school day will end at 3.55 and at 4:00 our afterschool programs will begin. afterschool programs will be housed for students to continue their accelerated learning, their intervention learning, their academic clubs and their sports clubs. >> mr. hobson, before you move on this is an unusual schedule in any middle school in terms of the length of the periods and also the length of the school day. is that correct? >> how did --. >> i know the school board members have probably heard this, but what was the thought praus is he behind it how did we determine this was the appropriate length of time for learning, what did we learn from the current way our periods are set up? it looks like there is, i mean it's not a 7th period but you have an extended school day in this process. i guess i'm curious about the process of getting to this point and also how the funding occurred for you to be able to have a small classroom ratio and advisory to student ratio. >> i will answer the first part then hand it over to julia for the funding part. one, i was given a blank slate so we looked at what was happening nationwide. there are national projects and research-based reports about extended learning space within the school day, not just time across the day and year. within the school day students who attend 50-minute classes to 55-minute classes and they have 7 period it becomes quite a bit for them to handle. students who are underperforming do not benefit as much from constant rotation between teachers and classes. that's one thought we relied on. second, we wanted deeper learning. we want teachers to have the time and space to facilitate that. the changes that are being made in the shifts in our education system nationwide are centered around high level dmabd and rigor for the common core state standards and a 50-minute course doesn't provide enough time for that deeper learning. with our integration we are using other classes within a particular course or discipline. for example, within a math class the teacher will institute a science practice or engineering practice or ela practice. students will need time to write about the problem they are solving. less problems, deeper learning. so that's another factor. third, there's a shift. if i go back to the vision 2025 document that was co-created with all of the stake holders in the city under the superintendent's leadership, the third item on that document of 10 shifts is redesign space and time. so we redesigned the time and the space in our schedule to match vision of 2025. >> commissioner fewer, although you can answer the second part of my question after commissioner fewer. >> thank you, supervisor kim, i just wanted to add a little something on to what principal hobson has said. i think that at our district we are no longer looking at middle school as an extension of elementary school. we are seeing it as a launching pad for high school and most of our high schools now have a modified block schedule in some way. so this is aligning it with what a lot of our high schools already have, so seeing it as a step to high school we thought a block schedule also would be beneficial because of that. and another thing i think is different is the way we're teaching. we are no longer hoping that teachers are not teaching sitting down, students are sitting in front of them, they are teaching at a podium. what we are learned through all of our research is that we need our students to be working in groups. we need our students to be having discussions, we need students to be able to use technology and the teachers to be facilitators of information rather than the teachers being all the holders of information. that takes much more time, much more collaborative work with the students. after we did our vision 2025 and spoke to a lot of people and sort of the tech world, the working world now, they are saying this is how they are working now. they are not working in isolation, everyone is working in groups and also with common core coming down, with our smarter balance assessments, students are being asked to do much more critical thinking and this also takes larger blocks of time in order to do that. so it's really, what i said about willie brown, capturing all the new research, things they are going to need, skills they are going to have to acquire to be successful in the 21st century. this schedule complements what our students need for the 21st century and using these skills are new skills which we should be teaching all of our middle schoolers but at willie brown since it's just coming out the gate, we want to institute this early. in a way i think willie brown is an example of what all our middle schools should be like. we have done a lot of work at the elementary and seminar high schools and our middle school area is really weak. i think you remember that from when you were on the board. this encompasses all the best things you should be doing about middle school. >> were there labor issues in having teachers teach in a different module as well, or was that something that didn't need to get worked out for this. >> we are following the general contract. this is only 30 minutes longer than the traditional day. all our students will have their per diem sty pend for that time. >> the recruiting process, how are we recruiting process? okay, it's coming up. how did the funding work for the smaller ratio? obviously we would like this for all schools and i'm glad willie brown is going to get that because we want willie brown to be successful and i wonder how the funding worked out that we overresource or just adequately resource the school for it to be successful. >> our classroom sizes are the same size as any other school, what's smaller is the advisory. that is happening for 75 minutes every other day, that advisor will help manage the personalized learning plan as well as the college curriculum, but that's because we're asking all of our staff to participate in this relationship building instead of just having core teachers become the advisors. >> and how are you funding this? >> i mean the general model is funded the same way as every other middle school in terms of the staff. however, the longer school day was an added commitment that the school board put to this school for the additional 30 minutes every day, as well as the additional 30 for three weeks in june. >> and the advisors are also from the school district budget, the additional advisors. >> they are not additional, they are just part of the school staff. it's just rethinking the way that we're staffing and using our staff. >> so we can have a 15 to 1 advisor to student ratio in all of our middle schools currently? >> i can't speak to all the middle schools. >> you know commissioner kim, i think we made a commitment in this district to overresource. so, for example, a school of this size would never put in an assistant principal but we felt we had so many immigrant chinese students coming or their parents, monolingual chinese speaking, we felt we needed an assistant principal who was chinese speaking. we made a commitment, i have been personally i think in the beginning i was a little frustrated because it was slow to get on board but now i understand it's been very well thought out. deputy superintendent guadalupe guerrero, i have seen many schools (inaudible) without a lot of thought put into it and they have not been successful. i believe this, the overresourcing of it, the deep thinking and thoughtfulness that has gone into every aspect of this, the commitment to the resourcing and also the extended day, the summer programming i think is going to ensure that this school is successful for these students and this community. >> so --. >> i just --. >> if you look at the slide now you have a breakdown of who's in the building in terms of staff. so you have 8 classroom teachers two engineering teachers, one stem coordinator then the lab teachers are the additional support staff. gym, foreign language, all those teachers would be assigned a portion of the student population to mentor and to advise across their college prep period throughout the year. >> i'm sorry, with the recruiting, how is the recruiting happening and do you have to take within the district first, just certain teachers get seniority, how does that work for a new school? >> currently if you look at our recruitment hiring process, every person in the district, every teacher certified and credentialled can apply at willie brown middle school. clearly we want the best candidates so we are designing an interview process that is already in line with hr hr has its initial process, once county supplies through that portal then we screen the applicants and prepare for an interview. they post a job description then a virtual tour of the school, we do a rubric screen, there is an interview with our colleagues at stanford then we perform a phone interview, we bring in our teachers for a model lesson, an in-person interview and finally we do a reference check. we know who will be good to be in line with our children to service our vision of our school. so we skipped a little bit forward in the presentation. what i would like to do, i don't know where we are on time, but i would like to go back to the health care center and talk about that a little bit. . >> (inaudible) is a key pillar for this school. we are extremely excited to rethink what our wellness support looks like at the middle school level. we're committed to make sure our willie brown students are safe healthy and ready to learn. we are building students who are health literate and strong consumers of health. this isn't just a stand-alone health center, this is going to be embedded within the curriculum as well, thinking about stem careers, biotechnology and the health field, it's something the students have access to before they need to visit. this is a breakdown of what we're staffing as a school district it's our traditional support system of a social worker, school nurse and our community health outreach coordinator and the department of public health is supporting our physical, oral and behavioral health practitioners at the site. this shows the model of our proposed model of what this would look like. at the bottom in gray, these are the supports that all students are going to have access to. in the middle there are additional supports for a smaller subset then up at the top there is even more intense interventions and supports for students that want to access them on site. this is a space for not just students but also families. it's a learning center for parents and families as well about health, good nutrition, ways we can be preventative in our health care for all of our children and this is really exciting opportunity for us to really welcome the community into our school. . >> this is just a quick rundown of what we've done so far. here we've participated in 20 school site presentations, 9 levels of enrollment and census for our families to engage with us. we have held 7 city-wide enrollment events, mostly at thurgood marshal high school and they have been phenomenal giving us space. social media, facebook and twitter, one community outreach blast and we are committed to over the summer, once we know who our students are, visiting each home so that the transition between home and school is a solid connection. our commissioners from the board of education entered the world of willie brown and stomped the grounds, i call them dkt, door knock team. we walked through the community and so here you have special thanks to commissioner fewer commissioner hayen, commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell, commissioner wynns who knocked on doors in the community and walked through the community and encouraged families to consider willie brown middle school. there is a quick enrollment update. we have 218 students as of today who have applied to willie brown middle school. 135 of those students chose willie brown first place. and that is informal data. we are still processing applications. here you can clearly see from the communities where -- sorry, yes. >> i'm sorry, commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> do we know what the ethnic breakdown is of those who have applied? >> yes. quickly, these are the current schools with the highest percentage of students who have applied to willie brown middle school. these are the zip codes that most of our students have applied from. back to commissioner fewer's concern, i any the next largest one would be 94112, i believe that's the excelsior community. gender was a concern of families as i engaged them, a lot of mothers thought their daughters wouldn't want to attend willie brown because it was a stem school and here we have almost a 1 to 1 ratio of male to female students. african americans are 29 percent of the student population with this current application process data. spanish, at least spanish surnames are at 29 percent. chinese are at 12 percent and other white are at 11 percent. so that's the student breakdown of our school ethnic make-up. we covered a little bit of the staffing. i know that the president wanted to move forward. so again the hiring process, these are some interview day activities. we can go into detail on that if you have questions. ultimately we need your help in getting the word out. on february 9th we are hosting a hiring recruitment event at the office of the board of education, 555 franklin, so in the board's room. that event will begin at 5.30 -- 5:00. and teachers, networks have received this flyer. at the bottom they can click the url and fill out an rsvp to come join us at willie brown middle school. >> thank you, mr. hobson. we have two members on the roster, commissioner fewer and then commissioner wynns. >> i want to commend staff because these numbers look fabulous. i think this is really hard work and for the commissioners, and for the supervisors who don't know how hard this was, i just want to explain that most parents, they look at middle schools and the school they choose by test scores. so they are looking at test scores, they are looking at how well has the school done. this is a brand new school so there are no test scores to go by. we had a couple incentives that helped us. one was if your child goes to willie brown, 6th, 7th and 8th grade, in 9th grade they get their choice of any high school. we are giving them a preference for any school they choose. we knew we had to do this for parents to take a leap of faith that willie brown, they had nothing to judge the academic performance of this so we knew we had to do it. i think it's 94124 is 42.2 percent and we are still counting i understand, that we have enrolled this number. it was our goal to build this school to serve the children in this area since they have been out of a middle school for many years so i think this is fabulous and the diversity, but we have said that if children who go in this area went to their school in this neighborhood that we would have diverse schools and we see here that we do. so i don't think it was mentioned that we have a cap of 200 students, is that correct? so this first class of willie brown will be the founding class. i think what excited a lot of students to enroll to put willie brown as their first choice is that these students will be the first students to choose their school colors. they would be the students to choose their mascot, they would be the first student body officers for this school and also they will be always the oldest students in the school, right? so i think that attracted them to this new school. i also wanted to emphasize that the way this school has been designed really complements what we're doing with the curriculum too. and as we build out a larger enrollment we will be offering more things. we looked for an orchestra, we're looking for much more elective choices and as we grow this middle school to its maximum capacity of 600 students that we will be able to offer more things. but this for a first class is fabulous and i just want to say especially that it captures so many children that actually live in this neighborhood. thanks. really great job. >> thank you, commissioner. commissioner wynns. >> i have a couple questions. the first one is where it says enrollment update --. >> you had me print out (inaudible). >> can you speak into the mic? >> i'm sorry, i'm not understanding what you are saying. >> the way the graph, if you look at the slide now on the screen. >> yeah. >> then you should see data there where you see series 1 and series 2. that's just the way the printer printed it out. >> i'm sorry, i don't know what you mean by that. i see that there are two bars. what are they, what is series 1 and what is series 2? i'm not saying i can't see it, i'm not saying i don't have the data, there's no explanation as to what it is. >> one represents the actual raw number and one represents the percentage. >> represents what? >> the percentage next to it. it's not the best way to format it. >> okay, we can talk about that later. i was wondering if we were -- but it didn't make sense when i saw it. what it looked like it meant was kids who applied by last friday and ones who applied since then but that doesn't make any sense. the next chart -- so i would like to know eventually what that means. prrp next chart has the current enrollment current elementary and the bars are not next to the school names. so can you just give us an updated version that actually tells us where the kids are coming from? i appreciate the largest ones on the side, we're glad to see they are, the schools we're targeting but this doesn't make sense. this graph is not, doesn't tell us --. >> it's not aligned. absolutely. we can provide the spreadsheet that has all the data to make sure it is aligned with the actual school. >> okay, that would be great. i appreciate that. so i'm going to wait because i'm going to want to ask some questions about the hiring so i don't want to -- first i want to hear what you have to say about that. thank you. >> actually i think i -- we moved that up to when i asked the question about the hiring so i think this is the appropriate time to ask about the hiring. >> what i want to know is if you can keep us apprised as to the, who's in the pool. i don't mean the names of the people in the pool, i understand the privacy rights, i don't want to know that, but i want to know who is applying, who is getting -- i understand it may be a little technical but somebody else is going to have to decide what kind of information is germane, really, but basically teachers are applying just to work in sfusd they are the ones who get screened by hr so while i would like to know, have some data about who is -- everybody in the pool, gender, ethnicity, where they are coming from and particularly since the transfer process is a little separate as we heard here i really want to know i think we all really want to know who from the school district is interested in moving to willie brown. that would be important to know. but then i'd like to know some of those characteristics for the ones who are screened by hr and sent to you for interviews. so of the big group, who are we -- who is somebody deciding might be a good match for willie brown? then eventually as we go along we'll see who we actually hire and if they take the jobs and what kind of a group we think we get so that we can have a sense of there are more than one group of people funneling, you know, making getting a smaller and smaller group of people and then i'd like along the way for us to have a sense of whether we think that's working and we are getting the right teachers, the ones that we would want that have the experiences we want, et cetera. so i'd like to be kept apprised. >> we can definitely follow-up with the details. i just want to make it clear that while hr is helping us through the large pool, we actually have a specific posting just for willie brown as well so people can go on and apply just to teach at willie brown. >> okay, so it would be great to know how many of those there are and what their profile is. >> exactly. >> and how many of them also --. >> applied to the larger pool. absolutely we can follow-up. >> thank you. >> thank you. so i don't see any other comments or questions so at this time we are going to open up for public comment on this item. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. so in terms of helping with further outreach, i assume it's for the second deadline of enrollment for the second round of enrollment, is that what we're doing with the school district is recruiting for currently? >> we were asking for support to tap into your professional networks and market our school to staff, teachers, potential employees. >> i see. okay. you are looking for teachers and is there a second deadline for enrollment for school? >> there is a second deadline, however at this point given the fact that the data is not entered yet and we have already surpassed our goal we are probably going to fill all our seats in the first round. >> i assume you have to wait for the students to accept as well, but you feel there's a sufficient wait list that that's not going to be an issue? well, we're happy to do outreach to individuals that would be interested in teaching. i do want to thank you all for the time in presenting to this committee which has been following the development of the school for quite a while now and it was really exciting last year to get a real full and robust presentation on the actual construction of the school and what the physical elements of the school would look like to create a different learning environment around math and science and it was really really cool to see because we certainly don't have a school like that currently. we're going to continue this topic throughout the year. last year in the fall we did have a discussion on the growing population here in san francisco and what that means for the school district in terms of potentially opening new schools and new classrooms which is a really nice and positive conversation to have because i know many of us were involved back in the early 2000's and closing schools whether we were on the school board or not, had attended many meetings. so it's exciting to talk about hitting capacity at the kindergarten and grade school level but we look forward to continuing that item. as well, i know our office and also members of this board have been really interested in the construction of a next school, mission bay is one we've talked about as well as a school of the arts. so i think we want to continue having those discussions here at the city select committee. and finally this is just really exciting to kind of envision what a new school looks like in the bayview and i really hope that a lot of our families are excited about it and hopefully we can create a continuum with mission bay as well at the elementary level and i look forward to a discussion of where our students are going to go at the high school level, too, so that would be a continued discussion. supervisor avalos. >> i just want to say thank you for the presentation and clearly there's been a lot of work that's been put into creating the new school and it's very very exciting to see the work, the experience you have coming, mr. hobson, bringing the school together from scratch. i know you have a lot of support from the school district and the school board and wish you luck and if i can help with whatever networks i connect with to help with your recruitment process. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you. i just want to thank you all both so much for your support on this. this has been a lot of work from the heart. i did want to note that we brought on staff a year before we are even opening the school, which i think makes a huge difference, and both of you have been out in the community in many places doing many things. so we're really excited to see what will happen in the fall which i think will be really positive. also i just wanted to ask with regards to what you just asked of the supervisors, which is, you know, to tap into your network for teachers, are we going to be doing, it sounds like we're going to be doing recruitment from within sfusd from our own pool, but are we doing national search as well? is this posted all over the country for people to come, a way for people to come to san francisco? that's question no. 1. secondly besides teachers what are some of the other positions that you are considering? >> yes, we are sending out the post to national platforms like career builder, indeed, ed join is another one. my linked in profile and you can post it through your linked in profile as well, it's posted on the sfusd hr portal and i believe hr has that general protocol of making positions open through all those other portals nationwide. so we do have some interest from the midwest, the east coast and the south. so here is a list of positions, to answer your second question. you have 8 classroom teachers and then the assistant principal