Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712 : vimarsan

S San Francisco has been doing a great job flattening the curve and sfds has been a big part of that. The stepsky foundation and Silver Giving Foundation at 225,000 and somaland foundation 476,000, linkedin, 146,000 and the Webb Family Foundation at 70, Golden State Warriors at 50 and walter and alysse haas fund and the Tipping Point community at 25, and the stepski foundation is 20 and i want to thank all corporate and giving foundations and individuals this is a Response Fund the ones their gave before throughout the year and this is the ones for the covid19 response. And toma bravo at 1. 1 and anonymous at 11,000, Golden State Warriors at 125 and the hellman foundation, 50,000 and palms against poverty is 28 and herbert and Gene Foundation at 25 and facebook is 20 and cohen elevators is 20 and the wells fargo 20 and google fiberton 10. Wellington management 10, the 697 and alaskas airline 5,000 and odell family and dennis wulliver kelly and these are all that have given towards are covid19 responses going to our meals program, to devices and technology and hot spots and were thankful for the giving during this really difficult time and we hope that other corporate foundations will step up, as well because this crisis is going to continue. So again, thank you very much. Section a, general information, regarding Virtual Meetings, ada accommodations and Translation Services and for the translation part, is this the appropriate time for comments . Yeah, ive included them in dr. Matthews remarks moving forward and hell be making that announcement and we do have can we also have at this point, our translators, make the announcement. Ill make it in english but if they could make the announcement of how to go to the rooms right now in spanish and cantanese. Great. speaking Foreign Language section b of 2020 and we need a motion and a second. So moved. And second. Thank you. Any corrections . Also, jensen, i have a limited view of people, so if you happen to see people raise their hands, will you let me know . Yes. Role call, please. Pai role call . Superintendents report. Thank you, president sanchez and good afternoon, everyone. As you just heard, im going to repeat that announcement in english now and transportation will be provided throughout the days regular board meetings and at all meetings moving forward. The translation for chinese and spanish will take place in separate google hangouts. For chinese interpretation, please call 484 8542388 and pin number 721609895 and for spanish interpretation, call 13193829676 and the pin number is 665996976. We also will have translators on the zoom meeting for Public Comment as needed. And as a reminder, if you need translation, make this request 72 hours ahead. Last week was the National Teachers appreciation week. During these challenging time, teachers have been true heroes for students and families and i cant thank you enough for all that you do. Thank you for fostering the 21st century skills essential for success and thank you for being a role model and thank you for caring about the students academic growth and Emotional Development and thank you for being a part of this community that is redefining School Together in service of all of our students. We continue to learn as we go and here are a few updates. As students wellbeing is our priority, were providing for the Wellness Check in addition to each system of communicationg with students and families and supporting needs where possible and connecting with them and connecting them to the resources in the community. We are about to hold our Second Community Partnerships Forum to help us organize around the most common areas of need. 15,000 students were mailed kits last week and students should have received those kits by now. 12,400 chrome book and 37 hot spots for wifi access have been distributed to grades 312. By the end of the day, 99 of Technology Requests made by families for technology have been fulfilled. The district will be hosting Summer Programs this summer but all programs will be virtual. As a result, the department of technology is spending the next few weeks focusing on supporting techniques for the summer. Tomorrow may 13th, is the last day to submit a request for a chrome book or hot spot for wifi access. And if you know of a student in grades 312 who still needs a chrome book or wifi access, they can visit our website a to fill out the online request form or call the Family Resource link at 415 3401716. We know the office of curriculum and instruction together with the department of technology is now deploying devices to the paraeducator staff in our district. We will continue to do so through thursday of this week. We will be offering Summer Programs remotely for summer 2020 and prioritizing our largest Summer Programs, college and Career Readiness at extended school year for students with ieps and these programs will begin june 10th and will be offered in a Remote Learning format. Students who are eligible for high School Recovery and esy will receive information about the Summer Program offers. And we are working with communitybased organizations and afterschool Summer Programs to identify other Summer Programs and opportunities for students. And well share more information on Summer Learning options as they become available. As we continue to make our way through the covid19 pandemic, we know that reopening schools will be a challenge and will require extraordinary coordination and planning. As a result, we have opened rfq, which is a request for a quote, from outside partners who wish to help facilitate and plan this work. The successful provider will partner with us to facilitate and plan the work for when we finally reopen schools. The rsq can be found on the sf usb website with our covid19 School Closure updates and resource page. Ill call on her and shell be out in just a moment. So shes in the other chatroom. Ill switch her out as soon as i get her. Were ready for your delegate support. Got it. Can everyone see me . We can see your screen, but not you. And now we can. The miracle of technology. I was panicking for a second. [ laughter ] hello, everyone. So student delegate campaign update. We would like to announce that the 2020 Student Voice survey student delegate election has been extended to may 20th. Our goal is to encourage engagement. The student delegate position gives students a platform for Student Needs and concerns. Its an amazing opportunity and we encourage every student. We would like to thank all of the candidates and second reading of the resolution. Last night at our sra meeting, we had a second meeting and in resolution works with our allies, the youth commission, to relocate education funds. They voted to have this passed and presented to the board of education and we would like to thank commissioner astro and the cacabinet team for working hard. Summer entranceship program. Every year the sac partners provide a paid opportunity for high school students. Due to the pandemic, this internship will be virtually ruled out for the summer internship program. The goal is to continue to provide the best mentoring experience for our peers. Our next meeting is monday on zoom. This is a Public Council and anyone is welcomed to attend our meeting. If you would like to attend, make a presentation or would like a copy of our open coming agenda contact the sac supervisor, mr. Salvador lopez and thank you. Thats all. Thank you. Item 4 is recognition and resolutions of commendations. This evening, we have a video recognition. The st. Warriors had a special surprise for Teacher Appreciation day on may 5th. So we will run the video and afterwards, ill describe what was happening. [ ] come on in, everybody video playing . Hello, everyone. Were going to start this meeting. You have a special guest here. Hello, everybody its good to see you. Thank you for everybody that you do and its special and near and dear. And we know that the youth is our future and on behalf of the Warriors Community foundation, were excited to share the news that San Francisco Unified School District will be granted 125,000. Tomorrow a National Teachers appreciation and we wanted to say thank you for everything that you do and you have been helping out the community and we know this is our future and as long youre taking time out of your day and helping out, well still do the same and we can help get through this together. You could hear what was going on, a video zoom call, a staff meeting and warriors players, damion lee and announced the Warriors Community foundation is partnershipped with the hewlettpackard foundation making 125,000 contribution to the San Francisco Unified School District. So it was a great way for the district to be honored, but most importantly for teachers to know how special they are and we thank the warriors for their partnership, for the hewlettpackard foundation bridging with us and for just recognising the special work that our teachers are doing, especially. Its all of the time, but especially in these times. Thank you. I got to see it without the glitch before and its such a wonderful video, so hopefully we can make it available somewhere. Kind of zoom bombing. So i have a feeling that well be teaming up with the warriors with some fun in the near future. And item five a recognising all valuable employees, awards are announced tad. Today and section c is Public Comment and so our host, mr. Steel, will call on speakers and keep the twominute time. Here is the protocol. Please note Public Comment will hear from the community on whats in the boards jurisdiction and we ask you refrain from using employee and student names and if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employees supervisor in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules on California Law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the Public Comment time, as much as we would like to. If appropriate, the superintendent will ask the staff follow up with speakers and so well go into Public Comment items that are not on the agenda. Thank you, president sanchez. Please raise your hand if you wish to speak during Public Comment. Before you call on people, just as another reminder, because weve been having problems with this, at least at the last meeting, please make your comments germane to the topic at hand and this is all ims that are not these are regarding items that are not on the agenda today. Thank you. Hello, ben . Are you there . You have two minutes and you can go ahead. Im the news director at the San Francisco Unified School District and i wanted to give you a heads up about good news we had. Following up on the good news mr. Sanchez shared to the district. Our Radio Station has been honored with some really prestigious awards of late and i wanted to call your attention to that. It has to do with the learningwhileblack series that lee romney made, about the fight for equity in San Francisco schools. Supervisor matthews and others might remember an event we held at the Africanamerican Community center where we brought together members of the Community Around this reporting and that series has been awarded best news series in the Western Region by the radio and Television Digital News Association and it is one of many awards that this series received. So that is really great kudos to both our educational reporter lee romney and to the district where we have done this work. And also, the Pulitzer Prizes came out recently, and there was an audio journalism category for the first time ever. Several people trained for kaws Training Programs were recipients, including lina masitiz and she reported on a return to mexico winning the pugh liPulitzer Prize and other finalists for the Pulitzer Prize with the team from peer hustle. We trained erlon woods and nigel poor to do that work. I wanted to give you a headsup about the great training work and the awards that were recently given out at kalw. Thank you. Now. Thank you. Hello, michelle. Hi, this is Michelle Parker and im the vp legislation for the district pta and i just had a couple of quick things today for you, commissioners. The first one is that i appreciate the updates to the agenda on board docs where its more streamline. I wanted to let the public know the district is holding a series of meeting for the rest of the year and call 411 meetings for teachers across the district to connect and learned and weve had a district budget staff and weve helped to navigate in the community and navigate the pt business during these School District closures and well have our state legislators talking tomorrow night. Next week superintendent matthews will be coming on and talking about what parents can expect moving forward and then the following week, well have board president sanchez and mr. Lamb to advocate for more funding for our schools and you can find information at our website which is sfpta. Org and thats it. Thank you to much. Thank you. Caller, are you there . Hello, everybody. Can you hear me . Yes, you have two minutes. Im concerim kevin robinson. I would like to preface my comment, in response to Public Comments. The district does not own or have control of the Radio Station kalw. Students cant walk across the stage or field to receive diplomas or share experience with family and friends, it will be great thinking outside of the proverbial box to provide radio time to as many 2020 graduates as possible over the next couple of weeks. They have a license to and content responsibility for. Again, klw 97. 1 f. M. To make that happen. Beyond that, there should be more youth and educationfocused programming and that means hours, not minutes, made by for and about our youth for the social, emotional and educational enrichments. Thank you. President sanchez, that concludes Public Comment. Thank you. Thank you to the public for your comments and section d, Advisory Committee reports and appointments. We have the Parent Advisory Council. So if there is a representative, a representative we will identify you. Yes, good afternoon, president sanchez and commissioners, superintendent matthews, student delegates, staff and community members. Im Michelle Vegas and im coordinator for the Parent Advisory Council. And im joined today by a parent member herself. Michelle, are you there and can you introduce yourself . I am, but whatever just happened to my screen . [ laughter ] it took away my notes so hold on one second. I dont know what just came up on the screen. It probably took away your split screen. Thank you. Im michelle delaneny. Im the parent of a kindergarten and im here for the Parent Advisory Council report for the board of education for may 13th, 2020. The roles of a Parent Advisory Council is to represent parent voice expose perspectives t voices and perspectives. This is our first report in three months to the Advisory Group meetings. We would like to take this opportunity to present a slightly different report than usual, highlighting both the challenges and the situation that has been brought to our families, as well as express our ideas during this unprecedented times. Covid19 challenges for students and families. As families across our district, members have spent the past nine weeks trying to support the learning and wellbeing of their children and this juggling act has not been easy, especially for those whose students would be receiving aadditional support to be successful in their academic and social, emotional learning, including student whos are learning english as an additional language, students already stru