Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

So we have been in constant communication and we have heard this concern of these classes that absolutely cannot be taught virtually but they are very hand on. How can we make the classes safer . Because they cannot be done virtual. That will be part of the guidance. And its such a big piece of the other thing and that the other thing that gets lost in inperson classes is there are classes that will not be taught in the fall semester or potentially the Spring Semester that have a negative impact on Mental Health in San Francisco. A lot of our seniors take classes at City College Even with the unfortunate class cuts in physical education in, for example, pottery and ceramics that you cannot teach online. You cannot take a ceramics class online, but we cannot teach it safely inperson either currently. The work we are doing is critical for us to do this work back in the spring. And hopefully teach the important classes that have a direct Mental Health impact and positive impact on a lot of life long learners in San Francisco. And they are the ones who want to be left out of education right now with community spread. And a lot of the students are in a very Vulnerable Group that cant really go back to class even potentially with some of the safety mechanisms that we will have in place. The next couple of months will be very critical for that group of our students and for our college because i know that the supervisors and Everybody Knows that a lot of our funding comes from enrollment been reduced. People cant take online classes so theyre not going to enroll at city college, right . That has another huge impact on our budget. So thank you so much for all your work. Thank you so much for all the work that you are doing. I am looking forward to the guidance that you are working on. I want to reemphasize what they said earlier that this is a shared experience that in order for us to safely have safer reopenings of schools and institutions of higher learning, we have to reduce community spread. And we all have to play our part in order to make that happen. From there anymore questions or comments for d. P. H. Before we move to sfusd . A quick one. Thank you. I would love for d. P. H. To add to its information around pods. The other forms of child care and socializing that parents may be considering. And i have been specific about nanny shares and outdoor socializing and also share care. Those are three kind of things i hear about. Parent coops. And in the micro school but coop kind of version where parents share it throughout families. Im also requesting that i think this is really Important Information for the community to have, right, and the more that they get, then the more buyin were going to get from folks to participate the information you show with the mask and i have seen Police Officers wearing their mask below their nose. Just basic things. I am wondering if you guys could work with us or the board of supes or another agency to host town halls so that just this General Information about how it spreads, whats safe, why is it inside and not as safe as outside to host you and say basically what they are saying here to more audiences. I think that is just a question if you think that would be helpful. And i wanted if you could clarify, i know you said there were revisions that you made to the guidance around i think it was out of School Time Programs and potentially i know you made changes to the school guidance. I think i noticed changes as far as masking requirements or guidelines as well as social distancing and because there is a lot of miscommunication and also because as we learned more, we have changed recommendations. I think it helps to be really clear about whats changed because i think i remember the very beginning you were saying, dont wear masks because we needed them for health care providers. Now were saying wear them. I want to be really clear with the public if they saw them before, whats different now than what has been revised in any of the documents that youre sharing this past week . If i may go in order of the questions you have just posed, i hear and you brought this up with tomasz as well to add more information to the different type of child care, and i will take that back to the team so we can work on that. I think as much communication as possible to go and move on to your second point, about basic Community Education and we need to definitely get that out there in an effort to reduce community transmission, so i can take that back to the communication people and see what they can coordinate on getting out to town halls and some speaker and better messaging particularly out for certain communities. And then to your third point about what updates to the guidance, so it was specifically to the schools guidance. It was really to bring it in alignment to what the state had published. For example, the point you made about physical distancing now says that everyone, staff and student staff must stay 6 feet and students must stay 6 feet when feasible. The masking requirements are per the state that all students third grade and above member Wearing Masks and grades two and below are strongly encouraged to be Wearing Masks. And those are two of the main examples of what was updated and just so people know, what was it before . How did it change . It got more strict, more lenient, or we took the pieces from the state that are more stricter because in general whatever is stricter is prevails. So that piece about physical distancing is stricter and masking is stricter and language on ventilation from the environMental Health branch to make it much more clear around ventilation and we thought the state wasnt clear on that and we included that. The other pieces are so minor that they its not worth mentioning. I appreciate that because i do think over the summer i have a family tell me that they were concerned about masking. There was suggested masking but not required masking for the summer programs. That is the reason that one parent pulled their child out of the program because they were told they did not require masks. And the parent felt like that wasnt safe. I think that also so it sounds like they are not required up to a certain age, is that correct . In order to participate. Your child is not required to wear a mask. I know there is also language for students with disabilities who may not be able to wear masks. But i think those expectations were clear in the district in term of dress code and i think we should be clear with families on their who want to participate about what they can expect for their child and other peoples children. This is also in alignment with our local face coverings health order, and this spans more than just the school environment, but for children under two, there should absolutely be no face coverings because of risk of suffocation. For ages two to nine, it is strongly recommended that they wear face coverings and it must be with adult supervision. Ages 10 and above must wear face coverings. And that closely aligns with approximately third grade. Thank you. I would like that information to be lifted in the signoff sheet and i read it for the ost program and there is a model and dr. Aragon was referencing that you are taking a risk because any time you go out of the house there is a risk. I think it would be helpful to lift those specific things and even for teachers, would you feel comfortable teaching . For me as a teacher, i would feel comfort fbl i had good ventilation but not feel comfortable if i dont have operable windows. Being specific about what families can expect when they participate. I think that is really helpful information. If i may, all Industry Sectors including all programs that serve youth must complete a health and safety plan and have that publicly available and posted and that includes all of the ideas and all of the recommendations that you just mentioned. It doesnt really necessarily have to be part of the risk acknowledgment form. We can reference that, but that needs to be posted in a publicly visible area that everybody can see and that includes the staff as well as the family. Thank you. Im done, chair haney. Thank you. Thank you. Trustee president williams and then i do want to flag for everyone that we are about two hours in and we have four or five more presentations in. If we want to get to the folks my comments are super brief. I am here as long as we need to be here, but i wanted to make sure that everybody knew that. President william. No worries. I want to align myself with trustee randolphs comments earlier and also add to that i wanted to hear what youre sharing about the opt optimum serve site and the city of city college and would like to hear a little bit about what has been happening there at the optimum serve site. Im sorry. I dont have much information about that site that i can share right now and bring that back to you. I personally dont know. From the department of Public Health who would be the point person to followup with you. I can get that answer back to the committee. Thank you. That was my only question. All right. Last call for d. P. H. Questions. And we appreciate i do have one question. Sorry. D. P. H. , i want to demand d. P. H. I took a test at pier 30 and my husband and i he was coming back from afghanistan and we wanted to test and the process was incredible. It only took 12 hours to get the results. I took the test a month ago and it was something that took 12 days to come back and irrelevant to get the tests and you are doing a great job with some of the city run sites. I also think that the site of city college is doing well and i would love to get more information on that. I think it should be able to have our students get access to that as well. And it takes about a week or two to get an appointment there. And so i think it would be great to get some information on that the next Committee Meeting from whoever is in charge of that site there. But overall, you are doing a really good job. The question i do have quickly before you leave is under state and under the state law and passed and the cities are supposed to start collecting lgbt Background Data or lgbt demographics as part of the testing. I have not seen that happening yet during registration process at any of the city sites. I know l. A. Has started doing that. Do you have a timeline or idea when the city will be starting to test or take lgbt data . I do not have the answer to that. But i can again just like with the optimum, go and get that question and bring that back to the team and get that answer for you. Im sorry. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. All right. Thank you so much for that and again well look forward to hearing from you again in a few weeks and some of the specific guidance around city college. I think that will be really important and a lot of updates in questions and things. So thank you for your work and with that, im going to turn it over to deputy superintendent lee from sfusd. Thank you so much, chair haney. And good morning still for about two more minutes, Committee Members. Appreciate the opportunity to provide another update about the work thats happening in sfusd and also want to thank the partners that are represented in the various presentations today. Were working really closely with many partners in the city and county and cbos and family organizations. And we appreciate all of everyones collective effort. So our update today is going to be focussing mostly most intensely on our Distance Learning plan for the fall as well as our plans for distributing the technology and the nondigital materials that our students and families will need to be engaged in our Distance Learning plan this fall. As everyone knows, we are for the time being for the foreseeable feature in a Remote Learning mode. And we will talk in a moment about what we are planning in the meantime for a hopefully gradual return to inperson learning. Were going to comment on that, but really just to set the stage a bit, we understand and know very well that families, students, parents and guardians are very anxious as supervisor ronen alluded to in her comments at the beginning of the hearing about whats going to happen this fall. And it has been a very tight timeline and hopefully this hearing will provide some really helpful and substantive information about the work that has been happening. We reached a really important milestone last week in reaching an m. O. U. With our labor partners in united Education Partners in San Francisco. We will talk briefly about that, but i hope you will see that there are a lot more specifics to share. We probably brought too much content as we have tended to do in these hearings, so we other going to probably take your cues, committee member, about how much depth you want to go into. Were going to proceed at a brisk pace until and unless you ask us to slow down and go a little bit more deliberately. With that, i would like to ask my colleague to comment a bit about the work thats happening to plan for a return to physical inperson learning when the conditions and the course of the pandemic permit that to happen safely. Then well go right in to the information about Distance Learning. Great. Thank you. The chief facilities officer for sfusd and i am happy to report to commissioners and supervisors that we actually continue to make substantive progress in our planning and for resuming inperson learning as well as Distance Learning at this time. And that there are a number of persistent questions that have been presented to us over the past few months and particularly the summer. And i wanted to talk about the process for figuring out what being open will look like and where we are. Next slide. As you are aware, our current plan is to stay and we are required to stay 100 Distance Learning as a School District and so we will not be doing inperson learning on august 17. In addition to our 100 Distance Learning right now, we are moving towards a gradual return and what we are calling a hybrid scenario where we would have limited inperson School Smaller dproups of priority students at a focused number of physical student locations and then as we continue to have both the science that allows us to reopen schools and resources that come into compliance and alignment and to allow us to open inperson schools, we will do so. And talk a little bit about the high level of what were thinking. And starting first with Distance Learning, then phase two hybrid and one day hopefully sooner rather than later a full return to inperson learning. This next slide really i think summarizes much of the progress thats been made in our own thinking as the School District. And most importantly, we have made a recommendation which the board of ed supports around who we should prioritize for inperson learning when that is able to happen. We want to focus on the younger learners particularly pk2, students with moderate to severe disabilities, vulnerable population, especially homeless and foster youth, and students of all ages who are participating with less than 60 of the time engaged in online learning. That actually that step actually has huge implications for the choices of facilities and how we would allocate resources as a School District. Particularly pk2 students can only be located in classrooms that have already been built for them. So you cant put a pk2 student in a High School Classroom or a middle school classroom. They have to be in Elementary School classrooms that are located on floors that meet fire code and other kind of safety access and restrictions that are applied to the student groups, so that means as we think about resuming inperson learning we are focussing first on Elementary School buildings in order to be able to serve the youngest learner population. Older student cans be in classrooms physically designed for younger students but as a practice, we would also try and maintain separation of ages. So thats an important thing just as were going through the very complicated decision tree about who arrives first and what order and how students move across school sites is important to understand. Having made our first major cut in our Decision Making of focussing on Elementary School buildings and youngest learners and vulnerable students, we begin to play with scheduling. Again, deciding to prioritize pk2 students and depending on the desk distancing, right now the current d. P. H. Guidance allows for a range of 3 to 6 feet. We dont know what the final health orreder will say, but that range is pretty dramatic. 6 feet distancing reduces classroom capacity by about 50 and whereas 3 feet would allow you to get pretty close to the maximum classroom size currently allowed for k2 students anyway. And there are huge implications of whether you will be forced to alternate students on an every other day or every other week kind of basis and serve that entire focal population with inperson learning. If you can put more students in the classroom being able to resume something with the daily instruction and that is what we are playing with next. This is the dialogue in close communication with d. P. H. To help shape the thinking and the next piece is to think about the ways to reschedule. And we are also thinking about all the spaces and not just buildings but particularly the outdoor spaces and other outdoor spaces in the city and ways to think about that can support inperson learning and that is a wide range of options and the actual classrooms outside to think about eating outside during the day. All this plays into very details scheduling exercise we have to do to think about what the covid19 school day will look like. So with that, those are the next steps to really focus having identified targets and stay tuned populations to work on and limit Elementary School buildings and the next dimension is to focus on scheduling and how to play with that and serve the most students possible and the way that is also supported by the resources we have. And all that is going to require we rethink time and space in terms of the school day. That concludes my comments. Thank you, dawn. So moving onto the really heart of the discussion today ant what happens starting monday. So as i mentioned, two weeks ago we reached a tentative agreement with united educators of San Francisco, and by the way, we are happy to be sharing billing with Susan Solomon and president of ucf and wanted to give them the highlight with the linn in the presentation to the full m. O. U. In the presentation. And in the meantime, they are very important to the students and families and staff. For one thing, the m. O. U. Calls for teachers to provide no less than a minimum 120 minutes per day of what we call synchronous instruction or interaction. That can take the form of whole Group Instruction with the full class or it could be small group or one on one interactions. The length of the work day is back to seven hours. And one other provision to call out is that they shared with us in our discussions that many of their members needed and really wanted a space that was provided through district arranged site. So were taking steps together with uesf to survey the demand and get more information about how to make that happen for those educators that really strongly desire to be provided a space to do the distance teaching and learning. Can i ask a clarifying question . Certainly. A does 120 minutes per day of synchronized instruction, is that per teacher or for each student . Thank you, supervisor. So that is per teacher. That is requirement for each individual teacher to provide no less than 120 minutes of instruction or interaction. I will say that there are many cases that we know that will be lower time block than what many teachers provide, but that that represents a floor for each individual teacher. So that means that because it includes one on one instruction or small Group Instruction that there is no minimum per day that students will receive synchronized learning. That is correct. And before i get to the details, i think i would inwyatt the deputy superintendent of instruction and when she presents her information to highlight that specific point and we know it matters greatly as well as president Susan Solomon. For now the state law and the senate bill 98 with laid out a number of provisions regarding Distance Learning for all schools in the state did establish that every student has to receive live interaction with their teacher every day. But it does not state what the amount of time is required to be and so your point, supervisor, nor does our m. O. U. Between sfusd and uesf state a specific and minimum time at the student level. Those details we know is a really important question for our families and our students and invite or ask deputy superintendent and president Susan Solomon to speak to that. They are better able to do that an i am because they have been working really at a very granular level to plan for those implementation details. So with that, that is a perfect segue and at this point i will turn the mic, virtual mic, over to our deputy superintendent instruction and you have seen her at the last two hearings of the select committee and she has a lot of information to share about Distance Learning and also pass to our chief Technology Officer and possibly our chief academic officer as well. Are you on . I am son. When he mentioned a lot of content, i think he was specifically talk about my slide. In the interest of time, i will not go through every slide, but i want to make sure that folks listening know that all the slides that i have have live links that can direct you to other information. So my part today is to speak more about what Distance Learning is looking like in the fall. And so in our stakeholder engagement, we engaged multiple stakeholders and students, educators and parents and other Community Engagement in a number of listening sessions, town halls, survey, focus groups of various kinds and to get the sense of how Distance Learning learned in the spring. In the spring we were going to the crisis and what that meant as sfusd. And there is a lot of reaction and Quick Response without much time to plan and cocreate. The things we heard throughout all of those engagement sessions were clear. There was a lot of variance in the experiences of our students and our families and even between educators themselves and so what we have done is really done a lot to address that sense of variance. And another word is inequity and even in the School Building and the brick andmorer to as i call it and in the brick and mortar, and there was much inequity and a clear call for if we were to go back into Distance Learning and here are the thins folks wanted us to make sure and more time or connection and adults and students and adults and teachers and families as well as students with students. There was a call for much more with the with the streamline and how to do teaching and learning. Next slide. From the district and with the priorities and highlight the need for reaction and consistency and structures and actually back in the fall called out the need to focus on antiracist inequity and name it a be that much more specific about what does it mean for individuals as again and as the School System to be discorruptive and antiracist. There is antiracist approaches and practices that are woven throughout our Distance Learning model. We also wanted to elevate and highlight the components of our graduate profile that lend themselves to deeper learning and engage remotely and have agency of the learning to really tap into the ability to be critical thinkers and innovation. And last but not at all finally, should have been probably first, we definitely wanted to make sure that the action show a true intention to really partner and recognition of the humanity. The fact that we have to tend to the whole child t whole adult t whole person, and incorporating wellness and health throughout everything we do. Those are the four Priority Areas and the priorities translate into action at different levels. I will go through and tell you about some of the actions for each of the priority buck. Next slide please. The same again and the action priority rounds consistent for structures and support and some of the ways we have manifested that and we have worked really heart over the past several weeks to make sure the schools have more schedules and if you recall, in previous life, there was schools that start at 7 45 and others started at 9 00. We worked really hard to streamline that and the majority have a start time of 9 00 or close to 9 00. And a couple of schools that might have a 9 30 start. The educators and the staff really just return back to work on tuesday officially, so we know many of them are working around the clock even in the summer month. And so a part of our process as we think about School Schedules is treelly make sure that the edge kayer tos also understand the schedules and are or board. There might be some of the sites that havent shared out the schedule yet to have the School Community and what made sense for them. As schools are communicating again, the common start time was the focus of having more consistency. And to get more consistency in terms of the instructional minutes and for t. K. K. And 180 minutes ills, and these are all minimums and first through third grade is about three hours and 50 minutes and fourth through 12th grade and the question of specifically that was asked around the next bullet and the synchronous time of 120 minutes a day is about teachers provieding but through the schedules and through the principal expectations in lots of planning happening at the site, it is our goal to ensure that our students have about 120 minutes or so of synchronous as well. To be clear, though, that synchronous time might not only be what the childs classroom teacher. It might be from a specialist or might be music or might be intervention class. And so even though the classroom teacher, him or her or themselves are committed to 120 minutes of synchronous and as supervisor ronen pointed out, that doesnt necessarily translate to students, schools are putting together chances to increase each student each day having about 120 minutes of synchronous as well as the age group and the schedule for the day. So to expect the live and from that point of consistency and the materials and a lot of pacts and things that we created that went out to schools and to communities and it was a difference in what students got. Now we have more time to identify intentionally clear work packets and work books and other curricular materials that every student at his or her grade level will have access to. A lot more consistency with the materials themselves. And all of the materials are common core aligned and follow the districts golden sequence different from the spring and creating the own things and speak with each other and once again students had variability in the experience and what they were actually receiving for instruction. And finally the consistent instruction we worked on and in response to the crisis and a couple of hubs and through which we gave out devices and materials. And that left variance and inequity and in charge of their own distribution to allow families and students to pick up materials to lift that call and the community to be in communication face to face. We understand some families are not able to make it to the distribution or pick up site with a lot of reasons. And to schedule deliveries as well. And the high level with the more consistent structures throughout the system. Next slide please. And next slide please. To think about consistency and we are thinking about in the spring and a digital approach and non we have giving devices to the pk2 students and in the nondigital formats and engaging in the digital distance mod well the device and is asynchronous or the nonlive or the independent work, that often acquires a nondigital approach. We are making sure the students have access to vote and the nondigital materials are much more robust and aligned at the school site. I feel this slide captures it all. And highlight and sb98 requires and want every single one of the students to have daily live interactions which means every day there is a phone call, zoom call, some way that the educator is connecting with that student just about wellness and checking in but also about teaching and learning and the instruction. The highlight twine the difference between synchronous and the live and the asynchronous which is at your own pace and your own learning. Next slide. I have mentioned that we moved from essential distribution to a site level distribution. Every site was in charge of communicating to their stakeholders and their families and their students what their distribution was able to be listening for folks who are listening that we anticipate multiple distribution events and many held them last week and there will likely be a need for families to come once or twice and for families to know the School Distribution is over several days and listen out for the communication around which day do i come to pick up the materials and which day do i expect to pick up. We starred distribution for many sites on august 10 and distributed more than 4,000 chrome books and nearly 800 hot spots and 38 is the last number i had is 38 of the schools distributed i think yesterday and up to 57 today. So those Distribution Efforts are happening and will continue to happen even into next week. Next slide please. Weve also worked really closely with the educators, with a lot of opportunities for our families to give input and be a part of the creation as well to think about consistency and streamline and isnt disjointed and variable. And four things and i want to be clear it doesnt stop after day 30 and continues to make sure we have focused in deeply in these areas. We have a strong focus on wellness and Authentic Partnership and educators and School Leaders have gotten information and ideas, strategies and how to partner with our families. And we talked about partnership and basic level is listening. Listening and creating space and taking a very responsive action to whatever you heard or saw. And making sure we communicate with families and how to connect and engage. And foe cushion and circling around wellness and the key part of 12 30 and spent a lot of time the first 30 days and our site leaders and educators and cure rating a hope of p. D. Web nascar and resources for families and students to be ready to engage in Distance Learning for the fall. The other priority is making sure there is alignment in the instruction itself. The schools have received launch unit to make sure that the kick off is similar from site to site with some site variance between grade levels and content areas. Next slide. Im thinking about the families who are listening and drilling down from the first 30 days. And in the first week of instruction and just like in the regular school year, and you dont get a chance to see it and educators focus on conduction and building community. Even though we are in a remote format, and for sure for day one and week one and as we come back next week. And phone call and assessing need and some of the time will be who has a device and doesnt have a device. And who has the Wellness Check and materials and the expectation is not that every single student or family has everything they want on day one, but the expectation is the educators are reaching out and interacting to find out what you have and what you need to prepare for your successful engagement over the weeks to come in the fall. There will be a lot of Team Building and welcoming of new students and video and town halls and school sites and to pump up excitement and set up the stage for the successful and question around attendance and sb98 has provided guidance as we didnt have in the spring. And as you may recall we jumped into the springtime in response to the pandemic and it really was a crisis response. We have some strategy but not a lot to contend with for our students and pushing grace and compassion and saying if you can get on, you can get on. We are still very much about grace and compassion and we are saying that students should plan to, families should plan to make sure the students are engaging in the daily activities as a part of their attendance and engagement. So its no longer an option. Were back to school even though were back to school remotely. And so as families are finding they have barriers to engaging, educators and principals will be reaching out to get that information. Then there is teams at every site that will be creating support plans and interventions and otherwise trying to figure out how to engage. And attendance does not mean that the student is on a zoom call. We talked about a nondigital and digital approach. Attendance can be taken by the teacher calling the student or staff and checking in and going over that and students completing the assignment and whatever criteria the school has set out. Attendance is back and required. There are multiple ways to attend and everything single teacher will be checking and tracking attendance every day. That information will be available in parent view that i will speak to later. We wanted to get folks around clarity and engagement and a glimpse of what it can look like the first week or so. Next slide. I cant see your faces so if you want me to go faster or say less, i need somebody to make a noise, other wise im going to go on. I talked about the priority actions around the graduate profile and what is listing that and the power of doing that. And we actually were in collaboration not just across our educators but across educators across the country and with different districts and a lot of learning and reading around best practices for Distance Learning. Our attempts to make it more aligned to the graduate profile and more robust and rigorous are rooted in us providing education and development to educators about how to do that. Our students will have more access to rich and diverse books and how folks interact and engage with that content and learning and a lot of the p. D. Has been around for the teachers and what does it look like to have rigorous instruction remotely. What does it look like to create projects and assignments and tasks that allow students to make connections and to apply real Life Experiences and one of the best times to go live with instruction and that synchronous time and be better to have a student work independently or asynchronously. All that is impedded into p. D. As we have gathered a lot of best practices and hopefully the students will be more engaged as a result of it. It is not here. And with the resources and provide clarity around resources and teaching and remotely available to families as well. And so families can understand and see how we tap into the rigorous instruction. With more communities and educators and remote and on the screen and a lot more cross sites and collaboration and we had over 200 educators just sharing some best practices and ideas and how to kick off and teach different subjects. That will go into the fall. With the digital resources and a couple of things to note and too many apps and too many Management Systems and to streamline that as well for the grades pk through 2 and the majority of feedback to push out content to interact and grade 312 and many will be able to get with over the spring. We have the digital backpack. One difference is for our educators and no longer have ton of apps and online tools and we have organized that they can find whatever tools are best. And nondigital materials i have spoken about how they are aligned to the common core and the spoken sequence. We have done a lot to pick materials that are responsive to and supportive of the families who are monolingual and the households that are multilingual. More content is available in spanish. More in chinese and mandarin and still getting materials in language and guidance and support for families in all different languages to engage and support. We have more resources around best practices for families and are also giving out School Supplies once again with pencils, journals and markets. For those interested in the app, more information about the various platforms and apps we are using both resources for our educators and Classroom Teachers as well as resources for the families on the righthand side. Next slide. Similarly, if you are wanting to know more specifically what does the dmoijal or prince based materials look like for our students, you can see that we have broken it up by pk and k5 and 612 and what students will be getting in the levels as well. And i wanted to say that we werent sure and continuing the partnership with ktvu and sf Love Learning is the Television Show and we will be reairing that whole new series starting i think starting in a month perhaps. And every monday through friday at 2 00. And definitely that is a part of our asynchronous instruction and for some teachers will maybe be a part of the instructional day. Tune in. We also know during Distance Learning there were a number of student populations that we had a hard time engaging and even when we were able to engage them, the content and quality of the engagement was not able to meet the needs. Those groups are not different from the groups that are called out during the school year and iep and English Learners and done a lot more to create p. D. And resources for our educators with the students to educate and differentiate and meet the needs with a lengthy Distance Learning guides with a lot of resources as well as many p. D. S and office hours and professional learning opportunities for our educators as well as resources for our families of students who are in the categories to support them as well. We have a new category from the spring that were saying students who were who we were challenged to engage. Originally we said students minimally engaged and putting the onus on the student. We have named a nice group of students, a pretty Significant Group of students a z many of us no that we were not able to reach at all during Distance Learning. Similar to the demographics of student who is we had a hard time reaching the School Building. Those are africanamerican students Pacific Islanders, student who is live in Public Housing. And so in addition to partnering with Community Organizations that work with and support those students, weve also again really boosted up our professional development with our educators around how to reach students and have clear expectation that, again, educators are tracking and paying attention to who they have been able to connect with. And that each site supported by the Central Offices have a plan to reengage with the students who we know has not been engaged. And that will do this as well as the wellness and one to one checkins. At the basic level, access to information matters. It is hard r hard to partner if we were not transparent and folks arent aware to create what is going on. We have done a lot to boost communication. One of the challenges that is inherent in everything being remote is that in the springtime we at Central Office took over communication. Families that are in the habits habit of looking to us and not to the sites. Into the fall we will continue to communicate and share information through the website and other means that i will share later, but a lot of the a lot more communication is back on the site to communicate as they differentiate for the specific community. And we are asking every site to have a regular cadence for communication with families. Meetings that were held previously and were skl sites to pick those back up again. That was a regular way for families to be vfd in part of the Decision Making and see a shift in the increase and that is a critical piece. Families to build the meals contribution and doing the Wellness Checks four times throughout the year. One in the spring and a more robust, regular system to do thoiz with the communitybased form and partner and align and think about how to best support the families and students during this time. Next slide please. I think i shared this last presentation. And in addition to the structures that in sites had, and prior to closure, every site now starting in the fall will have something we call a coordinated care team. That team has existed in many forms at many sites and every site will have a coordinated team to move to the Wellness Checks and to the every source that we have laid out in the mission statement. To guide them and everything on the website is to complement the communications and the guidance from the school sites. We have a family Distance Learning guide this year which is big. Families were asking for some guidance of what to expect and what is going on. And key components have been pulled out and translated and shared the guide and many families dont use the web or the emails are the not the best and they will also share the information with our families. Next slide. An i would be remiss not to do a plug for a parent view. A lot of folks are going to know how to get communication and the best families is parent view. And they will give them the access to not only district and letter notification. And it wills the childs attendance and assignments and grades. This page has a link to really make sure that families know the steps that are needed to do and give their parent view setup and as of june we had about 66 of the students with the active parent view account. And 45 of the parents have a live account. Were asking for everyone to push that to the families again. This is the best way to get information. And another need in this remote board, information is hard to share and making sure they have the Contact Information updated and super important and that is the right phone number and email address and setting up the parent view account. Next slide please. And the next several slides i am not going through each one, but one is the highlight from slide 28 and take over and the resources that we have curated with families and for families and a new Program Ready for learning and pk2 families with Text Messages every day about strategies to support Distance Learning and another way to communicate and a Family Partnership webpage and faq and in the interest of time, just gives you more information. And created videos for our families to help explain different apps and different sites and highlight the various tools that we have and named a lot of the tools Available Online or in print form. Were still looking for creative ways to get the word out. So i am going to turn it over to melee to talk about the wellness priority no, im not. Its still me. My mouth is getting dry. You want to do it . Go ahead. Ill take it over for you, sure. Good. And take it over from tdeput superintendent. And the family Distance Learning guide to frequently ask questions and this is a great to see what will happen next week and in the next 30 days. And so this is another way to say whatever has been doing. And resources on school and technology and access and all different ways that families and our educators request provide fall learning and seasoning. Next slide. A lot of different strategies are redeveloping and presenting information and chunking it up into different ways to support and these are just examples of how were getting this information out to families and information to the educators and the other school staff. Next slide. Same information. And really important think links, though. Just want to keep letting folks know that in the decks we embed links and these are important links to i bookmark all of these and when i get questions, i can turn that information around quickly. And i think now i get to turn to yes. And deputy superintendent did a great job talking about the Wellness Checks and some of the things that we are doing on the district wide level. We did them in the spring and we have embedded into the first 30 days and the whole 180 days and the first Wellness Check are set to start on august 17. However, that doesnt necessarily mean a family will be receiving a Wellness Check call next week. They may be receiving the information that the Wellness Checks are coming but we are excited to use that opportunity for live interaction and elevate certain things. For example, in the first Wellness Check, that is coming up and we will be specifically asking folks about parent view to know that is an important communication strategy with an opportunity to say do you have a parent view account . If you dont, this is how you can sign up for one. We are exploring district wide student checkins and we want to have some way to have the pulse check of what is going on with the students so that we can also coordinate the support to them and also understand what are the things that are coming up for students and whats working and whats not working for them in Distance Learning and as much as we can take that information and pivot as we can throughout the year. Next slide. We have expanded the Family Resource link which we started in the spring to the student of Family Resource drink and other ways that they are also get information and the district wide checks and the student surveys and this is an ongoing resource available on a weekly, daily basis. Next slide. Finally for me before i turn it over to i believe our chief of technology, we are going to continue to grab and go meals as were in Distance Learning. There have been some shifts because we do no longer have the waiver that allows us to provide meals to any family with a student and can provide meals to any family and also provide free meals to eligible students and this is a big shift and certainly is a big concern of ours and making a concerted effort to get families to complete the multifamily purpose income form because we dont want to charge families if they are eligible and havent submitted the form yet. And we have been really spending a lot of time in the partnership foryou remember and asking them for help and asking them to submit the forms. That is something we know challenge and Food Insecurity is a big issue as we work proactively to address that as this need comes up. I believe thats it nor me. I think i am turning it over to keith dodd. It is nicole priestley. Dr. Priestly, i apologize. A thank you. Looking back to the spring and the nondigital distribution, we were able to support 15,000 students in grades prek2 with learning packets. We also gave each student in those grades three to five level books as well as trade books and that totalled out to be over 30,000 books that we gave out to students. We also provided learning packets for students who did not show up in the digital classroom. And looking at the grade levels and 312 and creating content that we had delivered to their homes. And looking forward to the fall, we are currently in the process of targeting the pk2 students with the nondigital distribution and just the highlight of a few upgrades from the spring and one is the pack of much more robust and we are scheduled to hand out over 60,000 books to students that will be level texts. And those are for the students take home library. We also were able to provide materials for students who were in pathway programs for the students who are learning languages. They are receiving specific materials that are also be distributed from the school site. In the event that a student may lose a material or need a replacement, we have purchased a limited supply and so that we can reflect the materials as we go through the course of the school year. And with that, i am going to pass it on to our chief of technology melissa dodd. Thank you, dr. Priestly. Deputy superintendent mentioned that distribution for technology and instructional materials is underway and we are as you can see in terms of what we focused on in the spring and reach more than 13,000 of the students with the device and approximately 4,000 for wifi access. And expanding access to include the pk2 grade for the families who need technology. And the family who does not have a device at home for the child to use. And really focussing in to focus in on the focal population to make sthur most vulnerable students have access to the internet connect toughty. And we have more than 57 to 56 schools and are distributing today and as we present here and our middle schools and high schools will launch their distributions next week because we focus and built a Strong Foundation of access in the spring at the upper grades. We wanted to make sure that the Elementary Schools have a bit of an onramp and with this, i will mention that the device itself is understanding knowing how to use it and how to log on and how to support a child with Technology Particularly in the younger grades. And we shared previous slides and how we expanded support and resources for families around technology and quick videos and one to one tech support and available in multiple languages as well. Next slide. And the deputy superintendent spoke about the number of information Communication Channels and as we are with the schools and sort of launching fall learning on monday and we are looking to the schools to bring back the Communication Systems and structures within their own communities and we do have structures that are universal across. One in particular is the weekly digest that we get a lot of positive feedback on goes out on wednesday afternoon. Its available in multiple languages. We have google translations for that and that parent view is where we were able to pull in updated Contact Information. Cell phone and emails so that we can then share out information through the channels in terms of phone calls and we have a School Messenger that we use and as well as for text messaging. We have the targeted opt. In and leverage the social media and talked about, i believe, the Family Resource links that has been povrt and expanding that to students as well our website and the parent and partner groups and cbos. Next slide please. So we do that big push and plug to help to stay connect and help us to stay in touch with you. And for being able to get families on to parents view and as deputy superintendent mentioned and 66 of the parents have at least students, excuse me, have one parent or guardian vifr. We know we have seen thousands more that are getting activated in the coming weeks. I was at a Distribution Site at one of the Elementary Schools with a great station set up to help families activate the account. We are going to be rolling out more ways for families with more functionality within the Family Portal parent view including emergency cards, being able to update mailing addresses, and to be able to have that twoway exchange between sfusd and our families. Next slide. I think that might be the last slide. And i am closing out i believe to deputy superintendent lee. Thank you so much, melissa. Thank you, colleagues. Committee members, hopefully we didnt go too, too fast. We know were trying to share a ton of information and so just to close out here, we have a lot of work thats still ongoing. We feel like were weve hustled to get as close to being ready for next week as we can, but we know that things will continue to evolve into the first weeks of school as well as you have heard. So were continuing to work with our labor partners and you will hear from president solomon shortly. We are in the meantime chief facilities officer share and planning various steps to prepare for that return to inperson learning when its safe to do so. And were constantly being mindful of communications and engagement of stakeholders of all different parts. So i hope you have the impression and we certainly do that the emphasis this fall is to make a significant improvement on the Distance Learning experience for our students and our families relative to what we were able to pretty much improvise in the spring. And a lot of careful work and really diligent work has been going on both at the system level, at the district level, and very much so at the classroom educator level and the paraeducator, the school administrators, so many different individuals and groups of individuals are working hard to try to make the Fall Experience as successful as it can be. And we know that we are going to continue to face challenges and need to work in partnership with everyone here. And all the partners throughout the whole system. Were grateful for the opportunity to present this information and to provide the updates from time to time. Great. Thank you for all of that. I really appreciate all of the hard work and all of the staff who are here to present this to us and all the preparation. It is much appreciated and very impressive. I have some questions, but i am going to go to the Committee Members first. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor i am trying to remain calm. First of all, thank you for the presentation. Thank you for all the work that youve done. I see it. I appreciate it and i understand how difficult this is. Fully understand it. I am just trying to wes will the fact i thought the 120 minutes minimum of sin synchronous learning was per child. And i thought different from the spring, parents were going to have at least two hour where is they can know that their kid is going to be engaged in learning without them having to sit by their childs side. And i am thinking mostly about young kids. Young kids pk2 cannot learn and do Distance Learning unless they are directly engaged or there is an adult by their side. As you all know, we live in a most expensive city in the country and in order to survive here, most parents have to work full time. Not just one but both. Its impossible to accomplish those things at the same time. It is literally impossible. What i am feeling worried about and frustrated about is that i dont know what the schedule looks like for my Childs School on monday. And its friday. And i am lucky because i get to work from home, but what about parents who had to determine their shift at work two weeks ago or last week. They dont know the schedule for their child on monday. Thats number one. Number two is, i just cannot see how this works for working parents. Especially of young children. I see how it works for older children. I do not see how it works for younger children. If they do not have another adult to rely on to help them with Distance Learning, especially if what i just found out is correct, there might not even be an hour of synchronized learning a day with their childs bathroom and it might look different every day. I just when you started off with your presentation with the three values and connection, community communication, con sis ten, i still have no idea what the schedule looks like. I have no idea if its consistent every day. I have no idea if synchronized learning is consistent every day. I have no idea how to plan my life and my childs life because theres two working parents at home. And what i know parents have done in the spring to deal with this because i have talked to them is some parents working outside the home have older children who take care of the younger children, so the older children help the younger children distance learn, but the older children didnt engage in Distance Learning. And i know parents that just opted out that said this is pointless. I cant teach my child. And so watch tv all day or play with the friends or go outside. And i know parents that had to find outside of the home child care and if they could afford it and then these working with other families and which we just learned today is not even technically allowed. They illegally did that because they had no other option and are planning to do so in the fall. So my question to you is, what are parents supposed to do with younger kids especially prek2 if they are both working full time . Literally walk me through. [please stand by. With the one of the things that we are asking everybody to do is not just send out a schedule, but that every school and every educator will be communicating directly with the families, that this is my schedule for the week, and so we do hope that that gives more consistency or is able to help families set a schedule for what to expect. And, as well go ahead. Supervisor ronen and is there any requirement that that schedule be consistent every day or it might look different every day . So it might look different every day meaning what happens on the window of school. So maybe on monday, math follows reading circle, and on tuesday, theres art. What she will do is have a school today, and youll get that schedule as a parent or guardian telling you what to expect during that time. Youll get a detailed schedule that tells us what will happen within that block. And everybody has gotten the message around consistency, supervisor ronen, and i know that staff and educators are making that day today, and theyve been working hard to inform educators and families. In the beginning, we didnt have a lot as we tried to respond. Last week, staff came back tuesday officially, and this week, we are trying to get schedules out today. If that is not the case, i would definitely ask for you to reach out to me, as well. We have to find a way to reach families who dont interact in those ways. Every single student should have a schedule for the first day of school. If you havent received it now, you should receive it today, so theres that. The synchronous time, we definitely phrase that from the perspective of the teacher. Every teacher will provide no less than 120 minutes a day. But again, as i said earlier, going back to those schedules, the goal is that each students will also have about 120 minutes a day little bit less for the younger kids, the kinders and the p. K. Doing that synchronous schedule, but you will get a schedule showing what your student will be doing every day of the week. Were asking our educators to check in. Part of that checkin is to find out whats working and whats not working. Were trying our best to set up ways that we have consistency but also opportunities that we can actually, you know, pivot and differentiate for our different family needs as appropriate as possible. So i do know, in your sight, itll be coming out today. And hopefully, that schedule will give you that clarity that youre looking for. Supervisor ronen but to clear, im not worried about myself, im worried about all families of the school. I just understand it cause im going through it, right . So what im trying to say and again, i really appreciated dr. Aragons quote of the day, which is theres no writing upstairs, theres just chaos. I dont want this to feel like an impossible situation or that im blaming because thats not what im doing. What im trying to do is to be realistic and to give to understand what families are facing and to be clear with families about what they can do, and then most importantly, to create interventions to truly help the circumstances that families are facing. So right now, when i read the 120 in my head, i got really disappointed. I thought, as horrible as the spring was, when i thought we did not have one moment to synchronize learning in our house, shell at least be learning two hours a day. Shell be in synchronized learning two hours a day, but what i just learned is that is not true. She may or may not have synchronized learning each and every day, and the minimum standard is per teacher, not per child. And there is not a consistent schedule, which if i wanted to team up with other families which is illegal, and which im furious about, because i thought the outofschool time applied to everyone, and i dont see, whether its a citybased learning hub or parentbased learning hubs, how theyre taking place. Well hear from families soon, and my phone is blowing up from all of these families across the city, saying, thank goodness someone is asking these questions. The learning hubs are illegal. Oh, my gosh, its not 120 minutes of synchronized learning. What i want to challenge us all to do is to come up with some answers for families that are real and realistic. And again, this is prek through second, because i know it gets better third grade forward, right . I guess that. This is a more realistic plan for older kids. So i guess that what im asking from you is three things. Im asking for minimum amount of synchronized learning that is required per child, not per teacher. Im asking for consistent schedules so that it doesnt look different every day so that parents and i dont know. I mean, i want to hear from parents on this, too, but if thats easier to organize around than something that looks different every single day is what im imagining. And if thats true, i ask that that be a requirement, not a goal. And number three and well talk about this more after maria sue presents on the Community Learning hub, but that we Work Together to create to use as much space as possible to make those hubs as widely available especially to those younger kids as possible. And right now, i know one of the most limiting possibilities to those is space. And those arent even available until the middle of september, but at least were giving them a light at the end of the tunnel given the fact that parents live and work in the city, and they need to work to survive. Those are my three requests to you and request for conversation during this hearing. Supervisor haney so i want to jump in because Susan Solomon has joined in, and then, i know that commissioner coli cou collins wants to speak. Thank you, supervisor. I do have several things to add to the conversation. So one of the things i want to say is that schools being closed during dp due to covi is necessary for Public Health, and its also very, very difficult for families, including educators. You know, the lack of support for working parents is a government failure. Its not a failure of the public School System we have. In fact, they could just easily turn into a way for betsy devos to get her way and say Public School is not working, now, lets privatize and have vouchers and do whatever we want, so i want us to keep that in mind. Public education is the cornerstone of our democracy, and its already under attack before covid. So i also want to say that educators, who i represent, we would love to be with our students in person, but we want everybody to stay healthy and to stay alive, and i know that everybody shares that interest, too. We are in a crisis. Were moving as fast as we can, and things do change when youre in a crisis. One thing that i specifically want to mention about the agreement between uesf and sfusd is that all certified bargaining unit members will be interacting and instructing students for 120 minutes a day. So it goes beyond Classroom Teachers and visual and performing arts teachers and p. E. Teachers. Its nurses, social workers, behavioral analysts, psychologists. Everybody who has a credential who works with students will be working with students 120 minutes a day, and i think thats important to note. I also do want to caution, as the labor the Union Representative in this conversation, i do want to make sure that this body is aware that we are not bargaining our m. O. U. Or our contract in this venue. We can hear your advice and take it under consideration, but this is not the place to change anything thats in the m. O. U. Its an important fundamental feature of collective bargaining. And so a couple more things to add. Uesf educators absolutely share the interests and believes that the deputy superintendent and lee expressed. We do want students to have daily interaction and instruction. We know that it didnt happen to the agree it should have happened in the spring. We want to see that work. We want to get our schedules together. Predictability in schedules is important for educators, too. They also many of our educators have children of their own, and there are going to be days where theres some flexibility around the schedule because our own members or educators are dealing with the same thing other parents are dali dealing with. One thing that we achieved in this m. O. U. Is that we dont even have a contract with is that master schools have to give priority in the m. O. U. To students with the highest needs students with i. E. P. S, students with 504 plans, and students with tier three and tier two supports. Even before this plan was designed, there were instructions to place these students in the forefront. Paraeducators, i know the m. O. U. Is clear that they will also be providing supports to students engaged in Distance Learning. That is clear. They are often the linchpin between families and educators. Also, families and students must have the supplies that they need. So i know that one of the questions that is part of this hearing is what can the city do to help . So the district has been doing a phenomenal job of getting devices to everybody and getting devices to students come as a first priority. We found out yesterday that there are not enough devices for substitute teachers and substitute paraeducators, and we are going to need all of them to educate all of our students. So hope im not speaking out of turn, but perhaps theres a way that this could be helped. At this point, i think thats all i need to say, except that maybe this is it is a huge problem. Its not insur mountable, but we do have to make sure that we keep everybody healthy, and some of the language about the way things should be done, unless its not possible to do it when its about health, i will say personally is of concern to me. We know that our students education is important. We also know that families are important, and keeping everybody healthy is important, so thats the sum total of my comments for right now. Thank you. Supervisor haney commissioner collins . Commissioner collins hi. I just wanted to address this because i feel like im in the middle of these conversations. Im listening to families. I am a parent myself. I am not in the throes of dealing with a child care issues because my children are older, but i really feel for parents that are trying to find different ways to piece things together, but also, at the same time, i want to really reinforce what president solomon said, and theres a lot of frustration coming from families, and that is being directed to educators, and its also being directed at office staff and educators. And as president solomon mentioned, part of the reason why were in this situation is Public Schools didnt create the situation, and yet, we are, in so many ways, being expected to fix things. Weve been feeding families that arent our kids all summer. Weve been delivering devices to families. Were now giving out, like, books and, you know, crayons and things like that, and i think whats what i think we need to be really careful is understanding on the one hand, you know, educators have been working all summer everybodys been working all summer to save our budget, and then, the union and labor negotiations, and the district has been working to come up with new a new m. O. U. For how we work in this situation, and that takes time. And i understand that a lot of that isnt visible to the public. And at the same time, we have Central Office staff whos been doing a lot of work. In this presentation, i heard 11 Different Things that were doing as a district that we have never done before that ive been asking for a decade. We have a number that you can call for tech help, for resources. We have videos on how to get a Wellness Check. Theres all these things that are going on that are central, but at the same time, we havent had our educators onsite yet, and i think, for a lot of families, that feels like a disconnect. I respect our educators, and ultimately, the sitebased educators are the ones that know our kids best, and theyre going to take all the work going on during the summer, and theyre going to translate that. Right now, i dont know what my kids are going to learn next fall because their teachers are finally coming together. This week was the first week they can come together and figure out what theyre going to teach next fall. I just really want to caution us. I know theres a need for families to plan around that, and i think theres a need for City Services to plan for wraparound support. I got my schedule, and my first reaction was oh, thats not going to work, and then, i remembered i had that reaction last spring, when i got the schedule. But some of that is just i think we just need to trust them, and theyll come back to me with that information. Everything is so jammed right now, and were all so stressed. I think teachers have the right to negotiate a schedule, and thats at a site level, and i support that, and i think a lot of families dont understand that that is why some of this is taking longer, because we respect our sitebased educators, and if we had private schools, we could just tell people what to do. But we dont respect the expertise of the folks that are really on the ground doing the work. And because we do believe, in our district, that they are the experts of learning, we need to give them time to do that work. And then, child care, because that is a separate issue, that is something we need to figure out together. We want to help as educators, and i think our teachers, as was said twice, i mean, ive been in meetings with nicky. Like, theres kids crawling around. Ive been in meetings with dawn and melissa, also in central or the offic the Central Office. I think what we really need to focus on, and i think this is why this committee is so meaningful, how do we come together as a community to support working families and what will it look like . It cant just be Public Schools because we need help, and so im really interested in working with you to make sure how do they get support and child care . But i feel uncomfortable when its kind of, like, you know, like, well why isnt Central Office fixing it or why isnt my School Fixing it . Because its a much larger problem, and as president solomon said, it sets up the education system, and those kind of narratives set us up to fail, really, when there are larger issues at play. And those same narratives, like, theyre being used by devos and trump to say were failing at something the federal government really should be doing. So i appreciate all the opportunity for us to come together, and i want to caution for us putting everything on the plate of teachers, and i want everyone to feel supported, as well as i want teachers to feel support. Thank you, chair haney, for allowing me to speak. Supervisor haney supervisor ronen . Commissioner renne thank y you supervisor ronen thank you, chair haney. I want to say, this city and county want to help. We all know our federal government is failing us. Both my sister and my mother are teachers. I hear about their experience every single day, and the societial ills that theyre supposed to deal with while also dealing with children in their classrooms is literally impossible. So i just i want to be clear, when im saying what im saying, im not putting it on the educators, who i adore. Im not putting it on the administration, i am putting it on us collectively. I am saying that i am here, and we need to do this now, and we need to get it right. The white families, for the most part, they have the means to figure a way out of this, right . The families that dont have the means are oftentimes disproportionately families of color. Im not putting it on the district, im not putting it on the educators, im putting it on all of us to find realistic ways to find that child care in ways that are as safe as possible. And the way we fight betsy devos and their awful privatization that i will fight with everything i have for the rest of my life. Theres no more institution more vital to this country is the Public School institution is by stepping up to this moment and stepping in and providing parents what they need to make to allow educators to educate, right . Like, the reason this is important from prek to second grade, no matter how the educator is using these new techniques to educate, if theres not someone on the other end interpreting it, its not going to get to the student students, and were going to waste more time. Im not trying to blame anyone, im trying to solve it together. So my question maybe we should hear from maria sue next, and then get into questioning because maria is trying to offer a model of solution then, and then perhaps after we get that presentation, we can all discuss that model, and ways that we can clarify it and ways that we need to expand it to make sure that every family can be successful. Thats what i would offer up, unless anybody wants to respond. If i may, theres two separate conversations here. Theres child care, and theres learning. I think you cant have the learning without the child care for young kids, so to me, theyre one and the same, and we have to solve them both if we want to make education accessible for kids for Distance Learning. Supervisor haney okay. So why dont we go ahead and dr. Sue, are you here . Director sue . I am thank you, supervisors and commissioners and staff. My name is dr. Maria sue. Im going to share my screen, and let me know if theres anything that you have questions about. For benefits of families that are watching, ill just very quickly go through what are Community Learning hubs. So we are creating this initiative out of some key data points that weve collected over these past several months. First and foremost, as youve all heard, our School District, stuffed sfusd, is planning for Distance Learning, and we will start Distance Learning until the spring. As the city starts thinking about and planning for reopening our economy, we want to make sure that our children have safe places to go to learn and to be with their peers and then also parents are able to go to work so that they are not needing to decide between going to work and making a living and staying home and caring for their children. And then finally, just the acknowledgement that our City Services and Public Schools that most parents rely on, such as muni, will not be at huge capacity, so it will be a huge stressor for parents to try to move around the city. So because of all these key factors, back on july 23, mayor breed, along with the rec and Park Department and our department, announced that we would be standing up these Community Learning hubs, and in her statement, she talked about the village. And i agree that the village consists of all members of this community right now and then some. Ill go through some slides later on who just is joining us in this village and running these Community Learning hubs. So just very quickly, there are some key tenets of what these Community Learning hubs will be. Number one, they will be community based. So they will be local facilities that are in neighborhoods that have high concentrations of children, and thats primarily because we want these facilities to be in Community Hubs. Number two, we want to provide supports for Distance Learning, however it will look like. We want to make sure that children will have the ability to ask someone for supports if they cant log in or if theyre having problems submitting homework or theyre having problems with whats going on. And then, we want to be focused on building supports for children. I want to be clear. This is not a school. We dont have teachers in these facilities. These are Youth Development experts who are going to be running programs in this facility, and folks can just envision or imagine this is essentially a summer program, like summer camp with a learning component to it. So the big difference between this and schools is were talking about very small groups of children. Youve heard dr. Aragon talk about the smaller cohorts and the stable cohorts thats going to be required for these learning hubs. So thats what were going to do. Were going to be limiting the number of children in these facilities, number 1 through 20, with a maximum number of 20 children in each of these. They have to be stable cohorts, with a maximum of 20 children, with a maximum of 20 thats allowed. But its depending on the ability of that site to meet the distancing requirement, thats how many kids will be in that facility. Now, we need a lot of facilities because of the requirement, and thats the struggle we have right now. We are planning on rolling out and starting these Community Learning hubs on september 14. They will be from 8 30 to 5 30. We will provide nutritious meals there for the children. Like i said, well have support for Distance Learning, and then, well also do and provide all the other supports that children need the distance supports, the mental activities, as well as family and health supports. This data is not a surprise to anyone in this committee, but i do want to mention that we are all familiar with the academic difficulties of our children, and we know about the summer slide that our children experience. Right now, our children are literally experiencing what im calling this covid avalanche. A lot of our disconnected children, children who struggled during the spring, and even before, before. And a lot of our children have continued to slide. 19 of our families say they needed other resources to make Distance Learning decemb learn so we wanted to make sure that all of these resources are available at these hubs. A lot of our families are saying they would much prefer to have inperson learning. Youve heard some commissioners talk about this. There was the development of these pandemic pods, which quite frankly, as a city staffer, as a city servant, i feel it was my duty and our responsibility as a city to make sure that our lowest need highest need families also had options because we had financial opportunities to create programs and design things that would support their children, and we wanted to design something that would highlight their support. I want to take a moment to highlight who were prioritizing in these learning hubs. I do understand there is a lot of needs out there. Sfusd, San Francisco unified School District, has 56,000 children. Of the 56,000 children, 24,000 children qualify for free and reduced lunch, so there are lots of children that would need an opportunity such as this. Unfortunately, our department is only able to standup maximum 6,000 slots, and thats due to a number of constraints, but theres also a financial constraint. So thats why we are prioritizing these specific areas. We are prioritizing lowincome families, and children living in s. R. O. S. We are prioritizing our Homeless Children and children in foster care. We need to prioritize those children first. So what will children get when they come to a hub . Ive already shared some of that. They will have access to a dedicated youth professional at these sites. I want to remind everyone that were not teaching, were providing that emotional social support for children. Heres a little example of what does that mean . So for kindergarten to fifth graders, well be providing some of that literacy support. Actually, before i say that before i go through the slide, i do want to say that all of our Service Providers that were providing at the learning hubs are the same Service Providers that provide this type of support and services in schools precovid, so this is the thing that theyve been doing, and they have a lot of expertise in doing this during the school year, when we were back in school. And so what were asking our c. B. O. S is to pivot from providing that type of service in schools to now providing that service in these hubs. So literacy, physical activities, and for high school students, well add in some of that College Career readiness. All of the sites will have Distance Learning supports, the food, the family supports, Mental Health supports are all going to be available. How are we reaching these families . We are working with our Family Services agency as well as our c. B. O. S to do targeted outreach to children and families to offer them an opportunity to register for these for the sites. We want to make sure, and we want to give parents and families this choice. If they want to be in the hub, theyll have it, and if not, well go through the list to enroll more families. And then, just in terms of other city departments thats been helping us do this really heavy lift getting this off the ground, definitely, our partners over at rec and park have been amazing. Theyre offering eight of their facilities for the hubs. Our partners at the libraries, theyre offering 15 of their facilities for the hubs. Mayors office of housing and community development, our hope s. F. Office and department of technology are help us to do wifi at all these sites,. This is a partial list of our dcyf grantees, and we have contacted and are working with each one of them to decide if it makes sense to provide their services in these hubs. I just want to say that it does take a village. It is all of us, and i think Susan Solomon says id we need Work Together to support our working families. We need to come together. Theyre our children. Theyre not just School District children or city children, theyre our children, and all of our responsibility. So very quickly go over that. There were some questions about where are these hubs, and why have you been so secretive about them . We havent been secretive of them, weve just been trying to amass their needs. This is a map that weve distributed internally. I hope that you can see the geodots that indicate where most of our School Children live. In general, were trying to make sure, once again, these hubs are where children live so they can walk to them. I know that there was a question around emergency child needs care that supervisor ronen asked about. I want to share that this is a program that our partners over at rec and parks will be running. When shelter in place was issued in midmarch, dcyf and rec and parks quickly pivoted and created an emergency child in needs care, and the intent was to serve our hospital workers as well as activated essential workers. So the ecyc program, the emergency child and Youth Care Program will start august 31. Unfortunately, theres only 150 Slots Available, and theyre going to be prioritized for Health Care Professionals and activated d. S. W. S in the city. So i know there was a request to see if there was more Slots Available for other essential workers, and unfortunately, right now, we only have funding and resources for this many slots primarily because rec and parks is allocating the rest of their sites for the hubs. So that concludes my presentation, and im happy to take questions. Supervisor haney does anybody else have any questions . You know, i guess i will i will jump in first on this. In the mission and soma, we have a large number of families who may want to join a Community Learning hub. Whats the sense of i mean, how do you prioritize within communities like that . Will you, for example, be able to provide for all of the families in need that meet those qualifications that you put forward in those projects in the tenderloin or in the mission or are we going to be saying no to some of these children . Yes. Thats the unfortunate thing that my staff is not interesting in doing. I see our director of programs and grants just joined. I do want to say that, once again, there are 24,000 children in sfusd that qualify for free and reduced lunch. Based on the data that were getting from sfusd, there are around 4,000 children who actually fall into our Public Housing, homeless, s. R. O. S, and foster care categories. But once again, we only have funds to serve up to 6,000 children, so we will have to have very, very difficult conversations, and shireen can talk about the algorithm that were using. Right. So depending on the neighborhood, the number of sites that we have and the capacity, were only going to outreach to the number of families and youth in which we have space for. So, for example, in the t. L. , if weve only secured 100 spots because we only have space for 100 youth, were going to work with the c. B. O. S, and were going to have to do a certain approach. Here are the students that fall into the population, as well as here are youth involved in multiple systems, and maybe you two well, ill just go with youth that are involved in multiple systems. With that, knowing that we only have 100 slots, in c. B. O. A, you can only serve 20. Youre going to have to do an approach in which 20 out of those 60 will be in this hub the most . We dont no one wants to sit there and say this young person needs it more than this young person, but because were restricted by the space, we can only do so much, so thats why its a focused outreach. We know, in the tenderloin, there could be 400 kids that want to access the hub. If we only have 100 slots, were not going to reach out to 400 kids and have to touch 300 away. This is where working with h. S. A. And our c. B. O. To help identify the youth that youre serving, and out of the space thats available, who do we need to prioritize first and then kind of work from there. As we secure most sites, well be able to add more youth, but thats the the process that were going to have to use. Supervisor haney so eventually, as you open a site or you confirm a site, youre going to work with the site operators themselves, and sort of through a combination of saying these set of families and students qualify and directed outreach, youre going to fill that site one by one, or there wont be a wider registration well, there will be. This is where were working out the algorithm. We have a combination of c. B. O. S that have their own brick and mortar, and they serve populations that we already have. We have sites like the rec and park sites and library sites. But some are schoolbased providers and they dont have their own brick and mortar, and theyll be going in those sites. And others, like the boys and girls clubs, that have staff, theyll be going out and staffing the sites. We were meeting with a group on monday to do the outreach for youth that are in s. R. O. S. We do have to be coordinated that we only outreach to the number of youth that we have space for. Now if the plan is, if you send out an application, the families return it, we check to make sure the Eligibility Criteria is met. They then get an acceptance letter. They have to sign off on the acceptance on what the emergency protocols for for each site. They understand where their assignment is, and theyre full in. Now if a family decides not to take the slot, itll go to the next person. But we need to do it in a very focused way so were not offering more than whats available. Supervisor haney i think both commissioner collins and supervisor ronen have questions on this particular point, so ill let them jump in. Commissioner collins . Commissioner collins im talking to African American parents in my district who have never heard of this. And specifically their leaders, leaders have contacted me, commissioner i mean supervisor haney around these issues in their communities, and im kind of shocked that they dont know about this program and have been trying to get information and feel locked out and excluded from informing, you know, where they are, what they are, in terms of the Wraparound Services and things like that. So id love to hear, you know, how youre doing outreach because it seems like its not reaching the families you intend it to be. And when you say you do outreach for the number of families that you have space for . I dont know how you do that. If youre not opening a very clear message of your target audience, then youre already going through organizations that you already use, and thats a problem. In my d3, how high is an organization leading a lot of work. I appreciate the organization. Theyre a great organization, but they are not the folks that are working directly with s. R. O. Residents like scdc, c. C. A. , that actually have students in the housing complex and s. R. O. S. It feels like a real disconnect because they dont know anything about this. And those are black lowincome moms living in Public Housing. They should be informed that this is an opportunity, and theyre not informed of that at all. So we havent started outreach yet. You wanted to know commissioner collins right. But havent you posted that people can get more information on your website . Yes. Commissioner collins so thats what im saying. People dont know that they can sign up. And ymca is also messaging out to members, and so youre already privileging a Certain Group with information that other folks dont have. Supervisor ronen can i just say once again, were being very targeted very can i say that, once again, were making sure that the kids are being targeted. Were not saying everyone sign up. Its not going to be that way. We are working with key operators and providers that do work very closely with these high need populations to do targeted outreach. Commissioner collins what youre not understanding is youve already selected c. B. O. S that youre reaching out to, and thats going to exclude folks from the c. B. O. S that you have not selected, and that is excluding folks from participating in this. Im talking to folks that i have heard from, specific to Treasure Island, and they are trying to participate and share information in their community, and these are, like, real parent leaders, like, really amazing black women that are, like, basically brought food to Treasure Island through their advocacy, and you should be partnering with them, and they feel like theyre not being included in anything. I know youre not signing anyone up today, but they need to be partnered with so they can let their community know. Im seeing that as a design flaw. Thank you for that. We have not landed and chosen all the c. B. O. S that well be working with. We also said were not going to be able to serve 6,000 off the bat, so it has to be done in phases. I understand if parents are feeling left out because theyre not necessarily clued in, but ive been in several calls and at several town halls and in several forums, talking about the hub, talking about what were trying to do, how were reaching out, which encompasses did just idcyf. In fact, im going to be in a call on monday with a group of folks, this is what our outreach is going to be commissioner collins ill tell you, im giving you feedback, im telling you no, this isnt happening. Youre not being effective in reaching folks, and youre not engaging with the African American Advisory Council leaders. Theres folks that are on the ground. They know whats going on in their neighborhoods, and im hearing that they are not hearing any of this information and are not feels like their voice is valued in this process. Im more than open and willing to talk to any families that were trying to reach. We can only provide the information that we have. We still have a lot of stuff that were working through. None of us listening on this calling has ever been through a pandemic, none of us has ever tried to do anything like this. All were asking for is some grace and patience while were trying to do that. I understand were not hitting all the entities that we need to hit, but were more than welcome to bring them into the fold. We dont know everybody who we need to hit, and thats why we depend on our c. B. O. S. Im more than willing to talk to anyone. Im meeting with bmagic. They work with a lot of c. B. O. S in the bayview that we dont work with, who have a voice, who work with the parents that you are talking about, who say, this is what were hearing, this is what we want to see happen. [inaudible] that we dont have. We want to make sure that were accurate in the information that we provide so people have the information they need to understand exactly whats going to roll out . Commissioner collins so who should i tell people to contact if they want to get more information . Have them contact me [inaudible]. Commissioner collins and then, another question im hearing is youve identified library sites, and that is a great use of public space, but then, im concerned that that will prevent those sites from offering neighborhood pick up. In my neighborhood, d3 i dont know if this is true or this is just in the planning phase, but i want to be clear, this may not be set for the public, but i heard that you might be considering north Beach Library and chinatown library, and those are sites 2 that a lot of families rely on. They rely on those sites to get books. If sfpl San Francisco Public Library is developing a book pick up for the fall which me as an educator, i really, really want kids to get books because they used to get them through their schools. If their learning hub in chinatown prevents them from getting books, thats a problem. So im wondering how Decision Making is going on around how youre using various sites . Were working with go ahead, maria. Just that thats a good question, where we do want to balance the needs of our question and make sure we utilize as many of our facilities as possible while balancing the needs. In collaboration with director lambert, were trying to figure out which ones make the most sense to turn it into a hub. Commissioner collins are you talking at all to families . When, as a district, we were deciding on Distance Learning, we were doing a series of town halls. Are you gathering information on what they need at the hubs or when are they need the hubs . With all due respect, my team, with 50 staff, we only have, like, literally, the past three weeks to work on this. So were working feverishly to try to put this together to respond to family need. Were trying to have as many conversations as possible, and we are relying on our partners, our City Partners so im relying on our chief librarian to make sure that he can help me determine which ones of these sites make the most sense. Commissioner collins okay. So i guess im going to say, again, this is a flawed design. Im assuming your head librarian is not a lowincome chinese living in an s. R. O. If im in this neighborhood, and my kids went to school in these neighborhoods, theres lowincome chinese immigrant families that are monolingual families. They have needs that i dont always know about because im an english speaker, and im not lowincome. So with all due respect to the librarians, theyre wonderful and great, but they cannot tell you specifically what its like to be trying to help their children in a classroom while were doing Distance Learning. They can guess at that, but without that actual direct input, its going to be a flawed its a flawed design, i guess, is what im saying. Well at least were hearing something. So for the librarians, once again, we are trying to work with our chief librarians to determine which one of these sites make the most sense. Our librarians are not going to be provide that type of use development supports. Commissioner collins im done with my questioning. Supervisor ronen, you had questioning . Chair haney, i have to left at 2 30, and i was wondering if i could ask a few questions. Supervisor ronen i have to go, too. Sorry, chair. Youre welcome to go, if you want. We have a mix of us that have to go. I dont want to butt in, and i dont want to overstep my authority, but my question is the site that youve selected and the staffing that youre experiencing, is it based on staffing or site . Site. And the question maybe im just pretentiously speaking out of turn, but this question made me think particularly around this issue of libraries and loaning books. Is there a possibility for city college to utilize our existing centers, like, for example, our ocean campus or the civic center on Market Street between soma and the tenderloin . I know theres a questions around our staff and seiu might have around facilities and safety, but is there a conversation we can have with you to potentially open up our classroom spaces in our communities that were already serving and unfortunately cannot be serving because we dont have in. L. Simonweisberg in class you know, in class operations going. So can we use our Chinatown Branch . Can we use the Information Center already built in . So is there a way to use the next month to maybe open up part of the City College Infrastructure to increase our capacity. So we had a great conversation with dr. Verdeen a couple of weeks ago, and we had a conversation with your head of facilities and chief of staff, and i feel confident that we will be able to use a couple of your sites. So thank you. We appreciate your partnership and your offer to open up your site. I am willing, and if theres anything that i or other trustees can do to move it along, i know our chancellor and staff are wonderful to begin with, but if theres funding issues, thats something that we can go back to, as supervisor ronen said earlier, if there are needs to be addressed, we can go back and have a conversation between the supervisor and the city to see if there is potentially support to open up our facilities. I know there might be additional cost for staff and protective protect, but i just want to make sure that that is not forgotten, necessarily, that the Cost Component needs to be addressed, as well. Thank you. Thats all i had. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you for that. Supervisor haney great. Thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen great. Thank you, chair haney. Wow, i have so many questions. First of all, where did you come up with this 20student number . We kind of tried to ask that question to dr. Aragon, but we didnt really get the clearest answer. Given that the summer programs were 12, and, you know, the smaller is better, im just curious, that number makes me a little uneasy in terms of trying to make these as safe as possible. I dont know if ana is still on the call, but i can share with you that the 20 came from a combination of the summer guidance as well as the School Reopening guidance. So the summer guidance said its 2 to 12, and the School Reopening guidance says that as long as theres a stable cohort that you can put inside a classroom with 6 feet of distancing, then that was okay. So that was kind of ana, ill hand it back to d. P. H. Ana, how did you arrive at that. The limiting factor is the physical distancing, so it is the space that one is in, and as long as theyre 6 feet apart. And so the Health Officer has said that 20 is an acceptable number for these learning hubs. [inaudible] supervisor ronen is it the two adults to 20 children, is that going to be divided into two, you know, sections, where one adult is with ten kids, one adult is with another ten kids. Id love to probe that a little more. So one of the things that weve heard is a lot of our c. B. O. Providers operate out in a community space. So if it normally holds 100 people, now, the public limit is 12. So they could only serve 12 kids in that space. Supervisor ronen were telling teachers that its not safe to come back and teach your class of 23 im so excited about these hubs, so im not saying this to poohpooh them, i just want it to happen safely. Just for this one piece, i want to sort of get this thing thats sort of eating at me. Why would we allow that now why are we then allowing distancing . Youre saying that thats not safe, but then, youre saying its okay if its this Community Hub model, and that just doesnt make sense to me. Ill hand this over to ana, b but sfusd can choose if they want to open. Once again, these hubs were designed to provide the Additional Support for families. Ana, do you want to so the reason why schools arent reopening is because the state issued guidance, saying that counties on the watch list cannot open. Supervisor ronen right. Our recommendations are based in data and science, and the physical distancing piece is really key. It is not necessarily about the number. The schools guidance doesnt have the the summer camps had a cap of 12, and they were run pretty successfully, and the Health Officer agreed that 20 was an acceptable number for a stable cohort. Supervisor ronen okay. Im going to move on, but i think this is an opportunity for a conversation offline. Thank you so much for this. This is the type of answer that parents that ive talked to and are texting me with looking for, and i find it absolutely that in one of the most richest and accessible cities in the country, that we cannot supervise somethiprovide Something Like this to a kid that needs it. We need to get the money. That cannot be a factor in limiting this opportunity if, indeed, more than 6,000 students need it, which my guess is they will. So we have resources right now so when i when we originally designed this, we were designing it for only for the first couple of months for the school year because we had heard that the School District was planning on opening up facilities and, later, but at this point, if we are needing to plan for a full year of programming, then it will be really hard to manage the cost for the full year. Thats where the cost is coming in. The cost is also coming in due to us also needing to be ready with tech equipment. I know that the School District is going to try to distribute as many Tech Supplies as possible for monday in the next couple of weeks. Theyre going to work really hard to distribute tech, but we worry that there will be a shortage of supplies, and so were also going to make purchases for tech. And then most recently, we just heard from our School District partners that there are some changes on the reimbursements coming down from the state. So because of that, now, we have to rethink how were going to rethink the food that were supplying. Supervisor ronen so the state is not reimbursing or subsidizing like they did before . Yes. Supervisor ronen oh, geez. I know. I know you and i had a conversation in the past, but right after, my staff and i just got this notice, so now, we have to rethink, and how do we source nutritious meals. And i know that a lot of our families, if were going to open at 8 30, theyre going to need breakfast, as well. Supervisor ronen and it was 18 a meal, if im correct . Oh, no. What is it . 12 per day per kid. Supervisor ronen what is it again . 12 per day per kid. Supervisor ronen so here, like, my milliondollar question. How many kids would utilize this option . Part of the questions from commissioner collins is we havent done the outreach, so we dont know how many kids. These Community Hubs are for Elementary School children, and we know theres 27,000 kids the population that were targeting did you say theres 4,000 kids in Elementary Schools . Yes, theres 4,000 children that fall into the Public Housinghomelesss. R. O. Sfoster care population. Supervisor ronen okay. And that is the target population. Okay. So we have enough space, then, because you said you were having to have 6,000 spots. They might not all start on september 14, but you were planning on ramping up and possibly have the funding to ramp up for 6,000 kids for the entire school year if needed. Yes. So once again, 4,000 of the Public Housing and homeless, s. R. O. , and foster care kids. We werent planning on doing this for the whole school year, but if we have to do this for the whole school year, our costs would increase significantly, and we would come back to you with that change, as well as what the change would be with the state around food reimbursement. Supervisor ronen okay. In two weeks, the budget process for the city and county of San Francisco will be wrapped up, and i want to fight to make sure that every child in your priority population who wants to avail themselves of this option is available to do so, so can you get that to me so we can be fighting for that . Yes. And i believe that the mayors education policy advisor, who i know is listening i wish that she was here this is a priority and a program of the mayor, so i want to make sure that its adequately funded in the school year. And then, theres 12,681 t. K. School children in sfusd. If this goes on, im hoping that it will be a reality that we can provide it to any k through second Grade Student that cannot learn without an adult present. This is not Hillary Ronen saying this, this is the National Association of pediatrics offering this. So i am just also want to request on the budget what it would take in terms of the budget, what it would take in terms of Additional Space thats needed in order to achieve that. And again, you know, all families have a different situation that theyre facing. All families have a different risk tolerance level. I cant imagine that every family would take this up. So thats the other milliondollar question for me in this cohort. And im wondering, has there been any effort i know youre doing a lot none of this is blame question. These are all just query, how can i help questions . Has there been any effort to ask families district wide or even just in the Elementary School grades whether or not they would utilize this option if it was offered to them because then, we could really create the solutions that families need which were already doing, and i appreciate it so much. Then, we deal with a lot of the segregation issues, a lot of the also theres been a lot talk of the education pods and how equal they are, which is real, and its happening, and we should be doing everything in our power to intervene in that sort of segregation of families. Thats what the Public School is all about. But i totally agree that youre starting with these families. That would be a goal, would be to expand it, for me, or at least i want to probe it. So two weeks ago when i presented, i shared a slide of the School Districtparent survey, and that was a survey that the School District used to asked parents, would you send your children back to schools if we were allowed in person . I can definitely go back to our district partners, which i have regular conversations with and say, i know this survey closed several weeks ago, so i can ask them for an update on the results of that survey. Supervisor ronen okay. That would be great. And and [inaudible] i think were continuing to encourage our families to continue to respond to that survey. Supervisor ronen and i took the survey as a parent, so if i remember it correctly, it said if you had some option of coming back for inperson learning, what would you prefer, which was a slightly different question than i think we need to ask, and so im wondering if we could do can i chime in, please, on this, because i agree it was really vague, and so im kind of agreeing with you. I think we need to have more clear ways of gathering feedback than making assumptions based on surveys for other things. Supervisor ronen so thats what im getting at. Im wondering if we can do a specific survey together, all of us, all the different entities saying, the city and the School District are developing whatever. The city is developing these Community Hubs. This is what they are. Would you would you want a space in one of these hubs if it was open to you like, just something super simple, and then, well have a clear answer about how many families want this option, and we know what well be solving for. So we had an option on oufo survey on our website now. Weve had it up for about two weeks now, and about 2500 families said they were interested in something. Now again, these are not the 2500 families that we would target, but these are just all families in general, similar to what youre saying, supervisor ronen. If we just did a general survey, i think you will get interest. I just worry about doing that and then needing to worry about maxing out on our city facilities. We would need more facilities commissioner collins can i pipe in for a minute . I worked in the assessing office, and i surveyed families and parent leaders. First of all, director su, you need to meet with the parent leaders. Thats really easy, and theyre happy to meet with you directly, and its not hard. But as far as surveying, when we do it through the district, we do have student numbers, and we can reach out in different ways, and its specific populations. We have the opportunity to slice and dice, whether its students with disabilities, students with foster youth, all of those things are associated with a students identification. Its not this broad question; we could specifically target it to specific populations, and thats something we do a lot, and we can do if we have support and capacity to analyze the data or argue the outreach to get these forms out. The key is director su needs to be clear about what specific populations is there a focal population because if were looking at k through 5, and its 27,000, i think its over half are lowincome. So you know what i mean . Its, like its way too much, right . So you have to slice and dice and say, are we going to look at prek through 2 or focusing at looking at students with disabilities k through 6, or k through 5. I think director su needs to be really specific about this demographic sliver is the one we want to reach out to first or a priority list . Like, we do this one first, and then, if theres room, we go further down the list. Commissioner, so ive met with folks from the School District and provided them with what our priority populations are and characteristics. Nod to the priority population, i also requested if they can look at data, who received a nopass in the spring, which students precovid were receiving 1s or 2s on their report card. I gave them a list of characteristics to whittle it down, to then say how many of the students fall in this in these buckets and in specific neighborhoods so we can see what it looks like. There were requests to do that have you reached out to director ford morcell or the chief academic officer . My conversations have been with chief smith, where thats who one of our main connections are. Commissioner collins so any way, we have a meeting set up for next friday. It doesnt seem to me that you guys have been reaching out to the folks that do Distance Learning, but shes not the one thats directly hearing from families with academic supports. If you guys want to support academics, like, those are the people you need to be engaged with. So next week, we do have a followup meeting, supervisor ronen, that you can come to or send staff where were trying to get the right people in the room. These are all great questions, we all want to Work Together, but design wise, you have to start with a very specific population and build on their needs, and then build around that. What i consistently see is were building a program around buildings, and i think depending on what the population is, that might determine where youd want to locate the program and c. B. O. S, and looking around those residents. If you want to focus on s. R. O. S, you might want to focus on chinatown and tenderloin, whereas k through 2, that might be more of a broad, like, geographically speaking. We have the ability to look at individual groups of students by demographic and where they live in a map, but we need to have that kind of specific lens in order to do that kind of reporting. Supervisor ronen and i would just chip in to say, for whatever its worth, i think the conversation makes total sense, and starting there is exactly the right thing to do, but i also just dont have a sense of how many families need this option, i really dont. I mean, we just we dont know how many have Vulnerable People in the home and really are strictly sheltering in place. We dont know how many have other options that theyve created for themselves, and they dont need or want this. Were just really operating in the dark here. Commissioner collins and theres other also needs, too, that we as a clabtdtive should be be a collaborative should be helping with. Were calling families directly and asking them, how are you dpoing . Do you kn doing . Do you know how to get online . We could be serving them broadly, rather than getting a sense of certain needs. It would be helpful as a district to see what are the broad broader ranges of needs, and how do we work with you and the supervisors, outside of dcyf, Mental Health needs, all the different types of needs that we cant provide for, that might be a better way for us to be responsive, you know, on a citywide scale . Supervisor ronen so i would love to get access to the Wellness Checks. Have they started yet . Commissioner collins it sounds like theyve just started. Because they have a lot of calls and a lot of people, it wont happen in just one day. We have the Wellness Checks, and the surveys, and the town halls, and then, we have the ability to survey on specific things. But if youre talking about the high needs population, you cant, like, rely on them to fill out online surveys. You know, thats more of a, like, you know, more work as far as outreach, and those are folks that we could potentially do targeted outreach to get input on specific questions. Supervisor ronen so i know we want to get to Public Comment because hearing from parents and what they need is the most important thing, which fits very well into this topic. So and educators, what they need, both. So what what i would suggest is that, you know, in two weeks, we come back with a report, but what i think would be really useful is we have two things now that we cant have before. We have a model thats being developed, and the contours of that model are pretty clear, and so we dont were not just asking parents a hypothetical, like, would you want to do this, this . Heres a model. Would you want a spot in a model if it was offered to you or if it was available to you, and parents can make choices on the actual thing thats happening. Thats number one, and then, number two, by the time we would be giving this survey, if we did it in super fast fashion, parents will have the experience of Distance Learning in its new revised form for two weeks, and whether or not its working for them or its not, and what their needs are truly are, because a lot of us are operating in the dark about what their needs are, and whats going to happen. I would advocate that we do do that survey to the entire Elementary School, but we code it in a way that we can, you know, separate and understand the priority population in addition to the entire population and then figure out, on this one point because i agree with commissioner collins, that theres so many other ways that family might need support above and beyond these Community Hubs. But at this point, we know what were sparring for. When were advocating for budget, when were looking for space, looking for partners, all of these things, were just looking for certain things, but its very limited, what were actually solving for. I can take the lead in trying to put that meeting together between the district, the union, dcyf, the board, and e maybe jennie could be present from the mayors staff, that would be good. Is that something youd be interested in. We do have a meeting scheduled with dcyf and rec and park and the important the city staff that are involved in supporting Distance Learning and me, and, you know, so i think thats already established, but if theres other meetings with surveys and things like that, wed want to be involved, and that would be nuts and bolts. But we do have a meeting scheduled for friday. Supervisor ronen which is fantastic, and i would definitely sense that because im a lucky Budget Committee member, which theyre probably going to kill me for being gone so long. If we could do that, that would give us so much more information to understand what were solving for. So with that, i have a million other questions, but im going to save them because its getting really late. Im wondering if we should take other questions or, supervisor haney, if we should open this up for Public Comment. We cant hear you. Supervisor haney one thing that i think we should do, unless city college has an objection to this, is allow them to go and be present at the meeting two weeks from now. Both of the trustees are gone now. I think its just the three of us. So if thats okay with city college, unless theres any information you want to share i also see and i dont know if its already passed, in terms of her wanting to comment, but Susan Solomon wanted to comment, as well, and then, lets open it up to Public Comment. And this is Kristin Charles from city college. Yes, thats perfectly fine. Supervisor haney okay. Thanks for sticking with us so long. I appreciate it. Sure. No problem. Supervisor haney susan . So yeah, its a little past the topic, but i would like to comment regardless. Im feeling a little out of the a little invisible. So hearing the report about the plans or suggestions for Community Centers, theres a few things that id like to highlight. Regarding the Large Community centers that have very large spaces, and this is about having 20 students instead of 12, in the preliminary report of recommendations, theres a recommendation that said to put up walls, impermeable walls. As a former long time prek and Kindergarten Teacher thinking about young kids, you know, imagining four or five year olds 6 feet apart all day along sounds really hard, too. And i know this is you said it was based on science. Im not sure what the science is around having 20 little kids with no guarantee of social distancing. It was of some small concern to me that the comment was that the camp did went pretty well. If this is a pandemic, im not sure that pretty well is a high enough start that we can use. Im also, again, confused about the the 20 students versus 12 students, and if i have this right, i did i thought that, earlier, ana had said that the city again, it was on a different topic, but the city was adhering to whatever the strictest guidelines were around covid19, but then to hear that the schools cant open because of concerns around covid19, but its okay to have Community Centers open with lower standards than with which schools could reopen. Just from a Health Perspective and an educator perspective worries me. And i do know, ive read some of the advice from the american pediatric society, so i am aware of what theyre saying. I think we have to be a little cautious when saying theyre education experts. Or maybe we could say theyre experts, but i could would argwould but i would argue that teachers are experts, and we could get some input from them, as well. Thank you. Supervisor haney thank you. And im sorry, susan, if we werent able to adequately integrate you into the conversation here, and we should have done a better job in the meeting of doing that. Sometimes with the technology here, its hard to know when to bring you in, so well correct that moving forward. And i hope that for everyone, that we are listening to our educators and involving them. They are the education experts in every single day, and many of them are also parents. Theyre seeing this from all different angles, and so really, we need to be working in the cloetest possible partnership with them. Not just in the school, but also with the work that were doing with the city and the Community Learning hubs. So with that, can we open it up to Public Comment . I know there are folks who are on the line. We will give everyone two minutes each, and madam clerk, can you please open it up for Public Comment. Clerk thank you, mr. Sh e chair. It looks like we have six listeners with three in the queue. It looks like sally with d. T. A. Are checking to see if there are any other callers. If you have not already done so, please press starthree to enter into the queue. For those of you that have already done that, please wait until the system prompts that you have been unmuted. Araceli, please queue the first caller. Hi. Im calling to urge our city, both dcyf and the board of supervisors to use the maximum safety requirements in these learning hub strategies. Im picturing a person in mind whos a mentor to my child and who they look up to seeing every summer, and i want to imagine who that person is for you. And i want to ensure that staff has face fields and face masks that sfusd is requiring, and that were requiring, but not punish kids over five years old to wear masks, and that anyone that needs it in staff has access to testing and results. I also think its important that we have transparent information about covid for families, but also whats d for kids under 18. We need to have regular transparent public reporting about that. This is i think the strategy is really important, but its not equitable if were not ensuring safety for our students, staff, and adults who are most vulnerable. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, thank you. My name is hope williams. I am a Community Leader on Treasure Island. I am not a c. B. O. I am a Community Leader, and i want to thank supervisor haney, ronen, and commissioner collins for putting out those questions for me. The first thing that i want to comment on is we need to make a separation between education and child care. As a mother of a child in sfusd, i am not looking for child care. I am looking at places that my child, as i am an essential worker, you can have a place. Im also asking you to extend benefits for families who may be struggling with Distance Learning. And also as a person who is coordinating services on Treasure Island, there needs to be opportunities for myself and other people in the bayview, as commissioner collins has mentioned, for us to be a part of the conversation. I will show up, and ive actually been putting in place a plan for Treasure Island because we serve 275 students that are spread out between 20 different sites. S and i should have a need to express the needs of the people that im serving on a regular basis. As limitations are going to be put back in place, we need to have conversations about how were going to feed these students again, as were facing the same troubles that we had back in march. So if you need my information, please call me or text me. You can get it from supervisor haney or commissioner collins because there are parents that want to be part of this conversation. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am a case manager and Program Developer at [inaudible] center. I want to thank everybody for being on this call and appreciate your time. As one of the main essential workers of the Pacific Island community, we just want to emphasize the need for the Community Learning hubs. We want to thank dcyf for, you know, all the heavy work and backing. I think one of the things that we want to look at is just the just the hardships that a lot of our youth and Pacific Islander even just a lot of our kids face in generals the independent Work Study Program doesnt work for them. And also, its just a lot of our youth being first and Second Generation born, so some of the parents the english literacy is at a low level, so just for them to be able to support kids being on the Distance Learning and technology is going to be an issue. Its already been an issue, on top of just Service Providing and Care Packaging and stuff like that. Its just been insufficient, and also, a lot of our youth that we deal with that are on probation or reentry. A lot of our programs are heavily relieant on the facetoface, so thatll help bridge the gap for our Communities Just like i heard maria su was saying. I believe we can help meet a very dire need, so we just want to be able to be one of the communities pushing the Community Learning hubs. [please stand by] im going to just call it out between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach the children during the day is incredibly complicated to set up and im just really appreciative that this is underway and that, you know, its hopefully going to start in about in exactly a month today. And so i want to appreciate that. I also think that were setting our sights too low and that were not helping enough families. And i want to take this model, if there is a need for it, and even expand it further. Because my guess is that more than 6,000 children and their families need this resource in order to make Distance Learning successful. I know that prek through second grade cannot do Distance Learning successfully unless theres an adult by their side almost the entire day. And then if theres an adult translating what their teacher is teaching them, that could be very successful. Most families in San Francisco have parents that work fulltime. Both parents, if there are two parents in a household theyre working fulltime. If theres only one parent in the household, theyre definitely working full time. So they need that assistance especially with the young ones to make the Distance Learning that the district is planning successful. And i believe that we can do this. We are we are smart, we are resourced and if there is a will, there is a way to make this happen. And to not just let families fend for themselves and to deal with this on their own. And so i believe that if we continue to talk and to partner together that we can solve these problems and my Daughters School as well, the families are getting together to help each other and that is fantastic. But this is a role that the city can fill in and make the Distance Learning of the educators that much more successful. This hearing could last to tomorrow morning. I have a thousand questions for every single entity. And we were just able to scratch the surface today. But i did take away three things that im going to followup on between now and this year and in two weeks from now. Well, let me let me revise that four things. The first thing is that i want to delve into the pot. I think that allison hit the nail on the head. There is contradictory advice coming from d. P. H. On this issue. And i completely trust that the wisdom and the experience of Susan Sullivan who was a teacher of young kids for so many years who is saying 20 kids, this is impossible. I completely agree being a parent of a young child, i dont see that being safe. So i want to probe that and at least get consistent information coming from d. P. H. Where there isnt Different Health standards for different groups of children. That doesnt make any sense to me. So thats number one. Number two, i believe that we need to survey the parents now that we have a model that is concrete and that we can share with people, ask them if they would participate if given the opportunity. Once we know how many families need it, and then we know what were fighting for. Number three, we have got to get testing on a regular basis in those Community Learning hubs. That has to be provided by the city, and that is an essential way that were going to keep everyone safe in those pods. So well be working on getting that promise met in this design. And then fourth is how much money do we need from the city and perhaps from philanthropy. Perhaps we have to go out although i do not love philanthropy. This is the whole point of government is that were able to come in and to solve these problems. But how much money do we need during the budget process in order to accomplish a range of goals here . So those are the four things that im going to Work Together with all of you and help to facilitate those conversations over the next two weeks. And i want to thank you for letting me be here today, chair haney, thank you for letting me come into your hearing and im sorry that you wont be rid of me for a while. Im going to become an ad hoc member of this committee until we figure some of this stuff out. And that i really just want to appreciate everyone here, everyone is working so hard and has that exact same goal and interest in making sure that our kids are successful. So thank you. Well, this has been a very long hearing so i wont add very much. But i want to make sure that we have this in two weeks and, again, well be back and well be able to get followup for all of those and were going to try to not have a hearing this long each time because i know that everyones time is very valuable and we have taken the senior staff in particular and from dcyif for the entire day. And one thing that i want to make sure that we cover in next weeks hearing, which will require us to sorry, two weeks hearing, which will require us to also have rec and park with us is more information about the child care and how that fits into all of this. I know that the focus was on the Health Care Workers and we really need to i think as you said, supervisor ronen, were thinking about the capacity and where the needs are. If we cannot, you know, guarantee a spot for our educators and our Health Care Workers who require some sort of care, whether thats a learning hub or a a more child carebased environment, i dont see how our city functions. Not just our schools but our hospitals and Everything Else that is essential right now. So ive expressed this and director sue and i have spoken about it and i understand that theres some competing facilities in some cases, but i was approached by some of our Health Care Workers at s. F. General who are incredibly concerned about how theyll be able to show up to work without child care. And im sure that our educators and the School Employees more broadly are asking the same questions depending on their ability to be working full time. So thats one thing to flag that ill ask to come forward in the next two weeks. Im sure that well have a lot of updates on the rollouts around outreach and who were working with and how, you know, for the learning hubs, how were engaging with parents and educators and their role in it. I think that it will be really be important as well as some of the Safety Measures and, you know, and, frankly, as you said supervisor ronen, the capacity. I mean, im really concerned if we have a situation where folks felt like its down the street from them and they absolutely need it and its required for them to be able to be at work and they werent on the list of outreach and they are told that they cant get in, were setting them up for a bit of a disaster there. So whatever we can do to get ahead of that. I mean, whenever i hear that the that for something this essential that the limitation is space, i really think that its a question of our creativity and our outreach and our collaboration because indiscernible limitation and we have to make sure that we have adequate staffing and safety and with all of these things working with our educators and making sure that theyre at the center of the conversation. And i want to just appreciate just everybody, but director sue and a lot of folks and the superintendent all of the superintendents that are here, but i want to just also appreciate you commissioner collins as well and how relentless you have been around getting these answers. And just that we work with families and that we work with educators and just standing up for their health and wellbeing. Thank you for your leadership and staying here to the end. You know, and just being so vocal and a champion for our families during this time. Thank you supervisor ronen and i are here for you to support you. And to support the district. And thank you, everyone. Thank you to our deputy superintendent, and director sue and everything. And your staff. Charise as well. Were all in this together. We have to Work Together. And were here to support you. And thank you to Susan Solomon as well, for your leadership. Supervisor ronen, do you have one more thing . Supervisor ronen i wanted to say one more thing that i am adding to my list for two weeks from now. The Public Commenter that talked about children with disabilities. It is unclear to me how were serving those children in these Community Hubs and we need to get very a lot of clarity and communicate that clearly to families. And i want to piggyback and say i want you, director sue, to reach out to the special Education Community advisory society, and they are parents of children with disabilities and they have been working on the working groups with the district. So they are the ones that can really help you and connecting with families that are dealing with those challenges. Great. Thank you all. Have a good weekend. Mr. Chair, a motion on items one and two . You cant just end the meeting so moved. All right. Sorry. Clerk is there a motion to file items one or two or continue to the call of the chair . A motion to continue to the call of the chair. Clerk on the motion to continue to the call of the chair [roll call] you have three ayes. Is there anything more, madam clerk. Clerk no, just for the record, its kind of we had we should have said earlier that we had supervisor ronen in place of supervisor fewer as an action. But its okay. All right, anything more . Clerk that completes the business for today. Okay, all right, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. I appreciate it. Congratulations. This inspired me to be a leader when i became conscious of the facility issues in my community i mentored a young man who was 14yearold and i took roenltd for it and just come back to the table what can i do different we talked with a lot of the kids and from the they didnt know who i was or where i came from and to figure that out to go back to the motherland i never really this is my first day i was leading to see something different. 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When it was time to it was really like heartbreaking. I was sad i dont want to leave those people he met these kids that wanted to stay and talk with us i did not want to come back here. The whole time in the bus ride i had my head against the window that looking out. One of the ways that ghana 2017 promo changed me finding the meaning the selflove and loving the community and people around you that is something that Africanamerican Community does struggle with. Black on black crime i didnt want to go back you feel so alive there and open you can be another person not the same person you were before thats one thing that he taught us changing. I used to want to be a leader but now a leader and create more leader that will create an atmosphere and world full of leaders. I felt home in at 62942 Work Together we can support your children. Its been my dream to start is a Valley School since i was a little girl. Im having a lot of fun with it clapping the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. A lot of times parents say that Valley Schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. We hold the classes to no longer 12 and theres 23 teachers. I go around and i watch each class and theres certain children i watched from babies and its exciting to see them after today. The children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. They get selfconfidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want im supervisor hilary ronen and vice chair stephanie and gordon mar. I would like to thank everyone for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 emergency and to protect board members, city emplos