Speakers. Thank you, president tommy. We do have one card for in person, so go ahead sir. Testing good afternoon. My name is Chris Tredinnick and im commenting on the cvra letter this past month i finished ten years serving as the board of supervisors appointee to the elections commission. Ive also been an advocate for better election systems for over 20 years. Last meeting i told you, i think Single Member districts would not be a good response to the letter. I also mentioned the idea of proportional ranked Choice Voting or prstv as another option. So thank you for the amendments to the resolution you adopted. I encourage you to see if mr. Rafferty would be open to prstv instead of Single Member districts. This would give you a chance to turn what would have been a negative change into something positive. Pr, cv has a long history of use in the united states, and was even studied by the Elections Task force in the 90s for the supervisor of San Franciscos voting equipment already supports prstv and San Francisco voters are already used to ranking candidates for local office. It would also bring more consistency to how voters vote in local races. Thank you, thank you. That concludes inperson Public Comment. We do have two hands raised for virtual participants, so im going to call on stephen. Um, last name initial h. And then stephen last name initial c stephen h. Go ahead please. Thank you. Commissioners uh, my name is stephen hill. And, um, thank you for taking comments today. Um, as ive testified before, you have quite a, a proposal thats been dropped into your lap and trying to figure out what the best way is forward the attorney, scott rafferty, at the last meeting of the, um, the Community College board proposed a compromise. Um, and so it shows that he at least is willing to be flexible and so it seems like a compromise that uses, um, in what he proposed would be three seats, three districts with three seats per district, a total of nine seats elected by proportional ranked Choice Voting would take 25 of the vote in one of those districts to win a seat. But there are other compromise uses that the board of education might propose. Back to mr. Rafferty. Uh, and some of them would be easier and more Cost Effective than fighting a lawsuit or even drawing seven seat districts for all of yourselves, where you have to go through four public hearings and these sorts of things. So i really think you do have options, as weve been saying for a while, you dont have to simply take, uh, the, you know, accept that you have to go to seven member districts, um, a seven seat, uh, seven districts for yourselves. You could actually thank you, mr. Hill. That that is your time. Im sorry to have to interrupt you. Thank you. Steve. Thank you, mr. Chisholm and president of californians for electoral reform. And im speaking on item three. The c. R. A. Letter. I understand that mr. Rafferty is open to negotiating settlement. That includes proportional ranked Choice Voting. He refers to it as the single transferable vote, or stv, but it is the same thing. I strongly urge you to negotiate with him and include the prc or stv in your settlement, and will save the School District money. The california supreme courts pico decision specifically mentioned the portion of ranked Choice VotingSan Francisco voters already had years of experience in ranking candidates. This would be a compromise that would avoid a lawsuit. Please consider it. Thank you very much. Thank you. And john. Thank you. Im John Trasvina proud graduate of our Public Schools here in San Francisco. I urge you to take the step of not negotiating with mr. Rafferty. We do not have a violation of the cvra. We have years of history of electing asian americans, latinos and African Americans to the school board. No decision should be made or no alternative should be agreed to without a demonstrated record that it is better for the communities that are protected under the under the cvra. Uh, nothing has been shown that theres a liability or that any possible alternative is better. We all need to focus on school safety, on the budget, paying teachers, and all the things that you all work on. Focus on that, please. And leave it to your lawyers to fight, mr. Rafferty. Uh, because this is a misuse of the of the Voting Rights act, and it will not improve access for asian americans, latinos and African Americans. Thank you very much for your stance. Last meeting and for your continued work on all these issues. Thank you. That does conclude our virtual Public Comment for this item. Okay so i now recess this meeting at 507, and we will return at 630. Our report out from closed session in the matter of student jc versus sfusd. Case number 20 2311 zero zero 25. The board, by a vote of seven ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount and two matters of anticipated litigation. The board, by a vote of seven eyes, gives direction to the general counsel. The board, by a vote of seven eyes, approved the release of 21 probationary certificated status employees. Um so now we um in just a minute, well move to the table for the workshop on Student Outcomes. And at that point, ill introduce the items. And, um, as a reminder, Public Comment will take place at the end of, um, the monitoring sessions on both item d items. All right. So lets move to the table. Computer charter. I dont want. To yeah. So now. That. You are welcome. Yeah yeah. Oh that makes sense. Thats really good. Sorry i havent heard from her. After the presentation starts, this evening. Okay. Um everyone settled. So, as a reminder, the focus of discussion tonight is to continue the work of monitoring our goals and guardrails and to demonstrate effective measures to improve Student Outcomes and identify changes and updates where needed. And we are beginning year two of this work. So we will be monitoring two areas tonight. First, we will review and discuss progress on goal three, which is career and College Readiness. And we previously held a monitoring session on this goal in april of last year. And then secondly, we will review and discuss guardrail one effective Decision Making. This is the first time weve had a monitoring session focused on this guardrail. And the conversation will be facilitated by aj crable, who will join us at 730 for this item. So i just want to note that because its 635 now, and he will be joining us at 730, um , so here and so ill pass it over to doctor wayne to introduce the item and to introduce staff to speak about career and College Readiness. Uh, thank you, president motamedi. Good evening. Commission and, um, sfusd community. And so, yes, we are pleased to present our college and Career Readiness progress monitoring report. As you mentioned, our first report was last april that was more broadly, um, how we were doing on the measure of college and Career Readiness and the state dashboard here. Were honing in on our the interim goals. Weve identified towards our progress to ensuring more Students Graduate College and career ready. So with that, im going to turn it over to assistant superintendent of high schools. Uh, Davina Goldwasser and our interim executive director of college and Career Readiness, patrick west. Thanks have the slides. So theyll do a brief presentation of whats in the report, and then well just open it up to questions and comments and discussion with the board. Great. Thank you. Next slide. So just to introduce the team today , um im assistant superintendent of high schools Davina Goldwasser. We have patrick west from college and Career Readiness. Doctor priestley is here from curriculum and instruction eric gutherz from student and Family Services is karen fraley. Norman from Student Family Services, julie yu from college and Career Readiness and aaron dice from college and Career Readiness. So i might call on them to support us. If theres questions that come up. But patrick and i will be taking us through. And before i get started, i just want to say that, um, the collaboration between dean high school, lead college and Career Readiness and sds counseling, um, has been so tight this year, and were really proud of our collaboration together, because it really takes each of us coming together to really address these goals. And so hopefully youll kind of hear about some of that collaborative work. And its and the lines are going to be blurred as they should be around kind of whos taking on what. Because were really working in partnership all the way through to achieve these goals together. Our next slide. So were going to focus on the goals the data. And some interpreted action. And our focus areas are around ninth grade. We exits that patrick will get more into explaining the lingo around that. And 10th grade on track status. Um, were going to hear from balboa high school, more specifically around some bright spots and school site highlights, and ill share some other highlights from other schools. Next steps, and then well turn it over to discussion and questions. Okay, the first goal that we wanted, the interim goal that we wanted to highlight, is interim goal 3. 1, which davina had mentioned is around dwi, exiting. So dwi is the Early Warning indicator that high schools get from students who come from the eighth grade. It lets them know that these students have had either a low gpa and or, um, poor attendance. And so that is a way for us to be able to, to notice there are students that might need some extra supports in the ninth grade year. So the two graphs that you have there in front of you, um, i do want to notice there. I just want to point out on the paper copy, you have is a little different than the bottom bar graph. We have made a small small error that should be 25 underneath 2004, which its accurate on the screen there. So we want to just point out here that, you know we as was mentioned, this is our second year doing this. Our first full year with this particular interim goal. And in um midyear of 2024, which is right now, we had 30 of our ninth grade students exit. Why . The goal is 25 by the end of the school year. So if you go to the next slide, you can see that we already feel pretty, pretty good about the work thats being done so far since were even ahead of the goal at this point. So we want to continue to maintain that momentum. Um, were actually, um, have a higher exit rate this year than previous years 2019 and 2023. So we are on track to meet interim goal 3. 1 at this point. If you move on to the next slide, um, we want to highlight interim goal 3. 2 and termed goal 3. 2. Is a goal around 10th grade students and being on track to graduate. Being on track to graduate is, um, a different measure than the overall goal. Three though just to point out, goal three is about being college and or career ready, but but a student who is on track to graduate in 10th grade is more likely than to graduate. Being college and or career ready. So that is a slight difference between the interim goal and the overall goal. As of right now, as you can see from the charts, um, and the data, the current 10th grade class is we are not on track to, uh, meet this particular goal with our current 10th graders. So if you move on to the next slide, youll see a couple of bullet points. Just basically saying that 65 of our current 10th graders, um, are on on track to graduate. But our goal was to be at 71, um, by the end of this particular school year. And were going to highlight some of the steps that were going to, that were planning to take or hoping to take to help turn this around and help support our 10th graders to get either back on track or some preventative measures to prevent future 10th graders from being off track. All right, ill turn it over to veena to talk about some of our bright spots that we do have in our schools. Great. So, um, sorry. Um, so in a moment, i want to call up norma hernandez, assistant principal from balboa. And victor, you, counselor from balboa and their principal. Um doctor kat aronson is in the audience as well. And so were going to start with a specific bright spot from balboa focusing on exiting dwi students. And also really focusing on how were working with ninth graders. And so ill have them come up and share some of the practices that have been successful over there. Yeah. Hi, everybody. Hows everybody doing . Good awesome. Um, first of all, i just want to say that im really, um, proud of our, um, balboa staff who have worked really hard to support our students and, and, you know, im just going to speak a little bit of the ct, the coordinated care team, um, which is composed of five counselors, five amazing counselors, our dean, our fresh specialist, um, our social worker, our chow, our school therapist, Sped Department chair, um, some of our, um, department, Public Public health, um, clinic representatives, and our after School Program coordinators that all attend this meeting once a week. And and we have different categories of students. Um some of them include the csea students, the dwi students, um, some of the students that are currently under an iep. And 500 fours. And so, um, you know, we discuss these students in, in a group and we try to figure out a point person, um, to designated for a particular student. And we try to look for supports and gaps. We learn about the student, we try to look at their background and what are the things that theyre um, uh, need support in. And we really try to create a support group for them. Um, and, you know, our fresh specialist here can speak a little bit more on, on those, um , on that process. Um, he has done a really good job at, um, supporting our students who have been truant and, and, um, ill just pass it over to him. Hello hello, everybody. My name is victor yu. Im actually a burton alumni from 2012. S. F. Native my whole life. So really happy to actually be in front of the board. My overall role as fresh specialist. I like to think of it as a bridge builder. I really do meet students where theyre at in the halls, elevator shafts, stair wells and really get to know them on a holistic level. Why theyre out in the halls, what theyre currently either running away from looking to meet or looking to get out of their overall unstructured time after getting to know them. You know, because our students are generally either missing class, missing their gpas, or a combination of both. Um, but getting to know them in the halls after we have established rapport building out the team, which consists of getting to know the parents, getting to know their teachers, understanding the various interests so that we can try to connect them to supports inside and outside of our school. So having meetings, really understanding them at their core, and then identifying like, all right, if the students interest is football, getting connected to the football coach really understanding. Like what are the expectations from being there. And then once we have those kinds of incentives laid out, we work on accountability. We really start with Daily Progress trackers, figuring out who can be that point person in talking, connecting with the student on a fairly regular basis. And after that, we see generally a fair amount of improvement after, you know, maybe some rough starts here or there or, um, improvement, which leads to higher attendance, better, stronger grades in their classes, which then triggers me to think about recognition. Recognition often in the form of things that really are are true and big to our students right now. Its food. Right now, our students are still very food motivated and looking to get full. Um, but beyond that, its a lot of like workforce preparation. I think like understanding, like where the overall goals are. And a lot of our ninth graders have vocalized like we want Workforce Readiness training. So ive been providing a lot of like resume building interview skills, cover letter skills, just try to diversify the things that were offering. And then lastly, its just recognizing that their overall progress will continue on and bringing out other incentives. But yeah, we have a tracker as well. Oh yes, we have so many trackers. Um, we really do try to keep detailed understanding of how students are progressing this year. I actually built out a tracker utilizing different synergy and illuminate data. So if you were to use my tracker in key in a students id number, you would then be fed atp 401 to the most recent date that i updated it. So august 16th all the way to i recently updated it on monday, so it will show you all that. It will show you p1, p2, p3 grades and your semester grades. And i typically update that every week. So thats one of the trackers that ive shared with our Counseling Team, parts of our ct team, to really ensure that our students are taking care of. Yeah thank you. Lets give them a round of applause. Lets go to next slide. Okay. So, um, this slide really focuses on our peer resources program. And so we know how important peers are for our students. And sometimes its other students that are going to be the ones that reach them more than an adult. And so we try to reach everyone through multiple ways. And so these are so