summer. and the healthy children program serves 3200 san francisco unified families every week and distributes over 2,000,300 pounds of food to these families annually. and 30 high needs schools that provide health a morning snacks consisting of fresh fruit, pretzels, granola bars, and over 10,000 students a day that amount to over 1 million sacks a year. and it serves approximately 56,000 school-age children and has included in the strategic plan a goal of academic excellence for all children, and whereas the school district has been a supporter of healthy food for our students, having set specific guidelines in the student lunches and breakfasts. and whereas the center for disease control says that it promotes the optimal growth for children and it can negatively affect our health, cognitive development, and school performance. be it resolved that the san francisco unified school district recognizes with deep gratitude and a tremendous contribution of the seventh as the food bank to the families and students of the san francisco public schools. and be it further resolved that these advances to a unified school district on behalf of the thousands of students and their families command and honor the work of the san francisco food bank in expressing a strong support and desire for a long and continued partnership. >> i don't think there are any public speakers. are there, from the board or superintendent? commissioner murase: i want to thank the community food bank. they really do a wonderful job of not reaching to the community -- outreaching to the community. it is a great way to get graduates come back and held on wednesday afternoon. the donations received get out to the community, and helped the school building community. commissioner fewer: the idea of writing this commendation came when i was visiting schools and so many that i visited i saw the food bank delivering food and i saw our parents getting food. the parents said they would not be able to make ends meet if the court not for this food. it is through the generosity of the food bank and of the donors which i encourage everybody to donate to. and also for the food thbank to have the vision. we serve moderate to low-income families. a number of families have been struck by this horrible crises that happens where our economy is. the struggle every day to feed their families. on behalf of everyone here and the families, i want to say thank you so much for thinking about us, making it so easy for our families to access this food. it has been a gift beyond measure. >> it really is a wonderful organization that does a tremendous amount of work, particularly for our city. thank you for bringing this forward, we would all probably like our name on the resolution. >> i would like to concur with adding the names. i have seen the food banks at work, not only in our schools, but in many community organizations and churches. they served just a tremendous number of people who, and they are really dependent on this ration of food for them. i am glad that you brought this commendation to us because i think it is well-deserved. i consider the san francisco food bank and one of the truce and the it is treasures that we have. anybody else? roll call. [roll call vote] >> seven aye's. >> could a representative of the food bank go to the podium? >> this is the executive director of the san francisco food bank. >> thank you very much for this recognition and this honor. we have some in the low-income families concentrated in our schools that we are glad that we have the resources to provide food for the principles, the parent volunteers, and the families themselves so that their families can be stronger and kids can come to school ready to learn. >> with the board's permission, in the spirit of what we're doing right now, i would like to recognize people that have done great deeds for us. can i move there resolution, if that's ok. seeing that it's ok, what i would like to do is expend the rules for this. roll call please. >> i'll move to suspend the rules. >> [roll call vote] >> can i have a motion to -- >> move the resolution. >> second. >> i guess i have to read it, right? i can make emily read it. this is that the elementary school at the park side campus, authored by myself and commissioner murase. >> dan ryan loved his family and the public schoolchildren whose lives he enriched through art and music and music in all people's lives, being the first principle of the school of the arts. and whereas he never stopped working to the art and music alive. and whereas he benefited countless numbers of people by a selfless dedication to civic and social education artistic endeavors. and whereas he was essential to the rebuilding of the school's now known as the feinstein elementary school campus. therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district honors the live and work of dan ryan for those that will remember him by officially dedicating the art room at the park side campus as the dan ryan rehearsart room. >> no public comment. go ahead, principle cheng. >> i am the principal of dianne feinstein school of dark side campus. i want to thank them for putting this fourth of the board, he was an amazing person. he did so much to help us grow into the community that we are, and when he passed away last year, i brought it to the pta and said that i really think that because of the work he did in getting the school built and the work that he did with children before that in the work he continued to do, everything from bringing cookies to taking pictures to helping with art in our school, i felt his marriage should live on in some way. i put it forth to the school site council and they voted unanimously to dedicate the room to him, he was also a member of the pta and he did not have any children in our school. he is an amazing man and wanted to give him this memory of being in the school, keeping it alive for ever. >> i was there for the dedication, and i was at -- i was talking to quite a few people including wives and relatives. when i heard the stories and the fact that there was a dedication, i asked the question, wouldn't it make sense if we will acknowledge this formally? she said yes, it would be nice, so i wanted to do this for not only dan ryan, but the whole community out there. thank you for inviting me to be there at 7:30 in the morning. anybody else? >> i want to say that this is apropos for the naming, in memory of ban. he was an incredible musician and a servant, and all-around committee member. he showed up to so many events and participated in a meaningful way. this is one way for us to consistently and constantly remember him on the campus, so thank you for allowing us to name a portion of your school after him. >> roll-call, please. [roll cal lvote] -- call vote] >> it's unanimous. >> let's move on to item d. joyce and chris are the delegates for another month, but they are dealing with graduation's said they are not here today. i would like to call justin who would like to introduce a lot of people. >> as you mentioned, my name is justin still, and the coordinator of the student advisory council. we had our last meeting last night, and the deputy superintendent came to the meeting to talk about what they thought was working and what they thought it wasn't working. we appreciate starting the dialogue with our superintendent. it was a sad day because it was our last meeting so we had to say goodbye to our members. we have a wonderful new group of members coming tonight, so i am here to introduce you to them. i put a little bios about each one if you want to look at them for your information. i will start by introducing the newly elected student delegate, megan wong. come on up, megan. [applause] >> i'm megan wong, a rising senoiior at lowell high school. afford to working with the board of education in the next school year. >> next, i would like to introduce kimberly hope. >> my name is kimberly ho, i'm an upcoming scene here and i am part of the young asian women against the violence. along with advocating my peers, i look forward to working with the s.a.c. >> thank you, kimberly. arianna ling. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. i am an uprising senior at third good marshall high school. it is my greatest honor to be appointed by school to represent my school and the students of the advisory council. i know of the successful resolution is from last year and i can't wait to see what we can bring to the table this year. >> next, i would like to introduce andrew wang. [applause] >> hello, my name is andrew wang. i look forward to working with the s.a.c. >> next i'd like to introduce jessica suyen. >> i will be a senior next year. of afford to making all the schools better by working with you guys. >> next of like to introduce a car when -- darwin velasquez. >> good evening, and i will be a senior next year. i go to george western high school and i am excited to be here working with the student advisory council next year. thank you. >> angelina weh. >> hi, i'm angelina weh, and i will be a junior at thurgood marshall academic high school. i look forward to seeing things change. >> next, i'd like to introduce chaophan wu. >> i will the a rising junior and i emigrated here when i was 10, so i am interested in the school district and everything. comparing chinese education to american education is a unique opportunity. [applause] >> last but not least, chloe ya ng. >> i am four feet nine and a quarter of an inch. i will be a rising junior for this year, it will be four years. i am pretty professional. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you, chloe. i look forward to working with all of you this upcoming year. thank you for taking the time to get to know the new members. >> this is probably inappropriate time right now to recognize how one of our former student delegates. we heard a vice president norton sought announcement that i think it was 2008, i believe. his name is jason su. he was given the full bright -- he became a full bright scholar. you student delegates leaving, that is a very high bar. that's like -- it's -- i don't know if you have never heard of that, but it is a bundle of money. >> your a future president. >> they give you much money to go after the issue that they want to work on as individuals, and they don't give too many of these in the united states. one of our student delegates received it, so i thought this was a great time to announce that. >> were ever you are, jason, congratulations. i don't think he is listening tonight, i forgot to warn him that we would be in acknowledging him, but it is a very great honor and i am proud of him. >> hoving to parent advisory council report. >> good evening board commissioners and everyone else here tonight. i am filling in tonight. >> good evening superintendent carlos garcia and commissioners, i am part of the parent advisory committee. i have two children that attend the district. i am a member of the advisory council program. >> i staff the current advisory council. i know of the parent of a student because she is graduating tomorrow night. we are going to share this report and talk a little bit about the process of the community process about restorative practices. gloria is going to talk about who we heard from. from 2006 to 2011, they led dozens of conversations, most of them focused on issues of equality. we heard many parents talk about and share their concern about bullying, the lack of communication with schools, and unfair and disciplinary practices. many families expressed urgency and a need for improving and the environment. it has been clear that most families don't know that was passed in 2009 as a way to embrace justice to improve climate and address the disproportionately higher rates of suspension for african- american and latino students. restorative practices should be one of our main priorities. our goals with the conversations were to inform families about these strategies and engaged them, learning more and understanding banharn to hear people's questions and concerns, and really importantly, to identify ways to strengthen the implementation of practices and the district. wheeler - -w- we worked closely with them because we needed to know what the implementation plan was and how it was going. several members and myself attended training, and to members are now part of the training course that the district is leading, and we hope to train more in the next school year as well. they developed a discussion guide and handouts to use in conversations. this is really fun, i love this list. chinese, spanish, arabic, someone, and vietnamese to be available for conversations. we presented information about why the district has embraced these practices to start with and what the approach is to implementing them and working on some of the basic strategies. we used some basic restorative practices are self while we were facilitating the conversations to model at the because we have become converts and we are incorporating more of these packages. we used an object d talking peace that you would pass around when it was your turn to speak. we had time to practice using the restored of questions and i meant to bring the card with them on them, but i think people are familiar with those. the real heart of every conversation with the open discussion where we heard what people's questions and concerns and suggestions were. people have any suggestions that we will share with you in the future. we conducted most conversations in the primary language of people participating. there were a few in spanish, cantonese, a few had a mixture of languages. we had a really short paper survey that we can capture some demographic information. we learned about participants experiences. and whether they had worked with restorative practices before. we heard from 292 participants, most of them are parents, middle school, high school students, and after-school program staff. we held conversations at 13 different schools. to reaching out and the year from families that are less fell led, we are pleased that it reflected the broad diversity of the district of the families across language. the types of school their children attended and socioeconomic background. because we heard from people with different rules and their experiences with school climate, we learned the needs, concerns, and implement restorative practices. we ran out of time with the school year. we reached 292, less than three months. we are really looking forward to having conversations with other communities with our important it is. we would like you to have this based on the survey from 211 surveys. we had 78% participants had completed the survey. 13% were school staff, including principals, teachers, cafeteria workers, and after- school programs that. 7% were middle school has will students. 40% of the participants had heard of restorative practices. it is a really big amount of before the conversation and many had children that had been suspended for a student that had been suspended themselves. 17 had a