The sgrlz the presiding officer is commissioner honda and joined by commissioner fung and commissioner ann lazarus and commissioner swig we expect commissioner bobby wilson to be here tonight to my left is thomas owen for legal advice and gary boards executive director. Were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. We expect Senior Citizen builder inspector joe duffy dbi and Scott Sanchez representing the Planning Department and Planning Commission and joined by from the public works the public works of mapping please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. Speaker cards and p
It out and it may be bumpy next week and after that we could get on with it. And then, another challenge that the school sites have expressed the concern in and we only have a limited number of support staff and we have nine staff to support 104 sites, and so the way that we are going to work around that is that rpa is going to have the staff available on the phone and the help desk will be trained on how to answer the questions and plus, we will take the advantage of the help desk and we will do the best that we can to support the staff but we do expect that we will learn inaudible this year. And the final challenge is that we are running low on the equipment that we have now and we have eight years worth of equipment and many different operating system and so you know that we will be, a great opportunity for us to figure out what is the best fit for the svac assessment going forward. So we do expect it to be a bit rocky in the beginning but we will learn and it will get get better af
Assessments. So i want to thank you for all of your hard work and i want to thank you for all of the pushing that we are doing, but i cant emphasize enough for our parents and our community that although, the state of california is not assigning consequences to the results of the svac this year, we are testing the test and we are taking it out for a trial run and kicking the tires and i cant think of any other analogies and it is incredibly important that we take it seriously because we are going to learn the important lessons about what does the Technology Look like when all of the students are taking these assessments . The teachers will learn about this is a different kind of test, and it is no longer filling in the bubble with a paper, pencil test and it is adaptive so the students have to be able to be comfortable on a computer and the students with disabilities have the built in accommodations that they are going to have to be able to access on a computerbased assessment and so i
Week and after that we could get on with it. And then, another challenge that the school sites have expressed the concern in and we only have a limited number of support staff and we have nine staff to support 104 sites, and so the way that we are going to work around that is that rpa is going to have the staff available on the phone and the help desk will be trained on how to answer the questions and plus, we will take the advantage of the help desk and we will do the best that we can to support the staff but we do expect that we will learn inaudible this year. And the final challenge is that we are running low on the equipment that we have now and we have eight years worth of equipment and many different operating system and so you know that we will be, a great opportunity for us to figure out what is the best fit for the svac assessment going forward. So we do expect it to be a bit rocky in the beginning but we will learn and it will get get better after that. Good evening, commissi
We are running low on the equipment that we have now and we have eight years worth of equipment and many different operating system and so you know that we will be, a great opportunity for us to figure out what is the best fit for the svac assessment going forward. So we do expect it to be a bit rocky in the beginning but we will learn and it will get get better after that. Good evening, commissioners. I am Michelle Dawson and the Educational Technology supervisor and i am going to talk to you about the school site observation protocol. Of course as you guys are well aware that this here is about learning. About how the technology and the students will take the svac exam and so our observational tool will actually what we want to do is we want to measure the pipeline between the state, and the district to see what issues there are between the state and the district. But we also want to look at our end and what our end will be look like and what our problems are on what our successes ar