and then any comments from the board or the superintendent. commissioner norton. commissioner norton: i would just like to ask the author if i could add my name onto her resolution. commissioner murase: of course. president mendoza: i just want to -- i'm obviously going to support this resolution. but i have to say that lisa has just been an outstanding partner, not only for san francisco unified, with many of the organizations that we work with and we're really going to miss having you at the fund. you've been a real stellar and solid support and we wish you the very best in all of your endeavors. you always know where to find us and you're always welcome to come and help any time as a fabulous volunteer which you continue to promote throughout

our school district. thank you so much for your years of service, lisa. >> thank you. i i would just like to also add my voice to the chorus of kudos to lisa spi nell -- spi naly. i will tell you as far as keeping children always first, lisa spi nalia has always been first and -- spinali has always been first and foremost of keeping the children of this district first and foremost. she's been a true partner to the principals and teachers and staff members at our schools and as it relates to our work in social justice, she's been a true thought partner and although we're sad to see her leave her position, we're very, very fortified and very happy by the fact that she will remain a san franciscan. so we're all going to benefit from her expertise. so i just want to say thank you on behalf of all 55,000 kids in our school district, thank you, lisa, for all you've done.

president mendoza: thank you. roll call, please. commissioner wynns: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner murase: aye. commissioner norton: yes. vice president yee: aye. president mendoza: yes. >> that's unanimous. president mendoza: congratulations, lisa. >> so i just -- goodbyes are not my thing. so, i'll be seeing you very soon i'm sure in many way shapes or form as i wrote to a couple of you. i'm only a text or an email away.

i think that as every job, i've been working for about 25 years now. this has been by far the most important and meaningful work that i've ever had a chance to do. and why it's as important as it is is for our kids. as a first-generation college-going person, i know the difference education manges and in our city, we can and will be a world class education system for our kids. because we can do it. and how we do that is shoulder to shoulder and if i leave here topped today and it's bittersweet because i've now figured out how things work, it takes a little, while -- a little while, and when i see everybody that i've worked with, that's the rocket fuel that makes this thing go. and there has been no greater honor for me than has been in service to our students or teachers or administrators. because it's an amazing talented

group of people and i see gentle and i think gentle, we have to do a better job of telling this story to our collective community because there's so many amazing things happening in our schools and it's based upon the fact that we work shoulder to shoulder to do that. so, i won't be far away. i am a native so i'm not going anywhere. and call on me me time and -- any time and i promise to always be an advocate because you're doing amazing work at a really, really tough time and i personally thank you for all that you do. thank you. president mendoza: thank you, lisa. our final presentation is to the america scores bay area athletes. we're going to have you two come on up. you guys did a wonderful job last monday representing san francisco in the national slam at the apollo theater in new york city.

the m.c. was legendary motown singer and rock and roll hall of fame artist martha reeves. the kids received a video message from popular recording artist alicia keys and our students made great friends with scores of kids across the country and got to see the sites of new york city. truly a memorable experience i'm sure for the both of you and we're so proud and we're looking forward to your performance this evening. but before you go do that i'd love to invite the society director of the bay area, emily. >> thank you, president mendoza. good evening, everybody. yes, these are our two poets who just got back from new york city and i'm very, very proud of them. we made our debut last year here at the meeting and we're very happy to come back and just to give you a scope of america scores bay area, we are the only

soccer and literacy after school program in san francisco with also programs in richmond but of course san francisco is number one. and we play soccer and we write poetry and right now in the spring season we're working on community service projects. so we're happy to be here and without further ado, my poets. >> the title of my poem is called "i see you." inside my heart i see you. up in the sky i see you. shining in the sunlight, i see you. sparkling with the stars, i see you. in love, i see you. in my happiness i see you. in beauty i see you. so, mom, when i see you, that's your school teacher helping me out. when i see you i see a lion,

nice and strong on the outside. when i see you, i see a loving and caring person on the inside. everywhere i am, anywhere i am, i see you. right now i see you. >> i'd like to comment that lali's mother is here. she didn't come to -- get to come to new york so this is dedicated to her mom. i'd also like to knowledge the principals. so thank you for being here. >> the title of my poem is called "i am." i am in this mexican shirt. i am the rattle of a red-flowered miraca. i am the spinning of the earth. i am the twinkling glitter of a gold necklace. i am the sugar clumped in

motionless coffee. mm-mm-mm-mm. i am alive, i am playing soccer with area scores. >> thank you both. thank you very much. we're happy to be here. president mendoza: before you go, we have a little something for the both of you. ok. i think we're done with our back and forth. item d is the student delegates' report. so --

>> so unfortunately we haven't had an a meeting due to yesterday's furlough day but we will be meeting tomorrow and we're making sure that our high schools will be having elections for the student advisory council representatives next year. . >> comm commenting on making sure our representatives are trying to get them to elect them through school elections as well as together with the elections of the president of the rest of the classes. and we are producing questions for the surveys of a resolution that we are currently working on for a counseling access for every single student in high school. we thought it was very important and we're trying to help to get into college. and we're also currently reviewing restoretive justice practices and advise how to best

implement them on school. president mendoza: thank you. do you guys have an announcement on transition day? frisco day on the 29th? are you doing that? >> i'm not sure about that. president mendoza: ok. so on april 29, all of our seniors will be going to the various colleges, the city college, san francisco state and ucff and we're going to have about 1,500 students at each of the sites and this is going to be a college transition day and so any of our students who are not planning on going onto college, we're going to sign them up for city college so we can ensure all of our students have opportunity to go onto college. that's an exciting day and that's part of the bridge to success program, compliments of the gateway -- i'm sorry, the gate foundation. superintendent garcia: and they're getting priority registration as well. which is great. president mendoza: thank you

both. >> i think we do have a senior that is graduating also, right? and what are your plans after high school? >> i am planning to go to uc-san diego for college as a premed student. thank you. president mendoza: congratulations. that's great. thank you both. item e is the parent advisory council, p.a.c., report. do we have representation? >> [speaking foreign language]

>> good evening, president mendoza, superintendent, and members of the board. this evening i'm going to represent p.a.c. to give you an update on forums. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> in policy with parents public schools and district staff, we conducted a total of 17 committee meetings, including forums at 12 middle schools and four elementary schools plus a spanish language focus group. we only count on the meetings where we led the same conversations based on our discussion guide. we know some schools had their own meetings about this. over 150 people participated. some people attended multiple forums but not that many. attendance ranged from about a dozen to 200 people. the average being about 50 people. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> we learned a few things over the past five years of leading community engagement in district policy. parents who actively contact education members or parents who come to speak about policy don't

always represent the perspectives or persistence of the broader parent community. people who attend large centralized events don't tend to reflect the demographics of the population. we anticipated this so in addition to the public forums in our middle schools we also conducted meetings at several elementary schools to make sure we were hearing from parents from different and diverse experience and backgrounds. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> first two forums were very large. 120 people respectively. after that they were smaller. in fact, several of the meetings at elementary schools had more participants than some of the middle school forums. and a few forums, the dynamic was hostile and a few parents heckled district staff and p.a.c. members. other forums were much calmer for reasons, including simply having fewer people in one room. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> we're not going to say anything tonight about what parents were saying at the forums because we're still working to carefully go over the transcripts. we're developing the report of findings of these forums. our recommendations for board and district actions related to these proposals. this will be a joint report of the parent advisory council and parents for public schools. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> finally, we present this report to both ad hoc committee on student assignment. which we hope you all attend on monday, may 9. the reports will be available in english, spanish and chinese to the p.a.c. and the district's website. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. any questions? members? commissioner murase: i just want to really thank the p.a.c. for this outreach effort. several of us attended the -- one of the last community conversations at the sal valley

and it wasn't well attend but the people who were there really valued the interaction, learned a lot and it's so essential. i really do take to heart your conclusion about the format because i participated in these when they were school-based and we had really rich conversations, there was very good attendance. it's something that we should think about in terms of our outreach, that's the best format for getting diverse feedback. thank you again. vice president yee: i also want to echo my appreciation of p.a.c. in doing these 17 workshops. it's true. it was tough. i went to a few of them and some were calm and some weren't so calm. and some of the parents in uncalm types of situations were heckling and weren't very nice people, considering that p.a.c.

is not really part of the school district, they're independent of us and they were just providing opportunities for parents to voice their -- voice their opinions. in one of those where i saw that happen, i was glad to see that the p.a.c. members were able to stand up and say to those folks that, listen, you know, we're just trying to get input, we're not -- we're not controlling this. so, again, i appreciate your effort. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner wynns:. i also wanted to thank you and remind everybody that the assignment committee will meet on may 9 here. that will be our first meeting of the year but one of the main topics of discussion will be the middle school proposed pattern. so i hope that your findings will be forthcoming at that meeting or before and that also you'll be there representing to be part of the discussion because we need everybody to

come and be in on this. commissioner fewer: yes. i attended two of the sessions and the ones that i attended didn't have a lot of people there. and so i'm glad that you held them at elementary school sites in targeted areas. i think that was a good thing. thank you for assisting us with this and i look forward to hearing about the report. president mendoza: thank you. i want to thank you as well. some of the cause we've been getting are from those who say they are grateful there was a place for them to come and be able so to share their thoughts and ideas. so you've helped me with my emailbox. i appreciate that. any other comments, commissioners? thank you. thank you so much. >> i just want to clarify that we will be giving a presentation of the report on may 9. and then it will be available in writing and on the websites for people who can't be at that meeting. president mendoza: thank you. at this time if my colleagues

would indulge me, i'd like to move the other educational issues up to be heard at this time. item m. is there any objection to that? great. thank you. so item m is other educational issues and principal center collaborative update. >> good evening. in october the alternative school principals were able to give an update on their schools to the curriculum committee of the board and we really highlighted the work that the principal center collaborative is doing to change into a big picture model school. so we want to really thank you for this opportunity to now have the students come and talk about their experiences as we completed almost a full year under this new model. do i want to thank and acknowledge some of the teachers that are here from this school, the school's principal, the clinical director of wipac, some

of the wipac staff and some of the board members who have come out to support the students and their presentations tonight. so the students are going to give their presentation and then we have myself and staff available to answer any follow-up questions. i'm going to turn it over to junior. >> thank you, good evening, everyone. tonight i have with me a few staff members and students who are here to talk about our school's big picture san francisco. at this time i'd like to introduce the staff. jen, our principal, kevin brooks , kevin brooks, our coordinator. dr. earnest brown, our clinical director, and helen parker and jessica cohen. the students who are here with me are austin, peter, and hugo.

as a first-year student at our school, we are required to find and pursue a learned interest. you are -- we have -- [inaudible]. cognitive reasoning and social reasoning which is social studies and history, communication which is learning how to express our ideas and lastly personal qualities which is what you came and did over the year. at this time i'd like to hand it over to elena vasquez to talk about her interests. >> good evening, everyone. my name is elena and i'm 17 years old. i've been attending p.b.c. for two months and this is my first exhibition on comparing honduras

with san francisco after only three weeks. after completing my essay comparing san francisco and honduras, i became more interested in the culture and history of honduras. i want to learn about pre-colonial times in honduras and how things have changed from then until this present day. one of the things that affects people in honduras is a fever. i want to learn about what is it and how to prevent it. i want to know why it is a common in central america and not in california. to find out more about my interests, i focus my learning plan around the fever in hon doerrian pre-colonial times. during my research i'm trying to find where the feever is located, how is it transmitted, how to prevent it and if there's a cure. in my research i want to find out when it became the capital

of honduras and also what the stars in the hondurian flag represent. i will work on improving my maggetskills by using the math program. for my communication i will write exays for my -- essays for my next exhibition. i want to improve my public speaking and my writing skills. for my next exhibition i plan to present a pre-colonial times of honduras and also the disease of the fever. thank you for coming. >> hello. i will be talking about my interest in internships. my interest is graffiti murels and architecture. my last exhibition was my graffiti and street art. for my exhibition i researched

and -- i researched history about graffiti and artists. that led to an internship at an art gallery called 1:00 a.m. i did an interview with my mentor and a shadow day. for my shadow day i painted a wall that they always do murels on. i also wrote a proposal to my principal about doing a murel for the school. i am now starting another internship where i will be doing a missourial for a community -- mural for a community organization. with the work i do at school and my internship, i hope it will -- i hope it will help me to get my high school credit so i can graduate and to pursue my interests. for my next project i plan to start learning more about architecture and the history of some buildings. i'm hoping to start a program called build s.f. in the fall where i will learn about architecture and how to design buildings. i plan to stay here at big picture for a couple more years because i get a lot of support

here. thank you. next will be austin. >> hello, my name is austin and i've been attending big picture since january. what i'm going to talk about is about exhibitions. exhibitions are when students present what they have learned during the previous nine weeks. this happens in front of students and the staff and they are usually 45 minutes long. my exhibition was on car emissions. i researched this on the internet about my favorite college, stanford university. i also introduced -- interviewed people about college requirements and football scholarships. for my next exhibition i'm going to go deeper into college requirements because i am looking forward to going to a university to get a degree and play football and possibly going to the nfl. i'm planning on getting my paloma and in the future getting a good job. between now and the end of school, i am planning a trip to

stanford as part of big picture. i want to thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to come here and let us talk about our school and what we do. next is up kevin, our l.t.i. coordinator and hugo. they will talk about internships. >> good evening, everyone. my name is hugo, i'm 18 years old. i've been aten tending p.c.c. a little -- for a little over a year. i will be talking about my internship. my intern shmshp is at s.f. camerawork. the program is called first exposure which is a black and white film and digital format class. each student is paired with a mentor for one-on-one learning experience. we meet on a saturday for camera walks, dark room printing, workshops and field trips. we also