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Devoted to those hard power tasks, but although we devote less resources to soft power there are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a pro...

Really walked the path of being english learners, and english language learner families to the table in a really important authentic way and so we will only have when, everybody steps down that is going to step down, one of the six bcc members, will be a parent of an english language learner. And in the district. And so, one of our questions or our concerns, and hopes is that, we would be able to engage with the board of education, and with the San Francisco unified to know how we can Work Together to make sure that come in the beginning of 2014, 15 that we have, a full membership of the bcc, ...

Engage with the board of education, and with the San Francisco unified to know how we can Work Together to make sure that come in the beginning of 2014, 15 that we have, a full membership of the bcc, which will reflect those five parents of english language learners, on the bcc. And the other concern that we would like to highlight or question, would be because we focused on special education, and just need to make and what i like to make sure is that we are continuing in conversation with the text process, at special ed has in place to make sure that there are checks and balances for iep comp...

New exhibition space, there was a deliberate decision by the curators not to do that again. And what we wanted was that the flag becomes a metaphor for the country. Its tattered, its torn, but it still survives, and the message is really the survival of both the country and the flag, and were not trying to make it look pretty, were trying to make it look like it endured its history, and it still can celebrate its history. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the British Naval bombardment of fort mchenry during the war of 1812. Learn more about the flag fran be sis scott key wrote about whi...

Students, including clear routines and activities for academic conversation and we heard from the teachers that they would like more release time, and to share the best practices and they also expressed the need for more materials that are nonfiction and high interest with a variety of reading levels for the dually identified levels of iep and as it results to the parent engagement, some schools we observed do have processes in place to effectively engage the parents. For example, one school is but at other sites, many parents expressed frustration, over out reach to el families and inconsiste...