president yee: please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee: so, if it s ok with my colleagues on the board, i d like to move item m today up to up to right after g, the consent calendar. is that ok? that s ok. item a, approval of the board minutes. motion and a second to the regular board meeting minutes of february 28, 2012. i move adoption of the minutes. second. president yee: any questions? roll call, please. [roll call vote was taken] [motion passed unanimously] president yee: item b, presentation to the board of education superintendent s report. deputy superintendent? thank you, president yee, and good evening, everyone. as you can see, i m not superintendent garcia. the superintendent is unable to make tonight s meeting. his daughter was actually married this weekend in southern california, so we want to congratulate the father and mother of the bride. [applause] but in his absence, he s asked me to provide you with this
good evening, everybody, the san francisco unified school district provides free interpretation services in cantonese and in spanish. if know someone who might need those services, please send them to the back of the room to get the f.m. system. this announcement will be repeated in spanish and cantonese. [speaking spanish] [speaking cantonese] president yee: good evening. welcome to the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for april 10, 2012. it is now called to order. roll call, please? [roll call was taken] president yee: please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee: so, if it s ok with my colleagues on the board, i d like to move item m today up to up to right after g, the consent calendar. is that ok? that s ok. item a, approval of the board minutes. motion and a second to the regular board meeting minutes of february 28, 2012. i move adoption of the minutes.
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
[applause] maria [applause] rosario [applause] edwin yun. [applause] carla mirada. [applause] dora alvarez. [applause] gloria cerva. [applause] carolina. [applause] amalia mendez. ana vazquez. gloria. my colleagues will read the chinese members. maggie pho. [applause] thank you. we look forward to serving the needs of this district s english learners. the english learner students. thank you. a few words from our new president. [speaking spanish] hi, my name is maria rocha, and it s an honor to be chosen to represent the english learners. [speaking spanish] so i m looking forward to working together and all of us are on the same page so we can provide the children with the tools so they can be successful. so again, thank you for this opportunity and we re willing to work. once again, thank you for those that served last year and thank you for those that are willing to serve this year. it s going to be a lot of work. congratulations. we re moving on to our next