ing pilates are for you. >> programs are variety year around at various locations and to learn more come to the ation thank you very much regular meeting of the board of education of the sfusd for january 13, 2015 is now called to order roll call please.

president fewer mr. haney thank you mentioning dr. murase mrs. jordan and ms. wynns and mr. walton and sonata and mr. chang and please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you superintendent i believe you have an announcement? >> thank you, president fewer this is announcement this is the announcement that the superintendent of schools makes following a swearing in it is

announced that the following pledge before any business of the agenda of the january 13, 2015 meeting the president and board called this announcement i'd like to announce that hydra mendosa-mcdonnell and dr. murase and mr. smallest were sworn into office to 4 year terms by mayor ed lee supervisor for gail and senator isadore the third respectfully the swear in took place tuesday, january 6th at the time tenderloin school and on behalf of the 57 students and the 8 thousand employees congratulations to all you commissioners welcome to the commissioners especially commissioner shamann walton and welcome back dr. murase how about a round of applause.

>> thank you superintendent as be spifkd we'll readapt our rules at the first board meeting thus may i hear a motion for an annual board of education rules. >> move adoption of the rules. >> thank you i don't believe we have speakers signed up this evening my comments from the board or superintendent seeing none i think we're ready for a roll call vote. >> ms. sonata mr. chin. >> mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase and mrs. jordan and minnesota and please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, walton. >> thank you. >> now we'll have the election of the office of the board of education as a reminder to the board and public this type of election is by voice vote a

second is not need and permissible to vote for he or she board members you'll be voting by name if there is more than one nomination then you'll say yeah. or nay i declare nominations for the office of the president for the board of education for the year 2015 are there 0 any nominations. >> mroefrn. >> i'd like to vote for dr. murase for the president of the board. >> okay any other nominations? and if there are no further nominations for the office of president i declare the

nominations closed emily murase has been nominate as board president and roll call >> president fewer yes. >> i'd like to make a motion that we elect cross examining president by ac mansion by the vote which i think is the second to the motion. >> did someone second. >> okay. all right. i think we can do that, yes so if there's no objection all right. that's great okay so i announce that emily murase has been elected president of the board for 2015 (clapping). >> i declare nominations are now on for the vice president for 2015 are there that any

nominations. >> okay hydra police vehicles. >> i'd like to nominate mr. haney for the board of education vice president. >> commissioner haney has think outside the box nominated for the office of vice president are there my other nominations all right. ms. casco. >> can i make the same motion we elect mr. haney for vice president by a voice vote. >> can we have a second. >> that's great seeing no objections congratulations to the president and vice president (clapping) i think i was supposed to announce that commissioner haney has been elected vice president

for the board of education congratulation and i'll relinquish my chair to the folks with pleasure (clapping.) so i just also wanted to say thank you to my colleagues for putting up with me this year it's been an honor to serve as the president with the 57 thousand children we serve everyday thank you very much. >> (clapping.) if i may i--i don't know who i ask this president murase to say a few words as your transitioning. >> i want to thank president fewer commissioner fewer for her leadership we took on large projects that resulted in some really positive results she lead the charge for the great courage as at unified school district

past policies that about deeply impact our young people during this year transitioned by bringing together prop c that got passed unanimously by a great margin to believe it was past which we think is structurally to have a president that took the lead as well and we were also able to settle with our teachers union and we were all pretty happen with considering the six so where did she go oh, tell you are. >> president fewer thank you for your leadership and look forward to our continued work in the school district. >> thank you very much. >> (clapping.) ms. norton i want to add my

thanks a year ago it is a very, very tough job to be president i did it very, very well, so thank you. >> okay. thank you very much i want to thank my colleagues for their support and especially to welcome shamann to our family by custom the null president and vice president will give brief remarks i want to shout out to my lifelong mentors to the skufbt to the late don who we lost last year my third grade teacher that faced the production of gilbert and sullivan with the third grades or graders to my french teacher for the leadership emancipation proclamation and to my high school english teacher the foster i didn't lewis that made

me fall in love with shaepz as the president i have big shoes to fill from ms. norton to president fewer the board has enjoyed a stream of very strong x i want to especially thank president fewer for her leadership much has been devoted to a strategic planning process that was launched beginning with president morton called vision 2025 in collaboration with our partners we asked we were asked to reimage public education in san francisco for a new generation and i courage everyone to read the vision 20 twooir 25 plan on the website our work in the coming year will mirror the approach we used to develop 12 it will be inclusive and interact active and spider we'll look to all of you our

families and guardians and parents teachers and paraprofessionals and counseled and administrator and central office staff and community and city and corporate partners and most definitely our students to help to shape this education with us we have the perfect prudent to lead the charge i look forward to work with supermarket and colleagues towards the vision 2025 i wanted to ask the vice president to say a few words on the announced. >> it's a little bit which a different view i want to thank my colleagues i'm honored to be elected to this position i know we have a lot of hard work this is my beginning of any third year on the board i've served on this board with president fewer and learned a lot about you from

you and about you, too (laughter) maybe more than i want to know and before that president norton and murray i didn't congratulations i look forward to working with all of you and take on the big challenges in front of us and commissioner shamann walton i'm glad you're here i'll have to now share the boardroom but looking at to getting to work. >> thank you very much next item on the agenda is approval of board menus p there are no minutes to approve tonight and following a presentation to the board of education that superintendent report superintendant carranza. >> thank you, president more and more rose and geefrg or good evening to everyone a joyful and happy new year although this is the second week of school it's

been in session sins the new year and this is my opportunity to say happy new year and welcome back to 9 second seniority we're hit the nail on the head in 2015 and as evidence of that this past saturday numerous unified school district leaders including the board of education, had the opportunity to champions the bayview hunters point neighborhood to promote our willie brown, jr. middle school the reports were stellar they knocked on doors talking about the great opportunity the status quo and the state our school will be in one the finest middle school in the nation if you have a fifth grader out there you can still enroll but the deadline for first round is january 16th we're shooting for

an enrollment of 2 hundred students and already close to our 2 hundred students that have summit to the willie brown, jr. school it will have an excellent opportunity for students we courage i to submit an application lyle i'm to thank the commissioners and staff that worked and walked and spoke and had interactions with our community this saturday thank you very, very much i'd like to annunciation as our students start the second semester they'll take the assessments there are a lot of communication what the assessments mean one the questions is well, can you choose to not have the district participate in taking the assessments those are assessments required by the state of california for all students so we don't have the

choice of saying we president obama out but we know our teachers area administrators are doing all they can to prepare our students to be successful in their assessments which will assess their proficiency those have taken on computer by our students in grades 3 through 8 and 11 including the video and audio as well as provisions for student needs for the common core state standards and assess newer learning was students could be asked to select all answers or students maybe asked in other open-ended questions to explain their questions urging the evidence we've raised the bar to make sure the students are college and career ready and test scores that raise the bars

as we work towards having our students be ready for vision 2025 we'll compare our students 0 scores to make sure that san francisco is receiving the world-class education so let's get ready to welcome the new year as our students gear up for the challenges we'll have a series of informational nights for parents to come and learn offhand about the segments one is upcoming and our director and superintendent will be sending information look for various announcements around the city of san francisco on our muni buses and on mrashgdz across the city sharing what those new taements assessments

mean for everyone i had this weekend the opportunity and prim of accompanying 50 of our principles to west lake for the courageous principles professional development i have to say i've also been proud of the leadership in san francisco's public schools leadership is not an easy endeavor yet our principles do it effort leslie we were able to learn the skills and framework for deeply our leadership and looking forward to sharing that as you have more principles and teachers eventually participate in this professional development opportunity i'd like to thank the mayor's office i'd like to thank deallot for participating with us and the department of children youth and the families for making this possible

including our partners with salesforce they have helped us to support this opportunity your investment and leadership as a investment in the leadership of our students this is the first announcement of the year i apologize in advance i'm also proud to say that san francisco unified school district has played its part in the fabric of our city we've reduced our water usage by 43 percent n this november (clapping) so in the fail the san francisco utilities commission calculated how much organizations were using for escaping and november was the first most of the water reduction program they were asking for a 10 percent and we far surpassed that achieved by the landscaping we shortened the

watering time and we also had you nurmsz teachers and administrators across the district work with students on water conservation sfusd staff has made great strives to reduce the water and under the guidance of the stblthd department i want it thank you and sfusd is leading the way in our city and state in terms of the being kind to our environment congratulations students and staff (clapping) and before i pend my remarks this evening i also want to introduce two staff members that are joining our senior leadership team won is someone we already know but tsa has been promoted to our new chief executive officer retro at that are you here (clapping) there you are you are chief

executive officer and who is rightfully and earned the opportunity retire i'd like to welcome to the sfusd family our now technology officer that is going to be joining us ferment in april we're fortunate we stole her away from posting we got melissa dodd as a our chief operating officer melissa is relocating from boston where she's worked for the boston schools and serving as the chief of staff but served as the heave officer in the public schools she'll officially join us in april but been working with us

on our district plan and a our vision 2025 plan and phone call on the information technology so welcome to the city melissa i'm proud to say that melissa have a kindergartener in the public schools back in august (clapping.) so president murase that's my report. >> thank you very much suspect r superintendant carranza the next item on the agenda is the recommendations for the accomodation we have many things to celebrate i want to call on the superintendent to recognize our national board certified

teachers. (clapping.) >> thank you president murase we've enjoyed this meeting of year every year it gets more and more crowded which is a good thing one the goals one day we're going to have to announce our board confident teachers in the moscone center but i want to invite our chief operating office to share with the board certification polls in the continuum in for the educators. >> thank you superintendant carranza and wanting more and more rose congratulations and members and commissioners of the board guests honorees my name is superintendent i'm the chief executive officer for the curriculum inclusive of the leadership the role of the

division and the office of the professional learning to advance the learning in the unified school district and because of the hyper will continue to there having a high performance fault of leaders with the teaching administrator is important there are leadership that support the teachers and administers along with the interims to master teacher to cite administrator and beyond this is our strategy plan our vision 20 with 25 national board certification is a braid that allows the teachers to demonstrate the accomplished teacher and the committee for the process under the leadership of chris and sarah and maggie and others and eric the national board 6th district is a high priority we

courage the teachers to have the national certification so i want to acknowledge them for more than a decade i searched as a site administrator i was fortunate to have national board certified teachers on staff i was left between an impression how exhausted those candidates they were planning their lessons now they have assignment for their board certification but also how proud they were when they completed that year because they gave a you up vacation and they gave up family in a lot of ways and said i'll be with you honey as soon as i'm finished that's huge

because it demonstrates the commitments they have to the profession of education. >> tonight's celebration, however, as much as we celebrate i is not simply recognition of our accomplishment it is much more than that a public call to action but all of us including our families and friends and colleagues as well as those back at our schools it is beginning of a journey for each of you and cause for you to lead in the public transformation and expertise in various capacities to make sure that each student achieves and read for the transition individually and collectively you reflect what is true about the unified school district and the profile of

those who choose to serve the students your commitment and passion and our love for this work b will continue to make sfusd great on behalf of the division of curriculum and instruction we congratulate you and looking forward to continuing to work with you on this next phase of our professional journey congratulations (clapping). >> and now superintendent. >> thank you, president murase just a few comments dr. valentine mentioned those teachers are worked hard most up to 5 hundred hours plus their teaching day analyzing their videos on hair own personal

instruction and rectifying student work and growing their knowledge of the work if you want to think of what it is like i want to invite one to videotape themselves at work and work a full day and watch user do our work and figure out how to do it better it's an incredible amount 6 work over 3 hundred thaefrnz in san francisco unified school district have business owner become board certified this year's class of 38 teachers is the largest yet (clapping.) i'm going to share nor stavenlgz with you while the national average is 3 percent in san francisco unified school district we have 8 percent of our teachers that have national board certification (clapping) we have 38 which our colleagues that have earned the national

where had of certification our north next cohort of teaches is one hundred and 10 when you think about that what that means in san francisco we're the number one per capital per certified teachers in their teacher workforce in the state of california and number 13 in the nation how about a round of applause for our - (clapping) commissioners, i want to recognize the hard work is not unnoticed the national broad support has been completed in a $13,000.00 grant that partnered with washington and new york and kentucky like ken cane and oars and new mexico their team the network to transport is changing the education by growing the nukes of national board certified and looking at san francisco i want to add my

thanks not only to dr. valentine and others for their incredible support but your program coordinators eric lewis and others and i want to thank deborah and kari you've done a wonderful job of growing our program how about a round of applause (clapping.) so dr. murase i'd like to invite you to join me but it is only fitting that we ask the program crossroads to come forward and superintendent we're going to need a bigger room next year so teachers as we call our name come on up

debbie (clapping.) malin paulson (clapping) athena (clapping.) amber cooper (clapping) sarah morlz (clapping.) troy hyatt (clapping) alison