Or little n and thats just the way we greet each other and for someone that entered school only speaking spanish and you think about the language issues and in spanish i can tell you a whole bunch of terms that people use to great each other that are so racist, homo phobic and have a length and accepted as accepted and we need to Work Together and were dealing with a culture we are trying to shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety Healthy Community in it. We talk about fair processes. We talk about having conversations in circles so no
From my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Richard Carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. First of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. It can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. I can tell you having been a non English Speaking student and immigrant early on and quite frankly times that were very different that we were bullied all the time and didnt know it was bullying and right to the point i actually dropped out of school, and i think its also important to recognize its not kids on kids and sometimes adults are part of it, and sometimes unfortunately Staff Members are part of it. I remember being accused early on by a Science Teacher and told i was using lsd and i didnt know what it was at the time. I was i
Shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety Healthy Community in it. We talk about fair processes. We talk about having conversations in circles so no one is ahead of the conversation, so we all have equal standing those conversations. Our behavioral guidelines at schools have in are based on this notion of equity and equality and this notion were going to treat efer everyone fairly and jill mentioned my former title and superintendent of social justice and people say thats San Francisco and we believe that a right to a education is i soci
Havent to the conversation today. Last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in San Mateo County and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and shes a wonderful addition to the panel and its an area that School Districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what were talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you i sent them an email yesterday said you will have a brief time to say what you do, what your organization is doing, address the needs of the kids suffering or facing bullying and i told them they have two to three minutes, not 23 minutes and im going to hold them to it so jeff lets start with you. Sure. Thank you. I think one thing that a perspective that prosecutors can to this discussion is first of all the reason people become prosecutors generally they dont like it when other people are take
Shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating out there to help children, to help young people, but often its not centralized in the school and so it involves a lot of cooperation and collaboration between all different county agencies and were sphere heading that, so those are some of the efforts we have taken in our office, and again from a perspective of the prosecutor and it really offends our sensibility for someone to be taking advantage