the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for january 27, 2015, is now called to order roll call vote. >> thank you, president fewer i'm here. >> mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton dr. murase miss son at and mr. sartipi thank you please join necessary 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 very much we are now on approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of january 13, 2015, may i have another motion and second. >> move to the adaptation felt minutes. >> thank you any corrections to the minutes roll call. >> ms. sonata mr. chin commissioner fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton and dr. murase 6 i's. >> thank you before i call the next item i'd like to remind members of the public if by the wish to address the board of education complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present to the

assistant speaker cards will not be accepted for an item before the board please get our card in and next the presentation inform the board of education superintendent carranza. >> good evening, everyone boone notches so yesterday, i had the honor of convening with mayor ed lee and our ceo of the foundation fred blackwell on the submitted on men and boys of color those are our children of color launched but the city and the san francisco unified school district into the my brothers keepers challenge we defined what that will be as a difference set of stakeholders in san francisco and have a clear understanding the data strategies while understanding the need for alignment and took

our first steps for the aligned areas i'm very, very happen that a group of over one hundred stakeholders heard from supervisor cohen and from mayor ed lee and from mr. also from mr. blackwell and myself and had the opportunity to talk about head talks about conversations that are built around the life course challenges for the men and young boys and girls of color we discussions our next steps i want share with the community not just a reaction to the president obama's call but a system tisk goal we're working hard with the city partners and in conjunction with the city family to make a reality so look forward to share more information with the community

in that regard this ego ladies and gentlemen, as part of our commitment to this endeavor we conducted a national search we've been unvfbl to close the gop gap i'm proud to say we've hired a special assistant for african-american assistant that reports to the instructor of the schools i'm happen this evening to introduce him to our community his name a mr. dick i didn't i'm proud to say he's a product of the san francisco unified school district where he was a student and a at lake shore and he's a graduate of lowell high school gone on to get a bachelor's degree at harvard and worked as a special education teacher in the bronx

and coming home to work with our community i want to ask mr. dick i didn't to please rise and please join me in welcoming him to sfusd (clapping.) i'm so 0 proud to say he's one of our own and we're proud of the work he's going to lead we sent the press release out and have an energetically interaction with him welcome awe b.a. board i'd like to mention january is the mentoring month with our permission to recognize the remarkablyment program question have in our backyard in the san francisco unified school district mentor for success program loving known as ms f the success

program offers a robust structure that nurtures the riderships for 6 hundred and 50 students over 3 did of our schools we have 5 hundred and 80 adult members 5 hundred and 80 adult members with your permission i'd like to make a special recognition for their extraordinary commitment recognize kathy who is one of our school nurses and ms. flores for the martin luther king jr. school and kim anderson at fund-raiser mount and michael moore a special education teacher and roxanne a speech therapist and barry with the visitacion valley middle school and andrea han of scapegoat

nurse mentor like these are making a difference 45 percent of the folks improved and elementary school with the adults and children are important so on behalf of the board i'd like to thank our mentorsers aaron and finally invite the mentors and want to be mentor to our mentor recognize event at precisely 144 taylor street in san francisco this will take place on january 29th in san francisco so just two quick additional items in addition to all the

wonderful mentors we have tech professionals in your unified school district classrooms as volunteers they're helping to prepare the students by supporting our computer science teachers it's been going to well our school district wants the desire for having r go volunteers in all our scientific classes and the concepts using job script an industry wide programming laundering or language for technical and education schools i want to thank all the volunteers who support our children inside the classrooms finally, i'd like to remind our school opportunity u community that mark 7 will be the balance scorecard balance summit and more information will be forthcoming the work your

school district and schools are doing will come together when we have this plan with that i want to say everyone happy february and thank you for being here this evening. >> thank you item c recognized and moomsz as thank you commissioner president murase i'd like to call on principle jennifer who's the principle at the elementary school to please come forward for the award for one of our teachers nancy. >> hi good evening board and superintendent i'm pleased to come here to present this award to a wonderful wonderful teacher ms. nancy hawkins she's

humble but nancy is an incredible teachers readers workshop is on fire kids love it and parents are thrilled with the communication in the classroom she put they are heart and soul in everything she was is the cooperated at el rod and i believe that the work with wrap around services she brings with every fiber to her classroom she's a true joy to work with one of the first teachers to come over to my house to plan the pd and push colleagues as well as the students so i'm very, very pleased to recognize nancy hawkins for this great award

(clapping). >> i'll just say thank you for this lovely opportunity its my 30th year in 70 san francisco unified school district i started (clapping) teaching third grad at el dorado the ferry probably have been through about a thousand hours of staff development so it all paid off and i'm very grateful to be honored i want to say i work with great people and be proud of all the teachers in san francisco inch not seen a dedicated group of professionals that work so hard so thank you, very much. (clapping.) thank you ms. hawkins i have to

share when i congratulated one of the best things about this program you're at the beginning of the meeting to you have a chance to exit early she said great i have papers to grade laura the service ward the superintendent to come forward and make the award. >> good evening, commissioners it's my privilege to recognize leslie garner for the specialized service award in her role as executive director for the umbrella central office we refer to as ii s j or specially social just the first school year i've worked with leslie and other key district leaders she's

the opportunity to bring coordination and making sure we're driving key implementation work in our school district i be i recognize and appreciate what the district leader would nominated her for this award described quote/unquote she's a key engineer as many of the organizational and communication skills are outstanding she's able to produce amazing results because of her communication skills and further adjectives that folks use that are extremely dedicated leslie is highly organized and best of all she seems to do it with a positive attitude it's this kind of strong work ethic we appreciate with the range of effort more recently our commissioners had an opportunity

hear about the innovation work i'm proud to recognize leslie for her contributions as the impact learning and impacting lives thank you (clapping). >> thank you everyone i just want to say the folks i get the opportunity to work with mucks that meaningful i'm here because of the great work from the amazing comments in the audience and rock star superintendent is he supportive of the work in the board of education and just thank you so much it's all our work that impacts this thank

you. >> (clapping.) >> oh very nice. >> you thank you very much. (clapping.) >> congratulations to nancy hawkins and leslie garner anyone what nominate and you can find the information on the website the next item is d student delegates report from the student delegates thank you commissioner president murase. >> yeah. good evening mmissioner president murase and superintendent carranza and commissioners and deputy instructor so last night we have the student nutrition department for the f ac last night to taste some food that we might have at

the you youth summit the 12th citizens advisory committee youth summit will be mark 6, 2015 from 9:30 to 3:30 if the presidio the student leadership will have workshops and inspiring workshops and entertainment and lunch is provided i hope all the commissioners can come the sfusd health department fir thank ms. lopez and mr. eric mar is from the sfusd student health education program to help us collaborate and next the out task force meeting the s ac c committee operating our next

meeting is february 5th from 5 to 6:30 thank you okay. as a followup in the last year's resolution the sat soot it engaged in curving tobacco in the youth program presented to the fac the opportunity to engage in the under sales of tobacco i want to thank mr. truit for helping providing us with those uniforms (clapping) so this uniform is for the youth leadership that is the citizens advisory committee and so our next fac meeting is on monday february 9, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. the fac is a public council anyone is welcome to come as an added incentive all meals will

be provide if you want to attend or like a copy of our agenda please contact our fac corridor salvador lopez our sorry okay that's it. >> thank you very much next item on the just a minute is e parent citizens advisory committee report no page report i'd like to take out of order at this point section k the citizens advisory committee report from the education report is there any objection if not i'd like to invite the indian education program to present.

>> good evening instructor and board members thank you for this opportunity for us to give our yearly presentation for the indian education program so we are packed members for the indian education program the indian education title vii supports the unique and can rememberly academic needs for the students in the san

francisco unified school district and i'm going to introduce ourselves i'm michelle and have one daughter who attend google academy of science and technical. >> hi good evening my name is sorry hi, good evening. i'm margaret i'm a third generation title vii family member in the san francisco unified school district i i am an enrolled member i have two daughters my oldest is in private school 12 years old in 6th grade and my youngest is in kindergarten good evening, everybody i'm melanie gordon i'm a third

generation family involved with the title vii indian education program my children represent marina middle school and a fourth gardener at sanchez school. >> so the foundation of our program is knowledge cultural and pride some of the part of our program that we offer for our community is weekly academic support with after school tutoring this is critical for the academic success we also offer monthly family night for writing to connect the students and community members we also a critical piece of our programs families are able to come together at least once a month

to connect in a safe place that promotes education and cultural needs for our students to offer the tours we've been uc berkley and davis and there's other students that are successfully achieving they're higher education we also have an annual event at the end of the school year an annual moving forward i believe that some of the folks are attend this event which we close out the school year honoring our rldz and students that happens at the end of the year and offer a summary science program some of the services we offer for our services k through 12 to help connect the district to help

connect our community with the skilled community we also offer port to families provide direct support to the connection of the resources one of the newer services that we offer our community is a drop in hours i'm sure you're aware of we have a permanent location at san she is we're able to offer that to our community they can drop in another certain times and access computers we have a food bank so they're able to assess that in our program we have a consultant myself 0 who works 10 hours a week primarily with the high school students timed also the indian education program is 0 on to the american

indians across the strict 2013-2014 we served 23 students and received sorry and 34 received one to one support some of the services that state includes is you tutoring and sf p meeting and have mentoring and we focus on schools with the highest american students and offering one-on-one stewart for students performing below proficiency we're reaching out to the students most at risk and on a case by case basis we collaborate with are one of the 3 indian organizations in san francisco and collaborate with the agency the health center is one and the health

program history of our students we serve what i really want to point out on the graph you'll see in the school year 2010 to 2011 we had a student count of one hundred and 7 and then most recently, the school year one count of one hundred and 45 students as you can see this is a growing our student number is growing and we feel we have a permanent location that our numbers will be growing further now we have our own location to work out of and outreach to the rest of the students so our overall graduation rate when i want to point out as well with our program it reflect there is a upward trend in our

graduations rate for the american indian students this shows our program is helping the community and ems we have one of the highest drop-out rates this is another important point to keep our students in school and help them succeed and go on to higher education. >> okay. i'm going to jump into the california department of education data and i'm going to jump into on top the discrepancies with the data and san francisco unified school district we support two-hundred and 17 counts for 2014-2015 this is where we can use your help insuring wire tracking american indian

students as well as they walk into the doors having educating the sfusd about 506 forms how many have you seen this this have you seen this form this is our 506 form this is which we hope to have available at the sfusd office one hundred percent of the federal funding is dependent on it is required to be filed out that by the eligible students my own experience in 2013 with my i did not know it daughter in her kindergarten no one knew about this it was hard to locate

until i found out oh i had it and someone was able to get it to me - teachers staff here at the ac office definitely we need to help to educate the sfusd that it's there we feel we can really reach outreach our students better if this form is available at the e pc office to reach them as soon as they walk into the door of the district so we can work with them. >> so top priority those are the parent visa cardsy committee requests to the

district so clarify just to number one amend enrollment form to capture all the students to identify their alaskan students students affiliation and the culture linguistic students that are top quota their top language and then again train the e pc the center of to train them to make sure they're aware that the indian education program is there and has the 506 form that goes along with it

our greatest need is to increase tutoring roadway two days a week our art students that's a priority that they get their they learn and have a tutor if they need help to get a tutor everyday if we had this available personally my kids with take advantage of it and then additional port for the indian education program that office can't be on everyday so we would like to have it available for the parents who need maybe they're working they need to come in in the morning or afternoon it will be beneficial to have the staff