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there are improvement for the schools that were included do to meet the state of compliance. i'm here to clarify the findings. >> thank you. oh, this is ms. moore ran. there are no public speakers signed up for this item. are there any comments or questions from the board? yes >> hi, may i request this reported be sent to the student advisory couldn't. >> yes. >> i want to have the students see this report. >> any other comments or questions from board members. >> i want to recognize susan wong who was the individual inspector who conducted the
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inspection she was formal with the office of equality. i want to also know in this lady should be on the contract complaint form she's out. i want this to be currency >> we will update we have updated the website i'm the person and place for any complaints about the process and as far as the foermdz we can disseminate and e-mail those to the sites. >> thank you. mr. superintendant. i want to thank all our staff for the excellent work.
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and i think the lady for stepping into the role and doing a phenomena job. kathy has done a fantastic job additional i want to thank her for the fantastic report >> thank you superintendant. all right. seeing no other comments from board members madam clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you all right. discussions of other educational issues. mr. superintendant i believe you have a presentation >> yes. i'd like to call in the chief of staff to update the
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board on the vision 2014 process. it's an exciting process and this is about a two hour update (laughter) i'm just checking for update no, it's going to be very short >> good evening commissioners and thank you so much. first of all, i want to thank the superintendent and the board of education for sponsoring this great voigs process. we worked for many months to design a process that would help us reenvision education for our students in san francisco. there are handout here and i'll start the presentation to keep us rolling. basically, we have a saying if
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we have a plan for today and envisioning tomorrow. we roelsdz the plan to clarifying how all of us work together to support the structural core around the teachers and students and families and instruction and that plan is being rolled out in helping us to build the penicillin with our quality improvement system. i don't know if you can focus that a little bit mr. steel that would be great. their we go. this is again, our strategic plan for today. and then we agreed that given that we live in this great city with lots of wonderful opportunity i think that many of
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us realize that with all this great opportunity there's still great inequality if our system not only the board of education and the leadership of the district we want to answer this request that you'll see 30 those are the opportunity to answer those guiding questions. i'll point out that many institutions in the country n lc is widening down and many of us educational leaders have an opportunity to redefine this. all our students have to excite in a global world. we want to see the current trends in which san francisco is
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going to have students congratulate and what are the experiences our students needing need to thrive in san francisco form. not only the world of work but being participants in the vibrant community and being healthy. but what is really i think it exist about this new era for all of us we have a lot of autonomy to define what success looks like. and then we really wanted to say given that profile of the congratulate how do we transform our learning experiences. we've got plenty of pocket of renovation happening.
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how do we renovate. and the division we're number 349 in terms of how public education is funded. unless we have a funding model if looks like the diversity of filling tropic dollars we won't be able to have that environment for our students to thrive. so we launched our first session we had 80 people the first night and a more the second day. we started with the african-american cult and a moved to mission bay. i want to thank our student folks and they launched our voigs process as the adults came
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into the room they were asked to sit at the table and incision the future. it was exciting to see people get down to unthinkable this is our vision for what we want. we had two panels and a lot of people said we go to conferences separately but we got to go to share ideas and have deep conversation and raise important issues. and even though that's a lot of people it doesn't seem like that we started to have exciting conversations about stem for example, is it stem steam or steamy we had one of our students raise that question. i think we got off to a very good start. we worked in the same teams as
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we looked at the profiles and our learning experiences we want to make sure we're addressing key issues. the guiding principles i won't read them here but this is the guiding principles and we'll be working on stakeholder engagement. as you know this previous conversation i, you know, there's a lot of work to do to get aesthetic voices from the stakeholders at the table. we did a good job but we want to do better >> i'm sorry unfortunately, the visual isn't coming up. if you can do any little bits of what you're doing at least the
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people at home will get it. the people listening in the office so if you can give as much detail. those guiding principles >> we'll assure the principles including the students and families to participate and contribute to the visual process. we're going to have the best practices and the design of the process we want to provide experiences that can tap in and garner the expertise in the coalition. we want to draw from the most frlt resources for relevant information and it's a model of continuance improvement and we'll actively improve our process and the last one if you want to create a strategy to assure that the vision is
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viable. which is why we talked about you'll see those reflected in the future tracks. so the working groups we are looking the early and admitted and adolescent years but the seams will cut across the educational environment and how do we promote the advocate model. we want to deepen the conversation been equality and social justice it's a more important as our city becomes for challenged. we building in visiting in education can maintain the soul of the city and help us maintain the equality and social justice feeling that we really support in san francisco. we need the education finance models to make sure we can move
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away from, you know, multiple year funding cycles to actually a new vision 40 the future. so the conversation we had about what's the profile of a high school graduate and the multiple measurements that go beyond the task force. talent and cultivate how do we make this a great place to live to work in for all of our staff at all levels and then how do we crate the systems and structures that create of the innovation. we identified a set of clarifying questions. we're going to be using these to guide us and to loop in guiding
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visions. next is the stakeholder engagement we want to add for teachers and students to the accreditation. we're working closely with uc sf and figure out how to get more teachers. we appreciated having those teachers. we have a great student voices and have for o more diversity and work harder to have all the parents groups so the district a more represented. we also know that coming to a meeting is not the only way to engage people it's time consuming and expensive. we're going to be launching a social he media conversation
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posted on the web and doing smaller focus groups to help deepen the conversation. we're looking forward to a great newsletter in a summary of what we've accomplished that will be going out in the next day or two. we're selecting and building the social site for this engagement and working with the anchors to propping prepare for session two. we're getting ready for the session visits we want to learn from everyone. we've identified schools we're going to go and visit and see how we can learn how to expand that. we're going to be open and look
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at another learning experiences outside our district. we know as we go out and learn we are going to be anthropologists and take the pest policies and blend them and help that inform our vision. we're going to focus on the midyears first and the early years in january in terms of learning visits to make those more manageable but by february we'll have the draft and that will inform the next feats were there will be more photo typing we'll be working with, you know, our consolutes and our board commissioner matt and with our students how we might do that next phase of work.
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we're off to a great start. let folks know we put all the materials on our website so if you want to go to our website. we have a twitter account and people are twirth and having conversations during the meeting so it's sf u ad. we'll trying to use all the, you know, most of update forms of conversation. thanks for your leadership >> do you know i know our web address is - today know what the
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back slash is for folks to get to the website. maybe i can announce it >> we just got it up today so i'll get it, it's on our web you should be able to go and put in the address. >> we have one public speaker. once again our favorite member of u.s. sf leadership >> nobody else wants to talk i don't understand. i want to knowledge what you said about u.s. sf involvement. when we first got the list we were a little bit dismayed that
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the one classroom person was president kelly and other teachers so when we based this concern the district was very responsive and we do now have educators teachers in the classroom. we recommended classified personnel and support staff as well. i thank you for that responsiveness after all the people who do the work have ideas. >> thank you. any comments from board members. >> i just wanted to say how inspiring that was and learning about the students and the education. just you know that it takes
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something like that make changes in the district. and i'm also concerned about just about mostly about student engagement and having enough students because the friday there were only 3 students out of a hundred i guess it should be a much higher number this and that. they're the number one stakeholders in the district so it's important we engage students more than we have in the future and i want to say the social media is a good way to do that. >> thank you. doctor >> i want to say the logan's remarks. i found that having the students
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participate was meaningful. like one of the examples was what would the high school student be in the year 20025 and they said that school would be at the 10:00 a.m. because kids need to sleep in there would be paid internships >> but really i wanted to thank the superintendant and a, of course, ms. marianna and in particular our funders. this wouldn't be possible without the philanthropists and those who created the basis for far-reaching thinking and it's a great start to thinking about where we want to be in 2025.
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it helped us to think big. the look forward to participate in the future meetings. one of the homework things was to visit classroom teachers and parents along to the next session >> yes. >> (laughter). >> i actually really enjoyed the first session the first day and a half and was horrify it actually was well beyond any exception and i want to commend you laura there was a lot of planning going into that and your team pulled off a great
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event. the panel discussions were really great because they were more reflected active of not the common voice we hear but there were some really great commentaries from people we don't interact with. the people have excited about the next part. every month we're looking forward to what we have in store. unfortunately, for you our exceptions are really, really high. but i think this also provides some foundational work. i said to people that for the first time we're actually geting to do a plan it's allowing us to
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dream. i kept hearing over and over again. there was a little bit of hesitancy saying i can say whatever i want without the bureaucracy associated that with that. it's a difficult cultship for many people in the room. it was exciting to not only be part of this conversation but to see who've you brought into the conversation >> yes. commissioner anyway's and again, along with my colleagues commend i laura. we've talked about our ideas but really this first envisioning session was amazing to come to fruition. if this is what our world will
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be like in 2025 i want to be young again in the classroom. so thank you for setting us off right and that's a what i appreciate you. i appreciate i in doing that. one thing i was telling myself i tweeted it as well. the first day session is something that happens to me when i'm in meetings with amazing people that are free flowing with ideas about weight and historic knowledge just coming out and dreaming as the commissioner said about what it will be like is that i always sort wish there was such a mix of community folks in the room
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with me because i'm so often in places i don't see regular folks who aren't elected and being philanthropic elected or in those newspapers or there's just common folks who care of about their kids. i hope in the future we have something like that where we can mix it up and mix it up so we blend together and they can experience some of the things we experience. and i want to say a bit of privilege i get to have. i'm hoping you can incorporate that and it truly, truly will make that a public sf he u.s. d
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and i'm hoping that can happen. i trust in you and in your vision to help us get driver's license. i know if i mention it and say it you'll do everything without the superintendant to make a reality. so thank you >> mr. superintendant. >> thank you, president norton i've got the web address. www dot u.s. sf d back slash unback slash about - u.s. d back slash - dot m t s l. i'm not going to repeat that >> and i also so i also want to
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comment about how much we appreciate the boards active involvement and how much we appreciate the comments we've heard from everyone from our teachers union to our students representatives to our community members who have taken a look around the room and saying who isn't in the room the only time i want to know absolutely certain is whether when i'm going under surgery. how do we make this best estimate and folks are thinking who should be part of this tells me that our stakeholders are very much invested so we thank the folks for the feedback and he hopefully, he folks are seeing what we're hearing our
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seeing in the development of the process. this is hard work and scarey work but the right work for the community. ms. way >> i wanted to thank you because of the great experience and some of the students and i agree school was just like the meeting we had. >> we're going to work on it. >> we're around the people who are talking about what we're compassionate about and it was interesting. so thank you >> thank you that's a really great comment. i'm going to leave it there. thank you very much >> it is ms. marion. >> all right. we will move on to the next item. which is item n.
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consent calendar resolutions removed none. item o which was seconded i want to remind everyone outreaching madam clerk, please call the roll. >> and a ms. - there's one more correction we need to announce. resolution k one, two on page 91 the dates of service reads july 2nd, 2013, through june 30th, 2014, the dates are october 23rd through june 20th, 2013, >> it's not retroactive. >> with that, we will call for
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roll call (calling names) abstain on 2 c 13 b the eight nominated organization only and i'd like to abstain on 1310 dash 13 k 33. >> thank you (calling names) on all except i'm abstaining the 11th named organization optional. >> thank you. >> we will now move on the consent calendar