Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712

Culture and competent care, multilingual contact tracing. Thank you for bringing that up. Supervisor yee thank you. This is everybodys responsibility. I dont see anybody taking responsibility right now. One last thing, in terms of resource distribution in districts, supervisor brought up this issue. My argument sometimes its counterintuitive. If you look at my district, theres really no nonprofit. Nobody wants to come out there to help 100 rvs parked out there. I think its too easy just to say one district has more need and that were not getting the resources. As you know, most of the nonprofits are in those areas, in those districts where the needs are the greatest. You cant ignore all those resources that are serving that community doesnt exist. It wont matter this year. In the future, i want to say that because its not fair to just say, little piece of pie, we should get more of it, because not taking into consideration that in hat bigger budget, 99. 9 , if you look at whats allocated, you will see the discrepancy. I dont want to be into this thing at this point. I thought at least bring it up. Thank you for all your work. Supervisor fewer thank you president yee. Supervisor yee thank you everybody. Supervisor fewer thank you president yee. I want to thank you for your work. I think this is super exciting. I dont know if other supervisors know, theres now a statewide effort to create Racial Equity for the state of california. Thank you so much for director finley for helping that work on this. I think theyre looking at the framework also and learning and how we can do it statewide. I also want to say that what i appreciate, many times during the budget cycle, i think that my colleagues will know, i asked about impact. The numbers served does not represent how were changing peoples lives. Im really grateful that youre shifting the focus of not as nonprofits also. I was in nonprofit too. We used to having signin sheets, were using to being accountable by the signin shoots so we can say we had 20 or 30 people there. What is the outcome for it . How deep does it go . I think these are the types of investments that we want to make it real. The fact that were asking the questions, its like have you changed peoples lives. Its so important because then were responsible to the individual and we are not responsible to just the signin sheet or to the department that is funding it but were really responsible to the individual in how were impacting that persons life. I wanted to i think this is something that im going to ask during the budget process and ask departments to respond to so they get use to the idea of thinking in the way its not how many of serve but really what the impact is having upon the people that you do serve. Are we going deep enough, are we giving enough, are we giving up too early. I want to know, to what extent that your analysis look at Racial Equity within departmental staffing . We heard a lot weve had hearings. To what extent your analysis look at Racial Equity within departmental staffing . Thats a great question supervisor fewer. I want to uplift that director davis have that Amazing Community engagement framework. That resource is there. I want to thank director davis for that. Secondly, we did an early report in march with the Comptrollers Office and looked at racial breakdowns by department through that workforce report. It confirmed some of our suspicions in regard to equity in our departments where certain which leads to disparities in pay, benefits and access to management positions. We are going to be taking a targeted approach with the department of Human Resources who has committed to identifying some key areas that impact Workforce Diversity and some of the focus areas that well be doing this year is looking at qualifications and looking at how we create our job qualifications. Not allowing persons of colour foot in the door. Were going to be looking at recruitment and hiring. Thats been a huge issue. If issues dont reach the standard for e. E. O. Complaint, workers are still being or having issues, not having support. How can we find a way to mediate or find justice for our folks in the city workforce. Its been a parallel track for office of Racial Equity internal and external. Were not losing sight of the need. To be honest, the work the creation of this office was built off advocacy and work of our black city workers and city workers of colour. Thank you for bringing that up. I want to make sure that was included. Supervisor fewer thats great. I want to say how important it is that we align Racial Equity with the mayor. Were looking at im looking and my office also at longterm strategies. When president yee asked you about the School District, the disparity start way before our children start school. When we look at not investing in 025 with subsidies and child care, particularly for low income, black and brown families. Child care is so expensive, especially infant care so expensive. The disparities start earlier when we look at black mortality rate and health of black women and look at all those things. I think that we will not be able to crack this unless we start to think longterm and not a bandaid. That we invest now and in 20 years later, i know its hard to do that. As a government, city government, when politicians are looking at fouryear terms, were not looking in 20 years. This is a type of investment we need to make. We need to make it early. And make it strong. We need to start investing in people much earlier. We know at the School District when most of us have been on the school board that we see data that if behind by second grade and if youre africanamerican or latino, you flat line. Thats where you stay. These early investments are so important. This is why i think its so important that office of racial equities align with the mayor vision. Setting it up for success and continuing it and hopefully the office of Racial Equity will celebrate a 50th anniversary and tracking this all along so we can see longterm improvements, these opportunities gaps dont start when youre 15. The opportunity gap start way before and much of it generational. One last question, i think that is can you talk more about the budget equity tool whether is something were focused on the board or designed for department and when it will be released . We need to start earlier. When it comes to the budget equity assessment tool, two things. The tool will be released in december. That is part of the legislation something well work on with the mayors Budget Office so that its viewed within the mayors budget instruction. There are a number of agencies that have similar tools. Portland, austin, san antonio, seattle, they already had budget equity processes. Im open to more conversation how we can connect with you as our chair of the Budget Finance Committee to form that tool. So its not just for departments but for the board. Its not just something that come from us, its something thats more collaborative in nature. For the mandate, thats due at the end of this year in december. The reason im creating this memo to provide a precursor of the things we would uplift in that budget assessment tool. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I know its late. Lets start with Public Comment, please call for Public Comment on item number two. Clerk operations is checking if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. There are 22 callers in the queue. Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to support this work. I hope it goes forward on the state level. Thank you. Clerk next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. This is carl larson. Lead Attorney Community resource centre. Were located in district 8, the same district where live. Im speaking on behalf of cbo and in solidarity with many nonprofit partners. We firmly believe in Racial Equity and we are also speaking out in strong opposition to budget cuts for communitybased organizations. We are intentional to getting San Francisco through covid19 pandemic and protect the Trump Administration from the attack. The pandemic struck as one of the worst possible time for the community. San francisco needs cbos to continue helping families to avoid going hungry, maintain access to the labor market and be protected from being torn apart by deportation. We are the first place many sf residents turn to in a crises. When the city shut down in march the number of families for food pantries skyrocketed. When our clients get sick with covid19, we the first place to turn to for support. At the same time, our legal team continue providing Urgent Services even as the Trump Administration is using the pandemic as cover. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I work in San Francisco Mission District in Community Services where the coordinate San Francisco Legal Network known as sf island. Sf island is a groundbreaking collaborative between 13 organizations. We see i. C. E. Deportments is continuing including threatening to exclude immigrants. For all of these reasons, strongly urge you to invest in the agile tool like the ones we developed. Thank you. Clerk next speaker please. Hello im the executive director, member of coalition. I want to thank tremendously the work of the office of Racial Equity and Human Rights Commission for the work they have done during this covid crises. I got to say, im proud, very few proud that im proud of government. Im really proud of what theyve done because lot of people are terrified especially our seniors. They were able to bring resources, food, faces, masks to the community. Its something to be proud of. I want to say that i support the office of Racial Equity and the recommendations by director finley in terms of fund is power, standard, city wide budget with Racial Equity framework. The black community in this country, through slavery has never been supported. Jim crow, we managed to take nothing and create something amazing. Even when we came here with nothing from the south during the navy ship during world war ii, we built amazing communities all around the city. This board of supervisors decided to allow for the federal and State Government urban renewal. Much of this is post Civil Rights Era and modern times. Clerk next speaker please. Thank you for having us. Im the coordinator for it Rapid Response network. Im here speaking today to advocate for no cuts for Community Organizations and standing in solidarity with Many Organizations who are being heavily impacted during this time. Especially during covid. Thank you very much. Very active in the Latino Task Force and latin Equity Coalition. We are very concerned. We are heavily impacted by covid19 pandemic. We are like in the mission. Without a spare tire and running on empty. The last thing we need is for fourth tire to be taken away. We really need investment, heavy investment into our c. B. O. S and work were doing and essential work. I want to make a special comment on the work were doing with the Latino Task Force. Last thursday we reached 996 people who were tested. We had a very Good Partnership with ucsf. We had some work that has done very well with the department of Public Health. We are stuck right now and we need the support of your office to help us get the funds that we need from department of Public Health. Were in a very interesting place being able to really reach the families. Weve got day laborers and Domestic Workers trained to be contact tracers to do the work that needs to be done deep in the community. We need the city to invest in this work. We will be able to have a very, very positive impact. I yield the rest of my time. Thank you very much for this effort and please support more investment in our community. Thanks. Clerk next speaker please. Hello, im the senior director of College Access and success at mission graduates. During this covid crises mission graduates continue to support students and their families. We are already doing so much with so little which is inequitable. This is especially not the time to cut our funding. I ask the city and our mayor to keep all communitybased organizations whole by not cutting our budget allocation. We really just cant accept these cuts. I like to emphasize, we stand with our brothers and sisters from other systematically underserved communities. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. My name is Felicia Jones on speak on behalf of the black community. I want to say first and foremost to director davis, thank you for the work that youre doing. Its not enough. She needs more help. She needs more funding. Lets be real about the black community and black san franciscans here in San Francisco. We are worse than immigrants. That is not meant to be a derogatory statement but facts. When supervisor walton indicated that there was 42 million in r. F. P. S and the black community got about 2 , thats appalling. I feel that every board of supervisors who sits on the board of supervisors, you are responsible for that. Theres been 55 years and black folks in San Francisco, we fair worse now than we did 55 years ago. The office of Racial Equity was really brought forth, even though they have been many tries, it was brought forth by the disparities of black workers. What im hearing is the can kick down the road. That was over two years ago that we brought to you supervisor fewer, the disparities of sitting and county black workers. Nothing has been done to address it. What does the board of supervisors have tendency to do . Constantly, want to have hearings. You have hearings after hearings but were on the where are the outcome. You speak of covid clerk speaker time as expired. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. Calvin quick from Youth Commission again. Im speaking on Public Comment on this item. Youth commission supportive of office of Racial Equity work. Clerk next caller please. Thats im urging San Francisco you board of supervisors to support black equity. Increase of support fo of owned business. We must hold departments accountable and their spending towards black people and black neighborhood. I stand if full support of office of Racial Equity. While it is true director finley is amazing and more than capable holding down any department. She is vital to our community and her mental and physical health means a lot to us. Im hoping the office of Racial Equity is adequately staffed. Thank you. Thank you having this hearing supervisors and directors and president. Im from the tenderloin. We need to understand makeup of the community of the tenderloin we dont have a lot of black people on the census that are registered voters in the tenderloin. If you walk down the tenderloin, 18 hours of the day the tenderloin is full of black folks. Mostly young black folks. Only skill they have is able to roll a blunt. I understand its a heck of budget situation this year. I understand more than anybody. I like to go with that line that was money involved when the manager, they said you need to do better with the money you already got. We can do that but we got to change the parameters of these r. F. P. S. I rather give 100 effort to 20 people than 10 effort to 100 people. Immigrant community has been disproportionately living crises. Our community is unemployed, they are hungry, sick and dying. Teams are families are increasing domestic violence, child abuse and depression. We all know you have hard challenges to make ahead. I believe the true fairness and equity is about helping those in our society. We ask that you please prevent the cuts to the Community Based organizations. There are many. We want you to be on the right side of history. Thank you for your time. My comments are in regards to supporting Racial Equity in the budget. Holding departments accountable in their spending towards black people and black neighborhoods. Also, supporting the black seniors, disabled and unhoused folks, theres so much that has been going on for so long and weve been neglected and left out and not had a feet at the table to make decisions on our own community future. That power needs to go back into our hand. We can do this together. We can make our own decisions and decide whats best for our community. Weve been living it and we know whats best. Continue to support the office of Racial Equity, to continue to highlight this work. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for holding this space and this meeting. I appreciate that presentation. I[indiscernible] immigrant community is not a just yesterday department of Homeland Security that the federal government will openly override Supreme Court of the united states. Its critical time to sustain service. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. [speaking Foreign Language] im on going to summarize who the speaker said. Shes a volunteer and also a participant in one of the organizations, c. O. B. S. She helps distribute services and also receives them. She would like to ask that looking Community Needs more opportunities in leadership so that the city can continue to provide services to these agencies. They need not just opportunities for families but also for to meet all the needs that has covid presented to the city. They would like to see a higher budget to support c. B. O. S to support more resources and to support all of the families that are in dire need now. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker please. Hi. Im a Homeless Youth in San Francisco. I think that im in agreement with everything thats been stated by finley in the sense that we need Economic Justice in the form of help black communities, black workers and black and immigrants that have been coming here and continue support and office of Racial Equity support. Not only just with covid but with their abilities with testing and mask and increase in funds to help continue to give the correct outcome in the communities that matter and continue to support rest of our nation. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. My name is francisco. We have been doing the work that we have to do. For example right now we have two doctors, women doctors doing monitoring. You really have to look at this is that we actually have representation. The Chinese Community for example, that is suffering from lot of them dying. Children who need help, infants need help. Black elders need help. They go in the restroom to take a shower. They take a power towel and dab themselves. We talk about equity. Fairness and justice and we have people who are employed by the city and they do no hiring. I want to see who can deliver. You can talk the talk, you cannot walk the walk. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. San francisco is a very diverse population with a lot of needs. Theres a lot of different communities with special needs, cultural needs, etcetera. Theres a need to reach out to them. However, theres a real problem in San Francisco with nonprofits. No offense to anyone here, there are many good nonprofits. I have personal experience with nonprofits i had experience with not so good nonprofits which are basically grant mills if you will. How will our funds how does one determine the need . [indiscernible] how does one determine who Racial Equity, who needs certain who needs what . I think theres a lot of things i dont quite understand. Clerk speaker time has expired. Next speaker please. Hello, im calling to talk about community i represent. I represent the Latino Community. Im calling on behalf of the San Francisco latino Equity Coalition also the Nonprofit Organization that i work for, Good Samaritan Family Resource centre. I want to thank for offering the space to hear us. The immigrant community is definitely by definition, a vulnerable population. For this reason, we like to implore that there are no budget cuts or the c. B. O. S, that are helping this population. We would not be able to alleviate the struggle and the suffering in this city it it werent for all the many c. B. O. S that are on the ground and are essential workers, First Responders who through this crises. We need to continue to plan for Fund Recovery to our community and ensure that our vulnerable and highly impacted population with recover from covid19. Our community is currently facing a crises on top of previous crises. Immigrants no wonder to anyone that this is Current Administration has been on full attack on the Latino Community and the immigrant community and in particular. Our coalition was formed clerk thank you for your comments. Hi im im a long time resident of the o. M. I. Serving o. I. M. Residents. Im tired angry and frustration about the misallocation of funds. We do not get our fair share in the o. M. I. I encourage the board of supervisors to support black equity in the city budget to trust community to speak for themselves. We know whats best. , hold departments accountable in the spending towards black people and black neighborhoods, to dismantle antiblackness in city spending, historical budgets that didnt change up. To uplift all black neighborhoods and basic city services, social service, better infrastructure, housing, healthcare to provide towards black owned businesses and blackled agencies to uplift the most vulnerable in our community and our community. Black seniors to youth, families, pregnant and mothering. Unhoused, lgbtq and especially our Trans Community and support the work that the office of Racial Equity is doing and to continue to highlight this work. In these times of extreme racial and economic equality must move beyond normal in our Covid Recovery and follow the lead of black lives by centring black in new policy institutions. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you ms. Brown. Next speaker please. Happy birthday president yee. Thank you chair fewer and supervisor walton, director finley and director davis. This is monique, im a proud San Francisco resident. After decades of broken promises from the black and africanamerican communities mayor breed challenged her partners to listen and act. It led to stark disparities in the black community has been talked about for years. She said this is the first time i feel confident they are taken seriously. I support this speakers who have spoken so far who are asking not to be left behind. We ust remember that the legacies of racism pit up against each other. This conversation is about black and africanamerican folks and five decades of ongoing broken promises and underresources communities people agencies and San Francisco government. I urge to dismantle antiblack racism and support black owned agencies and black owned businesses and community. I ask you to uplift the most vulnerable and understand the intersections of our community, black seniors, youth, family, pregnant and mother and people and our lgbtq community. Support office of Racial Equity to continue to highlight this important work and dismantle antiblack racism in our city. Please dont let this opportunity pass us by. [please stand by] we have a great opportunity to make a difference in the lives of so many people who so desperately need support. San francisco has the opportunity of forthing a path towards Racial Equity that can be an example across the country. I support the office and hope you will continue to support the office also. Thank you for your comments. We currently have 30 listeners on the line and six in the queue. If you have not done so please call the number on the screen. With that next caller please. Hi, everyone. Good afternoon all present. Executive director a Community Based legal aid agency. I speak on behalf of our collaborative agencies. And i want to express my solidarity and our organizations solidarity with the black lives Matter Movement and all black lives in San Francisco. We stand with the black community in this moment and Going Forward in the new civil rights age that we are in. Id like to speak out in strong opposition to budget cuts that may be impacting our Community Based organization. I also wanted to add a nuance to what other speakers have said. Were located in the mission in district eight and many of our clients are from the latina community, i wanted to add the nuance and Additional Information that we do serve immigrants from the african continent just in the past 12 months i successfully represented a west african woman fleeing a country and won her case at the San Francisco asylm office. We do that despite the fact that our attorneys are bo bilingual d Spanish Speaking. We have a wonderful net work advocating. We also mentor attorneys of color. Speaker time has expired. Thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hey, everyone. I am the executive director of horizons unlimited a nonprofit bordering districts nine and ten. We like to say we belong to both. We provide support to youth and families of color. New horizons is a member of many initiatives and coalitions charged with Racial Equity. We work on the ground everyday. As you know the latin and black community have been hit hardest by this pandemic. Essential workers are keeping this community up and running. There needs to be ample resources to carry out the work. We are the lifeline. Many of the families dont qualify for government benefits and assistance. They are literally in hiding that has been brought on by the administration and policy that were never meant to work for us that has been built on the backs of our people. The community was in crisis before this pandemic hit. If this pa pandemic has done anything has exposed the inequity in our city. Speaker time has expired. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello . Im a cofounder of black workers unite as well as the advisor of the San Francisco and aa c p euj council. Im here to thank director davis for her work for the office of race and equity. I support it. I want to echo that this office of race and equity came out of black workers. There was a hearing in 2018. We havent had a hearing since. Nothing has changed. The work force came out in 2020. It was worse than before. The disparity is wider. That needs to be addressed asess well. Black workers. We are here on the front lines in all these departments. We are not getting equality or Economic Justice. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im hoping they continue the work tha im calling to say, e disparity my entire life. I lived the pandemic my entire life. My grandmother being displaced because of gentrification. Me going to prison, graduating high school, barely being able to read third grade level and the other disparities in our community. Im happy to be able to lift myself up by my boot straps and move forward. Many dont get the opportunity i got to be successful. Im standing with the black community to be prosperous and move on. Ive fought for the guidance and voice for the black community. It seems like our voice has been muted. At this point please do not mute our voices or drown our voices out. We have been living a pandemic before covid 19. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Hello. We hear you caller. Hi. I was born and raised in San Francisco here. Im a black Business Owner. I want to say that i am in support of the office of Racial Equity. We need to hold departments accountable because we have literally been starving all across the board. Also we need more support for black owned businesses and black led organizations. Im a black Business Owner and my business has been around for seven years. It was extremely hard for me to get a loan. I have colleague thats are black Business Owners as well. It has been like pulling teeth to try to get a loan. We have Credit Scores and everything in place for years of experience. But its just been hard for us. Were pillars in our community. We have been struggling. I fully stand behind the office of Racial Equity and the black community and we need to make sure that whatever funds are going out are going to the community for people that have their ears to the ground. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to provide Public Comment. Im a rez de resident of distri. Im a Community Organizer and activist in the mission. I stand in solidarity with the black community. That they have all levels of equity in justice and the government. During this crisis i have seen a net work of Community Organizations responding to the needs of both black and brown communities so they receive the proper care and have their basic needs met. I have seen people rally together. Through the partnerships that the city has been able to respond the way that it has to this crisis. I ask that if you really believe in Racial Equity that there is no cause in any c bos that are in our vu vulnerable communitie. And those disproportionately effected by covid 19. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. My name is barbara thompson. I want to thank director c h da. You work for the good of the area. I really appreciate what you are doing. If you need my help, you have my number, please call me. Thank you. Love you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you. Im a resident of San Francisco. Id like to express solidarity with those who have spoken before me. I strongly oppose the proposed budget cuts for Community Based organizations. Community based organizations are essential to Community Based strategy. San francisco Nonprofit Service providers face many challenges. One of the problem ss is adequae funding. Thin these unprecedented times e need more support and i urge you to uplift the most vulnerable communities. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im a member of the sf coalition. I stand in solidarity with the black community. The budget will not only effect our organization but a whole net work of Community Organizations that are working hard to provide services to close gaps in inequities that include race, gender, Sexual Orientation just to name a few. Even prior to covid 19 immigrant and black and brown communities were hurting the system inequities and now more than ever they need resources to get through these unprecedented times. We urge you not to not propose cuts to these organizations. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Thank you board of supervisors and director davis. Im director of the american resource center. We represent Central American descendants as well. I think that one of the ir issus when we talk about this thank you for your comments sm next speakercomments. Next sp. Im calling on behalf of the Latino Task Force. I wanted to share what has been shared by the community on this call around maintaining new cuts to our Community Based organizations that are providing essential services and a Safety Net Service that has been impacted by this Public Health crisis. Our community is experiencing due to this pandemic. Maintaining also the inadequate resources to our Community Based prproviders during the response and recovery of covid 19. Also stress the importance of maintaining a Community Driven approach and making decisions and resource decisions with Community Interest in mind. Listening to those that have that lived experience that are closest to the solutions and issues, supporting and fostering self dpermings fo determination. Speakers time has expired. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. Im a native san francis can. Francis can. Isato san francisc k residents of our city. We have to have services for them. We have to uplift all black neighborhoods with basic services. Infrastructure, health care, housing. We have to support these businesses and institutions. I want to thank director davis and everyone for their effort. For once i feel inspired to be alongside my colleagues and supporting African American fufunding and be a part of the change. For so long weve seen whats happening and talking about it now is finally happening. Im just so elated to just be on the front lines and director davis, you can call me anytime. My sleeve rs are rolled up and ready to go. I appreciate all the work that you guy rz doing. See you guys soon. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Before we call the next caller. Right now we have two left in the queue. If you wish to participate on this call, i suggest you call the number thats scrolling across your screen, otherwise we will run this comment out. Next caller, please. Are you still around . Hello . Speaker, please begin. Im sorry, operations, did we lose that caller . Still there but i will go back to that caller. Okay. Well go to the next caller. Hello. I run an organization in the tender loin district. We only have three maybe four founders and directors of organizations in the community. Im one of them. Ive been dealing with this. They rely on us. We have to figure out how to run our organizations on shoe string budgets. We have to figure ou out[indiscernible]. Ive been doing this for nine years. I want to put our voices out there. speaking Foreign Language . Good afternoon. Im a member of the community. I also do out reach with our community and i have worked with many city organizations bu orgae now crucial to the community to provide many resources for which many families dont have anyone else to turn to. Im asking this community that is struck with the obligation obligationim asking this community that is charged with the obligation of allocating the budget, please do not cut any of the assistance that they have for the c bos that help all of the family nz mies in my commund help many undocumented people. Im asking you to keep us in mind. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im the director of policy and advocacy. Were one of the member organizations of the San Francisco latino Equity Coalition. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. I whole heartedly stand with the speakers. Covid 19 has only made the suffering and inequities more visible. Our community has been and continues to be the targets of political scapegoating. This is not the time to cut the budgets of those that serve the many Community Based organizations i work with. We plan recovery for communities that are all vulnerable and can recover from covid 19. Thank you for this opportunity and thank you for this hearing. Thank you for your comments. Operations are there anymore speakers . Thank you. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please begin. Im the coordinator of the task force. I would like to thank director davis and all the work that has been done. What if anything we receive as a Latino Community we demand that the African American community receive and more. I want totheir data shows that latinos are 50 of covid positive cases. We have not received one cent from dph. Ensure the testing success of completingwe have a psyche coordinator that has not been paid for the past four weeks. Our Community Wellness teams have not been funded. We provide mlvs medical assistance graduates to manage street traffic and lines of hundreds of people and coordinate other volunteers. Weve spent our own money with no reimbursement in sight. Weve bought canopies, chairs, pens, highlighters. Im calling out dph. They are aware. Im not being hypocritical. The committee has let them know. Were being punished for doing a good job. Where is the equity speakers time has expired. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Chair, that completes queue. Okay. Thank you very much speakers. Public comment is now closed on item number two. I see none of my colleagues in the queue. I think they join me in saying thank you very much from the office of Racial Equity. And also to the directors, thank you for all your work. Colleagues, id like it make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair as we may need to call them back for more guidance. And so if i may, id like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair chair, before we act on that motion. We still need to excuse president yee. Yes, can i make a motion to excuse president lee and can i get a second please. Second. roll call . Thank you very much. I would now like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. Can i get a second. Second. Roll call vote, please. On the motion for this to be continued to the call of the chair. roll call . Thank you very much. Anymore business for us today . That concludes our business, madam chair. We are adjourned. Thank you, everybody. First its always the hardest and when they look back they really wont see you, but its the path that youre paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. Hi, my name is jajaida durden and im the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. And im over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. And some tree inspectors as well. I have been with the city and county of San Francisco for 17 years. And i was a cement mason, that was my first job. When i got here i thought that it was too easy. So i said one day ill be a supervisor. And when i run this place it will be ran different. And i i didnt think that it wod happen as fast as it did, but it did. And i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. And six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. With all of those responsibilities and the staff youre also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. And shes able shes displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the Deputy Director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. Shes a natural leader. I mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. And the most important thing is when we have things that happen, a lot of emergencies, shes right by me and helps me out every time that i have asked. My inspiration is when i was a young adult was to become a fire woman. Well, i made some wrong decisions and i ended up being incarcerated, starting young and all the way up to an adult. When i was in jail they had a Little Program called Suppers Program and i supers program, and i met strong women in there and they introduced me to construction. I thought that the Fire Department would turn me down because i had a criminal history. So i looked into options of what kind of construction i could do. While i was in jail. And the program that i was in, they retrained us on living and how to make the right decisions and i chose construction. And cement mason didnt require a High School Diploma at that time so i figured i could do that. When i got out of jail they had a program in the philmore area and i went there. My first day out i signed up and four days later i started to work and i never looked back. I was an apprentice pouring concrete. And my first job was mount zion Emergency Hospital which is now ucsf. And every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. Yeah, i did. I graduated as an apprentice and worked on a retrofit for city hall. I loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. My first for formen job was a 40 Story Building from the ground up. And its a predominantly male industry and most of the times people underestimate women. Im used to it though, its a challenge for me. As a female youre working with a lot of guys. So when they see a woman, first they dont think that the woman is in charge and to know that shes a person that is in charge with operations, i think that its great, because its different. Its not something i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. I was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman. When i became a two, the supervisors would not help me. In the middle, theyd call me a rookie, an apprentice and a female trying to get somewhere that she dont belong. Oh, it was terrible. It was terrible. I didnt have any support from the shop. The ones who said they supported me, they didnt, they talked about me behind my back. Sometimes i had some crying, a lot of crying behind doors, not in public. But i had a lot of mentors. My mentor i will call and would pick up the phone and just talk, talk, talk, please help me. What am a i going to do . Hang in there. It was frustrating and disheartening, it really was. But what they didnt understand is that because they didnt help me i had to learn it. And then probably about a year later, thats when i started to lay down the rules because i had studied them and i learned them and it made me a good supervisor and i started to run the ship the way that i wanted to. It was scary. But the more i saw women coming through the shop, i saw change coming. I knew that it was going to come, but i didnt know how long it would take. It was coming. In the beginning when i first came here and i was the first woman here as a finisher, to see the change as it progressed and for me to become a permanent assistant superintendent over the cement shop right now, thats my highlight. I can look down at my staff and see the diversity from the women to the different coaches in here and know that no one has to ever go through what i went through coming up. And i foster and help everyone instead of pushing them away. Ill talk to women and tell them they can make it and if they need any help, come talk to me. And they com knock on my door ad ask how i move up and how i get training. Im always encouraging to go to school and encourage them to take up some of the training with d. P. W. And i would tell them to hold strong and understand that things that we go through today that are tough makes you stronger for tomorrow. Although we dont like hearing it at the time that were going through all of this stuff, it helps you in the long run to become a better woman and a Person Education of the San Francisco unified schoolsan district for july 28th, 2020 is now called to order. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move forward into an unknown future. With that, id like to congratulate some of our folks who mean so much to sfusd. This is to the access administrators of the year. It was given out a little white ago. The association of California School administrators this is region 5, and id like to congratulate emily aldana for cta administrator of the year. Katie pringle, principal at ideby wells high school, principal of the year, and kelly cruger, is independent high school and she won Co Administrator of the year. And last but not least dr. Vincent matthews, was honored with superintendent poor the year. Congratulations to all. And, with that section be is approved of board minutes. Regular meeting of june 23rd we need a motion and a second. So moved. And a second. Any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] clerk that is six. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez and thank you fo for the congratulations. Because of the pandemic we dont get to have our buffet dinner but i am appreciative of the region. Good afternoon, everyone, and were glad that you could join us this afternoon. This morning we welcome back our administrators at the allstrayedoralladministrators. We have examples of leadership and examples of non leadership and when we can see how critical it is during these uncertain times. I want to thank each and every one of our administrators for what you do for our students and families of San Francisco unified. Our theme for the institute of these fourday institute, and our theme is partnership and our theme this year for the year for our administrators is building culture and also building continuous improvements so welcome back administrators. On july 17th we lost american congressman John Robert Lewis at the age of 80. He passed from pancreatic cancer. Long receipt man lewis helped organize the 1963 march on washington and the 1965 Voting Rights match in selma, alabama. He was six main organizers including Martin Luther king junior of the washington march where he gave a speech at the lincoln memorial. Congressman louis often spoke of the importance of getting into good trouble. He represented georgia in the house of representatives from 1987 until his passing. Johnathan capeheart asked representative lewis what he would say to people who feel as though they have already been giving it their all but nothing changes. Lewis answered, you must be able and prepared to give until you cannot give anymore. We must use our time and space on this planet we call earth, to leave it better than we found it and now that need is greater than ever before. He will truly be missed. The San Francisco unified School District is offering support to teach students from distance during the covid19 pandemic. The district is pre paying fed indicators in roles in San Francisco unified passed away to teaching programs on how to teach virtually. Halfway teacher candidates are learning how to teach and the teachers are gaining practice and how to use these schools so they can be prepared for Distance Learning and instructions and eventually facetoface teachings. The 74 participants at credentialing program a tea them to learn their teaching credential are finishing their seven weeks of course works and preparing for lead classroom when the 2021 school year is program is a reacher program proved on teacher credentially. Now in its fourth year the Program Begins with a seven week intensive summer teacher prep operation program. Pathway to teacher teaching incorporates an anti racism teaching lens and helps remove barriers for those who want to be a teacher. 90 are local to the bay area so congratulations for starting your first teaching and president san fresca, that ends my report for this evening. Section 3 is student delegate report, ms. Heinz foster. Hello, thank you so much. President mark sanchez and Board Members. You start off id like to read our sac business. So first, we have sac application review and on boarding. Wore currently reviewing our sac application for the next school year. As student leaders, our goal is to create a learning environment that echos the Student Interest in values we hold dear in our community. The sac application is on going this summer. We would like to think all of our a. S. B. Leaders for going back to their school and circulating this wonderful opportunity to our constituents also, a big thank you to our supervisor for organizing facilitating and setting up meetings and they have express their interest in joining the sac team this summer. Our second item is the sfusd School Renaming task force. The topic is rename something of our Public Schools that restrict social justice and Cultural Values in our current state of living. Our gel is to present the opportunity to our Leadership Team and designate two qualified representatives that are passionate about this project and echo what our constituents have to say. In order to get the ball rolling, well have to on board our new team, host a general meeting and nominate two general representatives to take the lead. Wed like to thank our deputy superintendent and chris armendra. We are pleased to recognize that our student voices matter. Next, School Safety advisory. The School Safety advisory project will make all students feel safe. Our goal is to make sure all of our students of of their rights so that we can go from this point forward and we hope it will provide an opportunity and hosting this session via zoom on august 4th, at 4 00 p. M. He with like to thank them for spearhead north student project woad like to thank ms. Williams for taking time to meet with us and make this project a success. Our fourth item is 16th resolution. Providing students with the opportunity to vote at age 16 and be more involved in Civic Engagement with our city and School District. If would you like to attend, make a presentation or you would like a copy of our up and upcoming sac agenda, please contact our sac supervisor mr. Salvador lopez bar. Thank you. Thank you, you are hitting the ground running. I look forward to the vote 16 resolution coming to us as well as students and representatives on the renaming committee which is some of the 3406 most importt work being done in this most important time so thank you again. Section 4 is resolutions of accommodations and there are none tonight. Recognize all scrabblal employees or the raid a words there are none tonight. And this afternoon. Section c is Public Comment and mr. Steel will call on speakers and keep two minutes eye time and if i need to change the time i will tell you, depending on how many folks are raising their hands and this will be commenting on items that are not on the agenda and we might have to repeat that a couple times. If you want to speak o items that are not on the agenda, you may do so. During this section. First im going to read to you a little statement. Please note that Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We ask you refrain from using employee and students names. If you have a complaint you may submit it in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules and California Law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the Public Comment time if appropriate, the super intent ant will ask followup with speakers. With that, mr. Steel. Thank you president sanchez. So raise your hand right now if you would care to speak on any item not on our agenda. It will come later in the agenda and this is any item that were not on our agenda tonight so please, raise your hand. Assume mr. Steel. Yes, sir. Does that mean they should wait until later . Yes. I just wanted to make sure. Its the first item. Yes, thank you. Its our first bit of humor. Thank you. [laughter] so it looks like we have 11 hands up president sanchez. Everybody will get two minutes and thank you very much mr. Spiel. You are welcome. Hello, are you there . Hi, im Jim Alexander i have a question about the announcement of four hours of instruction per day and im not sure if this is a time for the comment or later. Later. That would be later. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, david. Hello, mr. Steel. Thank you. Superintendent and Board Members, id like to comment on our budget and our staff i notice the board has approved a lot of contracts just the other day and made whole this years special superintendent and many administrators id like to ask the board and superintendent to apply some of our own template and what we want the public to know about us in terms of social justice, fear lessness is being united by providing social justice to our staff certified and classified in terms of making their presence financial situation whole or just as firm as the contracts you just approved. Be fear less in terms of making clear the budget to us the public and asking made them to be clear in terms of having us see how we can be in a surplus financially in the state and making us whole and yet threatening budget cuts and so fourth. We ask we remain united in staff and administrators and make us even more united by providing some of these areas of clarity and social justice. Thank you, very much. Tom hello, tom . Tom, are you there . It you hear me . Go ahead. Ill be quick. My wife and i are teachers and i want to do a shout out and thank you to commissioner collins, lopez and sanchez. I feel you all three have teachers backs a lot. All the Board Members but you three because you are asking good questions and being transparent and thoughtful and it goes a long way and feels supportive. I know our school staff and my wifes school staff appreciate it and thank you for taking the time to do this. It means a lot, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, carmen. Carmen . Go ahead. Si. Yes, we can hear. [voice of interpreter] all right. You can ask her to, well come back to her. Well see if we can her in a break out room. Ill teach out to her. Yes, let her know she cant hear us. [voice of interpreter] thank you. Hello, jim. Hello, my name is jan june and im an employee of susfd and im also the Union Steward of local 21 that represents all of our Technology People and all that and ill take to thank mr. Sanchez for his opening speech about how were all in this together and we definitely are and were all in the same boat and i think one thing that would make a lot of us feel 589 better is knowing the budget is ok and were being asked to give up some things and we would like a little bit more transparency what we see what money is being spent and particularly with private contracts and all of those unrepresented people weve not been able to get we dont know what theyre being asked to give up so to speak. All of us in the boat for the long run are all of us that work permanently here at the San Francisco unified School District and have done so for not years and have made it our careers. So, i would just like the board to see if you can make the make some of the information weve asked since february about outside contracts to become a little more visible to saul so we can all see what to do in case of a particular budget that is coming up. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, matt. Yes, hi. Can you hear me. Go ahead. Wonderful, hi, everyone. My name is Matt Alexander and im a 20year veteran of sfusd teacher and principal. First, id like to comment on the superintendent mentioned the Administrator Institute opened today and there was a poll taken of who was in attendance and apparently 48 percent, only 48 of the administrators were school site administrators and over half were Central Office administrators. I believe that reflects a misallocation of resources within the district and those are very talented people. Some are good friends of mine. This is not a critique of them but a critique of the allocation of resource and we need to continue the leadership the board has shown in moving allocation towards school sites. I also want to thank the board and in particular commissioner collins on the issue of pandemic pods, taken a National Voice from that and its exciting and San Francisco may provide an alternative path that could be a model. The roof stop have create aid cor horting model that is much more equitable and just as focused and really, i hope that is beak being shared with other schools in the district so the other schools could follow in their footsteps. Im sure other schools are planning as well. We can really be a model for the country and how to cohort Young Children who need social interaction in small groups safely and doing tech witt blee in line with our social justice value and we can show the rest of the country the way. So thank you very much much for your leadership and i want to thank you during this difficult time. I just want to take this opportunity to thank all Board Members during this very, very difficult time and stepping up and being leaders in San Francisco. Its not easy and good trouble is not always easy to live with and i havent spoken at a Board Meeting and quite some time and i have been working with ms. Lamb and in the past, mr. Cook and mr. Sanchez. Around other issues that we didnt necessarily always agree on but what i felt was important is the dedication they clearly had to 9 district and to the children and families there and i want to thank dr. Matthews. The work that we have done with dr. Matthews has been invaluable. His patients his directness, his capped candidness is they are exemplary and qualities that he brings to the district in addition to the work that he does on behalf of the children and families in the district in addition to the teachers and administrators. I think there couldnt have been a better choice for superintendent of the year. Thank you very much for taking my comment. Thank you. Hello, heather. Id like to register my opposition to charging sfusd families and the infant, toddler and preSchool Programs while schools are closed for inPerson Education. Thank you. Thank you. Caller, are you there . 627 . Caller i am. Hello. Everyone, representing alliance 6 blacks who are educators. We congratulate superintendent matthews for superintendent of the year. Special shout out to our friend pringle and everyone who has been nominated. The alliance has a concern about the virtual morning and o we think will are 70 plus who are trained in Virtual Learning and of that number, we would like to know how many are African American and and thank you for supporting the efforts, those who are supporting African American students and African American educators in this district. Thank you. Thank you. Hell oh julie. This is julie and a parent. I want to appreciate district staff who set down with us to talk through the representation of our budget. I want to appreciate, especially ms. Wallace, mr. Wong, mr. Tang and commissioner sanchez. It was really helpful to have a report back from budget staff letting us know that they have corrected the site report to reflect that redding is losing 1. 5fte and not gaining. 5 ft e and it helps them catch other schools facing similar cuts. We really appreciate them taking this feedback about changes in the stability of our Teaching Staff and were looking forward to hearing back whether that will change our fall allocation. It really remains urgent in the time of covid19 to have our social worker full time supporting our families and were looking forward to how to ensure in tss happen in an equitable way and not in a way that benefits tier 2 schools as it is now. Hello, robin. Robin. Robin . Hello robin. Juliette. You are on video. Yes, im here. Could you let her know shes on video because i had to promote her to panelist to let her speak. Ok. So you [ speaking spanish ] [voice of interpreter] good afternoon, my name is juliana and i have three kids. Brian, Elementary School and i am a member of the eloc at that school. One thing that i wanted to comment today is that we would like to have more time with the inPerson Instruction during the next school year. Also, i would like to request that the new educational plan for the 20202021 school year has not been translated. My understanding is that the students from first to third grade are going to get 3. 8 hours of instruction but it is not clear how these hours are going to be divided and how many hours are going to be instruction and how many hours are going to be inpersonment i would also like to have more clarification about the and also i would like schools have more inperson meetings with their school staff and parents. Thank you very much. Thank you. How many folks are there . There are five and then six if carmen is coming back. And mr. Diaz, can you explain in spanish that these comments are nor non agenda items . [voice of interpreter] frank, are you there . This is frank. Im a parent of a inaudible . I guess it might be a little late to bring this up but im just curious what is the rush to stop schools so fast. Can we just take a month or two months to see what is going on . Either should we see or give them an opportunity of another month or two months to get a better plan in place. Thats all my comments. Thank you. Thank you. Rosalba spanish . Sui[voice of interpreter] tell her she has two minutes, she can go ahead. [ speaking spanish ] good afternoon, my name is rosalda and i have my child at hover middle school but now i change him to another school. I have a question regarding the agenda. It seems to me that i was really the agenda and theres a lot of explanation for the next school years for children that are in kinder, first, second, third grade but i couldnt find anything about the second grade. I would like to know about the curriculum for these students on sixth, seventh and eighth grade. How many classes are they going to have on for internet and how many classes are they going to have inperson and i dont have that kind of information and i would like to know where i can find that information or when that will be released to the public and whether that would be translated or not. Thank you. Hello, steve. And the classroom and teacher and the pod teacher. What liabilities parents face have children in their home and teaching children in their homes and the over all safety precautions that parents hosting children should have in this era of covid19. If parents can split the cost for a teacher, their parents that still would welcome being in a learning pod. The school, this dedicated staff could pair parents who really couldnt afford that with parents who can and it could be on a sliding scale so that everyone benefits so im wondering if theres going to be a dedicated staff and a resource . Is that going to be promoted quickly and is that the help now . Thats it. Thank you for your time and i greatly appreciate the work you are doing. Thank you. Hi. This is margo my name is margo and i am the mother of three kids and i have two kids who are at peabody Elementary School in the Richmond District. Im going to take a different take on pandemic pods and say that i have deep concerns about pandemic pods and the selforganizing that thousands of parents in San Francisco are doing right now and i think that it represents a huge stratification of the people who have money in this city and the people who do not and i know the district and the leadership of the district want tone sure an equitable environment for students as we enter this charging year of learning and i think its an opportunity right now for the district to provide some guidance to families about what they can doer whether they shouldnt do something to selforganize. Im seeing a huge disparity between familiar lows who have resources to pay who have resources to find extra teachers and who have resources to have space in their homes and families that do not have all those things and there needs to be a more proactive stance taken by the district to address some big problems that i think will end up hurting the general student population down the road. I know these are all coming from good places but im concerned about it and wanted to share it with you today. Thank you. Thank you. Hello belia ramerez. Hello. Please tell her shes on video because she is going to be promoted to panelist. [voice of interpreter] [ speaking spanish ] good afternoon, my name is bellia ramerez and i have throw children at hover Elementary School. I am also a member of the organization and what i need to ask is the board of education is that we need some help with teachers to provide some instructions in order to guarantee a good education for our children. Its important is that we try to minimize and have less Distance Learning because this is the future and our children and we need them to go back to school. Thank you, very much. Hello good citizen. Its a little low. Ill here because on january 18th, january 12th, 2018, i was abducted by gang stockers that were sanctioned by the San Francisco unified School District on the board. I was abducted and thats our second so thats gone and that was actually the unfortunately the last commenter so well move on. Thats up to debate. Thank you for trying to navigate and its really and i understand and so section g is Advisory Committee reports and appointments. Are there any comments if you have one to speak of . Seeing none. Section e is consent calender and we need a motion and a second. Second. Any Public Comment on the consent items. Raise your hand in the public. Again, raise your hand if you would like to speak on any of the consent calender items. Any items collected by the superintendent. None. Any items removed for First Reading by any of the Board Members . Any items receivere severed r discussion and a vote for tonight or today. Seeing none, roll call. [roll call] thats seven ayes. Section f is discussion and vet on consent calender resolution for separate consideration and there are none. G is proposals for action. There are none. H is a special order of business and this is where we might have more comments. This is 20798 is and we need a motion and a second. So moved. Superintendent matthews. Once again good afternoon. So, two weeks ago, we brought forward the direction that we were moving in with the fall learning plan. This evening, were bringing forward the fall learning plan for approval to the board. I want to start by saying first of all, thanking the Board Members and staff members, students who participated throughout summer to assist us in getting to this point. We deeply appreciate it and mr. Steel f. You could load the dock, i would appreciate it. And just wanted to say that your work, your being there to give us your views, to give us guidance, to make suggestions to the team has deeply enhanced the plan and we appreciate it. We deeply production it. This fall learning plan is a high level recommendations and themes in areas. I know the most anticipated or about what we hear the most questions or comments about is actually in our distance leaning guide. This fall learning plan references the distance learn guide but the Distance Learning guide is a different document and it basically comes out of the fall learning plan so many, some people have emailed to say that the level of detail around, especially learning, is not evident here and its not meant to be. Where thats find in the Distance Learning guides and we are still working on t not the guide but actually the agreement in the guide. Wore working with our instructional partners and to make this happen o there has to be agreement around that so when theres a agreement there, we will be releasing the Distance Learning guide and one more thing i want to say before i get started is that we have a previous Distance Learning guide and there were times where they were answered so it gives you a sense of what we are trying to accomplish when you just think about instruction and learning from that point of view and as an institution and let me begin by going through what we what we are trying to accomplish this evening and i am going to talk about the fall learning process and our process through the summer to get us to this point of making the recommendation and and im going to be joined by throw other presenters. We are going to move how we got to the plan to the learning process. Safety protocols and coordinated well care and wellness. Our chief of personnel will talk about looking at that time from a personnel perspective and don is going to talk about operations and logistics and the major part of this presentation will be around teaching and learning and that will be done by our deputy superintendent of instruction. So with that, if you could advance. So as i just said, the agenda is today and i am going to go through the first through section and safety protocols and coordinated care plan for wellness and partnerships will be a personal will be danielle and our operations and it will be and i will come back at the end to talk about what our next steps are. So this is the high level basically giving you a sense of what were trying to accomplish with our fall learning plan and then its found in our actual Distance Learning guide so what is driven us and got is to this someplace it starts with our core values of being student centered and united knowing it has to be done by team and we want to make sure were meeting the needs of students who need more and driven by the diversity of our staff and our students. And of course, what drives our everyday work is this is our on the ground marching orders and what drives this plan is everyday we provide each and every student quality instructions and equitable support so that they can thrive in the 21st century and when were thinking about fall learning, were thinking about ok, how are we going to make sure this happened when were in the middle of a pandemic. Im going to briefly go through and i went over some of the slides on the 14th meeting but there are people who joined us tonight who righthand available on july 14th so i will go over a brief overview and turn it over to mele. So, when we think about our approach, we were going to developed three working groups and you can see those working groups there and Logistics Working Groups and teaching and learning working groups and a personal working group and we have town halls where we gathered input, information, feelings, gathering all through toes town halls and all that flowed up to our Recommendations Team and is it making this recommendation to you tonight of this plan. So we also use guiding resource and we use the guide for center for Disease Control and the education and San Francisco publichealth guidance and this guidance in these documents talked about what we expect or what we should look for in bringing students back inperson and what we heard as i said the town hall and i talk about that a little more in a minute but also what these guiding documents said about inperson learning and next slide. We also use caters from the city. And you can see these five indicators in the city actually has a color coded tracking system for each of the hospital systems. The number of cases,. The virus is doing what the vi obvious goinvirus is going te cases are increasing through just watching the news. Also on the 17th, the California Department of publichealth issued a directive that said that schools may reopen for in Person Instruction when theyre not on the county monitor list for 14 days and our count toe was placed on the list on july 17th. Were now on that list and not allowed to open for inPerson Instruction. And we used all of that data and some spring summery data and well go through these quickly. We gathered data from town hall and we had staff and family surveys and educator surveys and you can is he all the, did he gathered as much information as we possibly could from our community. We knew how important this decision is and we gathered information from our Family Wellness checks and you can see the percentages of people saying they were they were good or pretty good. Next slide. We also heard from families and you can see there the percentage that what they needed to support learning and they also asked what they needed with resources and 10 said food and 6 said Financial Support and this is what families needed from us and we were doing check ins and surveys and our town hall gathering information and and connections and making sure that it was happening and were going to be in Distance Learning and we have to make sure that we were providing access and you can see the 4,000 hotspots and staff connected with 99 of the tk13. Chair m. Marquez this gives you Student Engagement and the observations are three through fifth strayed students have higher levels of engagement with online learning. With Distance Learning differed greatly by school site and over the six weeks of Distance Learning, you can see that 3 did not engage in online chest and African American students showed lower rates along that activities as did all program groups. The majority of our teachers attended at least one online pd moved by recommended instruction and it was at our Technology Focus pd session but staff reported the need for consistent guidelines or providing Distance Learning so staff wanted to be better delivering and more guidelines and next slide. So i talked earlier about reaching out and to get the family survey. This is a sense of the number of people throughout the season who participated over 16,000 participated and you can see the number of thoughts shared through the process that we used and the number of thoughts that were rated to gather information to make this recommendation to you tonight. As we see some of the comments, during social distancing i feel like students need more kids interacting with kids, not just teachers. The middle one i bearly got to talk to my friends and peers during some classes and we need more teacher it was making sure were there as a connectiveness in Distance Learning and how we deliver Distance Learning. Only with teachers and the opportunity for students to have that connectiveness with other students. There are other things that we heard from the data feedback. It was back to health and safety of how were moving forward and as i said, we also know that students if were not going to move forward with inPerson Instruction how do we make sure that we are making sure that were receiving the highest benefit and making it making our Distance Learning, making sure theres clarity, consistency and coherence. Next slide. So the next gary bettman go ahead. So we talked last time over the Guiding Principles by the teaching and learning workgroup. As you get ready to see the Distance Learning portion of this recommendation, you will see these principles through out and next slide. The recommendation were making to you, commissioners, president , Vice President and commissioners is that all students begin in Distance Learning on august 17th. The plan for Distance Learning to start is starting the year in Distance Learning and then is phasing into a hyper science and data is safe to do so and also, we are considering and looking at limited inperson schools, we are off the monetary list for 14 days and we want to go through now so thats how we got to this place of making this recommendation. We want to spend time talking about the safety protocols and the coordinated care plan for wellness and personnel consideration and i will come back and wrapup the entire presentation. I will provide the safety pro caleches and the care plans section of the plan. Its our top priority and Upcoming School years and can you switch the side . Thank you. With our safety protocols, we will continue to rely on guidance froguidance for the moe information on covid19 prevalence in our communities and the medical research on transmission and prevention and as well as regulatory guidance. Can you go to the next slide, please. Based on the California Department of health in the San Francisco department of when science and data says its safe to do so we will keep checking with that to ensure that our protocols are uptodate. And we always recognize that some of these details may require a collaborative discussions and discussions with our labor partners. In a nutshell, the preliminary protocols are screening students and designating isolation areas and creating product cols and Everything School meals in smaller controlled settings. Well need to require face coverings to be worn indoors all times. We need to provide our employees with the personal protective equipment that is required from a particular job duties and of course, theres the training and employees and students on hand hygiene and cleaning product cols and daily questionnaires for staff and volunteers to our school years. Next slide, please. We will follow the California Department of publichealth guidance on School Closure and dr. Matthews mentioned that schools cannot open unless theyve been off the monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. The directive makes clear when schools need to be closed and there are two conditions that if there are multiple cases and multiple cohorts at a single school, our 5 of the total number of students and teaches are cases within a 14 day period and thats at the school level and on a district level there are requirements that a superintendent close a district if 25 or more schools in the district have closed due to covid19 within 14 days. Im going to turnover my attention now over to the coordinated care plan for wellness and authentic partnership. That center on anti racism and partnership and Building Communities to create a safe and Supportive School culture and climate. We identify Family Partnership as a key ingredient in a coordinated care plan and thats collaboration between school, staff, families and the Greater Community and all in support of it begins in the classroom can consistent twoway communication between teachers and families. Next slide, please. Well take a coordinated care plan with a sitebased school based coordinated care team that supports the implementation of schoolwide and classroom practices to support wellness and it will be well we will connect with our City Partners and our cbo partners to support families. While while that will be happening at the school site theres also going to be district wide coordination efforts around the we will continue the sfusd Family Resource link and well expand it to be the student of Family Resource link. Well continue to coordinate the district wide Family Wellness check on a district level and those will have four times a year and were exploring the implementation of district wide student check in survey to be able to provide Rapid Supports throughout year for students. And that wraps up that section and im turning it over to chief of hr for the personnel portion. Ive had the pleasure of leading the Personnel Working Group over the last couple of weeks. If you can go to the next slide. We know a lot of work of personnel happens at bargaining table with our labor partners. And so, one of the things that beef done in our Personnel Working Group has been to not get to a level of specificity reserved for our labor partners but draft high level Guiding Principles that we should all be thinking about as we think about personnel in the time of covid19. So, im just going to briefly talk about what some of those values are and then some of the next steps that well work on. First, i think that youve heard that several times tonight but that science has to guide our Health Safety and wellness policies for students, families and personnel and staff. All staff have an Important Role to play. We know in the spring, we werent able to activate for lack of a better word, all of our staff and its something that we need to do because all of our staff do critical work in supporting our students and our families. Third, Family Partnerships that its important that we are thinking about families and centers them in the conversations that we have about personnel and making sure that we have structures in place for collaboration again family and staff. For, High Expectations for all. That includes students and personnel and staff. If were going to hold folks to High Expectations, we have to provide robust training and support and equity for our staff as well. Really using an asset based approach because we have staff who are capable and talented so we need to leverage that especially now. So those are the high picture values that weve come up with and some of the work were going to shift to is thinking about some of the staff wellness surveys that will be going out over the course of the year and how to make sure that the questions were asking the surveys and the data that we get back is valued. Im sorry. Im sorry to bother you. You are reading too fast and its impossible for me to translate. Im sorry. No worries, thank you. I could just maybe by way of recap, list out those values again. So, scienceguiding help and and the Personnel Working Group will meet again next week and his work will continue. Im now going to turn it over to our chief facility officer, don. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for your time and attention today. Im going to speak briefly about the work that weve done and some of the conclusions from the Logistics Working Group which i facilitated a number of session offers the past few weeks. Next slide, please. One of the main pieces of information we wanted share with our stakeholders that became clear is what is our path Going Forward going like and for decisionmaking about how do we breakdown and challenge and organizing sfusd spaces for a covid19ready school day so these are the four stages that were going to move through as a district together. Weve made progress already making our way through this decision. The first is to think about trying to set a determined number of inperson learning seats so in any 24 hour learning period, how many students, given the resources we have physical and and human bandwidth and financial resources, et cetera, how many students can we serve in a 24 hour period and the second is the inperson learning and prioritize those for certain students populations and lastly, having settled on who we want to prior ties first for inperson learning and we have to place and schedule those available seats across the district. We have to think about the sites and the schedule meaning the movement in timing and from students to Distance Learning to inperson and back again within the course of the school day and lastly, we need to make it happen. Having to figure out our location strategy and the schedule and the types of infrastructure needed to support inperson learning we need to create our lead times and while i dont have a specific timeline where those decisions can occur this is the trajectory that we will be moving along as we move forward. Next slide, please. We shared a number of consideration and constraints with the working group and focused on a constraint our 300 custodians can cleaning and disinfect about 3. 2 million square feet and its under half of sfusd total structural footprint. We have real constraints around transportation. Public transportation will operate at 30 of normal capacity and our transportation budget might require up to double the existing budget to serve our existing students at its site. Over all feedback themes we heard from our stakeholders are having clear roles and responsibilities for cleaning and real concerns for differently abl abled students d thinking through the question of how do we support families and kids with enrichment options and how can and should Outdoor Learning occur. Working in collaboration with our colleagues and instruction and we did Work Together to identify four specific student populations that we would prioritize or recommend prioritizing for inperson learning. There seems to be a lot of consist end feedback from parents and families about making sure tk through 2 kids get inperson learning and weve also identified a number of vulnerable populations including special education youth and a focus on moderate severe special day classes, homeless and foster youth and the students, no matter what grade, who demonstrated limited Online Engagement during the spring. When you look those recommended populations its important for the board to understand as well as families and students that there are specific code requirements for where we educate pre k through second grade children and they have to steve inperson learning and classrooms that are designated with them with fire safety code issues so that means you cant put a k2 child in a third grae or sixth grade classroom it has to be on the groundfloor and occasionally on the second floor where we have sprinkler and separate fire access so as we lock at how we would spend our 3. 2 million square foot budget so to speak, of resources it makes us to align this with Elementary School sites and we would resume inperson learning at Elementary School sites first as we plan inperson learning and when that can occur. With that, ill turn this over to my colleague. Good afternoon, deputy superintendent of obvious and i have the sharing with you how were thinking about and rethinking teaching and learning as we plan for the fall. So we have three themes that we really wanted to be mindful of. We have take holders and the 16,000 participants of the town hall and we also have a number of focus groups, fish bowles and panels and there was a theme of variability and vary ants and expectations and experience im sorry. Can i ask, please, to slow down, please. There were some things across stakeholders of variability and vary ants in experience and expectations. There were clear calls for more opportunities for connections, communication and consistency. So as i share the next several slides, as you learn more about our plan for the fall, i hope you can see examples of our efforts to increase opportunities to connect and even in times of distance, more intentional and varied opportunities for twoway communication, and that is inclusive of communication between home and schools and school sites and through out we want to make sure you see and experience more consistency reducing the vary ants and variabilities that folks experience in the spring. Phobe for what we prioritize. We have to think about how to and it was one key priority and practice we want to implement and make sure that our educators and our families and our students know and can predict and practices. We really want to keep our equity lens at forefront as we engage in this new way that as exacerbated the system. That is making sure our students have the content and dispositions to thrive in the 21st century and to drive in the new normal. We knew this, but this pandemic definitely heightened that we cannot do this alone. We have to nurture authentic partnerships with our families and communities and constantly hold wellness and well being of students, our educators and our families at the core. Next slide. In addition to the Stakeholder Feedback and engagement we have paid close attention to the guidelines and senate bill 98 is one of those guidance documents that defines Distance Learning for us and other systems. It details out the expectations for Distance Learning. Here you can see the minimal expectations for instructional minutes by fans as well as the explicit expectations and the expectation daily lives interaction and engagement. Theres also a requirement now for evidence of participation and interactions with assignments. As our Planning School schedules informed by sb98, we are being findful of what is development the appropriate for students and what is healthy and when we think about screen time. School leaders have just recently gotten this guidance and so are now preparing to engage their educators at their school sites to figure out schedules that make sense for their community and their students and those will be shared within the next couple of weeks. Next slide. So, based and our guidelines for the states and sfusd wants to continue in the fall and having two different approaches to Distance Learning. Well have a digital distance approach and a non digital distance approach. We want to make sure you are clear these approach have been much enhanced and improved since our spring time learning. Now, through the lens of Connection Community indication and consistency, we want to highlight how weve added to and improved both approaches to the fall. Next slide, please. So first and foremost, wore going to ensure that all students have access to either approach. Digital or non digital. So one major change for the fall were able to do, is really leverage the school sites. Digital and non digital materials will be distributed by the site themselves. We believe this is a more personalized approach and it will allow opportunities for educators and families and students to connect during that time of distribution or pick up. It will also provide us more reliable and immediate documentation of what students have and need and will hopefully reduce the inefficiencies that we experience in the spring. We heard loud and clear that our youngest learners are pk2 students and want to engage digitally so were working hard to get them devices as well. Next slide. Weve also done a lot of work to develop and improve the content for Distance Learning. For digital Distance Learning we heard a lot of feedback about streamlining the app and making sure there was more consistency and making sure the apse are friendly and accessible to educators, students and families. To that end, we have a more consistent learning Management System for recommending see saw and for our pk2 students and google classroom through our third through 12th and we have opportunities for foundational skillbuilding on score district platforms. Weve moved beyond the packet and have learning resources that are com own core aligned and mirror resources that students would typically see in their classroom such as reading logs, alphabet cards, language props, materials for our students and language pathways and across languages are now available. These materials that were providing are spanning across areas so theres math, science, eod and opportunities to engage in social studies. And weve also been really intentional to make sure there are more creative ways and facilitate critical thinking. We are mindful to select non digital materials that have scaffolds that have support and are easy for families to engage and use as they support their learners at home. All students in our pk to grade regardless of the engagement in digital or non digital will also have text and learning tools like our pencils, note pads, et cetera and were working to make sure that every student pk1 has access to a rich diversity of text during Distance Learning. So not only have we never done dis tang learning adistance lear started a school year remotely. So another new feature this fall is the first 30 days. This is a plan that inter weaves the focus on wellness and safety and relationships and clear expectations and you will of of this stuff that schools engage in and it brings it together so all educators regardless of what they hold in our system have the skill sets and tools to facilitate learning in this new way and new environment. We want them to focus more to connecting to students and family and learning their students as learning and people and they can use that to differentiate and provide a responsive and engaging Distance Learning experience throughout fall. In addition though hug about how to get school and up and learning, weve also been doing much reading, research and responding to feedback around how to better support our focal population. Both in the brick and mortar and in Distance Learning, we have to be intentional to call out and plan for these students. So our fall plans include here on how to support these special populations. Our students with ieps, our English Learners and foster learners and a new category that we discovered is the ladies we are only able to engage those are the students that we didnt reach and engage in the spring or not were able to reach them for a small a lot of time. Had particular group that we historically when the brick and mortar so we wanted to call out that Additional Group as well. Next slide. Our Distance Learning guide and that is much more detailed than what were going over this afternoon and all the information that ive outlined so far is in our Distance Learning guide and includes the first 30day plan and the scaffold and supports for our student groups and it has ideas for various goals and responsibilities and as well as access to our professional development and curricular resources and much more. This is still very much was said earlier in draft form as we engage and partner with our labor partners as well as get feedback and the sink on this is still drying but as soon as it is ready want to share we will have a family and Community Addition for fall 2020. In the spirit of consistency, Clear Communication and making sure our students and family know what to expect and it predict and well have video overview and it will be translated. This Distance Learning guide for our staff is 93 pages and count, it will be provide not on our website. Next slide. This is new and different for all us and there were consistent requests in the spring and throughout the summer from educators, students and families for more professional development, training and support. In collaboration with teachers and site leaders we have a robust comprehensive p. D. Model for our educators who are facilitating Distance Learning. We have webinars, pocs and coaching and weve also captured and will continue to capture some of the amazing and innovative work of our Classroom Teachers who were on the ground doing this Distance Learning so we crowdsource their ideas and lessons. We have virtual labs and this year their best practices and they will be available and asynchronously, thats live and on your own time. We know students at home are not learning by themselves and we know that families are the first teachers and we know families were coming into your home, right. We want to make sure you have the tools and resources to support as learners. We want you to know the plan and engage in interact with your students in the plans. We can actually optimize success. We have again increased and enhanced the various supports and services that we have for our families and many of which were there a couple things to highlight is well have more multi lingual resource and well have more ways for families to get the information and its not required them to be online and we have webinars coming soon as well as video and Tech Resources and we have our ready ftk and for a p. K. Students and now it will be available for pk through second grade students and families and this will give our families a text message each week and theyll receive three and monday, wednesday and friday and throw im this week theyll receive information about content and some fun tips of how to engage their students and learning in two days a week information about Distance Learning and so we hope this new resource will be helpful to our families of our youngest learners as they support learning at home. All of this is on our website. Were planning to meet and engage with our Community Based organizations and to get these resource and support to our families that dont require them to log on or use a device so we have to have means to get our families this information and engage. Were working on positions at our school sites via our Digital Learning facilitators and were at the site level and theres much more support for our families as they engage in Distance Learning and these positions will work with our family liaison and other site positions. Next slide. So against i have to say, we agree that learning best takes place for many students inperson and that school say place of connection, care and community. So even though were starting off or recommending that we start off in the Distance Learning format, we have been with our stakeholders around ways we might come back in the hybrid model when its safe enough to do so. I want to give a special thanks to our teach work groups and two our day and many of these innovatives and for the thought partnership that they will continue to provide as we further plan for and thought about if we were to come and when we come back on person, who might we prioritize knowing we come back in High School Schools and weve also worked close loo with our Facilities Team and engage our partners to reimagine time and space. We know that reimagining time and space is a topic on everyones mind. Especially as we are mindful to attend to the needs for Human Connection and socialization during this time. We wanted share the creative options were brai brainstormin. Its a unique opportunity to bring together students and staff from different schools to an open school model in ma clearen. Our connection crew ideas is small students that are in a advisory mode where they connect and address the needs that come out for the older kids and student interaction getting support for learning. We have been considering the Outdoor School option and allow us to pilot and land on the and the land around the school site across our sfusa schools to leverage equitable way. These are just ideas and again, i wanted to give credit to all the collaboration and to bring those ideas and the forefront. These are specific ideas that really what were doing is just thinking about align so our vision 2025 and so we can implement these ideas on a small scale first and learn what works and strategically and thoughtfully scale them in a safe and successful way. As we drive, even in these unusual times, i want to appreciate all the works and theres been 16,000 plus and all of your ideas and all of your thoughtful pushes and your col rabbation and all of your clear mightment how we can provide a different learning experience Going Forward. I almost started talking while on mute. We believe the next steps if can you go to the next slide, please. We want to continue working with our labor partners to finalize the Distance Learning plan and they will work to assess and address classrooms and office configurations and the superintendent, my Leadership Team along with lead will develop processes for determining the prioritize western and we want to engage stakeholders and support structures for feedback at sites and at central levels. As you think about a pandemic and is there any anything that good that comes out of it. We were able to put devices in all of our students hands and another is the feedback structures weve put in place are much strong sore we want to continue those with, i know im going to be edge gained in a pta town hall and i believe next week so we are giving feedback and strengthening Distance Learning as we move forward. With that, we thank you for your time and your energy as she just said, we thank everybody that participated in one way or even if you didnt participate in those town halls you participated three emails and is were presenter tive of that have and i especially want to thank ms. Shell smith and for participating this afternoon and for assisting me in presenting this afternoon to the board. With that, i would like to turn it back over to president sanchez. Thank you to the team. I appreciate it so much. Theres a lot of questions out there so in comments, is of 800 people watching this presentation and our Board Meeting so mr. Steel,. Thank you. If you want to speak on this item, raise your hand and you will be called on. About 44 so far . 46. Closing in on 50. Well open it up to comment and everybody will get one minute up to 60 people and well go from there. Ok. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time to hear me today. My name is jennifer and im a fulltime single working mom of a fulltime preschooler and id just like to find out more of the specifics as to what specific science you are referring to. I am also having a hard time trying to understand how its supposed to distance learn a 3yearold with disabilities. She has an i. E. P. She shouldnt be exposed to this type of text knowledge and she needs to play with her friends and isolation is also unhealthy. I think inperson learning is required and i believe that the parents should i won how much of the minutes of i have been looking into and students with disabilities should have the option of having coordinated inperson therapy. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. So, i have three questions. Ill go through them quickly. My husband guy is a doctor at ucsf so definitely essential worker. We have three children. Twins that are 5yearolds and a 7 and a halfyearold girl going into second grade. Our 5yearold boy was assigned an i. E. P. A few months ago and going into kindergarten and a similar situation to the previous question asker and here my three questions in rapid fire. If we have enough space to accommodate onethird to half of the students in the city, why are we not opening right now and why are we living this to some future unknown date and just leaving all that space empty when, i know from the last four months if i learned anything, that distant learning for preschoolers is use less and weve tried it and we stopped trying to attend the zoom classes because its use less and Distance Learning will look exactly the same. Why do we think its safer not to open schools for western who obviously need Constant Care and have been scrambling along time and makeshift learning groups rotating parents and who thinks thats going to be less contagious or help our students safe safer than opening a class with a 10 student body. Thats your time today. Thank you. Hell oh meghan. Hi name is meghan and a beekeeper annalist with the School District. I wanted to talk a little bit about my hopes for the plan that we have yet to see for Distance Learning and further instruction. Our structural plan for the fall must address the barriers we must overcome in providing highquality education for students. This requires the district to be thinking and leveraging all staff in a way that provides clarity to how they support studentscentered systems and our classroom educators are educators and staff that must be given guidance and the time to Work Together to find a way to implement these systems for the unique needs of our students, will families and the staff who serve them. This includes para educators, family liaisons, security aids, wellness staff, st. Zahra s and even me. I hope to hear more about the plan that addresses the need for flexibility and account for the unique needs of education and a pandemic. While providing consistenly for students and leaning. Thats time, thank you. This is on julie speaking on behalf of the close the Gap Coalition. I taunt to thank for democracy and i really hear that youve heard a lot of feedback from families including that safety is the most important thing. I have heard you lloyd voices i heard the vast majority of families feel safety is important and relieved to be starting online. I appreciate the comments that reflect family needs of translation and off line materials and the multi lingual tech and Family Resources. Theres a lot to be excited about and im intrigued about the open outside learning components that you are pulling together and all of this is going to rely on strong implementation and we havent seen the details. I want tone courage the district when you put out important plans like this to translate at least a summary of the plan basics. Thank you. Thats time. He will low. Can you hear me. Yes g. Ahead. Good afternoon, my name is he have rin and i work with meta partner of the Mission Promise neighborhood. Im excited and we do partner with many schools and until the mission and they develop some amazing work in response to covid19 and through our partnership with close the Gap Coalition we held town hall with Spanish Speaking families and they shared their dis fans with Distance Learning and. David, are you there . David land with the department of technology and also a parent and resident of San Francisco. I participated on one of the logistics committees and i wanted to say thank you to those participants and the direction that weve been allowed to participate and look forward to whatever is safe and best interest s of our students. Thank you. Hello, lesley. My name is lesley, who i work at mok mid many school and i have the pleasure of participating in listening to a lot of youth and i wanted to am i fie the voices and ask them questions and overwhelmly families to increase Family Partnerships and support and and engage instruction and also to increase the connection and especially around Healing Centers practices and how do we do Healing Center practices not just in the way that were doing school but also inside classrooms and instruction and families in the tenderloin and bayview, especially noted, that basic needs like unstable wifi and food are a huge concern in those communities. My questions are around how do we be intentional about not just listening to oulistening to ourt creating spaces where theyre heard so we can center their experiences how do we shift our language and our practices from using words like input into co creation and lastly how do we create system and structures that individual school sites to center this listing. Thank you. Thank you. Concern. Thank you, kevin heart and im a High School Science teacher. I teach for over 20 years. A couple things i have questions about. Im very clear that while san sn francisco is on the monitoring list and the healthen factors opens the schools and we cant open. inaudible . My question is, is it inadd watt towards the days and we open and we have to close again and that would be just as traumatic as if we stayed closed for a little bit time and make sure we open it up. I know communication is important and it didnt always have the best communications with my inaudible and i hope to do much better than that but im not the only one who is reaching out to parents i relied or not the councillors and we can maturing sure the parents are understood and know what is happening to the bet of their students and the teachers best approach though students. I know that we reach pd and they have made it clear that we teachers do need to be able to spend the pds and planning and how to Distance Learning and how to implement that first 30 days with the students so that we provide a bond and it will move forward and the Education Course of students. Thank you. Victoria. Hello victoria . Victoria are you there . I am here. Go ahead. Hey, guys, i have two children in coming second grader and a 7 grader. I understand the need for Distance Learning. What i was hoping to get clarity on, what would my childs day look like and i just dont think i still have that answer. It would be great if school is starting in the next two weeks to start seeing some of that come through so we can prepare accordingly. Thank you. Thank you. Hell oh jim. Yes, thank you for hold north meeting. I have respect for teachers and the safety and i have two daughters one in 11th grade. Something that didnt work for us in the spring was credit, no credit and also an hour and a half of instruction per day and i understand why it had to happen for the first part of covid but not the last month of skill. In the fall its extremely important to me and my family and my kids to have more than four hours of instruction per day. Students in need. Another major issue if they fail in letter grade system well have significant issues i feel students should be graded on efforts than their scores. Hell oh ms. Marshal. Thank you, jeff. Virginia marshal with the alliance of black school educators. Our membership had a falling concerns. We want to know how Community Hubs will work. Were concerned that dcy will the union and the district are not talking to each other and the access from this point and we already know that we have a weak access to what we are going to fix it and the last concern is do not mix the students, please, about grandparents and elderly family members and we dont know yet, how with a outbreak of covid. Hello, lenore. Lenore, are you there . Avenuava, are you there . Hello. Sorry. I am logged in as one of the kids. My name is ashley bond. I am a parent. I just wanted to comment that during this spring our teachers and admission station did a great job but our teachers still did mostly socially motional check inns and theyre going into middle school this fall. I would really like to see the teachers connecting on a daily basis and doing actual instruction not just socialemotional check inns which were the majority of what they got. My kids were unengage online and and things like that and they were provided and also, parents are controlling those groups so you can have small, small groups of kids who can come together and have a more engaging experience and if they are alone. Thank you. Cecilia, are you there . My name is julia and im a kindergarten student and i was wondering when well know exactly which apps will be available for students and teachers. Are they the apps on clubber, sea saw is free but thank you. Thank you. While i acknowledge some is of the key steps in this plan, i demand a clear plan for families, community partners, and teachers that support Distance Learning. Many family, youth and communities are still unprepared for dis tang learning and this plan has its definite gap. This plan needs the plan for supporting families in things other than tech support. This plan also needs a coordinated and integrated approach to collabbing with dcyf. With the conversation around pods for the rich and the district offering little for the working class families, Community Learning pods are poise to be the best tool for equity. Thank you. Hell oh debra. Hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we k. Go ahead. My name is debra summers and im a parent at harvey milk public school. I want to publicly thank or nur principal, mr. Emmanuel stewart for starting meetings and getting in front of the message and just hearing parents and working with them to manage their expectations. Im very encouraged by that and i wanted to urge the district to be a specific as possible when meeting with labor partners and to determine what the very specific requirements will be for the two to three hours of live teachings that we are pushing for. We need a specific in that plan. And the last thing i would say is we would like to advocate for testing and at end of this and it will be a year or we want to know where our kids are at and how we can close the gap after this has all passed. Thank you. Hello. Hi, im a english teacher at mlk middle school. I think we need to be clear that this is learning for the fall is going to be with the reality for most students looking at the plan. Its a very small minority. 15,000 who would be able to be inperson. Theres dis communication among parents. Its not feasible at this time and just understanding limitations that people have or the district has. I think we need to be prioritizing in crisis learning as opposed tie business as usual model so its important to remember that were still in a crisis and students are facing a lot of socialemotional challenges and understanding that reopening is just not going to be feasible for the duration of the fall semester for the limitations that the district has in terms of resources and safety for students. I think everybody who has been prioritizing the safety and wellbeing of students and staff particularly people with preexisting conditions such as myself. Thank you. Thank you. Are you there . Hello, laura. Hi, my name is laura and im a resource specialist with the district at Everett Middle School and i appreciate all the work thats gone into building this plan, however, i have concerns about supports for staff who are highrisk such as staff who are immuno compromised. Staff with disability and staff who are over 55yearsold. Im thinking about how person supports for highrisk students come from staff who fit within these groups such as older peer administrators and immuno compromised resource specialists and k2 researchers who might put at risk if sent back into person teaching before its safe to do so and what supports will be in place to support staff at higher risk and will they be expected to return inperson and teaching and if they support those high needs groups such as special day classes or classrooms. Thank you. Thank you. An a. Are you there. This is not hannah. Can you hear me ok. We can, go ahead u. This is kevin robinson. As a parent and educator, its my wish to submit the state department of publichealth waiver to the sf County District of allow our most vulnerable student populations to take part in inperson classes instead of this Distance Learning. This is not only mitigating the social and emotional isolation brought on by dis tang learning it would help alleviate the financial burden on families and in addition as a member of the logistics team, the Upcoming School year, i propose the School District push back the date schools open from august 17th to september 8th plus align the district a cushion to make sure that things are ready to poll. On a side note, when i was in school during stone tablet times we started school after labor day. Hopefully the august 17th isnt a hard and fast date. Thank you. Hell oh brian. Can you hear me. Excellent. Teacher in the district and i wanted to ask followup about the waiver that representatives lopez and coins had brought up and ask if they were ok to write to the governor to ask for a later start. I wanted to push back a little bit on the slides that were presented with the much improved content from what was offered in the spring. For the 912 students. There was a lot of mention of younger kids and handwritten packets. But the 912 the only thing i heard is were going to use google classroom which has been implemented and used in the past so i am sure about the content and we are weeks away from starting had so yeah, thats all i have. Thank you. Hello, carmen. [ speaking spanish ] good afternoon, my name is Carmen Rodriguez and i like that Distance Learning to be live so that the students can interact with teachers and their peers. I also would like to improve the services for the students that are in special education. Hello, ashley. My name is ashley with the Family Resource alliance of efforts and 12,000 children and families across the city each year. We work to following the appreciate the work youve done thus far. However, a significant gap remains for the most vulnerable. Despite the districts efforts, many families have trouble accessing the technology and continue to seek support and these organizations should be provide add Additional Resources to provide suppose support. Many children are engage and we have the efforts to have some inperson learning and the include additional full ner able students and they can work to identify students and leverage our families and addictional flexibility and when they can engage and these are position to meet families where they are and we want ta support them. Thank you. Thank you. Darcy. Im a first grade teacher at ser dan school and i wanted to say im very happy to hear about the decision to distribute tech and materials at school sites so we can best meet the needs of our students where theyre used to being. I am very concerned about the requirement of daily synchronous instructions at middle school and high school levels. When you are looking at the Distance Learning plan for educators about scheduling, daily instruction in high school and middle school would require the teachers and the students to sit in front of a computer screen to get all their subjects in each day and the quality of teaching and learning by can occur is extremely limit and basically been be successful. You must allow our educators to determine how often and when they provide instructions so that students can have meeting times but its not taxing and detrimental to their health and we do have to look at theres ways we can do it where they have focus and effective instructions staying in small groups and not everyday but a few days a week and you can include other educators like para educators and allow for time to be occurring with other support staff. Thank you. Hello, christie. Hi. I. A High School Teacher and my husband is as well and we have two scaffage children and it was difficult working at home. I would like to please secretary district to allow teachers who would like to to be able to work from their classroom to unburden the techniques at a house as well as space issues. A lot of teachers have families. I was on one of the discussion groups for teachers with families with children and with would like to have an option. Not Everybody Needs to work from schools but for us of us, having that ability to get out of our small homes and teach our students in an effective environment would really help with Distance Learning. Thank you. Thank you. Hell sew, mia. Hi, how are you guys. I just want to represent families and this irony isnt lost on me what the first two callers were calling on pre k. They have been non communicative about the plan for fall. We know its Distance Learning, however, to tell us theyre raising to you and i theyre going to charge tuition from children as young as six to fiveyearsold to learn from a learn is unconscionable. I cant imagine being told to apply for a subsidy when that money may not a supplied but still you want us to keep our spots at a public Early Education site and yet 13 Business Days prior to the first day of school you are telling us if you dont want this spot, leave. Go on a wait list. We havent been able to plan for our youngest learners and its a shame. I dont hear a lot of information on your district plan for prek and that needs to be addressed. You guys run an Early Education department. Thank you. Hello, zar a. Hi, can you hear me. We can go ahead. Im the parent of a incoming first grader and i want to say a couple thing. For the park school idea. And those are the kind of sort of practices that the district is going to need to do to provide the support in an equitable ways that the need which were seeing reflected in this whole panic and scurrying around about pods. Say want to say in two weeks, i think the board, the school board is scheduled to vote on a budget for next year and last we saw that budget it included big cuts in concessions in staff but theres no way it will be follow through on some of the Creative Ideas from how to do and making cuts to pd days for staff and other things involving the teachers in staff and work for the district. Hello, earl. Good evening. This is her is earlene. I listened to the presentation as presented this afternoon. Im going to be a little bit selfish about this as others have been. I have a major concern about the distribution of devices to our substitute teachers. And that is my major concern at this time. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is president of united educators of San Francisco. I want to have several appreciations actually at this moment. I appreciate the focus on the health and safety of all of us. Students and adults and educators, all of us. Also, i appreciate the recognition of educators contributions and participation in this planning thats been going on all summer and also a big appreciation for parents and youth who came to town halls and including those from close the gap. It was great to hear that all staff have an Important Role to play and have valuable skills just as we value each and every student, we value each and every employee of the district. This work that has been going on does show the value of working together. Yesterday or this week, uesf shared our survey with the district so that we can continue to Work Together im hearing respect for the negotiations. We still have a long ways to go and were hearing concerns about the special education and pre k for example and they have commitments we will work just as hard as we can to get this mou finished and serve our students the way that they deserve to be served by the School District. Thank you. Caller hi. I just wanted to voice someone who said something previously about the timeline of letting us know what the schedule is for in coming first graders in terms of planning for it. I wanted to find out, i heard through the grape fine that rooftop elementary is having a pod discussion between the school and the pta and i wondered if that would be passed along to school sites to make it equitable for everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, sarah. Can you hear me now . I think the School District has done a good job in identifying prior students, however, theres one group i think thats been left out which is the students that are children of teachers and especially those in pre k and elementary. Theres a lot of work that is being done on the family side to help support their owner children with learning and i think its very difficult for teachers with younger children to focus on their class when theyre busy trying to manage their own children. So i would like to see teachers supported in that way so that they can focus on their classrooms during the school day and i would also like to know what education and support that teachers are getting to teach live synchronous classes in an engaging way. This is new to our teachers. There are a lot of best practices and ways to make it engaging with both technology and just best practices and i havent heard through the grapevine are our teachers are getting that support. Thank you. My name is chris and i am with the richmond neighborhood center. We operate after School Programs at nine schools in the Richmond District and i just wanted to say a quick bit of appreciation for the district for recognizing the need to support our focal populations and really appreciate the language around partnership use north this approach to support the needs of all of our young people in pip to the Community Hubs. I want to expand on lesleys idea of cocoa creation and ask and urge the district to engage the community and relation to two changes to the ed code as a result of sb98 and the district can allow cbos to provide programming in schools when theyre not in session provided that we have 21st century funds and i ask the School District really insures theres no financial barriers to using the facilities for these purposes and the district can really think about how they can support academics as part of the instructional minutes and this is done in True Partnership with cbos not as mandated that are communicated from the district. That we support and to have a blanket approach to all schools and all cpos just may not work and may not be the best safe environment for the staff and students. Good evening, my name is cu and im the executive director for families of San Francisco. When organizations dedicated to collectively advocating for the interest and needs of families in the city. So theres a high level of anxiety right now among parents. We want to keep our families safe and we also want our children to receive an adequate education. We appreciate the high level Strategic Plan and phases as you laid out, we would like to see concrete dates so parents can make the necessary plans that manage our own expectations. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, can you hear me . My name is angela and i have i actually worked for the San Francisco Transportation Agency almost sfmta. I didnt really hear a lot of what is going to happen and im hearing mixed communications and sounds like some kids are going to be going to school and some kids are not and im not getting Clear Communication from the School District and let alone my district schools. Im also interested in knowing what is the schools district going to do for transportation for children and from obviously from all over the cities with such cuts in our core routes. A lot of our students who live near sf. They have to catch the l bus or the l train and theres no 23, theres no 18 and the 57 is not running so im interested in seeing and hearing more about what is the school going to do and for a lot of the kids who are not able to even come back to school when we do Institute Hybrid learning. Fenel, are you there . Are you there . Thank you. Really grateful for all the help with this educational reform plan and i have a lot of concerns. Number one i have sigh real problem with the technology. I have a second grader and it just doesnt work. Im dismayed that no one mentioned our Natural Resources here in San Francisco. We are really blessed to be able so have so much open space so im really emphasizing the need for you to create Community Partnerships putting children with academic success and wellness during this crisis schooling. So im curious about what is gong with the libraries and park and rec and also muni which sheds spaces and the arts centers and Cultural Centers and such as a jcc and African American arts and Cultural Centers and these are wonderful, wonderful resource and they havent been mentioned. Hello teresa. My name is teresa and im the parent of a high schooler and im also working with parents for Public Schools. I want to just thank the people who put so much time and effort into this document from sfusf partners and parents. I want to reiterate some of the things ive heard. First is that, parents are ready to step in and help and it means recognizing the capital available in all communities not just the most resourced and working with us is key to this solving what is happening with distance clearing and covid19 and i hope that you will see us as partners, not just people to be served. I also want to say im excited about what the plan is and im concerned like many, about the lack of specificity and i really want to urge sfufc and labor partners to move swiftly to finalize the details that families need in order to support their children. Were two and a half weeks from the start of school. If you are a shift worker, you dont even have enough time to put in a request for a change of schedule for the first day of school and we dont know what time our kids need to be in school or in front of zoom. So we know that it takes a while to work this out but please, work this out swiftly. The clock is ticking and were not prepared to help our kids. Were grateful to get communications from Central Office and acknowledging our administrators and teachers have taken well deserved time off in the summer but for most parents and caregivers, our connection ask s to our schools and students classrooms and we need to hear from them. Most have received no communications from our school since may and we have received little communication from our stalls or teachers and we cant support our kids at home if we dont know when theyre in class and what their assignments are and not just the younger children. Those with older children need to be kept in the loop as well. We have recommendations that weve been able to give to the Planning Committee and we hope theyre taken into consideration as you develop your communication plans and support. Thank you. Mr. Steel are you there . Its mr. Kiper. Do you have the list . I do have the list. Ok, Second District pta. You are up. My name is michelle. I have a couple of quick things i wanted to say. I want to appreciate the teacher from mlk and i was happy to sew theres incorporated time and think its critical to how we move through this entire year and theres really regular and frequent ways for our stakeholders to work with the district in shapes this is for our students and we have heard a lot of feedback about the wellness checks and making sure were having people and the relationships matter and not just done through emails or with someone who doesnt have a direct connection with family you will pet the input you need if it is someone with a relationship with the family. Third, i have a question about how substitute teachers will work. What if a teacher is sick, how does Distance Learning go on . If theyre not able to conduct it in a day and how will we support that and the last thing, im curious to learn more about this 30day plan. One of the most important things is going to be creating space for community to be built in the first week of school and connection with our families and giving our teachers time to plan together and the whole school staff and i would love to see us delay the start of instruction by a week or two so we have time to build that into our school year with still having staff saturday and i know that may not be realistic right now but id love to see this be creative. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, my name is autumn, thank you for the time. My family has been Holding Shelter in place very seriously since everything began with two small children and two parents working. Thankfully at home full time. I understand that we [please stand by] hello, danielle . Hello, cap you hear me . We can. Speaker im the chair for the chair of special education and i just would like to thank the district for your collaboration with family and others in making these plans. We have a lot of concerns from parents with iets and floor plans about feeling isolated during distanced learning and have a lot of concern about the prior written notices and how we were going to move forward with various services that our students need. I know everyone is trying to pull together and i have seen a lot of prioritizing for the special education department. How do we handle emotional support, processing motor goals and keep track of those . Also, how will we manage any and all of the ieps that might need changes and services due to Distance Learning due to inperson learning. We look forward to collaboration with the district is we thank you very much. Thank you. Hello, jennifer. Speaker im not sure if this came up earlier. I know it came up in previous conversations or meeting. If Distance Learning turns out not to be efficient, if we give it a go and its not working for our families for multiple reasons, can we opt out for maintaining our position for next year . Theres been a lot of talk about rich families and all of the pods i know are middleclass, working families who need to make plans so they can work out their family schedules. So i understand the concerns but many rich families are private. Thank you. Thank you. Christina . Speaker hi, im a teacher at George Washington high school and i Teacher Education and i have a couple of questions when youre planning for Distance Learning and supports for our students and for our staff. One of them is that my husband and both a substitute teacher for our School District and a student teacher for our School District and at the moment, i know that he has received no information about whether or not he will able to work in the fall and he was not able to work when he shut down for spring and thankfully, there was negotiation in the mou that supported this. But we are now a oneincome family and it is incredibly difficult. I have no idea from my perspective what it would look like if i were to be sick for a day or if i were to become ill with covid. What would happen to my students and what would happen with my lesson plans . Because theres to good way to plan for a substitute during Distance Learning when you dont know how that sub will be able to access your classes. Thank you. Hello, miss fisher. Speaker well, i would just like to remind everyone this past sunday was the 30t 30th anniversary of the american with disabilitysability. The ada was a gamechanger in providing access to people with disabilities and prohibiting discrimination and the reason i bring that up, especially if we talk about costs now, its important that we continue this conversation about inclusion when we plan for distance and hyperlearning this fall. Our School District and city are richer because of diversity and i have to say, even though our teachers and our administrators arent technically working, theyve been on their welldeserved summer break, ive been having the most inspiring conversations with teachers in administrators and special education staph as they plan for the fall and i am just so inspired. It wont be perfect on day one and in the reopening task force, i appreciated how dr. Matthews framed it that way. One of the first things he said to all of us, if youre here expecting a perfect plan on day one, it wont exist. I think as we move forward and we continue to iterate, it will be really important for us to be working together and to be planning together and im just so grateful to be a part of that work. So thank you sfusc. Thank you. Hello, initials a. B. Speaker im a special day care teacher. I agree pushing back the start date would be helpful to teachers and families, especially teacher. I remember back in march, we got information five days before we were legally required to start providing services for kids with iets and we all recreated wheel in less than five days and it was a hot mess and the students did not benefit. It would be wonderful to have a slower start and get prepared versus, again, we start back five days before the kids do and its just not realistic. And then the other thing, a lot of people touched on is the opportunity to work out of our classrooms and isolate or in a socially distance way. A lot of us live with multiple people in San Francisco who have typical jobs, just taking phone calls, on their phone calls and special ed teachers are singing and its destructive and hard to be flexible when were stuck in a small apartment with all of these requirements. Thank you. Hello, sarah. Speaker this is sarah, im a parent appreciating the applen and i would like to propose approval of the plan with one caveat, including rising third graders in the population cohort, especially if seats are available. These students are under the age of ten, which they show are nonvectors of the virus and they were the spring showed that the secondgrade year, which is very important. The data that sfust is showing did work was for the third graders that were finishing their thirdgrade year and i would like to include these children in that priority of population of cohort. Thank you. Thank you. Oneida. Speaker hi, im a parent with the Public Schools and i wanted to know now about if being 98 is the low . We ha as parents want to have me interactive instructions with the teachers and we would like to have more clarification on how the hours of instructions would look like and how the district will support families that dont have internet and, as well, they dont know how to use it so that we can best support our children. Thank you. Thank you. And president sanchez, that is the final speaker for this item. Thank you to the public. We are appreciative of your comments and questions and concerns and i think we all share many of them in this fraught time. And so, well open it up to commissioners for comments and questions, as well as student delegates. And then well move from there. And so if you would like to speak up, just raise your hand. I see Vice President lopez and i see how about we start with commissioner norton and student delegate katia. Ok. I didnt know you would call on me first. [ laughter ] hi, everybody. Thank you to the staff and the superintendent for all of the incredible hard work in the last few weeks and months. The plan shows the amount of thought and the effort that went into it and i had a number of questions, the first question is just if you can give us a little bit of a download on why were not positioning to move the date of schools back and what that would involve and why that to doesnt seem to be something that were considering or moving forward. Thats my first question. And so, the calendar, we negotiate that with our partners and this isnt something that we have considered. We know the start date would be 17th and we have basically geared ourselves towards that start date, working with our partners and working through the mou. A lot of the questions that you heard today we believe will be answered in the distant planning guide. And that hasnt been released yet because were hopefully in the final stages of working together with our labor partners. We havent considered moving the date back because we believe we can hit that start date effectively. I mean, im just curious and i get its negotiated. I just wonder if there has been any talk or thought of creating additional planning time for educators so we start the calendar at the time weve negotiated. It would move everything back and that would increase the amount of professional Development Dates and so i know a couple of the commissioners talked about a behave waivers ta lower number. But even if we move the calendar back to after labor day or whatever date, it would move the entire calendar back. That does not increase the number of additional days for professional development. May i just i jump if for a s. I think if there was a waiver that reduced the instructional days to, say, 175, that would allow to five extra days. Absolutely. That is what i was saying. I agree. Now. Right. And it would be have to the state would have to do it, would have to authorize it. The senate bill is quite clear that the expectation is currently is 180 days of instructional days. Has any other School District, that we know of, have they asked for such a waiver . I dont know of any and i dont know if staff knows of any districts that have asked or applied. Im butting in again and i talked last week about this and they were going to keep eyes and ears open but not gotten back to me about any districts going in that direction. I think we should keep our eyes on that, and maybe, it just seems like there is a need for particularly investigators to have additional time to kind of plan how Distance Learning is going to work for them since it seems like for some of our students, most of our students will be with us for awhile. The fact families dont know what hours their kids will be in class, thats an increasing urgency and i wonder if theres a timeframe on when well release that information. I was very appreciative of miss solomons comments and so, currently, were working and have many meetings scheduled with our ue and, so, as soon as we come to an agreement, theres a Distance Learning guide and we are coming to an agreement with our major instructors around what those days will look like and as soon as we come to an agreement, well be able to release that, but you heard the comments today, that she is as eager as the district to get agreements done so that we can move forward. And i wonder if someone can talk a little built more about what our thinking is about the various outdoor options, about using green spaces. Where does that planning stand and what might it look like and what can we say . There was not a lot detail in the presentation around that and i would like to hear more. Either miss bartell or komonoka. Im happy to talk about theres a wide range of ways to think about outdoor classrooms, right, and i deferred to miss borsell to talk about using parks as the content and or the setting for schools. Ewe are evaluating ought elementarall elementarysites, te physical capacity of the sites and to figure out how many students can be served there. And were looking at that, both in terms of the building footprint and active schoolyard space and as we think about that decision tree i showed of thinking about, like, how we locate students and then how we schedule them, moving from the Distance Learning to inperson learning and how they move between those two i should say stages of being. And when theyre at inperson learning, what does the flow of that day look like across the school site and so myself and chief okeefe are continuing to workshop over the next two weeks having, like, zoomed in on Elementary School expose now scg about cleaning in between cohorts and thinking about having to offer food either in classrooms or outside, where will we land . What are the tradeoffs in terms of resources, staffing and complexity that occur as you make one or the other choice . Once you decide how and when youre offering food, how do we think about recess, physical education . And then, after using outdoor spaces for those traditional activities, but in a more complex covid19 schoolday schedule, are there still some places which for many sites i think there are, where you might set up outdoor classrooms because of, again been just the damages that are offered over ventilation and then there are clear other tradeoffs around ambient temperature, young kids being distracted and all of that needs to be managed. Were seeing how the school day does support or doesnt support the schedule and were also starting to think about, there is, actually, the question of the prototype itself and to just have kids outside, just sitting without a shade structure or anything protecting them from, you know, weather or distraction, that can be done pretty straightforward. But the minute you add shade structures, its commabl compli. And so, it couldnt be that easy, right . And so, it is not as simple, unfortunately, as going to home depot and picking up a bunch of, like, ven event tents. While were doing site investigations and thinking about the flow and movement, again, one of the thanks w thind over and over, managing circulation is an important strategy. What we figure out what that circulation looks like within a specific space and site, were actively developing and vetting different prototypes for different classroom activity and trying to think about how those things line up with the other uses we might want to use the schoolyard for. But i think the bottom line is, we will be using our schoolyards in ways that we have not used them in the past and there are some sites where if the schoolyard is smaller or, again, needs to be used for some of the other uses, where there are adjacent park spaces. And ive reached out to the director of operations, the director th of recreation, theye very helpful. Were clearly identifying those that have pack spaces immediately adjacent and i think flynn and presido park and thinking about what they might offer as advantages. Thats, i think, the literal answer when you talk about having school outside, what that looks like and i defer to the deputy superintendent to talk about the classrooms and content. I just want to say you think you covered moss of i most of ii would think about what are the implications, then, for engauging students in teaching and learning. So teaching the babies within the four walls has a set of conditions that many educators and students are familiar with and theres shifts that have to be made moving the classrooms outside. Not saying they cant be made but how do we dee deal with the capacity of our educators and what are the implications of the small and sometimes large changes that have to happen as a result of that. Weve been in consideration with orla and don on the instructional side of the house, if you will, around these planning logistics and particularly vague, commissioner norton, because thats what were working out. We want to hear that theres a lot of thinking and creativity going into thinking about what inperson hybrids can look like. Thank you. I appreciate that. My last question is about the situation at rooftop and a number of commenters brought that up. Ive seen a little built cross my email about it, but can somebody talk just about what theyre doing and what are the thoughts for how if this is a good idea, how do we give schools recourse and support and i dont know exactly what theyre doing but i dont know if its a good idea or not, but i would love to hear a little bit more. More details, i guess, miss blithe, do you want to talk more about the details watch wet we know . I can answer what theyre in process with. Sure. Im happy i think what would i like to update is that we recognise that our administrators just came back this week and they are eager to support families connecting with each other is i can tell you that im working with deputy superintendent morsell to make sure we have clear direction coming out in the next couple of days. Days to administrators and families about what sites can and cannot do. And i would love it if the commissioner would share more specifically about rooftop. Thank you. And i guess i appreciate what youre saying, because i think theres a lot of conversation and then there was someone who started talking about the school in the new york times. I think it gets people thinking that something is decided and i think the community itself was in the process of having those conversations with the principal not even being on site officially yet, but wanting to engage with families and supporting them. And i appreciate the opportunity to let folks now im trying to clarify that this not a set model and theyre trying to build something and i think it would be great once they work it out with the families and the principal and then the teachers and then District Needs to be involved, obviously, in liability and state law, right . And so, what theyre talking about is not a pod concept and i think because pods is used very generally, it can be a nanny share or a microcharter school. And so people are getting confused and ive been hearing from a lot of families that whats going on . Am i missing out . Should we do this . And i want folks to take a pause and know im totally on this and im going to do everything i can to communicate and working with the superintendent. But the main focus of their work is really just connecting families and creating kind of systems of support that folks can opt into and this idea of having a class thats heterogenius and breaking that class up into cohorts and then thinking about, maybe, we can ask families if theyre interested in communicating in those heterogenius cohorts and they can share support and we can help to connect them to the teacher. You know, its har sometimes fos for teachers to reach every family and its like the class parent increasing communication and support, that they might have in those cohorts parents who can help support them even further. As i said, thats the preliminary thinking that is going on and, obviously, it needs to be flushed out and im excited that theyre pioneering this, but as i said, its not a set thing and i appreciate it if people can kind of let them have their conversation as a community with district leaders. And then, other schools are sharing ideas, as well, and im hoping that we can gather the great ideas and start to support and push out potential models districtwide. Thank you so much for clarifying what you know and what weve been hearing. Student delegate katia. Hi, yes. Thank you, president sanchez. I would like to first appreciate and acknowledge the different perspectives and ideas who are heard and shared throughout the process of creating this plan and i think i was part of both the teaching Logistics Group and i really saw so many different perspectives and i want to appreciate everyone who was a part of those and to get started, a majority of the students who myself and chauvane chauvaughn interacted with, they Say Something is number one. Im confident saying the fact were taking safety precautions and following state orders, it will be a sigh of relief for many students. That being said, i understand the severity and the harm that comes with the lack of connection within our School Communities throughout Distance Learning and i really appreciate miss marsell for highlights this and showing us ideas to create connection with Outdoor Learning and beyond. And i also would like to spotlight the fact that all of the families in our district are hard workers, which means many of them wont be home or might not have a lot of time to take care of students while doing phase one and i would like to hear of some answers for this situation i know many families will be facing. So this is something that we took into consideration and then we definitely heard this throughout definitely throughout the town halls and, as you know, participating in the work groups and listening to the considerations, this is something we heard from families. But, what we also heard overwhelmingly was around safety for students and even families who said that Distance Learning wasnt what they had hoped for in the spring, and even though they had worries and fears about Distance Learning if it continued the way it did in the spring, at the end of the day, they came back and said, but our top priority is safety. We know this is a consideration and its a hardship but we went through a democratic process where we heard a number of voices and we listened to all of the voices but the ones that came up loudest and clearest was around safety. And so, what im saying to you is that we cannot answer or dont have answers for every issue that we know Distance Learning causes. One of those, as you said, was for families where they either are working and have young kids at home and we know thats an issue and we know thats a problem. But i wish i could say we could address every issue that Distance Learning will cause. But were not able to. And thats just the honest truth. Thank you. And i like to continue. I have four more questions, if thats ok with everyone. Ill take that as a yes. Students lacking motivation to work online for long periods of time and so, this brings me to my question, how are we promoting and creating clear paths to our students to graduate on time, move on and to foster success for as much as possible . Because i know that, you know, students often feel unmotivated knowing theyre not going to be able to be inperson. And i know this from experience. Ive heard this from so many students. So what are ways we have these structures in place and supports to make sure that our students are actually getting to the goal of graduation, but how are we ensuring especially students who have shown the least amount of interaction are getting the support they might need in a specific time like this . No longer can we say this student didnt luggag log in oro this class and were done. We have required to have a detailed plan to access and find students who are quote, unquote, not coming to class. So the first part is asking how students are engaged in classes and getting whatever credits they need to graduate. The short answer without going into too much detail is that we are creating a very robust attendance and engagement pol and i system, not even so much a policy but a system where educators will be quote, unquote noticing who is engaged and not engaged. I think our initial bar, which is pretty low, hey, did you log on and you were there. And that will be still the initial bar but were building out a system so that we can track engagement, if you will, beyond that. You came, did you come and did you stay and participate in what time will be need for that class to be considered complete . Those are the things were working out and we did a presentation today at our admin institute with leaders that is in charge of supporting that. So the class of teachers for the first point but not the sole responsibility to figure out was a student if clas in class or wt and to come up with a plan for that student to get to class. Thats the lack of participation your question called out. If you for that clarification. So i have a question regarding personnel. So how are staff and personnel affected during phase one . I know someones hours who have been reduced to two per day and thats on minimum wage. And i think this is honestly its the reality of this pandemic, people are losing their jobs, but what are some resources that you guys know of