tuesday, august 26, 2014, is now called to order. roll call please. thank you mr. haney. complauf u ms. maufas. dr. murase. ms. norton. ms. wynns. president fewer. ms. jones mr. caan.

thank you >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all >> thank you i'd like to welcome our new interim student elizabeth jones elizabeth do you want to say hello. >> yes hello, i'm elizabeth jones the student advisory i'm the bedroom student delegate and i'm looking forward to working with you all. >> thank you approval the board minutes of august 12, 2014, and the special meetings of june 20th. july 22nd, august 5th and august 19, 2014, may we have a

motion and second thank you any corrections please call roll >> ms. jones. abstain >> august 12th only. >> mr. haney, ms. maufas. police vehicles. dr. murase. ms. norton yes on august 12th and august 19th. thank you and mr. sartipi's and president fewer >> thank you. presentations to the board of education this is our superintendant report superintendant carranza >> thank you president fewer and good evening to everyone here present and those of you listening to us or watching us this week i want to officially welcome back our students? second week of school i visited several which our sites along with ms. maufas. >> commissioner

mendoza-mcdonnell and we felt the excitement so welcome back. i'd like to extend a sincere and core dale invitation for communities to join us in a african-american resource fair on saturday september 6th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 at the san francisco library at 100 larkin street in san francisco that's locate near the civic center the breakfast is at 1015 we'll have the information to make it an exciting school year saturday september 6th from 010 to 1:30.

i'm proud to acknowledge the san francisco unified school district and our master of social internship program has received the field agency of the year award for 2014 from the university of california berkley they whuz choose one action that has a field parliament to the master students our program was selected they've been a collaborative faculty coloration and they will be recognizes the at the hotel plaza i'd like to gralt congratulate them we're proud of the students serving our students and community here in the san francisco unified school district. now if initial like me, you probably felt be shaking on

sunday morning i'm very, very happy to report none which our schools were harmed and our students returned to class i want to thank the citizens and voters that helped us to upgrade our facilities and like to review what most of our parents know if 9/11 an earthquake happened all our schools have an about emergency program and we have disaster workers they're committed to stay with our students. it is possible that students might be moved to another location depending on the circumstances to provide better care if necessary there will be

signage outside the school you'll find this information on our website as well as by phone. it maybe difficult to contact our school as phone service maybe interrupted, however, once you know where your student is they, meet the folks on duty with proper identification and the child will be see released. it's important ladies and gentlemen, you file out our emergency card for accurate information in order to re - get you to your children. your school emergency plan can be viewed at the schools office and more energy plan here http

w wwwsf step forward saved and emergency plan so, please visit our website for more information. i'd like to thank our facilities and custodians and our landscapers for putting in twenty-four hour of work to make sure our schools are open and clean on the first day of school they did a remarkable job i speak for our staff saying thank you very much for helping our school start off with success. with that, let's have a great school year a reminder this friday we'll have a district wide emergency drills practicing the procedures it's never, never two looting late you'll hear about that and once again let's have a great year

(clapping) thank you, thank you superintendant >> now recognized and accommodations superintendant. >> thank you president fewer. i'd like to call at this point to present our ray distinguished award principle andrew will present this w5urd to helen principle pun. >> okay give me the red light thank you greeters to the board members and superintendant carranza i'm the principle at jefferson so thank you for all nominations i've been at jefferson i meet the parents of the community they don't make a lot of noise but one of the

45shgd staff members is helen i'll introduce in a second she's been an educator for thirty almost thirty years in the san francisco unified school district at jefferson and the rate of the nominee came from a parent she maintains a classroom order and she's creative and encourages her students to ask questions the students love her she's quiet but strong and has a great approach sthe she combines curriculum. and the parent says she's one of the best teachers my sons have had she is creativity and the knowledge to learn she's a one of a kind take care we are blessed to have this take care.

so with all due respect i'll introduce her >> (clapping) >> thank you you very much for this award i'm very honored it feels strange to receive an award that i love doing i just love teaching and work is not work so thank you for the award. i do need to really thank the jefferson community i feel so future to be part of if. we have curious students, supportive parents and as mr. pun mentioned a hard working staff it is collaborative a he supportive of everyone and me so i kind of feel this award is a little part of all those aspects of jefferson so again, thank you very much.

i'm looking for a great school year thank you. (clapping.) >> so we also have someone else to be honored where the special services award i'm going to ask one of our superintendant in the

division to present the award to benjamin. good evening. i'm bret stevens the assistant superintendent and i'm present on behalf of jose who is preparing on behalf of someone the reason ben the receipt was a take care and over the summer he was in a reading position at monroe let me their thrilled to have him and the gentleman caught the first bug of the year so i'm presenting on his behalf so ben lay is not a reading recovery take care this is a rave nomination who's child was in his classroom.

ben lay is an exceptionally effective take care evidences by the visible i creativity in the classroom and an awe you constitute assessment of and endlesslyly patient and perfect balance he encourages the children to learn hands on and inaccurately adds participation when needed his work is his passion and shows in his assignment is should, noted because this is an immersion program children understand even if they can't understand his words he's organized and a wealthier ever community and sfusd resources and i logged the final log ben is the became. i've never seen such dictation so let me please invite ben lay

up he wants to share a few words with the board come on up >> thank you so much i'm humidity and honored to be here i want to thank the parented that nominated me and thank you for taking time to honor people in the district that go above and beyond so often we're forgetting to step back and honor what's gone well thank you. i also want to take a moment to honor my dedicated colleagues that daily go above and beyond with everyone from hospital visits to spending money on supplies and i feel fortunate to work among dedicated colleagues,

i feel really sad base many of my colleagues some of the highly qualified teachers are leaving the district because they can't afford to live many the community they couldn't justify staying in a city where they are struggling to pay rent with 50 percent more benefits and it wasn't an opportunity to pass up. i'm sad to lose them but sadder for the students. but i'm hope that the district is as truly dedicated to the students in closing the achievement gap and hopefully, they'll put-down students first, by getting teachers in this program i'm certain in the district chooses to put students

first that many taverns b will come back to the district and we'll have meeting filed with good folks thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you. and now we'll have the student delegates report from ethically jones >> thank you superintendant carranza and board of education. so last time we had our first of

many student advisorsy you council meetings we met all the new and returning members i'm looking forward to the year and working with all of them and you. we reviewed the bylaws and committees and cabinet positions we'll have our elections september 8th in which we will elect our student delegate for the position i'm currently filling your student leaders have grown in number we're up to 34 that is almost over a third more than last year that's exciting as well. we discussed our goals for the year and a possible retreat for build our learning activity and

team building. >> good evening president fewer and commissioners deputy superintendent and superintendant carranza. so what we have done over the summer and we're advocating the online survey that is, we came together with the department of transportation and with the help of superintendent billy is promoting all the sfusd students to take this 5 minute muni survey to have more feedback on how free muni for youth is working for everyone at that are 18-years old and older our next meeting is on monday, september 8, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.

anyone is welcome to join and diner is preceded for everyone. if you want to make a presentation or be our guest contact salvador. thank you very much. commissioners any comments or questions for the student delegates we look forward to working with the two of you and the student advisors and so it's an open door things very much. and now for the parent advisors council. and now i'd like to call on goggling and ms. martin.

>> hello. good evening. i'm miranda martin i'm the current chair of the search-and-seizure you guys want to introduce yourselves >> member of pack. good evening welcome back families to school i'm georgia i coordinate the advisors council and an apparent >> this is the first meeting of the year i want to remind everyone that this is an advisory couldn't to live board of education we represent parents across the district and try to provide voice to the policy decisions we're appoint

by the board of education we're all volunteers and we actually currently accepting applications and we'll talk about that. we don't meet during even though summer so we don't have very much to report on together but some members of the pack that have been attending meetings and working on planning for this coming year we're going to give you an update one of the most exciting things it the the second family empowerment conference and saturday september 27th at the james middle school from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. there will be a lot of workshops and exciting speakers and there will be resources fair where pack will have a table and a lot of these tables there. i think that it is not available

to sign up yet but there will be carefully and interpretation there the office of engagement. and so there will be breakfast and lunch provided this year will be better than last year. i'll pass to over to skating >> earlier this month the pack members participated to explore the idea of developing a parent university within the sfusd the idea was well received by the is focus groups and echo with the pack community, district members heard in the conversation parent that wanted expanded opportunity for leadership development. >> we want to acknowledge that

we know there's a lot of big questions that will have to be considered such as how will an initiative like this align with the program for the supportive of the ask the connect how will it get funding and the stakeholders participating in the implementations of such a model. there are a lot of questions just a few questions to be determining the feasibility of a model but a model with a well-thought-out plan and financial support could be an asset to all sfusd families and provide opportunity for student and adult learning to support the children in our schools. next this week on thursday we have our first pack meeting we

welcome superintendent will be attending to highlight the districts top priorities and his presentation helps us to inform our focus for the year as we expand and identify our priorities as mar random mentioned we're recruiting and have up to 15 members on the advisory board we cultural have 11 so we have 4 regular spots and 3 alternative spots we reach to our district partners and those on the mailing list circle circle back we've listed in the weekly administration district and trying to reach out for

folks we don't have a participation from the asian pacific islander so we're reaching out to the community and talked to the regional development groups and we're going to be going to the farther parent meetings in september to let them know about our current recruitment so if you know of good candidates out there pack applications can be found on our webbed also i can be contacted at the office at phone number (4) 153-3201 we have applications in english and chinese at the moment. >> thank you, commissioners comments. >> yes. >> i really encourage that the

listening public if there are interested members to apply to the pack it's a very, very regarding year of service my question is do you have representation from the pre k group we're putting a lot of focus on the pre k programs and would love to see representation on the pack as well. >> our parents that have pre k is now a kindergartener so, now on the application it says pre k anyone would say a guardian is a candidate. >> thank you president fewer. i have some comments to make at the first meeting in june, i interrupted a pack recommendation and engaged in an

exchange that was really felt inspired some hurt feelings and felt disrespectful to pack members he want to publicly apologize to the pack as a whole i regret my behavior. i feel one of the things to try to take a first step towards repairing the harm president fewer and i participated in a restored circle with several pack members present and it was a very challenging conversation. it continues to be championing to me i felt like i learned a lot i will reflect on a lot of things in the conversation i'm not under the illusion that the harm is repaired it is really

that is a first step so hopefully we've taken the first step and will continue to move forward together to move past what happened but again, i really regret my behavior and offer high sincere apologize to the pack members and the pack as a whole it was a window our conversation on the kinds of difficult k346z we're asking our schools to engage in and i can tell you i won't speak four parents but that was extremely painful and hopefully, will as i said taught me a lot and will allow us to move forward with a lot of understanding thank you. thank you commissioner norton >> so i would like to speak about that. commissioner norton and i, we

experienced things this last week it was an important thing to restore the recycle i wanted to be there to own any responsibility as a leader in the district about not responding to the comment and actually providing a safe plays for comments it was doubly bad of me because one i was the author of the parent search-and-seizure to actually create one i was the parent organizer before i came into the board to not to take a leadership roll in a manner that will protect our voices i wanted to say not only the voices of the advisory committee is pack members that were partnering but our listening audience and the focus groups around particularly

around rational equality and for the parents to come out and participate on a weeknight and not have grandfathering with their families i think that rachel and i can offer to the parents i think we can actually put their voice to paper and try to change things in the district and rachel and i looking forward to doing that i want to particularly thank carrie and vicky for restored practice practitioners i didn't know what i was stepping into i wrote the resolution and fought for funding for that i never had been in a