Flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. As announced at the past few meetings members of the public are reminding if they wish the board of education a individual may have a speaker card. Importantly according to rule jz procedures speak er cards will not be accepted for a item already before the board. Approval of board mchbt minutes, there is no approval tonight. Before we get toure super intendant i want to do something a little unorthodox but would be remiss if i didnt make a brief state in unity in light of last weeks election. I want to take the time to say we are in a place in the country where history can be on the brink of repeating itself. I do not wish to make light of what the election of mr. Trump could mean for thecountry and this city. One thing i will say is this, in order for us to avoid going backwards to a time where women were oprezed, lgbtq brothers and sisters were miss treated and black people were diskiminated against and considered second class citizen jz immigrants who continue to build the country had to live in fear ofsent away because of hate and avoid the dark and augler place in all our too roont history, we can not sit i ideally by sw pretend this is not hurtful y. Have been to israel and spoken to holocaust survivor jz spoken first hand. I visited palestine and have muslim friends and stated they are libing in increased fear due to last tuesday election results. The president elect state he will not allow anyone in their religion to enter into this country. He will build a wall at our southern boarders mpt i have sat with undocumented families and have seen the fear in their eyes and heard their voices believing their world may be turned upside down because the new leader of thecountry has chosen fear and hate to determine his focus on policy frz the future of our country. We may not agree on everything, but i want everyone to know this, this board of education will do everything in its power to insure that our student are safe and our families are protected from individuals and policies minute to disingreat the family unit and the very fabric of us as a school communedy in the city. As we build a wall of hope, faith, investment, protection, peace, love, and harmony aron our students you can rust assureed we will fight for, besides and with all you to insure that safety. With that, we have presentation to the board of education, item b. Super intendant report. Thank you so much Vice President walton. Very Important Message so, i think we all appreciate what you said. I like to pick up on that a bit if i may and for members of the audience or the public that might be listening or watching that havent seen the statement that i offered that published on the website i want to read a bit from that statement as well and in advance ill say that we apologize the statement in its current form is not yet translated. The translation is coming soon. So, if i mayi just want to start my remarks by reiterating the following. We are a community that believes fundamentally that each child and each person is the equal of every other. This belief cuts across race, nationality, immigration history, religion, sex, jnder identity, sexual orientation, economic means, ability status, language and age. When we are at our best, we celebrate diversity embrace difference jz build on each other strengths. We believe strongly in social justice which means we fight against systemic oppression and stand up for those vulnerable and hope others will do so for us when we need them. We put Student Needs first and will protect them now. These core values connect us every day. Let us find ways to move Forward Together in unity and in strength. I also want to thank many leaders in our community that also expressed some of the same strongly held principles and specifically support for our students and families and members of our community who are feeling vulnerable so this is a partial list but want to thank Pamela Harris for a strong statement as well as Diane Feinstein who reached out asking how our community was doing. Lieutenant governor gaven nusem expressed strong support for us. Superintendent tom forlux son. We were happy to see a statement by him as well as chancellor of Community College system defending the rights of our young people to continue to access our Higher Education system. And i also want to give special thanks to mayor ed lee, who convened a unity gathering yesterday, a very important and timely and profound gathering for the members of the San Francisco community and San Francisco family on the steps of city hall in front of the chorus which i thought was fitting. Many of the commissioners wereprint for that occasion as well. I think it was very helpful to bring the Community Together and stand up for our values so appreciate the mayors and supervisors and meno other elected officials in the city and county. So, i wanted to also provide some Public Service announcements if i may and im saying this a bit on behalf of the board if i can be so bold. We know this is your process, but since there is a standing item for me to present some information to the public i wanted to provide information about the superintenedant search. The board of education is asking for the communities help selecting the supersome ntenedant sof schools. Ask consultants conduct a Online Survey to solicit input from student, staff, parent and community. The survey asks respondents to respond to sev critical question squz the information will be used to gep a profile which indicates qualities and characteristics in the next superintendent and guide recruitment and ref rens checking process and development for the interview. The survey seeks perspectives on district strengths, challenges and our community. Consultant will compile a report summarizing survey result jz share with the board. The survey can be found on the front page of our website, www. Sfusd. Edu in multiple ledge will just languages. The consultant will have multilingual input session and open forums during the week of december fifen. There will be more information on specific dates, times and locations of these meetings coming this week. The consultant will compile a report of comments received in the input sessions and shared with the board and used to develop a superintendent position description. Thank you for lowing me to speak on your process, commissioners. And then as we look forward to every year i want to comment about two of our special thanksgiving celebrations happening in the next couple weeks. Many newest students will celebrate thanksgiving for the First Time Ever and that includes Mission Education valley and chinese education sent ain chinatown where a special celebration will take place before school. Student at mec will have best clothes and enjoy a feast of turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetables, cran bury sauce and pumpkin pie and after sing this land and s your land, mr. Turkey and let there be peace on earth. Oreb at cec they will celebrate with songs a play and turk adinner and flavored sticky rice and joined by family and community members. Both of the schools are kindergarten through 5th grade and some of our youngest immigrants we welcome this year. Thanksgiving recess is from november 23 to 25. All schools will be closed for thanksgiving recess during those days and all offices will closed from november 24 to november 25. With that, wish everyone a happy thanksgiving. Thank you superintenedant lee. Item c, recognition of accommodation. I need to get the hang of this. So, we have three winners of our Inclusive Schools week poster comtitian. We are happy to have them here with us and i like to introduce special education ombudsman laura savage to present. Thank you interim for superintenedant lee. Good evening commissioners and everyone. Im pleased to recognize our student participant who submitted some poster suggestion for Inclusive Schools week district wide celebration. Mark your calendars, december 5 through the 9 this year. Inclusive schools week is a global celebration that began in 2001 from Inclusive Schools network and seeks to open the discussion around Inclusive Practices and how schools are increasing their abilities and capacity to serve all students, in particular marginalized studabouts, student with disabilities, student in poverty, foster youth, students of different languages, Culture Heritage so students submitted poster identity and chose 3 out of 11 and these are the posters that will be used out the outreach material squz all the schools will display them in celebration of our Inclusive Schools week. Each student will receive a certificate as well as a gift card and one of our Inclusive Schools week tshirts im modeling here. All the commissioners will get one for 2016 so we really appreciate the work that they did and then also taking message back to their schools to celebrate. They can come up. We have here boe monton. This was his submission and well put these on the district website, so everyone can see them. He designed this and the Committee Really appreciated his vision especially with the bridges in the background. You cant really see it unless you are up close. We have cusandra who is also here. You can see she has a sky line of San Francisco in the background of the poster as well as multicultural hands. I like to think of them as reaching towards the future the school. Very inclusive. The committee appreciated the words of inclusion, equality, support, acceptance. Our third winner is not here, nicky witker and will make sure she gets her certificate and price but this was her vision for a poster. This certificate says, the San Francisco board of education and San FranciscoUnified School District recognize your unique and inspiring poster submission representing value of inclusion and practice in sfusd schools. [applause] we want to congratulate our studentss, thank you so much for your talents. Using your talent to pro mote something necessary at a time when we need to be inclusion so appreciate you and congratulations again. Item d, student delegates report. Good evening everyoneVice President walton, superintenedant. Your Council Report is [inaudible] our next meeting will be this thursday november 17 from 5 to 7. We will continue to talk about how can we more than ever supporting our immigrant students from different backgrounds and different statuss and how to bring support from educational to Safety Support in the district. Gladly work wg the board of education on next steps. Our conversation with sfusd community. So, on thursday november 17 from 5 30 to 730, 20 cook street. Student leaders that would like to follow and support the opportunity to educate and empower or families and peers into productive conversations that lead to healthier life liferbs while faced with family incarcerated. This is a student leader led conversation and in response to sfusd board resolution to the [inaudible] and service for students impacted by the issue, we will be joined by experts including City Government leaders, local agencies and student leaders who facilitate. Everyone is welcome to come. This is led by [inaudible] that focus on students with incarcerated family members. We will be happy to go on the future probably get reps ongoing. I want to give a report from the Health Committee. Right now there is a project that fac Health Committee is doing called [inaudible] Heart Project which is a nonprofit is raising money for youth in transition homes. The fundraising will be on booster. Slosh fash. If you donate 15 you will receive a really cool tshirt and we have the poster right here. So, our Vice President is here to talk more about this and she is really involved in it and her name is Christine Chow so will come up later. The final announcement i want to make is our youth summit and we have a poster for that as well. To my left our title is all aboard the leadership and it will be on friday march 17 again from 9 30 to 2 30 at fort mason spter and it is a Student Leadership filled with entertainment, inspiring speakers. Breakfast will be provided and this was designed by cusandra from [inaudible] who is also a rep and won the poster earlier too. Finally, again congratulations to all the reps who won the poster. Really great art you made and really proud of you guys. Finally, our next meeting is monday november 21. 5 p. M. In the board of ed room. It is a Public Council meeting is everyone is welcome to come but if you like to come get in contact with the coordinator you can get a hold of the agenda and you can be welcome and expected. Thank you a lot. Thank you. Item aerks, Advisory Committee reports and appointment to Advisory Committee. We have a report from the Parent Advisory Council and pac representative michael. Good evening commissioners. Im the chair of the pa c. I have a daughter in special education at flin elementary. Good evening commissioners. Georgia williams coordinator for Parent Advisory Council. The roll of the Parent Advisory Council is bring parent perspectives and voices to the board of education to help inform policy discussion. Opportunities report outlines the priorities for the year and development on plans and actions in progress now. In order to set priorities we looked at student achievement data demo graphics and reviewed priorities and exploreed newioids. The pac established the following priorities for 201617 school year. Advocate for racial equity, especially with review of the Student Assignment process. The safe and Supportive Schools initiative. African american achievement initiative. Strengthen implementation of program jz services for english language learners especially reclassification rates and access to district information in the home language. Strengthen special education to be more inclusive. Cohesive aproferp for Family Engagement across district departments, division and schools to support authentic engagement and site based accountability. Improvement for mechanism for Home School Education especially when student are struggling academically. Promote a ag reporting policy. Explore Transportation Solutions to address challenges of families are facing. Work wg district staff city officials and Community Partners to address these issues. Continuing our work with the local control and accountability plan. Actively participate on the taskforce. Supporting Community Engagement and explore development of the l cap tool kit to shift to systemic approach with Community Engagement. Pac members have began the process of developing the work plans and identifying goals under each of the projects. To that end we started actions around looking at transportation. Last year two major 0u9reach campaigns we heard common theme about transportation being a issue and impact it has on school choice, attendance, families, ability to participate and engage in school actaveties after School Programs and safety concern about traveling to and from school. So, the pac is taking steps to insure that these families what they shared with us were help inform any actions moving forward the district is taking around transportation. We understand also pac knows transportation beyond the jurisdiction of the district and requires greater collaboration with city officials and departments. Earlier today the pac met with several district leaders from various office including transportation, sustainability, policy and operation, Early Education as well as the Educational Placement Center and supervisor katy tang about challenges we heard from families and looking at what are solutionswhat is each person working on in their department to address transportation and to think about amoving forward what the solutions are in the collaboration. The pac plans to convene public forum in the beginning of the new year to look at these issues around transportation. Also, well participate in the newly formed Transportation Working Group with the district that is being convened. The office of sustainability was able to secure a grant from the Municipal Transportation Agency to hire a planner to help draft the plan required by the transportation resolution passed by there board last year and possibly staff that group. Our next meeting is tomorrow, wednesday november 16 from 545 to 8 p. M. Here. We will be having omnibus person laura sachbage and Ricky Joe Sc