Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712 : vimarsan

Have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on and all that it entails. And unfortunately in the world of politics, and in the world of public service, it also comes with its fair share of criticism. And i think its going to its really important that you have thick skin. And its important that you have ill tell you i made some mistakes along the way. Because, you know, i want to be honest. Im a girl from the projects. Dont come for me unless you want me to come for you. So i have made some mistakes early on where i have cursed some people out and did some things. And what i had to realize is if i want to represent people, it cant be about me any more. So i cant do what i typically would do if its just me, when im entering the world of politics. So i had to grow a lot in the position. Part of it is just really making sure that you make yourself into the best person you can be. You just the best job you can be and you remember youre there representing other people. Dont let yourself get in the way of that. I agree. And i think, you know, i second that point that you make about sort of making sure that youre prepared and know what is required of you. And i think its also about being prepared to make hard choices. Yes. Because its easy to kind of just fall with the rhetoric, where the wind is blowing. Its really hart not to go hard not to go in that direction. People ask us to be leaders to say based on what you know and where you want to do for community, is this the right choice or is it not. Sometimes may not be convenient, right. It may just be the thing that is not the most popular thing that people want you to do. But you think its the right call. I think its important. I think two other things that you mentioned earlier, i think is really important. Optimism. If youre not somewhat optimistic about being able to make change, politics and Public Office isnt for you. Because youve got to be tenacious, you have to believe that you can do something. Its easy to get discouraged if you dont. A story of tenacity. I dont know if you remember, london, you and i were on a trip to israel, right before the mayor made an appointment to the district 5 seat. Do you remember this . Yes, yes. And i remember so, you know, ultimately the mayor ended up appointing someone else, right. And london still ran, right. Shes like well, im still going to run. I still want to do this. She ended up winning, right. I remember on that trip i remember seeing you. You were like whats going to happen. She was thinking about it the whole time. Even though we were looking at Different Things, learn being, you know, the diaspora. She was tenacious and wanted to do the job. Because it came across, right. Those a few other things. You have to be optimistic that you can make change and be reallying to work hard. The changes that are really worthwhile, are hard to get to. Yeah. It just want to add. I know we have to wrap it up, i see your communications person. I just want to add that you also i think it is important that you are really prepared to make the hard decisions. And at the end of the day, when you make that, is the right decision, not for your political career, is it the right decision for the people you represented. Never lose sight of that. Yeah. There were a lot of things that i supported that no other candidates supported when i ran for mayor. And people were trying to tell me to change my position. I said but thats not fair to the public. They need to know who i am as a person and the kinds of decisions that im going to make. And thats whats so critical. Dont change who you are to fit into it. Thats where sometimes people go wrong because of what they see in the political climate. Yeah. Totally agree. Because ultimately something has to ground you, right. The things that we talked about, about the things that motivate us to do good, if you keep on changing what that is, im not sure you industrial a direction any more, right. Totally. I really enjoyed our conversation. Thank you. Its been a lot of fun chatting with you. And really just kind of i think it offered people a really unique look into how you think about things and, you know, i think its a great opportunity to just highlight, you know, an amazing job youre doing. Thank you for all of your leadership, especially during a hard time and for joining us. And with that im going to turn it over to vivian so that she can help us wrap up. Thank you, madam mayor. Thank you, madam assessor, for such a great conversation. I really hate to interrupt and come in and end it. It was such a great conversation for all of your stories and sharing your thoughts and the passion behind running for offices. Those are really great lessons for us to learn. So at this point i also want to just quickly go into our tour w challenge 2020. As you may all know, that ever since the w challenge has launched, we have been creating a new challenge every year to uplift women. Also trying to encourage more women to vote, especially for this upcoming election, its so important for all of us. Were going to be running a tenweek social Media Campaign starting from today and all the way up to the election day. We have 100 women from the past century that we have selected. They are local, they are great. Theyve been part of all of the Suffrage Movement, as well as other social Justice Movements as well. So we encourage everyone to go on our website. Im going to be quickly going into it, sharing it on our screen right here. If you go to that home page, all you need to do is to click on the 100 years of Women Leaders here. Then you can read about the details of our campaign. But basically you just need to select two to three women each week and feature on your preferred social media platforms, wchallenge and encourage more women to do that. So were hoping that by uplifting these stories, we are able to encourage more women to vote and take leadership. Just in honor of all of these women that were before us and all that they have done to grant the right that we have today. So thank you so much for everyone who is joining us. We are inviting our partners as well, alison go, president of the league of women voters San Francisco here to give us the final remarks to end todays celebration. Thank you. Alison, the stage is yours. Thanks. Thank you for having me today. I am so touched and really energized to hear the stories and experiences of madam assessor and mayor breed. You know, both as a young woman and an immigrant, really thank you for really your leadership in sharing these moments with us. Thank you for everybody who helped plan this amazing event today. I know normally we would be on the steps of city hall. This is pretty great to hear everyones stories. I can feel the energy throughout San Francisco and a huge thank you to our volunteers kathy bar, who really helped to put this together, on behalf of the league as well. My name is alison go. Im the president of the league of women voters of San Francisco. Were a nonpartisan, volunteerrun organization focused on nonpartisan Voter Education and advocacy efforts here in San Francisco. You know, this election is unlike any election before and unprecedented challenges. Every single time we hear this is the most important election yet. Actually its true this time. And with covid19, the state of california has naile mailed y single voter a battle. This is really, really great. Many of our fellow san franciscans may not be used to the voting process and theres a lot of misinformation out there on how to get the ballot, how to transmit the ballot and election security. First step, making sure youre registered to vote. If youre already registered, youll automatically receive your ballot during the first two weeks of october. And if youre not registered or if youve moved recently or maybe changed your name, you need to reregister. Remember that the Voter Registration deadline is octobe. You can register to vote or reregister on our website at. Wehavelinkstoallofthesethings. And then again if if youre not sure of the voter status and you want to double check sometimes, you can double check the Voter Registration online, same site. You can check what address they have on file to make sure you get your ballot on time. If all of this seems like a lot to remember, go to lwvsf. Org and help make your plan to vote, whether its mailing your ballot in, dropping it off downtown at the auditorium or even dropping it off at your local polling location, just make sure that your vote is counted this november. The league also puts out a lot of nonpartisan voting material. For example, our proand cons guide offers an eas easy to read ballot measure. The guide is budge put togetn many languages to reflect the community in San Francisco. Next month were hosting candidate forums for several of the board of supervisors races. Specifically district 1, 7, and 11. These are free, theyre going to be open for the public. We will broadcast these over zoom and well post them afterwards on our youtube page and theyll be broadcast over at sfgovtv. Org. Thanks to our partnership with them. And guess what, these with always be found on our website on the vote page. The page will be updated throughout the fall, as more of our materials come out. There will be a really great onestop portal for all of this information. So thank you for having me. These next nine weeks, lets get our friends, family, neighbors, colleagues to commit to vote. And make sure that they have a plan to vote, whether its inperson or with the mailin ballot. Please go to wchallenge. Org, especially the women here today. Thank you for having me and please stay up to date on everything the league is doing. You can follow us on facebook or on twitter. Or whic by visiting us on the website. I just saw in chat we have a series of events coming up also. 5 00 today i believe the league is having a partnership with the Mechanics Library and also talking about the Suffrage Movement and tomorrow in partnership with the public library, the neighborhood history project is also having a presentation about the first suffrage march that is happening and was led by a san franciscan from glen park. So stay tuned. You can also visit wchallenge. Org under events to check out those activities that are ongoing. So thank you again for everyone. This concludes our virtual celebration of womens equality day 2020 today. Thank you very much. This meeting of august 25, 2020 is now called to order. Role call, please. Par pa role call . Thank you for the role call. Welcome to everybody and its good to have everybody with us. Put wwe are in our second week f Distance Learning for the new year and ive been hearing good things. I know its very difficult for all concerned and im beginning my first week, as well, teaching fourth grade and i know personally the challenges on the teaching side and also talking to our families and students. I know its rough, but were all pulling together, making it as good as it can be and we are always open for suggestions of how to do a better and we always move Forward Together so thank you. Again for being here. And approval of board minutes for the regular meeting of august 11, 2020. We need a motion and a ec. Second. So moved. Second. Any corrections . If you do, just speak up. Role call vote. role call . Thank you. Number two, supers report. Dr. News. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, everyone. Here is my report for this past week. As all of our schools e engaugen Distance Learning to protect against the spread of covid19, you and your child may be encountering new programming and may have questions but were here to help. Our district has been lending laptop and hot spots for students to support their learning from home. If you have a student who needs technology, you can fill out the fall 2020 Technology Request form. Your school will contact you with the opportunities to receive technology, as well. Once you are ready to go, check out the sfusd digital backpack which has Digital Learning tools. Our District Department of technology has created detailing tutorials to help you get started with using chrome books, hot spots for the internet, connectivity, zoom, seesaw and razz kids a through z, videos are available in multiple languages, as well. There are printable handouts and we have free one to one Technology Support for students. Their guardians and, of course, the San Francisco Unified School District staff. Students and families can call or email the student and family link. A single point of contact for help with distanced learningrelated questions. With those seeking a full 30 minutes consultation, the San Francisco Education Fund recruited tech volunteers to provide video support on basic questions about zoom, google meet, google classroom and seesaw. Families can find more information in the most recent and upcoming sfusd family digest which are emailed to families weekly. I would like to talk about student attendance for fall of 2020. Our teachers submit daily attendancattendancedata daily. They are expected to participate daily. Participation will take many forms and may include a zoom class with or without a zoom camera joining a google hangout with or without speaking. Participating in group chats, direct email, call or text with their teacher. Evidence of completion or submission of assignments, assignments must be submitted via platforms or email. Photos, phone conferences as appropriate. And San Francisco loves learning, season two coming soon, beginning monday septembee an hourlong episode at 2 00 p. M. Aimed at pk to second grade students. This show will provide daily, cultural relevant, economic, movement and Creative Content from the San Francisco Unified School District educators, students, families and Community Partners and will exemplify the core familie values and provides for students to showcase their work. We encourage teachers to consider promoting the show with students and we hope to offer ways to reference the show through activities on seesaw. You can find the archives of sf loves learning, season one on the district website. Finally, i would like to show a video from 2020 youth voices and this is a group of youth in the bayview who are encouraging youth to fill out the census. This is critical as we are watching so many can see, evidence of our democracy disappearing and our youth know that the force behind the democracy is the numbers and being counted. Now so i wani want you to watcho and its encouraging you to fill out the census. This is our youth speaking to you. Now. Im jose and live in the bay and only 20 fill out the census. This years census does not ask about legal status which means you shouldnt be scared to be helicoptered. Im george and im 20 years old and i live in the bayview district. The reason i love my community, its en ethnic and diverse and were able to better and the census is important because you have schools like burton and kipp and theyre looked down upon as the bad school of the city and a lot of that is because we lack a lot of funding. I feel with the census, you know, if more people to go out and say, oh, we are a part of this and we want funding and we care about this and the communities and we want better funding, like, it would improve or community. Hi, my dad is a resident of the bayview and industrial park. Its a pretty unique park of the bayview, Hunters Point area. Its just pretty much warehouses, meaning most of the people live here live in their basements. The line between city and nature, you dont hear sirens, its quiet and even here, we have a Community Garden with strawberries and you can see all the birds and the bird migration in certain months, as well as the butterflies. Its really just kind of a little natural wilderness and oasis. As a kid, i as able to attend a lot of Summer Programs and camp that was publically funded with kids living in the neighborhood. The more accurate the census count, the more accurate the Community Resources are for the needs of the community. One thing i love about bayview Hunters Point is the people. I feel like everybody outside of this neighborhood has a negative idea of, you know, how these people are and that everybody is dangerous or some kind of threat and its just not true. Everybody here is the same people, same people as out there. Thats why i think everybody here deserves the same opportunities, if not more. [ ] so i want to thank our young people, our students for their participation and for their voice and making sure we know the importance of making sure that we are counted. President sanchez, that ends my announcements for this afternoon. Thank you, dr. Matthews. And i, too, want to appreciate that psa, welldone. Everybody fill out your census. Next item is student delegates report with miss foster and mis. Hi, everyone. This