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SFGTV Board Of Education July 12, 2024

Miss collins and mr. Clerk miss lam . Miss lopez . Vicepresident lopez here and miss collins is here as well. Clerk okay, thank you, thank you. Mr. Moliga is going to be late. Miss norton. Commissioner norton here. Clerk mr. Sanchez . President sanchez here. Clerk thank you. Thank you. So i need to have our translators and our interpreters, announcers, at this moment. Good afternoon. The unit foid School District will provide free chinese and spanish simultaneously interpretation throughout the Board Meeting. If you need chinese interpretation please dial 14848543328, and 721609895, pound. If you need spanish interpretation please dial 13193829676. Pin 665996966, pound. This message will repeat in spanish and chinese. [speaking foreign language]. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese language] thank you very much. Thank you. If you are not speaking at the moment, please mute yourself. All right, thank you. And, again, just welcome, everybody and thank you for everything that youre doing during this crisis. Well move into agenda and section a is just notice regarding Virtual Meetings and translation purposes which we just did. And section b, opening items. We need the approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of may 12th. A motion and a second. So moved. Second. Clerk thank you. Any corrections . Board members, if you have any, just speak up. Roll call please, miss costo. Clerk mr. Cook . Yes. Miss lam . Miss lopez. Yes. Mr. Moliga. Miss norton . Yes. Thank you, mr. Sanchez . Yes. Thank you. Did you get the student delegates . Clerk you know what they probably did im so sorry, miss senator . Yes. And mr. Sandaval . Yes. President sanchez superintendents report. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all in this format. This month is the Public School striving to be a place where every student can see themselves and be themselves with the diversity of our students to be celebrated every day. In the united states, the month of may is celebrated as asianpacific heritage month to honor and to uplift the many important contributions of asianpacific americans which are essential to San Franciscos history. Both our history present and our future history. Our communities are made better by embracing and celebrating the differences that define us all. Graduating Seniors First and foremost, congratulations. Were extremely proud of your hard work, especially during these times. You have little shown true grit. Now for a bit of business for our seniors and for students who are leaving San Francisco unified School District and not returning in august. Anything borrowed, including technology, texas books and Musical Instruments need to be returned before the end of the school year. So collection days will be scheduled at select locations. More information will be available soon as to those locations. But once again, most importantly, we want to wish you congratulations on your hard work. Last week was classified employees week and i want to celebrate the people who are essential to making our schools work for kids. Like school secretaries, custodians and security guards and cafeteria workers and teaching assistants, just to name a few. In the world of Public Education, these staff are referred to as classified employees and the California Department of education has designated that the third week of may is classified School Employee week to honor the many contributions of our classified employees. While our classified employees do so much when School Buildings are open, today i want to share with you how our classified employees have been at the forefront of our pandemic response. And since closing schools due to the covid19 outbreak, the district has distributed nearly one million meals to children and families in San Francisco. Our School Nutrition staff, along with the security guards and custodians, who help to open up sites and keep them safe and making sure that no child goes hungry. Ensuring technology access. To address this need, the district, led by classified staff in the department of teg nolg, distributed over 16,000 devices, including chromebooks and hotspots. Our district has taken a creative approach to Technology Deployment and outreach using School Distribution to home shipment and even Home Deliveries to make sure theyre reaching the students and families who need them the most. Finally, were planning for next school year. Learning will take place starting august 17th. Were still in the process of planning what that will look like. We are hiring a facilitator to lead the Community Process and the discussion on what learning will look like. Given current guidance from Public Health and education officials, we will be considering a variety of approaches and scenarios, all of which will require major changes in how we deliver education in order to minimize the health risk for our students and staff and their families. President sanchez, that concludes my report for this meeting. President sanchez thank you so much, dr. Matthews. And the student delegates report. Thank you, hello, everyone. Students were surveyed and we would like to announce that the 2020 Student Voice surveys delegate election has ended. Wed like to give a big shoutout to our candidates, katialachelle, and they ran campaigns eastbound during the pandemic conditions. Our goal is to encourage School Leadership and engagement. Now can i please get a drum roll so i can announce the 2020, class 2021 student delegates. I need a bigger drum roll than that. Thank you. We would like to announce that the new student delegates for the board of education is a junior from high school. Shes an advocate for student leadership. Shes also our very first African American student delegate and were excited to see all of great things that she will bring to the board. We thank our guidance for the survey and for all of the candidates who ran this year. We are sure that this wont be the last year that we will hear from you and we cant wait to see them. [broken audio] last night at our fosfusd meeting we had nominations. And after nominating and endorsing leaders i had the honor to introduce our interern student delegate. Shes a peer resources student. I would love to introduce our president megan lowell who is our current secretary. Megan is a junior and has helped to plan a lot of the schools proms and school distances. Wed also like to thank all of our sfusd representatives who ran for the positions and continued to devote their time to student leadership. During our meeting we briefed student leaders with the final details of our resolution after our meeting. And president sanchez and Vice President lopez did speak. And they support us in advocating for this resolution, and to secure funding for our School District. Wed like to thank all of our constituents, student leaders who were there and for their input and all of the focus groups that we did for creating this resolution and special kudos goes out to sfusd commissioner and president sanchez and Vice President lopez and the commissioner of engagement. And wed like to thank mr. Syres and mr. Sal and we couldnt have done it without their guidance. Our fourth item is our Student Voice concerns around graduation. So last night our meeting many of our constituents had concerns around grad. Based on their findings, we had the general consensus that maybe it would be possible to host a physical celebration that would be a lot better than virtual. Wed like to thank sal again and cyrus for hearing our concerns during this time. Continued projects. Collaborating with other School Districts. Sweetwater union high School District. We will collaborate with other student delegates and hope to create future projects that can provide a better streamlined Student Support service to our school sites. Pending resolutions. And we are in the final stage of proposing our Safety Solutions which is coauthored by commissioner lam. Wed like to thank the sfusd for input and to pass our resolutions before the end of the school year. And the vote survey. Now that our leadership election is over we can gather the Data Collected by our constituents and host student focus groups with the Student Input and create recommendations. Our next steps would involve collecting data and submitting the information to our r. P. A. Department for processing. Student leadership for 2020 to 2021. Applications. If youre interested in making a change in and becoming a student advocate for your peers were accepting applications for the year 20202021. Interviews. During the summer, our cabinet team will be conducting interviews for applicants and for more information go to our instagram page. And that concludes our board update. President sanchez thank you, student delegates. Item 4 is recognitions and resolutions of commendation. I dont know, dr. Matthews, are going to start this off or shall i . Sorry, why dont you start off the first part and then ill do the superintendents awards. President sanchez great, thank you. So we have were now going to announce an announcement of scholarships awarded by our Education Support organizations and the first is the united administrators of San Francisco, and its joan hepperley, and i hope that joan is here. I saw her earlier. Im here. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Im joan hepperley, with the united administrators of San Francisco. Superintendent matthews and president sanchez and commissioners and student delegates, on behalf of the united administrators of San Francisco, we are pleased to announce eight High School Recipients who received each a 1,500 scholarship from our organization. This scholarship can be used to provide support to these students for their college expenses. The recipients are as follows. From youth chant high school, marticia gant will attend the city college of San Francisco and then transferring. And then ashley perez, San Francisco state university. Lincoln high school, adrian buscas, city college of San Francisco. Hiptop school, lucero, the San Francisco state university. And John Oconnell high school, San Francisco state university. And civic center secondary, jordan priestley, city college San Francisco. And idab. Wells, amani matthews. And balboa high school, u. C. Santa cruz. And congratulations to all of our students, you will receive a check within the next 10 to 14 days. President sanchez everyone is applauding. Thank you. Our next is for educators. Are you here . Mr. Steele, have you seen her . I just had her over in attendees, so hopefully try again. President sanchez and the alliance for black School Educators all right. Well go back to miss marshall. And the association of chinese teachers, loren indiscernible . Hi. Im the head counsellor for the San Francisco unified. indiscernible . President sanchez go ahead, miss marshall. Sorry about that. Superintendent matthews and commissioners and student delegates and my fellow colleagues on behalf of the association of chinese teachers i would like to announce the 20192020 scholarship winners. We had over 70 applicants and were so proud of all of them and we wish we could give them each 2,000, but we have chosen these 19 select, and im going it go through that list right now. So for the scholarship we have from galileo, adrihanna may. And for the robert louis Memorial Scholarship, we have alex tran liu. And for another scholarship we have andrew seema who is off to larrharvard. And for the friends of tak scholarship, crystal chan going to yale. From the alan wong Memorial Scholarship, we have doris setu from galileo off to u. C. Davis. And for another scholarship, we have kelly moss from ga galileof to u. C. Berkeley. And for the troy louis family scholarship, we have jesse lin from Lowell High School, off to u. C. San diego in the fall. And for the horace Man Middle School scholarship, we have jung tung lee from galileo going to u. C. Santa cruz. And for another scholarship, we we have jane shee, going to u. C. More merced. And we have another from s. F. International high school. Choosing between u. C. Davis and u. C. Berkeley. And for the chan yang scholarship, we have kevin zao from Thurgood Marshall going to u. Penn in the fall. And for the yee family Memorial Scholarship we have sabrina chiu from washington high school, going to u. C. Irvine. For the yee fung Memorial Scholarship we have a student from Lowell High School going to u. C. Santa barbara. And the rotary club of San Francisco chinatown scholarship will be going to tommy one from Lowell High School off to u. C. Berkeley in the fall. And for the ester chiu Memorial Scholarship, our winner is from s. F. International, and that is wey shei winnie yu going to u. C. Berkeley. And for another we have sharon chen from gal lailo off to u. S. C. And for the alai alain jang scholarship we have a student from gagalileo off to u. C. Stat. And we have another student from Lowell High School, off to u. C. Irvine. And for the william and gail chan family scholarship, we have ying irene tam from galileo off to u. C. San diego in the fall. We thank everyone and everyone who applied and we have a Wonderful Team of students. Thank you so much. President sanchez thank you. Thank you so much. And back to the alliance of black School Educators. Miss marshall are you with us . Im with you, hello, everyone. Good afternoon. Sorry about that technology glitch. Good afternoon, president sanchez and Vice President lopez and board and commissioners. And our beloved ester, and ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls. On behalf of the alliance for black School Educators im pleased to share our 2020 scholarship recipients. For the first time we made history, number one, it was a virtual scholarship with more than 100 on the call. And number two, for the first time in our history were awarding 21,000 scholarships. Drum roll, please. Here are the names the s hirsch a duffin from ga galileo to cal state. And tommy harper jr. , will go to cal state east bay. And nahee nim. And another student will go to San Francisco state. And hannah from Lowell High School to boston university. And adahalu from John Oconnell goes to San Francisco state. And chante island gramlin university. And another student will go to cal state east bay. And meisha from gateway high, going to gramlin university. And tania sills from mission high goes to dene college. And another student from Lowell High School will go to the university of southern california. And ion robinson from John Oconnell goes to Arizona State university. And Mia Montgomery will go to Texas Southern university. Issac cristwell will go to ucla. And michael indiscernible to u. C. Berkeley. And another student will go to dene college. And Jayden Johnson will go to oregon state university. Tyrese moront will go to cal state east bay. And erica salis will go to yale university. Congratulations to all of our recipients and thank you to our sponsors. President sanchez thank you. indiscernible . Hello, everybody, thank you so much for having us. Thank you, commissioners. This year in lieu of doing our annual scholarship dinner dance we decided to up our number of scholarships. Last year we awarded 16 and this year were awarding 35 scholarships to our students. Theres a long list and im going to go through it right now. We are just between our scholarships we give a varying amount depending if our students are going to city college or a fouryear university. Depending on that, and once they send us their schedule were able it give them the money they have earned. We have [reading of students names and high schools] we have [reading of students names and high schools] [reading of students fames and high scho

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