we also made sure that we planned lessons. all the teachers at malcolm x worked hard collaboratively to plan lessons that were engaging for our students. we made sure they were culturally and socially relevant. so, for example, my kids weren't getting what summarizing meant. so i set up a glalry walk with teams from the "high school musical" movie, where they went around with clipboards, writing, and going around from scene to scene summarizing. that's how they are learned summarizing. so it was taking the curriculum that we were given and adapting it to what was relevant to our students. so we read books that was about their cultures and nationalities. we encouraged them to speak in their homes in their native language. i had students that were vietnamese, african, latino, so they embraceed that in the classroom and that made them feel important. and once they feel important, that keeps them engaged. and when they're engaged, they learn and that leads to student achievement. student achievement is ultimately our goal. and just speaking on student achievement a little bit more, we had to set high expectations in order to get our students to achieve. kids really internalize what we say. they remember everything. someone will come up to you and say, miss evans, i remember three weeks ago you said if we brought in this form you'd give us popsicles. so they remember everything, and they internalize it and so if you tell them that they're smart, they're going to believe it. and we know as he had kators that they're smart, we know they can achieve, but we also need them to realize that they can achieve, and when that happens, it can produce magical things. i'm going to end in an analogy. and oftentimes the kids would say we're only 7, we don't understand what you're saying. and i say, don't worry, one day you will. but -- everybody likes food, so i like to talk about food. the analogy -- let me go into it. so if you're at an all-you-can-eat buffet and you have a small plate and large plate, if the hostess gives you a small plate, there's only so much food you can put on that plate. if thee gives you a large plate, you can pile up all the food you could possibly want. that's what we need to do with our students. we need to continually give them big plates so they can continually be learning. thanks for your time. [applause] [applause] president kim: yes, vice president mendoza. commissioner mendoza: thank you so much for really bringing us into your classroom, and i can see why your kids did so beautifully and fort love and care that you gave to our kids. i'm really sad that you're no longer in the classroom, and i think that's really important to note, because we need you. and so many of our teachers are like you, and we don't have enough ways to celebrate you. so i'm a little sad for our kids, because you clearly have made an impact on their life, and i hope that you will continue to visit them and that you've made relationships and connections with them, because they do see you as somebody really positive in their life. so thank you for the gift that you've given to our children, and i hope you do come back to the classroom. >> i think it's important that as we talk about the achievements that we've made, that we often hear what happened in the classroom that helped a lot of these successes happen. we talked a little bit about this at our press conference when we announced that we were nine points away from being a 100 a.p.i. district. one thing i'm really proud of under carlos' leadership and the current leadership here at the sfusd, we're finally focusing on schools that have always been achieving, that we've ignored because they were doing well and not focusing on the good work that's happening and trying to replicate that work and just remembering the practices that are happening here in san francisco that is working. 80% proficient is amazing. and it's important for us to recognize that work and also hear the stories that help make it happen. so thanks again to miss evans for coming and sharing, and i hope that we can continue sharing more of these stories here at our board meeting. any other comments? seeing none, moving on to item d, which is our student delegate report. alvienna fan. >> so at the s.e.c. meeting regarding student protection of privacy for military recruitment and how there would be an opt-out plan from like military recruiters to get personal information from the students. and we all voted unanimously to support it. and there has been a change of date in the board of education form. monday, september 27, 5-to 7:00 p.m. is when it will be. >> any questions or comments? i had a quick question, alvienna. i was wondering if you had any updates to the bathrooms resolution that was brought up by student delegate rose last week. >> i haven't heard any other information about it. president kim: next is item e, the parent advisory support. miss grabowski. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm one of the newest members of the pack, and i basically wanted to give you an update about what we spoke about maybe a week ago. i wanted to thank richard carnaza. due to the fact that he really updated us about the information that you guys are trying to put into play and your scheduling and what you're trying to implement basically into our district. so i understand -- we all understand how he's trying to blend equality for rigor. we really, really like the core instruction framework about trying to have an assessment globally, where everyone adheres to the guidelines and assess it in the same way and manner. we also like the fact that he's trying to figure out a way to promote one standard to when you first come into the classroom that week, as a parent you understand what they hold your child accountable for. we also like the philosophy about approaching the special ed and trying to make inclusion a part of the district as opposed to just a program and really trying to put the keys in special ed that are in inclusion programs into the classroom, as opposed to just making like a pilot program. our biggest concern from the pack members are the timeline frames and dead lipse. so we really want to know who or how can we hold the district accountable for adhering to the things that i stated above and how can families -- how account families help be accountable for the implementation of the plan and how can members of the pack help with implementation of the plan as well? >> good evening, superintendent and board members and staff and families and students. i staff the parent advisory council. i've been on sabbatical for three months and today is my first day back. that's why you haven't seen me. i'm really working to catch up, be on top of the burning issues in the district. i lost my bifolk cast, so now i have to take -- buy folkals, so now i have -- bifocals, so now i have to take my glasses off. the student assessment process and proposals for that, over the past few weeks the pack has been hearing many concerns, which i know you've also heard. i was here last night and saw the huge turnout of concerned families that expressed their ideas about this. we really appreciate the superintendent's recommendation and the vote on the ad hoc committee to extend the timeline for developing and implementing the new middle school feeder assignment system. as you discussed it last night, it's based not only on hearing from community concerns, but also a commitment to ensuring program quality at all the middle schools and the need to have a clear plan for how you're going to get there. that is exactly the kind of thinking that needs to happen, and we appreciate it. we also appreciate the proposal tokes tend the timeline for reviewing and finalizing the new transportation policy which has kind of gotten lost in the discussion and i think we'll be contacting you in the future to know what role, if any, the pack can play in helping to form that process because it's something we talked about a couple of years ago. over the past four years of community engagement that the pack has done, a few themes have consistently emerged basically in every conversation. one of them is that parents want the schools in their communities to be high quality and they want equitable access to the schools that don't immediate their children's needs. that's always the tension and it was expressed last night in the comments people were making. another scene that was really clear over the past few years is that parents are asking for better communication from the district, stronger school communities and really authentic parent engagement in all the processes at their kids' schools, as well as at the district level. and so these themes emerged also in the discussions about the middle school feeder process and there's a couple of specific questions that i think we want to highlight. one is what will be done with the feedback that the community has been giving on the elementary school boundaries, but especially on the middle school feeder concept. and as that gets more concrete, on the specific proposals and how does that feedback get incorporated into the decision-making process. that was discuss add little last night, but in the community that's still the big question. superintendent garcia and deputy superintendent caranza mentioned significant changes that have to happen in a lot of schools to strengthen and create programs that don't exist yet and reflecting a new approach to special education that the conversation isn't really even starting until next week about that. so the questions are, how will this be implemented, and how will the success of that be measured, and how can parents understand what you're doing throughout that process? because for so many families that come to us the questions are, we don't know what's going on, and we just want to understand better what's happening. so we see our conversations about enrollment really and being about school quality and how we focus on making all of our schools really meet the needs of the students that are in them. so i really -- in closing, i want to echo what elie roster said last night as the director for public schools because we worked together a lot for the last few years. let's not make this one-year delay just a delay that enact the same plan that's already on the table. this is a real opportunity to conduct a transparent process for improving and supporting all of our middle schools and families want to be part of that process and be informed about it. so we really look forward to working together to figure out how to make that happen and how to support what sounds like a really great way to launch that process. >> and my apologies also, to kind of piggyback. i also have my foot in the door that we're trying to create around parent advocacy. there's a huge effort to try to -- we know that willie brown will be closed. we had a meeting last night at my organization, and we didn't have a big number of parents, but about seven came out to state that we're really concerned about placing them, like bussing them clear across the country, basically, even though it's only san francisco, taking them from bayview to maybe hiver hoover, so we were trying to come up with three schools, like king and two others due to the closeness to the bayview and we were actually trying to figure out, how can the district support maybe putting something in writing so that these parents have their first priority due to the closure of their school, basically. so for the fifth, sixth and seventh graders, where can they be placed? coming up with a plan to place them in schools of their choice or trying to keep 10 together at a time. if there's 30 of each, keep 10 and allow them to go to schools of their choice. maybe try to find three primary schools is what we're working on now. i know the parent advocacy is low and they don't come out. so i've been working door to door, standing around, kind of going off who i know by name and face and going to the house and knocking on doors. literally, this is what you'll have to do. and if you sleep on it, your child will just be placed wherever. so it's kind of a choice. out of the meeting last night, we came up with james deming, james lick and martin luther king because they're close to the bay view in the bussing thing, so maybe keep an eye out for that or think about it. president kim: commissioner? >> so thank you for your report. and, ruth, great to have you back. you took quite a journey this summer, i believe, right? yeah, great. just give us a few sentences. >> on my summer vacation, i rode my bicycle 4,382 miles from seattle to boston. i flew back. [laughter] and i did actually -- i think i actually sent a league to an article to be young and. i saw in "the wyoming register" published in gillette, wyoming, which ships 20% of the coal that our nation uses to create electricity, but their newspaper had an article about the wyoming state budget crisis and how they were protecting education funding from all the cuts because education was so important to their state that they were coming up with a different way to fund it and shield it from the cuts. and i thought maybe california can learn something from rural wyoming. through the power of parents, what we can do. president kim: i wanted to ask the p.u.c., though, if you've been getting frequent updates and what's been happening with the parent engagement plan. >> well, because i was away, the p.a.c. does not meet over the summer. to my knowledge we have not gotten a formal update. i know i haven't seen one. but we haven't gotten one. it's one of the top priorities of mine is to get more informed about and bring that information to the p.a.c. >> i'm happy to come. i've been participating in the meetings, and i'm happy to come and speak to the p.a.c. about some of the ideas about the plan or even just about the whole parent engagement department and what it might look like, to get feedback from the p.a.c. also. so, ruth, if you wouldn't mind agendizing the schedule. when is your next meeting? >> our next meeting is next tuesday and i'll call you tomorrow morning, if that works. >> next tuesday at what time? >> at the same time as the committee as a whole, unfortunately. but we can -- well, we'll figure it out. >> we'll see what we can work out. thank you for the report. any other comments or questions? i did appreciate the feedback about willie brown and the slosh sure and i like the idea that we have input from parents in terms of where they'd like to go and giving priorities. because we have given priorities in the past to students when we've closed a school. this is obviously a temporary closhsmure but it will impact the students for at least two school years. so thank you so much. great to have you back, ruth. so next is item f, public comment on consent items. i do not believe i have any tonight. yes, i do. miss black. consent, not general. yeah. any consent calendar. ok, one, i'm having trouble reading these cards as well. yes. mr. kelly. >> i'm dennis kelly, president of the united educators of san francisco. there were two things that i wanted to comment on tonight, and they're pretty well separated. one is the -- on page 54 and following, the personnel items that you see there. those personnel items, if you tally up the number of people who were brought on as full-time employees, you have about 135. if you plug in the interns, you have another 35, and then you have another 40 or so, i think, emergency appointments and such like that. those numbers exceed the number of layoffs. and this isn't the only time that you're reporting hiring people. and while the period that we went through last year with the layoffs is, of course, gone and we can't do much about that, we can learn from what happened then and compare what we have now and consider to what degree layoffs like those are necessary. if virtually everybody has been brought back and we have not touched the obama edu-funds money at this point, then there's a question about why we spent whatever it was -- $450,000, $500,000, and went through the disruption of the layoffs last time. the numbers you have here indicate that there's a better way to do it. we're happy to work on getting past that kind of thing in the future, and we hope that we don't have to go through those kinds of layoffs. the second thing i wanted to comment on is you're going to get a report from the buildings and grounds committee about a couple of parcels of land that way back seven or eight years ago commissioner wynns talked about with a former commissioner and committed the concept of educator housing for the purpose of attracting and retaining teachers in the city by doing educator housing. we have a prime parcel for that in 1950 mission, and then a smaller parcel on page street. it's our hope that we can make maximum use of those two parcels by actually creating housing on those. and the union has sat with mr. golden and some consultants who came in and explained how you can lease one and put up a few units, but we believe there are also non-profit folks who can come in and show you how we can do a maximum number of units on both of those pieces of land, and we hope that you remain open to that and we hope that we can put up educator housing so that we can offer a ray of hope to these couple of hundred new people next year that we will be bringing up, a place for them to perhaps stay for a while or forever, or a way to make it possible for them to come and work and settle in san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. kelly. president kim: actually, educator housing will be on the agendas for next tuesday, the second agenda item after special ed, so it will be later. but you can also come and comment at that time because the entire board will be getting the same presentation that you got. item g is the consent calendar. we have a motion and a second on the consent. >> so moved. >> second. president kim: any items that need correcting? >> yes, we have one item to withdraw. it's item 109-14-k 1 on page 74. >> any items for first reading by the board? any items severed by the board for discussion tonight? commissioner wynns. commissioner wynns: i'd like to sever 88, k 14 on page 101 and k-16 on page 105. president kim: i'm sorry, eight, 13, 14 and 16. ok. any others? seeing none, a roll call will take place under section o. item eight, superintendent proposals, and item i, board member proposals, there are none tonight. item j. request to speak before general matters. we are doing this before 7:00. and we have two speakers. miss plat and mr. bruni. >> good evening members of the board, superintendent, ladies and gentlemen. my name is linda plaque. i'm the executive vice president of the united educators of san francisco. and i wanted to speak to you tonight about the issue of the pera retirement system. uesf has high expectations that we will rapidly conclude the process of revamping the paraprofessional retirement plan. it's really not a retirement plan, it's a very, very bad system that provides very little in the way of compensation for our long-term paraprofessional employees, our lowest-paid employees in the district. the district and the union are in agreement that what exists is unacceptable. the effort to change the status kuo began over six years ago. we have not concluded that. we need the cooperation of labor relations, the cooperation of the legal department, and the cooperation of the financial office if we are going to conclude the memorandum of understanding and float a proposal for a third-party administrator to handle the changes that have to be made. we hope that there will be a greater sense of urgency on the part of the school district. we had hoped to have this concluded so that our paraprofessionals could enter into social security with the hope that they would have full retirement if they're young enough to complete their 40 quarters. every quarter that we delay is keeping people back. we've now delayed so long. six years. i've been told that we're going to have to wait another year. i need to emphasize how important it is that we move more quickly on this matter, so i hope my sense of urgency will be translated to you and we can move this along. thank you. president kim: thank you. >> good evening, my name is rich bruni. in 2008 the voters of san francisco passed proposition a, better referred to as the san francisco quality teachers and education act of 2008. contained within the proposition, in section two, accountability measure, it states the following -- abindependent oversight committee shall be appointed by the board of education to ensure that procedures from this proposition are expended for the purposes described in the proposition. at the san francisco school board meeting on november 12, 2008, the school board voted on 811-12 fp 3, creation of an oversight committee. i've emailed the president of the school board a number of times asking for the names of the oversight committee. i've also looked at the school site and have not been able to find those. would you guys like to talk or would you like to listen? thank you. is there an oversight committee and if so war the names of committee? also contained, government code 50075.1 complain of the following. the members of the board, the superintendent of the district, the office of the district, are hereby requested and directed individually and collectively to provide accountability procedures pursuant to government code 50075.1 that include, but are not limited to, all of the following -- statements indicating the specific purpose of the qualified special tax, a requirement that the procedures be applied only to specific purposes identified pursuant to the subsection, creation of a separate special account into which procedures from this taxes shall be deposited and an annual report. has this been done? finally, pursuant to section 5007.3, the board directs the chief financial officer of the district file a report with the board no later than january 1, 2009, and at least once a year thereafter. the annual report shall contain the following -- the amount of funds collected and expended from the special tax, status of any projects program required authorized to be funded as identified in the subsection and here after from the procedure as a special tax. as a taxpayer and as a homeowner in san francisco and looking at your site, we have not been able to find any of this information. and i would like to know that. and i'm hoping that you will post that on your site soon. thank you. president kim: thank you, mr. bruni. we will post that information. thank you. item k is advisory committee reports and appointments to advisory committees by board members. do we have any appointments tonight? there are none. item l is special order of business. a resolution receiving actual cost information in connection with the sale and issuance of san francisco unified school district, city and county of san francisco, california, proposition a i election of 2006, general obligation bonds, 2010, and authorizing submissions of such actual cost information to california's debt and investment advisory commission. may we have a motion and a second? >> so move. president kim: second? may we have a reading of the recommendation by mr. ravioli 1234 --? >> good evening. resolution receiving actual cost information in connection with the sale and issuance of sfsud sfsud 2006 general obligation bonds, series d,
Related Keywords
Vietnam , Republic Of , California , United States , Bayview , Bay View , Wyoming , San Francisco , Vietnamese , Willie Brown , Justin Bieber , James Deming , Dennis Kelly , Martin Luther King ,
vimarsana.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.