>> we are very honor to recognize michelle kyung, a teacher at washington high school, and awarded the outstanding teacher of america award by the carl foundation, and here this evening is our award winning teacher, michelle kyung and we would like to present a certificate and ask you to say a few words. [applause]

>> happy new year and good evening to superintendent carranza, and new board president rachel norton, sorry, i have been sick today. and vice president fewer, i am erica from the george washington high school, and i am here to share positive about a teacher at george washington high school. after all the papers are turned in and the scores tabulated. and all the students have graduated. it's wonderful when a student reflects on what makes a teacher great. i believe that a great teacher

works with student and makes learning engaging. the ultimate complement for a teacher is when a college student takes the time for the carlson foundation award. i have to say i was pleasantly surprised when i received a call from a man named tim allen, and i asked him, are you the tim allen. and he said yes, i am. but he wasn't, a different tim allen. and he shared that his foundation wanted to award a teacher for their work. i was pleasantly surprised this was being done. because so many times teachers tirelessly work without recognition. and then he shared that the teacher was michelle kyung. and i knew why they this chosen her. mrs. kyung has been a teacher at

washington high school for 13 years. and has a da in history from san francisco state. she's a social studies teacher teaching modern world and ap psychology, and she's a driving force in our ap academy. we are very proud of her at washington high school. and it's excellent when your colleagues can stand up and say wonderful things about you. the principal and five former students and present students. there was a large article in the paper about her, and one student said that mrs. kyung shows huge role in education, and i look for someone to have impact on me. she educates with fun, she deserving this award because of her passionate input and i would

like mr. tim allen to share this award. >> thank you, and good evening board of education and ladies and gentlemen. it is my honor to be here tonight. i get the opportunity to travel throughout california and make presentations at board meetings. and as you can imagine, some of them are quite interesting. but tonight i have a very good feeling about what is going on in this district. and congratulations to you, and what you have done. just seeing these students and the quality of the work they have learned is a testament to what you are doing in this district. i would like to share with you briefly the history of this award. i think it brings more meaning to what we are doing for teac r teache teachers. the carlson family began a

company in the late 70s. and they took 5% of their profits and encouraged their employees to go out and work for not-for-profit in the bay area. and they could come back and ask for grants in support of their charity of choice. in the 90s. the company became a product of a hostile take-over but did not lose the endowment. and the family got together and said what do we do with this money. and they said let's do something that focused on teaches, and defined further. and let's focus on high schools that are in low-performing schools. and take this one step further and make this honor something that comes from students. the requirements for this award.

first the teacher has to teach in difficult situations. low-performing schools. and secondly they must be nominated by a former student that enrolled or graduated from a four-year university. each year i get well over 100 nominations that come from all over california. and talk to literally over the last several years thousand of students about what makes a good teacher. we have refined a lot of information down to about 19 common characteristics of effective teachers. when a nomination comes in from one student, i go out and try to find at least six other students that span the career of that teacher. i do have to become a detective. and i ask questions of the student, and why this teacher

was so great. and why this teacher affected their lives through college. last year we had a student who had graduated 25 years before. when a teacher has an effect 25 years following graduation. you know there is something very, very special about that teacher. once i finish the interviews of the students. i go to the colleague and talk to them. and i interview the principal, the person responsible for evaluating that person. before i start talking to the teacher. and by that time i know more about the teacher than he or she knows about themselves. and i think how they think about their approach of student and what the students have told me about them. and i sometimes get the textbook answers from it the teachers. and when i compare to what the students say, there is not a match. and what the students say about

michelle is that she has passion. she knows her subject. and you heard it from what your students said about your school. is that these teachers who make a difference, believe in these students. they believe they are capable of doing it when other people don't believe in them. they see the passion of that teacher, the willingness to care. but that discipline to say, i will not let you fail. and you will do the work to make it happen. and that's what students said about michelle. i would like to read you a brief comment that summarizes several comments of the students that nominated her. mrs. kyung is an amazing teacher. she loves the subject and made us better. she told interesting stories about history. she was organized and well

prepared and never a minute wasted in class. her energy made the class interesting and fun. she encouraged us to express our thoughts and beliefs without judging us. she forced us to form our own beliefs. to required us to express how and why we formed our conclusions. and taught us to think, her influence had dramatic and lasting influence in my life. that summarizes what seven or eight students said about michelle. when we finally decide on the 15 teach teache teachers, i watch them teach and the board decides on five. and we give each of those an 5,000 did, and an additional 5,000 to the school. tonight i am here to present that to the school and michelle.

the caveat is that michelle gets to decide how that money is spent. on behalf of the carlson foundation i would like to present michelle and washington high school a check for $5,000, to do whatever michelle want to do with it. [applause] >> i guess i am going to hawai'i. first i want to thank the student who nominated me for this award. i am honored that she remembered me after all of these years. and humbled that she felt that i impacted her life in a positive way. and i want to thank the other students who spoke on me behalf. because they motivate us to do our best work. every day it's the students who teach me to be the best educator. i want to thank my principal, who is the hardest working principal i know.

i am surrounded not only by great students. but a staff and particularly a collaborative department that i can rely on for emotional and academic support. i want to thank tim allen and the carlson family foundation that recognize teachers for their effort and dedication and passion. and thereby helping to improve our educational system. and lastly, i would like to thank the board for allowing us to take a part in this meeting. [applause] >> commissioner wynns. >> thank you, i want to add my congratulations, and thanks to the foundation. my congratulations to all of you. but i wanted to, if i may, as a point of personal privilege

express my thank to liana szeto to all of her years of dedication to alice fong yu, and the school district. i have been there since the beginning too, and i appreciate all you have done and the recognition is richly deserved. thank you. >> i would also like to congratulate the honorees tonight. and i had the pleasure of attending an educator trip to china with liana, and i want tell everyone that mandarin skills are excellent. and very well deserved. and i want to thank michelle kyung for being an excellent teacher for my son. when he was in her honor roll class, and thank you for awarding her this recognition. thank you.

>> thank you, vice president fewer. all right, we will move along to the student delegates' report. >> we want to congratulate everyone and for the reelection for members, and congratulations to szeto and mrs. kyung. we did a gift wrapping at union square. we offered free gift wrapping and that was the first event and it went well. and we were on the winter break, but excited for the new semester and having revelation food. and having good feedback and it's good and we are glad to have fresh food in our cafete a

cafeterias now. >> and we are looking forward to free muni, the program that is starting in march. and this is exciting to see it coming to life. the student advisory council will have their joint retreat this upcoming weekend at january 12 and 13. the retreat is a mid-year check in and goal-setting retreat. it will provide training and knowledge of perspective programs and leadership on our role. as a committee we will plan and set goals for the remainder of the year. >> thank you. any questions or comments? did you have anything -- okay. okay. we are going to move along then to the parent advisory council report. i believe we have a pac

representative in the audience, yes. [speaking foreign language] >> good evening, everyone. i am new member of the parent

advisory council. i have two daughters who attend francisco and ewald respectively. [speaking foreign language] >> the role of the parent advisory council, pac, is to represent parent voices and perspectives to inform education policy discussions. and this report highlights our project activities for january. to engage families in two important initiatives. history and practices and the plan.

[speaking foreign language] >> the pac welcomes new commissioner matthew haney and congratulates sandra fewer, and rachel norton, and jill wynns on their re-election to the board of education. we look forward to working with you all. i am going to talk a little bit about restorative practices. the pac continues to receive

requests to conduct community conversations regarding restorative practices from both school staff and our community partners. this morning the pac's restorative practices team will lead to many conversations. the first one will be with parent leaders from mission (inaudible) who are primarily spanish speaking and representatives in the school district.

the second conversations will be with parent representatives from the second district parent teacher association. we recognize the importance of including our community partners in the implementation process of restorative practices. to leverage resources that are at the schools, and to bring restorative practices in schools across this district.

thank you. >> hi, i have a son at john colonel, and i want to talk about community briefing. pac begins ongoing (inaudible) to bring ssfusd. to both inform community, parents, partners about district activities. second to bring more transparency and accountability to fully -- sorry. policy makers. so the ongoing series we address

major districts and -- initiatives -- sorry, initiatives and provide an opportunity for community members to ask questions and give ideas about strengthening and implementation of these capabilities. on january 15, 2012, the pac will host our next community briefing with christina wong, a special assistant to the superintendent, who will provide an overview of the plan and service supporting english language learns in sfusd. and second we hope to hear how the district is addressing challenges and the plan.

and third how the pac and our community partners might support the district to improve the remote better communication with our english language learners families and students. thank you. >> any questions or comments? vice president fewer. >> thank you, for your presentations. i wanted to know when you are addressing the pta with the restorative practices. do you have a date and location for that? >> good evening, and congratulations to president norton, vice president fewer. and welcome aboard commissioner haney. yeah, we do have a date set for monday, january 28. we don't have a location yet.

but i can forward that once that is established. >> do you know the time? their meeting convenes at 6:30 and i think our spot will be at 7 or 7:30. >> thank you very much. all right, we will move on to public comment on consent items. i don't have any speaker cards for public comment on consent items. and you don't have any. all right. we will move on to the consent calendar. may i hear a motion. >> irvin and i and darleen and i. >> i have your cards under general comment. don't worry, president kelly, i did not forget about you. from one president to another.

thank you. could i hear a second. >> move. second. >> any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? dr. crawford. >> good evening, commissioners, we have two connections. the first is to k-131-8223, on page 222. amended date of service should be december 26, 2012, to december 25, 2013. it's generally listed as 2013 to 2016. the second correction is to item 2 g, 131837, the name of the community listed should be changed from vision band, to oversight. one word. >> thank you. any items removed for first reading by the board?

all right. any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion or vote tonight? okay, i have one. i am going to sever item 2 c, 131-8 b 3, the audit. and later in the meeting, we will have the discussion on that item. >> roll call will take place. h, superintendent proposals. we have item 1212-11sp-1, adoption of board policy 6020 to conform with the current law and the findings of the audit. i believe that we have a reading

by superintendent or designee. >> thank you, i would like to ask jill hooferdike to please present. >> good evening, we are requesting action of 1212 to confirm with the findings of the spring. >> okay, i have no speaker card for this item. are there any comments from the board or superintendent? vice president fewer. >> yes, i believe that the curriculum committee heard this policy. and i think we -- refresh my memory, it was a while ago that we gave a positive recommendation on to the board. yes. >> commissioner wynns. >> what we are doing to conform with current laws, what changes are we making and what do we

otherwise not conform? >> we currently don't have an existing board policy entitled parent involvement. we don't have one at hall -- all. we are putting one in place to conform with the requirements. >> okay, roll call please. >> ly. >> yes. >> wong. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> ma >> -- maufas. >> yes. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> there are no board member proposals this evening. we come to item j, that i suspect many of you have been waiting for. i have a number of speaker cards first and foremost from members of the creative art charter community.

through prearrangement, we have agreed to give your community 20 minutes of public comment time. you may use that time however you wish. i have speaker cards from fernando aligar. elson brook. greene. stones. pavalar. yes, please. we will start timing at 20 minutes and let you know when time is up. >> good evening, am fernando agliar, the interim director of the charter school. i have been at ccsss for four years, and i am here to talk about the proposal to relocate

golden gate middle school to the golden gate campus. this move will show what we have worked hard to build. in my opinion and many opinions you can't place a school on a campus with already 320 students. the majority k-5 students without many impacts. before i was an administrator, i was a teacher for five years. and every time that a student turned in a project, i would ask one question. is this the best you can do? the funny thing is, whether a second grader or eight grader, you got an honest response. if the answer was yes, i would say thank you, and accept the work. if the answer was no, i would say, i don't want it unless it's the best you can do. i want work that you are proud