Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712 : vimarsan

Clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move forward into an unknown future. With that, id like to congratulate some of our folks who mean so much to sfusd. This is to the access administrators of the year. It was given out a little white ago. The association of California School administrators this is region 5, and id like to congratulate emily aldana for cta administrator of the year. Katie pringle, principal at ideby wells high school, principal of the year, and kelly cruger, is independent high school and she won Co Administrator of the year. And last but not least dr. Vincent matthews, was honored with superintendent poor the year. Congratulations to all. And, with that section be is approved of board minutes. Regular meeting of june 23rd we need a motion and a second. So moved. And a second. Any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] clerk that is six. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez and thank you fo for the congratulations. Because of the pandemic we dont get to have our buffet dinner but i am appreciative of the region. Good afternoon, everyone, and were glad that you could join us this afternoon. This morning we welcome back our administrators at the allstrayedoralladministrators. We have examples of leadership and examples of non leadership and when we can see how critical it is during these uncertain times. I want to thank each and every one of our administrators for what you do for our students and families of San Francisco unified. Our theme for the institute of these fourday institute, and our theme is partnership and our theme this year for the year for our administrators is building culture and also building continuous improvements so welcome back administrators. On july 17th we lost american congressman John Robert Lewis at the age of 80. He passed from pancreatic cancer. Long receipt man lewis helped organize the 1963 march on washington and the 1965 Voting Rights match in selma, alabama. He was six main organizers including Martin Luther king junior of the washington march where he gave a speech at the lincoln memorial. Congressman louis often spoke of the importance of getting into good trouble. He represented georgia in the house of representatives from 1987 until his passing. Johnathan capeheart asked representative lewis what he would say to people who feel as though they have already been giving it their all but nothing changes. Lewis answered, you must be able and prepared to give until you cannot give anymore. We must use our time and space on this planet we call earth, to leave it better than we found it and now that need is greater than ever before. He will truly be missed. The San Francisco Unified School District is offering support to teach students from distance during the covid19 pandemic. The district is pre paying fed indicators in roles in San Francisco unified passed away to teaching programs on how to teach virtually. Halfway teacher candidates are learning how to teach and the teachers are gaining practice and how to use these schools so they can be prepared for Distance Learning and instructions and eventually facetoface teachings. The 74 participants at credentialing program a tea them to learn their teaching credential are finishing their seven weeks of course works and preparing for lead classroom when the 2021 school year is program is a reacher program proved on teacher credentially. Now in its fourth year the Program Begins with a seven week intensive summer teacher prep operation program. Pathway to teacher teaching incorporates an anti racism teaching lens and helps remove barriers for those who want to be a teacher. 90 are local to the bay area so congratulations for starting your first teaching and president san fresca, that ends my report for this evening. Section 3 is student delegate report, ms. Heinz foster. Hello, thank you so much. President mark sanchez and Board Members. You start off id like to read our sac business. So first, we have sac application review and on boarding. Wore currently reviewing our sac application for the next school year. As student leaders, our goal is to create a learning environment that echos the Student Interest in values we hold dear in our community. The sac application is on going this summer. We would like to think all of our a. S. B. Leaders for going back to their school and circulating this wonderful opportunity to our constituents also, a big thank you to our supervisor for organizing facilitating and setting up meetings and they have express their interest in joining the sac team this summer. Our second item is the sfusd School Renaming task force. The topic is rename something of our Public Schools that restrict social justice and Cultural Values in our current state of living. Our gel is to present the opportunity to our Leadership Team and designate two qualified representatives that are passionate about this project and echo what our constituents have to say. In order to get the ball rolling, well have to on board our new team, host a general meeting and nominate two general representatives to take the lead. Wed like to thank our deputy superintendent and chris armendra. We are pleased to recognize that our student voices matter. Next, School Safety advisory. The School Safety advisory project will make all students feel safe. Our goal is to make sure all of our students of of their rights so that we can go from this point forward and we hope it will provide an opportunity and hosting this session via zoom on august 4th, at 4 00 p. M. He with like to thank them for spearhead north student project woad like to thank ms. Williams for taking time to meet with us and make this project a success. Our fourth item is 16th resolution. Providing students with the opportunity to vote at age 16 and be more involved in Civic Engagement with our city and School District. If would you like to attend, make a presentation or you would like a copy of our up and upcoming sac agenda, please contact our sac supervisor mr. Salvador lopez bar. Thank you. Thank you, you are hitting the ground running. I look forward to the vote 16 resolution coming to us as well as students and representatives on the renaming committee which is some of the 3406 most importt work being done in this most important time so thank you again. Section 4 is resolutions of accommodations and there are none tonight. Recognize all scrabblal employees or the raid a words there are none tonight. And this afternoon. Section c is Public Comment and mr. Steel will call on speakers and keep two minutes eye time and if i need to change the time i will tell you, depending on how many folks are raising their hands and this will be commenting on items that are not on the agenda and we might have to repeat that a couple times. If you want to speak o items that are not on the agenda, you may do so. During this section. First im going to read to you a little statement. Please note that Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We ask you refrain from using employee and students names. If you have a complaint you may submit it in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules and California Law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the Public Comment time if appropriate, the super intent ant will ask followup with speakers. With that, mr. Steel. Thank you president sanchez. So raise your hand right now if you would care to speak on any item not on our agenda. It will come later in the agenda and this is any item that were not on our agenda tonight so please, raise your hand. Assume mr. Steel. Yes, sir. Does that mean they should wait until later . Yes. I just wanted to make sure. Its the first item. Yes, thank you. Its our first bit of humor. Thank you. [laughter] so it looks like we have 11 hands up president sanchez. Everybody will get two minutes and thank you very much mr. Spiel. You are welcome. Hello, are you there . Hi, im Jim Alexander i have a question about the announcement of four hours of instruction per day and im not sure if this is a time for the comment or later. Later. That would be later. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, david. Hello, mr. Steel. Thank you. Superintendent and Board Members, id like to comment on our budget and our staff i notice the board has approved a lot of contracts just the other day and made whole this years special superintendent and many administrators id like to ask the board and superintendent to apply some of our own template and what we want the public to know about us in terms of social justice, fear lessness is being united by providing social justice to our staff certified and classified in terms of making their presence financial situation whole or just as firm as the contracts you just approved. Be fear less in terms of making clear the budget to us the public and asking made them to be clear in terms of having us see how we can be in a surplus financially in the state and making us whole and yet threatening budget cuts and so fourth. We ask we remain united in staff and administrators and make us even more united by providing some of these areas of clarity and social justice. Thank you, very much. Tom hello, tom . Tom, are you there . It you hear me . Go ahead. Ill be quick. My wife and i are teachers and i want to do a shout out and thank you to commissioner collins, lopez and sanchez. I feel you all three have teachers backs a lot. All the Board Members but you three because you are asking good questions and being transparent and thoughtful and it goes a long way and feels supportive. I know our school staff and my wifes school staff appreciate it and thank you for taking the time to do this. It means a lot, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, carmen. Carmen . Go ahead. Si. Yes, we can hear. [voice of interpreter] all right. You can ask her to, well come back to her. Well see if we can her in a break out room. Ill teach out to her. Yes, let her know she cant hear us. [voice of interpreter] thank you. Hello, jim. Hello, my name is jan june and im an employee of susfd and im also the Union Steward of local 21 that represents all of our Technology People and all that and ill take to thank mr. Sanchez for his opening speech about how were all in this together and we definitely are and were all in the same boat and i think one thing that would make a lot of us feel 589 better is knowing the budget is ok and were being asked to give up some things and we would like a little bit more transparency what we see what money is being spent and particularly with private contracts and all of those unrepresented people weve not been able to get we dont know what theyre being asked to give up so to speak. All of us in the boat for the long run are all of us that work permanently here at the San Francisco Unified School District and have done so for not years and have made it our careers. So, i would just like the board to see if you can make the make some of the information weve asked since february about outside contracts to become a little more visible to saul so we can all see what to do in case of a particular budget that is coming up. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, matt. Yes, hi. Can you hear me. Go ahead. Wonderful, hi, everyone. My name is Matt Alexander and im a 20year veteran of sfusd teacher and principal. First, id like to comment on the superintendent mentioned the Administrator Institute opened today and there was a poll taken of who was in attendance and apparently 48 percent, only 48 of the administrators were school site administrators and over half were Central Office administrators. I believe that reflects a misallocation of resources within the district and those are very talented people. Some are good friends of mine. This is not a critique of them but a critique of the allocation of resource and we need to continue the leadership the board has shown in moving allocation towards school sites. I also want to thank the board and in particular commissioner collins on the issue of pandemic pods, taken a National Voice from that and its exciting and San Francisco may provide an alternative path that could be a model. The roof stop have create aid cor horting model that is much more equitable and just as focused and really, i hope that is beak being shared with other schools in the district so the other schools could follow in their footsteps. Im sure other schools are planning as well. We can really be a model for the country and how to cohort Young Children who need social interaction in small groups safely and doing tech witt blee in line with our social justice value and we can show the rest of the country the way. So thank you very much much for your leadership and i want to thank you during this difficult time. I just want to take this opportunity to thank all Board Members during this very, very difficult time and stepping up and being leaders in San Francisco. Its not easy and good trouble is not always easy to live with and i havent spoken at a Board Meeting and quite some time and i have been working with ms. Lamb and in the past, mr. Cook and mr. Sanchez. Around other issues that we didnt necessarily always agree on but what i felt was important is the dedication they clearly had to 9 district and to the children and families there and i want to thank dr. Matthews. The work that we have done with dr. Matthews has been invaluable. His patients his directness, his capped candidness is they are exemplary and qualities that he brings to the district in addition to the work that he does on behalf of the children and families in the district in addition to the teachers and administrators. I think there couldnt have been a better choice for superintendent of the year. Thank you very much for taking my comment. Thank you. Hello, heather. Id like to register my opposition to charging sfusd families and the infant, toddler and preSchool Programs while schools are closed for inperson education. Thank you. Thank you. Caller, are you there . 627 . Caller i am. Hello. Everyone, representing alliance 6 blacks who are educators. We congratulate superintendent matthews for superintendent of the year. Special shout out to our friend pringle and everyone who has been nominated. The alliance has a concern about the virtual morning and o we think will are 70 plus who are trained in Virtual Learning and of that number, we would like to know how many are African American and and thank you for supporting the efforts, those who are supporting African American students and African American educators in this district. Thank you. Thank you. Hell oh julie. This is julie and a parent. I want to appreciate district staff who set down with us to talk through the representation of our budget. I want to appreciate, especially ms. Wallace, mr. Wong, mr. Tang and commissioner sanchez. It was really helpful to have a report back from budget staff letting us know that they have corrected the site report to reflect that redding is losing 1. 5fte and not gaining. 5 ft e and it helps them catch other schools facing similar cuts. We really appreciate them taking this feedback about changes in the stability of our Teaching Staff and were looking forward to hearing back whether that will change our fall allocation. It really remains urgent in the time of covid19 to have our social worker full time supporting our families and were looking forward to how to ensure in tss happen in an equitable way and not in a way that benefits tier 2 schools as it is now. Hello, robin. Robin. Robin . Hello robin. Juliette. You are on video. Yes, im here. Could you let her know shes on video because i had to promote her to panelist to let her speak. Ok. So you [ speaking spanish ] [voice of interpreter] good afternoon, my name is juliana and i have three kids. Brian, Elementary School and i am a member of the eloc at that school. One thing that i wanted to comment today is that we would like to have more time with the inPerson Instruction during the next school year. Also, i would like to request that the new educational plan for the 20202021 school year has not been