you're having our students read the resolution. >> i'd like to invite the students to read this officially into the record this record i was invited not resource class at lincoln skrl school that has hundreds percent newcomers a newcomer pathway school awhile i was there they spoke about their concerns and newcomers we co-wrote this resolution together and with them is their teacher ms. morgan wallace thank you. >> so i think we're ready to start a could we start with an official reading of the record into the record so that's great that's fine. >> the name of the resolution

is let me learn it was written by commissioner commissioner fewer and where does the unified school district serve approximately 16 thousand english language learners and now in camsann necessary. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> there are over 3 thousand high school students that are newcomers to this country and now i'll say it in vietnam's. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> whereas it is a goal of the san francisco unified school district to graduate auto students with a high school dilemma and present them in the 21st century in spanish.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> whereas the san francisco san francisco unified school district has adapted the action plan as it's promise to education to the english loernz and now in mandarin. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> whereas in order for english loernz and newcomers must feel welcome now in

tagalog. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> whereas english learns and newcomers should have a feeling of personal power now in spanish. >> (speaking spanish.) >> whereas 2 is important for new comers to feel comfortable with the cultural now in spanish. >> (speaking spanish.) >> whereas english learners and newcomers should have access to education and have an

understanding of the tools in the classroom and . >> therefore, be it resolved that the board of education requests the superintendant to have policy in a pharynx for new comers to access the translation places of business on their person cell phones in the class work and - >> be it therefore resolved that the principals and teachers all newcomers pathway high school be kornld encouraged to lower than hello how are you i can help you welcome what's our name and now in cantonese. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> be it therefore resolved

that the san francisco unified school district will have languages translated into new comers pathways not limited to the main office counseling office and deans office and bathroom and english classes nurse rooms and audience tomorrow's and after-school programs and peers and resources and important outside area and music romance and career centers and computer labs and library now in mandarin.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> further be it resolved this will be immediately implemented and upon approval of those resolutions now in spanish. >> (speaking spanish.) >> thank you very much for the official reading of the resolution i don't have any public speakers

signed up oh i thought the speakers were part of presentation so we didn't have the cards. >> i'll allow 5 minutes but i announced earlier we have to have speaker cards before public comment so, please precede. >> hello i am yes ma'am i came here 9 years ago and currently in abdominal 12 grade senior i like to dance how we chose to topic we came up about how to improve muni we wanted to change to a healthy topic we divided the el students to introduce them so we know their struggles and how it is hard to do you want to this environment we

created this resolution by surf and she helped us to brainstorm before i pass on this thing i want to ask like if you i wanted you to think if you never misunderstood like what my friends said how would you feel to be in their shoes and here's my friend norma. >> hi, i'm norma i was borne and grew up in nicaragua i came here two years ago so i still learning english i enjoy my school choir i have an apartment job in a restaurant and work there gives me an opportunity to talk with at english speakers my goal in this country to be the

first person of my family to go to the university and be a bilingual person me it is important to see how the schools trying to speak different languages than english he can see might have like a mirror and that makes me greater in learning english to make me do it better than them i see they're struggling in trying to speak another language next is my classmate with him will talk about interpreters i grew up in hong kong and come to san francisco it is important we can be as interpreters sometimes i don't know what is guilty or not guilty on in the class i

need phone to help me and also some students might afford a transparency the next one will tall one what happens in the other languages how it is important. >> this will have to be the last speaker. >> i'm len i am from vietnam i place tense from lincoln at first when i was a freshmen in lincoln high school my first day was a topic for me arguing because i didn't know where their places were and i even got late to class that's why i think this is besides a multiply language to find a way to classes and last time for the

new comer people to be less confused to find a way so. >> thank you very much (clapping) thank you to the students of lincoln high school that came to tell the truth today is like to have people talk about the resolution. >> commissioner fewer if i may i've requested a financial analysis on what it costs to implement this resolution and if i may i'll read the responded from mr. david gotten hello sandra that is safe that will cost $60 plus or minus to make a room size to match the size so if there are 10 signs

per school i'll have folks in all the signs thorough four or five high schools can be done for 24 hundred to $3,000 so if any at questions please let me know and have a good weekend that was nice to know thank you. >> mr. haney and ms. norton. >> i first want to say thank you to all the students and to their teacher for bringing this forward it is there are certain things the students see that frustrates you for you to have the courage and leadership to step up and say it should change and write a resolution to change policy that will improve your experiences but hundreds and hundreds of

students to come after you it is an extraordinary thing and testament to our peers and the power to voices in the district for those of you not graduating you'll look for opportunities like this and this is not the last time you'll come forward there are things we don't understand or the school leaders you see everyday and for you to come forward and help us to change it is powerful i hope that is not the last time this happens thank you for coming out and your leadership you've helped a lot of people with this. >> scomploefrn. >> if we can hold the applause until the end commissioner norton and commissioner shamann walton. >> thank you you did a greek good job with the reading and writing the resolution thank you, commissioner fewer. >> i quickly want to ask if -

would inn is there any impact to the language portion of this for encouraging the staff to learn some phrases in other languages. >> mr. superintendant. >> thank you for the question plaintiff attorney the language encourages the staff so there is no direct budgetary impact i think we're looking at some of the it's terrors for the staff it is all encouraging not mandating we don't anticipate any budget concerns. >> commissioner shamann walton my concerns mirror i want to thank the ask the for coming out and having the courage to present this is exciting to see you took a stand and participate in the process to make changes not only in our schools but across the district.

>> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i wanted to commend you for joining us this evening and what a difference it made to have the resolution read by you the students it created generated the resolution and what recessed natsd the most the idea what would it feel like if you were couldn't understand if you couldn't understand what was happening that the classmates i know the challenges are difficult and so this will help us to ease some of the hurdle and we're i'm really glad our doing this commissioner fewer i'll are supporting this tonight. >> commissioner wynns thank you can i just call you morgan sorry but and agree with my colleague

that is a wonderful this was what democracy is about i'm proud of the students to take the initiative i'm interested in the language with the entertains i'm kind of hoping to get an update as we go forward and hear from the students if it makes a difference all of us i presume have been in this position you don't understand what people are saying around you it didn't mean it is not difficult and we are purchase to welcome you here not only to our country but into our unified school district and work with you to make it possible to avail yourselves of the keegsz so thanks very much. >> mr. superintendent. >> thank you dr. murase i want

to did you have what my kindergarten year was like not understanding the language not to scare you but someday you'll be a superintendant thank you mrs. wallace for hard work and our principal of those fine ask the mr. barnaby is here thank you, sir. >> in closing thank you, commissioner fewer for bringing this to the board clearly a strong message behind it and thank you to all the students for coming out tonight and now we'll move to roll call vote ms. casco. >> santa monica commissioner fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton

mr. walton ms. wynns dr. murase 7 i's. >> (clapping) thank you very much. >> the next item on the agenda is item f public comment on consent calendar i have none item g the consent calendar i need a motion and second on the consent calendar. >> move the consent calendar arrest second. >> thank you. >> any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendant. >> superintendant. >> yes. dr. murase two on page 92 should be marked non-retroactive and the dates changed to 2015 and next on page h 90 there the code should be

placed the following words pending 2015-2016 budget approval. >> thank you, mr. steel any items removed for first reading by the board seeing none any items served by the board of superintendant for deduction or vote seeing none, no one oh. >> i'd like to sever k 21 on page 24 and page 16 i'm severing two of the contracts off-street parking one for summer supplemental to talk about the issue you you know there is nothing wrong with those contracts i want to make that clear. >> thank you there will be deduction and vote under section o next item is superintendant proposal held for speaker cards

and action item adaptation of structural materials for the u.s. history this is there is a motion and a second commissioner vice president haney may i have have a curriculum report. >> positive recommendation. >> thank you very much may i have it reading of the resolution by the superintendent or other thank you i'd like to innovative mr. santos for the presentation. >> we have with us a facilitator of the committee a teacher that participated i'd like to have them speak. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendant i'm anna a teacher on special assignment with the social studies we're

here to recommend adaptation for the u.s. history as noted in the report you have the committee followed the process that sfusd has used for many years when if looked at structural materials and makes selections committee was made up of teachers from diverse schools and after reviewing some key information they developed criteria and used that criteria to reevaluated the structural materials it included the content and historical organization through a blind analysis they didn't know what book they were looking at they made the selection. >> david knight will their his information. >> hello. thank you

yes, we went through the process described that was enjoyable and blind we were all experienced ap u.s. history teachers we looked at them with the criteria and the new test given on friday the new framework to see what books fit most with the students we teach and that would address their needs and their success in the course so we were requesting that the board adopts the following structural materials in the placement of u.s. history it is by the people by james w frazier this year thank you, thank you very much i have no speaker cards on this item comments from the board?

>> yes. >> i'm sorry student delegates. >> this was the textbook that was sitting on the - i took this last year and get a four sadly but looked at the it looks more easier to read when you look at it the old one you don't want to read it it didn't look frantically to the students i'm happy it looks nice i've read is it about two months it was thorough very novice. >> thank you commissioner wynns. >> thank you. i want to thank you for all the work i looked at the book today and i have my sort of butterfly in the sand and what i was on the board actually about 20 years i was

did a lot of work with jean wraun and had a lot of meetings with the publishes with the text book we made a pack we're not going to adapt any more chinese history books nonetheless they have the logo and i think we i mean this was a big lesson advocacy and the responsibility of the school board members i have a general question about the general content and question not for you but i think we need the public hearing about what i want to know about the consent it is getting more representative so another school board member didn't have to have a show you down and as teachers

your experience with how those boxes have evolved over time it feels before i was on the board as you recall i don't know if you remember a huge conflict in california about american history textbooks i'll say i want to know the books are heavy really big and heavy i want to know from our staff not the teachers necessarily what we're doing to so that students don't have to log them back and forth in the past we've talked about having a book for all kids to take home so they don't have to carry them home those books are heavy and not the only ones to carry around and related ordinance you know what are we

doing to those materials what about online and kids don't center to carry them they'll be out-of-date anyway and can you tell me how much each book costs ? >> the question each ask the edition is hundred and 37. >> i can maybe address the first question whether there be more diverse we specifically look for that and yeah, we talk about the chinese exclusion act we looked at 3 specific parts this book we are that happy everybody said oh, wow. there's

mexican-american and that's the first time i've seen that included we read a letter he wrote specific to the san francisco unified school district this author really were trying to include perspectives and we recognized that that was one of the materials we picked this one over others. >> appreciate it. >> superintendent. >> then commissioner fewer. >> thank you, dr. murase so commissioner wynns question about the port ability of the book as the violation 2024 and moving forward towards a digital this is one we'll have as we move to the digital context we're preying along with many skbtsdz preying on publishes to make their context more digital

so we don't have to carry around a 7 pound textbook and quite frankly only on a good day but it gives the teachers and publishes the opportunity to update their information and it is not quite there yet but the movement to make that a reality and the good news the district is part of the digital district plan moving towards vision 2025 is rapidly on the cutting-edge. >> presuming we'll do you want those books and will 0 not have to do it again. >> that's more than hope a promise. >> commissioner fewer. >> so it's mined that is common core that is only one piece of the curriculum and all the other stuff supplement the inception

of material is that correct. >> what all history courses including apples to apples the movement is towards the textbook is one resource and teachers should look towards other resources. >> great that's exactly when i wanted to hear when we hear about this i mean u.s. history a fairly long for one textbook i'll hope to see an infusion ever different representing also the struggles and history of the people in the united states and i wanted to mention as a curriculum committee meekly e meeting around the equalities of the u.s. history in the ab history classes that teaching also that going along with that how long you've taught the course and the way you engage

students is a craft that requires time with the trial and error i'm hoping to see schools that have been teaching those courses are pesticide this craft and getting good with passing grades and student engagement is high we'll see a sharing of this resources amongst the schools that are beginning to build their app program that distribution is equitable i want to make that comment i know you've heard it but for the listening public thank you very much. >> seeing no other cards i'd like to say i was in a conference room with ms. wynns looking at the materials i want to thank all the members of the staff that