Tonights youll hear from some of the candidates if the board of education theyll present their views and answer our questions about the issues to submit questions for the candidates lake for a lead vary all questions are collected by 7 00 p. M. I wish to reminder you no literature or buttons sdrashd inside of room and sxhts candidates will be help quiet during the femur and candidates are asked to not attack others and no flash festivity for the fact that sfgovtv is broadcasting it is my pleasure to introduce the Jennifer Wagner when jenny moved to San Francisco she struggled to find an unbiased analysis for the first they considered not voting she felt unprepared he was horrified i was in one of the most political shouldve she find the leggings since 2000 held leadership positions including president for the San Francisco and the California Legacy jennifer a Small Business owner working with about nonprofit and Small Businesses on strategies, operations and finance and communication she hold a degree from government and diploma from the urban forestry of alien beggar scotland were honored to welcome Jennifer Wagner. clapping. thank you good evening tonight youll hear hearing from candidates from the board of education they will have a chance to present in their views on issues effecting the city and your questions about the issues two submit questions for the combhts look for volunteers that will be handing outs index cards and collect all questions by 7 00 p. M. The candidates will answer questions as well as from the logans the american San FranciscoPublic UtilitiesCommission Society at golden gate urban forest the time keepers will hold up a yellow card to signify you have 5 seconds remaining and a red card which it is time to stop all candidates have agreed to ask the supporters to be respectful and the audience to maintain quiet during the forum thank you all for respectfully this. All right. You have important decisions to make on november 8th let us begin the first question, please all right. Were going to go in order starting with a different person each time so starting on the end mr. Angelaer how can the board of education influence Curriculum Development and what goals should there be in this area. Thats a very important question theres a i think a lot of the impetus comes from the common core we need to interpret those in a way that meets the needs and the culturally competent to fulfill our particular population here. There are i think what is really skrushl is and what makes this district run is the teachers and the quality of the teachers it takes a good teacher to be able to differentiate to the point that all the students are served to their ability so i think it is really important we hire quality teachers that have the ability to serve all the students and that the curriculum does again is culturally competent. Im happy to mr. Haney. So you know we as a school board we set the curriculum for the distributed obviously informed by the stakeholders but here in San Francisco weve adopted vision 2025 and that for us is a decision of the experiences and the competent sisters and the skills we want all the graduates by the year 2025 to have if their time a huge part of that making sure that all of our students have a pathway go where we can explore their passion and staircase what spark what is that they want to pursue in their education and moving away from a situation where only some students can be successful and a single pathway a lot commissioner fewer creating a approach to curriculum all the students can be success thats the approach were taking agency as board i think thank you mr. Kim. I dont know how close. You can adjust it. Okay. As mr. Haney mentioned and the board makes decision it is incredibly important it involves all students and providing resources beyond the curriculum itself to make sure that teachers are proper access to resources to make that curriculum truly manage that is concern theyve internal listed i as a former teacher see the issues i built my own curriculum and think this is value it in providing a structure as it does with their common core i work right now a retail level i support teachers in the curriculum and i think that we need in moving forward is taking and bringing in teachers voices and the experience that people have worked the curriculum into the board that is something i can contribute. Thank you. Im jill wynns the role of the board curriculum is to conduct policies that and those policies often involve things wed like to have included in the curriculum that may or may not have been included before so a good example the board passed a resolution for ethic studies to be available in all schools in San Francisco and also weve done resolutions mr. Haney offered to make sure that Computer Science is available for all students in the district now i personally think that one of the things our board does is get into the weeds not here is what we want into the krerm you but heres exactly understanding what where the line and prelims for which we have professional staff is something the board has thank you a few of you mentioned opportunity gaps and effects within students for this next question im curious mr. Haney would with you do to reduce the opportunity gaps in San Francisco schools. A number of things first ill turn my my case on i think that you know we have had a situation in San Francisco for a long time where there is a huge opportunity and chauvinism gap between our black and latino and asian and white students a top priority i think we front yard on how to invest more resources for support is the its is have been underserved that is everything from providing additional Staff Members so they have more support in reading interference or counsels or social workers this is thinking about way to have smaller class sizes so teachers can work with important students a huge challenge with students in the schools with high percentages of black and latino students of teacher turnover we are not paying our teachers enough to stay and commit to a career we believe those will close the opportunity gap. I think everything can agree a lot of things that impact the opportunity gap our students face i think it is also safe to say the one thing in Public Education the only thing piping that ass is prototype with one hundred findings at the end of the day what matters is that the students are receiving and High Education in the classrooms that is incredibly, incredibly important to recognize if thats little case we know there are a lot of things that impact learning and over achievement but knowing that teaching and the quality of teaching is the number one thing that matter in the end thats how we need to refocus our energy and teaching and the quality of teaching and i think this is incredibly important to know and that we need people on the board that have that experience and that experience in the classroom and having the support but able to really speak to what is the kind of curriculum youve mentioned and the Different Things that are implementing the quality of teaching. Thank you well, we actually have tried to and are trying to focus on more resources to try to address the issues about the opportunity and chauvinism gap number one weve put in place a student physical within the School District based on the students there are disabled and do speak english, etc. Other programs we try to focus our resources so recently, we have there a multiple tooerp support the schools will get the support services they need so more social workers and nurses counselors working i actually think the thing we should do is address the issues of Child Poverty thats the thing that most effects the achievement gap we can do that no San Francisco and part of the our job to rally the community to do that. Several of you mentioned the issues around teacher turnover at the quality of teaching and the lack of funding im curious started with you, mr. Asking him could what do you do to make sure that teachers and others make a liveable wage oh, i apologize. I apologize i got to the end of the page mr. Keller who would you do to reduce the opportunity gap in San Francisco. Like jill said it is a stoirt problem youre not going to integrate the schools or society there is actually studies it students that live in other more wealthier districts perform better bus get to the students early on a student is not proficient in reading is less likely to graduate high school by 19 so the interference and tutoring maybe just to get the constitutes up to where they need to be and other mentoring and president obama my brothers Keeper Initiative i thought was very good and adopted the Leadership Initiative so things like that. Thank you i apologize ill repeat that next question mr. Kim how would you make sure that teachers and other School Workers make a liveable wage. It is hitting home to me i as a teacher live in San Francisco 45 percent of my income was going to housing and i think there is a lot we can do i mean, i mean it is an affordability issue that effects any people. In particular we need to take a comprehensive approach how to make sure the teachers can afford living here he know we offer up added bonuss and staff for the schools and part of staff i think we need to do more in supporting the teachers coming in the fields and look at it subscribes i know the conversation is about teacher housing i want to know more about the data that is impactful remaining the teachers i think i know there is a lot we can do bottom line we need to increase the teachers salary and to systematically. Actually raising the teachers compensation is one of my highest priorities when we had the recession of the fuvendz because of the recession peter out a little bit i think not new funding only the recession of funds before 2007 i think we you know your ex brans we have not enough compensation we need to discipline ourselves and stop doing that we know that affordability and excessive salaries is one of the most importantly things forces the success of the future and sets our highest priorities i support the teacher housing and supportive of the teacher housing my colleagues and the working group we have at the union is come around to my point of view i think well get some that that in the future and seek other source of revenue ive been involved in 3 initiatives that raised billion dollars and we need more money to pay teachers so they can work and stay here. My wife a bilingual classroom teacher and if it we are not are rentcontrolled we be wouldnt be here we need to definitely make sure to protect and strengthen rent control and eviction control he hear periodically about teachers evicted from their homes that didnt help you think that teachers need to be living in the community in which they teach and also paraprofessionals havent been a real part of discussion this season but their salaries could go up maybe increased as well i think if we reform proposition 24 we can get some of that money back that is the Property Values stuck in where they were 40 years ago is ridiculous and have an idea for possible food subsidies for teachers a good idea maybe like the ebt card to use at safeway or whole foods and get a discount on food. We dont do something upgrade on the salaries for our staff well have a perpetual crisis being able to hang onto our people and have a challenge with many of our schools losing staff on a regular basis and have a hard time atrociously people to our city as commissioner wynns said this is an urgent challenge we need a long term vision and plan to get our salaries up much more dwoiblg a higher level that will take nor advocacy and change at the state level but take marrow Creative Solutions in San Francisco we need to consider having another parcel tax we have the parcel tax in 2008, we need another one for funding and support from the city to be able to do this this is an upgrade priority and, of course, build teacher housing and address i think the crisis we have in feasibility for the taverns you have a lot of questions about teachers this is a very specific one what can the brivengs do to attract new top quality teachers. Well the board of education through its past can do a lot we have not been doing enough we have i actually i think that we rely on kind of magic of San Francisco people want to come here and live they until recently now a Teacher Shortage in the state and around the country plenty of candidates for the teaching jobs didnt mean weve supported them appropriately or they can afford to live here whatever so but i dont think we had a focus recruitment effort that really goes to the kind of teachers we need and i am a little bit critical of the staff and not focused enough and clear in view of what we need and how 80 we should go about recruiting if we did things to compensation well get for candidates and be able to fill all the teaching johns we have that magic San Francisco. Thank you. The i think the Teacher Residency Program 24 should be strengthened and the teachers should have that 5 years thats pretty good for San Francisco i think better recruiting reaching out and creating relationships with the area universities Standford University and uc berkley, San FranciscoState University and partnering with them a little bit more strongly and having that kind of a pathway to recruiting teachers but, yeah there is a Teacher Shortage all over throughout the state and the affordability in San Francisco doesnt help at all there are for the special education teachers giving them the 4,000 bonus was a zgdz idea im not sure that was enough but bonus is something that will be useful the money should be created in the budget. I agree with commissioner wynns we rely heavily think being San Francisco and that in the context of a Teacher Shortage not enough anymore we need to build tinting with our local kaeblgs institutions and be surrounded 3wid a number of education schools like use of force should be a first place for the support and and pipeline we need to build our pipeline of teachers northbound San Francisco thats with the educational institutions but in our own community we have students who should be supported to be teachers here there San Francisco and have a lot of Good Research that show us theyll stay here if from here and paraprofessionals in the classrooms that may want to be teachers i think we can build up and had a lot of success weve built you think our own workforce we need more of it. For the sake of time additionally in the short time we need to look at how as a district we are doing our best to get through the the barriers for a teaching prospect people are not interjecting and finding a place to live and say hey well not only identify a job but give us sights to live here and streamlining it process decreasing many barriers as possible either moving them entirely through the process can, the transition to living in the bay area or San Francisco as a teacher incredibly helpful in the long term i think we need to focus on how were suhr the number of teachers opposites is going adopt and the number of teacher opposites it means napa valley highlevel of how to best support them. On the theme mr. Keller weve talked about the teachers this the question how can the board of Education Support the professional development of teachers. Well, they do a pretty good job at this time but putting more money into that and actually targeting it to its where we need it in the schools that are difficult to staff and the subject areas that are difficult to staff for example my daughter at the James Lick Middle School they hired a Dance Teacher 5 weeks in doesnt have a Dance Teacher that the teacher certificate of occupancy had had discipline not the right supporter from admin she lasted a day and my daughter is having a series of intermit teachers up until this week they finally hired one so support from the effects, support from site administrators is critical in order to and professional development. Ill say two things about is one we need to invest a lot more into supporting new teachers it is a key period of time when some of the first year and second year theyll be state and federal or actually continue on and for some period of time we have not invest enough in supporting those teachers and also making sure they have a mentor teacher they can working closely a lot of the that needs to happen at the school site we have coaches to support the teachers as opposed to pulling the teachers away the second thing to focus on not on the curriculum but actually, the skills involved with being a teacher melba curls 3rd district classroom math all the things to build relationships that the families and other teaches innovate taught in education schools to make sure our teachers are taught that for over the long run. In my professional