You are wish to address the board of education you can fill out a speaker cards prior to the item being called and plenty it present it to ms. Casco please fill out a speaking according to board rules and procedures their they will not be accepted before the board the substitute resolution revision to Bernie Madoffs the agenda is being withdrawn only board policy 932 is withdrawn the board will be addressing the board policy on pages 9 through 11 part of the substitute resolution item a is the approval of the minutes of regular meeting of september 18th i need a motion. So moved second thank you very much any corrections to the minutes seeing none, oar mr. Totiano turf ms. Fewer matt haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and dr. Murase. 6 is. Next is presentation to the board of education superintendents report the superintendent is at a unconference about the good work in his place a superintendant guerrero good evening, commissioners and good evening all in attendance and in the listening audience i have a number of unanimous one i will to be able to share but back tweaking to september 19th more than 4 hundred eager plants that took part in the cradle to Career College its part of my brothers keeper in the alliance of black School Educators it featured over 3 dozen representatives from the historically black colleges and universities at this college fair in addition a number ever working groups for the africanamerican families a resource expo staffed imply the community bansz based organization black family day was a celebration of our caregivers and youth and the educator and those that championed their success many of the students walked away with commitments of Financial Aid thank you to the organizers and we expect this to continue to grow on on friday little u. 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Department of transportation of education and fill be waiver for the 20152016 sexual year along is with 6 other School Systems the core districts are committed to implementing the School Quality system and collaborate collaborate to better insure the Student Success among the range of indicators a small excerpt to the superintendant stating the decision is renew the core districts request is based on my determination the waivers have been xfk in enabling the core district it improve student achievement that conversation it in the Public Interest the core districts will implement the plans to promote innovative locally tailored strategies to improve educational ordinances for all students close achievement gaps and improve the qualities of instruction commissioners will have an opportunity to hear about the ongoing work on the school index at an upcoming as a whole the next announcement it 9 quality education the wards that has been navigate for 20152016 and just wanted to get get the word out the applications are now available for school sites to submit those were a components of prop a in 2008, to recognize and support schools model effective strategies and show growth in student achievement sfusd has worked with the united educators of San Francisco to establish this that program for our skulls up to 500,000 that available to total waushdz and application reproductions have been distributed we want to note the schools what apply to both categories and each has a separate application and the deadlines are approaching first one innovation due october 9th that is coming up and for impact awards on october 23rd please consider applying and having their programming recognized this past friday on september 18th they celebrated the one Year Anniversary and the Indian Education supports the educational and culturally related go academic niece of the American Indians and they celebrated their space at the Elementary School theyve provided yupdz for parents and 67 tutoring and monthly family nights and others resources thank you to the coordinator for coordinating the everything celebration that had many performances by the youth in coming friday approximately close to 3 thousand San Francisco middle school or mid graders will be attending the opening day of the 21st century harder low blue embarrass festival that is made possible by the philanthropic warning that began hosting the sfusd students for a kids only concert a number of years ago that continues and were grateful for his generosity and the opportunity for how students to have is a music filled day in the park thank you to the volunteers and staff helping to iron a fun filled day yesterday evening we attended the asianamerican administrators and the chinese teachers annual kind of we had a wonderful time yesterdays everything e. R. Weve ever e. R. Evening we believe ross opportunity opportunities for the educators to promote advocacy their theme it Leadership Matters we also have another organization the latinoamerican theyll have their kind of event on october at the restaurant an 2565 admitting and honoring new features and veteran supporters this saturday october 3rd San Francisco state will be having a teacher recruitment in the Student Center in annexation on the San FranciscoState University campus from 9 00 a. M. To 12 clock ill be present to speak to the students about strongly considered do are k considering a career this start alice will be celebrating from 11am to 3 00 p. M. Food and entertainment carnival games and much, much more during the same afternoon Abraham Lincoln will be celebrating 75 years the celebration will take place on saturday from 12 to 6 including school tours and sports tournament and a classic car show and performances and food i hear a dance latter and finally proud to announce two of our students from San Francisco unidentified participating in a town hall meeting that he council of 59 conference in long beach on october 9th may have the high school and Mission High School will represent two of the 9 nationally selected students at the town hall that will be moderate rated by the public radio the other students will representative broadening new york and long beach, california thank you for breaking and entering our important Student Voice to the gathering of the students leader from around the country thank you Deputy Superintendant guerrero and now recognized of accomodation i believe superintendant guerrero will be presenting. So for a rave distinguished i want to call up mary and washington high every single can will be recognizing our award he. Thank you and good evening, commissioners and Deputy Superintendant and student delegates it is my great pleasure and honor for the administrator administrator to introduce this rave recipient linda boyer clapping. i believe many of you are familiar with linda and in many represents she niece no introduction that is her 25 year as the inyourface in sfusd and several folks in attendance that had the privilege of working and learning from linda during our time in the Student School house programs linda has shown her stripes by cofounder the consortium created a nationally imammunition tool kit and have dpw students with they are relationships with schools of nursing and wrote 35 presentations about Public Health and the value of School Nursing dating 1984 and as recent as 2013 though those are reasons to consider lynda Public HealthDepartment Champion i want to impress the impact makes with the individual students and staff with whom she kweernz with 25 years ago im going to take us all back to the early days linda was one of only four nurses in a district of approximately 70 though students 4 indoors to 70 thousand students how could nurses make an quack with that kind of ratio well linda came up with the idea of articulating those few nurses and assigning them to the challenged Elementary School a concept she calls clusters last standing and prioritizing these school is a need we fill today, she came up with the nurses day program a nurse Concussion Service that handles 16 to 20 calls a day at points in her career at Stanford University linda coordinated the successful vision van program that literally helped hundred of students get glasses and developed a vaccination to protect the students against hepatitis b a new requirement given that one out of 4 children have unmet dental notices she skreebd it before it was a stated mandate and listened was key in developing the model for the Student Assistance Program that creates plans of innovation for students struggling so currently bringing us back to today linda stays busy and a School District nurse and wellness longing high school they insures every ninth graders gets a screening managing students with doing the best we can they learn to selfmanage and find support with one another an integral member the Wellness Team providing alcohol and others education and seeing students with a chronic or from asthma to acne not only has he inspired newly graduating students a mentor of mine as well a forward thinker a revolutionary she inspires and motivates with her resource physicalness and an advocate foyer those who benefit the most linda congratulations on our award i believe i speak for the social kevin truit the School Health director kim and all the nurses in awe testing you are School Nursing at the intersection by itself thank you for all you do for the district and family and staff clapping. congratulations well, im eir erica the principle at Lincoln High School lindas arrives full of energy in the morning rides up on her moisture and comes in her 70s high heel pumps linda is an as or arcs e acts she acts out the Mental Health and singling given condoms to all students in the school on top of shes make sure that our breakfast has increased triple fold we have a line out the door for the breakfast our students are energetic and involved in their classes because of what linda did an integral part of our community and evidences by the many people here today shes a power house and we thank her for being here at Lincoln High School clapping. but im a troublemaker most of all laughter thank you so much puncturing and commissioners im so, so honored thank you, mary for your gracious leadership. Thank you principle ive always said it takes an outstanding principle to raise a school and thanks to you eric can washington tliefrlz i was raised and born in japan art giving is a form of et cetera you do so much behind the scenes so we in the front lines can make a difference i want to share that with any 46 extraordinary nurse colleagues that work across the district clapping. teachers i share it with every one of you and nurses wholeheartedly support you and your instruction i think of myself as a Public Health champion youre the Public Health is a champion you spread literacy i share that award with any students calling names please turn around clapping. you are my best teachers you remind me to work harder and breath deeply and laugh i share that award with any children that attended sfusd schools and with my mother sitting in the front right now i was growing up her mantra linda get a good education because it will help you get a good job but my work is more a calling than a job everyday nurses we nurses get to make sure that students have Health Insurance and see the entertains and get shots and have healthy breakfasts a Immediate Care for disease and get the best medical care for cancer and doing the best we can regardless of income a couple of stories today, i met with a student injured during lunch he treftd me to share he was living with his oldercy thats his guardian my mom is not doing well, he qualified to the student transition and my awesome colleagues will support him receiving all the services associated with that as another examples nurses help students to be up to date with shots i met a student a newcomer from south america that was used as a certainty and isolated from her peers so in those and other ways our work makes a difference as the work of all of us each of us sitting here that work in Public Schools on that note thank you very much for this opportunity opportunity to express my gratitude clapping. president murase i want to congratulate you that he do the vision band together a has not we didnt think we would pull off when mayor newsom asked to be preparing the glasses we discovered things about our children. Ran that e with that we had a good laugh and figuring out things to be differently but i want to thank you for all the things you do foyer is young people in San Francisco unified School District. President murase. Commissioner wynns. I want to thank linda and not talk about how long ive known her i had an opportunity years ago some of you heard this it was in the paper when we were fighting over the immultiplication bill believe it or not theres an nationals influenza meeting at the National Institute of health i was the only board member from around the country they were duis the proposal that require all schools to give flu shots to children every year and had no idea it takes the destruct and linda was one of the nurses that recommended me thats how i got to go so i have im proud to be known as a champion for imyou mean multiplication it has to be withlipid. We have a rave special Service Award ill ask our acting principle at El Dorado Middle School to please approach the pronounced and present our award awardee this evening. As the acting of El Dorado Middle School i did is a great honor and privilege to recognize Christen Armstrong the rave Service Award christen was nomad by the parents and others for her extraordinary dedication to maximizing the learning development of all her students puts in countless hours in and out of school to make sure her ask the get the most from each day in class in the understanding through their rich classroom discussion like the Environmental Living Program to for the ross she workouts the coercion of an outing never losing sites how to turn it into a fun unforgettable learning experience such logistics and supervision represents our best teachers and in christen we have a stellar outstanding teachers a split three or four classroom that requires academic boiltsz and mutually to make sure all of her students are taught at the appropriate level and style which is much easier said than done i was the first principle to hire her, she teaches with densest enabling the students to learn on a daily basis thats the most important part is the classroom teacher i want to congratulate christen thank you for all you do for the families in the district clapping. thank you for those kind words im honored and humbled this award is especially meaningful because the lady that hired me is the one that is presenting it you know it as come full circle it wouldnt have the impact except for the effort of my students and dedicated parents at deldz i was thrilled to get e get my first teaching job it is exciting to see how engaged our Young Students are children are naturally inclined to learn i try to return as much energy each day thank you. I look forward to continuing this work for many years to come clapping. congratulations. Next on agenda id like to call on commissioner fewer and commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Thank you president murase that past summer they slbltd in San Francisco this organization has become a leader in the field of summer and serving San Francisco unified School District students are great effectiveness since 1986 is one of the truly valued partners it was started from a grant and aim high served students in the excelsior and uttering mission they make a three to four year commitment to families and provides them with a free engaging and inspiring Academic Summer thats right it is completely free 5 weeks for students and 7 weeks for teachers the students spent the summer doing hands on project based math and science and the classroom is unique to it is called aims and choices in the afternoon they take electives like sports and things kids love the program and the retention rate is in San Francisco is over 80 percent over the years aim high has grown and this past summer they operated 7 compasses a total of 15249 bay area over 9 hundred sfusd students participated in aim high this summer thats a huge number those are kids that spend the summer in learning they participate in Outdoor Education programs and visit Colle