the sentences the department has been working on this for 30 years. it does not mean it is great. why are we keeping this program going? it seems like a lot. >> i think there are seven, and it is $400 per school, and they can select from a menu of options about what they want, so this happens to be one thing they have i asked for, and they take up to about 20 students on the wilderness program, and this is what they have opted into, so it is one of their selections. they have done internships but

come to the school. -they have a whole range with limited funding, but this is something they selected from the menu of options available to them. rex thank you, so k-8. but was just seven. >> it was really eight, nine san, and 11 -- 9, 10, and when

and 11. i think the board of education needs another presentation, because these are shocking, so i really needed education about what we are doing. i really want to know -- in the bullet points, providing the research and instructional model, i struggle weswith and wt

are they doing now? we are working on and on and not a whole different curriculum model, but i know they are getting specialized attention, but this almost looks redundant. they are doing this for the schools as well. maybe i need to been corrected on five. don't we have a research-the departments? when it is talking about literacy and literacy coordinators', don't we have people working on diets? why are these folks coming in to do that?

how does it work in conjunction with the others? >> i am happy to speak to k-8. is to serve teachers at six different schools, so we are talking probably a couple of hundred teachers but will benefit. this really is a central aspect. it focuses on our balance of literacy approach.

it is a high-quality learning organization. i know you are referring to the research. they just completed a four-year longitudinal study demonstrating the impact the schools have had, so it was with a lot of discrimination and discernment that we went with this instruction in mission district schools, so i know there is what appears to be a significant amount of investment. this was our critical piece to provide guidance across the schools. good this includes instructions

so they can attend these sessions provided by trainers. i know you referred to is this something separate from what our district is doing? are they also being implemented as well? >> that is really helpful. i would love to see that. the data shows they would have a significant amount of impact on reform, and we want to use them.

>> i can refer you to a simple study of this. you will see awhile longer a longitudinal study. literacycollaterative.org. you will see the report. >> we will send you about a report by e-mail, so no need to log on, but just a general comment. if you remember, the theory of action is we need to disrupt the historical threat you're a good

you are going to see some research-based, nationally vetted, and given the seal of programming that is going to come forward, so this is probably not the last one you will see, and the questions you're asking are critically important, but in the general sense, we are trying to disrupt the historical pattern of under achievement, and we feel the best way to do that is to invest in the teachers in those classrooms and give them the best training we can give while we have this opportunity to have some funding. >> i appreciate you saying that, and i forgot about windows

comment. goo -- linda's comment. you have significant dollars in the agenda, and that would help me tremendously. i was shocked, but i did not have time to get to you. if of was sent rain, that would been very beneficial to me. >> the original proposal we responded to have things you were supposed to do, and two of

the largest things were to have an external partners for reform, which could been at the restructuring level, but is expected you will have large investments common and is the -- and large investments, and this looks particularly large, vico's sandford cisco -- and san francisco has one of the largest. when you see something like this, is significant it is divided between schools. >> can i make the request?

there are specific and tenants that need to be taken care of. because we know that, maybe we get this goal, and i have done my research. but is one thing the house to be completed common-law -- that has to be completed. does that make sense? >> absolutely. there are two different frameworks they have to go respond to, so it always has to

be a mesh of those things. goowe should reiterate those things or give you a document, because like you were saying about kevin always being are around, a lot of us who are in its day today who are familiar with those and to do not get reminded often and not. -- often and not -- often eno ugh. >> are you going to answer nine and 10 and 11? if that is ok, can we take all of these together, and we can vote all at once? i do not know if any other board members had questions.

my question is around matching core curriculum, but this is a huge chunk of money. i got not a lot of explanation. >> k-9 represents a representation to continue working with them for a smaller amount of money, but their work focuses on results-oriented activities within schools, so it is working with instructional leadership teams around a data- driven improvement cycle, so they are always looking at student work and performance data, and their work focuses on doing that within schools.

we focus on underperforming schools for one -- for quite some time, and we are named an external partner which schools. you will see a breakdown given a more strategic level with partners they are seeing, which includes actual personnel. >> because they have worked so intensely with that, have we managed to integrate our own people so when this money is gone and they are no longer in love with us anymore, how will we continue to do this, because

we will need to stop because the money is not fair. perhaps it is a gradual release last year it was about 164,000 per school. this year it was 128,000, and some schools but do not need as much attention are paying 77,000. i will say they do outside funding and fund raising to support their work. because they have been able to pay at this level for the schools, they have allowed us to apply for other schools who do not have the same funding, so it

is like they are part of it by virtue of the fund raising, but it is a gradual process. each of these schools get one every day as well as someone who coordinates the work and works of his own level and partners with us in all the ways we are supporting coaching for all the schools and relate helping us to build capacity. >> monthly, there is a principal

network that is held which builds the capacity of our leaders. >> we are at 10, which is the coalition, so there is one insurer in -- one issue, and that is a problem. we learn line return we learn them, and they go away. >> that is dynamite. they actually have instructional

leadership. they thought it was humorous, so that one is unique. they must be equity-based. that is the main thing. two of our partners and where providing support to the school district of the district level and now works with john o'connell high school, and they have complementary strengths, so

they are working with overall transformation planning process with the leadership of the school. they work in this energy and in complemented of ways. >> is that a typing error? >> a small and learning community, so to support those they have to develop these. the school has divided into some small learning communities, and they come together in a meeting of holvithe whole. >> that is all i have zero.

i can now understand what is about. > > k-11, which is 87,004 central high schools, and i guess i am asking why do they need the coaching. i fethink they do really well. i go there all the time, so i am trying to get a better understanding. . how are the school communities involved in the decisions that happen to them? that is the last question i have a sore all of you. how are they involved in these decisions?

first mission and why they need is a particular service common and how are the school communities involved? >> you chose a good one, because mission high school in the original proposal we have large external partnerships, and each of them wants to work with different partners. nation has been under spending in rome of the external partnerships. this is the first major expenditure it is doing, because they decided they had enough people that they wanted to pay for some of their own folks to be coaches.

they have chosen those folks because they have certain expertise or certain skills, but that does not mean they have ever been released to do this work with fellow teachers, so they have focused on helping these folks who are teacher leaders and to help support their peers, so in some ways this speaks to some of the capacity building they are asking to see. goothe only challenge we have io show aren't we understanding and we can go back and say, we have

to do things differently. this is the only major investment we are making. >> this is a separate question, because dr. gray had a lot of historical knowledge, and you may not have all that historical knowledge. i like to know how our schools working with you to bring in some of these partners, and how do you decide these are the appropriate partners, and when it does not work, how does a decision been made?

>> you will recall the original application did divide it, and identified were a number of partnerships we would focus on, so a lot of investments are implementing france, -- grants, so it is a good question to raise about how our investments made, and in many cases there is sufficient flexibility for the school community to help tailor that, so we knew we wanted to focus on literacy, and we knew there would be partnerships we would be pursuing. we spent quite a bit of time

yesterday trying to set of partners show -- to set an idea for where the money would go. a lot of the specifics were the kinds of things we work through during the last year. in other elements there is still a sufficient flexibility for the school community internally, so an important example is to the family and community area. that is a great area where we said they support school engagement work, working with our families to understand our learning goals. the best way to support that work is something we can collaborate on the best approach to be. it will look a little different across each of the school's, but

i think your question goes back to something we started. we can almost not do enough on the way of our goals, so we have got to try to identify as many opportunities to do that. sometimes we have to pause or insure all the folks in schools are messaging that, so whether it is the teachers or school coordinators', that everyone is finding venues to be able to do that, so that is an area we need to make time for, and hopefully as we try to continue what an -- to articulate what our work is, hopefully it is getting easier

to do that. >> teachers, staff, parents, they are all participating, so the principles involved everybody in making those decisions, and if it does not work, we stopped doing it. >> because the proposal -- we are in an interesting situation. some of the people who may have identified the original strategy may not be the people in the position of implementing its today, so we have to say within the parameters, so what we develop was a signature expenditure proposals form. gustiwhen they come forward wita

reform project they would like to do, we asked them to identify it, and what is the intended impact bowman -- what is the intended impact? what is the evidence for what you are requesting, and what would wea expect to see as an outcome that? we can have some context with which to evaluate that. >> have you found that based on

their original proposal have we had many changes foie? they are evolving. i would expect they have some different needs. it is the way they can tweak the original request salmon -- wheat the original request? >> they can tweak it. we have not gotten to that point yet, because they may have said, you wanted us to use about reform partner, but this one is better. that is not a big deal.