return to their academic learn they need a physical space to cool down a space for support staff be is social workers or teachers that help them through social and emotional healing to return to the classroom please support this in the long run we all benefit. >> i'm the charter president of the 10 to one my mom was a special ed teacher in if if her role was to be a crisis teacher which is managing steak this kind of out of classroom space i've heard stories over the years how important this is to especially students that have particular trauma experiences are who are dealing with things

overwhelming and difficult to deal with in the clamor environmentalist environment so having a quote separate space so for one-on-one times with the staff to help you through those situations is a really effective strategy for restrag students to make sure they don't sit with the secretarys who are fewer and fewer over time as you recall and continue learning thank you. >> hello, i'm neil a member of a lion's the community and arts and but most of all i'm a parent here in san francisco and after listening to those children talk about the problems they go through nothing i can say to do better i think in

every clamor we need a paraprofessional to help the children and also when you send a child out of a classroom they need to have somewhere to go we want to send a child to another classroom and number 3 when the schools you're confronted with parents you're not only there to help it child learner you should be there to help that parent so they can help the child to put children through school and give us a better education to do better in the world. >> hello, i'm doorwaycy i teach first grade i want to as a say clearly i speak for all teachers we absolutely speak this which

were shouldn't be suspend from school because of behavorial problems, however safety maybe an issue or the lesson is disrupted for that students and the rest of the students in the class so the idea of a paraprofessional is definitely essential students are acting out are crying out for help you can't also give that child did hope help so they'll act out to get my attention so having a paraprofessional or to me to whisper in their area and talk about how they can take a break and handle their anger is seeshlt now, however sometimes that doesn't work and throwing they need to be out of the classroom we need to put them someplace not next to the secretary and not at home

finally one more thing i'm lucky to have supportive parents that respond well when i call them we need to have more of an engagement plan for the parents at our site not wait for the ss t to get the parents in to discuss their children's needs. >> thank you very much. >> good evening i'm kevin i work as an advocate for the children youth with the close the gap if the downtown high school a lot of the works e work is centered after a budgetedy way to support the schools resolution and the students and families and staff needs additional resources to help the school district to reach all the children support we want to echo the comments to commitments to the families and staff we need to have paraprofessionals in downtown high school and especially like

the students and families at downtown high school we need more family engagement that is what helps the parent and students and staff working together to make a clear vision and making sure all students are successful. >> tech sf. >> i'm mildred a parent organizer at cul-de-sack man advocates i want to reiterate it is extremely important that our children are educate it is extremely important they have the resources they need that will absolutely close the gap resources academic successes and teachers that understand our children culturally. >> parents culturally and welcome our parents to be become a strong engaging community in the children's education if the

community and their social and physical development and again, we do absolutely need paraprofessionals to help us i'm very much in support of teachers my mom was a teacher for 40 years if you support your teachers and take care of our teachers i'm absolutely structuring sure they'll take care of our children and communities thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping.) good evening. i'm norma's a special education teacher he access to the power having oath educator in the classroom it is the best practice for all our students numbers regarding the suspensions didn't speak to what we are doing to prevent the suspensions - what is power is

another trusted adult educator in the classroom not only to take them out but as a way to insure they continue to be involved in the education learning in that class. >> at the>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm john with ace and parent of two children of two different schools and with the close the gap coalition i think you know you all went through a el cap process to hear from the community and whole set of priorities and close the gap coalition guess is a similar program with the students and parents and stakeholders how to as one the high school speakers said this is about how to priority railways intents allocations in the classroom and build support you've heard your

priorities around the par postal service and alternative a spaces so for children to have a place to go and family engagement plan it fits in with our parent advisory committee is getting the district to listen to what the community is saying have real transparent and focus on community-based schools that's what we're supporting and hope you'll support those priorities. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendant i'm susan solomon the executive director of the united educators of san francisco you've heard what the previous speakers should had to say i couldn't have said that better it is really been a wonderful powerful and beautiful thing to be working with close the gallop because we have all the stakeholders the parents and

students and community-based organizations and community organizations working together we work on our different projects but the one thing in common is how do we help our students succeed and how do we use the loophole formula and the accountability plan to make that work those are suggestions how to make the best use of the resources we fought so hard through proposition thirty thank you very much. >> thank you, ms. solomon that includes the item j we'll move to k the citizens advisory committee 5 board members any advisory committee appointments seeing none, we'll move on to l special order of business no one

tonight and item m i am sorry to superintendent carranza. >> thank you, dr. murase. >> i'd like to ask our chief of the fund strategy laura moran to please cord i'd like to remind the board and speak to the public there's a new era in the san francisco public schools as we've become clear about the priorities of the district our vision 2025 what we've identified in the community and working closely with not only the municipal government our mayor's office and the community-based organizations around identifying what it is that we want to see for our students in the community the big equality gap is in our schools that some schools have the wherewith all to do targeted

fundraising and others don't what you see a desperate amount of funds this is a conversation we think as we've gotten clear as the superintendant in the 3 years i've had the honor of being the superintendant the community is rallying around the scapegoat and the public schools in san francisco is to the point there are large enauthentic organizations and corps that want to help with the identification of the issues in san francisco with that said we have an exciting presentation brief presentation but i think very very important presentation and milestone for our district i'm going to take the puncture from laura please share with us the next part of the district history that is spark sf public schools. >> thank you superintendent

carranza and thank you board members this is really a very brief process report on our fundraising structure campaign and something we've been working on together as the board and leadership team for that the past couple of years and ass as you recall and there's a handout for the board members and also the people in the audience as you recall one the things we've talked about as we did our vision and engaged in the community dialog how to transform education we talked about the need to build our financial social and political capital to achieve this vision we cannot do it alone i'm proud of how all of you have worked

with us and our partners to engage people and build the coalition to help us achieve the coalition as you recall we had the breakfast in the san francisco and shared our fundraising priorities i'm sure you're aware of all the campaign priorities center around the strategy plan that's our strategies for squeak and 2025 a new profile a new success profile that will help them in san francisco and the four are spark learn this as sub categories around earliestcy aids the digital district stem and our college and career readyness we've done a good job of raising money for the middle

school we're wrapping the fundraising to wrap up outfitted to achieve the promises to our families the spark wellness is done amazing work with the nutrition services and the whole redesign as well as the number of another initiative led by superintendent trout and the spark coalitions well within hope sf and the neighborhoods our new itself edition is my brothers and sisters keeper and doing well already right out the gate bringing funders with the partners and tell all our seniors graduate it is really hemisphere to have the priorities we can bring folks together around so, now we're

ready to feinstein launch our own co 13 we've had a lot of conversations about the pros and cons first spectacular you public schools that is a vehicle it is purpose to stand the private philanthropic investment with the in time board which and vehicle to allow more direct involvement i'm sure you're aware of with the strong leadership of all of you and the superintendant many folks have said we want to fund with you dribble we like working with you and trust how your managing the results but a number of organizations have a approximate and having a 5703 c-3 in

investing directly is helpful the board of directors to sort add like the board of education and we'll talk about that the roles in a minute and the staffing of this will be the activities will be executed by our strategy and fundamental team that is in the superintendants office and, of course, why we need it we don't have to remind anyone in this audience about the lack of fund in the public educations and with more fund coming available with the philanthropic folks allows us the leeway in the literacy where we have a plan and expand more quickly to more schools or innovating with next practices we want to shift towards the graduating graduate profile the model people have

asked why do you want to do this this is like other 501-c 1921 what we like instead of out is ours, if you will, our function we want to do as many higher ed organizations for example go sf in our backyard they have their own office next to the office of the president and they report to the superintendant it reduces overhead costs and aligned to the universities goals and mission we feel we're on solid ground of modeling this after the higher education but we want to be clear about is how do we have long-standing and new partnership organizations in nonprofits role united airlines and collaborating we have a

long-standing partnerships are the ed fund with volunteers and new executive director that works closely and partnered with sf city around circle the schools and bringing smaller tech companies in and long relationship with the san francisco annunciations foundation and now the chamber of commerce organization want to work with us to support our schools those folks had been either directly on our board or advisory to the board the stark sf public schools allows us to have a coordinating table to look at how our work comes together around our priorities and the sf ed fund works a volunteer program and program at our school days and work with the chamber of commerce and the

invited sf and tremendous support from the mayor's office and the city hall i wanted to clarify and this is something that some of the partners asked you, we saw as a primary responsibility of those partner organizations and how they will continue to partner with us we're saying as i go back to this slow down we want to facilitate the multiple pathways in ways they're most comfortable but we want to formula first year formalized the raised and then quickly i want to show you the complimentary roles, if you will of the board of education and the board of directors we see the board of directors as people that will be champions for investing folks that are deeply invested you know through their roles in the

organization they have or individual donors ambassador people that shape air campaigns and goals hawked meeting and help us to help the annual fundraising events as organizations do and they will be helping you think i us to bring more people to the table getting the word out about the great work and review the annual audits for the other to increase furnished confidence and our board is still helping with the policy and leadership we continue to work with the board to promote the benefits of investing in sfusd and want to partner with you to make sure that the furnished are into our portfolio are aligned to our vision and values and that is afforded to everyone i've spoken to you know from teachers to

principals to all of you on the board and help us to conduct the funders on the impact of the investment so this positive story is getting told and those are the benefits sort of. >> summary so when people ask what it the benefits of having the 501-c 3 we want to reduce the costs and the middleman as much as possible to and then the entrants and integrate them into the work of our district and that is what we believe the 501-c that allows us to do and again, the fund development office has 5 major goals we are be reporting to the superintendant but service technical to the 501-c 3 we'll not need to hire more staff and the budget and finance and legal

just as we do with the current grants we'll provide that technical support for the funded and then a quick timeline one of the things we would like to do is just get final feedback from all of you we'll be the superintendant will be appointed a board of directors many you, you have given us names and the legal department does the initial filing we need to recruit and orient the board of directors and hold the meeting and have them dot bylaws and i on the day the new board of directors approvals those because of these we wait for the irs but all the folks giving to us will be considered

retroactive to that date hoping to get done in june to move forward with folks that want to invest that's our report i wanted to see if there are feedback questions or comments to help us in the final stages thank you. >> commissioners as you make our way back i want to thank laura from the presentation and look forward to your feedback i want to remind the board we've come a long way baby as the old advisement use to say when the duties on a gentleman's plate and we are that juggling to try to manage the grant and opportunities for grants and the board was very clear about we wanted to make sure that we had a much more firm footprint in terms of how we're krut so he

has a whole take place we have a development office the good news is that sfusd has a brand in terms of the philanthropic community and the renaissance the work is existing we've met today with a large potential furnished that is very interested many my brothers and sisters keeper streaming we're championing in san francisco that is different from what is happening in communities elsewhere it is strategic and including the community organizations in a deep integrated way that is one of many examples we can point to notwithstanding with the salesforce a third year in a row that is at capacity a number of organizations we've met with that one gobble is through their

balling or other policy in the organization at the can't donate directly in a publicly governmental agency unfortunately, we are we're a bureaucracy sometimes that allows people to make directly investments into the where had we've established and the last thing i'll say the seat change is become that 6 years ago when i came to san francisco and we were having those conversations with the people in the community business and philanthropic organizations, etc. everyone wanted to work with the middleman we'll work with the middleman to support it the sea change anyone wants to work with the middleman they believe in

the district kudos to the board we look forward to your feedback that is really an existing time for us. >> thank you very much for that presentation i really do want to acknowledge the tremendous effort that ms. moran has put into this this is her focus on this area and i wanted to acknowledge the support of mayor ed lee and in particular ms. mendoza-mcdonnell for working together ms. moran and her team to do a lot of the work to make sure that we are earning a lot of support from our community and business partners i'd like to questions or comments i'm sorry no public comment cards. >> ms. wynns and . >> i want to thank you for this and all the work you've done i want to point out to everybody

this is something that is - we're not only we but everyone is invent now ways to support the public agencies and you know we've had some fits and starts i know but i think everybody has i think we're way ahead and all the foundation work we've done all the discussions the fact we'll have clearly articulated in our vision what we mean by working with private partners all of that is for the good so i'm very supportive i think that is a great idea the next thing to work with the private board of this entity which is really private mechanism that is part

of the psychopath and i'll have to disagree is it not unfortunate we're on public agency that is a good thing but the necessities that the private support for public activities especially those as important as what we do is actually, one of the components of getting adequate fund for the important work that is done so i'm very happy about this i appreciate we've had a chance to be given input as the development went along and what i was talking about to the superintendant on monday we it occurred to me even though this is actual name the component of our private support i think the concept and the vision of this conjured up of

circling the school is exactly what we flowed is people around us supporting the work we do so i actually don't have any questions about this i just want to express my thanks and support thank you. >> commissioner walton. >> thank you commissioner president murase and thank you you and your team ms. moran you've done a good job and we've talked about increasing the revenue for the district i believe this is an effective strategy and it is good for flexibility and innovation as well and for what i hope we'll utilizes to address the internet we use across the district in particular schools and i can when the correct focus and attention were going to hear me use that work intention outlet we'll change things in the

district for the better so just the last thing i want to say is that as we're looking at to put the that his together in terms of who is going to serve and how we're going to move this forward in terms of the board and what it is going to look like intentional making sure that we've had those conversations not ethnicity wise but cross disciplines in the work with the board members had participate in the skills to increase the resources in the district. >> commissioner vice president haney. >> thank you commissioner president murase. >> thank you, laura for the way you've engaged with the board we've had a number of conversations as the structure was put together as we thought about the