For strong support were in a intriel new era of learning the cognitive learning for our students and continuing to administer this is like filling your gas tank with a horsewhip it is miss aligned it is the common core is a deeper set of standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city halls that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. Commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. Fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if were stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluation and
Reserve the planning and kip renewable on march 4 and march 16 is the next month to month of the building and Grounds Committee there will be a committee as a whole on the early Budget Priority recommendations on march 17 and of course our regular Board Meeting will be held on march 10 and 24 any other reports or announcements from my colleagues. Ms. Fewer. Id like to report on thursday, february 12th commissioner Vice President haney and i went to the academy their student example of learning was outstanding commissioner Vice President haney may want to comment on the work of the students i was so impressed they had their work out and tashlgd in a professional woo just how they made the mousetrap car and also combined that with an art budget i think the students i saw distance performances and chemistry experiment but this project based learning is taken hold on i s a congratulations to the students for putting on this for the community and the board it was quite quite impressive than
Staff by district staff, communitybased organizations and members of the public we developed the recommendation and submitted them to the District Leadership Team the superintendant and the sfusd Leadership Team and we also copied you all on those at the end of the december 2013 since that time weve been continuing to meet with the Leadership Team to review the recommendations that its been a interim process and Wonderful Partnership with the district weve reviewed the draft recommendations that the district staff has come forth to provide input that woefd held Public Meetings to engage more stakeholders the reason that we this is done there is a lot of changes in the federal and state guidelines with a hunger active program there are many changes he wanted to make sure the local district policy was taking into consideration all the changes as well as current best practices by the School District its important to codify the practices we began with the wellness policy from previous year
Monica and mr. Chin thank you please join me of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all tonight we have a very full agenda and the board has a closed session meeting following the full Board Meeting im going to limit the Public Comment to no more than 10 minutes total and each individual speaker no more than one anyone minute per persons for 10 persons to address the agenda items and for the issue of teach for america id like to allocate 10 minutes per side with one minute per person i apologize to those who are not compromised to Public Comment youve welcome to provide our written statements to the clerk and i want to remind members of the public if you wish to speak tonight you are asked to complete a speaker card prior to when the item is called and provide to the executive assistant speaker cards will not be accepted think an item before the board a couple of changes the authors in the
Heavily traveled from kids from school they did it is great and he appreciate that we all should be aware of that and panes. Thank you id like to ask commissioner norton to report. Yes. The budget and Services Committee meet on april 9th a number of action items the first one was the Gateway Middle School charter which we sent to the board with a with a positive recommendation and we had commissioners fewer hastening i didnt and others vietnamese pathway and had a rich discussion on the planning for world language some of the investments we referred to that discussion earlier in the evening but i think the desire for understanding where we are heading financially with the comments was definitely expressed because the funding for the position recommended in n this resolution was contained in the peace budgeted we sent it back to the board without recommendation because it set up an odd scene but definitely there was people on the committee were supportive of the concept of the resolutio