Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 121316 20170102

Special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment its truly ready. This is actually the first time ive con that all right. Sorry to break it all up were going to get started the regular meeting of the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District for tuesday, december 13, 2016, is now called to order roll call. Thank you, commissioners. Ms. Fewer ms. Fewer here thank you ms. Mendozamcdonnell and dr. Murase and a mr. Walton and ms. Wynns matt haney mrs. Yanking if you will please join me in the pledge of allegiance we want to welcome everyone in person for those of you who want to address the board of education please fill out a speaker card and give it before the item is called this is included if you want to address the board of the appreciation of one of our Board Members no approval for board minutes item c superintendant report superintendant lee thank you president haney thank you for being here it is a bittersweet and momentous for many reasons the report that i will give is going to be a little bit different this evening and the first thing id like to do to share some of the duties of this particular report just in contribute to one of our students that was a victim of ghost fire im sorry the ghost ship fire 10 todays and that is the principal mr. Barry by the and ask the principal to come up to the mike and share some thoughts about our student. Thanks for coming open friday too that meant a lot were the school of the arts pass away friday second at at oakland ghost ship the Community Stands together in his memory the cunningham wrote this to music that was performed in his memory last saturday. Hey you were in any dpraem last night you were underlying away. Looked at me over your shoulder and smiled a glimmer in our eye rest in peace rest in peace. Thank you. Thank you, principal payne. Im going to talk about some other events that have been taken place and will take place in the next few days and then well United States of america u im going to turn it over to president haney even though this is under the superintendents comments request again, we have a special safety net proceedings during this evenings meeting so yesterday, i had the pleasure of attending the sfusd holiday sing along along with several commissioners and deputy superintendent superintendant guerrero and many members of the staff so those was the eight annual holiday sing along and superintendant guerrero was a guest musician on the violin i have pictures to prove it, it is several years hes been a member of the orchestra for that extent f evident at director mr. Rob danltz accompanied on pee that is goods on teaching life skills to students between 18 and 22 who received special Education Services thank you to all the students and staff for a wonderful sing along that was a fantastic party so, yes if anyone wants to get in the holiday spirit in a future event find your way to this sing along fantastic and last year they celebrated the i f w celebration and three years schools week was champions of inclusion powerful things happen in schools on monday assembly at Galileo High School and had many students performances and inspirational speakers and highlighted their Buddies Program as well as the kickoff throughout the week they engaged in activities in total 75 school sites of those schools 4 Early Education only and 48 Elementary School sites and 8 middle school and 15 high schools they working hard to have an assessable and equitable learning community as all schools throughout the district to do this we as administrators teachers and Staff Members need the equitable access to insure all students feel included in their community in the greater sfusd community thank you for everyone that participated in addition to the schools week we celebrated Computer Science Education Week an annual program dedicated to raise awareness of Computer Science and underscore computing in all Schools School across the district celebrated from pre k and others showed videos demonstrating the relevance of Computer Science in students lives or female leader in the institute some schools held family nights and hundred of students entered a contest to show the computing were excited to showcase that work in addition hundreds of volunteers from the circling the schools invited classrooms to lead activities and talk about the computing on their careers wear a excited to build open this and disruptive who sxeekd in Community Science and finally before we begin the thanks to our two commissioners ms. Wynns and ms. Fewer i want to take a moment to congratulate commissioner leak steve and mark assistance for their victories in the board of education and look forward to welcoming them back to the board of education in january thank you. clapping. president haney. Experiment we have the opportunity to say farewell and appreciate as a board and the community to two individuals that have made measurable contributions to the sfusd community and to our schools what well do well start with ms. Fewer for both commissioners a number of 3r5i78gsz ill open up to the community and then allow an opportunity for the board first, well have commissioner mendozamcdonnell that has a proclamation from the city. Thank you so much president haney and it is my honor as i said i didnt to give this to you on behalf of the mayor youve been an incredible fighter for the children and been a pleasure to work with you professionally and be your friend i was proud of you and im going to miss sitting next to you and listening to our jokes and all the sides comments during the Board Meetings laughter but there is a real honor we want to recognize you on behalf of the city for all your work youve been been on the board a while youll have to indulge me sandy i didnt see accomplishments are worth noting chineseamerican san franciscan was elected to the San Francisco Unified School District in 2008, and prior to joining the board commissioner fewer served on the education advocates for children and youth structural to create a Parent Advisory Committee and the first equality platform and offered resolution toe approaches to student Discipline Institute the ethic studies and create a parent gave me plan with the i description of lgbtq youth and the first local hire policy for the subject i got engaged that time and chief suhr held workshops and has been the pta president and 11 school side counsels and whereas chief suhr is ms. Fewer is a most of the 3 sfusd graduates and been the moralal conscious the school board for 3 years and whereas ms. Fewer got the champaign from chinese for affirmative action and the award from the parents Leadership Action Network and the bold award from the be lgbt center to name a few and whereas the city of San Francisco warmhearted appreciates ms. Fewer for serving two terms on the San Francisco Unified School District with the focus on fighting for the students who need our support and commitment and look forward to her leadership on the board of supervisors representing district one therefore, be it resolved that i mayor of the city and county of San Francisco do hereby proclaiming tuesday, december 13, 2016, as ms. Fewer day in San Francisco thank you sandy. clapping. before i call up Public Comment a proclamation into the board of supervisors where you will be soon and apparently having a longer reason dont leave we want to add there are two we want to reading two of the sclausz shell not stop being a mom well mess dearly here and be it therefore resolved that the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco call upon all residents to join us in grateful recognition for ms. Fewer commitment to excellence and lasting impacts on the bicycle board an tuesday, december 13, 2016, now im going to call comments calling names . Hello commissioners how are you today, i wrote this down short and to the point he want to thank sandy and until for her tenacity and sandy for her social justice inclusive supportive leadership for the students in the district and proud of sandy and her yes, we can organ to provide a worldclass education for the future leaders thank you from me my family and community. clapping. yeah, he just want to come up and share some appreciation for sandy since you left kohlman advocates weve missed that and good to see your friendly face on the board when it came to pressure on the speak directly into the microphone. We thought was important and we appreciate you and the rest of the board standing up and helping to pave the path to set an example when School Boards across the country should be doing i know your leaving and more pressure on the Board Members we expect them to steady and wish you well, if your cleavers and the meetings youll have to go through in the future and good luck with our navigation clear. Hi, im don harris the executive director of the art and im here to honor the commissioner for their Incredible Service representing any colleagues he know how hard you work and difficult being on the right side of issues is tricky and knowing with you hits my pleasure to work with you and seeing all the people here jill in 1992 you were elected when gas coagulation 1. 05 i looked at a couple of things george w. Bush was the president and elected licking ibm bill clinton and jill and i worked on many things youre in media head i have to process to get you into the building you get to cut a retain and sandy before i left for oakland we worked on the prop h and the last thing one o 1 30 in the morning and allotment the last dollar and look where that is both of you have done incredible work and done things that matter and care about you and thank you a. Congratulatio congratulations. All right. Board members. Oh, yes superintendant lee. For commissioner fewer yes. Thank you, commissioner president haney for allowing me to cut the line in terms of making some of my appreciations for commissioner fewer commissioner fewer has been a champion for our students for all the years ive been in San Francisco which are 16 and counting and i want to thank you commissioner fewer for all of your services our dedicated service as a parent organizer at home advocates and prior a member of 12 pta president terms and your 8 years of service on the board of education we have an interesting history we didnt get off on the positive footing when i came to San Francisco but appreciate that okay. Well keep it short and save the longer version for another night ive appreciated our openness to seeing our relationship evolve and grow and strengthen it happens on a common purpose and value i think that there was a turning point he remember i dont know if you will as clearly we talked about your son and just kind of a human moment and that was a moment of connection for us i think it paved the way for a lot of good work weve done together and Partnership Since then i appreciate that you in your approach to this work including our service as commissioner youve always brought an organizer and he stated connected to the community on behalf of the students and families and that is always difficult and tricky and some respect it is difficult for a member of the board of education but served us really well and youve pushed us as again an organizer and a member of the bruks pushed us to focus on opportunities gaps and to have high exceptions of ourselves to help all our students and especially the most underserved and marginalized students to be successful and sometimes, we know that we fail short of those goals but important to continue to hold those goals and to work as hard was we can i appreciate when it is difficult and youve been a model for courageous leadership as well as staff and im happy to say that we will look forward to Work Together in our new chapter you have a bigger megaphone if possible and a friend and supporter as a supervisor thank you. clapping. commissioner norton. So sandy you know we as we started an board together we remember elected in 20092008 and youve chaejd me and youve pushed me and pissed me off sometimes laughter but also laughter thats the true it is maturity youve reached out and taught me and ultimately such a good friend and ally im just so grateful to you for that on a personal note im incredibly grateful how huff met me and my daughter in particular and im so i excited as a new that resident youll be an incredible tenacious fighter for my district and told the people how im proud to support you youll do a great job do an amazing job for our students im happy were going to be allies in 70 city hall and youve been a good leader and working hard at great personal costs sometimes and you deserve all success and our thanks for your services. Commissioner shamann walton. Thank you president haney im going going to try to be brief with any remarks when you run for office the first advise sandra fewer is one of the reasons laughter sandy a definitely a friend of mine and you know our original part of our journey when i ran for office she wouldnt speak to me we didnt center a conversation the second time a fairly lengthy and long conversation she couldnt support me but would be watching me the moment he was elected to the board of education and had a chance to work on policies and formulating what we wanted to see and the moment we started to take votes and the moment we had a chance and opportunity to see where we were both coming from we developed not only a working relationship on the same page but a friendship youve been mentor you know youve been a great example of a parent as well as someone that fights for their community and focusing on the students that need that the most im always going to love and appreciate you for that at the end of the day the reason why you make us work so hard and the reason you dont embrace individuals you want to see people will do what theyre going to do and not only youve asked for that from us i want to thank you for that weve got a lot more work to do in our new role whether around immigration arrest Affordable Housing for educators and teachers in the city making sure we do right and other atlanta priorities the city supports the district i know well be fighting together thank you for your leadership our mentorship and being up front and focused on the work for the communities that need it the most. I really want to thank you on behalf of the children and families that youve working hard in our role and we want to extend a personal thanks you may not remember this when i was brand new you asked me to work with the community and he really appreciated your guidance during if process and he had the opportunity to serve as Vice President when you served as president of the board most recently i know whether you and commissioner norton introduced the assignment resolution you took a lot of arrows from the communities im happy to help you, we didnt prevail but it was a strength of character thank you. Commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Thank you. Ive already said a few things i want to i miss our facial expressions if youve sat across if sandy when she didnt like it youll easily know she doesnt like it ill miss how you work with the students and you always go to the students first when it comes to issues that are impacting them this is a beautiful im going to miss her venting session weve called each other after night weve seen something that was wrong and kind of had it out lightwell me and tell me he was right in feeling the way i felt and you come out and tell me a story that is similar im going to miss just laughing and crying with you we have many times on the board where weve been able to share and enjoy and weve had some hard nights but all in all the thing ill always loved but you to come out and you come out when we need you and you show up and youre so incredibly passionate about this work and with all of that im going to go glad your closer at the city hall and youll give me your facial expressions im text you in the chambers youll be getting support. Delegates ms. Fewer i wanted to share the first time ive been 0 on the committee for 3 years night i remember you came in and had a resolution for the slooudz studies classes and direct and beneficiary and wanted us to succeed in the past 3 years has proved that im grateful for your leadership for all students and families in the district thank you. You know i think everyone has said everything last week echo, for any part thank you for being true to yourself and for three and four that speaks a lot having a people of color it gives an example of how high a woman in San Francisco, california get and as superintendant lee and suggested my school is all about that it gives hope to everyone but how high we can get in life and learn into our stories and journey and im hoping to learn more from you and i mean, the students dont know but like learning like the stories of everyone like any principal or it is great to know all the things happening and everyones voice to listen to thank you a lot for your service. Congratulate you, you on the board of supervisors thank you for your service on the board of education. I will also be brief sandy well miss you a lot i think that you know when you think about what an elected official should be and can be youre the person that comes to mind and you know, i think that we need more passion we need people who like you are not afraid to wear your heart on the sleeve and an issue that comes from the board many matters to the community and students we can look to you to speak for all of us i feel so privileged to sever with you over the last 45 years to learn and get a sense not just what, if anything, passion looks like but courage weve had things come groven us and people told us nothing we can do or one hundred reasons the answer is no youve refused to take no and called us to a higher level of not just what we should be trying to do but can do so everybody o everything in the board room something that says were not doing as well, you were mindful of that im grateful youre service and also grateful perching fewer friendship and the very first issue he worked on before he was sworn in sandra said i have a local hire i wanted you to be part youre a brand new member and youll learn that example with you and seeing how you move forward policy changes systemic change is an example for all of us i know as a board we need you to continue to take that approach in the board of supervisors and in the city and were grateful for what youve done and cant wait to see how you shake things up thank you for your service we appreciate you so much. clapping. commissioner fewer yeah oh, oh i first himself so i just first want to say thank you, everyone for the kind words par but you know all that honest i feel it has buffoon such an honor to been given in opportunity to serve the families. This way i think most of you know that you know im a fourth generation four generations of my family have been educated with the San Francisco Public Schools i saw this opportunities as also given back to a School District it served my family as well very well my children are successful and thank you to you all the teachers its been really an honor to serve you know what with only person said i started as an organizer pointing fingers at everyone at our meetings and i approached that i think with a lot of anger we could be so much better in fact, and choose i had a picture on my arts board for awhile it was just as a joke laughter i wasnt aiming it was a joke. laughter . But i think that weve gotten to know each really we will around a common purpose so the things ive learned open the board are envaluable and will help me in my next endeavor i think want to thank my colleagues for pushing back on me and to apologize if ive pushed too hard or if sometimes my pushing was sounding abusive or sometimes or two strong i will say if theyre hard notes but the hardest thing on this board is to say sometimes i would say that, yes many meetings i have been discouraged but sometimes when you see the change that brings you to care the most i think that is to the things that also derives us the hardest when we look at the inequality all over the place what is happening and look at outrage own data it is a report card in our bureaucracy it is a reflective of us as a system how we serve and ive learned how hard everybody works i know it is easy quite frankly to stand tell podium all over the place point our as everyone is i never saw myself care, he appreciate every Single Person ive worked with in the district the tenacity how everybody works so, so hard im completely humbled i know i came to the podium i apologize but ill say ive been completely humble i get it people work so hard and work and belief and it is only because you work hard were here dough in this district that leads our equitable but i hope to be a good friend and supporter of San Francisco Unified School District those 8 years eave learned so much about myself and people in general but about the city and the equality that happens in San Francisco and so i know how hard those dollars are to secure i mean, ill protect that money at city hall those dollars are spent well everyone and everyone who has been on the committees that we ask people to serve on all the parents the Community Members everyone does it out of love of education and for our community i want to say thank you to them and thank you to our parents and all the people that make that better and better and better to punish us to be the best we can be to establish the teaches teachers when i read aloud and youre there about an hour and you say okay im so glad im not here the whole day he cant imagine going back so the work they do is so, so hard so this is been long if he can end and say i wish our in any board of education commissioners the best of luck the ones sitting here we hope youll continue the great work weve done and thank you to everyone and the voters of San Francisco for green house leaders the opportunities to serve its been an yes, maam measurable honor and humbly for the opportunities youve given me and please, please push on me in my new elected role some of the votes we have ive been terrified the votes that are coming i know ill be terrified too but not not afraid to do the right thing so push me to do the right thing and holds me accountable because you actually and everyone in San Francisco youre the shareholders of every decision ill make so push harder thank you. Everybody please join me in appreciating sandra fewer for her serve. clapping. thank you commissioner fewer all right. To now we will move to the farewell and appreciation of jill wynns and again practice to ms. Mendozamcdonnell to start. Thank you jill my honor to do this proclamation on behalf of mayor ed lee to recognize all of your years of service for the commissioner wynns was elected in 1988 conducting the longevities Board Members in the history of the board of education and whereas during our 10 years shes expanding four bond measures a parcel tax over one decade and served as clear or chair with divisions and whereas commissioner wynns has been instrumental in the renewable of the Enrichment Fund to support libraries arts and music programs and whereas commissioner wynns believes that the students need nutritious meal and not miss an advocate for the programs and whereas commissioner wynns offered the resolution establishing the parents citizens advisory and pushing to establish the parents relations and whereas commissioner mendozamcdonnell steadfastly the Jrotc Programs and believes that student choose to be part of Program Derived the invent from their participation and whereas commissioner wynns has been a tireless advocate for Public Schools statewide a delegate and president of the california School Boards associations and nation wide as a member of the board delegation and the delegation and whereas the city of San Francisco is greatly appreciative for commissioner wynns 28 years of Public Service to ensure our schools and families getting the best tints for success now therefore, be it resolved that mayor ed lee the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco is hereby proclaiming tuesday, december 13, 2016, as commissioner wynns day in San Francisco. Yeah. Director kim has a premeditation from fiona moss. I want to do this at the podium and have the commissioner wynns with me and the students at the podium to be with me. Board of equalization fiona wanted to be here to congratulate commissioner wynns but youll be reading the recognition commissioner mendozamcdonnell is president elect trump completing her tenure and whereas during her years been champion and held to pass all measures since 1988 including board bond measures to repair schools and whereas jill wynns has worked to empower students and participants and establishing sfusd star bathroom, to provide Center Support for under professionalism schools that helped school to improve and jill wynns has served on the board of directors on the California School board of education and for the counsel of urging or urban schools and theres versed in education issues and best practices and be it therefore resolved by the finally on moss honored jill wynns for her outstanding stiffer services clapping. clapping. all right. Before we go to Public Comment we have a proclamation from the board of supervisors again im read the last two clauses whereas commissioner wynns was also a professional theoretical custom designer in the theatre the opera and others organizations and therefore, be it resolved that the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco call upon all the residents of San Francisco to join with us in grateful recognition of jill wynns commitment to excellence and lasting impacts in the San Francisco Unified School District board of education thihininn tuesday, december 13, 2016, with that a long list of folks to honor you ill start with former superintendent beginning and formally City Attorney and call a batch after that. Thank you, very much. Good evening, commissioners superintendant lee i like you in that seat by the way, laughter clapping. . Student delegates and executive assistant and staff and members of the public id like to begin by congratulating sandra fewer on her election to the board of supervisors good luck in all your future combaefrgs it a truly a pleasure to be here along a grateful staff to honor and bid farewell to jill wynns for believe 24 years of extremely dedication and leadership i will provide a few snapshots of the many, many stories i shared with the commissioner my association with jill is personal as well as professional and the store begins in 1993 jelling was gwen first year i was the principal of ablt high school any future positions will is a genesis connection 14 more years until he retired in 2007 and the association after retirement is going on to the 9 year about 23 years so far my first few years at lincoln was challenging but fortunate that the commissioner included Lincoln High School where chairing on the students at the many, many brother hood and sisterhood assembles she was there jill compassionate side was revealed to me when she stated for a all the nights vigil for our principal peters who deed in a tragic accident at the age of 33 you know jelling it is 20 years next week then when i moved commissioner wynns worked with me and staff on the High School Graduations requirements the critical Jrotc Program and vending machines and the come back cocacola resources and at always of crisis she was there for support and wade in the superintendents conference podium for news of missing pioneer students at a camp down south and another time dealt with the anger staff and students over the marshall with the riots with the Police Department later as a chief Development Officer he sat an important committees as staff set up a Translation Office and capacity the School Health program for School Safety the Wellness Program and nurses and Beacon Centers and margaret was through nutrition and afterSchool Programs and setting up a decrees response and emergency plan 2004 when we served as a deputy superintendent jelling was interest to navigate nourishing situations where the superintendent was working live where and major responsibility that transmissions into the role of the intern superintendant with the help of Community Members the prop a passed in 2006 commissioner wynns continues her quest to complete the art masters plan and with other conversions and staff permit me to deviate ill be remiss if i didnt acknowledge my formally executive assistants who is here and didnt edit my speech and also our former General Council luis. Personally he will be grateful it jelling for sticking by my side what i was bitten by angle insect my foot swelled im not kidnapping to the size of a football we walked i linkedin rather she walked on the streets of beijing to find angle ice pack no walgreens but got the ice from a local restaurant without speaking schiens went are and the trip that eddy luggage was lost and borrowed one of the supervisor yee suits too bad no facebook id like to read a message from one of commissioner wynns many admires graduated in 2009 and earned a ph. D in aerospace and business from Stanford University shawn who was a delegate recreation and Parks Department the student Advisors Council that is the message from shawn ms. Wynns has graciously dedicated her life to the San Francisco Unified School District in all matters shes maintenance a student first focus every action an idea and words was a thoughtful displace of commitment to the students stating vital in helping to reestablish the student Advisors Council that is another fine example of her leaves work although shes leaving her work with live on and thank you to the student delegates on the boards one of them anyhow and jovrnd chiu my former student is yeah im getting old by the way, shawn lives in los angeles with his wife abby and sends his appreciation and congratulation to commissioner wynns we solute you job well done. You know when eirs here at the school board i agreed with whatever beginning had to say its true are sperntsd you do look good up this ms. Fewer the city is lucky to have. He helm thank you. Jill my friend weve had month vaufrjz over the years i promise not to tell all about you if you promise not to tell all about me suffice it to say i have known well as we all do of youve dedication your care of deeply about the families and childrens of San Francisco and weve been the better for it im going to say this to you as well as you embark upon new charters lets see keep in mind your service locally but state and nationally and today, we are not an in originaly times when we have at the National Level people going to be in charge of education that dont appear to believe in Public Education so you may think as others dont perhaps your work has just begun because were going to needs all of your wisdom and our experience to join with others in reminding this great nation how important mr. Public education truly is you have work to do my friend thank you. clapping. all right. I want to ask margaret former director the dcyf and former executive director and a close friend of jills. Well this is a thrill to be able to pubically thank jill wynns for her extracoronally contribution to how city how many of us not been in a room who they say less ask jelling shell know the answer i dont know what well dont youll be in the room louis for Public Health that started as a parent and advocate i want San Francisco is weve worked together if shes the author of the legislation that apartments victoryy council is a major force in the districts we have a long list of causes shes xamentd that includes the commercial free schools act that was controversial and she always takes on the controversial things and it is become a National Bible the most sought over piece of legislation in district has passed she really believes that schools are an institution not just for test taking an early advocate for the first clinics for peer resources and nutrition experience that was got soda and chips out of school try to get that out of schools shes been a champion for afterSchool Programs an opportunity for the young people and took on that issue as pointed out ill be the first one probably the only elected official been a alcohol, tobacco firearms and made sure that soda was named after someone who was her good friend and an advocate so for the arts a real advocate opposing segregation and has made it her business to learn everything how to make sure that happens what is legal and what isnt shes been the major champion of financial equality thats how we make sure that the money goes to the east side of town to the young people that actually need the resources the most shes the budget guru with an of 10 peep in the state it understand the estate budget that makes her enavailable especially, as the role overseeing the district shes the most visible person on the board in sacramento stand at the estates superintendent campaigning for prop thirty he said he was the best champion for that. The thing he love most about what she stood for about keeping the Public Education and point out sometimes you can judge people by the enemies some of her enemies that called her out rushing limping bow whether you take an controversial stuff and tom fisher said if he had anything to side with that shes shell not be elected for taking on and opposing you know our kids the fact of the matter if o the school anyway she won 3 times after that erupted prevention and hope she will continue to lead both in the city at the estate level, nationally and jill thank you youve been an inspiration to me youve been a tutor youve been a colleague youve been a friend for a quarter of a centuries were lucky to have you and thank you very much. clapping. all right todds david see thank you, thank you for the opportunity to stand up to commissioner fewer tenure im relishing and acknowledge a debt of gratitude to commissioner wynns for a number of things outlined by margaret but the idea of being a stalwart champion for arts in the schools and recent events hit that point home for us for friendship was the remember it is the creative implus that keeps our children in school a purr their individualism and commissioner wynns understand that and Public Education should indeed be public soon to be a foreign expect in this country and i think well learn in short order how hard were willing to punish against the forces that make it harder in this country for education to be the great equalizer and acknowledge jelling mentorship of so many myself include in firing me to think more critically of myself about the value of Public Service how much of a debt we owe i hope that this is not been to late for you to be recognized for the Tireless Service and is example youve given so many of us what it means to be a hero in times like these well have lots of opportunity to prove to ourselves and parents and children if indeed were the best advocates and have commissioner wynns to thankfully for the example shes set for all of you thank you commissioner wynns. Bravo to at all you all that including the part of the arts. Im the autism director and served many years proudly on the campuses of the school of the arts im the founders of the Department Theatre at the los angeles i returned to Public Education connecting the Arts Committee and met a board member names named she was innovates situated and stand up to the participants and stood up for the dignities of Public Schools and Public Schools as the mainstay of the democratic system shell not be shrines by too many of them had short memories and not standing with her i remember i saw it happen one day i was in any the woman told her dont be seen talking two jill wynns the boss didnt like her the likes weve not seen in the theatre and here was this woman jill wynns standing up and defending Public Education from prevention and questioning others and reading the realms and realms of paperwork that crossed her desk and making time with the teachers last week so many eave watched them shoveling the patterns and talking while she spoke this was a civil time when this behavior was not the new normal we endure i wanted to ask the writing is on the wall how she got through it she said she had a job and the they know she hatred the most not to let fear stands in her way i remember what was wearing when she said it is that a big thing in neuro skaefs here was that woman is felt the shrinks and arrows glue but not defenders rezoning districts nationally her opinion but thinkers and set a tone of serious december carriers when those around her, she took in information and makes up her own mind she set a tone the real deal and raised the bar for ill of us told it to us straight syrian youll not want to hear this i hear i and disagree no kidding those who doesnt knew her were for the paying attention he took the rap for a position they laughed they thought he got genesis to do something she stood in Human Resources own shoes to know jelz is to accept the fact it was not easy jelling is a bound by integrity and a morale campus and local option she waves the defense and im proud to serve last week so many others im waiting to see what is next for this amazing leaders in the theatre most often the most important assess the potato said the hope is the they know with features in those low december honest times when the toxic it is normalized and overview is infected around the world perhaps the features in the sculptures must be made of metal we need leases lesbian jills and his own the wise women were respected and listened to drawing cycles around the stars from the burr and bringing in of new leave women were not marginalized weve seen this normal list on every fwrj the woman is a unprofessional and beware the woman that wants to leave the abandonment of the local and the right obvious letting hes judge those woman that ton to determine when the going was tough im talking about jill wynns and last week women last week this room are honored and listened to and not asked to disappear not told their talk too much theyre the most knowledgeable and the very resources that saves ourself reader that the head of the excavation matches that of all that came our way those are new times times when wisdom and women like jill when silencing to lose the site of our survival less honor those women that dufr or deserve thinking no longer dominate our public leadership and the Public Schools are innovate put in the marketplace on this night lets say thank you to the Public Servants to grace San Francisco in service to children a hero a leader and lets pray in our hearts she continues to grace us with her love a lot of us are cheering you an jelling in act 3 we need you more than ever thank you. clapping. good evening commissioners have to agree you look at very good in that seat but start off would congratulations to ms. Fewer and expect great things from you and grad we have a friend on the board of supervisors thank you we had a little bit of School Members i had a rocky separate with jill im so glad that i was able when i was working in the Public Schools to really tap into our knowing and wisdom and mefrnd me in the difficult Education Funding i dont know if you remember one time im sure hydra will remember he want on national tv to defend Public Education and had to go in a crash course pubically and jelling gave me stuff to read i was in the hotel room in la and what does that mean what should i say if they say this this was really crazy i wanted to say our support for Arts Education and the arts plan has been amazing im looking forward to work with you to bring the school of the arts downtowns and on harris as a private citizen will be successful and thank you so much jill and really appreciate everything excuse me noncompliance going to hesitates on mayor ed lee i dont know im weve come a long way walker good evening have an official role but a graduate of the Lowell High School and spent many late nights in the room a got has not in the audience it is what we got but sandys congratulations western pga in the night as advocates and congratulations to our board of supervisors jelling was elected to this board he of those entering plea last semester at the hover high school 8 grade hey, there are some people in the room that werent born i think im big deal niece i say jill wynns namely as a name on the practice ballot we got to side at the church thats where my mom voted and my hole one of the first job assignments as a kohlman advocate employee was the protest so jelling was there were protesting because we nooetsd ethic studies and protest we could not get condos and enough things in the school he didnt know was that the advocates we had and jill wynns i watched her while he was at cooling man and when i work to work on the ask the council those are all the different episodes from i know trying to fix it once we got promotions pass and partnerships with the board of supervisors and the mayor and creating that joint relationship we had money to do things in the school those longdrawnout meetings we if agree with we didnt agree quay touched base so we could move forward we appreciate your jill i have a couple of not so successful things i appreciate our in those and just the work youll continue to do because youve proven youre an seat to the community with the state advocacy work and the budgets we heap your not going far youll definitely be needed in years to come thank you. Hi jill im a parent in the district im not a professional anything not a professional educator not a professional anything i was all may life and too children in the school board was was difficult and all of you smiling you indicated him hes a fine man with two children of his eaten and a citizen not to me but to you and he wanted to come tonight i flew in from new orleans to say to you jelling thank you very much when we had troubles in the schools he met with the members of the School District and jill was incredibly wonderful and met with the parents and talked with us and helped us figure out how to solve problems she was graesh, she was generous and thoughtful, she was you know lovely in the way she approaches each problem that we had and married it easy to and she empowered parents to work on solutions and so that im very grateful for all of the work over the years one of the most important things you understood many aspects and did our homework as a School Board Member that was clear also, he watched i for all 24 years watching many, many deft people come and go you have shines in an amazing way and been a very fine board member this School District will miss you and they cant say help it because of the work that youve done all of those years and the people of this district will mess you and he will mess hearing about the things that youve done but we know that you will side more work i think so this is the moment in time and it is important that you move into in any work and help us as a nation not make the kinds of mistakes that the new orleans School District has made where i live and were any dwrarn children will go to school jill youre my hero and he thank you. clapping. jill ive been in the last 9 years for our kids im here in the room for i today thank you im a parent of two High School Graduates from Lincoln High School a produce of Public Education and a first generation chinese of immigrants are parents that came with nothing percentage but you and others have done is to give me a future to our killer im here to thank you your selfless serve our city for 2 had years im sad to see you leave weve benefited from our service for all those years in the 9 years eave worked with you, you have gains may respect and my admiration because you put our students first you dont back down as a progressive and as oats war activist you supported our students because you knew that the Jrotc Program benefited our students thats our primary focus youve served as a steward if in district understanding the budgets and as kroef he never understood the analysis about when he say fabulous that didnt means so for that and for your unswefr support for students even when if benefit you personally and in fact, made things difficult for you thank you thank you for your services, thank you for your placement of our constitutes and this district didnt know how much theyll miss you until you leave thank you. clapping. hello, everybody. My name is Jean Richmond son the president of the united administrators of San Francisco and i wanted to take a moment to speak to before sandys and jill on behalf of the our 200 and members. Humane its a running joke 282 he work in sundays bietsz this will be quick youre the e pet of our kohl core values and diversity driven you are unified and lock arms he a lot of that but must or most of all our fearless you started when i started may first year weve been teeth on a permanent needed i want i to know i watch you and admire you and learned a whole lot airline continuing the green again work and you to continue your good work in your chapters to best wishes clapping. all right. calling names im not going to talk about her work as a commissioner but talk about her characters as a friend as a parent, as a human being and her commitment to San Francisco city both me mom and jill had a wonderful love fair share with San Francisco therapy vvltd in the willie brown wellbeing wellbeing in terms of but as my moms friend they were fighting and disagreed he hugged and cried and went through the the ups and downs parents you know media mom has 4 boys jelling has 3 kids of their own the guy behind me a tremendous amount of laughter and a lot of part of why im bringing up the qualities here dignity and sense of humor those qualities of a friend translated into a her role as a sxheshgs with San Francisco and he admire you for that i think im not alone. Im hoping truly hoping our going to do that fword i wanted you to be a fwraept and cook pieces jelling cooks some amazing pieces. clapping. and her grandkids i want that gift and enjoy the leave i have in front of you so thank you very much. Thank you commissioners and board of education and friends so moving to see you show up and the support of any mom jill wynns i dont think i can add this is the work for her you know personally seeing 2 into did personal sites through the years of her work other than the board is you know sort of a combootd in two things if youre theyre shooting at you, youre doing something rights shes what shadow many arrows with before and aftery and the dignity we know her for and also our you took responsibility i dont know if i can live out as much dedication as shes done for the children of the city of San Francisco and maybe combootd best but all of the people who know her eave never met and when they found out what my last name is they think my mom is from. clapping. we should be lucky to have a wonderful tribute from the public and know ill feel my hive is well lived if people say that to my soon in the room and look forward to what is in the future and the city and county of San Francisco will miss the service youve provided so equal over the years we a lot of you and proud of you thank you. clapping. im here representing for the representative of the rating communities and one of the founders of San Francisco mission grief i want to express a haddy colleagues for your 24 years of service your commitment and has been a mentor to the leadership the community our first director trashing i didnt brown they organized at your Board Meeting a number of people your tenure youve seen over 5 superintendents and been searching for 4 intrunts our wisdom and leadership are appreciate as well as you can the doors maybe closing here but new doors radio opening and have plans for your leadership and with our children so he want to sea thank you, thank you for your work. Commissioner wynns thank you for all youve done i started out as a parents the time she started and my children were at the center she wanted to close it down, of course, he didnt think want that to be closed i called every board of education member the inference that got back to me requests jill wynns but the first one was jill wynns and she sat there and heard me out and heard did parents concerns and we argued about positions and why that was better to have a bigger high school and yard hue much more kids will benefit from the heel built and he sat there thinking he was wrong but an vaccine he wanted that yard what do i do so she told me you negotiate and go in this happens he fight for everything you president reagon you a politician and or vaccine i was confused over the years been an advocate eave met with her on hundreds of ordinances if you guys know me i have a hundred issues im from the mission laughter thats hue it is weve got another issues and africanamerican communities yes eave filled up the auditorium and we demanded negligent guess what my daughter will congratulate it is within the challenging things to get my daughter there but guess what all her books and authorized that people of color the most rewarding thing to see the work weve done together over the years eave benefited if that finally so hard as to get my daughter there school and the rest of my kids finally from jool that was beautiful and totally benefited from it what ive learned from jill how to listen shes listened to me ive gone to her on so many Different Things recently if i was a artist i would draw it out for you because that is who you are to me and any time i have a issue i will call you. Thank you so much for your picking up that call 1994. Thank you for answering that call and thank you for showic how i can be a advokit framy kids and all kids because when i came to you i fs just thinging of my kids and you showed me to look at all kids. Thank you for being a warrior for our children and representing us and hearing out everything from the mission. Thank you to all you guys for hearing me out. [applause] calling up namesism marry [calling out names]. Good evening commissioners. Former superintendent, current superintenedant. I thought i would say a few words from the perspective of staff. Somebody just said that commissioner wynns had been here for 5, i have been here since november 2004 interim superintendent lee is my 5th so i wont speculate since 1992 how many others there were but clearly there has been an amazing run of participation and leadership on behalf of the board of education with commissioner wynns that i think we are all grateful for. When i first came to the district, not understanding San Francisco unified, nobody stepped forward larger than commissioner mendozamcdonnell and missioner wynns and at the time commissioner mendozamcdonnell was run for the board about what it would take to rebuild the San Francisco Unified School District and make our buildings some of the finest in the nation and that cause was later adopted by commissioner [inaudible] when she joined the board and no where over the course of my tenure have i have bigger allies and champions than furor and wynns and think the students of San Francisco in the buildings that they go to school in every day are recipients of their energy, their wisdom and their passion with every one of our student no matter where they lib in the city, no matter where they come from, whether they are newly arrived in the United States and have been leer here for decades deserve to be taught and learn in the finest buildings that we can provide. And i believe thanks to their help we have some of the finest and most beautiful schools in the nation. They have helped me and my team help do and achieve that goal. I think we will be forever grateful and i certainly am grateful to both of them. I like to add on a note, i share a very odd thing in common with commissioner wynns rchlt both of us were Foreign Exchange students in sweden. Not quite at the same time, she was in [inaudible] there is only 500 miles apart but the bond of the swedish language among two people in california gave us a odd one so thank you commissioner furor and the good times and fights that we had and thank you commissioner wynns for all your support. Staff and everybody at the Facility Department greatly appreciates all of you. [applause]. Good evening. My name is mary ashenburrer and taught in the mission from 1968 to 2004. I taught at Mission High School for 33 years. The last time i spoke before the school board was in 1996 and the president of the school board kept cutting off my micro phone. I hope that doesnt happen tonight. In 1996, i was speaking in defense of the programs Mission High School introduced between 1994 and 1996 that by all district and state measures had resulted in a profound increase in student performance, student atenedance and School Climate across all grade levels and all ethnicity. Our success brought accolades from around the country. I was addressing the school board because at that time those in positions of authority at the District Office had the majority the school Board Members rewarded our remarkable success by removing our Administrative Team , removing many faculty and systematically eliminating all the programs that had resulted in Student Success. Their actions brought cichaos to the school and destroyed student progress. What we had achieved, they deliberately destroyed. So threatening had the actions of the district become that our Student Newspaper was awarded five First Amendment rights awards for having the courage to speak the truth on behalf of their audience. Then the stud want newspaper was eliminated. There was only School Board Member at that time who had the integrity and courage to challenge the actions of the School District and speak out on behalf of Mission High School students and faculty. That person was jill wynns. While other school Board Members remained silent, but passively went awrong with destruction of Mission High School, jill continued to speak out regardless what her colleagues thought or impact on her position. For as long as i have known jill her only interest is act in the best interest of the students. While others use election to the school board as a stepping stone to political office, jills focus remained. Her only interest to work on behalf of the students of San Francisco. Such integrity and dedication is rare, especially in San Francisco. To those who currently serve as members of the school board and to those newly elected, i challenge you to be as passionate about the students as jill is. I challenge you to be as unselfish about your own political futures as jill is. I challenge you to have the guts to speak out when those around you sit quitely as the actions of the School District or not those on the board undermine student progress. I challenge you to have the fortitude to dedicate your life to the students of San Francisco. Thank you jill for your services and dedication. When we needed your help back in 1996 and all you have done since then, it has been my honor to know someone of such Selfless Service to young people. I wish you god speed. [applause] im speaking on behamp the cac. Katie rustle and gym [inaudible] had to live. We wanted to thank jill wynns and sandra lee furor for their work. Katie rustle had word written down specifically about jill and the words are tenacity, depth of knowledge, brutal, unflinching honestty so thank you for your service and god speed as the speaker before me said. Thank you. [applause] good evening commissioners. Thank you for providing us the opportunity tonight to come and thank furor and jill wynns. I want to thank the commissioners the majority of whom have been paying attention tonight. I know it is a long night. We are all busy. I took tonight off from the musical we are writing about immigration to be here tonight to especially honor jill wynns. If i offer advice to the new commissioners coming on the board it is to remember we can see you and we know the difference between whether people are hearing or really listening and paying attention. Jill, you are the real deal. You always listen and you always pay attention. I have a working relationship with a lot of people on the board tonight and for your minuteership and guidance and your support i am really really grateful. But working you jill is the most rewarring for me. You honor commitments, answer emails, you answer the phone and it is really meant a lot to me. You actually show up in good times, come to see the shows i direct but also in the tough times. I think you know what im talking about. So do many people in the room. You never saw this position as a stepping stone to something bigger or better. This is your lifes work and your leadership and wisdom should serve as a model and inspire the new commissioners. Your courage, your intelligence and your heart actually make you like all the characters in the wizard of ozrolled into one and if that makes me dorathy i can deal with that. I look forward reading your bookment relove you and we thank you. [applause] albert ma. Shannon dugen . Michele [inaudible] ruth [inaudible] audrey hermosa. Good evening commissioners and superintenedant young, my former boss. Ifem rrb susan wong and i am a retired San Francisco teacher and administrator and im here tonight to publicly thank jill wynns for the support that she has gibbon me while i was here as director of People Services and we have developed a very good friendship over the past 24 years. Jill and i ceend kind of met at our regular Board Meetings back in 1992 when she was elected to the board and i was gibbon given the task to perform for 15 years of presenting expulgz hearings and i was so afraid offending the Board Members she and dr. Kelly took me aside and said this is what we want to hear. With their help and their guidance, i was able to present eshpelled hearings eeben if we dont want them eexpel we have to because of what they did and the ed code. Also as a result of jill taking a interest of the expelled children because plire to my being there if a child fs expelled they were excluded for a half year or year, but after i worked with jill i with dr. Rohos and kelly, we were able to expand it County School program so we had a place for these stud chbts and i have to say im very proud of the fact many learned how to read while in the county program. The other thing im very proud of is we graduated over 100 students every year for about up to 15 years and these were students that in the past would have been told to go home. San francisco was taking the or paibing paving the way for other districts in california to provide that alternative. So, the other thing i was thinking about because it is about 5 years since i have been here i needed to limit my comments to three minutes and so i am limiting my comments to three minutes because all the people that have spoken before me have said a lot of the things i feel i should say but there is no opponent point to saying them because they have been said. However, jill i want to tell you there is life after San Francisco unified. As you know i teach golf daily and Tony Anderson said to say hello to you. So, im hoping that one of these days ill see you out in Golden Gate Park or viz Valley Middle School with a putter. [applause] hi. My name is albert ma from Lowell High School. Im in the [inaudible] program. I just want to say thank you mrs. Wynns for your continued support of grtc for the past 24 years and i want to let you know how thankful we are to have you on the school board andthank you. [applause] hi. May name is odd ru[inaudible] i too am a cadet of local rotc program and first like to congrtulate sandra lee furor fewer. On behalf of the brugrade and battalion i like to thank thank you commissioner wynns for your unmatched support for the grtc program. A program in which cadets learn to grow in character and exercise leadership and in the grtc program we value a lot of things including just to name a few, honor, integrity and Selfless Service and commissioner wynns i just want to say that you embody all those and exhibit them with unmatched furt nasty when we face so many tribulations, when our wonderful grtc program was facing like many tribulations and we just want to thank you very much for that. [applause] hi, my name is shannon dugen a senior at lowal high school. I want to thank you for enjoying my yoors of high school. Not only it taught leadership values and communication skill squz gave me the motivation and courage to talk to all you, but it has become a second home to me. It is where i run to when im in trouble and where i go to cry and where i left my whole heart in and i just want to thank you so much for allowing me to leave my heart somewhere afteri graduate high school. Thank you. [applause] hi. Hi jill. Im michele [inaudible] i was a cadet back in 2007 at low elhigh school and i remember like audrey struggling to figure out to reach the mic and make sure im seen and heard and i know that she was listening every time we came to the meetings to talk about grtc. I graduated in 2011 and this sumaster this fall im graduating at San Francisco state university. My major is Asian American studies and minor in education. If i wasnt in grtc and go to these meetings, these experiences have developing me to be the person i am and the leader im trying to be and i have been a sf fund volunteer for the past year officially but ever since and graduated i have been mentoring and know so many students from freshman to now, seeing them go to college and myself. They have watched me grow. The kids at lowell and lincoln to know that i can be there for them and listen and i have a presentation, i is a final tomorrow for my multicultural Education Course at state and this class has really revealed a lot about what education is and what education means to me and what type of educator i want to be and whether or not ill be a teacher, but knowing what students need or people like jill wynns to listen what they believe in and eeben though i know that there are moments during the school board that those meetingssimilar to the older gentlemen, i would shake and cry with my peers just feeling so nervous about what could happen to grtc and know this program has continued on. I know that there is so much that needs to be done and we shouldnt just focus on grtc and go there are bigger issues to tackle. Im thinking about being a ethnic studies teacher because of my experience in grtc to understand that i grew up in outer mission, went to denman and didnt think i would go to lowell. I didnt think i was going to graduate and didnt think my intelligence was good enough to be at that school but in grtc it motivated me to know that it is okay, you will be fine and not that false hope but the real hope that things will be okay because there are people like jill wynns and colonel fullered who is not here today bat that believe in me and 5 years lateractually as a precman in 2007 i wanted to leave lowell immediately but the seniors i met and motivated me to keep going and me going back to lowell and lincoln these past 5 years i keep motivated them to justi wasshannon, odd audrey albert, all the kids that spoke today i talked with them for hours and will never forget how grtc gave me the opportunity to have people to listen to me struggles and pains, what goes on in my personal life so i can suck sed academically and i am. There is so much i will be doing and very thankful for the support of jill wynns and i want those cadets and students i want all the future cadets to know that hopefully there could be another jill wynns and if time goes on maybe ill go on the board but im only 23, so thank you. Well see when that time comes but thank you so much for knowing that grtc was definitely a choice for students and hopefully the future board will continue to believe in that. Thank you. Thank you. [applause]. George [inaudible] leo [inaudible] pat calcine, Mark Jeffries. Commissioner wynns, i am sure at some point in your distinguished 40 year career you thought to yourself, this is lasting forever im sure other times it seems it fs just a cup lt days ago and the reason i know that is 38 years ago i was a student a lowell in the grtc program and to me it seems like yesterday. During the 24 years oof service im sure you also asked often is it worth it and im sure the question has come up because you have been a steadfast and unflagging supporter of grtc and many times when it isnt popular to do so and probably when it is detrimental to your career. I cant say whether it is worth it or not for you but can tell you what it minute for me. My guess is you would say it has been just because you believe in what is right and doing the things that the students need and want and so there is no question you probably are without doubt willing to done what you did throughout your career. For me, my best friends from high school are the ones i met in grtc. I had a pretty successful career in the 31 year career was biltd on what i learned in grtc and 31 years i have come back to be a instructor for the purpose giving back to the students. Grtc is a program that is pretty loved by the student as you already heard. Parent like it, teerchers and admip strairts like it as well, so it shocks me it hasnt has as muchwide spread support as it should have but you have been here for us and for it. With a low estimate i think you probably influenced and supported 14,000 students over the cost of your career and that is just the students on the low end. A parent story came to me, this was a traditional asian parent, didnt want their kid involved in grtc, science and math were the important things but recently that parent said he thought grtc should be required subject for all High School Students because when he talks to her daughter about the high school speerns the warmest and deepest impression she has were from the time she was in grtc. Those are it kinds of things jill you have been involved in supporting. It has been your campion of the program that we have appreciated so much. If it were not finals week i would have every confidence we would have thousands of students in here to tell how much we appreciate it. From the instructors that were not able to be here tonight i want to pass our heartfelt thank jz you have always been there for us and we will always be there for you. Thank you. [applause] good eebening avenue wn. Pat calcsqun have the pleasure of maybe be thg person that has known jill the longest. Jill, happy saint luceia day. My granddaughter lieu sia that just left. Wonderful. Jill and i met in sweden, davidand she was the young person on the trip and i just remember looking at jill wynns and thinking, wow, she is smart. I got to know her better. And of course we went to different schools but as fate would have it we met up in San Francisco and everyone has been so eloquent jill, i couldnt do a bit of justice for the many young people, teachers, administrators who have spoken so eloquently about you. I just want to be here personally tonight to say publicly how much i admire your great great work in San Francisco. Thank you so very much and please keep up the good fight. You have a lot of work ahead of you. [applause] good evening. My name is leo [inaudible] im currently rotc teacher at Washington High School and like george [inaudible] before me, a graduate of Lowell High School rotc so wont repeat the same stories he told. I will spare you the torture. I do want to congratulate commissioner fewer on the election to the board of supervisorsism i want to share rotc we teach 7 citizenship skills and those are patience, cooperation, fairness, respect, strength, self improvement and balance. While you exhibit all of these commissioner wynns, you have those in abundance as a School Board Member. The one skill that you possess stands above the rest and that is strength. Definition of which is, the willingness to stand up for what you believe in and to denounce what is wrong. In your support of the grtc program, and our School District you have become the case study in that skill of strength. As you complete your long tenure we thank you for affording San Francisco rotc student the choice to enroll in rotc. Please know your efforts have allowed and will continue to allow grotc to fulfill its mission which is motivate young people like michele, like all the speakers im humbleed to speak after, to mote vaet them to become better citizens. Thank you very much. [applause] good evening board and good evening supervisor elect. I like to just say first off Mark Jeffries a apparent in San Francisco Public Schools, my son is a recent freshman at wallburg and daurth a recent graduate from [inaudible] school of the arts. Just came home from london. I just want to give a brief thank you to both sanda and jill. I have worked interacted and dived into the octagon with both of them on more than a few occasions. I would like to thank our supervisor elect for all of the things she brings to the table, the things she has done on the positive note to better the environment for all student, not just some, but to be as inclusive as possible i want to thank you again for all that. As for jill, the best way to describe what jill bring tooz the board and brought to the board is that a board like anything that involves humans is like a organism. Any org anism needs dna. I would say jill is very much the dn affof San Franciscos board of education. You need someone who can act as a compass and anchor. Who can build on the organism to help it defend against the non stop attacks at circle around what is one of our grandest experiments that is Public Education. To full till fill it and help it grow and expand and keep the organism moving. More often than not jill landed on the right side of history because she has been able to be that dna and collect ive history and tie the lose end together as things and people come and go and leadership evolves. There has to be someone that helps hold this thing together because all you have other lives, this is just another facet to the lives you already carry and i thank you jill for being that and for having done it so long and so consistently and high degree of integrity in everything that you do. Now the org nlf is potentially under attack from what can only be described as a flaming clone car of historic proportions. I look forward to jill being able to help propagate that dna in the next endeavor she takes on. Once again jill, thank you very much for all of your service. [applause] unless there is anybody i missed we want to thank everyone who came to help celebrate commissioner wynns. Did you put a card in . You can come up. Are you here for commissioner wynns . Okay. Thats not yet. Alright. Thank you again everybody who came out and provided beautiful testimony and comment. I will now pass it over to superintendent lee. Thank you president haney and thank you to everybody who is part of this tribute both for commissioner fewer and wynns. I have a few things to say as well and i hearing the stories from some years gone by remind me of some of my First Impressions of commissioner wynns so ill just say a couple of things about that. I moved to San Francisco in the year 2000 as a young man. I am grown up here in San Francisco unified and commissioner wynns was already a veteran on the board of education and like commissioner fewer had been a very powerful advocate before shes elected to the school board. Being young and rather naive and not knowing San Francisco much less San Francisco unified, it was really amazing to watch commissioner wynns in that introduction for me to San Francisco and to the School District and my impressions of her, of you, jill, were that you were in some respects fighting a uphill fight and no, sir of that took place before i got here but it was very clear that you had defied odds with a great deal of tenacity and smarts and courage and that when you became president of the board of education after you were reelected in 2000, just months after i got here, there was a great sense of accomplishment and victory all most and that want you talking about your own roll but a Community Talking about your roll and you served as president of the school board for the first time i think in many years i cant remember ever for two years in a row and that was also a testament to the statue you held and effectiveness that you exercise as the leader of the school board. Ill just say a few things substantively that you have run through the batting order of issues as board of education commissioner multiple times, multiple issues multiple times, multiple fight squz struggles and victories whether around curriculum or political issues in terms of Government Relations or facilities issues, the School Funding issues that have been threatening our district and our schools for a long time and that still continue to do that. But, the things that stand out most for me out of all those array of issues that youve championed are the funding related issues. So, i just want to say for folks that may not be aware of this, commissioner wynns is either directly responsible or had a really Important Role in changing the realty of all of our students every year and our educators every year so this is just a few things. When i got to the School District and never participated in a campaign before, a local ballot measure and now participated in 9 and commissioner wynns showed me how that got done and that was based on many years of that work before. So, the track record and tally includes a permanent sales tax that generates about 25 million a year, Public Education inretchment fund which generates over 60 million a year, the qtea parcel tax that was passed in 2008, that is over 40 40 million a year. Jill had a strong hand in getting the state to make permanent categorical funding that was previously connect today the desegregation ord squr turning that into a permanent funding stream that is all most 40 million a eryoo. All these things togetherit is about 170 million a year that we still get every year not to mention the bond that commissioner wynns played a very strong leadership roll. We are talking billions of dollars and many people including everyone on it board of education and our labor partners, so many people our Business Leaders and Community Leaders all had a important hand in all that, but for me the person that i associate most strongly with that from my history is commissioner wynns, so when i said priferbtly you made a permanent difference in the lives of all our students and educators that is a small part of what i mean so really do mean that. I also want to say that we know that the work is difficult and it takes a toll personally and emotionally and you have showed great stamina both physically, emotionally and in terms of your inner strength and thereat is something that is Susan Stauter said it very well earlier that that is hard especially for a strong woman to exercise in the face of probably a higher level of attack than men face that are being cor ages so both for commissioner wynns and fewer and so lug lucky to have so many Strong School Board Members that are female and so many strong women in other leadership positions including gwen chan and arlean acerman so i do admire your commissioners for having taken those slings in arrows in a role that is often difficult especially based on such a male privilege and think is still with us today. The last thing i want to say is that in terms of the 24 years. We had a long robust tribute tonight and that is a small small gesture of what we owe you as our community and love what Susan Stauter said about act 3 and that seems so fitting because i know from our conversations you are not finished yet, commissioner. If i may remind everyone, commissioner wynns comes from induinstructable stock. Her mother is 102 years old and so we may see a act 3 and act 4 and maybe more than that, so look forward to work ing for you for many years, commissioner. Thank you president haney. First of all jill i want to say you have been holding out on the pies. [laughter] i did not know so well follow up after this evening. But i do want you to know that i understand when i say that im talking about when i first ran for office in 2012 and like sandy was talking about the pointing finger jz being on the outdicide looking in and thinking the seat and role is the easiest thing in the world i would talk to you and you would give me advicement you also youz used to tell me you will not be able to do that or that isnt our role on the board and going through an election process and election cycle and seeing people who havent sat in the seat and ran for office and the criticisms they have of us up here and sitting back and saying they really just dont get it and understand. But from the very beginning even in my first election process running you were also up for reelection and you have always be supportive and someone who has given me advice not only about what to do but also about what the district is about and what we should focus on and we dont see eye to eye 100 percent but we see eye to eye the majority the time and think we only disagreed on one vote, but at the end of the day you have been a advocate and champion for the same things we want to see happen in the district around exwuty equity and diversity. You are the epitome of what a Public Servant is and role they should play. Regardless if people agree or disagree with you in any stance there is no taking away the fact you dedicated a quarter century to maker sure our student receive what they need to be successful so that is important and something i cumind you for and appreciative of your work on that. Not only have you been a leader in the district here in San Francisco, but across the state. We go to California School Board Association meetings. Everybodys knows who jill wynns is. If you tell them you are from San Francisco, the first thing they say is, you must know jill wynns and so that is important because knowing that you have been there advocating for our work and trying to make sure everybody across the state of california looks for education through a lens of equity is important and appreciate you for that services as well. Last thing is, will never forget your leadership, your mentorship and your dedication to the district. You are doing this work as a mother, as a parent and family person. It is hard enough as it is so again, appreciate you, respect you and want to thank you for all your years of service on the board of education. Commissioner. There were a couple areas that havent come up tonight as a colleague on the rules committee you invested time and effort on unglamorous things buts as a rument result San Francisco is recognized as a leader on state ruptitation. I want to thank you for being kind and generous. A kind and generous colleague on the board. Commissioner norton. Thank you. Jill i appreciated so much in the time i have known you how you put your Service First and always put the students of San Francisco first. I know it has been at times incredibly difficult and there has been great and personal sacrifice you made to do the work and know it is your lifes work and you sacrificed other Career Options do this work and appreciate thats on behalf of my studabout and the people that are here tonight and appreciate all that you have done. You have been incred ibly jen ws with your knowledge and minuteered me and appreciate that. At times we have been friends and appreciated that and the opportunity to see another side of you that sometimes the public doesnt see. You are very warm and funny person. Very creative and i wish more people could see the humor that you have and what a kind and lovely person you really are. Thank you so much for all you have done for the district, for me personally and the students of San Francisco and i wish you nothing but the best. I think that you will go oni really appreciate what susan said about the third act because i think there are lot of options and thinks to take you expertise and service it new height jz enjoy seeing that happen so thank you. I just want to reiterate as a Student Perspective being in the arts Program Since Elementary School and service as high school on the [inaudible] and Arts Committee, im grateful for your work for the district regarding all the programs mentioned tonight. Thank you so much. What can i say that hasnt been told already. Just want to thank you for having it door open and always willing to work with us. Everybody said great things about you and just great to havewant to learn more about you no like things i never heard. 28 years is a lot and looking up to you and getting to learn more about you and sure others will too so thank you for your service. Thank you. Thank you jill. From the very beginning were always kind and welcoming. I remember having the conversation about how similar our lives were comingraising two kid, living in bernal height jz do the activities we did and activism we both have taken on over the years and during our times with arlean and just a lot of the transitions we have seen over the years has been really amazing to watch you in various settings and i know that you have seen kind of boards come and go and the dynamics that change on them, but i have to say youre consistent. You are solid with the things you believe in and the things that you feel very strongly about. Whether it was when you first started on the board or where you are now, if there is anything we can count on around your voice it is how our children should be eating, how strongly you feel about grtc and how strongly you dont feel about charters. It is all most like my challenge with ret row active k reso. It is really great to see that. I know therethis is my third term on the board and there are some years where it was hard for both me to support you for you to support me but we did it anyway and that those arounds us may not agreed with that but think as colleagues the respect we have for one another was solid. I will miss your knowledge locally, state and nationally and to commissioners waltons point you carry a reputation that i think is attached to us and that i think leads to your legacy you leave behind and you have so much to be proud of. I have in the last couple weeks have been called the veteran, so that part i dont appreciate you leaving and but you will be missed and i knowit was great to hear so many of your colleagues from early on and just knowing the fire that you have and had and continue to have and just how people really feel so connected to the work that you have done. For people to come out and fly in and be present is just i think speaks volumes about your integrity. Thank you again for all you have taught us and im sure you will continue to teach us and wish you the very best. It was great to see your family. One thing i will miss hearing the most is hearing about your mother so hope you will continue sharing stories about her and wish you the very best. [applause] jill, thank you so much for all these years of service to students and families and best wishes ebyour next endeavor. Thank you. Before i Say Something about jill i want to thank everybody who came out tonight and spoke. I think if there is evidence of your impact and your legacy i think it is reflective in the many people who came out tonight. I certainly always feel like im learning something new about you. A new skill or stal talent or a fight you were a part of and led. Others have said, your generosity with your knowledge and experience and your insight is incredible. I had the privilege for my first 2 years brand new sitting next to you and as folks have said, being anal able to turn to you and say what is this about and what am i spoeed to do, where did this come from and to be able to have your perspective you shared so openly and willingly was incredible. One of the things that i would want to under erscore is so many times throughout your career you have been alone, you have been the voice that is standing up and fighting when others were on the wrong side and you were on the right side and when i think about the stories you share many times i would be like that sound like a totally different world where you were the one voice for example standing up against a Charter School and everybody else was lined up against you. All of these stories that just seemed sum completely different than the realty now in the School District and hearing everyone tonight and reflecting on that, it is really the fact that we are now libing living in the dist rth you helped create and because you help fight those fights we can sit up here and think this is all normal to have the approach we do to nutrition and the arts and fighting for Public Education and funding. To me as a board member who has been here 4 years this feels very normal but know it dudant come without you and you standing up and fighting and being on the front lines again and again and again. I really want to underscore also and people have talked about all it different issues you worked on but especially want to thank you for your continued leadership around desegregation. If we look at what happened over the past few decades and the way in which so many in Public Education stopped talking about this issue add a time when it has gotten worse you maintained focus and commitment to that and we are going to miss that and i know many of us will give our commitment to you to continue to work with you and continue to carry on the things you fought for he but want to give you my personal commitment to continue to work on that hopefully with you in your third act and just on behalf of the board thank you so much for your service, for your mentorship and it has been a honor to serve with you. I have to begin by thanking everybody who came, most who are not here any longer. The things that were said tonight were just amazing and my gratitude is unending. I will justin my notes it is farther down i want to recognize my husband george who is here. George, wave. [applause]. And mythe two most adorable babies was my daughter emily and louisa and evan [inaudible] their baby boy so that is what i am going to do and im extremely grateful to have them and have a liltal more time to respond with them. Um, so i do want say these things. I want to thank the people of San Francisco. I really love San Francisco and i was interested to hear ben say that and talk about margaret and i. George and i came here in 1969 after graduated from call squj people asked me why did you come here and my answer was it was 1969, everybody came here. We were just smart enough never to leave and yes, occasionally i wore flowers enmy hair. Eerfbenarve 48 years oof being here every time i come home to the city whether driving from sacramento which i have done a lot or coming from the airport from where i have come often on behalf of the School District, i see the city and breathe the air and feel so lucky to live here. Having had the extraordinary honor be elected 6 times by the people to represent them is just expotentially better than that. All this has been something completely unspected and it would be [inaudible] to have this great opportunity. So, i wanted to Say Something about the people who mentor me and some were here tonight, a few still are. Before i was on the board and i know some of you know this, but i attended pretty much every school Board Meeting before is was elect today the board for about 8 years so it has been over 30 years that i have come and tonight when i was driving here i was thinking i dont have to do thij anymore, i dont have to come here at noithd. My car has to learn a new route on automatic pilot. But, there were people and i appreciated especially what matte said because there are people who taught me about the School District and Public Education. Some of them were my childrens principles. I a parent in the School District and as you heard someones whos professional career was in the theater, there were administrators in the School District. There were two people my childrens prinple [inaudible] some of the people who first got me involved at the district level with mary bird and [inaudible] avy doll was a minuteer and [inaudible] were the only two people i xoe. This is how you know a old timer in San Francisco, they called the School District the school department. [laughter ]. There were the parents who came before me. Here in the room were the three president s the erparents lobby had, ellen [inaudible] and me. Elchb outside i was introducing before and she pointed and said jill was our only success fwauz the parent lobby was organized as a Political Organization so the parents could be involved in school politics, not be the pta where they always said we cant do that t is too political. Their goal is get parents elected to the board of education because there were now parents on the school board at that time in the 80s. I wanted to say express thanks to the all the superintendent i have known. The first one not on the board but if i have gotten elected in 1990 he would have still been the superintenedant and that was rick orteens. I was happy to see him last year leading los angeles unified for the second time. Ill give a little thanks to bill rojas and what was said when i got elected there was a sensewhen he was leaving there is a sense we finally won and that site was about edison and tore. We fought for the for property charter for years kwr three people lost their seats on the board of education. But there were good things that came out of that time too. One is that we were wrun of the first urban School Districts in the country that collected data and longitudeinally and looking at it and disaggregating it by ethnicity and did that partly because the court order required it but continued to do it even though we didnt have to and continued to commit ourselves. When new superintenedant came in and those days they said we ought to look at data, wree like we have that down, lets go to the next thing. Well build on that. I do want to say i believe most of you heard me say the strength of our School District besides our extraordinary commitment to equity and diversity is that we do not throw away what we did before that was good. Every time we had a new superintendent come whether interim or permanent we said to them, we dont want to do over. What we want is for you to tell us what you think of what we have done. What are our strengths and weaknesses. This is where we think we are squaeck tell us what you think we should do and some cases it wasnt a question when we were weak because when arlean acerman came there was a bill passed to give more fiscal oversight because we had no openness about our budgeting at all and we foughtwe were over spending but it turned out it wasnt as bad as we thought we just had no way of knowing where the money was and how it should be spent. I give a shout out to him and want to thank linda daibs davis and gwen chan. I want to Say Something about arlean acerman who i think none of us really never talk about the things what we have. The road on which she put us. The first thing is we partly hired her because she was a champion of the way student formula and budgeting because she had been on designing that system in seattle and brought it to washington dc but we said to her, it isnt enough to distribute the money based on the characteristic ozf the students, we want to do that but what we want because this is San Francisco isthality that we want schools to make their own budget decisions. We want this to be up to parents and teachers and student and Community Representatives and we have that system today and that is because of her. In addition to that, we did and somebody made reference to it i think margaret but nobody else cares about that anymore but we instituted the star system, one of the first intervention programs and we had a number of support in intervention programs for low performing schools that built on previous ones and thats characteristic of what i say about the style we use is we never said, there is nothing good about that, that didnt work and wont do that anymore. We always assess what was working, put that into the new system and said, what is the next thing we can do to make it better. That system in my view and we stim have some of that and had tension about whether we want to keep the parent liaison or put money in the multiteared system of support, a little bit of what i characterized as apenedulum singing between top down and and bottom up and im on the bottom up side. Compared to everybody else, but i think that that system we put ipplace was about schools tells us what they thought they needed to address those persistent issues, not about people in the Central Office saying this is the way to do it. Thats tough for some people to believe and to put trust in those schools. At thewe were talk about this now, but when [inaudible] we and gwen were at the Public Education leadership project as harvard and we had tension and think a lot was between us and the group from chicago led by the recently departed secretary of education about whether we should differentiate in school autoomy and there was a lot of people who believe only schools that do well should make or emergency their own decisions rchlt schools that do poorly all the decisions should be made centrally. We dont believe in that and think we have evidence you build capacity by providing the same support and more support for the learning and the Decision Making in all schools. That it isnt those that have a easy time that should have more authority, it is everybody that should have that authority. And then im happy to say i played a role bridging arlean and Carlos Garcia here and he had beeni had known him before i was on the board president of parent lobby and he was a prez dent of [inaudible] and knew him through the council and quh it was time to find a new superintendent i called him up and said i think this is the time for you to come here. So, i do want to thank you richard and mion. Those are the superintendents i worked with. I agree with everybody else that you look good there. I think all most all these people whos names i read would be proud of you as i am. I want to thank you all the staff people in the school dist rict. The teachers and principles and classified workers and everybody in sth Central Office who helped me so much when i came pain in front of you i would always say, we are not the School District, they are the School District. It is the people who do the work who are the School District. We are here for them. They are here for the students. So, i also want ed to mention because i want tie something about this, i want to give a little credit to people who taught me how to be a lobbyist. I think it is very important and it was so interesting to learn this and those people include sally brun who none of you know but once was a lobbyist for the School District and Vernon Billie and many other people. I wanted tothere was a man named ron pres caught a lobbyist for the los angeles Unified School District. He had been a administrator in la unified many years before he became the lobbyist and dean of all education lobbyist probably in the country, certainly in sacramento and heeured Vernon Billie to advocate for Public Education and tault him how to do that work. He applied for the superintendency here and applied when they hired bill rojas and told me this is the only job he would ever apply for because this was the only urban School District in the country as far as he was crned do the things that everybody wants to do, where all the pieces were there. I think a lot more the pieces are here now or hope they are including the financial ones. But want i want to thank the parents. I came to the berd in 1992 and in when i lost compaining on elect a parent platform and parents have to have support. There has to be infrastructure for parents. We have to put moneyin those bay days people didnt talk about that but there has to be investment helping parents to be involved, to be in charge in schools because it doesnt happen by magic. So, all the parents some of whom you heard tonight thrks community leadjures especially the students. Those student who always make me crirex the rotc cadets which is why im so faithful to them in large part. When michele was mock u talking i wanted to say that is why woo do this work. And all the kid. The kidsthen classrooms the ones who let me come to read for them for 24 years and the ones who told me that their homework and math lesson and their cats and dogs and aerfck everything and parent and bruckters and sisters. I have one more thank you i want to make which is the most important one because you cant do the work without it and that is to [inaudible] a few years ago a member of the board complained eser and i were too close and my answerit was 4 years ago and said if you worked with someone every day for fwent years and you are not friends with them something is wrong with you and especially true if that person is ester. Thank you. So, i wont make a list of all the things i have dunl because you heard all that. But i wanti will end instead asking for a little consideration and no surprise to anyone here give you a little advice. I know i dont need to ask for you to remain committed to our mission of social justice and diversity and working for every child because especially those that need more. Especially considering where our country is going, i thinki have been thinking about the wall we want to build isnt on the southern boarder of california but on the eastern boarder. But i really think it is more putting our arms around the students and the communities in our state because we have to take care of each other because nobody out there in the country is going to take care orphus. So, i am asking for this consideration. One, please follow up on our work about the arts center. I am so happy we have been working oon this for 30 years, right . I should tell you which most dont know that when i first met ruth [inaudible] we had a disagroument. One of the ingathize we disagrud on is whether the stood scool of the art is stand alone school or part orphmac tear high school and the reason we had that argument is that i actually was a student at the high school of performing arts in new york for a year and left the school because it academics there were so terrible you had to decide when you were 14 that you would be a theater professional and not go to college because you couldnt really get the academic framing you needed and i was more interested in the academics, i just enjoyed the theater work. And it was that experience that made me think students need this academic opportunity. You cant separate it out at that young a age. And i lost that argument and actually later i had a lot to do with arlean and others about that when weit was clear we had to close mac tear and move the school back up there so came back to the same place. In the mean time the school had grown and become much more academicly standards quite a lot. But, however, over time we became close and i know that you know this because when we change the name hof it school 4 or fiver years ago now, while ruth was still alive, it took 20 years to talk her into letting us name the school after her. The reason is she never thought it would be perfeath enough for her. She wanted it to be better. We could disagree but what better meant. Finally when she very ill and bedridden and told her you have to trust us. You have to trust us to guard your legacy and make sure the school is good enough and we promised to work to get this school the kind of facility it need and please trust us because i will do that. So, actually i willlater time i would like to still be involved in that project so offering to help raise the private dollars but also be involved in whauv whatever way possible. Plus, i think it is important for the city. It is so the thing that we need. We promised our students and community and the art community. I promised ruth and i want to do that so hope you will remain committed to that. Second, and already asked commissioner mu rase to take the lead but hope you will recommit of the after school for all policy. I dont know if you remember but kevin said to me and maybe all of us, i dont remember at a meeting here that some commissioner when they want to do something they just drop it on you, the policy and you are scrambling and nobody knows how to do anything. Some are very slow, that is me. They take a year and a half of consultation before the policy comes before the board. I was talking about this after school for all policy for 20 years before i brought it to the board. Because there wasnt much support. People did want believe we could do this and provide after School Programs for every kid in every school at their own school if they wanted and needed it, which by the way they do in every other first world country. And the work has been going great, but it is slow. We have things we have done really well at merging programs. Ill take a second to tell a story. Emily isnt here but louis as birthday bart party two weeks ago there was somebody there with her kids. A birch of friends from high school and college and one the girls in high school has 3 daughters and live in park merced and went to alvarado. She said my kids go to Lowell Everett and alvarado. It is likei said how is the after School Program at alvarado, a school we had a bumpy time with getting a single provider there. She was the perfect person to ask. She had the perfect story. Her two oler kids went to the tuition based program. She was married then. She felt nuvs the programs were bifurcated, poor kid went to this program and middle class kids went to this program. Then she got divorced and when it is time for her third kid to go to after school, she went to the xl prom program because she was eligible for subsidized care and felt terrible about that. She know because sisters were on the other side there was a sigma attached to that. Then we had last year, the year that we merged them and said that was rocky getting them together but now is working really well and all of those issues not only in the after School Program but the way that has sort of slopped over into the school, it way that kids were divided over that that they were sigmaatized has gone away. All most all the Elementary Schools, woo we have a few more to settle on a single provider and done away with the waiting list. You have seen this in the report but dont have the singling online registration. We dont is a sliding scale. We know that the budget team is bewe have up in the air funding with the new xl programs and dont know how it will work. I and you to look at this. Ill finish. This is my advice, i hope as clinedly as i can say this, i ask you all to please step up and please try to preserve and enhance our influence in our state and national organizations. I do think there is a dynamic in aerfb group. Some of it is i have been here longer than everybody else. We do that a lot on the board. Im the after School Person and this is special ed person, that is great so we support all that. I like this work and i have done it a long time and think i have been good at it and successful, but isnt enough. It is never enough for one person doing most the work and i wont be here doing this but i invested a lot as many other people in making sure that we had what we think is the proper influence that we should have in these organizations and it will take work to do that especially with the administration we are about to have in washington. So, im asking you to go to csba and nsba. I know you will find them sunservative and narrow in their point of view, i agree with that. The answer is you have to change them and you have show up to change them because nobody listens to people who dont show up. We can do that, we can stay home. You can stay home and say i dont like nsba but they will never change, they will get worse. The last thing i ask you to do is this, be cor ages and speak out against the privateization. We will have a secretary of education dedicated to dismantling the Public School system. She will be the first secretary who never ateneded or had a child in a Public School. So, it isnt good enough to be wishywashy about priveatizing schools. It isnt good enough to say you know, these Charter Schools we know are terrible are some of the parents like them and we should do them. If we do that, in the current atmosphere and what is coming at the Public School system it will be the end of it Public School system. There are people in power dedicated to ending the public kool School System in america. I am asking you to type because thats what it will take. Last ill say thank you very much for this opportunity. It has been a honor of my life. Thank you. Okay. Again, we want to extend our appreciation and gratitude to both commissioner wynns and commissioner fewer and thank everyone who joined us for the celebration and recognition during the Board Meeting and preceding. I will continue with our agenda. Item number c, recognition and resolutions of commendation. Superintendent lee. Thank you president haney. So, our first resolution of commendation is in recognition of mr. Coachy sawno from abraham Lincoln High School and he is the recipient of the elgon hines outstanding teacher award and presenting this commendation is missioner mu rase this is National Award recognizing teachers who further understanding befween marijuanas and japanese. The award is presented to two High School Teachers and consists of a certificate, 2500 prize and 5 thousand in project funds. Just a word about elgon hines he taught in sfu sd for 40 years so he was born in china in 1913, he is a graduate ofu c berkeley with degree in philosophy and public speak and earned graduate in history from San Francisco state. This award goes to japanese teacher throughout the country in North Carolina and alaska, new york and this year it wnt to our very own mr. Coachy sawno at Lincoln High School. Congratulations. [applause] thank you so very much for your kind words. Im very honored, humbleed and hope qu can live up to the rep utation of this award and served as a remeender there is always room for improvement in every that i do. The award would not have been possible without the support and inperspuration of the people i work with. I like to thank you my current and previous administrator, one of whom is here, mrs. Gwen chan who hired me 25 years ago without credential. She took a great chance on me and here i am. Thank you mrs. Chan. Um, i also like to thank committee members, dedicated parents and colleagues in particular my Language Department teachers who all deserve special recognition for their hard work. Most important to me i like to thank my students presence and past. They are the best part of my job, bar none. I wouldnt stantd here today if it were not for them. This is their award too. I thank them for their willingness to build relaigdsships with me and among themselves for their enthuseium to take on rigorousachydemic work, for respecting me and each other and inspiring to be the best teachier can be and all the fond memories that we share. I will treasure them for the rest of my life. Thanks to them, i think im the happiest luckiest teacher alive today. I would also like to thank the board for your continued support for our japanese programs throughout the district and for inviting me here tonight. [speaking japanese] thank you and happy holidays. Our next honoree is Commanding Officer phillip para from the San Francisco Police Department and to present this commendation is chief of studen Family Community support, mr. Ceben truet. Good evening. Ill be brief because it is late and i know the back of the room is very afraid what i might say. I will be very brief. As you know, for 4 years ago supervisor norman yee former board president called me and wanted to inquire about our crossing Guard Program which we dont have for just some informationcrossing guards in San Francisco are employed by sfta, we do not employ crossing guards. So, but we wanted to reinstitute and reimagine our Pedestrian Safety or pupil crossing guards Safety Patrol program so started that 4 years ago. We didnt have one, and build one and main one anded how we do this and started amcommodore slote and sfpd played a incredible role training hundreds of student and dozens of staff. I have a lot of statistics here but will save that because in the interest of time sarge rnt para has been here for hours kwr hours and arrived before 5 oclock todayment sal will say a litdal little more but the Patrol Program is important. Anyone who dropped off the kids or picked them off before school you know safety at pick up and drop off can be very disy at schools so this program is like 15 schools right now and growing every semester and we couldnt do it without the training of sfpd because it isnt just about these kids bowing out there in frupt but they need to know the safety procaution and model that so it is a Great Program and sal, why dont yousal does all the work now. Thank you. I want to thank ceben and supervisor yee for having the opportunity and funding to have the program for students. I want to recognize phil para he is a true Team Community builder. It is very hard for the schedule. He does it all by him self. I did the math and think he has done over 300 students throughout the 3 years. Does it by himself with the help of his unit and just the impact that it has at our schools is remarkable. The student learn Traffic Safety 101, safety, how to be a peer and leader and talking about 5th graders and 4th graders learning these tools you need to walk in our city. I really want to take the time and thank you phil for being here 5 hours i believe today. Wow thank you. You should get a metal for that. Ill give you my watch later. Thank you phil. This is a very least i can do and i know i want to save a piece for the students. The student have been ingainled with the Safety Patrol program. Just on the bottom of my heart, thanks a lot phil for everything. [applause] we want [inaudible] i just want to say quh i was in Elementary School and was part of a program at my school and had 50 patrol guards and in the program i grew as a leader and had a fun time as well. Now at Lowell High School [no audio] grew up to hopefully also come back and do the same work or eeben like them wanted to be [inaudible] see the work they can do within the community. You have grown up in the city for so long and pbackim jealous of your work because of instead of going schoolgo to time to [inaudible] bother and see the videos. It is like so adorable and knowing our students are having such a good role model in the schools. Im happy this impact and it is positive and done and we want to buy you are a cup of coffee for staying so long and your long work. A gift card for coffee. [inaudible] just love coffee in general. Im trying to say [inaudible] [no audio] ill be real brief. It is late. Been with the San Francisco Police Department 22 years. I was born and raised in San Francisco and always tried to gib 100 percent to the residents of San Francisco. This whole thing takes a team to do, it cant just be me. It takes students and teachers and sal. Sal is invaluable to the program. And then it takeathize officers at the trafic company where i work. All the motorcycle officers that go to had schools and check on the program and see how it is going when it first starts usually. Im just honored and grateful to get this award. Thank you. [applause] i would also like to say to sergeant tera [inaudible] i know how dangerous the job is. In my district 4 Elementary Schools had the program and been out to see if it is wonderful and the school appreciates it and it kids love it. As a commissioner on the school board i really love the way parents a ribl to not triple park or double park or drop kids off on the opposite side of the street and have the kids run across the street. Yee heard of many times children have been in accident on the drop off because they are so anxious to get to school. This is such a gift to parent too. Other young person in the car too and a student greet them and is able to take their child into the school yard so they dont have to get out of the car with their other children to bring the children it r enit is gift to parents too. Every admin stairt says they cannot do this without the cooperation och San Francisco Police Department and sal of course. I want to say thank you. Thank frz your service. My husbandmy brother in lawerize Police Officer jz my husband was a cop 35 years. I know that is a hard job so i just want to say thank you. As a 4th generation san franciscan i just think it is great that you are raised in San Francisco and you are still here and still serving us and thanks so much. Thank you for waiting so long, we appreciate you. Thank you. Alright. Moving on itoom d studen delegates report. Waited very late and have finals. So, ile [inaudible] high. The report back is [inaudible] i have taken the project i guess. On the developing a resolution for documenting students and looking forward to meet with all the xhishz commissioners. Met with m att haney [inaudible] work wg student across sfu sd is great hearing their stories and how very impactful it is for them, but also how hopeful they see this and be a Student Voice so looking forward to getting feedback from the district and also the community. Next, yesterday we had i guess like sac meeting for 2016 and judy sanchez came to get advice and feed 37 back from the student on how to get better feedback from student about the lurches and how to improve them and asked how the lurps are going and what we would like to see improvements and the programs are running and also like the collaboration with her on getting a student Advisory Committee regarding students voice and engagement on nutrition so look frgward to see these more. Some other things that came up yesterday was a Organization Nonprofit called beyond deaf rinses presented and dedicated towards ending social isolation in schools so people in the organization is student led go to middle schools and give different presentations and talk to middle School Students about these problems. We were asked to establish a chapter in srf because there is no none right now and several signed up. The Health Committee the last time i spoke about this was when it was starting so it was fill a students Heart Project and we have actually raised past the goal. We sold 150 shirts and raised over 2 thousand for San Francisco Homeless Youth and it is still open so definitely contribute if you have money. Rks with ww. Booster. Asc com fasa. We hope you can donate. You can use it as a holidayprint or for yourself. Finally just reminor we have the youth summit on friday march 17 from 930 to 230. You can talk to had fac coordinate sal and Something Special is that commissioner fewer and then supervisor fewer, will be our keynote speaker and so it will be very exciting, so please consider attending and we hope to see you there. It will be on march 17th, friday. Save that on your calendar. Our next meeting is monday january 9 at 5 p. M. It is Public Council meeting so everyone can come and if you like to come get in contact with our sac coordinator sal and happy holidays to everyone, be safe and wish you guys the best with your families. Spend it warm and definitely contribute to this and it is open till tomorrow at 9 i believe so it is a really good cause. If you really sat down and hear students stories it goes to a really good program. Thank you again and have a nice christmas and holiday and new years. Thank you. Thank you. Advisory appointments from Board Members. None. Item e, Advisory Committee report. Report from Parent Advisory Council. Then well do general Public Comment immediately after this. Good evening president , superintendent and commissioners, im [inaudible] i have three children at car michael elementary. Good evening, my name is Georgia Williams [inaudible] the role is bring parent voices and perspective to inform board discussionism tonight is a very brief report but we would like to take a moment to express gratitude for fewer and wynns for many years of service on behalf of San Francisco Unified School District families and studsant. Both strultal establishing the Parent Advisory Council and had very distinth roles at the time. Commissioner fewer, you were a organizer and parent activist and Community Voice rallying from the outside to make sure parents had a way to inform board discussions while commissioner wynns was one of the original authors of the resolution that brought the advise rea council to be in in 2003. You both recognize the importance Family Engagement plays in supporting Student Success and there was a need for a formal process to bring parent voice tooz help inform your discussion and decision policies. In your own right commissioner fewer you have a fierce advocate for under served communities and communitiesinsuring communities of under represented voices help shape and inform policy discus and positions and programs. To maim a new, restoreative practice, ethnic studies and change for High School Graduation requirements. Commissioner wynns is a incredible [inaudible] chairing policies from the state level and National Level to help guide and inform local decisions here. Also advocating for Public Resources to remain in the public sectorf this is more important as ever as Public Institutions and resources are increasingly being priveatized. We appreciate your commit dedication and advocacy on behalf of students and families, thank you for your contributions throughout the years. Commissioners, [inaudible] pac members participated on the graduation tachck force to support the implementation of the graduation requirements which took effect with the class of 2014. As a part of this advisory body pac members helped identify short and long term goal frz the task force, hourfck this body dissolved [inaudible] to the board of education or district members leaders. One shortd term goal is the concept of a rksg report cards for parents to informmonitor their students progress. While the task force discontinued the pac remained in communication with district staff to support the development of this idea. Recently, the pac learned next sumest rb transcript said are mailed to all High School Families to if form about the ag statds. The status is not a report card t is step in the right direction to keep families informed and to improve communication. In addition, 2017 and 18 both students and parent will have Online Access to student transcripts through the student Information System senergy while it develops a ag report card as a longer term strategy to communicate through progression. Membererize committed to identify and building upon mechanism structure jz systems to improve and promote better home to School Communication and believe the ag report card will create a uniformed process to communicate with families and student of their status, increase awareness about graduation requirements, empower families and students to monitor the progress and most of all foster home to School Communication. The pac is a part the 201718 Instructional Calendar committee which is discussed sebroom potential changes for next year. Parents for Public Schools have created a survey to gather input from families across the district to help inform decisions and minimize hardships for families and interruption of stud want learning thmpt Parent Advisory Council encourage families to take the survey [inaudible] through friday december 16. Available in english, chinese and spanish. The pac will meet with the leadership associate to provide input on the superintenedant search this wednesday december 14th at our regular pac meeting. The pac realize many advisory are scheduled to meet during the day while parents have to work or pick up their children from school. For this reason, we extended a invitation to members of other adviseries to join our meeting to insure voices are captured and reflected in the community feedback. General commissioners the pac request district leadership consider the working family schedules coordinating session for such critical topics. Thank you. Thank you for that report. Any questions or comments . Thank you and thank you for your patience. I want to say thank you for calling that out bethe scheduling for parents and make it convenient for them and conscious of the time and scheduling so thank you for bringing that out and think the board should note that for future conversation that we make sure that if we want to be truly inclusive we make it at a time convenient for parents to participate. Thank you. Without objection ill going to move up item j Public Comment on general matters. Thank everyone for their patience who is still here. This was an ausual Board Meeting for us and apologize for the getting to Public Comment so late. Bernard [inaudible] dave clemens, jane luvel, ruth [inaudible] is and if there is anybody else i miss i have a lot of cards up here but those are the 4 names i have here. Two minutes. Good eebening commissioners and supervisor elect. My name is bernard mia. My daughter was taken away from me on february 12 earlier this year. It was if you want to look at meit was the most horrible day of my life. Agents from Child Protective Services took my daughter. Not with my permission, not with my consent , but with the cooperation of sfu sd and he impacted the lives of children in powerful and meaningful ways. I have two young daughters and understand the diligence parent have to keep their children safe. The matter at hand seems to have gone off track and been blown out of proportion. I sus poket those involved must realize that. I trust mr. Phillip maricoseio completely. I can give countless ways he earned the trust. To that end i urge to allow mr. Phillip to come back to the family so our community can begin to heal. As commissioner wins pointed out the teachererize it district and mr. Phillip exempifys everything the district should be so urge the district to do the right thing. We had a lot of other parents that wanted to speak on behalf of mr. Sfilp but had to get home to their families. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the important issue that abey just raised. My name is jane luvel and parent of two student one at gratin elementary. I enjoyed the word of appreciation for the commissioners and want to stay i believe this is the type of fair well that mr. Phillipmericoseio a dedicated teacher at gratin deservices, however he is placed on leave the majority the Community Feels is unjust. I hope all sfu sd officials regarding mr. Maricoseio read each and every letter of support sent to guadalupe [inaudible] by parents and student. I dont know anyone rf b received response, my husband and i did not. I want to make sure all are aware was a positive resolution and hope to see mr. Maricoseia back at gratin. I hope sfu sd practice td what it preaches and engaged in and plans to engage in restoreative practice for those involved in the situation and are aware that it is a situation that i believe started as a misunderstanding and unfortunately quickly turned into what i believe is a witch hunt t. Is negatively impacting not only mr. Maricoseio but also his wonderful wife, a sthird grade teacher at gratin t. Is negative impacted the students, my third grader cried today on the walk home about the situation. Please know the majority of the gratin Community Requests sfu sd brings this one of a kine teercher back to his spectacular computer lab where he belongs so he can continue to teach our children how succeed here in the it capital of the world. He is missed by parent and student and need his bright rea ray of sunshine. We have been aspatient and plight as possible and not sure how long that will pass. Most everyone at the school is extremely upset. His holiday is ruin jz hope everyone is aware of the situation and resolved in a positive way. He is a outstanding person. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Iletm f, Public Comment on consent items. None signed up. Item g consent calendar. Give a for summary pages for list of items. Motion and second . Move. Second. There were so many moves, i couned that as a second. Anyitements with draw orcorrected . Yes, mr. Steel. Thank you we do have a iletm with drawn and three items with drawn and corrections. First with drawn from consent calendar 3 a, 161213 w 14 on page 126. Also being with drawn is 161213 k 23 on page 201. And 161213 k 8 on 71. Correction to 3 a on page 117. Change appropriation number at the end from 11846 to 11504 and delete wording, Water Remediation put back at the end of the appropriation line. 1612k 31. Top of page inshirt to mend resolution 1611k 47. Any items removed for First Reading by the board . Any items severed for discussion and vote . Thought jill might like one last one there. Okay. Roll call vote will take place under section o. We can revisit that if there is one she wants toitem h, superintendent prose poleal none tonight. I, none tonight. J we have done. K special order of business recollect public hearings and adoption. I call the public hearing and adaumgz of the following agreements, between the district and yunlted administrators of San Francisco between the educators of San Francisco. Between the district and International Federation of professional and technical engineer local 21. Public hearing will be for all 3 agreements but each agreement will receive a individual vote. Can i have a plosion and second on the three agreements . So movaled. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you. Chief of Labor Relations carmelo [inaudible] will present the item. Good evening. So, the first requested action is regarding the agreement between the district and united administrators of San Francisco. The requested action is that the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District conducts a public hearing and adopts agreement and related Public Disclosure documents. Any comments from the board of superintendent . Thank you, roll call vote. Separate on each agreement. You call each one okay. The second is the subject agreement bedween the district and united educators. The requested action is board of education conducts a public hearing and adopts the agreement and the related Public Disclosure documents. The third subject agroument between the district and International Federation of professional and technical engineer local 21, the requested action is board of education of San Francisco Unified School District conducts public hearing and adopts agreement and related Public Disclosure documents. Take individual onu asf. Mrs. Fewer, yes. Mendoza, yes. Dr. Mu rase, eye rchlt norton,i r. [inaudible] 6 aye. [roll call vote] 6 ayes. The last one is local 21. [roll call vote] 6 ayes. Alright. Can i have a motion and second to review and adoption of annual and 5 year report refilated to correction and expenditure of developer fees. So moved. Thank you president haney. Presenting is chief facilities officer [inaudible] mr. David golden. Thank you superintendent. Ill be brief, this is one of my more exciting reports of my tenure. The annually one in 5 year audit of collection of Developer Impacts fees which is required under the government code is something we do every single year. We need to retain an outside consultant, in this case it is a Company Called cooperative strategies out of Southern California with mr. Larry [inaudible] which is it same company by the way that prepared our justification studies the last several years regarding the increasing of our fees. So, there is a formal action to be taken and previous to that action an audit was performed, notices posted in publications and in the board office there are legal 12e7s that need to be fallowed and you have been disstributed the report. It has been reformated this year and looks a tad bit more exciting than previous years but still doesnt provide the worlds more interesting reading so why mr. [inaudible] is here if you have questions. Let me read you the action and want it go over backgrounds for about a minute. One is subject is review and adoption of 5 year reporting relating to collection and expenditure of developer fee squz the action is the board of education och the San Francisco Unified School District review and adopt the geper impact fee anual and 5 year report for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2016. The attached reportidated relates to expenditure and developer fees prepared by cooperative strategies llc, a consultant with expertise and preparation of such reports. As just a tad of background, i like to say that currently it district has increased its Developer Impact fees to the highest rates allowable by law. We have done it twice in the last 18 months. We are at the maximum which is 3. 48 cents per square foot. The other types of construction drop dramatically but in general we collect all we should at the highest rate we can. We had a banner year, the highest year in my tenure and collected over 12 and 12 and a half Million Dollars and we spnt over 12 million on 4 sex project related to growth programs and construction of new full sillties at 46 of the school sites. As of june 30, 2016, we had balance in the account of 37 and a 37 and a half million. Seems like a lot. 10 million is the soda reserve fund. 10 million of that going and will be paid out to the new clasroom building that we just completed this fall at lowell and have 14 million in plan frg a new classroom billing to replace modulars and provide a gym and use the funds to build a new classroom at steeben son and [inaudible] so, to the fullest extent possibly we are making use hof it fund and anticipating that potentially some of the funds may be used in the construction of new schools whether in mission bay and bayview. That concludes my report other than we hope this year will be a good year in the collection of those fees since it is critical to the needs in the district. My suspension it will be somewhat less than last year but still hopeful it will be robust. Mr. [inaudible] if you have questions you want to drill down on. I was expecting commissioners wins to aggrsively question this, but maybe it she isnt here at the 340e789 moment so will turn it over to you. No questions. Thank you. I can go get jill. Thank you. [roll call vote] 6 ayes. Can i have a motion and second for approval of San Francisco Unified School District and county of education score cards single plan for studen achievement . So moved. Superintent ent lee. Presenting this item is dr. [inaudible] castro the director of state and federal programs. Congratulations supervisor elect lee and commissioner wins for your years of service. Im sorry, fewer. Got lee in my head and wn with it. Apologies. Tonights specialorder of business pertains to score cards. Balance score cards and student achievement providing a blue print to improve academic performance [inaudible] Performance Indicator and outline the use of state and federal funding sources. The requested action is that the board of education and the San Francisco Unified School District approve the San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco county office. 201617 score cards for student achievement. Comments from the board of superintendent . [roll call vote] 6 ayes. Can i have a motion and second adaungz of College Readiness fwlauck grant. And moved and second. Thank you. Presenting this item is our executive director of college and career readiness, dr. Stephen kauffman. Good evening. Last month exectesk director of post secondary success presented to you the College Readiness block grant granted by the California Department of education. This is just the action reest qued as required by the grant, the second reading or the requested action is board of education of San Francisco Unified School District required by California Department of education adopt a readiness block grant between office of college and career readiness, office of counseling and post secondary success and San Francisco Unified School District school sites to insure sfu sd students are college and career ready. Comments from the board of superintendent. [roll call vote] 6 ayes. Thank you. Iletm l, discussion of other educational issues. Thank you president haney. So, this is a presentation and presenting will be christina wong, special assistant to the superintendent and this is regarding our law plan progress and ill turn it over to mrs. Wong. Thank you. Good eebening commissioners. I do have a presentation for you tonight and you should have the slides in front of you and also our latest el program guide. Al todays outcomes for the presentation is describe the purpose of the 201516 law report in connection to the districts english learning system of support. Share highlights of data by el pathway and also comparison to the state and also describe our next steps improving the districts el system of support. The anual lau report for English Learners filed with the federal report and shared every october 1 is under the lau modifys decree of june 2016 and previous versions of the consent degree. Our annual report includes 200 files covering demo graphic data, staching data, translation of key materials and guidelines and also provides data qu documentation of the effectbness of the districts el system of support. This is a visual of our system of support. It all starts with our School Leadership and also our secondary academic counseling. Within thtwo decision at a particular school site folks are looking at self data, they are looking at other components of data related to their English Learners, professional development and appropriate placement of our English Learners into english Language Development courses by profeshancy. We also have it pathway teachers whether in general education or a language pathway insure thrg is provision of designated and integrated dld. Third is Student Support service which is critical. We have student assistant programs that support and provide and discuss potential interventions as well as our Student Success teams. Eept teams that consider language learning versus disability. High School Wellness centers and our of course all the School Community partnerships. Within the School Buildings we also look at el Family Communication and engagement insuring those types of programs and services are available to el families particularly translation and interpretation and insuring there is a english learning Advisory Committee on site if there is 21 or more English Learners. So, as we are moving from compliance to commitment, this is a timeline as we move towards ending the degree in fall 2018. Last year we focused enhancing the services, this year we like to look ot at how we implement the processes and make immediate adjustments so we can continue to improve and refine the practice in 201718. Based on our data, 1516 we had 57 languages in total. As in the last 8 years we spanish and cantonese are our larjest Language Groups, but we also have groups arabic, vietnamese, filipino, mandarin, also are increasing and we have the rest of the 11 percent includes the 50 plus languages. For English Learners, about 15 thousand students. So, for percentage of el over this gives you a sense of where studentss who are in English Learners with iep what type of pathway they are in whether english plus or a language path way and the different colors represent the Different Levels in our district. From elementary to secondary. This is a percentage of el who gained pathway. Color coded by the Different Levels and also the difference by lit raeg and emergz as well. This is a comparison graph between sfu sd and also state as well for california. Comparing the 2016 ela literacy aspect results by classification. So, you can see here that from english only students if you look whether the light green or dark green those are student that met stander or at standard exceed. We are out performing the state as a whole and english only and you can also see for also reclassified students and then our English Learners as well. This is the 2016 results by classification and you can see a similar pattern in terms of our district perfornlance, compared to state performance. We wanted to take a closer look at how our students that were on the english Language Arts and literacy, those student who scored a standard met and above how did they perform by language compared to all of the state english learns which comprice 84 percent Spanish Speaking. Why we do see the gap that is here between the Spanish Speaking and cantonese eeb frn the Spanish Speaking they are deing better than the state els within california. Again, a similar pattern for the sbac results too. For percentage of all student who scored standard met and above we broke down by pathway since that is something we are closely monitoring rchlt you can see increasing when you kim pair 2015, 16 results to the 1415. For the spanish pathway there is a slight degrease crease and similar pattern for math as well but for cantonese there is a slight decrease. For reclassification by language pathway there was a decrease for all Language Groups so taking a closer look at why that is happening and really trying to better understand the services that are being provided and hope to see a increase in the next year but we did notice a decrease overall for all students no matter what path way they were in. We did take a look at a comparison looking at the state data what cdi provides and this is a snapshot which isnt the same in the previous slide. In this one you can see over the last 6 years the percentage of reclassification in San Francisco versus the state. There was a huge jump in 201213. That was a time when twee we did a lot of clean up and also really informed schools how to provide [inaudible] and provided a system of accountability to return forms and all of that and now we are seeing a steady flattening at 15 percent for the last three years. Still, higher than the state percentages. Graduation percentage by el classification, with the english only comparison between 201516 and 1415. We see increase for each classification and a nice jump for English Learners. This is graduation percentage by el typology. We have 12 percent of our students were new comers graduate long term el 34 percent and developing el at 54 percent. So, we know this is a definitely the system of support for the English Learners does needalways needs improvement and always looking how to provide more consistency and quality and services so these are the 4 areas we are focusing on for english Language Development. How notice claer intervention for spanish and long term erk l. Language pathway implement how to recruit and retain high quality bilongual staff, provide instruction necessary, materials and assessments. For english learns with iep looking at insuring that rks l status assessment, services and appropriate goalerize always included. Lastly for english Family Communication and engagement, really providing the tools and resources for sites when they are providing Educational Opportunities for their el families that they have the opportunity to share what the assessment and particularly what [inaudible] Language Development instruction and och course reclassification. I do want to take a moment to acknowledge all of the departments listed here that provided data, Information Records and contributed to over the 200 files and documents that we had that was submitted to the court. Thank you for your attention and thats all i have for tonight. Thank you so much for that report. Board members, commissioner mu rase. Thrunk for that comprehensive report. I like a update on car michael and i know i continue to hear from Community Members that there are many english laj wn learners at that school but it had been reclassified as a fluff program and so we are missing some of these kids and not meeting the need and like to hear opidate on that. Betty car michael and longfoalo is transitioning a Foreign Language program. The Program Changed from a filipino Biliteracy Program to a snob nob the basic elements are still provided. A know a lot of bilingual teachers especially if they have filipino new comer stud want try to provide that primary language support so the stud want has access and that is above and beyond the language instruction they provide. Thank you for your presentation mrs. Wong. We saw some of it data and dedprees crease in reclassification and of course it is troubleling since the data demonstrated we are decreasing in the lower grade so if we look at slides in terms of systems of support for our English Learners, where do you see opportunity for acceleration and as we move forward and thinking about the opportunities for acceleration and opportunities for adequate staffing and particular schools in particular sites and particular classrooms, what do you envision in seeing how we can be helpful to make sure that happens . I believe that really looking deeply at our implementation of english Language Development throughout the day and providing teachers with that support. We are just starting that work and they are very aware of the new standards and working with teacher groups to be able to design and plan designated eld which is that protected time when they have very clear directed instruction at their profeshancy level and looking at opportunities throughout the day during readers and writer workshop, comprehensive approach to lit raeg during math and other areas. Teachers beginning tolearn and understand like if i have these luvls of student in my class how do i plaxmize and use the existing system to provide a [inaudible] but the data that they rev received has helped the teachers make those informed instructional moves and so thats something we need to continue to unpack and provide that in a very consistent manner. Just to follow up, do you envision that paeblt for maybe more after School Opportunities and providing bilingual educators at after school and making sure there is compensation there or even before School Support and what are your thoughts about any of those strategies . For teachers their professional development we are looking at multiple ways to reach teachers enturchls of increasing professional Development Opportunities including after school and include also saturday sessions use thg prop a hours. For student themselves, we already worked with [inaudible] smith and arranging a time to provide very best practices or some very basic eld moves that the instructors in the after School Program can provide for the grsh learners. We all thinking the whole day, all the time that the student is at the school, how can we best support them including their after School Programming. Thank you. On page 13 i was curious on the spanish, the little shift there. Do we know why . Thal percentage och stud wants who core scored stand rtd met and above. It was lowered in 1516 than from 1415. In grades 38 and 11. What slide . Slide 13. 13. Okay. I think for the most part it is the transition because the red 201415 was the initial implementation of the sbac and there were adjustments made as well. That is one factor. Another factor could be that the students in general the instruction isnt in english, it is in spanish and so that is somethingthality that we have tomonitor. I think the following year for 1617 can tell more as the student are more accustomed to taking online assessment we can tell more about the reasons why a student may decrease or increasing. Can you tell me whether the filipino content specialist was filled . Yes, it has been filled this year. Yes. Thank you for the report. Again y think the gaps are the most troubleling thing when i look on the charts. It took me a while to go through all the info. But when i part of i think on pages 9 and 10, this gap sfu sd el. Large a large percentage is standard not met and that is such a long way to go for them to get to the standard met. So, im wondering if we have more intervention. I see you have the system of support, but what the system of support does not include also under that el Family Communication engagement is sort of an evaluation of elax and also it dlax. I think under category 4 we should probably add that in because that is the push back at the school sites that eare assure the checks and balances so think a important thing is also look at how many functioning elax and nish tbs the elac is driving at the school site to make xae change for those particular students. And theni think that we do better than the state, but and think we could probably do better than that of course. We still have this persistent gap between the cant neez and Spanish Speaking. The majority of kids that we have are Spanish Speaking in our Language Group but we cant seem to crack that net nut and i question this gap on the sbac and know it is hard to compare because there are all type of different tests but have we always had this larnl gap between the chinese speak kids and Spanish Speaking kids or has the gap closed any or has the gap widened from the traditionalevery report that we have gotten in the last 8 years always show said the gap between chijeies chinese and spanish speakers. Are we see thg gap if you do comparison, it is a wider gap with the sbac or more narrow gap . I think we can compare with we had the cst to the cst and look at it gap there which weprinted in the past with the stan ford longitudinal study but they are two different assessments so dont think we would compare cst to sbac j. Uric dont want to compare csd to sbac, are we 30 Percentage Points different with the cst and this percentage with the sbac . What im troying to get with the sbac and this common core, are we narrowing in on the gap . I dont want to measure achievement by sbac, i yust want to measure the gap. Is there a ipdication we know if the gap has widened or narrowed . I follow up and take a closer look but i think having more years of data like i said before for having the following year would help. Now we only have two Year Comparison data. Thank you very much. Recently i was cautioned by Asian American administrators that percentages can be misleading because they can mask sheer numbers so because we have so many for example chinese speaking students like when we look at percentages it doesnt giver a sense how many students. If you could provide perhaps some numbers of what the percentages represent as well as the total end that would be very helpful. Definitely. I have a couple questions and thank you for the presentation. I was looking at the graduation percentage by el classification and which is page 17 and pretty big one year jump in the Graduation Rate for English Learners but also sure something we want to get eeben higher there. Do you attribute that to something that was done differently between those 2 years or a aberration and what more can we do there to make sure that students who are english learn ers a small percentage of which are new comers what sort of support or there is anything we are doing differently that is reflected in those numbers or how we approach that particular population and their graduation. I think there is a very exsprists effort to support our English Learners and making sure they have the credits necessary tograduate. We have over the last 3 or 4 years had a el village, a summer program, a Credit Recovery program that really acknowledges and supports english lurp learners during the program and think we know for a lot of English Learners during the summer they can lose a lot of the english Language Development that they developed during the school year that so helped a lot. The program they have there at el village allows a lot of flexibility so student gain the credits that they need to graduate and if they participate year after year that definitely helps. That is one and there is a multitude of services and concurrents enrollment. Im probably not the right person to [inaudible] there is lot more awareness around the needs of our els to get them college and career ready as well as redsy to graduate. Mrs. Wong could i just also ask, does the action that the board took with respect to the California High School exit exam is that part reflected in the increase in the Graduation Rates for 1516 . Might that be that is a possibility too. That is a really good point because a lot of the students especially el when we got the report, they were the ones that couldnt graduate because they couldnt pass like one secz section of that ridiculous testi think that is a good point. It will be interesting to see if that was part of theand whether we see if that remains consistants and whether that was a one time thing. The other thing just last thing i know in the past we sort of done a deeper dive looking at trends by the different pathways and trying to see if whether els are doing better in lit raeg pathway and emersion looking at that and whether a particular model isnt working as well and i wonder if you have any additional thoughts around that. I do see here again that there is a greater gain among els in the biliteracy pathway and does that continue to be cisant for us and other sort of learnings around that. I know that is something we spent time thipging about. We are sighing the trend where English Learners that are in some type of language pathway and receive the language support and transfer support are outperforming their Spanish Speaking peers in a english only environment. Great. And eeben in the bilit eracy more so than in the emersion at least for spanish and that is pretty consistent for us . Great. Alright. Seeing no further comments, thank you mrs. Wong. We appreciate it. Thank you for staying with us so late. Alright. Where are we . Item m, consent calendar resolution for second readsings. None tonight. N , vote on consent calendar. Mrs. Fewer. Item k 8, 9, 23, 24, 26, and 28 all ret row active and iletm 30 im recusing myself. You recuse yourself on k 30 . Yes. Okay. It is 8, 9, 24, 26, 28, right . Okay. And then recusing yourself on k 30. Dr. Mu rase. Aye. Norton, yes. [inaudible] mrs. Wins and mr. Haney. Item o, vote on consent calendar. There are none. P, introduction of proposal and assignment to committee. There are two ill read into the record for First Reading. The first is 161213 sp 1 adoption of board policy 6184. Continuation education, 6186 countsy community schools. Graduation policy. Secondly, commemorate the Korean War Memorial. Commissioners emily mrase and wins, can i have a second on these resolutions . So moved. Sd 1 rougher to the rules committee and Korean War Memorial referred to the curriculum committee. Item q introduction of proposal for immediate paction and notice of suspension of board rule saidm we have one item for this and can i is a plosion and second on the suspension of the rules . So moved. Second. Roll call vote on the suspension of rules in support of Inclusive Schools to celebrate diversity and respect people of all identities. [roll call vote] 6 ayes. Yes, we have a amended version of the resolution which all the Board Members should have and we will read this version into the amended version into the record. Thank you president haney. Resolution in support of Inclusive Schools that celebrate diversity and respect people of all identitys. The San Francisco Unified School District is committed to emotional social and physical wellbeing of all the students staff and families and where as a community that celebrate said diversity and believes the greatest strength of the community. We are committed to reducing prejudice and enhancing understanding beheen between individual jz group said within our schools and in recent mujts there is a rise in haet crimes in schools including sfu sd. Whereas the Southern Poverty Law Center released a survey over 2,000 k12 teachers nation wide which showed increase in ant timuslim or antiimmigrant sentiment in particular and whereas the board of education expressed deep concern about these trends and believes our schools and School District must take immediate action in addressing any incidence of hatred or intolerance based on raish, religion, ethnicity, national, [inaudible] immigration history, emnocic means or any other identity. And where as staff and leaders throughout schools and departments are takeic actions to support students and climate that celebrate diversity, inclusion and respect for all people of all identitys and whereas resources curriculum material and best practess are viable to asest y cyst schools promoting cultural and responding to acts of intolerance and hatred. Implementation of our safe and Supportive Schools initiative to engage student and all members the community defineic what it means to be safe, respectful and responsible for is it foundation [inaudible] all student feel a sense of belonging and valued by the School Community. The district Practice Program holds at the core building and sustaining positive relationships in schools with the appropriate practices experiencing positive benefits such as safer and caring environments, a great [inaudible] greater awareness of the connectedness of young people and need to belong [inaudible] we resolved the board of education call said to develop and strengthen protocols how tareport and respand to intolerance and bias. The protocoms should be integrated into schools policy. The board of education calls on schools to insure accountability for acts of hatred in the schools including the use of restoreative practice and opportunities for dialogue and healing. Sfu sd make curriculum to build Supportive School environments and the board of education urges to take proactive steps holding School Wide Assembly and implementing school wide curriculum and setting clear standards for behavior to insure we address intalliance and prejudice within our School Communities. Questions, comments from the boards . Second, this is good. I mean i just want to say that i know it sounds so simplistic but i think this is a really good thing to also state and have in writing and i think we are headed for sort of [inaudible] this is really good so thank you for bringing this forward. I agree. Wondering if recommendations like district wide who can help support these efforts. I dont want to name organizations but it is good to say we want to tapping our communities organizations or adopting our own materials to insure this can get imlmented and like to ask the authors to add all us to this because i think this speaks to our core values. Definitely. Want to thank you for bringing this forward. I think we accept and figured this is a statement the board wanted to make and we want to thank superintendent lee, associate truet. We received feed bapic from it schools this is something that was needed and that it would be helpful to clarify our protocol, provide resources and curriculum to our schools and make sure we are prepared to support our School Communities and students. This is something that is already happening and want to thank all the staff already and School Leaders who are already making sure that a lot of this is happening but we want to step up what we do to sporelt support the schools and provide clarity and policy. What do you do . How do we address them and bring about holoing and education and dialogue and how do we prevent them and build environments inclusive and speaking to commissioner mendoza mcdonnells point there are organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that has a lot of great resources, beyond differences. There is a lot i think we can draw on that is already out there but we also want to make sure it is made available and also want to thank for intendant guerrero quhoo is leading the work in our district to make sure we support the schools as they experience these things. Thank you. I just want to say thank you as well to you and to Vice President walton and all the commissioners for drafting and associated yourselves with the language. It does reflect what we want to do qu what we stapd for so we appreciate your leadership as well. Great, well add all of the commissioners. Add student delegate names . Shall i ask them . We can ask them. Sure they would be fine with it. Roll call vote. [role call vote] 6 ayes. R board plebs report. Stapding committees, we have no reports. Waiter do we . We havewe do. Can i is a report from the Adhoc Committee on Personnel Matters and labor relationers . Thank you president haney. We did have a personnel Labor Committee meeting november 17 and update on substitute stafficing [inaudible] update on Superintendent Search and next meeting is january 26, 2017. Can i is a report from Building Grounds and urfbs committee, commissioner mendoza mcdonnell. Funny you call me hydra i dont knowthat isnt a commonusually it is commissioner. It through me off, im like who . Y i read it off the report. I was being extra formal. Yes, you were. So we had a great conversation at buildings and glounds this month. We had a pupidate on the teacher housing conversation, which since prop a passed there is a committee that is formed or that is talking actually over the last year or so in developing the portion that would go to the bond and it is now starting to get flushed out so that was good. We had a presentation by nick caster who provided us with a resolution that will be come in front of our board probably in january which was a resolution for moving towards the district goal of Net Zero Energy School Building design. So you will see that soon. We talked about the mardinization of the George Washington carve Elementary School project which is finally off the ground thank you commissioner walter for making sure that continued in motion. If im not mistaken it will be completed thoferb summer and in the fall the kids will come to a school with walls so that is exciting. We also had a update on prop 51 and implication for what we already have in the queue and think it was upwards of i want to say 40 million. 40 to 60 million that we have in the queue and so with the fund being replenished in prop fib1 we have a good chance getting the matching dollars and that doesnt include the projects that we will work on. And then we had a Information Update on just the prop a bonds and process we will go through to identify schools and rfp for the dpl dollars and work moving forward. A great and robust informationling meeting. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner mendoza mcdonnell. A report from Adhoc Committee assignment commissioner mu rase. Thank yousary much. I encourage my colleagues to review the materials from it. Analysis of diversity of San Francisco neighborhoods. Staff did a very Detailed Analysis of our Current System versus a neighborhood system and concluded that our Current System contributes more to segregation than neighborhood system would and it was personally not what i expected to hear. It was a like a ickick in the stumer. There are asumtions our staff used in the analysis but feel it is something we have to confront and this board is good confronting it good, bad and ugly of data so gibbon us food for thought for strategies to desegregate the schooless because there is continued commitment by the board to do that. We just had a analysis of that as well as a review of other district policies. Both iletms were covered enthe one presentation and want to acknowledge the hard work of staff for putting all that together but we left that meeting with many more questions than answers. Report from the committee of the whole, commissioner walton. Thank you president haney. Last tuesday december 6 we had a committee as a whole meeting and update on the bayview schools. We talked about the data, strategies to address the data, staffing needs and things and items not needed but had a frank conversation about what is going on in the schools in the bayview and thinks we need to do to make sure they are better institutions for the students they serve and so will continue to focus on that as we push forward over the course of the beginning of next year. All of the committee are set for tbd right now unless anybody hasi dont think we have any committee announcements. January meeting of Student Assignment is determined and it will be the 5th tuesday of january. We dont normally have 5 tuesdays but that date is tuesday january 31. Great. And we will be sending everybody new Committee Assignments very soon with the new members for january. Are those going to change . They are goingnobody was leaving any committees but have to replace the new members. Right we are not changing chairs and none of you are moving committees. Youll have new chairs for some of the committees since commissioner wins chaired a committee and commissioner fewer chairs a committee and we have to replace those people but none are mub moving or changing if chair of a committee. Apologize for that. Item s other informational items. We do Committee Changes at the beginning of the year we can do other announcements. Y sorry, yes. I just wanted to phrintendant lee had a [inaudible] they are doing a 10 million match for family homelessness that would bring the campaign to 30 million ask with 20 of which we already raised. So, this will be specific for sfu sd students and bringing at least 800 of our families out of homelessness. It was a big deal and really great and very generous contribution and nice to have nick hellman who contributed 800 of our families out of homelessness. It was a big deal and really great and very generous contribution and nice to have nick hellman who contributed a million towards this campaign who is the son of Warren Hellman so nice to see the generation of investment that continues in our scoom district. We had several other investments including a penchl one from micel who leads ven disk, google will contributing funding for that and a few others so thank you to everybody who contributesed to the that and we are still looking to raise another 10 10 million but are on our way and seen other investments already. I wanted to thank the [inaudible] community. We also had the opportunity to go over and met with the mu gill family, the muths mother and father of [inaudible] at the school when they the winter fest and ended up honoring draiven and had a wall with comments put up. They did a slide show and then they let off balloons and the parents were there for the entire ceremony. While we were there, we ended up going to a couple classrooms that were dynamic. We have a opportunity to see what our kids do it reminds us to do what we do. Wanted to think lincoln and [inaudible] job fair and it brought out quite a few of our High School Juniors and seniors so that was really great. I just wanted to announce parents of schools is looking for a new director and so if you are interested our know please visit the parents for Public Schools San Francisco website. Any other Board Members have reports or anyone want to share . Item s, posted is staff report on acceptance of gifts for the mumth of september 2016, october 2016 and november 2016. We have a memorial adjournment item t and want to thank bono low for sen snding the memorial adjournment for kar dar lean low. Some may have known reding Elementary School dar lean low. Dar lean was principle for 29 years before retiring in 2009 and also a teacher in our district penny years before she became a principle. Dar lean passed peacefully after suffering a stroke the day before thaj thanksgiving and slipped into a coma and not able to retain consciousnessment we know she is at peace and her legacy lives on low the many lives she impacted. Dar lean was a inperation to so many of her stud chbts recollect staff and Community Members who followed in the footsteps. Dar lean initiated art based learning and reding elementary known as the pellagship for the arts and known as a hidp gem in the district. The board of education and superintendent of school said express sincere condolences to the low low. Item yurksu closed session. The board goes into closed session and call a recess of the regular meeting. The matter of two cases of anticipated litigationer it board has gibbon direction to General Council. Meeting adjourned. Sorry, you didnt read the closed sessions. It on the script. My apologies. Closed section item b read out thf closed session of december 6 , 2016. Approve the contract of principles. 6 aye, one absent fewer, assistant principle. Dj versus sfu s krks case number stix aye and one absent give thrz authority to pay up to stipulated amont sf versus sfu sd case number nub nob 6 aye and 1 absent gibs the authority to stipulated mount in arsh a versus sfu sd the board by vote of 6 ayes giving the authority to pay up the stipulated amount. G f jel u. S. District