there's any concerns about overrelicense on the private sector. i wanted to acknowledge that our chairman of our youth commission is here. i think he's graduating in a week or something too. i just wanted to throw that question out, are there any concerns that are there? >> laura has thoughts on it too, i don't know if you saw the recents situation that happened with newark and facebook, if you look at that situation where facebook really was dictating a lot of the policy changes that should have been made by the elected officials there and by the school officials, and so i think we have to be very careful with that and aware that the decisions in terms of the needs and priorities and vision need to be made by the school board and edge ucators and we need to find where we can draw on the support and expertise of folks outside,

whether they're private companies or wherever as to how they fit into that. that's what's exciting about this vision and the digital district plan that we're putting forward is we're laying our own vision and they're coming and figuring out how they fit into it. i think with that we have to be individual lent that we aren't allowing them to dictate our priorities. when they give money it takes our time in different ways. we use our resources, and once you build something and their funding goes away now we own it. i think there's a question as to ensuring whatever it is that we do, even if they put forward money, that it fits into our priorities. i think that's been as a board something we put on the table and addressed and that's what we hope is that this is going to allow us to move forward but also address that concern that the private sector has a role, but not in making education

policy. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. and actually i really appreciate your comments, commissioner haney. i think the framework that the school district sets up about what our goals are about education and curriculum are where money needs to flow into based on what the school district sees as what's important. i've actually -- for me, spitting out funds that it's great that we're able to receive. for me the verdict is still out on whether those funds are doing great work. i'm not sure the i pads have really been used as much as they could be. i'm not sure there was a very strong plan as to how they would be used. i'm hearing this from different parents who have kids in the school district. i'm just curious how -- well, i

won't ask that question here, but i was wondering how much of an effort there was to build a curriculum before there was actually the do nation made. donation made. also, what do we have in our schools -- i've had to work on we fie. wi-fi. wi-fi in the schools is terrible. that was or conversation with sales force was that we didn't want to invest in i pads unless we had the development. i think people think there's i pads in every middle school, there's not. we basically had enough funding for two teachers from each of the 12 comprehensive middle schools and teachers had to voluntarily sign up and they went through five days of training in the summer so they

went through a total boot camp and really learned with each other and learned how to use the technology. i would say last year -- and then their training throughout the year and we had probably three or four instructional coaches who worked side-by-side with the teachers. and we had a symposium at auto desk giving demonstrations of the kind of lessons they created. there, you know, we heard lots of great feedback from our teachers, our students and some parents came as well. and we've got data we can share with you preand post surveys, classroom observations, we worked with sri to help with the evaluation so we can share all of that, but we were really just prototyping because we didn't want to say let's just do it all at once. we wanted to say how do we make this work so it's not just a

toy in the classroom. what we didn't have last year is, as you know, the common core is brands new so the curriculum and instruction department had not really laid out what the math and science curriculum would be. this year the stem team led by jim ryan, who's fantastic, has laid out a beautiful math curriculum that was developed unit lessons with teachers so the training this year is much more integrated with the math together and then next year we'll do the next science standards. i think this year -- first of all, i think we did a really good job this year with the training and development and it will be even stronger next year because there's more integration. to the tech companies, they're not telling us what the curriculum should be. what we're saying to them is help us afford the i pads, the wireless, the stipends for the teachers and we're doing that

with new funders who are coming to us. she's going to be driving how the technology's integrated. we're not buying anything from the vendors that we don't want. we're looking at our own curriculum and then picking and choosing from the marketplace what are those apps that work. i will also say we are working with a lot of the tech companies around -- we made a decision this year to be multiplatformed so that we aren't held hostage just by one company. so, you know, the google chrome books are becoming much more affordable and we want to support both chrome books and i pads. we're in a good position. to say this is our plan, our budget, you need to look at how you can best su por it u.s..

i think we're going to get stronger and stronger at it and not just do a massive implementation over night, but at a certain point, now that we've done prototyping we have to go faster because some of the sixth graders said to us -- you know, someone said this is the [inaudible] raises the money. they said, are we going to have i pads in 7th grades, i loved them in 6th grade. now that we've built up demands, we have to accelerate to have that equity and access. it's a great question . >> i'd love to get a briefing on your evaluation of that if you could come to city hall or i can come to the school district. >> i'd love to share it with you. >> my daughter's going to start middle school so i know the curriculum's not going to be there. this next semester. >> right, for math. for the math team at sf community will be part of this

initiative and they will have some chrome books and i pads and the math teachers are going to be working together with the new common core on how to integrate the new technology so hopefully she'll be participating. >> thank you. commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you. i wanted to clarify a couple of things. we don't look at this as an ipad initiative, that the i pads are just a tool for us to deliver common core math and we're going to be integrating computer science and coding within the math delivery and i think that's really critical because we've had to talk about this very differently. the other thing that's been really great about focusing on middle schools is we're able to do uniform delivery of information and training for our teachers so all our teachers that participated this

past year, they all volunteered, they were pioneers, some who had experience and some didn't, but they were willing to test this out and came up with some amazing projects. the showcase last week was really phenomenal and what the students were able to talk about in terms of what their -- the research they're able to do and what they're able to find via the internet has been really incredible. the other thing is the k 8 is going to be a critical component because we do have a large -- we have over 1,000 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grade in our k 8st so we wanted to make sure they weren't left behind. one other thing i wanted to say with regards to wi-fi it certainly can be spotty, but we were really intentional in the

way wi-fi was set up, and particularly having hot spots close to classrooms where the i pads existed. so the one lesson i think that we learned is when you have 30 students all on wi-fi at once, what's the capacity of one device so we made sure that we loaded up accordingly. and then to laura's point, i mean, i think there was a large lesson learned from la, which we're glad we didn't do and wouldn't have done anyway, which was to kind of distribute i pads everywhere and hope that everybody would keep them safe. we went through some pretty strict pro to cals in making sure they're not visible and we worry about them getting stolen. we put in strong enforcement around that. and, you know, interestingly when the principals were given

some extra funding, they ended up buying more devices for teachers who wanted to be part of the pilot. we're going to have upwards of 50 teachers that are going to be connected and the delivery of education just comes very differently and it's not, you know, all day long. they're still getting both ways of learning so that's been really great. >> thank you. all right, so appreciate the very lively discussion on this item. at this time we'll open up for public comment. >> hello, my name's larry edmond. i'm coming here to celebrate my boy harvey milk birthday because he was elected in '77 and i thought about my

education [inaudible] how that transformed in '69 we had the first black and white [inaudible] in america so i see where this is diverse of education is going to prepare san francisco [inaudible] to 2025 to be diverse and r and what the first lady said, have [inaudible] shakes in school, they're going to be healthy and won't be able to get bullied, racism, i think america has been [inaudible] but i hope that all this stops [inaudible] any child in this country can go to school and not be bullied. when i was going to school they used to hit me in the back of the hid. they said i was gay. the kids who smoked cigarettes

who are not living no more now. that goes to show education changes, [inaudible] future because american kids are special. i think american kids should be the most diverse in the world. and i think what you're doing here today is making sure that these kids have a diverse future. you know, i love all these points of knowledge of skills to graduate profile, development students to compete, drive and 21st century. i'm crazy over four, five, six, three, two and one. i'm glad to be here. harvey milk has given us hope. the greatest love of all is for the children to be themselves and not have hate. thank you. >> thank you mr. edmond.

>> good afternoon supervisors and board members. my name is michelle and i serve as the vice chair of the youth commission. when i first heard of 2025 and it had so many different topics which sparked so many different discussion points and i fell in love with it. i want to applaud the staff which put it all together which i know was a lot of effort. i want to encourage future curriculum planning to be processed in the same way where it invites not only san francisco unified school district staff members, but also students and service providers. i really hope in the future outreach towards the students can be increased because i want to see more students voice their own experience and needs by themselves since at tends of the day, no one can represent us better than we can represent ourselves.

i look forwards to seeing all the funding implemented in the future. the current style of teaching is not the best for all, but it shouldn't be completely erased either. i hope in the future we can have better ways to identify different styles of learning and follow up to support them properly. when a student feels comfortable in a classroom that is when they can thrive and explore their capabilities and creativity. thank you for your time. >> thank you commissioner. is there any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. any final comments or discussion? blrt, i just want to thank members of the committee for their time today and of course our school district. really good discussion on both items. i want to recognize our clerk, and also sfgov tv for recording our meetings and making them

available to the public. any other items? >> is there recommendation to this item? >> right. should we take a motion to file? and we have a motion to file. we can do that without opposition. finally i just wanted to say that because of the complexity of the budget season schedule we will be cancelling this meeting for the month of june as we have two members of the budget committee on our select committee. and i know in july the school district is off at recess in august the board of supervisors is off on recess, so our next meeting will be in september but i look forward to seeing you all then. with no further items or announcements, meeting is adjourned. >> thank you.

>> being a pedestrian in san francisco is not easy for anybody. >> [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. >> i have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. it is very hard. >> sometimes people get half way across the intersection. >> you have to be alert because

there is always something coming up that you need to know about. >> i learned to listen to the traffic patterns. sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided i'm going to cross, too. i get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. >> we need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. the world needs to be open. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low

vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and

this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the

ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on

the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable. nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. here is another problem we have

with street trees. if i have i was a person blind, this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. >> we don't want to create hazards. >> sometimes vendors put sidewalk cafes where people push the chairs too far out. >> sometimes it can be impassable. so much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or walker to go by. >> san francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well.

they have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. if people can find thraeur way around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. >> we don't want anything special. we want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books now. people can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have 48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. we will all get along better. >> although san francisco is a

hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. that doesn't mean we can't continue to improve upon ourselves. >> the public has a clear are -- of travel. we can't be every to make sure that is the place. we have to rely on the place. call 311. give them your name. that goes into a data base. >> it is difficult, still, um to make the case that the disabled community isn't being represented. in some ways we are not. we have a long way to go. >> the city of san francisco is using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to

remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is smack in the middle of the tenderloin neighborhood where there are 50,000 people within walking distance. you see the kids that are using what's provided, but there is so much opportunity for this to be a stronger, more welcoming, healthier cleaner safer place for the people of this

community to play. there are going to be new green areas, a full-size basketball court, outdoor fitness equipment, community garden, a brand-new clubhouse. it's going to be a much more welcoming spot for a neighborhood that really needs it. ♪ ♪ >> this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. in the old days myelogram ma get together >> i was six or seven i made a faces a good face.

>> when i was younger i know it did something to my body. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've been drinking coffee since i was 17 really the only thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. >> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody.

in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent