It is important to check in around wellness and continuing to do everything we can to continue instruction in the instances that we can. We have been really clear about that in Distance Learning guide which is we will do what we can and we want students to do what they can when they can. There is the understanding they are going to be their situations where people get to a place where they need to pull back or separate for a while or take some time off and that is what we have been really clear about. It is doing the best we can to understand what the pandemic is and what it has done to so many of our families and individuals and to our students. It is doing everything we can. The best way to have that understanding is to have as much contact as we possibly can when people want that contact. I know other Staff Members wanted to add on to the piece around our engagement attempts during Distance Learning. I want to ask for comments on the three contacts per week. I do know some teachers doing fewer than that at the moment. I wanted to see what you think the percentage is of teachers being able to do that . We have been collected data this week and trying to get an accurate response to that very question. We know many teamers are attempting to contact students and families, some have been successful and others are struggling. I dont have that data point now. It is forthcoming. We did request that all teachers interact with students at least two to three times an week from the beginning of Distance Learning. They started in phase one and continue to do so through phase three and still to the end of the school year. We know what i should chair clarify this includes individual contact. If the teacher did a zoom call with the class and was able to interact that way. In terms of data at this point we are not saying you have to talk oneonone with the student every week but you need two to three contacts. As it says in the resolution that contact should be around checking on wellness and supporting learning. To the Commissioners Point it is an opportunity for feedback on the work and checking for understanding and support learning. We are running the numbers now and hope to have more accurate data in terms of the percent of folks that are being contacted. Do you want to add anything, Vice President lopez . No, i think maybe you wanted to share. Thank you everyone for the comments and thank you, staff for putting together this resolution. I am looking forward to commissioner collins amendments. I just had a quick question around the partnerships with communitybased organizations. I know on the Mental Health resolution we passed recently that there was an intentional partnership with our communitybased organizations and city agencies. In terms of this resolution, how would that look like . I am not sure i understand the question. Are we currently partnering with the city and then what does that Partnership Look like in regards to supporting our kids around the academic supports . For example th the check in. There was a comment made earlier with regards to the partnerships with ceos specifically. Do we have a current plan or process in place to include partners . What does that look like right now . We actually had a Partnership Engagement two days ago. I am not sure of the number. Is she a panel list or no . There was 265 people in the forum. We just had a forum. That discussion was how we are partnering. We definitely are partnering with them. They are assisting in all areas, assisting with family checks, wellness checks, with meal deployment and we have been partnering not only around the Services Provided but ideas for how we can make sure we are meeting the needs of our constituents and families, students. And a big part of the c. E. O. We partnered with around that getting that information. Over the weekend i was in a town hall and they talked about how to partner with schools, site leaders, educators to do alignments and supports in a traditional out of school time. For example at the richmond beacon center, for example, they are igniting the tutoring Services Offered to students. Those are up and going as well. Those are led by cb os. Theines are the those are the things that are entrenched in the school site during this Remote Learning that we are going to learn more about what is happening on the ground. Do you want to add to it . Good afternoon or evening. Thank you for the opportunity. So we have been doing a lot of work on the ground as commissioner lam mentioned in terms of supporting school sites around the areas, wellness checks. What we started on monday which as commissioner collins said 265 participants wa was a joint form planned with our multiple partners. It is first one and we have committed to planning three more in collaboration and conjunction with Community Partners. We spent monday getting to know one another, learning about each other, and identifying the different bucketses going forward. Then the next step is that there is a work group of Community Partners for each of the different forums working through the information we received from monday and the previous wednesday before monday we had a planning meeting with about 35 or 40 cb os a planning meeting to plan the meeting. Then we had a Smaller Group to plan the monday meeting. We have been able to engage intentionally and very deep lewith our partners. It has been really great. The partners are looking toward the district to take leadership to provide guidance on how to support around wellness and maybe academics that we have going on. I want us to continue to take lead and what i heard also was folks just wanted a lot of communications around what the current process was. Again, i want to thank everyone for their efforts. I look forward to moving this forward. Thank you. Commissioner collins, can we screen share the amendment . Yes. We will look at these and discuss them. There are typos. It is like we are here tomorrow. That is the best i can do. There it is. Thanks. Do you want me to read it . Yes, please. I wanted to add whereas to incorporate the input from the Public Comment. Whereas there is no data showing the validity of using grades as accurate measure of Student Learning during the covid19, whereas the federal government required schools to provide support to students receiving special Education Support for students interrupted by Distance Learning and the covid19 pandemic. I want to add the note. The board approved agreement between united educators to uphold the value of holding students harmless and encourages educators to ensure students dont receive a lester grade than lesser grade. Further resolved credit refer ry will be provided. How to grade students during the pandemic. The district will work with cb o partner to establish safeguards and safety nets through hardship due to the covid19 pandemic. Can i second the amendment . You can drop the screen share. That was moved buyer commissioner collins, correct . Yes. Thank you. Commissioner norton you seconded the motion, correct . Correct. Did the board want to accept the amendment without a vote or do you want a vote . Or do you want to accept the amendment to the superintendents proposal . I would say general consent. Is that okay . I have a bad connection. Me, too. He may have a bad connection. Also, i see the student delegates have their hands up. I want to make sure that he was able to hear. Thank you. I would like to request the amendment or resolution to change therefore be resolved to our hybrid policy we requested. A to f option. Where specifically did you want . Which one . When you take comments like the amendment . I would like to speak to that one. Me, too. If we want to comment on this amendment how do we do that. We have to vote on this. We can comment and discuss but we cant make an amendment on an amendment. I want to clarify. This is like a separate amendment i want to request. We accepted the other amendment by general consent. Thank you. This is not an amendment on commissioner collins amendment. This is a request to implement the recommendation to change the grading policy. You are making a motion. Somebody would have to second the motion for us to discuss it, mr. Sanduval. Second. Thank you. Okay. Can we discuss superintendent matthews and commissioner collins . One part of the reason that the uc and csu gave the flexibility was because of the realization how difficult it would be at this time when students are adequately trying to assess an a through f grade. Not only difficult for students but definitely difficult for teachers who also we could go about this pandemic happened to students and teachers. It is quite difficult for a teacher to even if the board went the a through f, but then up add on top of that a teacher now trying to assess part of the class on pass and no pass and part on a through f. Personally a big part why this isnt in the resolution is because we knew that would present we talked about hardships and difficulty. This is what some students wanted in the survey. We felt this would provide such a difficulty for teachers to figure out a and f. It makes it really difficult for teachers to manage it to move forward and to put that forward, to operate in that manner. I would say that amendment makes it quite difficult to move our grading system forward. I would just add, that it creates difficulty for any university to interpret what the grades mean. If some students in the same course got a pass while others got a letter grade, that would be nearly impossible for them to decipher what that means. I suspect we would hear a lot of feedback from them. Commissioner collins i want to recognize president solomon. Thank you. I just want to make sure that things are accurate. I am speaking where it says teachers are encouraged not to give students lesser grades than they had. This is about contract language exact about what it says. It is not that teachers are encouraged to do so, it says that students will not receive a lesser grade than the grade after march 13th as a result of engaging in Distance Learning. Contract language will not mean this will not happen. Teachers saying it is not going to happen. This is from the m. O. U. Agreed to buy the district and the union. I want to be clear. I appreciate you clarifying. I want to make sure that i dont want to i am trying to i guess based on legal advice i wanted to make sure we werent getting into trouble so i made it encouraged based on the m. O. U. And quoted it. I would love to incorporate your language exactly. I wanted to know from legal if that is a problem for us to do. May i comment one more time before . At this moment i am not even entering the debate what teachers should do. If it is going to site the m. O. U. , it has to be exact. Anybody who reads this resolution will know that it is accurately reflecting what the m. O. U. Says. And the m. O. U. Doesnt say encourage. That is my point. Is that okay to include that exact language . What i would recommend is that you simply say consistent with the m. O. U. Instead of trying to characterize what it says. That is where you are hearing president solomon having concerns. Consistent with the m. O. U. And there is no debate. We can make those changes in the edit. Getting back to the original question where student delegate sandoval. I did work with postsecondary access. The problem is colleges look at grades and know what schools inflate grades, which schools they know all of that stuff. In this situation what i am hearing this semester is called asterisk. Grades are all over the place. Grades need to measure something. If you have sent centimeters and inches. I think it creates more challenges for students than opportunities. Ultimately, i agree with superintendent matthews. When you are a high schoolteacher grading 160 kids, having multiple scales of grading, it is challenging. Teachers keep moving have all acknowledged they are not eaching the same amount. That is something to acknowledge. With an a it is not the same amount of work as if you were in school. That is not your fault. It is challenging for teachers am i grading an a in will gee bra this year in algebra last year or remotely. It is confusing. That is why the staff made the recommendation to come up with a new scaling. It is clear this is a different scaling. Also, i do want to recognize students that have received grades to the nine weeks maybe there is a way to get recognition or letter wont appear on transcripts but a letter stating what grades would have been to recognize what they have earned on so far. As we have stated a great up to the nine week grading period doesnt recognize student achievement. That is valid up to that point. Any other comments . Thank you, student delegates for continuing our discussion. I just want to make sure we are clear about the new whereas and the language. Are we going to vote on the entire thing . You have two motions on the floor, two proposed amendments. Be clear which amendment you are voting on commissioner collens or student delegates . Well then lets vote on the student delegate amendment. I thought we accepted mine. By general consent. There is only one amendment on the floor. Then we have to vote on the main motion. We vote on the whole resolution. Speaking to the student delegates amendment. Commissioner norton. I want to say i am not in favor of the amendment, with regret. I thank the student delegates foreigfor their engagement and representation of students. I think for the reasons that the superintendent so eloquently explained, we have to consider more than just the concerns of students at this point, and i think there could be a real backlash to students from, again, the two big Public University systems csu and uc. We dont want problems for other students and additional confusion and issues for teachers trying to figure out how to grade during this pandemic. I am going to vote no on the amendment, with regret. Any other comments . Yes, can i have that read to me because my internet went out for a while. The amendment. The amendment was to take into account Student Input and change the grading policy to what we recommended at the beginning. Which was in. Which was pass or the optional a through f. Not a pass or no pass, just a pass and a through f . Option grades. I feel like we should be allowing for that as the fall back if you see csu change their thinking. At this point since they havent, i think it would be unwise to do it. I think if we change it we should divert to that policy. I think people want that, and i think people want a voice in it. If uc and c su change their policy then we should revert to your amendment language. President sanchez, i feel that sounds like another amendment. You are amending the amendment. The amendment would be should the csu and uc system allow for the policy to be a through f and pass policy that we will engage that knowing that that probably isnt going to happen. At least it would give us some wiggle room if it did happen. Is there a timeline . And do we have a second . I think it was already seconded. We are on to what mark is sharing. This is misrepresenting what president sanchez is saying. If the policy saying within the uc system we can bring it back for another vote, not to change the vote now . I could live with that. I would prefer. Otherwise it is very, very unclear what does that mean . I would be open if they changed their policy i would be open to bring it back. Then we dont need the amendment. Go ahead. Commissioner cook. I appreciate the leadership of the student delegates for pressing the voice of all of the students. I want to make sure because i am not going to support the amendment. I do want to bring back the level of participation that you had on the discussion. Do you know offhand. Can you recall how many people were in the survey . Yes, i can check. Last time 5400. Now it is 5816 currently. You came up with these proposals which you are asking us to vote on . Yes. Cool. The 5800 students that weighed in on this discussion, for the sake of clarity for this semester i am going to support the amendment we have on the table and if you are upset about that you can blame me. I appreciate all of you weighing in. Again, thank you for your leadership in engaging all of your peers in this discussion. If there are no more comments we can vote on the amendment. The student delegate amendment. Thank you. Student delegate amendment. Ms. Collins. No. Mr. Cook. No. Ms. Lam. No. Ms. Lopez. No. Mr. Moliga. No. Ms. Norton. No. Mr. Sanchez. No. Ms. Sandaval. Yes. That was a failed vote. Thank you for your leadership. That is an amazing turnout. I would love if you could share it with us the survey language, that would be helpful. Did we vote on commissioner collins amendment . Okay. Now we are going to vote on the resolution. Roll call. The resolution was amended and accepted by general consent. This is just the resolution as amended. Ms. Collens. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Ms. Lam. Yes. Ms. Lopez. Yes. Mr. Moliga. Yes. Nor to be. Yes. Sanchez. Yes. That is a unanimous vote of the board. Thank you. Thank you. Now, we are moving to another resolution that we are going to vote to suspend the rules for. We need a motion and second for suspension of the rules for resolution 20428a1 in support of utilizing School District property in conjunction with citywide plan to establish safe sleeping sites for unsheltered people offered by me civil and commissioner lopez. Moved. Second. This is roll call on the suspension of the rules. Thank you. Ms. Collins suspension of the rules. She stepped away. Mr. Cook. Yes. Ms. Lam. Yes. Lopez. Yes. Sanchez. Yes. Thank you. Give me one second. We need the motion and second. I need a motion and second for the formal. Moved. Second. Thank you. Now i am going to read the resolution into the record. I will read this in si support f the safe sleeping for unsheltered people. The supervisors are considering the following policy urging the city to establish safe sleeping sites for unsheltered people to encourage social distancing and slow the spread of covid19. Whereas the supervisors resolution note that more than 8,000 people are without shelter in San Francisco the majority are sleeping on the streets whereas the citys healthy street Operation Center refocused on keeping areas clean and sidewalks cle