zero which has to do with, how do you become a one? how do you become the person who stretches and grows and that person you hope and want to be? how can we see ourselves as having value and bringing value to ourselves and others. i wanted to say thank you so much for bringing this vocabulary to our schools and i also wanted to thank emily murase and grant muratami for bringing value to us all. [applause] i want to have a representative speak about what we re doing on bullying in schools because it is such an important issue. good evening, after that, i read one so many times, just so you know, it s in all our libraries, please read it. after hearing that story, i certainly get it now. basically, this book, blue is picked on by one and orange and yellow and green don t do it is picked on by red, and orange and yellow and green don t do anything, until one comes along. we need to make sure that these lessons are brought to our students attention buzz the sooner we
of san francisco will be having anti-human trafficking awareness day and the dynamics of human trafficking are similar to those of bullying. we had a poster contest and several high school students and one middle school student submitted posters, that will be tomorrow at city hall at 3:00. we ll have a student-designed poster that asks people to call the police if they see something suspicious. very similar to talking with an adult if you see something, some examples of bullying at school. president yee: commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: thank you for sharing your story with us, not just the book, but that you came here and shared your personal story with us, it s difficult to talk about memories that are painful, and you shared that with us here in the room and the people watching on television and the internet heard that. thank you for coming in and sharing your personal story with us. i also wanted to add for our listeners at home, it is a lovely book. we reviewe
good evening, i just want to echo what martha said. the book will be a welcome addition to our comprehensive health education that includes lessons on bullying at the elementary, middle and high school levels. january is school safety and violence prevention month where we asked all schools to create activities on violence prenks. and we d like to thank the board again for supporting violence protection month prevention month for the safety of all our students. the posters that will be disprayed in all our displayed in our schools this month, you have the right to be safe in school, it tells studentser that rights, what they have the right to be protected from, protection from bullying based on race, gender, sexual identity. we deserve the right to be safe. you will see these displayed in all our schools. thank you. mr. true it. truitt. i m curious. maybe it doesn t make any sense, i love this poster and the students will probably be able to read it but i m also t
and i m sorry, my name is marnede martin and i m a parent as well. and so, where are we going to conduct the community conversations? p.a.c. members have 24 schools we re approaching and asking if they re interested in this conversation. we don t have the capacity to actually conduct many conversations, as much as we want to, buzz of the limited capacity of the p.a.c. but we are making a point to go to the 24 schools. we balance a number of different things when we come up with this list. the school suspension rate, compared to the district s district s average of those grade levels and if the school is already implementing restorative practices or is interested in developing more plans and also we look at the demographics of the school s student populations and because african-american and latino students are suspended at a disproportionate rate, the p.a.c. is making a high priority to reach these communities. at the same time, we want to hear from families in different
organizations, we hope to hear from about 250 participants and our goal is really to share information about what restorative practices is and also hear any concerns from parents, get suggestions and if there are parents who are interested in taking some next steps at their school site, maybe helping to give them some tools to do that. of course we ll share our findings by the end of the school year. i m sorry. share with the school district and i m sorry, my name is marnede martin and i m a parent as well. and so, where are we going to conduct the community conversations? p.a.c. members have 24 schools we re approaching and asking if they re interested in this conversation. we don t have the capacity to actually conduct many conversations, as much as we want to, buzz of the limited capacity of the p.a.c. but we are making a point to go to the 24 schools. we balance a number of different things when we come up with this list. the school suspension rate, compared to the dist