2014, do i have a motion. Motion. Second. Any corrections . Any none, roll call. Miss wei. Yes. Mr. Logan. We. Maufas. Yes. Mendoza. Yes. Norton. Yes. And miss fewer . Yes. Wynns. Yes. Six ayes. Item b presentation to the board. Over the last few days, march 5, through 7, 207 San Francisco Unified School District skaouts received free eye examines and classes through the vision ban Program Sponsored by one sight, a Foundation Group and i would like to on behalf of all of the students, make dr. Albert lee who is coordinating this for the last few years, including organizizing more than 150 volunteers from all over california to work with our students, this effort was coordinated with the School Health programs and in special recognition to the School District nurse, Cathy Babcock and many nurses and social workers and staff who helped to insure the student participation with this worthy cause and i want to thank the associate superintendent kevin truit of the support division and kim co
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
2014, do i have a motion. Motion. Second. Any corrections . Any none, roll call. Miss wei. Yes. Mr. Logan. We. Maufas. Yes. Mendoza. Yes. Norton. Yes. And miss fewer . Yes. Wynns. Yes. Six ayes. Item b presentation to the board. Over the last few days, march 5, through 7, 207 San Francisco Unified School District skaouts received free eye examines and classes through the vision ban Program Sponsored by one sight, a Foundation Group and i would like to on behalf of all of the students, make dr. Albert lee who is coordinating this for the last few years, including organizizing more than 150 volunteers from all over california to work with our students, this effort was coordinated with the School Health programs and in special recognition to the School District nurse, Cathy Babcock and many nurses and social workers and staff who helped to insure the student participation with this worthy cause and i want to thank the associate superintendent kevin truit of the support division and kim co
When its done Treasure Island yerba buena is the next designation in the bay area. We realize we are strategically located so were not only looking at roads and transportation our goal is to try to alleviate the heavy traffic about that the bay bridge by spelling your last with the board of transportation so were in the right communication with tilly to come up with a vibrant of plans that will help us to envision that 5 to 10 years if now we should be able to pass the bay bridge and be able to travel anywhere were strrl located and make sure this development is one if the finest in the country. Weve got 10 though residents will be living here. Were all going to have a point of designation of hotels and almost 250,000 square feet of retail spaces and also the development this will be planned the Treasure Island and yerba buena has a vision so without further ado, im just here today and thank caltrains and happen that all of the agencies are going to work with us are we going to have ch
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