School district for february 19th. 2018 is now called to order. Thank you. Mr. Kirk. Dr. Morsi. Thank you. Mr. Sanchez . Here. Mr. Walters. Miss min. Thank you. The section a is Accessible Information for the public. Open items. We have five tonight. Number one, approval of board minutes. As announced. As it has been announced the past two meetings. The members of the public are reminded that if they wish to address the board of education, an individual can complete a speaker card for the item b column. And present it to the executive assistant. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, the speaker cards will not be expected for an item already before the board. Superintendent mr. Reid tonight. Thank you, Vice President. And everyone has gathered by now. Standing in for dr. Matthews on one of the rare occasions he is out of town for an educational conference. With the Vice President and myself. Good evening, everyone. I would like to begin this evening by acknowledging that it is february, which is black History Month. During this month, we celebrate the rich history of African Americans in the city and in the country. This month, the students will participate in meeting challenges, they will read as many books by africanamerican authors as they can. They will create art and host events at their school to honour historical africanamerican figures. Although, we celebrate this month with a host of events and activities, our students dont just learn about the history and contributions of African Americans in february. As you may have read in dr. Matthews column, he stated that teachers incorporate africanamerican history into curriculum all year around and at all grade levels. All of the high schools are for ethnic study. The educators work to include all historical narratives in the course work. I would like to announce a highlight to black History Month events. First, on tuesday, february 20th, next tuesday, from the 6 to 8 p. M. Is the 23rd annual africanamerican honour roll ceremony. It will be at the cathedral at 111 goth street in San Francisco. The educators and the African Community request the honour of your presence at our honour roll academic roll ceremony and reception. We will honour 312 grade students who achieved a 3. 0 or higher in the Academic Year. The commissioner received invitations to the event. It is open to all. There is a 10 request for guests. February 24th, from 8 30 a. M. To 12 30 p. M. The 37th annual musical contest. It will take place at the middle school at 2055 silver avenue here in San Francisco. And this will be a phenomenal day where we celebrate our students as they showcase the musical and cultural skills. The other good news, the center for Disease Control has identified the created a program in the National Story of success. Groups are presently in process at 8 high schools reaching 308 young men of colour. Cdc called the project a practice in reaching young men of colour specifically black and latino students with information regarding healthy relationships, healthy sexuality, access to Sexual Health and Group Participants show connectedness and be consumers of their own health. The model working closely with Community Based organizations with High School Wellness staff. The success led to having the Group Curriculum used in los angeles and florida. Further, the implementation success has led us to rewrite and implement groups in middle schools as well. Two additional announcements, one is schools will be closed february 16th in the observance of new year. Sf u. F. C. Office will remain open. Finally, all the schools and offices will be closed on monday, february 19th. In observance of that day. Thank you. Thank you deputy superintendent. We have resolutions for commendation. Mr. Lee. Tonight, we have our national, our annual National Board certified teachers recognition ceremony. [applause] the wonderful National Board of teachers. And i would like to begin by calling on our chief academic officers Brett Stevens to make opening remarks. Mr. Stevens. Good afternoon. Members of the public. This is a special moment in every Academic Year when we are able to welcome our certified National Board teachers for commendation. It is the pinnacle in the teaching profession. The equivalent of earning a masters degree. It is that much work. They are recertifying. They have been through the process two times successfully. And typically the case that each year, we invite a large group of folks who are earning certifications for the first time. A year ago, i described to you because of changes to the board certification process, that we will be acknowledging our recertified teachers. We had a smaller number last year. This year again, we are acknowledging the recertifying teachers in front of the year and will host a separate ceremony for the larger number of first time certified teachers this year. We have 47 teachers in the district who have earned National Board certification. We would like you to keep in mind, we will keep the teachers to the Cultural Center down the street and we will kick up our heels to acknowledge their good and hard work. I would love to point out people who are instrumental to the process. They are a Program Coordinator. Would you please stand. And further behind, our executive director for the office of professional learning and leadership. He is here. Doctor. So my congratulations to everyone of you. You worked so hard, not once but twice. I am not sure the incentive that drives you to do this. Thank you very much for your service for children. So i am happy to share some of the key facts, and history and some statistics about our program. The proud track record of so many of the educators being involved and bestowed with the honour. It is hard work. Let me start by saying our First Certified teachers, were certified in 1999. A little less than 20 years ago. The district began to support the program in the year 2000. We had hundreds of our educators. In terms of staff, 8 of our certified staff currently and that compares to 3 nationally. We are more than twice, almost three times the national average. Candidates have to partake in a test and participate deep analysis of student work, video recordings and analysis on video recording. And then each candidate articulates the choices and rationale of choices. We have the highest number of Board Certified teachers per capita in the state. Current candidates, we have 188 candidates and 280nbct. This is a potential increase, represents a potential increase, 15 of all educators in the district becoming nbct over the next two years. We are only getting more and more of our teachers becoming National Board certified. In terms of impact, onethird to 1half of our National Board certified teachers are in leadership positions in the district. The students of nbct make two months than students of nonnbct. At this point, i will hand it to the National Board certified teacher certified teacher and Program Coordinator for the program. Thank you very much. It is great to be back here. The educators we honour tonight as you heard, the original certification. And since the original certification, some have moved into different roles within the site or the district. One of those tonight is matthew. He is going to share his thoughts on his thoughts of National Board certification and then we will present to the honourees. Good evening. It is a great honour to be here tonight. I am grateful to speak on behalf of the National Board certification. I am proud i was able to achieve this honour. It was in collaboration with a lot of people and support. It is not something everybody would want to take on. I encourage you to think about it. Certified 11 years ago. One of the most rewarding experiences i have gone through as a teacher. The process required open eyed critical self reflection. Analysis of student outcomes. Which i have never been asked to do as part of a scripted curriculum i was trained in previously. One of the most important components of the process was the peer learning that happened on account of collaboration with stanford and the National Support that we went through. It gave us support with the writing. Moving forward, across the district, in the support network, i went on to become district leader in various curriculums. Even later, i supported coworker of teachers to take the National Boards. I encourage the board to consider any way possible to support the process. Thank you very much. Good evening. Board coordinator. We have 10nbct that have renewed certification and showed their ongoing commitment to the students. And to the professional. With the vigorous renewal process. The nbct, when i call you, please stand. When i read all the names, please come forward to receive your pin. And then move to the center for the group photo with the commissioners. Names being read. [cheers and applause] please come forward and receive your pin. Again congratulations. The 2018 and 2019 school year have been released. The candidates must attend the training session. And come on march 17th to give a short speech. For a meeting opportunity. 5 30 p. M. On the topic of 6145, extra curriculum and pro curricular activities. Administrative regulation that provides opportunities for all students to participate in and attend extracurricular and cocurricular activities without compromising programs in place. We know the show must go on. The objective is to produce a system that has goals from both side in the best interest of the students. And because our commitment conducted research and gathered student imput, the student groups will weigh on it and vote on a regulation and hopefully input it. Our campaign has raised money to help students. We provide them with emotional support. This year, they managed to use the funds to purchase toys, arts and crafts and donate money to shelters and families. While maintaining this toy for tots efforts, they would like to sponsor the need of the younger kids by organizing more efforts. Next week, we will meet with our Family Department head. May richards, to collaborate on how we can continue to serve the kids. Thank you to all who generously donated to our campaign and it would not have been successfully launched. Quickly approaching, is the summit held on march 16th at fort mason centre. We want to cultivate youth leaders for workshops and you can attend march 16th, 2018 at fort mason centre. And the next meeting will be on february 26th at 5 p. M. Again, if you would like to attend or make a presentation or like a copy of the agenda, please contact us. Thank you. Thank you. Number 5. Advisory Committee Reports and appointments. We have a report from the chair and advisory council. Good evening to all. This report is an update on the path, the support alignment across the district advisory, in collaboration with the Education Department and plans for stakeholder engagement. The past saturday on february 10th, the apparent leaders, from the Education Department came together to learn about the diverse needs. The africanamerican peer advisor council, the Advisor Committee for education and the Advisor Committee in collaboration of Family Partnership welcomed over 70 participants to the First Advisory summit ever hosted at the site. Building stronger partnerships with families. Collaborating with the Education Department to gather feedback from family and staff how they will improve the enrollment process. In january, we facilitated a focus group. There will be a focus groups. One at the Childrens Centre and another with program staff. The pack will share decisions in the march pack report. This is the fifth year of engaging families in conversations about the budget and the plans score card process. General support for the budget for the accountability plan. What we are following in the discussion, to engage population, including families and [indiscernible] participate in the Site Planning of the process to inform. Last week, members of the task force highlighted, and shared our report. And shared what information will be helpful in the budget. One focus i want to bring was the multidimensional needs of students. 80 of students in foster care are africanamerican and latino and qualify for [indiscernible] we hope we work across the district departments. There are a number of students in the school that are homeless, we hope to increase organizations to work with them. Gathering information from the community that will will be part of the decisionmaking process to implement Action Service and support for our schools. The pack is recruiting members for the new school year, 2018, 2019. Applications are available at the website. And are due by friday, april 20th. The next meeting is scheduled for wednesday, march 14th, from 5 45 to 8 p. M. [indiscernible] thank you. Comments from colleagues . Thank you so much for the presentation. I still have one question and i dont know if you could answer it tonight. It would be good know if there will be increased participation of homeless families coming to the meetings as well . I have not seen it. We are trying to encourage we have been working on it. At the meetings, we are targeting the schools that have a homeless population. We will engage them there and encourage them to come to the meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much for the report. I just want to reiterate that the deadline for the applications is friday april 20th. And the application is in spanish as well. I had a wonderful experience at the meeting. From across the district. I want to thank you for your service and encouraged interested families to apply. Thank you. Thank you for the report. Do we have board appointments to advisory committees . None. Section c, i get a motion and second on the calendar . I move. Thank you. Any items . There are not. Any items removed from First Reading by the board . There are none. A vote. Mr. Cooke,. names being read thank you. Section b discussion. Resolution. Section d, proposal for action. Board policy. Use of school facilities. It was moved and seconded on january 9th. We have a report from those committees. The rules committee has moved regarding allowing which groups would be considered. Some of the discussion, the proposals have four different tiers. The use of School Security and one of these samples that was offered was to be exempt from permanency and discounted. 15 were groups that demonstrated more than 75 . And we had a discussion about our educator association. Basically the teachers, the latin american teachers. The educators. The filipino educators. I know that when they plan or other events they are being charged by the district and there is something wrong with that picture. I would like to see that those teacher assistants that have a direct benefit to the students they move into tier one which is a district sponsored event. Because they were considered to be in tier 2 which is the same as piano teacher. I just feel like including our partners, are benefiting our district directly. It was going to be made clear the criteria for district sponsored events so that the educators associations had known clearly how they can become how they can sponsor the events that put them in key with the lowest i would like to ask staff when we can see the criteria of how to become a sponsor of an event. Thank you for the report. Council. My recommended action is that approve use of school facilities. Commissioner . I would like to hear the commissioner on that question. I can respond to that. We are working with the Real Estate Office to draft administrative regulations for the policy. As soon as those are ready, we will share them back with the board so you can see how we capture the direction. And the proposed time line my hope is that because with the exception of commissioners request, this is all answering status quo. We are not changing what we are doing. Our hope will be that will be in the next few weeks. That is the basic time line. Questions or comments . We do have Public Comment on this item. You have three minutes at the podium. Commissioners. I am the secretary for the association of teachers. We are a Nonprofit Group of teachers, retired teachers and community members. The past week, we held a professional drill, the direct result of an act. [indiscernible] taking the jobs away from other americans. Despite the fact that they built the western section of the transcontinental railroad. Before they were entered the country, they were subjected to questioning and were incarcerated. On february 3rd, the commissioner took a tour and dropped by to see this. The power points teach about angel island and what fuelled it. Different workshops have been offered of teachers that include Asian Americans in our district. There are few titles. Many teachers may not be familiar with the history of Asian Americans. They may not know that we have the second largest number. They dont know that 40 of the housing is single room occupancy buildings. The families do not have kitchens. They cook on a hot plate. They have no tubs. They must share with one toilet. They are under third world conditions. There are various workshops. In 2015, we paid 261, in 2016, 200 for the workshop. This may not sound like much, we 500 to 800 for the insurance. We have to pay for publicity. We are volunteers. We have no office. We are totally funded. The resolution would help bring the School District facilities for professional development. It will increase the number of resources to provide for teachers. If you are eager to share the experiences with other teachers in the district, thank you. Good evening to all of you. The officials and members of the teachers federation. And the board members, i know some of you. Talking about the dreams and goals for their district. Teachers who are trained and supported. They are not just the words of our teachers an expert in the structure but experts in education. I want to follow that up with a little bit of history. It is nice to hear the talk. I know as an educator, 26 years ago, it was so active. Something happened. Our, you know, with the Union Executive board i felt so passionate about the reenergizing. We have educators [indiscernible] we are raising money. The educators in San Francisco are in alignment with the vision. Every year, we have a graduation of seniors in a ceremony. They is recognition of the studies through high school. Our association also american teachers from our district and professional development conference. Educators, association conferences. We have collaborated together. This is why we applaud and support the resolution. For professional development and education and sponsored by our association to receive our Service Teachers as family. It is an obligation that we share a common vision and that we are indeed together. Thank you. I am a member of the latin american association. On behalf of my organization, we support what has been said here and the commissioners for this resolution and we hope that in addition to what has been said and the support around the resolution, we have more collaborative relationships in the district. Thank you. Board policy 6165. Extracurricular activity. No objections from the board to dealing with the amendment by the student advisory council. Mr. Reid, would you like to read the acquisition. Thank you. The background section. It has taken up on january 29th. At the senior advisory council. The sat recommendation to address the concern about equitable access. The district staff shall collaborate with the council to develop administrative regulations that ensure all students have equitable access to extracurricular and cocurricular activities including athletics and exhibitions. We have attached the policy with the proposed amendment for your consideration tonight. I dont know if the delegates want to add anything to this report. There are no further questions regarding this. We believe we have covered our opinion and our beliefs about the proposal in our delegate report. If there are questions, we would be happy to take them. We do have a lot of people that have signed up on this item. We are going to go through the policy to hear people. I apologize in advance. Please come to the podium, that will help sure that everyone is heard. We will go in order. Lisa brookwalters. Wendy jones. Charla schwartz. Alexander reid. Please make your way to the podium. Good evening. I taught english and theatre at high school for 25 years. It was at the Arts Department for ten years. I came out of retirement to address the vital issue. There is offered a number of courses in extracurricular opportunity to enrich the lives of all students. It was awarded by the department of california education, the award for the arts based on the rich curriculum and the Extracurricular Activities. I am very thankful to listen to the students who spoke eloquently. I believe the president mentioned that fiscal income study. Can you tell us when the study will be published is a question i had. The most important reason i came to speak tonight is to implore you to include the voices of our own San Francisco unified School District teachers and cultures who lead and direct Extracurricular Activities. These teachers and coaches have the knowledge and expertise that you will need to develop policy and progress. For example, the theatre teacher knows to add scripts, costumes, et cetera, et cetera. Not to mention that the schools have to pay the district to use for security and janitorial services. Huge fees. The heart of education is between teachers and learners. Everything should be focussed on making that relationship possible. Thank you. Good evening. This is my 17th year as a teacher. [cheers and applause] i am involved in public education. I believe everyone deserves access to the arts. It is a right. It is my mission to give every student quality advanced education in culture and selfdevelopment. A concert costs money. Which rental fees, auditorial fees, publicity, et cetera. 8,000. And i dont ask my i believe that we are here to serve. They get the experience that they all deserve. We also offer a performance in the school time as well. I am the choreographer of the musical. A 25,000 production. And the money has to come from somewhere. I never turned anyone way due to lack of funds. And the solution for low income students and their right to experience Extracurricular Activities as other, we would be proposing a budget that would fully fund arts and music to all public schools. I ask you to please advise the teachers, the students and staff into the conversation to help bring ways to make accessibility to low income and homeless families without compromising the need to support the performing Arts Department overall survival. Thank you. Over all survival. Thank you. I made sure if there was an event, if they could not attend, we had money set aside for those who could not pay for it. All shows are not free. It requires a lot of money to rent for costumes and pay for set designs. The majority of that does come from the. I want to state that not only does being a part of the shows and a part of the academic and being a part of drama, being a part is not only taking time to present the craft you are passionate about. It is about involving people. At my high school, i participated in 7 performances. It was a large part of my life. My mom came to help with shows, helping with hair and makeup. And when she passed away this summer, the first thing i was surrounded with my family. I was five hours away from San Francisco, they made sure i was already. Asking when i came back if there was anything i need. Drama is not only where i express myself for a career. I met amazing people who have become family to me. And so after my first show, i was surrounded by friends, family. I definitely know as someone has been through troubling things that having Something Like drama has been something that helped me get through the situation. And to think there could be a student who doesnt have an outlet like that to fall back on is heartbreaking to me. I am asking to rethink your decision. [applause] hi, i am a senior. I want again to thank the board for deciding to work to make our school more accessible for everyone. And all the art students that you are here to support. I have been in an art program all my life, i know how important art is. Without the drama, i would be lost. It gave me a community in my high school. I found students with the same passion as me. I felt welcome and appreciated. As someone in the fast that struggled with low selfesteem and general anxiety. There was one thing that was constant, that was theatre. To imagine that anyone who has dodged the same things i have and is looking for something constant it scares me because it is so theatre is so incredibly important for so many students and so many of my peers. And i feel the board should consider that when they are deciding what they are going to continue to do to make it more equitable for everyone. Thank you. Hi, i am chloe. I am a junior at high school. I am part of the Dance Program there. Which is a completely free program. As my teacher said. Giving everyone a chance. And part of that training is the show at the end. Being in a show, being in a theatre, seeing all your friends and having fun on stage. Let me tell you what i started high school, i didnt know who i was. What i wanted to do and be. In that first dance performance, looking around at all of the dancers at every level, every grade, every background, i felt like i was a part of something that really mattered. And i was to proud to show everything that i learned over the years to my friends and family. With out the funding for the performance, that performance never would have happened. None of the performances that you heard about tonight would have happened. I wouldnt have had the life changing experience. And so many other people would miss out in having that. I would like to thank you for changing the policy, really if we want this policy to be a complete success, if we really want to promote equity, what we need is to have an open conversation with the students and teachers and faculty to decide what is best. And give everyone the chance to succeed like i had. And all the people in the audience and other high schools have had you. Thank you. Thank you. Please make your way up to the podium. Everyone has said it very well, so far, i am the former president of the association of music. And of course you know, band orchestra, it was a great tradition of after school performances. They cost a lot of money. We have funding but it doesnt cover after school events. If we want to print up programs and do everything by Hire Companies and get extra instruments or coaches, we really need to charge. We just wont make the money back. And the programs run the risk of having end the programs after school now. We had in washington, a wonderful daytime assembly that featured all the performing art programs at Washington High School is where i work at the middle school as well. It was completely free for everybody. And it was very much equal access. The auditorium was filled. There is a compromise that can take place. So we can have both we can charge students and we cannot charge students. please stand by people come to see our show and get immersed into a new life. It helps us get away from our problems. This proposal has tested our drama club and will test the experiences with our plays. So i call on you to see how this potential proposal affects us. We are excited to work with the sac and the District Board members for them to help us. Thank you. [applause]. Hello. My name is crimson hartford, and i am a 10th grader at Abraham Lincoln high school. Id first like to say thank you for reconsidering the policy, 1k3 wed like some things for you to consider when is the committee getting together, who are the district Staff Members that will be part of this committee . Are they going to entertain Public Commentary . What are your criteria for developing the plan, and once the committee develops its plan, will the board be voting on it with Public Commentary or Public Policy . Thank you for listening. Hello. My name is jeffrey nazara, and im an alumni from lincoln high school. So from the first meeting i came in, i heard about this issue, and i would like to thank you for revising your proposal and changing it. So ive been around the block for three years now, and ive seen all those productions and plays that these wonderful drama kids have done, so all that money is funded from drama tickets. We do all this hard work, we fund ourselves, for the most part, we do have little funding, if some funding, from the school, but that obviously cant pay for royalties, set pieces, props, youve heard it the past few groups. So i believe everythings been touched upon by these previous students. Thank you for revising the thing and thank you for listening. [applause] we have three more names is a man that rich, jessie e,