Been a director for from the last five years, its a high quality preschool site now. We totally embrace diversity, we bring in people from the womens incarceration program, we do a lot of inclusion work, we have a lot of children who are homeless, i add voi kate for the community, i believe in social justice, i believe at risk children being treated like everybody else. I grew up in a large irish native American Family when i was the only one to graduate from college on a scholarship after living homeless in a ten through my years of high school, quality education comes from people who believe in you, i believe i have to give back and i mentored people from the academy and i mentor my teachers to the point that one of them was an award of excellence champion award winner last year as well. I believe quality education is the effective workforce and someone spoke about compensation and education, i strongly believe that Early Childhood teachers are not given enough credit but they need m
Of children, i do a lot of social, emotional work on people especially on the population that needs it. We do a lot of behavioral support plans with our children, i do not believe in expelling preschoolers which is common, we keep the children, we work with the family and we work with the program and these children successfully graduate. Ive been fortunate to have a mentor my entire life that taught me what i was doing. I can tell you i do what i do because someone gave to me and i believe its time for me to give back. My employers will tell you i am the heart of the sentencing i love my children, families and i do love my teachers too. Youll hear me in the halls saying children before chores first, if i see a messy classroom, i know the children came first, it warms my heart, and basically thats who i am. I mean, and thats why im running for this seat. Thank you, and i really appreciate your work, especially no expel policy which is really significant, especially with the population y
Child care dom f comes into the city, the worse things are i think for our delivery system, so thats why i like to do it and im going to keep my comments brief because im nervous, so im open for questions. Thank you. Whats the size of your site . 14. And you have other staff besides yourself . Two others. What kinds of Child Development do you ak chess in terms of knowledge or getting information around Child Development in terms of keeping your i have masters degree from Early Childhood education, and i teach at San Francisco state in Child Development, ive been teaching there for 8 years. There are a lot of people in the field who actually go back to stay on with quite frequency to keep up to date with a lot of the Child Development knowledge thats happening in the field. Right. And thats been built into the system. I dont think so. I think the increase in demand for the assistant of b. A. s for preschool teachers and more education for assistance thats prompted more people to go bac
Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for april 28, 2015. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos president breed, supervisor compos supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, kim not present. Supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor weiner, supervisor yee. You have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen request can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. Madam clerk, are there any communications. Today we have communication dated yesterday from supervisor john avalos. Stated he will not be in attendance today and request to be accused. Is there a motion to excuse avalos. Without objection, supervisor avalos is excused from todays meeting. Madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda . I have no chang
You have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen request can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. Madam clerk, are there any communications. Today we have communication dated yesterday from supervisor john avalos. Stated he will not be in attendance today and request to be accused. Is there a motion to excuse avalos. Without objection, supervisor avalos is excused from todays meeting. Madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda . I have no changes. Can you please rate the consent agenda. Items 1 through 12 comprised consent calen der. Supervisor campos. Thank you, i like to remove item 10. Okay. Seeing no other names on the roster, please call the roll on remaining items. Supervisor campos. Aye. Supervisor christensen . Aye. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Supervisor kim