i was amazed for the fact that i was working in a lab with an actual phd doctor while i was only 16 years old. this was an eye opening experience that i realized that i have an unbounded faout tur ahead of me. furthermore as a 16-year-old i was able to contribute to the collective data, that will be used for the development of a theory for this disease. which is a truly rewarding feeling. this is my farewell, i am taking bio technology and i am already ahead with my class with the familiarity used. i have aspirations of becoming a pediatrician. over all this experience was beneficial in several ways, outside of the lab the bond that i shared with the interns were you anybodying that we were working on different research and different labs. over eight weeks i was able to see how each of them had grown and seen a reflection of myself

as well. lastly the supportive sep was appreciated sep supported us in preparing our posters, for example, as well as research talks and guided us through the length and time that we should use for every subtitle. to condense a ten-minute speech into a two-minute talk. in addition, they helped us with college preparation and completing two personal statements to the uc. after the completing of this program, i am more than, i have no doubt that i am more than prepared to attend college. thank you. >> [ applause ] >> >> khelly, i cannot tell you that you make me choke up, i cannot tell you how proud we are of. you a woman, a woman of color,

a woman from our neighborhoods, that is... and i have to ask you to pronounce what is the full title of your study? i can't figure it out. we are just so proud of you and so thank you for sharing this with you. what is the full title of your study >> tcell recognition of (inaudible) [ applause ] >> in >> thank you for your presentation, or should i say dr. stewart? you know, you promise when you get your phd, you come back to this room and you tell us what you are going to do in terms of helping the future of mankind. >> absolutely. >> thank you, very much. thank you. i think that when we talked about the predicted power of demographics, this is exactly

what we are talking about. >> commissioner? >> thank you. >> thank you. that was wonderful. i just wanted to say that this picture here of bruce alberts and i want to recognize his contribution and i remember when the science and partnership was started and his wife and he was the former president of the national academy of sciences and his wife was a district pta president in san francisco and is the sort of shining light of science education in the country. and so, thanks. >> commissioner, mendoza? >> i wanted to really recognize csf and you have been fantastic. and so many more of our kids have the opportunity and the out reach that you have been doing to our kids that has not

had access to such high quality programs is just fabulous and so thank you so much for all of your hard work and your continued partnership. >> yes. i have the opportunity to go to a poster session, i think that it was last year and i was just blown away by the high quality of work that our students achieved. and i just want to congratulate, ucsf. and the commission on the status where i work just released girls report and the dirth of girls pursuing science and i am confident that the programs will really help the san francisco girls and boys get better exposure to science and have rewarding careers in that area. >> commissioner? >> i also want to thanks ucsf for the partnership. my daughter was in elementary and once a week my daughter went to the bay area the first play bay area science fair, but the scientists came in every week, women scientists came in

every week and worked with them and it was a fabulous time for my daughter and a great learning experience and a family night and it was all women, dissecting, young ladies, i meant, dissecting mice and showing us stuff under the microscope and everything. so i just want to thank you for that wonderful partnership. >> thank you, and i want to join my colleagues that really talk about how you are modeling for other departments at ucsf too. to take on internships and programs and i know that the national center of excellence and the woman's health has a strong and robust program. and mount zion has one of young men of color and it is really through the work that you have done successfully and it is not just, you know, yourselves and ucsf but other smaller departments, are taking on the roles of intern and mentorship through the sciences and really just thank you so very much for modeling so well what others can do. but seeing it done successfully

by you encourages them. thank you again. >> delegate wendy? >> i would like to say that sitting here i was blown away and amazed and inspired. i like to say thank you for having these and creating these opportunities for students and it is really important and continue to do what do you and thank you for supporting the students. >> superintendent richard a. carranza. >> i could not say it better than the students. so thank you. >> i would be remiss if i did not also thank and recognize the work of orlando elesando who straddles in a joint position. but it is really to his hard work that we are making more of these opportunities a reality for many of our students and i think that this is a very innovative way to really leverage the work of our communities in our schools and give our students like for the

future dr. stewart the opportunity to really excel in the science, and technology and engineer and math. so thank you. >> okay, let's move on to item n. consent calendar resolutions. from the previous meeting. for a second? it was there is none tonight. and i must skip all wait down to r. i have to get q, first. sandra yis proposals. first reading done tonight. item r, board members proposal first reading, keeping our students safe no texting while driving pledge day. >> lee? >> yes. >> thank you. >> wo ng? >> yes. ferer. >> yes.

>> medonza. yes. >> wynn. and mr. yee. >> thank you that is seven ayes. >> is there a motion to a second introduction. >> kie move it? >> so moved. >> reading of the resolution by commissioner. >> thank you, president lee they are san francisco unified health district holds the safety of the youth people while the text messages is the main mode of communication with half of all teens sending between 21 and 70 texts a day where the national highway administration says that the hand held is the highest among 16-year-old and according to the national safety council, texting while driving causes 1 million 600 accidents per year and according to the insurance institute. texting while driving is the

cause of 11 teen deaths every day and motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers killing between 5,000 and 6,000 teenagers every year and in the fatal crash rates is four times that of older drivers and in an at&t survey, 435 teenagers admit to texting while driving. was this 35 teenagers? >> okay. i am sorry. and admit to texting while driving even though 97 percent know that it is dangerous and a driver who sends a text message while driving not only jeopardizing his or her own safety but also the safety of the passenger and pedestrian ans and other drivers and whereas the federal transportation secretary states that texting and cell phone use behind the wheel is a national epidemic. therefore be it resolved that the san francisco board of education declares september

19th, 2012, as it can wait, no texting while driving pledge day in the san francisco unified school district. and request that all san francisco unified school district high school students be made aware of the pledge day and the dangers of texting while driving. >> thank you, commissioner. >> there is no public testimony. i would like to add my name as a co-author. >> okay. >> should we take a vote? >> yes. >> okay. vote, please. >> thank you. >> lee? >> yes. >> wo ng. yes. >> fewe r. >> yes. >> mendoza, norton. miss wynn. >> 7 ayes. >> thank you for bringing this to our attention. item s. i believe that there is one report from the augmented rules

policy and legislation committee of august 28, 2012. commissioner wynns? >> thank you. we had two items on the agenda, the first was the legislative overview, the legislature was not in session at the time, but actually this is a very timely and important meeting for us to have because it is a time of year that the governor has to sign the bills. and so the main item of business was to look at bills that have been or that had been passed by the legislature and were sitting on the governor's desk to decide whether we wanted the school district to go and urge the governor to sign things. so we took some action on some bills and those materials results are available to everybody, aren't they? did everybody get the material from the board? from the committee meeting? >> okay, good. that is the main thing that we did at that time. and then, the second item, is

our ongoing item about redoing the policies of the school district. and this is a very lengthy, time consuming, and difficult and complex undertaking. and so, as you know, we have here is the good news, guys, we have completed, what used to be p120, the actual rules of the board of education. and those are now in the form with csba's support that is no yet on or available on-line but will be. >> and now we have all of these other sections. so we are working on what is the 1,000 series. we have been for a few months. which are essentially the general reason that the rules committee is doing this is that these are the general policies of the school district and they pertain to things like community partnerships and all of the advisory committees are on there and that is the only one that has actually is kind of in a complete form which

takes into account the way that we actually operate. i just want to say this to the board that this is what we have uncovered and that is that, there are a lot of policies that are recommended that the school districts have that we don't have at all. and that is... and so we have asked our staff to look over what we have gotten and you have all gotten the red line version of this. which i don't expect any of you have read through. i have only kind of gone through the beginning carefully and most of it, you know in a (inaudible) fashion once, because that is the hard part is that there are a lot of things on there that we just don't have at all. and i have asked the staff to do another pass through this and to give us a recommendation about if they believe that we should have those policies, why they think that we should. and too, because i don't think that what we want to do is just have lots and lots of policies that we don't think are necessarily relevant because other people have them or somebody wants to say, well,

you should have that just because it is generalized. and so, we have not taken action on those. and there is going to be do we pass the one? >> at the last board meeting? no. it is coming to us. we have one policy that needs to be... we would have liked we thought that we were going to finish this section and then we would do that altogether but since we are not to, we have one that is time sensitive that needs to be update that had will come to us and we will bring this back, but we are going to ask the staff to work with us closely to actually do a review at this committee that they can now look at where we evaluate where we want to recommend to the board that we have the policies at all and trying to keep to integrate all of the policies that we have and the policies that have been created by the board resolution into the proposal. that is where we are and one last thing, you know, there are other whole sections of policies that we have asked be referred to other committees that we don't think that the

rules commission. so there is a section of policies on facilities that goes to the buildings and grounds there is a section on finance that should go to the budget committee and so we would like the leadership to make those reference and to work with our staff and to refer those sections of the policy to other committee to do the same kind of, i know, tough and complex and detailed work that we are doing. so that is the report, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioner? >> yes, i wanted to add to that. what she is talking about and it is just tedious to go to the committee wheres that work is appropriate. i would like them to add this on as an information item that you take a piece of it every meeting. so you can get through it and not expected to get through the whole thing in one of your committee meetings and just take a bit at a time so you can get through it and you can get that work back to the board. >> i could just say one thing. i think that we need to, you

know, officially it needs to be referred by the board through or by the board leadership to a committee. actually it should go first to the staff liaison of those committees because you will have the same issue. everything that we have and everything that everybody else has and see how they can be integrated and what we want to have and what... and i actually think that is a mistake that we made is that we said, okay, let's just try to integrate what we have and then we have a huge amount of stuff and we are unable to make a huge amount of judgments i think that you need the staff work first. >> i think that we will as the chair or the present request that staffing of chose committees look at those particular policies. so, are there any other standing members report? >> i don't think so. >> if you have a date of your next meeting, please announce it. >> so, personnel labor will

meet on the 26th of september. starting at 6:00 p.m. >> anybody else? >> commissioner? >> september 17th meeting of building and grounds has been canceled due to rosh hashana and so we will convene on october 15th. >> commissioner? >> yes, the curriculum program committee met yesterday and we got an update on the athrough g and how many of our students are on track and how many are off track for the 2014 class, is the first class that will have to graduate with the new graduation requirements and we received rather disturbing news, high percentages of african americans, upwards of 80 percent and latinos almost 80 percent are off track to graduate. the 2015 class is projected to be about the same numbers at this time next year. so we are looking at ways to do

interventions. we are tweaking the numbers and making sure that they are correct, before we absolutely publish these numbers to the public. even though we had great gains this year, just a reminder that we have a great gap and a lot of work to do. having said that, our next curriculum meeting is october first. >> at 5:00. >> thank you. >> are there any board delegates to the membership organization report? >> if i see none, are there any other reports? >> commissioner? >> thank you, president. >> i want to report quickly, about the consideration and defer deportation for childhood arrivals at mission high school this past friday and saturday was so well supported by our staff and volunteers from the community. i just want to thank everyone, everyone that came with honest and true and direct information for those people who were eligible so that they could be educated and find out how to

apply and really how to avoid folks who are putting out fraudulent information are trying to take advantage of eligible participants. we really did note that there is even though there is such a great opportunity here, there is still quite a bit of fear surrounding this process. and i believe that we along with those partners will continue to work to bring this to light and much of the attendance was word of mouth. as much as we did publicly here and through those organizations, our community-based partners, still this was really attended the word of mouth so that so important that we continue to talk with our cbo partners and let them know that if we are able to host another event, that we get the word of mouth out to schools so they can pass it to those families who are eligible. and i want to thank the

deputy's support, part don me, superintendent, i got used to say the long intro. for showing up and really being so supportive of families and staff. and i so much praise for you and i was so surprised to see you there and they were really thrilled and thank you for coming and anderson also for coming on friday evening. and just to really, show more support for this action and thank the mission high school community for being such leaders around this endeavor. >> thank you superintendent. >> thank you, president lee. >> thank you. so item t, report of closed session actions? >> for september 4th, 2012, the board of education by the vote of 6 ayes and one absent approved the contract for one director. in the matter of zo verses sfusd case 2012070067 the board of education by a vote of six

ayes and one absent approved the settlement of $31,100. item u, other informational items. no other staff reports tonight. wendy lee, i do not want you to get used to this. we end this meeting a little after 7:00 every time. >> meeting adjourned.

>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza?

>> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two

pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a

little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood.

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