Present. The committee a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the importance of trauma and practices in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adversities. Miss beth of georgia, of minnesota, miss the of wilde ofiss pennsylvania, and mr. Pastor of texas, are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come on the after all members of the subcommittee have had an opportunity to question the witness. ,ursuant to committee will 7c Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from or witnesses sooner and provides all members with time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . All right. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by acknowledging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania, and the pentagon on september 11, 2001. Let us please tak
Teaching on skills on the pathway helping those who fall behind and stimulating over achievers at the same time can they realistically it shaved that when theyre still being charged by that class is test scores so the when when children are entering school when theyre age 5 most 5 year olds will have the skills of a 5 year old to preliteracy skills and numeracy skills of a 5 year old some have grievances age 6 skills even though theyre age 5 but some of them only age for age 3 and so though when they reach grade one theres already a 4 year age range in their School Development so thats the central challenge of teaching everywhere in the world as is handling that diversity and its not just about Ethnic Diversity or diversity of so should the social class that that level of diversity is everywhere and. That thats the challenge of teaching and so the teachers really do need to be images. To be able to handle that and stimulate the the events to make sure that klaus you know provides a dis
Thank you. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and foreclosed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. You can present it to the executive assistant at my right, to your left. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time as set by the Vice President. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board deputy superintendent . Thank you, Vice President sanchez. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, commissioners. I am standing here for dr. Matthews tonight whose youngest son, anthony, is in a commencement ceremony, he is graduating at San Francisco State University, so we extend our congratulations to matthews family. [applause] with that, i will mention a few items. This past thursday, students in the John Oconnell high school help
On the bus. Like, how does that work . Is that with the Behavior Department . Is that . The school . So thats in the school. We actually have a handbook and theres a whole series of protocols that map out expectations for student behavior and what to do in different situations, so thats available online, and i can send links to that if folks are interested in that, too, but it is an extension of the school . And so if there are issues, there are protocols around what to do, so if there are any safety issues around transporting students, the gus pull bus pulls over. If theres an issue at the end of the day when the bus goes to drop students off, and theres no one there to receive them, the bus goes back to the school so the school can receive them and try to make connections with the families. But it is an extension of the school. The school is responsible for managing the behavior of students . We do not allow the drivers to discipline the students in any way, so when there are issues,
Reading skills at the expense of some of the arts certainly theres theres a worldwide trend to have kids graduate with Global Skills we need kids who can handle very complicated texts nowadays the literacy requirements for even the most basic jobs to be a carpenter a welder you need very high levels of literacy skills now and same with the math skills and skills its not thats changed in the last 20 years i think its not only about which subjects to concentrate on but how they are doing that and i heard you say that given the diversity of student population is the teachers can no longer be expected to teach within any particular grade that they should be teaching on skills on the pathway helping those who fall behind and stimulating over achievers at the same time can they realistically its heaved out when theyre still being charged by that class is test scores so the wooden when children are entering school when theyre age 5 most 5 year olds will have the skills of a 5 year old to prel