Section a, general information. Number one is accessibility information for the public. Number two is teleconference information. There is none tonight. Section b, opening items. Number one, of whom are board minutes of the regular meeting september 10, 2019. Can i have a motion on a second . And a . Any corrections . Roll call. [roll call] speaker cards for the agenda, the regular agenda and closed session if you wish board of education. Members of the public are reminded that the individual can complete the speaker card prior to the item being called. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time set by the president. According to board rules and procedures. Speaker cards will be accepted for an item are before number two, superintendents report. Doctor matthews . Thank you, president cook. Good evening. Let me try that again, good evening everyone. On september 12, standing in the newly renovated and stunning yard at presidio Meadow School had the privilege to join civic, education, and Business Leaders to celebrate the seventh year of funding by salesforce the bay area schools. Salesforce has been a fantastic partner with their support now totaling over 40 million supporting services ranging from the creation of Computer Science classes to programs that train the next generation of teachers. This year alone salesforce will award a . 5 million enabling us to continue our redesign of our curriculum, coach, math, science teachers, implement the nations first prek12 Computer Science curriculum, and build culture. Just to name some of the programs being made possible by salesforce. My sincere thanks to our partners at cell for continuing to model Corporate Responsibility for our community and our schools. Second, please come to sfusds annual enrollment fair. It will be held on saturday, october 19th, 9 00 a. M. Until 2 00 p. M. At the high school located at 2355 folsom street. Do not miss this opportunity to meet representatives from all of the San FranciscoUnified School District schools in you get the opportunity to learn about our language programs, our special education programs, how to apply to our district, and much more. This familyfriendly event is open to the public. No registration is required. Bilingual staff will be there to assist in english, spanish, and chinese. Childcare is provided for children ages 35. To signup for childcare, to enroll in school at sfusd. Edu. Finally i would like to remind family and caregivers that this week is high school back to school week. Contact your School Principal to find out about any events that they are having. Thank you all. That completes my announcements for this evening. [applause] thank you doctor matthews. Number three, student delegates report. Thank you. Good evening everybody. On the topic of Student Voice and leadership, congratulating all of our brave youth leaders for the support and participation on last weeks student led rally march held on monday, september 16, and friday 20. This is an incredible incredible Civic Engagement opportunity for student leaders to show suppor support for social and climate awareness. [applause] annually participating in a youth Mentorship Program. This year we will continue to provide our youth the opportunity to gain Office Experience so they can build a resume, and have a mentor that they can rely on in their career path. Establishing a student friendly Mentorship Program for our students. Our mentor and Internship Program training will start next month. Last night, we selected this Years Committee chairs who will direct our goals and project. Our goal is to form student led teams who will effectively support and encourage our project. These committees will house all projects. We will continue to work on any ongoing projects but also research and develop new ideas in our perspective committees. Our health and Environmental Committee will host our mondays and student card project which is our project to fund raise money for students without stable housing. Our district and City Accountability Committee will host our engage with police said hall, and City Organization projects. Our Student Support committee will house our Student Service health program, which is a resource website for students. Our social justice and Opportunity Committee will house our job and volunteer opportunities for new students. Our budget and Legal Committee will help funding for a new Sports Equipment to a more. We would like to congratulate our newly elected Committee Chairs and we look forward to working with them all you they year on this year projects thank you. Thank you. Number four, recognitions and resolutions of commendation. There are none tonight. Section b, opening items. Number five, recognizing all valuable employees, our rave awards. [cheering] doctor matthews . This evening we have two rave award winners, recognizing all valuable employees. We will begin with our First Distinguished Service award. This award winner is sarah karp. She is the instructional reform cabelas facilitator. This will be presented by claudia moran, the principal. [applause] good evening commissioners. It is my honor to represent the ka community school. Taking a moment to acknowledge the amazing sarah carr. She has been part of our one of us to Community Since its very inception. Whether as a teacher, an academic response to intervention facilitator, or an instructional perform facilitator, which we will adopt as fundamental to our way, our culture, how we do things our way. She amplifies the Little Things that they do, and make sure we all know how scared they are for doing them. She sees that their struggle, and acknowledges it to offer support and advice. She is deeply knowledgeable and uses this superpower in fiercely Loyal Service to our students. She is unafraid. [laughter] everyone who knows her knows this. She is unafraid to identify classroom level practices as well as systemlevel policies that are not equitable, rigorous, or fair. She offers brave feedback alongside ideas for making things more equitable, rigorous, and fair. Sarah is a team player. She holds us all to impeccable standards. We are all stronger for it. Sarah has been has seen our school evolve into an in which students, staff, and family understand that we are in relationship with each other, and we shall each day in service of each other, and that we leave each evening sarah has been instrumental in creating our School Strong culture of empathy, responsibility, humility, and flexibility. Is it any coincidence, thank you sir for your lifetime of service, or what must feel like it. For your fierce dedication to our students and teachers pray for all to bring our a game and to make it not be possible. We see you do it. Congratulations to an incredible partner and advocate. I hope you know how very much your love. I want to say thank you. As nice to be a teacher here, to be recognized and have an audience at 555 Franklin Care about our work in are thinking about it. Im deeply invested in this, my three children go to school here, my husband is at back night. He is a teacher. The most important part when i think about how did i end up being in this district for 18 years, and really caring deeply about what we do is thinking about the collaboration and teamwork that i have gone from colleagues right i worked with so many amazing people. We had rich collaboration spread im going to call out a few of their names. These are people we have nurtured that have been instrumental in helping me lea learn, and grow, and stay engaged as an educator. I have esther, whitney, veroni veronica, maria, antoinette, vicki, gail, and megan who is here. Those collaborations. A lot of times we have the answers we need when we were together. As leaders, and on as well we have to work creatively, to work against the model of teaching where teachers are just and just do what they want and feel like not being bothered is the best way to go about being teaching. We need time and support to look at student work, to reflect on what we are doing. To get feedback and learn from our peers and colleagues. I do believe that learning is transformative and can be transgressive for our students, but also we, the adults need those opportunities to stay engaged and stay connected to teaching. I think in order for those things to happen, we need some conditions. We need condition continuous pd for leaders to lead some of that work. We need high Quality Resources from c n so that what we are doing is meaningful. We know we are working towards more equitable outcomes. We need infrastructure, support, paid time in the summer, time to collaborate when the. We need subs to cover for us. We need professional text in order to grow and learn. I hope i am here for another 18 years, in the district, keeping up this work. I look forward to see the way we grow and develop these practic practices. Teachers have the support to continue growing and learning. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Our next rave distinguished award winner is alyssa prize, she is the secretary at charles drew elementary school. This award will be presented by nicole scott who is the principle of john mclaren early at school. She is standing in for the principal. Once again congratulations to alyssa price. Good evening. My name is nicole scott, i am also the principle of the Summer School portion of doctor williams [inaudible] i want to make sure that i take this opportunity to honor someone who i think it is very, very special and dear to my heart. This Award Recipient was nominated by her Early Education coworker. It is my privilege to read her nomination, and introduce the dynamic woman, ms. Alisa chris price. She works tirelessly, passionately and skillfully to support the support of our parents and staff to educate our students. This award is long overdue and welldeserved. Some unique qualities that distinguish her from the rest. With intelligence, fairness, kindness she guides our parents to the process of providing their children from preschool education. Her persistence on follow often results and improvements in the attendance, and health of our students, as well as an increase in the wellbeing of their families. She takes responsibility for the organization of our school and provides leadership when needed to ensure the education, and safety of our students, and staff. Some examples of things that msy of recognition are that she actively serves as a liaison between parents and teachers. She does this consciously, skillfully, in ways that allow teachers to focus on the work while remaining in the loop with regards to parents concerns. She also makes her herself available to parents who require foz an extended and works with teachers to address these needs. In addition, some of her selfless acts include helping a homeless family increase their attendance for their child. Giving a sensitive mother a better sense of how often she needs to bring extra clothing for her child. Ensuring that a child with multiple dental problems will be seen by dentists. Ms. Chris is being honored today, because she is a very, very hard worker. She creates a sense of community at our school, with our passion for the success of our students and with her fabulous sense of humor. I miss her and less responsibility, she has energy to thoughtfully organize a for a young mother who works on our staff. Clearly she enjoys being a part of our school, and this enjoyment along with her Boundless Energy makes her one of the most irreplaceable, phenomenal, powerful foundations and the life of doctor charles drew Early Education school. We know how we do it. On behalf of every administrat administrator, you have worked with, i would like to personally express my deepest gratitude for your professionalism, and your unconditional love for your administrative expertise, despite painful experiences and difficult times you have remained consistent, a solid rock. You are dependable. You are trustworthy. You are brilliant. Look at me, you are brilliant. Today, and every day, i want you to know you are unique, valuable and unloved. Bring it on in. [cheering] and loved. Bring it on in. [cheering] i would just like to say thank you. It has been a pleasure working in early at. I was at harvey elementary for 22 years, and i thought that was wonderful. Now im in prek, i think i have the best job in the world. [cheering] i just want to thank everyone, and i appreciate the nomination from my coworkers. Thank you. [applause] congratulations again to our rave Award Recipients. [cheering] section c, Public Comment on non agenda items. Please note Public Comment as an opportunity for the board to hear, from the community, on matters of the boards jurisdiction. We using employee and student names. If you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employees supervisor was on with district policy. As a reminder, or drills in California Law do not allow us to respond to comments or answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate the superintendent will ask. I have a few people signed up for Public Comment. When you hear your name called, just make your way to the podium. [reading names] thank you. I just want to make a comment about transportation. I know that issue is coming up for the contract. I am grateful to the district. I am grateful for my son to be at the school that he is at. He is incumbent on the school bus to get to school, so he can have an education that is meaningful. I am grateful we have transportation to get him there, it would not work otherwise. He has been taking the bus for about 2. 5 years. It is the third year at the school he is out he is at. In that time, my son was taken to the bus depot and waited for an hour before he went to school while they bid on their next contract for their drivers. He called me saying why am i not at school . I have had bus drivers take him out of class, out of study hall preparing for finals, because they were ready to drive back. School is in the east bay. They pulled him out of classes. Ive had drivers who are disrespectful to my son. They think because he has a disability, that they can be read to him, or that he doesnt understand what is going on. He is very, very capable of understanding. Currently this last year, the beginning of his school year, we had so many subs that for the First Time EverSchool Called home because he could not regulate himself. He was so discombobulated about having a new driver every day for two weeks. Im going to quickly say, right now, he is on the bus for 2. 5 hours because they change the route. Hes getting sick coming home. I was given notice of this the morning of the change. I just wanted you to know what is going on with the school bus right now. Thank you. [applause] my name is shane hoffa. I am a School Bus Driver. I think we definitely need to talk with her parents, and work this out. A lot of these problems are the company and their shortage of drivers. We do love our kids that we transport. Today i actually came to talk about i have been a School Bus Driver for 23 years. A passenger vehicle and on the School Bus Driver certificate. That is really important. When they got up in the pre bid conference, they said no. That is not the case. They are saying, you know, essentially that none of that is needed. All you need is a class b license. Im just summarizing. Like anybody here who would drive a bus. So our position as anyone who drives schoolchildren home for higher should be required to meet the rigorous safety standards, and training that we have that any certified School Bus Driver has. They should have a school bus certificate. The safest vehicles possible. Thank you. [applause] my name is geraldine, i am a parent of a 12th grader and an eighth grader. I am missing back night tonight, the First Time Ever to speak to you because i am one of the families that is expected to choose between my childrens graduation this spring. This date, june 1, i have spoken to the administers of the school and no one seems to be able to find a solution in order to allow me to attend both of my childrens graduation. That this is happening is shocking. Apparently it has been happening for years. Families have pulled their eighthgraders out of graduations saying, you know, high school is more important. I think this is an awful choice for a family to have to make. Ive done a ton of volunteering at all my kids schools. I have built a great community. Its not just about your kids. Its about your kids friends. You know, i am just stunned of that im in this position. Asking my son to miss his own graduation, or to not see his own sister graduate, is not acceptable. I cant imagine what this is like for a single parent who obviously cannot be in two places at once. There is a lot of other families in this boat. We have reached out to our principles, the superintendent