education of the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, february 26, 2012, is now called to order. roll call please? >> miss fewer? >> here >> mr. haney. >> miss maufas in >> miss murase. >> miss wynns. >> miss wong. >> mr. mendoza. please join me to the pledge of allegiance. >> all right, item a, approval of the boards minutes, for the regular meeting of january 8, 2013, could i hear a motion, please? >> so moved. >> second? >> second.

>> thank you. >> are there any corrections? >> seeing, none, roll call? >> miss ly. >> yes. >> miss wong. >> yes. >> miss fewer? >> miss mendoza? >> aye. >> miss murase. >> aye. >> miss wynns? >> hao*i. >> mr. mendoza. >> aye. >> superintendent carranza. >> it is hard to believe that we are end of february already and i want to lend my personal praise and support to all of our communities, this week is parent teacher conference week at all of our schools and so i want to encourage you to schedule the time to talk with your child's teacher, and it is time to develop a relationship with your teachers and work for

the betterment of our children. it is also physical awareness month and we want to encourage all of our schools to hold events and teach lessons that promote active living. i am very, very proud to say that i have been invited by roosevelt middle school to run the 5 k with them in may, which i will be doing and i'm training hard for that now. but, we do think that good nutrition and good physical activity is important to good learning. so we want to encourage you and for more information and activities visit the webite at www.healthy iesf.org. >> okay? also, on thursday, march 7th and this is one of the things that we are so proud of in san francisco. on thursday march 7th, from 5:30 to 7:30, we will be

holding our second annual lgbtqt dinner, it is time for the dinners to celebrate the richness that make all of our families special. i will be proudly attending and i look forward to seeing all of our lgbtq families there as well. rsvp is required by march first and you may do so by visiting www.sflgtbqdinner families winner,.event bright.com. just so you know we have fliers in the lobby and have it posted on the website as well. one last item is that on this agenda for the board, it includes four action items related to preliminary layoff noises to certificate other representative employees and this is necessary by statutory deadline which is march 15th. this year marks the first time

since 2007, where we are not facing hundreds, upon hundreds of preliminary layoffs due to anticipated budget cuts to the state of california and i want to thank our community and all of the voters for the passage of prop 30 which is making this possible, and if you do take away those positions lost, due to the anticipated end of the school improvement grand, the sig grand and other categorical funds and other grants that are sunseting, we are issuing over 200 percent fewer, 200 percent fewer prelim layoff notices this year as compared to last year. although this is a significant reduction in layoff notices, it is still a very difficult decision that we take very, very seriously and it is a very difficult decision and we do not take that lightly. we still need to make difficult staffing decisions and that will help to bring this into problematic alignment and pers

the direction of the board. the staff and human resources will be available in the meeting of all of the considerations that have led to the reduced listing of layoffs which includes our statutory reporting requirements and the loss of grant funds that i have mentionsed and we are also taken into account the programattic shifts to bring it into alignment into the priorities of the district. i also want to say that there are a number of newspaper articles and media reports that say that the financial out look of the district and the state is looking rosier. we continue to be very optimistic about that and as that financial picture does in fact come to fruition, we look forward to bringing back as many or all of our employees as we can as the finances improve. with that, i want to say, thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you at the next parent teacher

conference. >> thank you, superintendent. >> item c recognition and resolutions of commendation. >> thank you, president norton. i would like to invite dr. brent stevens to the podium to make the first presentation of the rave distinguished serve award. >> thank you, superintendent carranza. it is my happy to present to you robert brecer and he has been nominated for a rave award. he is a former french teacher and taught in minnesota and moved to california to become a teacher and is one of those rare administrators who comes up through the ranks to become the leader of his own staff at alerado and served as principal for 6 years and during that time he has been instrumental in a number of important pieces

of work. that includes leading trainings for staff around supporting english language learners and instrumental in bringing reading partners to the school and he has also been working with the pta to create a support network and a literacy network to support the struggling readers. most recently he has been reading by design to introduce writing strategies to all of the classes. and in my brief stint of work i have had a chance to see his leadership as he has rallied his work during inclusion week and had assembles trying to raise awareness including people with disabilitis in classrooms and he is also going to be the host in the coming week of the second annual dinner for gay and lesbian familis in san francisco. and we thank him for offering

the insight into that and he was the first principals of cohorts for the arts. i was able to see him jam on stage this summer and so it makes me very proud to be able to welcome robert here before you. mr. brecker please come up. [ applause ] >> thank you, very much. thanks. >> my pleasure. >> i just want to say a quick thank you, and thank you and superintendent and i really appreciate it and the nomination mentioned that this is the type of honor that i kind of shy away from. i prefer to do my work behind the scenes and do my work as a team you know any work of any school is part of a teamwork and that is what i am here for. and i appreciate it, thank you very much.

>> thank you, president norton and i would also like to invite to the podium the library team, michelle and michelle and alen wu who ril present the award to our very own bay view. >> good evening commissioners and superintendent carranza and student delegate and members of the public i'm daisy santos and i am very happy to be here tonight to recognize the ongoing work of three of our staff members. resnic, powers and ellen wu. she is not here with us and she is a very shy woman. but we accept this recognition on her behalf and she has dedicated 20 years of service for our schools and is instrumental in taking care of the nuts and bolts of the

day-to-day work related to the pieces that make our library function, smoothly. rochele and michelle have spearheaded the great work that we have been able to do with our school libraries they have provided meaningful professional development opportunities, and direct sight support to 70 teacher lie brae ans through 103 schools in our district. they have led them in the roles as teachers, library program managers, information specialists, site leaders and industrial partners. they are highly esteemed by the teacher librarians and also by the cross-departmental peers with whom they willingly share their expertise. they are very deserving of this recognition, for providing excellent leadership, guidance

and support, to teacher librarians and creating collaboration as we advance the literacy efforts in our district. [ applause ] >> thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> thank you very much. i couldn't have written a better rave than whoever the anonymous co-worker wrote. for what we hope to do in our department is to support literacy in every school. i also want to really thank people who support us cathy flemming, on a weekly basis and

the peace office and daisy, santos on a daily basis and luis on a crisis intervention basis. and pete, the public education enrichment fund has been the driving ford behind the revitalization of every school library and we now have a teacher librarian at every school who teachers literacy and is creating a 21st century library and life-long readers and michelle is going to talk about her program. [ applause ] >> well, i would just like to say thank you, that is very nice, and that i'm very proud and happy to work as a part of this team, thanks to the fund, it has helped to create this team.

daisy and michelle provide excellent vision and support for our work and teacher librarians work together for every skaout at each school and one big example of the work that we do that has been recently completed is related to the model school library standards that were adopted in california, for the whole state of california in 2010. since then, the teacher librarians in san francisco have met in grade level teams, k5 and 68, to create a library sequence and here it is. and our work continues with the scope and sequence as we create model lessons of the scope and sequence and the collaboration of the teachers at every sight and this is relevant and important work and i am happy to have the opportunity to work with professional, librarians

across the school district. thank you very much. >> and while we are taking pictures, i want to clarify that the special service award is presented to the library team, row khel, and michelle and ellen wu and it was presented by daisy santo s, i should have worn my glasses. >> thank you, mr. superintendent. item d we have our student delegate's report, miss ly and miss wong. >> we currently have ten students running for the delegates for the 2013/2014 from seven different schools and the orientation is tomorrow. our tenth annual fac youth summit is on april 5th at fort mason we have secured several workshops to date like the peace pac and the college prop

and lbqt, issues. we will have student entertainment, like the drummers from the school of the arts and break dancers from galalao of high school. >> also on march first, 2013, sfusd students will participate in the free muni for youth program traveling to and from school is important and so the students will be taking part in ridership lessons, also the students who want to apply can do so before june 2014 and you go to emsef.com to apply. >> thank you. >> all right. we are at item d. no we just finished d. >> we are at item e the parent advisory council report, i see that we have pac representatives in the audience, please approach.

>> good evening, everyone, my name is angel quan and i have a son who is attending first grade. and tonight, i am going to report on pac, work, with george here. good evening commissioners, superintendent, my name is georgia williams bratt i am the parent advisory coordinator and i will be co-presenting with angel. >> we are going to talk about three items first, the after school or advisory council, second, the family engagement network, and the third, the new graduation pass off. the after school for our advisory council, the pac has a

sit on the after school advisory council and also called asa council. this is a formal collaboration between the school districts, and the city of san francisco. and the afa council includes school district staff, the sf, department of tru dent youth and other city and county agencies who are supporting our school time programs, and the program providers, parent advocates and community funders. last week, one of our pac member brenda martin, who traveled to baltimore as a pac rep to the san francisco after school all advisory council with four other asa council members to attend a conference.

this conference is about building local systems to improve after school programs. teams from more than 30 u.s. cities attended the conference. council members have this opportunity to share those prejudices and learn from each other and hear from innovative thinkers in the field, san francisco was one of the very first city teams to improve parent at the conference. the pac recognizes the value that these opportunities provided to bring the parents and statutes into the conversation at the conference. the pac was to acknowledge the giving foundations for the generous financial contributions making it possible for the pac members martin to attend a conference as well as the other asa team

members. the engagement network, this past december, 2012, ruth reboski the coordinator of family and community partnerships, commenced the first monthly meeting of the school, district, family and engagement network. the pac of many participants among community organizations and district staff who come together to share experiences ideas and suggestions about how to support schools and the district as a whole to effectively engage parents and family of school district students. one of the main goals for advancing the family engagement network is to ensure that diverse statutes helps to shave the revision of the engagement and empowerment plan.

the pac is encouraged to know that after many delays, since the district first (inaudible) the development of the plan in 2009, the process of updating and expanding the draft into a functional district-wide plan has (inaudible) again. under guidance of new leadership, the pac is hopeful that the plan will set a clear standards and strings and systems and structures for family engagement and be (inaudible) of the diverse family voices and be the statute and the representative in the district. i just want to touch base about the new graduation requirements of the task force that we have been participating in. in the pac remains concerned about the number of students who remain off track to graduate with the implementation of the new graduation requirements schedule to take place in 2014.

the impact of these changes for these students, disproportionately la teen no and african american and how well they will live their lives. it is not about (inaudible) but finding the viable ways for them to succeed to not become statistics in the system. we realize that there are challenges in implementing the requirements for this, this has remained a priority for the pac this year. pac members and i have been participating in the new graduation requirement task force to align our efforts with community and district staff. for the task force we believe that we can make the most impact of bringing the parent voices about the discussion of the systems and structures to support student success in immediating the requirements and to help to identify ways to

improve communication with students and families about these matters. this past, earlier this month, it was announced that the task force and the district is in the process of hiring a superintendent for extended learning that will include coordinating summer school, evening school and after school programs. the pac is glad to hear that there will be some leadership provided and oversight to credit in the process for the class of 2014 and beyond. as part of this process of efforts the pac hopes that part of the role and responsibilities of this new supervisor will be to use the off track data to establish concrete time lines and clear messages of interventions and measurage out comes to correspond to the students who are off track to extremely off track to help them get back on track and to monitor the data

of interventions that are working in each of these categories. no. also to establish a process of current and future enrollment, both ken ralized and site based as well as to monitor the success rates and attendance records. we also hope that there will be some identification and standardization of stages of intervention for recovery within each course as each reporting period happens and not waiting until the end of the class when a child is failing. we recognize that developing systems and structures is a complicated process, the pac members support the district in comprehending a plan with the urgent situation with the students being off track and the longer term strategies to resolve the barriers to graduation that impacts so many students. we look forward to hearing about the process through the participation in the task force and the information to share with the students and families about these matters from the district. >> any questions?

>> thank you. are there any questions? >> yes. miss ly. >> will be students be part of this task force graduation or students will be involved in the process of making this happen or will it only be parents? >> it is actually part of this network. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. thank you for so for the report which is always illuminating but i wanted to take the opportunity to bring up a couple of questions about the issue of students not being on track to meet the new graduation requirements. so i guess that i'm making a suggestion, but also asking a question of staff about whether or how individualized our responses are so what i want to know is as part of our plan or could we be working on a plan with each student who is not on track has a plan developed with support?

you know, in my ideal, and i am not suggesting this, i am only revealing probably my, you know, how long it has been since i have dealt with this. but, you know, a counselor ought to be or someone should be making an individual plan with each student that is not on track. could you update us at some time on what the nature of that kind of work and if that is part of the discussion with the task force? not now, but i hope that in the future i will have information about that. >> okay, commissioner? >> yes, in response to commissioner wynns's question. the curriculum committee will be taking on the summer learning opportunities including credit recovery at the april one meeting 6:00 here in this room. so we invite the pac and other interested members of the community to come here, what the district's concrete plans are for summer learning and credit recovery.

>> i appreciate that they will be there, but will there be actual students in the process of like in all of this? >> we are not actually in charge of that but we would encourage the same participation. >> thank you. >> okay, no other questions or comments? thank you very much for your report >> we will move on now to item f, public comment on consent items. i have a number of speakers signed up for item f 11, non-reelection without cause of probationary teachers. so what i propose to do is i am going to call the names of all the speakers who have signed up and i would like to give you 20 minutes total time on this item. so you may speak for as long or as little as you like, when the timer goes off at 20 we will call the end of public comment on this item. so please, listen for your name

and camas degusman. >> duales. and i want to apologize in advance if i manningle the names. >> lukesen, baclay, ramerio, chavez, warez, battle, degusman, coleman, hidago and robos if you can approach the podium if i called your name?

>> first speaker approach the podium and state your name and begin timing now and when the 20 minutes is up we will call the public comment over on this item. >> good evening to all of the stake holders of the san francisco unified school district, my name is degusman and i am not speaking as an executive board member of the united educators of san francisco i am not. i am not speaking as an elected san francisco labor delegates or as the enrichment community advisory committee. i am speaking as an active member and advocate for the

philippine community. and as a teacher of laho and she is one of the 33 teachers who are recommended to be not reelected for next year, and so is why the philippine community is here in such a short time that we organized the community. could you please stand up please? >> thank you. we have signs that says flawed practice and recent, stop the injustice, injustice for all, teachers why do we have this? thank you very much, you may sit down. and i have known her for over ten years, we have organized the philippine-american community around the reopening of the education