Agenda for the board, it includes four action items related to preliminary layoff noises to certificate other representative employees and this is necessary by statutory deadline which is march 15th. This year marks the First Time Since 2007, where we are not facing hundreds, upon hundreds of preliminary layoffs due to anticipated budget cuts to the state of california and i want to thank our community and all of the voters for the passage of prop 30 which is making this possible, and if you do take away those positions lost, due to the anticipated end of the School Improvement grand, the sig grand and other categorical funds and other grants that are sunseting, we are issuing over 200 percent fewer, 200 percent fewer prelim layoff notices this year as compared to last year. Although this is a significant reduction in layoff notices, it is still a very difficult decision that we take very, very seriously and it is a very difficult decision and we do not take that lightly. We still need
Summit is on april 5th at fort mason we have secured several workshops to date like the peace pac and the college prop and lbqt, issues. We will have student entertainment, like the drummers from the school of the arts and break dancers from galalao of high school. Also on march first, 2013, sfusd students will participate in the free muni for Youth Program traveling to and from school is important and so the students will be taking part in ridership lessons, also the students who want to apply can do so before june 2014 and you go to emsef. Com to apply. Thank you. All right. We are at item d. No we just finished d. We are at item e the Parent Advisory Council report, i see that we have pac representatives in the audience, please approach. Good evening, everyone, my name is angel quan and i have a son who is attending first grade. And tonight, i am going to report on pac, work, with george here. Good evening commissioners, superintendent, my name is Georgia Williams bratt i am the par
Francisco, she was with the king for like 14 years as a professional and her first year as a probationary teacher there at the king. And i also would like to with her permission, pass to you the evaluation stellar evaluation of her teaching performance from that school. She is really an amazing teacher. With her permission, i want to share an excerpt from the summer evaluation, she has acquired great many strategies for engaging students in a quality that enfuses her classroom, is ten asty and a palpable belief that all students can achieve to high levels, okay . That is an amazing evaluation from her first year as a probationary teacher from her principal. Strategis for engagement have included concrete incentive systems, a morning greeting that acknowledges students from multiple language backgrounds and regular connections to her studentss parents, usually facetoface, how many teachers do that she welcomes that and so that the Home School Link can ad resil ans to her studentss learn
From that school. She is really an amazing teacher. With her permission, i want to share an excerpt from the summer evaluation, she has acquired great many strategies for engaging students in a quality that enfuses her classroom, is ten asty and a palpable belief that all students can achieve to high levels, okay . That is an amazing evaluation from her first year as a probationary teacher from her principal. Strategis for engagement have included concrete incentive systems, a morning greeting that acknowledges students from multiple language backgrounds and regular connections to her studentss parents, usually facetoface, how many teachers do that she welcomes that and so that the Home School Link can ad resil ans to her studentss learning habits. So not to reother electricity her is really a loss to not just the Philippine Community but i think to a very diverse, San Francisco community. She is excellent with all students of color, the philippine teachers is only 5 percent of the San