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through the lens of equality and the board adapted as priorities and focusing on our historically disengaged community is a lens we're applying the lens of where are the opportunity to do some good pilot work and preexisting conditions to that endeavor i so want to ask brighten to elaborate. >> as commissioner haney mentioned equality is at for the most part of this initiative to posing to the principles completely let us know you're interested we commit barriers like did devices and funding for a specialistocytes those are were to the barriers to the schools that want to participate we originally intent to allow space for 6 schools to participate and due to overwhelming participation we have 13 on board we are
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expecting to impact 32 percent of our middle school schools that's a huge number of 13 schools those include 3 of the schools this year the current the highest percentage of enrollment of academic students and projection for next year and willie brown and as you can see from the map other than the slide 5 this school is in the middle grades program represents all the parts of san francisco and we're excited to learn the context of those individual can see while throwing a similar process when we pilot the emergency room grades we have interest from the k schools and many elementary school and equality is at the for the most part in marshall it's available for all students. >> thank you very much commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i'm really excited about
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this this is been a lot of work in the making i want to thank you all for being part of this so the superintendent and laura and might have and the mayor had the opportunity to being the sal's on friday to do another pitch our third year of funding in support of four middle grades i think one of the things if resonated for us we started to present this idea we have deny gone so much over a short period of time the technology component of the computer science work is really resonated at an a little while for people it is this is coming our way and really be able to set a foundation for math in bring in computer science and or even how to
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expand this has taken the efforts of a lot of folks and the ripple effects are tremendous not only as a school district but as a city it helps us to be kind of slow and steady and intentional how to implement the fined for the middle grades i appreciate it in all our middle grades we didn't come in and say let's choose a couple or let's think about how we want to do this from a kind of a model that did was not inclusive and i also appreciated that was a division we account still go in we were working with 6 and 7 and 8 grargdz the success of that has been we have to think about you know how to insure our pre k
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through 5 are ready to come in of and so i the intrirmz we've gained from thinking about computer science for our students all those participate in our hour of code we chuckled in the board meeting we thought we were getting devices into the students hands the way in which we rolled it out in the professional development that went for the teachers was incredible important because we weren't saying here go and let's say what happens but instead paying attention to insure that the curriculum that accompanied the tool was appropriate and got rolled out
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properly i think we also over the years and over this last year with our eye labs and the innovation happening across the district p will entrance clay enhance we've been congregating a lot of ideas throughout the district we're the the district it embraces that the way we are and thinking about we have a task force together tool think about how to do this introduction statewide to we can be the innovator and this is a natural part of statewide curriculum i wanted to just address what kevin said earlier in his concerns about making sure that all kids have the opportunity to do this this was you y it is a
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district wide resolution and why we're really this is not about who can who's buying equipment and what schools have it but vesting in computer sciences for all the students so i also wanted to acknowledge an organization like zinc go that partners open the high school end with the game academies and with organizations like education startup that has been helping us on the parent and early ed and how all those pieces are starting to come together and what that means for us one the other things we have been talking about this is coming to a head how to diversity our workforce if you want to change the tech community in terms of diversity our public schools is where s
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you should be investing we're hearing that more and more i wanted to give a shout out to laura and michael and micro and the entire middle grades team jen new and richard and outlines who helped as challenges challenging as it was during moments it really has provides water some incredible opportunity for that the young people i think that this k through 12 is going to open doors for the young people we're looking to doing the salesforce this year i want to encourage all my board members to sign into this resolution we would like to have you as could authorizes and have all the board members to embrace this with the institutional change in
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the district thank you. >> in addition to the staff for all the hard work behind the resolution i want to thank the could authorizes i want to acknowledge two individuals that came to the curriculum committee good years ago on the topic of gorilla and stem and google and an alumni of the college they were punishing the district to be the first to adopt the computer sciences in high school new york adapt as a requirement for their high schools but now we're looking at prek through 12 a bigger broader approach demonstrated a resolution from the thinking two years ago this is an equality issue as public examiners have advanced it is a
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gender issue i really am so excited is that it has potential to bring in more girls into the fold moral young women into the fold when my daughter took a robotics class she was the only student out of 15 it is important we use the gender lens to make sure it is assessable to all girls as well we saw smart phone app generateer that was hosted for 26 middle school and high school students an saturday brainstorm about the apsz it is of the first time they stepped up to the plate inside a tech company i hope there's an experimental
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component unless the skids steps inside the office there's a transformation between young people between being consumers the technology and to be producers their ideas matter they can contribute to the industry this is the excitement that spark and the gaming academy while commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell as acknowledged many people i want to acknowledge her leadership and the mayors leadership and laura marianna and the team for making those connections and building a bridge so we can have faculty member and employee of the teach our acids of kids in pr that class kwiefrt of quite a
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few young women and in terms of the resource question that commissioner wynns asked api i've been a proponent of the 7 component i know in the vision 2024 is it maybe in the interim i'm anxious to see how the school day can be expend we're alexander in march options to kids it is unfair to make kids choose between music and computer language we don't want to force them into those changes i know the superintendent wanted to make a comment before we take a vote and would everyone want to have their name added very good thank you. >> thank you dr. murase so i do very briefly want to
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especially thank bryan astounding here and gym ryan who's not here this evening for their incredible leadership and incredible work on starting to frame out with a prek through 12 if i'm not mistaken if the board approvals that resolution this evening we'll be the first large urban to have a prek through 12 approach to computer science the difference it stark most of the country is talking about coding or an hour of coding hear and there are we're talking about making computer science as part of the curriculum it's a big deal and lots of people are keeping track thank you, brian and gym for their incredible working and thank folks that don't get a lot of recognize
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folks to make sure that the equality epilepsy was in place and the schools identified were schools we wanted to make american people impact doss because they're our middle school team (calling names) and our assistant superintendent of k h they were at the board and writing out the names of the schools to make sure we had a good representation so thank you all fewer comments and considerations i look forward to your vote. >> let's see we're missing two of our colleagues at the moment. >> commissioner fewer as recorded her vote already. >> 5 of us.
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>> all right. ms. casco roll call please. she recorded here vote. >> commissioner fewer as voted mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell. >> ms. norton mr. walton minnesota and dr. murase that's 7 i's. >> thank you clapping. >> thank you very much we move to item j request for general matters he have 3 comment cards and let's see susan andy and reverend brown arrest two minutes each please. >> this is a copy of a letter for us superintendent carranza i only have 7 copy so two of the
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board members will have to share as i think i know there's a lot of controversy another marshall elementary school i am a parent of a daughter that recently graduated a wonderful school you should be proud of it on february 12th we had a meeting we were able to discuss with carranza our concerns of the proposed development next to our school more people that have ever come to any pta meeting that was the first of several meetings however, since then unfortunately, there have been two times what went on was very he misrepresented in
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communication with the parents of marshall school i e-mailed a letter to all the school board members comparing what went out in the flier to marshall parents that was actually said at the meeting i want to address the specific misrepresentations flyers stated the parent and the marshall elementary school stated loud and clear that the district shouldn't southern it's with the impact on the community, in fact, the parent said the opposite you have a summary of the apartment statement it was provides water to you by superintendent carranza some time ago you have it i'll urge you to going back go back and tolerated that marshall parent said that the school the building will have a negative impact on the community
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this year's nothing to provide to the school is out weighs the negative impact on the families it said that parent said they've been intimidated by the activist and no meeting when the calls for speculation is the case i sent is it to you in a detailed letter and urge to go back and read that letter much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi board thank you for giving me a few minutes i'm andy blue here to kind of update you on what the community is doing about we've deemed the monster in the mission the project proposed for 197 will 9 mission adjacent to the school i want to update you on march fourth the
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vendors brought their community package we had 4 hundred people to say their community benefits will not mitigate the negative impact of luxury housing in the neighborhood will have and the message was loud and clear and on may 8th brought one thousand people to city hall people from across the city one of the remarkable presence of the community in city hall that anyone has seen in quite some time and awe you may know on june 2nd another thousand people to city hall asking for more to your memory on luxury priced development in the mission district i want to make it clear the mission district is more united about the mandatory
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priced development is happening in the neighborhood than any issue since they figure out redevelopment in the early 60s and disposing i want to give you a sheet that talks about the coalition i want you to know that the mission district understand the impact that market rate impact is having on the neighborhood they know that two tone story 24 hours of market rate housing next to marshall school drives the displacement of the families that marshall school is serving the mission has lost 8 thousand latinos in the last 10 years you can be hedge fund percent certain that the marshall mission will drive us further thank you. >> thank you very much reverend brown. >> oh, yes superintendent hats remarks before the next speaker.
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>> yes. thank you dr. murase i know it's not customary but give-up the timing of this issue i want to say i want to apologize to the marshall community and the person is correct the notice that went out to the marshall community was the confused with notes from various meetings that i've held here at district offices with various community groups i've had a total of 7 meeting with 7 groups unfortunately the notes that were concise and summarized into the marshall community the answer written as from the meeting at marshall middle school and that those were the wrong notes so i want to apologize to the marshall community assistant superintendent dr. stephen's as
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community i'll be send a corrected communication to the marshall elementary school community and give the appropriate summary of that particular meeting i want to apologize she's absolutely right. >> thank you, mr. superintendant reverend brown. >> thank you madam president and board do and ladies and gentlemen, in 19 hundred 2406 thousand lives were lost in gavl son texas to a terrific hurricane m our times the lost is not that severe because we have systems of warnings
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i come before you this evening as president of the ac p as pastor the bachelorette church for 40 years to issue a positive factual compassionate warning the warning is that if we are not vigilant about african-american mists and teachers are treatment e treated fairly in this school district we shall sweet a terrific hurricane that will destroy all the intentional matters that we
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have advanced regarding doing a better job of the treatment of of african-americans 1970 we had 24 thousand african-american students in this scapegoat and we are all in that loss that's given us a number of 45 hundred we're talking about diversities just recently as the other night i how are you going to be diverse and inclusive if only 45 hundred black students and over 50 thousand total student the prophet is saying i've sit at the gate i've risen objective
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and there are too many wounded spirit of african-americans in this district. >> so let us show we know how to do the right thing we're a flairs city and a flars school district. >> thank you seeing none no further public comment we'll move on to item k advisory committee report appointment to advisory committee any appointments? commissioner wynns >> i want to appoint steve to the citizens advisory committee. >> thank you that's noted we have moved up the advisory committee report we've heard
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already. >> confines made an appointment okay. okay. >> and we heard from the advisory committee so we will move on to item l special order of business i call the public hearing the tentative agreement with the district and the united local 261 immature a motion. >> so moved and second. >> thank you superintendent carranza does it need to read the recommendation into the record. >> i'd like to ask the chief to please read it. >> thank you. superintendent good evening board members the requested item on the tentative agreement between the district and the laborers union local 261
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the requested action that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell community colleges a public hearing and adopts the related public disclosure documents. >> thank you very much there are no public comments supreme court on this item seeing none ms. casco roll call please. ms. fewer mr. haney mentioning ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and dr. murase 7 i's. >> thank you very much. >> dr. murase before we move to the next item he have a question about one item on the consent calendar i'm wondering too sever that for a brief question k-32.
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>> yes. >> thank you. i apologize for missing my opportunity earlier. >> k-32 is severed and discussed under item p. >> all right. the next item is m discussion the other educational issues superintendent carranza. >> thank you dr. murase we're excited to have a short presentation believe me that could be a multi hour presentation (laughter) but important to have it presentation that will update the board and board around the strategy as the central supports through a mechanism we call the might want team of support i'm going to ask the deputy stunt
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for the justice our chief of research and planning and assessment and our executive director for the justice to take us through the presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners two years ago the 2014-2015 impact learning sets a 4 o'clock as we think about how to background map through the profile vision in vision 2024 the document lace out based actions we believe will improve the outcomes for each the 57 thousand students especially so that no school is considered a school of last report if those research space are impacted at all levels of the organization whether the emergency room or school or the central office
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level we believe with the transformation when infected will accelerate the students that have historically been underserved we don't just building it but have evidence in outcomes of our city hall's across neighborhoods and grade spans and cohorts now the school matters in school transformation all of sfusd leaders are committed for the equality and in pursuit their community are setting abolish deliberately applying strategies that constantly reflect on the impacts for students success we refer to as a result of orient
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cycle of inquire or continuous improvement the equality gaps in stanford university is in the narrowly at a suv accelerating pace aside from the work that happens within the school community we believe that the central office plays a role if reversing those trends the way that staff cult elevates and manages the available resources and minors and gages the partners for the core are all key legislators within our atmosphere of influence the leaders to identify the gaps and reflect on the central office leaders are expected to do the same site administrators look at the scorecard that