in this image is wallenberg, Mission High School, school of the arts, gateway high school. Some of the tribes represented in these images are the nation, those are the graduates. I am excited to see them finish and to celebrate with them. Top priorities. Majority of these items have not been met yet, but we are happy to report well. Require ongoing training for all s. F. U. S. D. Schools and departments to be provided by the California Indian Museum and cultural center. We are happy to report sanchez elementary went through the training and we are pleased to report we have positive feedback. We encourage schools to follow. Require nativeamerican unit in the fourth grade curriculum to explore the history every assistance and modern contributions. Parent advisory committee. Continue with the social studies, humanities, ethnic studies and the American Indian community by school year 2021. Emotional support, immediate commitment to increase and sustain the Indian Education staffing for after school and cull yocultural programs. To hire a fulltime person for program assistant. It is i in high demand. It is impossible to handle everything on her own. Considering the incredible diversity how can we encore important rate all voices in the classroom and school experiences. You can see there is such a wide variety of First Nations represented on this. These are only snapshots of the identities the First Nations, the tribes of o students in our schools. How can we meet the challenge to make sure all students are represented in the schools and the curriculum . Lastly, we would like to invite you to join us two weeks out from this coming friday, one week out to the tenth annual end of the semester celebration we will be recognizing our student in the communitybased programs and sfusd and the 11th annual wisdom moving forward event saturday may 30th at the Sanchez Elementary School ad auditorium. We thank you again for providing the space and opportunity. Questions . I have a few people signed up for public comment. Sammy anderson, lisa miller, marry travis allen. Michelle anton, monte and Julie Roberts. Good evening. I am mary travis. I am an elder in my community. I have been active since we were title four, about 40 years ago. Our struggles continue. I was on alcatraz 50 years ago, and part of that movement was to reclaim land, reclaim a center so that we could build a cultural center, an education center, bring languages back, bring a voice to our community. I just spent a few days back on the island, and it is sad to say those same struggles still exist. I have been a participant here many times, and i identified so many issues that we have. I ask you those voices that spoke out against us where are they now tonight, the celebrities, where are they tonight . We ask that you set these priorities as your priorities, some of them have been on this list far too long. We need to do more for our community. You have a responsibility. We need to bring pride back to this Educational Institution to say that you have done your job, that next year when we come here we can have a shorter list. That we can say you have fulfilled your promises, that mural is still there, still exposed to our students. I ask that you commit yourselves and your spirit and your words in the commission of your duties to honor these things. Thank you. [applause] hello. I am amy anderson. I am once again going to speak from the heart to let you know that as the parent of a student who is now a senior at the school at 600 32 and avenue who brought it up to nem neme in eih grade so he could have orchestra for four years with the travel plan with his bus route for the reasons that he has was that high school. We really had no other option other than for him to attend that school to have the opportunities he needed to prepare himself the way he wanted to be an adult who was able to not only graduate from high school but also be able to carry musical experience with him to college and to his world. Knowing that was his best option and through the lottery he also knew he would be walking by painful images every day he was at school. There wasnt a way to avoid that. There was no way to avoid it. He is working on his fourth year now in that high school, and as the parent, it is painful, but i cant protect my child from everything. Pain happens. I understand that. To say this generational trauma is just a little scratch on the knee, that is a different kind of pain. It is the pain that aches down to the bone throughout your whole body. It is a lot of pain. I know my child has endured pain at that level of pain from the trauma. I ask that you would continue not just for my child. His time there is almost done. He is about to be an alumnus. Consider all of the children and families, all of them. [applause] good afternoon. I am michelle anton. I am the mother of a graduate from Galileo High School and will be graduating from the University May of 2020 and coming home. I just wanted to reiterate some of the priorities that have been on our list since last year. As you know we have taken up a lot of time with the Washington High School murals which we feel as a community is very important and detrimental to the learning of our students. Still on our list we would love to have a pathway to language that meets the requirement. Our languages, indigenous languages are getting lost. We need the students and communities to revitalize their language. As mentioned before, english is technically our foreign language. For us to be able to learn our own languages and use as a requirement for the High School Graduation requirements is important to us. I also want to stress the importance of the need for a curriculum but to have us at the table as well to be in the conversations. I appreciate the connection you all have made, the recommendation you took from us to connect with the California Indian Museum and cultural center. We appreciate that as a community you reached out and there is a connection made. We want to make sure that connection stays. We also have other resources, plenty of resources we can offer to help the district with curriculum that is accurate and meaningful as well as the artwork in the schools. Lets look to see what we have here. Things to empower our communities and students as a whole. Thank you. [applause] i am lisa miller. My issue that i have is with the educational placement center. I moved down here in 2002. My child slipped through the cracks. We didnt know anything about the Indian Education program, and we were out. She already graduated. She graduated college by now. In 2004 and 2007, i went through the same process and enrolled my two boys. We were not notified that there was Indian Education center for us. In 2002, i have a kindergartner that i enrolled. I didnt hear anything about the program then. It wasnt until 2017 that i found out by the word of mouth that they had an Indian Education center so that i was really disappointed. I am grateful to be here now. Here we are 2019, i have a grandson, like i stated, he is in kindergarten. My daughter was not notified of anything of the sort. Had i not known about the program she would not know about the program. My issue is with the placement center. Their obligation of the new Synergy Program is not working so for all of these years i have documents, nobody has contacted me. There needs to be something done about this. This is not working. You know, they need to fulfill their obligations to notify incoming students, families about the Indian Education program. Maybe we need to get some more support in terms of like i mentioned about fulltime support. Thank you. applause . My name is l un a. I am the parent of a future s. F. U. S. D. Kindergartner. I am here to support the Top Priorities the American Indian pac has told you. Some of these are not the first year you have heard them. Some have been the fourth or fifth time this school board heard them. My question to you all is when will these priorities be met . The American IndianCommunity Within sfusd has had a lot of the same criticisms of the School District and it is centered around curriculum, around textbooks. When i see my friends schoolwork book coloring polka pocahontas and they say she is a prisoner and this is in textbooks, i am concerned. She wasnt a curious prisoner. She was a murdered indigenous woman. We are talking about murdered people, missing people. She was one of them. I dont want my 3yearold right now to enter into sfusd and be scared of history and celebrations like thanksgiving or halloween or things like that. I notice when we say welcome over there on the place where it says welcome languages. There is not one indigenous message. How do we know we are welcome, too . Thanthank you for the free child care. My kid is in there right now. Thank you. That is all. [applause] i am Julie Roberts on behalf of the San Francisco families union. I want to reiterate what other speakers said. These are very specific actionable requests that the American Indian pac bring year after year. In the recommendations i hear the same requests that we are addressing in the equity studies resolution and the ad hock student enrollment community to move the resources to sites. That requires the district and board to ask how we are centering indigenous voices. Who is managing the process to make sure we follow up on the recommendations that parents and Community Members put in hard work around . Obviousl