collaboration feedback. the participants seemed exfoliated to help scale the work out. and we as a committee would like to see the district share success stories lime. we don't get to hear the great things at the as often as we'd like to. and the lesson study project is a collaborative effort between the high school and the college. it's not just the master in the masters program. its from teachers from other schools. they use the evidence to improve the studies. they work in realtime and things like that.

and a side note this it has been scheduled to take place in the san francisco conference next week. the par professional teacher p lcs are also an exciting promise. based on the feedback and the kind of bp did is most professional. it includes classroom teachers. and the survey results as well as mathematics adopted physical education includes the practice and staff wellness. those teems were given time to plan and implement their you

learning. and 60 par professionals participated in the p lc and next year that's going to be expanded. so i was very encouraged to hear about the efforts on a shoe string budget no less. so. our last program component is around the infrastructure believe for the district to date oar a little over $15 million has been extended and we're very excited about the components that has been able to grow the school loop and uncombraitd the nutrition system and the new ask the information go system. particle for the school loop

it's been a tool to help students stay connected. at this time for the next phase staff is trying to figure out how to impact the school loop. it's going to be highly utilized by teachers and parents in the second grade level. you can find out more about that. the second piece is around internet technology. and all classrooms will be upgraded and that some schools have certify wireless to run a classroom of thirty ipads but to among that district up graitd it would be an investment as well.

we also learned it's still hard-wired for the internet activity. next is around the new student nutrition process. we've heard the benefits of enabling families about the lunch program. we've leaders about the item student system and it will be more effective how we store data within the system. we learned maybe at one school or principle will have about thirty different programs and this is a movement toward that effectiveness. another significant clank in increase around the capacity is in the technology personnel.

and this is enabled the school to double the staff and how do we implement upgrades to those new systems. we do know that between 2008 and 2011 and have an increase in technology overall. we want to. to the attention to attendance. and why kind of software that addresses student attendance. for example, this program is operated by an outside service

is costs $173,000 every year. it identifies the absences and sends letters anti to families. the number of kindergarten who were chronically absent was thirty percent and it's down now. and lastly for 12th graders have move from 12 percent down to 4 percent. this is access to technology and there's still are tremendous work to be done.

>> let's conclude with our recommendations as a committee. we have consistently heard from parents and about their school concerns. the governor has proposed a budget that eliminates all professional development since the pta washgs was to supplement the program. we need this initiatives in the district to support the instructions. and when we were facing extreme budget kits in 2010 as it stands the funding here will expire

after 2 and a half years instead of 10. while he feel that restoring those funds is an important step to the accountability of the parents and children in san francisco schools. we still would like to call this out and make sure that those efforts are maintained for the life of pta and for a final note we're still looking for additional members to our committee. we're asking you to help us help us oversee taxpayer money and we'll be relying on them again 90 in the future. if anybody is interested inform

participating in this committee please can you tell the court us. so with that we'll take any questions you ask. >> i just as usual as the evening goes on i forgot to thank a couple people. this lady has been a resources for us in working with the jose team and being at all our meeting and was a tremendous support. i want to thank stephanie and she made a wonderful report. her work around this and supporting those funds and doing the work that the taxpayers intended for the funds to be

used for. i want to thank stephanie >> i also see at least one member of the oversight committee. could say members of the oversight members stand. thank you for your service. i have no public speakers on this item so we'll move into board discussion and questions. first did you get our question swrd previously? >> no. i appreciate all that information what i want to know is let's look at the bigger picture. and that is to i'd like to as we do the budget program i think base it was the first, you know,

kind of wrapping those programs there hasn't been as much discussion about how this is integrated into our streaming planning. i'd like to think not so much of those things being added ones but i hope as we do the budget we talk in those terms. >> i want to get a contract number. no phone number or e-mail and for folks who who want to put in an explanation for the committee. >> that would be richard m at the sf u s d and ar m e n t r

irritation - >> i'm sorry one other little thing. i was listening tintly. is there any way we can receive those material? before beforehand so we can digest the information so we everything be a part of the information would be great just a little bit more lead time than just today. thank you >> i really want to thank the committee i i know it's a a lot

of the information. and i want to talk about the technology piece. people may not realize it but there a c change in terms of item we were so antiquated so far behind but i want to acknowledge carlos garcia he really made a effort to protection and it's been a good benefit. i used the help desk just today and their response is immediate. >> thank you. any other questions or comments for board members?

i actually just wanted to call out the par professional and teachers which i had not heard about i'm really, really excited about that. and i just wanted to know at what level are we funding this effort? it this from your teeny office can we break this out or is that hard to do? >> hello. so i i think it's a part of a large plan and our hope is that next year we'll be able to

double. and talking about scale this is a cross collaborative effort so working with the math department we knew there was going to be a lot to work out and be very clear about the alignment across the departments. so in making sure that our design level were consistent. we also implemented a standard process so all that work has position us to scale and my hope is next year we'll be able to double our efforts. i'd like to see the feedback on this. i identified this as a priority for years particle because parents are so involved in the

classroom. so the ideas that the parents can get the development with the classroom entertains is wonderful >> i want to thank our committee for the great work they do. they're highly paid which is zero >> wow. we make more. >> we sometimes give them crackers and water. i want to make sure that the board and the community anyway's that as i get to traffic around the country we're the envy because of the support our community shows for the work in our school district. the work we've done is actually

the gener- about how we're taki this base and expanding and lefrnl with other opportunities so we'll add more to what we're doing. we have a have a initially investments and other people invest in us. we're going to be able to award and thank faculty and staff and schools that are closing the achievement gap that are doing innovative inner structural tukz. there's another professional opportunities and really treating our professionals like the professionals they are. and i want to thank the voter of

san francisco for this. it didn't happen without the support of the voter of san francisco. hope is wonderful but it's not a strategy pta is a strategy so. thank you. >> thank you for this report. all this volunteer time. i have a question about school loop. and i notice it was referred to in your report there is more information on - and mr. kencys report but it's fairly minimal. i have asked in the past with when there's an impact of the school loop. this doesn't tell us so specifically i'm looking at the budget is that 67 pictures of

the total funds that is allocated for technology? >> so it's kind of complicated. the circle is roughly 6 percent of that it includes the stipend we pay the teachers to help support those sites. >> what do the teachers do? they provided training. >> and how much are those stipends and is it at each school. it's $500 >> so do you have that broken down of how much goes into the technicalities? how much goes to the stipend?

i'm looking that as 4.5 million you say so my pardon me experience i was a registered how would that updates, in fact, it happened once in the whole semester year. and have teachers participated so when i look at this this data doesn't tell me i guess about how many teachers are using on a regular basis. i think we get a school - i've got 10 of them. it w

it was supposed to be used as a feedback. also there is still issues with translation proper translation of chinese. i'd like that looked into. i think it was designed to be a great vehicle for continuation i think that the use among teachers from what i'm hearing is sporadic and it's good

information about the child's process if you could look into that that's great. thanks much. >> i'd like to follow-up and have more school loop and it's effectiveness. we the what i think was the appropriate thing to do was to get people to voluntarily participate. and teachers as well as school board members think that's fantastic and it's changed their

cultural. what people say about it and how we're planning to take it to the next level or not. leaving it the way we started it when we started it we don't want this to look like in the end i want to know what the next steps are >> couple of things the sporadic use or mandatory use of supervisor garcia said we need to have ever teacher trained before the roll out. the training has notary republic not been trained so for that

reason we've never made it mandatory. i think the next - we've met with our labor department over the principle guidelines he in terms of use. some schools can say that every teacher should use >> we should be talking about if we have a goal to make it mandate. what can we do to help you support the discussion. in terms of the question is is this what schools need and what

are schools telling us about the regulatory of their classroom technology base platforms etc. i don't know if that's your job but it's our job to take the next step and talk about that. we hope it's going to get better but we haven't talked about the index - next step >> actually at any daughters school it's great. i have to say that one child 6 out of 6 teachers are using

that. when i send a message to staff i hear back within 24 hours. it's a great tool everyday i get a message, huh? the social studies grade went down. it's much more efficient way of communicating with teachers. their teachers about dash off a quick e-mail so and so said please don't let her wear that shirt anymore it's two revealing. exactly. all pieces of information and she's going to kill me.

>> i can't top that president but i will say thank you to the commissioners. the desire of the commissioners to move to making this a great system. it's developing more and more use. i can tell you as my other hat and i know that this name is a common name that i'm checking. as a parents i have no concerns about - the great fear in my experience is not teachers wanting to use school loop it's teachers have such unfettered assess and how to see the

students are checking themselves dad can i go to the movies thrnd here's my school report. it's great to - my experience has been similar and we're moving towards making sure you all our professionals have the training necessary and once it exists in the school site it becomes part of the exemptions. so again, the q ta investments we're going 80 is building upon that. we've heard you loud and clear we're going to move in that

direction >> okay. on on behalf of the board i'm going to thank you for your service and report. oh, i'm sorry ms. lee. >> would you be able to talk about the synergy. >> this is a system that tracks everybody we know about students so where they will, what grade they've received, what health information and a variety of other things. we are currently running on technology that really should never have been discussed u used to develop a system of this