(clapping.) and i wanted to particularly thank the speakers for how you characters that is important about this course and this year was a lot of discussion about inclusive in-laws particularly the speaker that mentioned this is about ethnic groups and people are disabilities and all sorts of marginalized groups in our society i appreciated that and wanted to say that's the right message and finally i wanted to ask the superintendent can you because there's been a question i know we've had a lot of support if sf state in putting on the pilots can you clarify for us what our rule going forward it going to be

aligning this out to the common core. >> thank you commissioner norton we're grateful i think you've heard that this curriculum really is grounded from teachers so teachers have worked collaboratively with san francisco state by the curriculum will be san francisco unified school district's cripple and we're bringing that in house that will align to all the common standards and our sfusd standards and we will adhere to all educational codes with the curriculum we're excited about that. >> commissioner wynns. >> thank you superintendent for that clarification it is what it should be i'm pleased to hear about that i want to thank everyone for being here he

reiterate what commissioner norton said about the discussion about everybody all of the groups and the characteristics which people are part of and identify with its so important that is what san francisco is about i am thinking this is what america is about and more in the fire chief than the past i'm so i know i am definitely in support of this this is such not only important but could - will have a profound effect on our school district but we are proposing something sweeping it should be but our responsibility to make sure we monitor the completion we've had comments about making sure that we

actually do the things we say we're going to do we making a commitment to do things are enormously complex and difficult it is not enough to pass this we've done this many times we're to need a level of information sharing and us pay attention but particularly the staff giving us information about the things so we will know how schools are coping with the costs and the ability to train the teachers and get the entertains and do all the things that that policy makes clear we are committed to. but we know it is complex and hard to do i think we would be leaving our community with the wrong

impression if we do make clear we're going to need everyone to be with us and we're going to pay attention to really be involved in the appropriate way as policymakers we make sure we know the complex challenges and be willing to face them honestly there's depending on when and how we get to the issue of making this a graduation requirement i do want to say i am really re interested in having us begin immediately to work more diligently on making in a requirement for the university of california. >> yeah. (clapping.) we know we've heard from principles and other administrator staff we're going to have a challenge if we say to

everybody we require you to take a certain elective and that limits our opportunities to take other electives that depends on money and other things bus really until we have a history curriculum that is about the people in the united states of america and our community we won't be there this is a step along the way i want us to started working on that right away and your history should not be an elective but history i'm gladly to support that this is only the beginning we have a lot of challenges ahead of us thank you thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you i'd like to first thank the

supporters of ethnic studies i'll definitely vote yes (clapping) and i wish i had this curriculum at my school because out of oil the feedback like all the supporters had today, i just want to thank you and i'll vote yes (clapping.) thank you commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you i want to thank president fewer and the teachers who helped to put this together those are the times i'm proud to be in sfusd growing up as a military brat we were separated by in case not recognizing and understanding the value and value it i'm one hundred percent filipino any kids are filipino and importantly run and my husband

african-american so if i'll not living with cultural i'm a proud graduate of washington high school i'm glad to support in 0 tonight when we were looking for a school for kid we looked at schools that had asian programs that was the close is it thing to get our convicts kids to understand a portion of what who in her and i remember visiting a university and the way teachers embraced our teachers and remember walking into a kindergarten class seeing a march where the teachers and families were encouraged to join and we exclude that was the

scald for us a school of openness and respect that i think all of us need to have and embrace especially during the difficult times in america if ethnic studies were part of the curriculum from you know the 1960s when we were supposed to be honoring civil rights a lot of what we are faced with today would not be going on the way it is the perpetuate stereotypes the place we can and can't go in 2014 is sad and as a mother of two children of color, you know who if you know my children and many of you do you can't pinpoint who they are and they

look incredibly mixed no so many ways i'm proud of that i'm really, really proud of that and what they brick to the table that is part of what ethnic studies will change in our communities that that will start to point out the importance of who we are and who rerepresent you know we're going to have difficult discussions in the very near future we're having them now but ethnic studies present us with not only how we got here and the challenges with our many of our people had to endure but i want to be able to say one of the students said this this is not about promoting hate but pinning one against the other or this is who did what to

me and why i'm anger this is about appreciation this about loving who we are and come from and what history and heritage means to so many of us when i was growing up my 3 sisters were born and raised in the feigns and as soon as hit ground couldn't keep their own tongue not allowed to speak their language they lost it quickly my brother and i never got to learn our language that is when i see any parents any mom is almost 90 that's where i get any history that's it is beautiful but it meetings needs to be shared i want to really thank our

teachers for helping us your prospective and openness and respect your ability to understand and to see and feel what so many of our students see and feel is incredibly valuable i think teaching ethnic studies is really special and we're looking forward to having you be the mentor of the other ethnic study teachers we're going to be bringing on board with hunch humbleness president fewer i'd like to add my name to the resolution and so proud to be supporting this at no time thank you everyone for being here tonight. >> commissioner murase. >> i'd like to thank the speakers tonight the audience what folks it's been so wise i want to thank the quarters who came together around the issue

by acknowledge president fewer and commissioner norton who in the past two years have set the stage for conversations around race and some of the meetings we don't here about but the leadership of president fewer and commissioner norton has laid the ground work this is an example of vision 2025 we're moving forward towards students curriculum we're moving forward to volley ball every student in the skills they need in the year 2025 in terms of any own story i'm the first jaiment to serve on this i should be number 25 reasonable person thirty not number one why is that a lot of

the wartime incarceration has to do with that there was a self-encompassed censorship nobody discussed parents didn't tell their kids and the grandparents didn't share part of that is a lifting of the censorship over time i was proud to bring forgot the national veterans clinic that tells the story of the jaiment who served in the war and the draft resitters were shunned but now uncovering that history is that others can learn from it i think we're all seeing our country where race relations in is

serious serious crisis and i'm very proud to be part of the community that finds the antidote to that crisis to be education to be ethnic studies to be about an inclusive diverse curriculum so we don't have to be in crisis we can address the long-term problem of race relations i want to be on record i've heard letters of support came to me thank you to those folks but concerns about basis an opportunity to make it exclusive to many groups i want to be on record we want diverse process i know that sometimes conflicts arises over defines was the jewish communities and it's about self-determination embrace minority in all

different background so i'm happy to be supporting in resolution and thank you, president fewer for your leadership. >> (clapping.) so i'd like to interrupt i notice that superintendent is here i'd like to welcome him to the meeting and this discussion thank you commissioner haney. >> yes. i'll be quick i mean i'll say i'll be in or out or supporting this resolution he everyone that came out to support that this is exactly what we're trying to do with education striving towards seeing the self-expression and accident excitement ace the community building take place around ethnic studies that's what we want to get to and the fact we have it here we have a course in the district where it's happening no reason why

question you shouldn't expand to many students we have the opportunity in front of of us i think about for me, i'm sure everyone has a story people if they had the opportunity to take ethnic studies maybe they wrote have a different live i do believe it saves lives people that spoke your thinking about how people f that doesn't have the opportunity to have this would change their lives i don't want to see people that look like me in history books it's not the truth and not accurate and wrongs and when i went to uc berkley i mirnd no ethnic studies i wish i had if in middle school and something

that is made available inform everyone we should take what we've learned tonight and what you spoke to think about our curriculum important broadly we should have classes in chicano and african-american studies we should expand that we talk about it ethnic studies and go much, much further so i hope that is not the end of the conversation and maybe a continuation of a conversation people are lead and built and san francisco state university i think for us to be here in a country where in so many places talking about banning studies but we are talking expanding that's a beautiful statement of the community and for all the people that worked people on the streets they shut down the free in berkley all over the country

because of the way the institutions in this country have marginalized people of color we're going to do the opposite take our institutions and make sure that people of color have an equal place so i want to thank every one and president fewer to all the ethnic studies teachers let's keep on moving thank you. >> (clapping). >> we love you matt hastening superintendent. >> great thank you president fewer i usually don't comment on board resolutions i can't help myself i want to thank the teachers who villaraigosa been to imitately involved but

proposals where proposals are due to c alison who helped to raise (clapping) who i know is mortgage inside i'm calling her out in a public meeting i remember 6 years ago we met and talked about ethnic studies and the passion so i want to thank you for helping us to get us here and i want to say i join with dr. murase this is a surreal moment i can tell you a story in the late 1980s in tucson, arizona of a chicano social studies teacher that went back to teach where we graduated from and where over 90 percent

of the kids were mexican students when he was teaching the american history it was everyone's history but the kids sitting in front of him he had an idea along with colleagues a couple of people in the english department of address a couple of people if the math and social studies teachers what if we taught the kids the creators of zero were their bloodline and microscopic is not other songs like mexican music to sing to their grandparents and connect constantly what we we celebrate history and don't talk about history as being sill loss an african-american or mexican-american but mexican

histories that truly looks like our kids fast forward over 25 years later some of the same teachers that the teacher will be in san francisco in january at the ethnic circuit court of appeals and here in san francisco bay i was the chicano social teacher he their appealing other fact that latin-american was stripped from tare take care you from in their city they're not afraid of looking who they are i'm so proud they're going to come and interact with our teachers and get to share the books bookings will be banned in arrests oars

we are looking and taking on as a jejunum new. >> of the status quo. >> (clapping) and so it's as the surreal moment on many, many levels i want to say it this board of education in many, many respect san francisco leads the country and this is no different and any plea is that at some point in the near future we're not going to talk about it we're going to talk about american history and science and mathematics and everyone's culture will be i think fussed in the fabric the curriculum not talking about ethnic studies outside of american studies we're americans so i want to thank the board and all the staff and want to thank everyone that worked hard and

very, very happy to turn the mike over to president fewer for the last words. >> thank you superintendent (clapping.) and thank you, colleagues and thank you to everyone that came out tonight if i'll indulge me we have 3 letters of support from supervisor campos. >> dear board of education thank you for your leadership in expanding all of the ethnic as someone that tenant this classrooms many people make up our school system and as a young student the inclusion of the ethnic studies sends a message to the san franciscans that we're all equal and this is an

arithmetic he success into the high schools it is an honor to offer my support there curriculum expansion and respectfully ask the braid to pass that and thank you to the young adults and best e by the evidence wishes supervisor campos this is from supervisor yee i'm writing to express any withholding support for the ethnic studies for all high schools in the san francisco unified school district i was here to establish 5 programs for the unified school district that was passed in 2010, i remember how spider to the youth engagement it was a learning night to demonstrate the need to learn about the legacies of their own community and the struggles we face this multi

dimensional world despite in program for one of the most diverse four years after the resolution we proved those nay sires wrong indicating that at risk students are improving in less unexcused absence and encouraging people to college from the stuart and expected as part of the a there g requirement with the trying times we have an opportunity to create an learning environment especially to the marginalized annuity u community this is how we build a deeper commitment i urge the brvngs to make ethnics studies a part of all high

schools i hope it passes with unanimous support thank you for your consideration supervisor yee. >> this letter comes from supervisor jane kim who was a co-sponsor with myself to first start the pilot program for ethnic studies dear president fewer i'm writing to express my support for ethnic studies in high schools as president of the board of education i established a ethnic studies as a study in the san francisco unified school district with a broad coalition have teachers and community-based administrators we began that work with intent to establish a there g qualified option and hallway ever our schools to be expanded it's time 90 percent of our students of color deserve that san francisco

is a the first place to include voices of color 45 years ago we laufshd the longest strike leading to the introduction of the department in the country and ethnic studies is a standard of university i'm a product of this movement i'm one of the first asian-american study majors at stoovrd university it is important for all levels of education san francisco has a longs education of african-american stories struggled with cluchltd yet many of our students didn't learn race and gender continues show cased in the last few week we must build in the classroom to develop nor knowledgeable

students i strongly support ♪ the san francisco unified school district several supervisor jane kim thank you very much i'll be brief i want to acknowledge i'm honored to have to be the author and see this through my times on the board but i want to recognize a few people and those of the ethnic teachers some are hear and just called me pete hammer if you're lymph nodes pete i remember him asking me to coffee and i was met about ethnics studies teachers saying we want to teach this and it's time we started it build a coalition i'm the merger quite frankly there's the ones doing the work and they're the ones

you're seeing the results of their teaching from any want to thank staff for your a expertise in expanding this to every high school in san francisco and thank you to the superintendent and gerrero and bill and our superintendent who not only worked with the board on this but actually really buildings it and that's a very rare thing that the board and the superintendent buildings deeply in the same thing and in closing, i want to say that it would take all of us to make us accountable we look to you the future leaders of this country to learn what you've learned to make that world a more peaceful place i want to add one

amendment to this resolution from the request of a contingent member and ms. casco has the wording for my colleagues to consider adding under the whereas the wording i want to add is it is the goal of ethnic studies curriculum to meet the requirement of the california department of education standards for evaluating structural materials for social content if anyone massachusetts has any questions about that i believe that ms. santos is in the audience but mainly a formality if any comments seeing none we'll adapt that by general consensus >> no thank you very much so once again this is a community win when we win