For all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are opening two additional meal pickup sites. These sites will be open from 11 00 to 12 00 on mondays and wednesdays and each site will have the capacity to serve at least 175 children each day. If you want a list of additional pickup times and locations, visit our website, which is sfusd. Edu schoolfood. And second, a reminder that the enrollment deadlines for the 2021 school year have been extended to april 17th. I want to remind everyone the enrollment deadlines have been extended. If you not have yet accepted your School Placement offer, you have until april 17th. Students with on will lose their if parents dont register. You have until april 17th for round two. With that said, yesterday in the family digest, we sent out a video and its described the work that were doing. Its a little bit over five minutes, but i think it gives the entire community the opportunity to see what our priorities are and what were trying to accomplish during this closure of school sites. So with that, im going to add mr. Still stihl, if you would st that video. Were having technical difficulties right now. It looks like your sound is on but its not working. So with that, this video is on our website and it is on if you look at the family digest, it says a video here and it describes our priorities which are to make sure that students continue to learn, as well as we do everything we can to support the needs our families and so, please, please make sure that if you have the opportunity, it gives you a very detailed explains of all were trying to do here in San Francisco unified. One of the things i ask, all panelists, make sure if youre not speaking to turn off your microphones so that the background noises arent there. So with that, president sanchez. I want to try one more time. I think i may have figured it out. Ok, take two. video playing . Schools will be closed through the summer break and during this closure, you have two priorities, you want to support your child and your familys wellness and health and we want to support your child to continue to learn. This video gives you the information about both of those. [ ] while schools are closed, we want to remind you that our teachers, paraeducators tha care about your churn. Children. Theyll be checking in to see how youre doing and how children are doing. If you need support, they can connect you with services and you can find many resources to support you. We have distributed more than 8,600 chrome books to students so far and our deploying devices the week of april 13th. If your third through 12t 12thgrade child doesnt have access to to a computer for learning on online, go to sfusd suppose edu device. You may be wondering about wifi . Some familiars are offering free wifi for the next three months and if you dont have wifi, this may be the fastest way to get it. You can get it at sfusd. Edu internet. Your students safety and security is a top priority as we transition to learning in a more virtual environment. Our districts have selected a suite of tools we recommend based on the safe and secure experience that is possible with these tools. We are providing recommendations, training and support for teachers and staff in order to prepare them to safely facilitate Digital Learning experience. [ ] it is important to us that your child continues to make progress in their learning. Phase 3 of our Distance Learning plan begins monday, april 13t april 13th. This is when teachers will be leading learning activityin actr humanitarian. Children. Students if prek, kinder will use kits and each family should pick up a learning kit at any of the Elementary Schools. The list is also posted on our website. Each family should expect communication from their teacher to provide lessons and activities for students using their learning kit. Some prek through second grade teachers may do lessons and activities on computers or tablets and phones. Teachers of students in 12t 12th through third grade will begin teacherring lessons on monday. If your child doesnt have a tablet or a smart phone at home or you may prefer they not do Online Learning, your school will communicate with you by receiving printed learning materials to do at home. Whether your child is a kindergarten student or a High School Student, they should receive four hours of schoolwork to do each day. This includes lessons from the teacher and also independent activities that the teacher gives students to do. If your child as an iep, the teacher will modify the lessons according to your childs eip or will provide support. Special education teachers will be connecting with each child to develop a Distance Learning lan. For any work the teacher wants usual child to turn in, students working with an Electronic Device can use that or seesaw. Take a picture or text the work to the teacher. We understand it can be difficult to supervise your childs learning. You may have to work yourself or you may be taking care of others. Whatever you can do to support your childs learning is wonderful. Were all doing the best we can understand the circumstances. Call our email your childs teacher or principal if you have questions. We are also working on setting up a phone number for you to call for support in the event your Childs School principal or teacher is not able to answer your questions. You can find more information about this next week on the website. We are here to help you. Thank you for working with us during this pandemic. Be well, stay healthy and please let us know what supports you need. Thank you so much. I have one final thing, president sanchez. As you had the opportunity to see what were trying to do, this is a 250yearold educational system that we are trying to change. Its been a month now and so, we absolutely as a staff recognise that theyre going to be mistakes made along the way, but understand that my hope is that we will assume positive intent and as you saw with our priorities, were trying to make sure that students wellbeing and families are taken care of as well as educate. As we try to move forward, we know that missteps will happen, but please know were doing the best we can. Thank you and i echo those sentiments and thoughts, dr. Matthews. This is going to be a challenge throughout and mistakes will be made, have been made and will continue to be made and we have to give each other a break here. Everybody is trying their hardest and i know you and your team are. Im on those calls every wednesday and friday morning with you and i know the hard work going into keeping the system going and at the same time, recognising that our students and families are many times in crisis right now and that needs to be recognised by everybody in the school system. And with that, were going go to item 3, which is student delegates report. Were happy to have our student delegates list. We missed you. Hi, good afternoon, everyone. It is so good to see all of you. It has been so long and im definitely going to miss teaching with dr. Matthews every other tuesday. Were happy to announce the survey delegate elections is live and will continue to be live until may 8th. The sac has created a video highlighting each candidate so that they can campaign which can be on any virtual platform. We are happy to see the leadership is continuing. Our goal is to continue leadership and engagement. The petition gives students the platforms to advocate for students needs and concerns and it is an amazing opportunity and we urge every High School Student to vote for the next student delegate. We would like to thank mr. Sal and mr. Quan for creating this subway. Survey and good luck to all of the candidates. Good afternoon, everyone. Its good to see everyone is doing well. Our second item is the sac and student outreach. Last night, we heard our representatives who have concerns and questions of their own, as well as peers with the Current Crisis. We created a Google Survey and circulated this to our peers to gather for thoughts and concerns. Afterwards, we conducted a round roundtable discussion. As a council, our goal is to answer these questions and inform students or parents and would like to emphasize that not everyone in the district is on the same page and we should work on communication to relay information more effectively. We would like to thank everyone from staff to teachers and parents who are working so hard to provide resources and support for students in our district during this pandemic. And please stay safe, everyone. Our third item is a lock and liberated resolution update. So yesterday during our sac meeting, we had the second reading of the gun Safety Solution which is entired block and liberated. This would replace blocks with column bincolumbine locks to ads schools. This is to promote safety and action to combat gun violence. We would like to provide mr. Sal for providing a platform to proceed in and the city and District Accountability Committee for working hard on this resolution. We would like to thank commissioner lam for providing our feedback and guidance for future actions. Our next meeting will be on monday, april 27th, 3 00 p. M. , via zoom. Thank you and that concludes our report. Thank you, student delegates and thre thank you for hanging n there and keeping the work going, as well. The next item is resolutions of common takesecommentcommentatio. I am excited we have an extinguished Service Award to Suzanne Baldwin who is a teacher at Abraham Lincoln high school and this will be presented by the assistant principal and World Language Department who will be presenting. So congrat luggageses congratuln and mr. Tihori, you can take it away. Thank you for allowing this opportunity to honou honor one f lincolns greatest teachers. Design baldwin, she actually taught at the kindergarten level at the school for many years and prior to coming to lincoln. And it was really i truly believe that being a Kindergarten Teacher and starting at the kindergarten level, moving all the way up to the High School Level is really what made her so effective with our students. She was a spanish she is a spanish teacher here at lincoln for many years and she had this unique ability to touch the lives of students in their hearts, academically and being a Kindergarten Teacher, i think it gave her the ability to break things down, to make things very, very manageable for our students and i just really want to praise you and thank you from the bottom of my heart, miss baldwin, for all youve given to our students for many years. So when you think about it, for the last 32 years, shes touchdown thousands of students here in San Francisco, both at the elementary and at the High School Level. So miss body win baldwin, i cone you on your retirement this year and well miss you so, so much and our students, i know, are going to miss you the most. So congra congratulations on ths welldeserved rave award and thank you to all of you for giving her the opportunity to be awarded and honored today. Thank you. applause . Would you like to say a few words . Yes one hav, i have a speech prepared, if thats ok. Sure. First of all, i want to thank everybody who nominated me for this award, those who wrote the letters and i really i mean, its wonderful that you do this and i hope that everybody else feels inspired to recognise the work of teachers in the district. So after hearing superintendent matthews video, i think my speech makes even more sense now. So i want to dedicate this award, and im going to try not to cry, to my fellow teachers who yesterday started on the biggest challenging of their teaching careers. It has been really inspiring for me and for everybody else to see all of the teachers up to occasion. The email threads were into the horizon like i have never seen before. We were trying to figure out how all of this will work and listening to colleagues cry on the phone, endless hours on chats, social media pages, Video Conferencing and imagining a new way of teaching because this is what we do. And so i have never been more proud to be a teacher in all of the years that i have taught. But i also want to dedicate this award to our students who are engaging in this endeavor in overcoming impossible odds. Last week i helped a student with Language Skills set up a district laptop and we used video and i know were not supposed to use social media so, but its a platform my students feel comfortable with. It was incredible because i was looking at the shady, grainy image of her laptop, while little kids were screaming and coming in and out of the frame and she persisted and we kept at it and we were finally able to set up her laptop and get her online. And it was just the most remarkable victory. And in all my weeks and everybody weeks have been accumulation of Small Victories like this, that is whats keeping us going. Parents are also heroes in these trying times. I cannot imagine the sleepless nights with the financial woes in our future. So to our students and parents, were here for you. Were not going to abandon you as a teacher and i always believe that equity and justice meant being the best possible teacher i could ever be for my students, to work hard for them and to show them respect that way. And i tried to continue this in this spirit during this special period. And so, ill leave you with the modified verses that were going around online this week. I will teach you in a room, i will teach you now on zoom. I will teach you in a house. I will teach you with my house. I will teach you here or there. I will teach you because i care. Thank you. applause . So suzanne, so very happy that you got this rave award and it really resonates, your speech, with me, as a fourth grade teacher going through the struggles of trying to zoom my meetings with my kids. It is the toughest time in my life as a teacher and im not adept at technology, so this has been really, really difficult. So new again and new, lance and i want to thank the staff for doing rave awards, even though were in this virtual, weird environment. So thank you again and well go on to the next item which is section c, Public Comment. But i have to read the protocol for Public Comment first. Please note Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction and we ask that you refrain from using employees and students names. If you have a complaint about a district employee, submit it to the employees supervisor in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules and California Law do not allow us to respond or comment or attempt to answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate, the superintendent will ask for the speakers. So Public Comment . So, well go to Public Comment now and each participant will have two minutes. But i need to remind the public that you need to raise your hand, the raise your hand button on zoom, so i know you would like to speak and then i will unmute you and you can announce your full name and then you have two mints. Minutes. So please raise your hand if you wish to speak. And can you go over the process for translation, since we have it provided here . Yes, so we do have chinese and spanish translation on standby right now. And so, if you do need translation, it will be made apparent when we call on you and ill interest the interpreter chime in. Theyll jump in once they see its necessary because theyre on standby right now. Mr. Steel, theyre not going to know that this is available, necessarily. Im sorry . If there is a speaker who does not speaker english in our telecomment period, how will they know theres interpretation . Ok, so maybe maybe we can troubleshoot that for next time. That was to be a part of your announcement to start. In meetings, at the beginning of the meetings. I could ask our tran late trs to make a brief statement right now. speaking spanish great, thank you. And chung, were you able to do that in chinese right now. speaking chinese . President sanchez, should we proceed . Yes. Ok. Hello, cici, are you there . Hello, cici, are you there . Yes, i dont have a question or a comment. Oh, you do not, ok, thank you. Holhello, are you there . Would you like to speak at Public Comment . I cant see the name and i think the last name might be widow. Moving on, maurisha. Yes, can you hear me . Yes, you can go ahead. Can you hear me now . Yes. Perfect. Hi, good afternoon. My name is maurisha robinson and im coming today speaking on Distance Learning because nobody has really asked me how its going. And so the weeks have passed and my family and i are beginning to adjust to this distant learning and weve now embraced it with open arms, understanding that the plan was made public. I know what the expectation is for my daughters and what it means for us as a family. Im thankful that schools are adhering to this at the usb guidelines and meeting families where they are. While this looks different from site to site, it is still happening for us and as an educational entity, we provide in the best way possible. Im also grateful for what is happening thus far. As with all things, there are areas that need improvement, but that does not mean halt learning all together. It means get critical from all stakeholders, m