Wont do that after the meeting is called. First item is approval of the minutes. So moved. Second. Roll call vote. [inaudible] ms. Fewer. Here. Ms. Mendoza mcdonnell. Yes. [inaudible] ms. Norton. Yes. Mr. Walton. Yes. [inaudible] mr. Haney. Yes. Seven ayes. The next item is the interim superintendent report and the first one. Thank you mr. Haney and if i commissioners would indulge me tonight i wanted to share some perspective as i take the roll of the interim superintendent for the first time officially in this Board Meeting tonight so this is an usually long comments on my part and i want to do it in two part and one is share some Broad Perspective and also some exciting reports about two events, one of which took place earlier this week last night and another one on saturday both at Mission High School as part of the africanamerican and Leadership Initiative and first i want to start by thanking audio is not clear and i want to thank superintendent carranza for his leadership and he has left an indelible imprint on the district and senior staff and on me as well and i want to say [inaudible] in his leadership over the four years as superintendent and the seven years he has been with us total he has given voice to our values and really he called on us to take action to change the life course for all of our students for the better and especially for those who are most vulnerable in our schools. I also want to thank all of the commissioners for your support and encouragement for me and over the last several weeks. I definitely needed to be pushed to step into this role and its meant a great deal to have your confidence and support and practical support in a lot of ways want. I was in a comfortable zone and superintendent for policy and operations for several years and my husband mark thinks i am crazy [inaudible] former job was a comfortable one but compared to what the last month of have felt like it feels like a comfortable memory and one that i am going to happily return to so i have to say being called upon to serve in this role has been extremely humbling. It is not something that i spent a lot of time thinking about or planning and its been frankly a little bit nerve racking and certainly humbling and at the same time i think [inaudible] with a clear eye and profound sense of responsibility. audio is not clear . There is little as i can as far as to say about the big picture how this experience is. I want to thank all of our Central Office colleagues, the superintendents Leadership Team, all of the department heads, all of the folks that we worked closely together for years. I want to thank the site leaders. I definitely feel your support in this time of transition. Our partners, parents, Community Organizations, community leaders, the mayor, elected officials, Philanthropic Partners, business partners, so many individuals and organizations have extended themselves so generously to support the district and the team and also me in particular, so it really does feel like were in this together and we all want the same thing. We want a Better Future for the students we serve and a more just society where everyone prospers from the collective well being so i definitely feel that. I want to comment on the big picture which to me is a profile [inaudible] which all of us most of us worked for quite a long time to develop together and this was a Community Wide effort, and to me the graduate profile is the center piece of vision 2025, and there are some copies for those in the audience who have not seen this document before. Theres copy of the graduate profile available for you so its a clear compelling and inspiring statement of the hopes that we have all for our students and a definition by which we measure our own success as educators. And in a nutshell we see in the profile a statement of all of our graduates and following. One, master of content knowledge, Critical Thinking skills and webcor state comp pentancies. Two [inaudible] audio is not clear three, global local and Digital Identity to engage in the 21st Century Global society that is interconnected and inclusive. Number 4, leadership empathy and collaboration and the ability to positively influence others. Number 5, creativity, the freedom and confidence and ability to express themselves and finally in no particular order but theyre all of equal importance. Last but not least a sense of purpose and self to see themselves filled with purpose and values. Thats what were committing to for all of our students so some wonder whether our school in our districts care about all students [inaudible] whether were only concerned with closing achievements rather than serving all students to get their highest potential. Although this is tough to hear this is feedback but i want to reassure you plan to challenge and inspire and support every child, not just some. What i find powerful about being 2025 and our graduate profile is we state an ambitious and high vision for all students if achieved will enable them to succeed in our increasingly complex world. Were making changes in Computer Science k12 to travel, increasing technology, Arts Education offered everyday for every student and school and expanded resources for career and College Readiness. At the same time however we know that students need different types of support to achieve this ambitious vision. In sfusd we study the work of uc berkeley work of Professor John a powell who wrote about Structural Racism and targeted generallism among other things. Here is a definition racism from the Aspen Institute paused to perpetuate inequity. Its not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. Instead it is been a feature of the social economic and political systems in which we all exist. In San Francisco and in sfusd we see signs of Structural Racism all too often. More over this is a broader pattern of systemic oppression which we use the term in our district which is very good and empower to see, so the patterns include systemic oppression based on gender, language, immigration history, disabilities, sexual orientation, religion and class and many other aspect of identity and difference. We are not immune from this oppression just because we live in San Francisco and we have a special responsibility to combat it intentionally. Targeted universalism is one strategy we can pursue to do this. Heres professors definition of this. This is an approach that supports the needs of the particular while reminding us were all part of the same social fabric. Targeted universalism targets blanket universal that different groups are situated differently relative to the institutions and resources of society. It also rejects the claim of formal equality that would treat all people the say as a way of denying difference. In other words, because the Playing Field is not level we must act intentionally to support the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. Picture any student and every student at the center of our graduate profile and lets picture what it takes for us to deliver that promise to her or him. Its almost overwhelming to imagine and yet it is our responsibility. To that point i have to thank all of the incredibly hard working staff who work in our schools and our district in our departments. Thomas edison said and deputy superintendent gar arrow and i think he will like the quote vision without execution is hallucination. As grand as the vision is achieving it depends on the abilities, dedication hearts and minds of our teachers, paraprofessionals, site leaders social workers and counselors and facility staff, nutrition staff, District Office teams and all other sfusd employees. Our ability to support our students has been closely linked to how well we support our staff. We know this. Now, as cost of housing and cost of living run away from us we have to work harder to convey how much we appreciate and value our employees including by making it possible for them to stay in our district. The issue of funding is a challenge for our district and we help in this. Remember that the states funding formula doesnt care about cost of living and its the same for San Francisco as it is for bakersfield. Still we have to whatever we can while living within our means and also trying to make the budgetary pie bigger. My plea to every member of the know sfusd family is to remember even during tough times which might be ahead of us that were all in this together. We also need to thank and want to thank the many businesses, foundations, Community Organizations and individuals that are investing in and working in our schools. Many of you have been in our dug out thats a giants reference for years and others joined us during the supers tenure. We are grateful on to all of you and need you to stay engaged with us. I want to thank the guardians and students parents guardians and students of sfusd. You are the reason that we get up in the morning and often work until late at night. We know your lives are getting busier and more complicated. Thank you for keeping faith with us despite our challenges and yours. And although we work hard we know we dont have all the answers and we need your voices, ideas and passion to keep getting better. End of part one. [laughter] so thank you for hearing me out as [inaudible] [off mic] yes, i am coming out of my shell a little bit so now i would like to comment on two fantastic events that are taking place and or took place this week. So yesterday evening i had the pleasure of attending sfusd 17th historically black universities and colleges recruitment at Mission High School. It was maze. Over 150 people attended this event and colleges and universities. Official representatives recruited College Bound students on site during the event. Students had the opportunity to receive preliminary on the spot admissions scholarships and Financial Aid information and facetoface exposure with the historically black institutions in the United States. Last year four students received the maximum scholarship of 68,000 on the spot. I saw this happening to two of those four students. The evening was sponsored by the San Francisco alliance for black school educators. Thank you to Mission School for hosting and all the staff that attended and thank you to the africanamerican achievement and Leadership Team who supported the event as well. Second this saturday september 17 also at Mission High School from 930 to three p. M. And the Fourth Annual black career and College Readiness day and families can sign up after School Programs and resources as well as youth jobs plus paid internships. There are parent and teen workshops throughout the day and the event is free as part of sfusds africanamerican achievement Leadership Initiative and works in partnership with africanamerican families, Community Based organizations, Philanthropic Partners and the city of San Francisco to maximize resources and support for our africanamerican students. This event is also free and open to the public. The first 300 registered guests will be served a buff lay brunch and its really good. If you have questions or would like to rsvf call 415 2416121 extension 3355 or email aapac at sfusd. Edu. Or apac at sfusd. Edu. The event is altMission School on 18th street and limited shuffle buses from various locations and the africanamerican art and cultural complex. Hope to see you there. Thank you. I want to say on behalf of the board we couldnt have more confidence in trust in your leadership and i know were completely united behind you and thankful and i knew it took a little urging but thankful you stepped forward. This board and district has come to know you and how committed you are to our students and i think your humility and integrity and commitment is going to continue the progress that we have seen in this district and were fully confident of where we are and going under your leadership as interim superintendent so thank you for taking on this responsibility. We are grateful and the families of the district are grateful and confident of your leadership during this time. Thank you. Do any of the Board Members . Ditto. Ditto. Okay. All right. Thank you. And as superintendent you can speak for as long as you want. Thats one of the things you get to do. All right item c recognitions and resolutions of commendation. There are none tonight. Item d student delegates report and eng and zaragoza. Good evening we would like to president superintendent lee into the role and look forward to working with you this year. Thank you. So this past weekend we hold our three day leadership retreat training and it went super well. We went two hours from San Francisco to sonoma and our Student Advisory Council got to bond with each other and build relationships most important break down our groups within schools so different schools were talking to each other and returning and new students and it definitely went well. We want to thank salvador and ms. [inaudible] from being our chaperons and spending the day with a lot of young people and for supporting and promoting giving us the opportunity to go camping. Its not always that San Francisco students get to do this often but it went really well. So did anyone feel the earthquake yesterday . The fcc recently partnered with the San Francisco department of Emergency Management so they spoke to us about coordinating with the fcc in developing a Natural Disaster program that is student and Family Friendly and then we formed our Council Committees yesterday so one of the committees we formed was the health committee. Some of the projects theyre working on year include fellow students Heart Project which hosts holiday gift drives for students in San Francisco. The teams tackling tobacco leadership and make sure back and doing awareness videos as well as [inaudible] garden project and the sfusd sfpd memorandum of understanding project. In addition we had the special city and School District committees so the projects included under this category are the vote 16 initiative,out commissioners ambassadors project and a partnership and children our families partnership. Finally for me we have the budget and Legal Committee which members on this committee serve on the lcap and the [inaudible] lastly we have the social justice and Curriculum Committee and bringing undocumented immigrants i am taking a lead and improving resources and for undocumented students in sfusd. Second cultural Awareness Education program which is being aware about the students background in that having more of a safe environment for them. Lastly student dress code project with commissioner murase on making the dress code less gender strict and president haney commented on that. Second were talking about immigrant parents to vote act. We had the discussion yesterday and about the Student Council meeting and now just a little fact that we have for you guys that more than three children attending sfusd have an immigrant parent. Our Student Voice is to provide support to sf resident who is are legally voting age and whose families in the School Community to vote in elections in education regardless whether the Family Member is a u. S. Citizen. Really that is our opinion about it was that we really are looking forward to this because a lot of the students it is the right for us for education but its important for parents like other citizens to say what kind of education and who is leading the education of the students so were looking forward for this. We have a couple more. So we learned about the sfusd youth work internship and will share the information with their classmates so it provides High School Students with real Office Experience and mentors so students will lead the internship terns tern skill sets and confidence level so if youre interesting in having a mentor talk to salvador lopez or the fcc. Almost done. [inaudible] political campaigning yesterday. We had guest commissioner fewer and general counsel. We had a conversation about student rights and our current we discuss our current policy on freedom of speech and expression and it went really well. Answered students from the students for future and past reference and thank you for being our guest yesterday and