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
My b. A. In Child Development and im currently at the university of San Francisco pursuing a degree in organization and leadership and education. My vision for this new office which im really anointed about, the 9 seats that will be represented are critical in sort of creating a system or strengthening the system to continue to work on the strengths and successes that weve had over the years, leverage our resources, San Francisco is rich with resources so we have to continue to find out how to leverage those so obacker our families can benefit, increased access, particularly for children with special needs, nrs a focus on continuity of care, a lot of the children that are in my program that have special needs, we figure out by leveraging other resources and funding to continue to provide those services to our children so they can benefit from the continuity of care who we know its important for these people. Breaking the silos among city departments and aligning our vision, we can str
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
Im honored to be considered as a mayoral appointee to the new citizens advise have i Committee Seat 4 representing philanthropy, currently serve as Program Director [inaudible] our sole mission at the foundation is to increase access to high quality Early Education for San Francisco lowincome children and families. Since our inception in the 80s, the foundation sought to work in partnership with providers, with families, with the School District and with the city to create high quality system of care for children and families. Just briefly, my work at the foundations fathers a decade of public service. I had the challenge of serving as the director of policy and planning and being one of their early Human Service coordinators for them mayor newsoms initiative. [inaudible]. I would say its notable for this convening that hoover the most exciting and flourishing parts of my career, i founded the child care facilitys fund during welfare reform and under my tenure, we created 12 new state
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