Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Joint City School District And City College Committee 20240711

A parent signs that, its a risk that your child is participating in. Just to make a personal xhimth to notify the school immediately if there is a positive test within their household. I think i didnt know the requirement again, i dont have the authority to do that as the board of education and Public Health, im just thinking that in a private school setting, it is different than a Public School setting and that you are dealing with a different demographic of folks and Living Conditions and also i think the language barrier and there is a lot of miscommunication, so i think that we also dont do things well for our people who are not English Speakers or english readers. We look at social media, and we think theyre going to get it, so this is the type of thing were wondering about what type of sort of combined, with the city and county of San Francisco and sfusd messaging that needs to go out before we were open to school. Its not so much a risk assessment, but a personal responsibility for everyone to make sure their schools remain open, seeing that if there was one child that tests positive in that cohort, like the whole classroom would need to be shut down for 14 days. I mean this is really disruptive and if you can prevent it as much as possible, thats a pretty smart thing to do. And if i may, i will say that we do i mean the schools have been actually extremely proactive in contacting us. Even if someone has a symptom and there is not even a case for an exposure, all of them are very worried and we have Spanish Speaking staff on our hub, ca cant cantonese and mandarin, and we have been doing with the daycares as well, responding as quickly as we can. I do feel like the schools have been very proactive in reaching out. I think thats good news, but i also want to emphasize that when you open to Public Schools, youre opening it up for children. Youre not looking at a school with a couple hundred kids, i mean this is a system, with 53,000 children. So i think there is a different messaging that needs to go out in a different vehicle in which we actively present it to the public and i think Vice President lopez had something to say. Thats right, thank you supervisor fewer. I did want to add that in our planning, part of the messaging that will go out is this Community Pledge that we are giving to our students and our families in order to like understanding that if were opening schools, part of our work in this world will mean going to school and going home and being honest of our ways of navigating if we want to keep each other safe because were traveling to and from every single day. I know there is a Community Pledge that is being administered. Thank you for that. We actually require that in our application, that there is a Community Pledge for the School Community to reinforce all of this because it matters what a family does outside of the school as much as what they do inside the school. Yeah, because we dont want to just keep our students safe, we want to keep our teachers safe too. So to risk the amount of exposure. And i wanted to ask, so we talked about these d. S. W. S to do sort of look at school sites, right and do an assessment for school sites. So, i actually think that we should be looking at our public sites. So im going to give you an example. So jefferson Elementary School, right next door to the library. So if we can only accommodate so many students in the classroom, say ten and we need to expand our space to have students and i dont know what sfusd is planning, i dont know if its a split day that you can have 10 students here and 10 students here or the teacher moves over, but i think we need to do an assessment of all of our public spaces that could be used as in partnership with our school sites. We have many Elementary Schools in my district that are within walking distance to a rec center or library that we could be using if we need to expand our space. I saw that classroom where my kids went to Public School and i went to Public School, and i never seen a Public School like that. Its packed and who wants to be in any middle of high school during passing period . It is so crowded and thats my thing about middle schools. I understand that k5 in our district is contained and in private schools, i think k8 is a different animal than in our Public Schools. Our Public Schools have the children, the students go to six different classes. They are going through different classes with different students throughout the day, changing classrooms, using different bathrooms. So it is not like a contained classroom. Some private schools, k8, even their 68 classes are in one classroom. Our middle schools are very different so i am just wondering if there is a different protocol or has Public Health looked at other districts that have a similar sort of make up or what we model of what we do here at sfusd that has opened and opened successfully. I know other districts have opened their Public Schools. I guess my question, because i am probably not being concise enough, is that have you seen any other Public Schools that have a middle school cafetercafeteria, that has done it and what protocols they put in place [inaudible] can someone put your microphone on mute . Okay. I believe there were two main points. One is that the point of the Site Assessments. I want to highlight that our team that has been activated is sorry. Is starting to work with the School District starting monday to conduct Site Assessments with them, so we have our whole team being assigned this coming monday to do the side assessment for the School District. Okay, sorry. I just wanted to say that and im sorry to interrupt you. In the beginning i sort of asked you about should we be doing sort of a sequential if you look at sites sequentially, so if youre sending d. S. W. S out to look at sites, how do you know they will be in the application youre submitting first . Are you just doing it yourself . Are is sfusd giving you a plan saying we plan to open these schools first. So actually what youre telling me in the application process is that they must apply for every school that needs to be open. They actually need to do a site visit in a singular application to each site. So if theyre opening pre k2 for example, wouldnt it be smart to say, to ask sfusd what is your plan . What schools are you planning to open first . Youre not planning to open Lincoln High School first. Do we need to do an assessment for Caesar Chavez or Marshall Elementary School . This irritates me. So we can send d. S. W. S out to sites, but unless to be more efficient and more effective, we should see sfusds plans to open, where they plan to open first, do those Site Assessments first so we can get them in the hopper because it takes a month before you can get it approved. So why are we sending d. S. W. S my question is are we sending d. S. W. Workers out in some sort of systemic way or are we just sending them out [inaudible] so what direction are we taking . What is the plan . So when i hear this, it drives me crazy. [inaudible] submitting the application and when we can [inaudible] also, i think we should look at what kind of modifications do those sites need and if the School District need help to do those modifications to keep it safe . So we are working in partnership with the School District. They have identified a list of schools that we are going to visit next week. They are all Elementary Schools. Working with them on supporting the whole application process and identifying all of the issues that are on the facilities in partnership with the School District staff. And then i wanted to ask you, so the d. S. W. S that are doing this, is it possible what we heard last time from the testing is that they needed people, actually physical people to do the test collections at the school sites and they said we may not have the staff to do that. Will the mayor allow the d. S. W. S to work in the schools to do the test collections . Apparently there is not enough staff at sfusd to do that. Would they be willing to get the staff to go to the school sites to do that . My understanding is that the city and mayor are looking for ways to support the School District in that as well. Okay, thank you very much. Sorry for the bombarding of questions. Thank you. Just to add to that, and director sue i believe is on the call. Dcyf is on the conversation on how to support the testing collection. Okay. Commissioner collins. Thank you. Thanks for the presentation. I really appreciate it. I guess so i had some specific questions. As far as the site reviews, when it comes to physical distancing, are there i know that you have specific requirements about how youre defining what the physical distancing requirements are. Are those available for us to review . Because i havent specifically seen them. I know they have been changing as well, since the summer and now theres been changes. Is there a way that we can review what those physical distancing requirements are . All of the requirements that we have in our Site Assessments are literally taken from our published directive and guidance. So whatever is published in our guidance is in our Site Assessment tool. So is it 6 feet then for students, 6 foot social distancing with masks as far as classrooms . The guidance from the state is that staff work areas need to be 6 feet apart and student work areas need to be 6 feet apart when feasible. That was the language in the directive. What is feasible . What is the requirement . Like when you think of partitions and you know, im a teacher, right . Im imagining my classroom and i am just wondering a lot of teachers have group work desks, so im wondering, you know, i heard that private schools, some of them gone out and bought a whole bunch of individual desks. You know, they set it up. I know that its not something that we necessarily can do, even if we had the money. There is time to get desks, so im wondering what are the requirements . Some teachers have individual desks and they can socially distant them. Some with group desks, what is the requirement for that, in that instance . We have seen a number of the schools add additional partitions such as plexi glass barriers in order to provide an extra level of protective measure, but we do require the teachers work areas to be 6 feet apart from each other because we do know that transmission is were just trying to be as protective of the staff as the students, and the virus infects adults more than younger children. So we do require them to be 6 feet apart. So with or without partitions for staff, but for students, it may be closer than 6 feet with partitions . Yes, the more layers that a school wants to add, the better. So if it was 6 feet apart and partitions, that would be even better. That would be ideal. And then ive been following theres an epidemiologist in new york, hes been posting videos and talking about ventilation and air flow. What were seeing, the air flow is really important. What are your requirements for ventilation for classrooms . We ask all sectors to consider and comply with our ventilation guidance, which we have just reviewed and revamped significantly. It has many different sections in there, including fresh air intake, mechanical ventilation, i dont know all of them off the top of my head right now, but they need to consider that ventlation guidance, which is provided by the state. I know its not just about having a window that you can crack open. Its about air flow through that and depending on because air can sit in the room, its about refreshing the air, right . I saw a video from the World Health Organization saying they recommend that the air should be replaced in a room six times per hour. So that would be and i saw a video of this epidemiologist showing researchers in gentleja that are creating visual representations of the air flow from micro particles, when you have two windows are open, the goal is not just to open the window or door but to clear the air out at a certain rate. So im wondering if were monitoring that and how were monitoring that in individual classrooms, when were doing these classroom checks. So our in San Francisco, our basic recommendation is that there needs to be four changes per hour. So its lower than the World Health Organization then . Im not clear on the World Health Organization, but this is what we published in San Francisco. Just to clarify, is that based on state recommendations . No, this is what weve done internally, but were told that the state is considering this to be adopted for the state. Thats why i wanted to acknowledge that these things are evolving right . Were coming up with recommendations as we get more science and as were learning as more people implement it across the state. Just to restate, it sounds to me that the World Health Organization is recommending six times an hour, you are recommending potentially four times per hour, and that is in a sense that maybe youre ahead of the state in finalizing clear guidance on air refresh rates in ventilated areas. Yes, including hvac systems, outside air, portable air cleaners, passive ventilations and recirculated air. Yeah, and i heard from the department, the facility chief that in some ways, we are at a disadvantage in San Francisco because we have cooler climates so places like san diego or places that need air conditioning already have buildings with hvac systems and in some ways were at a disadvantage because we dont have those systems. So we dont tend to have air Conditioning Systems in a lot of our high schools. Thats one way we move air and others is heat. Thats how we move air through a building. So i wonder what are your recommendations for improving air flow in classrooms that dont have robust hvac systems . How do we remediate that . How do we fix that . What are some things that schools are putting in place to fix the fact that maybe they dont have air flow . Some of the measures that we require is to have the air, the filters changed and the hvac system to improve the rating. But lets say there is no air flow thats mechanical in my classroom. We have windows. A lot of our schools are like this. What are some of the ways that youre recommending that either we or other schools remediate a lack of a real hvac system that moves the air. Actually, our primary recommendation is to open windows. Thats the maximum amount of fresh air we can get. We live in a climate that is not as cold as other places in the united states. Even keeping the windows open as much as possible and including some fans in the windows would be would be our recommendation. In our ventilation guidance, we have a flowchart on ways a school site will assess what the ventilation measures they can take based on the actual site itself and whats happening. I think that depends on all of the different sites in the School District. Okay, so is there a way to measure air flow in a room that doesnt have a ventilation system . I might i will admit, i am not a ventilation expert. What i have been told by our subject Matter Experts is to bring in Carbon Monoxide detectors, which are actually on the relatively cheap side that can assess the air flow. Okay, so for me, im an educator. I want to be safe, right . If we need to buy fans and place them in a way that were creating, you know, a refresh rate and youre recommending a refresh rate of four times per hour, which i would still want to go with a for conservative estimate of what the World Health Organization is recommending, but either way, even if its four times an hour, i quantity want to be able to measure to make sure thats happening and i think that will help make parents and educators feel safe that, that is happening. It may not be your agency but how we can find out how to measure that in the classrooms that were seeing ois acceptabl. Carbon monoxide monitors would be able to measure that in a classroom. So, is that a part of us monitoring classrooms right now when were going to classrooms . Are we using them . We are not going to classrooms to measure that because that would be visitors coming inside, but we could recommend or the School District could take a recommendation to take Carbon Monoxide detectors into the classroom to measure the air flow. Okay, thank you, i appreciate that. Then i guess, as far as family communication, im assuming thats us doing that with your advice, is that correct . As far as its on the agency to figure out how we communicate with families based on your guidance. Yes, we have published guidance that includes templates for communication, for schools including a general advisory of close contacts advisory, and if you would prefer to rewind back to the topic of ventilation, we could bring our subject Matter Experts to discuss that at the next meeting, if you prefer. Okay, i would like that. I think it would really help our staff because we know thats a big concern for staff. I guess, you know, just another i think i have a lot of questions. Im one of seven, but i also know the public depending how detailed people want to get, i know the department of Public Health, its in one of your slides, you said you were available to answer questions for the public and im wondering if it would be possible for either you to come to a committee of the whole meeting for the board to specifically, for us to drill on any and every question. These are questions you may be answering with specific staff members, but you know, were not in all those individual meetings and i think parents and i think that you know, teachers, educators might want to ask these very specific questions and it would be great to be able to have all of these documents that youre referencing, like ventlation and social distancing in one place and then be able to have a meeting where people can just ask, you know, its like a questions about the Safety Measures that youre requiring and also the steps that you guys take separate to what we do. I think for the public there is confusion around as an agency, its our job to do a certain thing and you have a separate role in supporting that. So for folks to ask directly of you those questions that our staff cant answer. So is that something that you would be open to doing . Of course. Yeah. Thank you. Vice president lopez. Hi, thank you. Thank you for the presentation and its been reassuring to hear a lot of the information you shared and knowing that the School District has been working on much of the same things. So, i am excited to keep moving this forward with the understanding that there are a lot of questions, a lot of things we are putting people at risk and the reality of many families maybe not wanting to return. So i think before we continue these conversations, we really need to get a clear idea of who were working with, who wants to return, including staff. Thats part of why we are moving this resolution forward, just to get clarity around this information, being more specific with numbers. I do have questions regarding testing, in particular with students. I know that its not something that were moving forward, but should one test positive, is there a plan to support the cohort of students within that group in order to see if they are also positive and how can d. P. H. Help with that . When there is a positive case in a cohort, one of the first remittcommendations is that evee in the cohort immediately get tested. They are either not to go to the school site because we do not want there to be further exposure, they can go to their primary care provider or come to one of our testing sites for testing as quickly as possible. So well make it clear where those sites are and not assume that our families have a primary care provider and if you could share with us where these testing locations are, how frequent they are, all of that information needs to be very clear going in, in case this happens. Im excited its all publicly available and we can make that clear. Yeah, it should be because i vfrnt seen it. Im pretty active on getting information. So i would imagine that its not easier for families, even if its public. So i also had a question around the cohort size because i have been hearing different numbers. So would you can you share what were working with when were talking about inperson learning . How many students would be in one classroom with a teacher present . Per the state guidance, there is no number that is published as a maximum or minimum for the cohort size. The state allows schools to determine the cohort size as much as possible with the recommendation that they be as small as they can be. Theres no actual number. Do i know why that is . I believe that it is because there is so much variety between all the school sites in california that its allowing the schools a little bit of flexibility in determining the cohort size. Okay, but it doesnt add anymore risk if there are a larger number of students in one space . I would assume that it does. I would want to be careful. I think that what needs to be stressed is that its not just about cohort size. Its about all the prevention measures being used, all as much as possible, all at the same time. So establishing as small of a cohort size as much as possible, on top of physical distancing, on top of face masks, part of the issue is that it depends on the actual facility. So the cohort size is going to be limited by physical distancing. If you have a fairly large room and you can accommodate more than 10 children, that should be considered. I do believe that, that is why the state has gone through that. It just depends on the dwaul actual facility. Thats helpful. Okay, im wondering about the issuing of complaints. What is that process if and who gets to complain 1234 who complain . Who is issuing it . Anybody can complain. It could be staff, the general public, parents and caregivers. We receive it from our hub directly, or the call line, or 311 or the City Attorney also receives those. All right, lastly you mentioned at the beginning of your presentation that you have been meeting with Education Community members and partners, im wondering who are you meeting with . Who are in these meetings or groups . We meet with the School District once a week. That includes the division of Community Support services. Im not exactly sure on the title. We meet with provoke yall schools every week, k8, we meet with the private schools k8 every two weeks, and all of the high schools every two weeks. Okay, last question is any support for students or staff who test positive, what does the department of Public Health provide in this case . So students have to isolate for two weeks, meaning their whole family has to stay quarantined. How are they Getting Services from you all . I think that depends on the situation and the case, but we have a lot of services in covid command that we provide including food delivery, including Mental Health support, and i will actually ask dr dr. Bobba to explain on that. I know there are few things we offer to anyone that has a positive case and needs to quarantine but it depends on the specific case. Can i ask for that to be part of the next times presentation . I would like to learn more about that. And if it could be specific to School District staff and students. We have a protocol when our students or staff test positive with your support. Yeah, we can definitely cover that. As ana said, its independent whether its a member of the school, a member of the public, a member it will be the same support and it is a holistic system to determine what that individual family needs to maintain isolation and quarantine, anywhere from they need supplies to a face mask to food delivery. It will depend on each individual case. Yes, we can talk more about that. Yeah, and i do understand that, but i also want to say there have been cases where people have tested positive in the city of San Francisco and they have not received that report. Thats why i want to be clear that we have a concrete plan should this happen so families feel safe in returning. We need to make sure all these gaps are filled and that is part of it. I look forward to hearing more about that. Thank you. I see supervisor fewer, i have a couple questions that i want to ask before i turn it over to you. The first thing, i just want to especially because we have our experts here from the department of Public Health and our city has very much been viewed as being on the forefront of a lot of the response to this virus. Just make sure that we all understand as best as we know right now the science around how this virus is being able to be passed between and among children. I think im hearing a lot of Different Things. I just want to make sure we understand from your best medical understanding how this works. Also, the impact on children. You know, i sent a video that i saw just watching cnn the other day and there was a family that was on who had their 5yearold daughter die of covid. She was otherwise healthy. So this is obviously a very serious situation of life and death in the decisions that we make here. So if you could speak to sort of a set of questions and maybe you can answer them all together, but as you understand it, can the virus be passed from one 7yearold child to another 7yearold child . Can the virus be passed from an adult to a 7yearold child . Can the virus be passed from a 7yearold child to an adult . What can you say as clear as possible around the science of that . I understand its lower risk, but is the virus passed among those populations and what are we seeing in those places where its happening. Some School Systems that opened, i will say that there is no 100 rule here. What we see in those School Systems is that the adult to adult transmission is the highest. So one adult passing it to another adult. We see that as children age, they pass it on to adults as well. The risk of transmission is higher in those students. The risk of adults transmissioning to children is the next biggest category of where an adult is positive then transmits it to a child. You see that in the School System and home settings. Then the transmission risk between the child to adult is a lot less frequent and the child to child is a lot less frequent. Its not to say it doesnt occur, but its a lot less frequent occurrence than the adult to adult and the adult to child. Then i think what you were eluding to, in most cases, children do very well with this disease. A lot of them end up being asymptomatic. But this happened early on in new york. What can happen is healthy children have an immune response that causes a lot of problems and can lead to death. Its well documented, its rare but can occur. Of course we want to be careful that there are always going to be the potential for that outcome. Thats why we want to make sure that things are opened safely. In terms of outcomes in general, its the elderly and those with chronic diseases that have the most risk of having a bad outcome in terms of covid. And supervisor haney, can i just intersect interject here . I asked this question to dr. Naomi and i asked her to explain to me physiologically why arent kids getting it . Her explanation, i was like oh, that makes more sense. She says there are four reasons. The first reason is that childrens lungs are smaller and this disease passes through respiratory droplets and they are just letting out smaller amounts of respiratory droplets. Number two, if they get sick they dont have symptoms so theyre not coughing or projecting those droplets. Thats why the risk is lower. Number three, because theyre smaller than the adults and respiratory droplets brought down, it doesnt transfer to the adults as much. Then number four, which is the most important and what mostly made sense to me is in order to get infected by covid, there is this thing called the ac2 receptor, which dr. Bobba understands, but i dont. Its a gateway to your cells that you have to have within you for the covid to come in. Adults have a lot of them, kids dont have a lot of them. While the doctors arent sure yet when at what age kids start developing more of these ac2 receptors, their theory at this point is puberty. They think thats why as kids grow older, aside from the behavioral differences, that thats why they are passing it more. So when she said that to me, it all made so much sense and her presentation is fantastic. I highly recommend we bring her to this committee to give her whole presentation because it gave me so much more calm about this whole experience and i asked her a lot of the questions that commissioner collins asked about air flow and she had some great suggestions about that as well. So sorry to interrupt, i thought that would be helpful. Yeah, i think there will be a lot of questions that were going to need to be able to answer and in as straightforward of a way as possible for families and educators and how we prepare that information. You know, we obviously cannot say for sure, for certain that between two 7yearolds that the virus cannot pass. Its not accurate to say for sure, for certain. We have to be able to you know, i dont want to put our School Board Members and the School District in a place where we dont have that information in a straightforward way that could be shared so that families and educators can understand. Also, some of the phased reopenings that we are talking about is continuing to make this a choice for families. So, families need to be able to assess the information so they can make that choice for themselves. I think that we still there are still a lot a lack of clarity on some of these things and the clearer we have our way of looking at it with timelines and everything, but its not processed in a way that i think a family can make that choice and understand it. So i think that really needs to be prepared in partnership in a way that i havent seen it now. Also, this speaks to the question of our commissioners, making sure that if there is a potential or an actual infection, that we are treating it very seriously and we are responding with seriousness. What happened to the family that im referring to with their daughter dying tragically is that they said that the hospital didnt cheat it treat it seriously. Yes, she has covid, but it will just be like the flu and most children are fine and sent her home. There is still this sense that because most children dont have severe symptoms or severe impacts that we are not treating it, you know, with seriousness. I think its very dangerous. So just as were thinking about this, that our schools not just our schools, but our entire response system has to treat it seriously when a child tests positive. Of course, when an adult tests positive as well and get guidance on how to protect themselves and the home and all of that. I okay, i wanted to ask, i had a few quick questions. So i think we should thank you for that supervisor ronen. I think we should bring that presentation and presenter to our next meeting and think about how we what is the information that is going out to families and educators look like. The situation that weve seen here in San Francisco has changed the rate and the plans for reopening on a variety of fronts. What does this look like and how do we think about this when it comes to schools . You know, we are going on with a certain sort of timeline and thats under development, but if cases get to a certain level, more broadly and hospitalizations, et cetera, is there a way in which you already have planned as for how that would impact schools and their opening . I just saw new york for example that theyre saying that if the rate gets up above a certain level, theyre going to reclose schools. What does that look like for us and we must have that to some extent already because we have private schools that are open. I can share what the state has published and thats what we are following at this time. I would invite naveena to add any comments. At this time, depending on the assignment on the state color tier system, is what determines what to move forward with School Reopenings. So if one is in the purple tier, there is no school that can be permitted to open. If a county is in the red tier, Elementary Schools are permitted to open through a waiver process that must be approved through the state health department. If a county is in orange, then we can move forward with School Reopenings for all schools, including elementary and high school. We are currently assigned in the yellow tier on the state reassessment stat, but thats where we are right now. And lastly what the state says, once a school is permitted to reopen, it is allowed to stay open and our understanding is that in San Francisco were committed to education and that we chose to roll back other sectors in order to support moving forward with education and especially for elementary and middle school students. Naveena, do you want to add anything . I just want to echo that and supervisor ronen eluded to this early on. Schools can stay open if they are given the right Public Health guidance and they are able to follow it and give the right Public Health support. We do value education, so i want to ensure that the support is there and that families do want to return to inperson classrooms have that capacity as long as all the Public Health measures are in place for them. And just to clarify what youre saying when you say that schools are allowed to remain open, if we were to go into the red tier, does that mean that the schools that have been permitted to reopen can stay open no matter how we could go to purple and still the schools that have been reopened are allowed to stay open . Is that correct . That is correct. We just cant open anymore schools if we went to red or purple, unless with red there is a waiver or something . Yes, if we went into purple, we wouldnt be allowed to open any schools. If we went into red, we would be allowed to move forward with Elementary Schools through a waiver process that has to be approved ultimately by the state health department. Just to clarify again, thats new schools, so if its red, the schools that have already reopened dont have to close. They just that is correct. Got it, okay. So, got it. Thats helpful. So one last question i had was you know, there was a these are strange times we live in. I had to respond yesterday to a plan that the warriors have put in place about the way that theyre going to do that they want to do immediate testing. It got into this question of what is the right type of testing, even the different types of the immediate testing and whether we can be confident about it and it seems that theyre actually going to use a version that is different than the ones that a lot of folks have been using. They will also look at you know, mass testing that will basically test everyone that comes inside. Is that something that you know, we looked at or thought about or how is the you know, would that be something that we would want to do . I mean one of the things im looking at around the testing is that the testing that is required of the educators not all that regular. I mean, its certainly not every time you walk in the door. So it speaks to whether you can go inside. Were not doing anything near that. Were almost doing what feels more like a random sample. Is this something were thinking about or looking at . I understand there are costs to it. If you had something similar where every adult walking into the building is getting a random immediate test result that the warriors will do for 9,000 people in an event, why cant we do that for our schools . So ill step in here. I think youre eluding to something that we hope the u. S. Will get to, where we have these easy tests. We are not there yet. I cannot speak to the technology that the warriors have applied. The f. D. A. Approved tests have barriers to that capacity, to do regular tests on a regular basis. Right now the Gold Standard is the p. C. R. Test. We want to stick with that Gold Standard with our schools. Thats not to say as technology emerges and we get better data, that we wouldnt want to be more aggressive. Its just not there yet. So this is changing very quickly. Its a rapid p. C. R. Test and it has earned f. D. A. Approval. You can take the test there before you go in. I think the concern around the pace of testing and the amount of testing, you know, i think there is a different level of risk when you do it so rarely. I think thats something we should continue to look at and apparently with it was developed with ucfs and we should talk about them. Supervisor fewer. Thank you chair haney. I had a couple of comments and questions. I know because we had these heat waves, we looked at cooling centers in San Francisco. We had these places where you have this hvac system. I had to look at areas in my direct that we created six more cooling centers in my district. So if these cooling centers do have a good ventilation system and if these areas could be used as classroom space, so we arent able to accommodate all of the Public School children in our schools that dont have this system. Its just a question. Am i on mute . No. Does Public Health has an answer to that . We looked at these h vak systems and would we be able to partner using some of those facilities and we can configure them into classrooms. Thats one thing i wanted to bring up. Also, i wanted to say that i think we really learned a lot. I mean i have to say, that was probably the largest nursing facility in the nation with 700 patients, right for a hot bed of coronavirus and yet, pretty successful. I thought we were going to see a lot of deaths there and 100 of that population, vulnerable. So what we really learned is that when we do these protocols, like Temperature Checks, we do testing, we do, you know, not allowing anyone to be at work if a member of the family is sick, for example. We know that these protocols do work and prove to be really protective if we follow them religiously and consistently. What i think is that when i went out to the Community Learning hub, i am seeing nonprofit workers being with students everyday, working closely with students everyday and these are nonprofit workers that are actually, you know, making about 15 an hour and they are out there in our Community Hubs doing it everyday. So its all these things and keeping social distancing in there and wearing a mask. We have workers doing this work with students everyday, doing these protocols. I know a classroom is different, but we can also learn from the results. I also wanted to say there will always be people that dont feel safe to bring their children back to school. How our responsibility to keep them safe and our workers safe, that is our responsibility as the city and as the School District. Depending on how well of a job we do that and the protocols that we put into place will really determine how many students will come back. So this, i think, the department of Public Health shouldnt be there before the plan. They should be there afterwards to be able to say look, this is what were recommending put in place and this is what we complied with, the state recommends this. Were going above this and were doing this so that parents feel reassured. Im only going to say this because hey, i dont have children in the School District anymore. I get it about parents being very concerned, but the truth of the matter is that San Francisco unified School District has had a persistent inconsistent racial achievement gap. It has plagued this district for how many decades . When you see who will be at the short end of the stick of this pandemic, it will be those students. So i asked at this meeting before, is there an individual academic achievement plan for each student in those Community Learning hubs . Its one thing to be a seat warmer and another thing to access that curriculum and learning. Actually while were doing this, i think there should be an assessment plan, achievement plan for every one of these students to make sure theyre on track and not getting too far behind. So how are we for our English Learners and our children of poverty, which is a lot of children in poverty, and also for our African Americans and also our Pacific Islander students, where the gap has been persistent. We dont want that gap to widen. After the millions of dollars we invested too to close that gap, we dont want the gap to widen and not give the students the same opportunity. So how you message it, how good of a job we do to make sure that parents feel okay that their children come back and workers come back will make a difference. Also, the reality is that we cannot think of an opening schools without muni at the table. So this, i think, is really important. So do you feel safe taking a muni bus to take your kids to school this let us remember the majority of students who San Francisco unified teaches 90 of them are students of color, the majority of them are students in poverty. We are there, is muni at the table . I havent heard a discussion about muni being there. Are you going to reopen in alignment with where the schools are being opened . I think that coordination needs to take place and again the safety protocols on muni and for parents to feel safe to take the bus to take their children to school. And you actually have the mailing addresses of every single student. You actually do have the infrastructure to get the information out where via the emails, the phone messaging, or whatever. You guys actually have, i think, for private schools, theyre reaching out to their parents. For sfusd, it is sfusds responsibility to send that information out in a really lucid concise manner that is easy for parents to understand, but also gives them resources and then also is in appropriate language. So i think all those things, i have to say i am a little i guess im shocked that sfusd hasnt applied for an application yet, knowing there is this lengthy process you have to go through. Im not saying that we should open schools in red or purple, but im saying when were ready to open schools, when we get into the yellow or we get into the green, lets just be ready to go. I mean seeing how we may have to configure classroom sizes, we may have to configure space, we may have to partner with city agencies, but how do we get this going and we need a plan and when we say its not safe to open now, okay, not now. I have full faith that we will be going in the right direction and its i think that we need to be ready to open those schools on day one when we say we are ready. We are in the right direction. The environment around San Francisco is fairly safe. I we think we can do this. What Research Shows is that other School Districts are doing it, neighboring School Districts have opened their Public Schools and this is something that sfusd can do. Also, i wanted to say that i think we should get and i have said this many times. I just have to say this for the record. It is the power of the office of the mayor to convene these parties together. Muni, Public Health, our sfusd, private hospitals, lets get everyone in the room together and see how we can open schools and what is needed from whom. I think this is the power of the office of the power of the Mayors Office to bring these people together, not only just for Public School students, but for all of San Francisco. We are talking about over 50,000 Public School children whose parents havent been able to go to work because they have been home monitoring their childrens Distance Learning. I think leadership needs to come, everyone coming together, are we going to open schools . Are there going to be ways to get to schools safely . All those types of things and i wanted to say i think were behind the game. I think we should have done this a month ago, but im glad that were doing it now and with another caveat, i know i am leaving this board so if i speak with urgency, if i have been too frank or too forceful at times, i apologize. I feel a sense of urgency for this. I sat on that board for eight years. I know what that achievement gap looks like. I know what happens when we dont educate children on an equitable basis and who is losing out on this. I seen grown black men that went through a School District and cannot read and write. This is not tet detrimental to a School System, but to those communities we left behind traditionally for decades. This is my sense of urgency. So i just want to apologize as i have been so forceful on these meetings meetings. I just see how this state and country disregards Public Education for our foundation for a democracy. We dont have the resources to catch up. This is why we have to act with urgency. Its not just for the recovery of San Francisco, but for those students too. So anyway, thank you very much. Thank you supervisor fewer. Commissioner collins. Yes, thank you. I just wanted to piggyback on some follow up questions. I appreciate supervisor fewer bringing up some key follow up issues. As far as Temperature Checks, we had to go to the hospital. Ucfs ask a litany of questions and they do Temperature Checks. Im hearing that Temperature Checks are not part of the requirements for school reentry. Im wondering why. Just to clarify, Temperature Checks are not required on site. Schools can ask families to do that at home as a comprehensive screening check, which includes other systems and Santa Clara County did a time study of what it would take to do a Temperature Check on school sites and it was so it took so much time that it was not recommended in Santa Clara County. Okay, thank you. Additionally, getting to the information, making it public. So were also not necessarily aware of how were sharing information in a public facing way thats easy to digest. I dont know a lot of the details that maybe get covered in meetings between you and staff at sfusd, specific to vicinitilation or those types of things and just for the general public, thats even more opaque. I know that its on us as a district to work with you to make sure were sharing information in a way that makes families feel like they understand what they need, but i would like to continue to work and have our staff work with you and make sure that commissioners are also reviewing that because i know Vice President lopez has a lot of connections to Spanish Speaking families and we need to make sure when were communicating, that the communication is actually parent friendly and its answering questions in a way that as chair haney, you said that were not communicating in ways that are clear. We can provide tables and charts, thats the way we communicate, but we need to find a way to communicate in familyfriendly ways that help reassure them and makes them feel safe sending their kids back. So maybe we can work with you or have a town hall where we can talk about the importance of families making a commitment to be safe, answer questions, and reassuring families that may be nervous. Ill be happy to do that. Okay, great. Super fewer supervisor fewer was talking about what do we do for kids that fall through the cracks . We need a plan for reopening and we need to have timelines and urgency. Is there is also, as we know, a large group of students that arent going to be the first on the list. At the bare minimum, those are the students are maybe falling through the cracks and need support. I guess chair haney, is there a way to talk about some of the hubs are opening up . I heard college prep, they will be opening up for high schools to provide tutoring or support. It may not be everyday. Its not a child care issue, but it is middle and High School Students need support while were ramping up. There is still a need. Im wondering if we could get a report on what are the ways that the city can partner to support students to make sure that while were getting were going to be bringing in kindergartners first. So what about our juniors and seniors . Thats a concern. I would like our staff to share with you all the mechanism that we are identifying students that are falling off the map is call coordinated care. Its required by the state and every school is suppose to be tracking which kids are just not showing up. We as a district are supposed to have a tiered model of intervention to get them connected. Ultimately if were successful in our School Reopening plan and i appreciate the resolution that commissioner lopez and cook reported, we want to see it for high school as well. We see students not getting what they need in Distance Learning and those should be the first students that come back. I would like to know from the districts side and i think it would be helpful to know what our plans are for those middle and High School Students that are currently, you know, not the priority of coming back but also have needs. Im flagging that for you chair haney that there may be a way to present on our coordinated care model and in how in some cases, we may find that kids need support that we cant provide, if they have Mental Health needs, housing insecurity, and thats what is keeping them from going to school. I want to make sure were working well with city agencies to plug families in with resources and that were not dropping kids via that disconnect. Finally, muni is a good conversation because if were ramping up with large numbers of students, i saw a report that said, i think the average distance that elementary aged students travel is 1. 5 miles in our Public School system. I dont know what its like for middle and high school. I know students travel further distances for middle and high schools. We need conversations with muni on how were going to have safe transit options when we open up and there are families that want to come back. A lot of them are using muni. Also in your neighborhood as well, there are is having safe walking areas. We have neighborhoods where i hear that parents are terrified to let their children out and play. Theyre isolating in the house. You know, even their neighborhoods dont necessarily feel safe or socially distant so how are we going to make sure that we as a city team up and support families in getting to and from schools in a way that is safe. Thats the transportation piece that would be an interesting one to explore in a future meeting as were ramping up as well. Again, thank you for presenting. I love presenting information and send me all those charts and lists. I look forward to working with you directly and learning how we can work with district and staff on convening family facing meetings so folks can ask the kind of questions that we get to ask in these meetings. Im sure that we have parents that have questions like these as well. Thank you. Two points that we would be lap pi happy to participate. We participated in all the town halls in july. We had a d. P. H. Representative to answer questions so we could continue to explore other communication chaps and point to m. T. A. Is that they are actively interested in supporting transportation around schools and they asked that as we approve schools, that we notify them so that they can look at the Transportation System and the impacts and particularly around muni. I think that warrants another conversation in bringing them to a future meeting. To recognize that they are involved and are thinking about this. Thank you. Thank you d. P. H. Team. I appreciate your work and your time and definitely heard those things you said, and commissioner collins as well in what we want to cover in our next meeting. With that, we will move on to sfusd, who i know are here and also have a presentation. So i am going to turn it now over to deputy superintendent and the chiefs. Hello good afternoon. Im trying to see if im sharing. Im new to microsoft teams. I believe im sharing now, is that true . Yes, we can see it. Great, thank you commissioners and supervisors for giving us the opportunity to come before you to give an update of our plan and progress towards opening schools for inperson learning. We will be providing we will be providing at the end of the presentation an initial summary of resources we feel that we need to collectively open schools for inperson learning, collectively as a city. First were going to provide a summary of our progress on our dashboard and on the operational indicators that we have been focusing on, basically since the summer. We also will talk about the Site Assessments that are happening next week as part of this presentation and actually at an information and answer many of the questions that came up to d. P. H. That were wondering what the School District is doing with the information from the department of health. So im going to get started. Just a quick reminder, we have always been working towards a phased reopening towards inperson learning. We started with our phase one, the Distance Learning and we are moving towards phase two, the hybrid and gradual return, hoping that when the pandemic gets to a place where we can have a full return of our students and our schools, which is what we all want. Just a reminder and i know things change so rapidly. We are working towards a phased opening for small groups and cohorts to return. So we have designed our whole operational indicators around what the d. P. H. Application looks like so that when we turn to phase 2b, the priority populations, we are in the place to have most of the applications done because as was discuss in the previous presentation, there will be parts that will be district wide and parts that will be specific to whichever school that were opening up. So i just wanted to be clear on that. We have this in this phase two, as you know, the first column is just about california and county indicators. As was measured in the purple, schools are not allowed to be reopened, but you can open for Group Returns for students that would be best served in person. Thats what weve been moving towards. All of these indicators, except for labor agreements in place follow what the d. P. H. Application looks like and they follow all the or answering all the questions in the d. P. H. Guidelines and the state guidelines. I just wanted to remind folks of that. We continue to iterate and try to create ways in which were communicating with folks. The dashboard is one of those. Were going to try to move you through the dashboard and where we are in our progress towards it. So, the first part of the operational indicators the identification of small cohorts for inperson learning and the school sites which they will be in. So the current context safety, social distancing restraints call for us to open learning for small cohorts for students. Well share where we are on this indicator. Im sorry, yep. So we talked about this before. In the spring and over the summer months, we engaged in a diverse set of stakeholders in working groups, town halls and surveys to get input on which groups we would prioritize as a School District for inperson learning across all of those diverse sets of stakeholders, families, teachers, labor partners, and more. The student groups named on this slide were named as a priority. Its also consistent with the research and also since were looking at the purple tier phase of small cohorts, we should be opening in small cohorts where students are likely to struggle most with Distance Learning, including students with individualized education plans. Sorry. Were looking at opening programs at the end of phase one to a little more than 10,000 students. The School Reopening in this current context is incredibly complex as we manage new forms of scheduling, staffing, and complying with the intricate health and safety requirements. To ensure we do it as safely and effectively as possible, we are bringing students back gradually in person as we have shared in previous presentations. As we think of moving students into inperson learning, represented by the light blue in the background, phase 2a, our proposal is to open schools in waves, meaning opening a set number of schools at a time so we can learn and improve as we open those and also so we can communicate directly and personally with the family so we can understand what it is that theyre being offered to return to. So this is the dashboard, if you looked on the website. Were close to identifying all the students and the site location for these groups. We drafted a plan to return the priority groups and we identified the potential sites for wave 1 and wave 2. The wave 1 schools offer pre k or have moderate to severe s. T. D. Classrooms in them. During wave two, we will add additional pre k sites and classrooms with moderate to severe s. T. C. Classrooms up to 27 sites and include pre k and grade one students. Then in wave 3, we will include the remainder of our Elementary School sites, potentially open up middle and high school sites. Of course we do this all in collaboration and coordination with d. P. H. And with the guidance they provide since we meet with them regularly and are able to work with them any time we need consultation or understand in a particular school. Schools are very different and each school sometimes has specific problem solving we need to do together. We launched collaborative meetings with our site leaders. We developed a hybrid learning Partnership Protocol. The chief of facility may discuss more about that. We are looking at how things how staff and students occupy and the flow of traffic moves throughout the building to ensure that we are following safety guidelines and identifying new routines if necessary. Were also identifying outsource sfas spaces for each cohort and strategies to support learning outside. We need to understand the interest for inperson learning and Distance Learning. We understand that the language and the ways which were thinking of things in this complex way is very confusing so we continue to work on our communication upgrades to make information as clear and as accessible to all stakeholders. Our goal is to get students back to their inperson learning at their homeschool, recognizing a need to adhere to safety and staffing and that students strive best in communities theyre familiar with and with teachers for whom they have relationships. Staffing does not align with the site indication or with the students at all times. Thats one of the things we have to look at. Throughout this, families will absolutely have the option of whether they want to return to inperson or if thaw would like to continue with Distance Learning. The next indicator, the general Safety Measures. That was a discussion that the previous presentation really walked you through many of the indicators and measures that we are putting in place. Every single one of these tasks aligns with the d. P. H. Guideline and the d. P. H. Application. So we can drop all that information directly into the application that we will need to create for our phase 2b. We are moving steadily towards this, a big thing that we succeeded is that we now have an agreement to support us in part of what we are trying to do in standing up this testing site. We have almost all of our health and safety protocols has been developed. Were turning all of those protocols into more familyfriendly and family facing documents, working on translation and all of that. Ill talk about that more on the communication side. We have test kits and analyses to support the development of return. We work on how we stand up these test sites and how we develop the Communication System as we heard in the previous presentation. Thats one of the most important parts, what do we do with the information we get, how do we turn it around quickly and how do we prevent and mitigate more exposure for other students, staff, and families. The operational list to put all these measures in place is considerable. Then were going to dig into this more during the question section. Our chief of h. R. Is here and he can also offer a more detailed information that we didnt cover in our presentation. Our goal is to have a test site at every school site as we reopen and this is going to require one to two at every site. We will work on identifying agencies to support us with the data mapping and implementation into our data system. Were working on creating a covid19 school dashboard. This will have many dashboards, some of them detailed and specific to folks that need to know so we can turn the information to d. P. H. As quickly as possible to public facing dashboards, to our families, to our employees, just to the general public. Dashboard specifically for the board of education commissioners, so they have the information they need to know in realtime. Were designing out many different communication trees, so those who need the information will have it as quickly and as as quickly as possible. We need a centralized team that manages all of these processes and full scale. If were back to phase tree, inperson learning, sfusd will probably run the largest covid testing operation in the site across 120 locations, so you can imagine the operational lift that it will taked and well be responsible for what we want to do and doing it well, teaching our students. The next is staff trained in the health and safety protocol. Were getting close on this. We identified all the staff that needs to be trained. Were partnering with key stakeholders. Were getting ready to launch the modules and adjust as necessary. As you know, as we talked, the information is constantly changing about General Health and safety protocols so we need a whole team that is looking at the health and safety protocols, changing them, and having to retrain staff as necessary. So again, as we open into these phases, we can get good at it and at a full scale operation, well have 10,000 employees that will have to have a system that were constantly training and updating their training for. I talked mostly about all of this. Were close with a lot of the content and creating the Communications Tool and the trainings are designed to be asynchronous and independent. We will be offering ongoing information sessions for focu s focuses folks that want more enperson learning for questions and working through scenarios and things like that. The next operational indicator is informing families of our health and safety protocols. We are moving, making progress in this area. Its going to start in the next few weeks. Were going to be really reaching out to the families directly, so that we can start having conversations with them and giving them the information they need and providing spaces for them to ask the questions and come to an understanding. We want all families to understand what they are being offered in inperson learning so they can make a well informed decision on whether or not to return to inperson learning and what that will look like or if they would prefer to stay in Distance Learning. We developed a Family Safety information on pretty much all the different areas, health and safety protocols, meals, transportation, symptom checking. Were working on multidimensional explanations. Some work with words, some work with pictures, we have a checklist developed of all the assets were developing. Were working on the translation of all of them. Were about to start our offer with inperson information. Are the covid19 prevention measures in place . Thats the next one. Were also moving in that direction. A lot of the conversation was about protocols in an event that a staff or student exhibits covid19 symptoms and tests positive. Thats a big area. We have the protocols in place. Were working closely to drill down really clearly on where is the hand off and if we have a student or staff exhibiting covid19 symptoms or reporting testing positive, that the families are supported the way they need to be supported. We asked d. P. H. In providing more work flows and visual information so that we can share that with families of what would happen and how we would go through that flow together and where the hand off is from our coordinated care team. Were working in the division and designing what does that look like, how do we utilize the resource link line to assist us in that effort. Sorry, im so use to having someone do this for me. I apologize. So we have a lot of things ready to start training and giving this information out. We are awaiting labor Partner Agreements to identify that the staff will be prepared for the Health Screenings. We want to set up a system where i think you heard about the Community Pledge and thats part of our registration process and were asking all students and staff to do the screening at home. Were working on how that gets documented and we will as a safety prevention measure also do some type of screening, not the Temperature Checks for the regions that ana was talking about because we dont want to create bottlenecks and have social distancing challenges, but what does it look like . How are all staff supporting the Health Screening . How do we move students into isolation if need be if they present symptoms at school and what is the follow up with families and how do we support them in the next step . So were moving towards progress in that. I am going to turn this over to our [inaudible] i can keep queuing it up for you. Just let me know when i need to go forward. Thanks. Good afternoon commissioners and supervisors. Im the chief facilities officer here at San Francisco unified School District. Im going to speak about the next two measures. Next slide please. Great. So our measure number 6 on our dashboard is our School Facility prep for social distancing. There are four sub tasks here, some of them which we made substantive progress on and some were getting off with the beginning of the work and we plan to pick up pace quickly. One that has gotten a lot of feedback is assessing school site infrastructure for hybrid learning and checking out classrooms to see the conditions of the windows and their operaability but were also looking at the Building System and the hvac and sinks and classrooms. So ive been pleased to be working with the department of Public Health, who has also given us a team of about 15 folks or so who next week are going to be in our sights and trying to get as many assessments done as possible. So we have also heard from now over 20 parent volunteers who have also suggested im sorry, not suggested but volunteered. They suggested themselves, but volunteered a long with our Board Members to go out and do these assessments and we actually spent the past few days pulling together or volunteer on boarding materials and or reentation orientation. It sounds easy but when youre in the real world, its easy to get overwhelmed by the details and distractions in the classroom so we want to provide clear guidance to folks on how to do that. We appreciate everyones patience as we build up those volunteer materials but we think it will be worthwhile and make for a better and faster product. So while were at 35 right now, again in the next week or so, we hope to make a leap there and we definitely expect that all the assessments for Elementary Schools and Early Education centers, which is our focus during phase 2a will be complete by the first week of december. That data is critical for helping us understand kind of the magnitude of both problem solving that might need to occur, both specific sites and across the district and also you know, helping us im sorry, could you go back . Im sorry. Thats okay, and helping us then strategize on how to work with site administrators. Were at 100 in getting our cleaning and disinfect tants supplies for our custodial team to support the work and again, now next slide please. Yep. Thank you. Now where were really drilling down is what were calling our hybrid learning Partnership Protocol where facilities, operational teams, our own health and safety teams work with site leaders oneonone to help them develop site plans that will ensure stable cohorts, manage circulation and social distance. So the data that were collecting goes directly to buildings and grounds to help shape our own projections on their workload and set clear priorities on repairs and it goes into this site preparedness process where we sit down and really have to help principles look at their sites and think about everything from where do you want the isolation room to how would you like the exterior of your site set up to support beginning of the school day, arrival and departure, and thinking about setting up classrooms and all of which we hope to provide templates and guidelines for but at every site, there is some customization required in terms of the space planning. So next slide please. So this is also just an important constraint that ive been sharing with folks since this summer. I think it will not come as a shock to parents or staff that custodial staffing has been on the lean side at sfusd and that the kind of routine cleaning and disinfecting protocols that d. P. H. Is requiring, which by the way i do not consider to be burdensome or intense, but just routine. Over the past years of shrinking resources that have hit the custodial team, so now were at the place where our existing custodial staffing which is 300f. T. E. Can clean so much on a 24 hour period, so just focusing on high touched surfaces. Its about the size of our Early Education stand alone sites. So we are able to be able to provide support to the phase 2a priority populations that have been identified. When you look at that Elementary School footprint and you assume 50 classroom capacity due to social distancing measures, that gives you about 15,000 daily feet. I want to say about, this is not precise. Its a magnitude number meant to give people a sense of the real, again, gap between our traditional 55,000 student body when at normal capacity and its also something that i want to emphasize. We have not only the ability to play with how we use space to serve students, but also schedule. As we think of those 15,000 daily feet, it seat, its not that same student that sits in that seat everyday. Okay, next slide please. P. P. E. Has been a topic since this summer and weve been working on this since this summer, which is why were in such great shape on this particular metric. Go to the next slide. I project right now that were at 85 and rapidly closing in on 100 . Our signages and production, and really over the next two to three weeks, this will go to 100 as partition orders arrive and our signage is both produced and were trying to create site packages so our custodial service team will dispatch these material from the warehouse and deliver, you know, an appropriate number of bundles and packages as needed, based on the number of students at site, staff, and types of programs there. So, that concludes kind of my part of the presentation. Im happy to turn this back to the chief. Thanks. So i will go over deputy superintendent makes her apology for not being able to be here. Shes in labor negotiations, so we thought it was important for her to spend her time there. Its not that youre not important, we do want to keep moving in that area. So our eighth indicator is instructional learning plan and the majority of the dashboard functions are focused on reopening schools, but this really focuses on optimal delivery of instruction, both inperson and Distance Learning. Our priority is to create a robust inperson learning plan while continuing to enhance our Distance Learning. We know we will have students participating in both throughout the year. So we developed the Community Health pledge, which is one of the sources of conversation and something thats really important because as we all know, the pandemic doesnt stop or start at the doorstep of the school. This is something we all have to be committed to in whatever we do inside and outside of school. We have begun to develop and launch the inperson modules. We are continuing to provide Distance Learning to students and we are now starting to do the big lift in thinking about what is the technology needs, what is the use of space and what are the other logistical steps we need to do. And weve been looking at researching the best practices for distance and hybrid learning and have been learning collaboratively with educators from other large urban districts. The current thinking in our inperson learning is to the extent possible pk will return for daily inperson learning. Other student groups will rotate through a mix of inperson and Virtual Learning throughout the week. Families and students will have an option to opt out of inperson learning and continue to engage in online Distance Learning. While at school, students will receive live instruction and when at home, students will continue to receive a combination of synchronous instruction and asynchronous instruction. We are engaging our site leaders in the protocol to plan for inperson learning and Distance Learning options. Were working on finalizing inperson schedules in collaboration with transportation, finalizing plans for students that dont join in person and family and staff about their interest and their capacity to participate in inperson learning. We have reconvened the teaching and learning work group and the other work groups that are meeting monthly to give us input around instructional learning plans and the many things we have to think about in returning to inperson learning. A key principle in our planning as i mentioned earlier is that its best for students to be at their homesite with their teacher and staff. So we will continue to work around that model, continue to enhance Distance Learning and we will definitely need classroom resources and materials to support safety protocols and sharing of high touched materialsful well talk about that more in the resource section. Im going to turn it over about the labor discussions. Ill keep doing the slides. Hi, im the chief h. R. Manager for the districted and i wanted to share where we are at with our labor partners. Next slide. So you can see the big buckets of work. The first one is exchanging proposals with our labor partners and thats well underway. Ill show you more on the next slide. [please stand by] San Francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Working with kids, they keep you young. They keep you on your tones on your toes. Teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. Ready . Go. [ ] we really wanted to find a way to support Women Entrepreneurs in particular in San Francisco. It was very important for the mayor, as well as the Safety Support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. Three, two, one because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the Small Business development center. I thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. They really give back to the neighborhood. They are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. When molly molly first told us about the grant because she works with Small Businesses. She has been a tremendous help for us here. She brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be uptodate and redone totally. Hands in front. Recite the creed. My oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. It instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. We think it is great. The moves are fantastic. The women both are great teachers. What is the next one . My son goes to fd k. He has been attending for about two years now. They also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. They took the kids everywhere around San Francisco. This year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. He has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. I think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. I met dandrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. Our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. He decided to reopen this location after he moved. Initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. My Business Partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new Nursing School so you can take over. And she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before for a month before she came through. She was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. I was struggling a little bit. And she has been here. One thing led to another and now we are coowners. You think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. The selfdefence class is a new thing that we are doing. We started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. Theres a difference between selfdefence and doing a karate class. We didnt want them to do an actual karate class. We wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. Then i was approached by my old high school. One once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. My old biology teacher is now the principle. She approached us into doing a selfdefence class. The girls have been really proactive and really sweet. They step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasnt been any pushback. It is really great. It is respect. You have to learn it. When we first came in, they knew us as those girls. They didnt know who we were. Finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. It took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. Since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. We were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. She came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. And i said what . Martial arts is a passion for us. It is passion driven. There are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. We have been operating this program for a little over a year all Women Entrepreneurs. It is an extraordinary benefit for us. We have had the Mayors Office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. It has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. We hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids lives outside of just learning karate. Having selfconfidence, having discipline, learning to know when its okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. These are the values we want the kids to take away from this. Not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. We want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [ ] lesb ri by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. I came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [ ] hello, friends. Im the deputy superintendent of instruction at San Francisco unified School District, but you can call me miss vickie. What you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our San Francisco teachers for our students. Our premise came about for San Francisco families that didnt have access to technology, and thats primarily children preschool to second grade. When we started doing this Distance Learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and its like how were they still processing the information . How were they supposed to keep learning . I thought about reaching the student who didnt have internet, who didnt have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t. V. And at least get some connection with my kids that way. Thank you, friends. See you next time. Hi, friend. Todays tuesday, april 28, 2020. Its me, teacher sharon, and im back again. I got an email saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. Im, like, what . I actually got an email from the Early Education department, saying they were saying of doing a t. V. Show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. I was scared, nervous. I dont like public speaking and all the above. But it worked out. Talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, its so very weird. Im used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where theyre all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them . Lets listen. Hi guys. I kind of have stage flight when im on t. V. Because im normally quiet . Shes never quiet. No, im not quiet. My sister was, like, i saw you on t. V. My teacher was, i saw you on youtube. It was exciting, how the community started watching. It was a lot of fun. It also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. I want to end today with a thank you. Thank you for spending time with us. It was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. Im so happy to see you today. Today is the last day of the school year, yea it really helped me in my teaching. Im excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. We received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. When we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, im proud to be a filipino. Being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. And as a mom, i can tell you thats so important. The social Confidence Development of our early learners. [ ] one more statement. We are the one. That is our first single that we made. That is our opinion. I cant argue with you. You are responsible please do not know his exact. [ ] [ ] [ ] i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. I took a seven year break. And then i came back. I worked in the library for a long time. When i started working the San Francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. I thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. So i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. She was very interested. One of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. This is definitely a valuable poster. Because it is petty bone. It has that weird look because it was framed. It had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. We had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. It wasnt a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. We have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. That i could donate myself. From theyre, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well . The historic moments in San Francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [ ] it brought all of the punks on the web west coast to San Francisco to see this show. The sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to San Francisco. They skipped l. A. And they skipped most of the media centres. San francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. Their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. We were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. And the nuns were also asked to open the show. It was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. It was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l. A. , obviously. To San Francisco to see this show. There are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. It was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. It was also, the pistols last show. In a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. The city of San Francisco didnt necessarily support punk rock. [ ] last, but certainly not least is a jello be opera. They are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. If we are blaming anybody in San Francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. There you go. We had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought that he thought was obscene that had been put up. The city of San Francisco has come around to embrace its musicians. When they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. That was, at in a way, and appreciation from the city of San Francisco for the musical legends. I feel like a lot of people in San Francisco dont realize what resources there are at the library. We had a film series, the s. F. Punk film series that i put together. It was nearly sold out every single night. People were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. It is free. Everything in the library is free. It it is also a Film Producer who has a film coming out. Maybe in 2018 about crime. What is the title of it . It is called San Francisco first and only rock n roll movie. Crime, 1978. [laughter] when i first went to the Art Institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. I did not know i would turn into a punk singer. I got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. One of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. I was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. I did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. They are in the San Francisco history centres s. F. Police department records. There are so many Different Things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i dont have a library card. Ive never been there. They need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. The people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. You. Ic in the future. When i first moved here people come to San Francisco to be the person you want to be can be anyone you want. The community is so rich and diverse that im learning every single day San Francisco is an amazing photoy town historically been base on evolution and that applies to every single professional field including philanthropic arts today what i do is photo based art manifests traditional forest and some colonel lodge and other frames of Digital Forest is a meeting that has been changing like super rapid and the quality is not extended by the medium if you took forest in school or you get a job in a newspaper theyll give give you a list of how to create a philanthropic story my goal to break down that model and from a to b that is unique and allows the ability to incorporate different types of i believey about propels someone through the rise and a fall of their own experiences one of the main things im trying to contribute it unconditional narrative form the narrative art of photograph the in between of photos how does a group of photos come together as how to use the space between photos to alight emotional responses from the audience and bring innovation and create bodies of work that narratively function the way that photos do San Francisco as the commission came out and you visited me and one of their prerestricts was to find an art with enough work to fill a large says that a quad down the hallway downstairs and we hung that quad to feel like a train station that constant sensation from all Different Directions some of the major characteristic of the landscape festivities the blur of the train their 70 Miles Per Hour and theyre not perfect as opposed to to what landscape will look like it creates a dichotomy for people insides the train not just the story of the subject it is not just the visual design the composition juxtapositioning, etc. Not just all autobiography boohoo it creates pictures with meaning within them and then some of the portraits feel awkward some of them feel welcoming and the person that mime making the picture is really comfortable and other ones feel awkward and weigh i didnt and tense that sensation is counter to what we feel like makes a successful portrait that sensation makes that work it is hard to be an artist in a city is 100 percent focused an business the cost of living is expensive and to value your success not scribble on financial return creates a conflict between the paramount egos in San Francisco today. 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My name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if San Francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both National Chains and neighborhoods by the Neighborhood Stores where coming you dont want to one of the great things of San Francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own thats