>> this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. the meeting is now called to order. >> thank you. [roll call]

>> thank you. and i just wanted to be the first to officially welcome our newest commissioner. we are excited to have him. we attended the beautiful ceremony that the mayor appointed commissioner at jordan high school. so, to welcome him and in honor of ms. jordan, i am going to open the meeting with a quote from her, where she said to tell the truth is to become beautiful. section a is accessibility information for the public, section b opening items. can i have a motion and second

for approval of the october 9th board meeting minutes. thank you. as a reminder, speaker cards for the regular meeting. okay. roll call please. [roll call] >> that's four ayes. >> thank you, speaker cards, if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to the executive assistant and importantly according to board rules and procedures, speaking cards will

not be accepted for an item already before the board. superintendent report, dr. matthews. >> thank you president cook. good evening everyone. october is national principals month. i would like to take this opportunity to thank all our hard working and dedicated site leaders here in the san francisco unified school district. let's give them a big round of applause. principals and assistant principals. [applause] >> everyday, our principals and assistant principals go above and beyond for their students, parents, and colleagues, we thank you for all you do. i'm pleased to announce this year's winning schools have been selected for the impact and innovation awards. you may not be aware that q.t.e.a., the quality teacher education act of 2008 included a component for san francisco unified to recognize, celebrate,

and promote exwork at our site. both sharing our vision of equity and serving all students. the impact awards invites schools to submit a promising idea or plan and secure funding to bring that plan to fruition. this year it will fund 8 schools for work ranging from summer literacy, to improving inclusive practices. the innovation awards invite schools to bring forth an equity challenge and then engage in a design process to find an effective solution to that challenge. this year, 15 schools have been invited to engage in the design process to meet critical challenges ranging from african-american boys literacy to designing 21st century forms of learning.

they will look at how it will help their students realize one or more of the competency of the profiles. congratulations to the 20 schools that secured one of these awards, but also to the 40 plus applicants for one of these opportunities. there are more great ideas that we have funding for, but we encourage every site to push for the creativity and inagain knewty that we saw submitted. go to the district web page to see the list of this year's award dees and information about their projects. public safety officials and i joined san francisco students at bryant elementary cool for the 10th anniversary of the statewide earthquake drill last thursday, october 18th. millions of people worldwide practiced how to drop, cover, and hold on.

during that drill, and that practice began in california in 2008. the purpose of the shakeout drill is to practice and prepare for knowing what to do during, before, and after an earthquake, and to get our homes, workplaces and schools ready for any type of emergency. all of the schools in the district participated. this past saturday, i had the pleasure of attending the 8th annual black family day. the theme was the future starts now and it was held at the mclaren conference center. this event is a partnership between my brothers and sisters keeper initiative and our direct and is designed to up lift families, provide parents with opportunities to help, and support the students academically and engage students to support them inside and outside the classroom. the event was free, and food was

provided to the families in attendance. thanks to everyone that helped put this event together. if you are looking for preschool options in your neighborhood and are interested in learning more about financial aid for preschool, please come to the san francisco preschool fair, held from 6 to 8:00 p.m. this event will be a fun opportunity for parents to meet a diverse array of family child care and center based preschool providers. the event is free to the public, and will include free food and kids play zone. register now at sfpreschoolfair 18.eventbrite.com. all san francisco unified schools and offices will be closed monday november 12th in observance of veterans day.

that concludes my announcements. >> okay, thank you dr. matthews. number 3, student delegate report. >> thank you president cook. good evening everyone. last week at our meeting, we presented on professionalism and social media responsibility. most of our student leaders engage with adult allies and peers, it is always important to maintain integrity and conduct ourselves in a respectful and responsible way. thank you presenters. >> at our next meeting we will be talking about the opening of the new mission bay campus. we look forward to providing student voice for this committee. the next week at our meeting we will be in the boardroom. we want to thank christy and laura. >> to support our traditional

student with the administrative help of completing college applications. miss mary will have a workshop on saturday, november 3rd, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at george washington high school. it helps bridge the gap between students in need. we hope we can help a ton of seniors take advantage of this opportunity this saturday. free lunch is provided. thank you presenter. >> to give students networking opportunities, in order to provide engagement opportunities for our peers. this year, the mayor's office will conduct a presentation at our council on a way to capitalize on employment and networking opportunities. this meeting is on monday, october 29th at 5:30 p.m. thank you to alice washington.

>> all right, our next meeting will be on october 29th in the board of education room. a public council and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. if you would like to attend, make a presentation, or like a copy of our up and coming agenda, please conduct our supervis supervis supervisor mr. salvador. >> thank you student delegates. number 5, recognizing all valuable employees, superintendent matthews. >> thank you president cook. tonight we have the opportunity to recognize two of our valuable employees. the first distinguish award will be presented by the acting principal at rooftop burnett

campus, james dent. mr. dent. >> also known as doug dent, i'm back. [laughter] >> i have the distinct pleasure after being at rooftop for just the last 10 days, to introduce someone who has welcomed me beginning in july when i first started to work me into that role. joel. let me read from the nominee. when there are seemingly high levels of stress in and around his space, joel does an

exemplary job of ignoring the chaos and focuses on his task. he's like an octopus. he seems to have eight arms with 64 fingers, taking big care of everything. he is super friendly, positive, and upbeat. he is not only a colleague, but a good friend. joel. [applause] >> step forward.

>> the next rave award winner is a special service award and this award will be presented by the principal of willie brown middle school, charleston brown. [applause] >> hello, all right. hello everyone. it's a nice turnout for a board meeting. [laughter] >> i'm here to talk about

mr. robertson, he is our robotics teacher at the school. he does everything you can ask as a principal and everything that a parent would like for their schoolteacher to do for their child. he leaves his room open for students after school, he stays well beyond work hours, he is a member of the instructional leadership team, he is a member of the leadership team, he has innovative ideas, a great support, i don't think the school would be in the current place where it is, if it wasn't for he and several others of the founding teachers, and i would like to let you know that we appreciate you mr. robertson. [cheering and applause] >> i'll be very quick, all right. i want to thank everybody for taking the time to recognize

this work at this moment, but i want to say this represents just one small piece of the amazing work that's happening throughout willie brown middle school and every classroom. thank you. [applause] [applause]

>> congratulations again to our rave award recipients. number 6, advisory committee reports and appointments by board members. the first report is from the african-american parent advisory. if you would join us. [applause]

>> good evening president cook, commissioners, student delegates, legal team, and everybody else up there. thank you to the audience for joining us tonight. i'm latisha, you're going to hear our annual report. we're super excited for the opportunity to offer that to you. i'm going to do two things before the clock starts. i want to shout out the amazing leaders that are sitting before you. we have some dads in the building, but i just want to make sure that the three ladies you see there in front, are part of our leadership team and they have been carrying this work beyond the monthly meetings and thursday plannings. they're working in their school sites and keeping black families at the center. a shout-out to them. [applause] >> we also want to give some

recognition to our site based aapac or an administrator at your site, raise your hand. awesome. [applaus [applause] >> tonight you're going to have an opportunity to hear from some of our site based aapac and the wonderful work that's going on at their schools. next slide please. we have this cool video but the sound isn't working. it's breaking news from cnn that says black excellence is at an all time high. in case you didn't know -- [applause] >> or if you forgot, black families and students are brilliant. they're doing amazing things, so it's breaking news for you all who didn't know, but for the rest of us, let's just clap it up for the great work of our families. [applause] >> i am now going to turn it

over to these amazing leaders who are sitting before you and following them our site based aapacs will come up. thank you. >> listen, educate, advocate, the mission of aapac. we aim to listen to the voices and experiences of our families, educate one another on resources, policies, programs, and tools to promote academic achievement of our students and finally we advocate to ensure that our students and families have a high quality experience. the journey, as you can see, aapac has been busy over the past six years. here is just a snapshot of our effort. last school year, we held five general aapac meetings, among

many other events and family engagement opportunities. our meetings alone engage over 65 families of african-american students. we have ensured that school sites have the tools to celebrate and bring awareness to african-american 365 days a year and we have maintained commitment to making sure that our students have books in their homes and public spaces to reflect them. >> where we are headed. this school year we are focusing on literacy. we have held two aapac gatherings so far and already surpassed our total number of families engaged in the monthly meetings. we have served 68 families of african-american students in two

meetings. we will continue advocating that they all have cultural availability and bias training and the new student assignment policy is transparent, community informed, and meets the needs of all students and families at sfusd. >> a different year, but the same challenges. we want to take this time to highlight some of the challenges that african-american students and families continue to face in sfusd. we presented this exact same slide last year during our annual presentation and as you can see, only three things have changed for the better, and those are noted with a strike through. we continue to hear on aapac e-mails and at our gatherings, that despite our increased

engagement, our partnering with school sites, and partnering with the central office, black families are still being mistreated. aapac leaders, every last one of us sitting here today are struggling with the pushout of our children, false narratives of who we are and flat out discrimination. maybe our awareness of these issues have grown, or that there really has been an increase in the number of families not feeling respected, not feeling heard, or not feeling supported by sfusd schools. also, according to the summary and the presentation last year, that staff are not opting to use bias training as a preventative measure, but deescalation training, which is reactive.

on a positive note, the strike through represents areas where we see improvement. the buzz is out about aapac and schools are doing a better job of informing families, asking to be included on the e-mail inserts, and distributing aapac materials. also, the way students are celebrating black history has doubled. thank you for the curriculum and instruction team and the ali department for working our greater implementation of ethnic studies and reflecting the ri richness of our history, including african-american women heritage courses. >> commitment to partnership. we know that to solve many of the challenges that sfusd face,

we have to work together in partnership and proving black student achievement, and the ways that educators educate black students in this direct cannot happen without the support of their families. as mentioned before, we the parents of african-american students in sfusd want a seat at the table. thank you to the many partners and the community. here is the running list of some, but there are so many more, and we would like to thank you. >> so our aapac and family affinity group. along with our central office and community partners, we're seeing a rise in our site based partners and affinity groups. there are over 20 identified site based groups serving african-american families. [applause]

>> according to latisha the parent advisory council coordina coordinator, there are several schools reaching out for support to develop more. we even have partner organizations like mission graduates, parents for public schools, and some of our beacons are tributing their time, their funding, and personnel to help further these efforts. >> tonight we have the pleasure of calling up a few sites to share about their history, journey, and success of their group. here they will present to you an abbreviated presentation from sunny side elementary, jose, ruth school of the arts, and john o'connell. before sunny site comes up, i want to give a quick shout-out to paul revere, one of the parent advisory groups in san francisco unified school

district. sunny side. >> sorry. again, if you can hear me now. my name is lila nelson. i'm one of the active parents at sunny side elementary school, which formed our aapac group. we formed in the fall of 2017. the purpose of our group is to connect with other black families within our school, in our nearby community. we wanted to share our experiences, our voices, and just our concerns and to promote our culture at sunny side.

>> 9 of the 13 third graders. we just pooled our resources and found a black man who specialized in curriculum development. we had our own little freedom school and did that together on our own. thank you. one of them is regarding common core math. i think parents, not just african-american parents don't know how to help their children. the other con -- we also need more help with more enrollment

of african-american students in the lower grades. you see higher numbers in 5th and 4th and it drops off reflecting the demographic changes in the city. and parents also are feeling frustrated, frankly, with the test results because the children are doing the homework. they're doing well in class. everything seems to be going fine and then the test results come back. and nobody knows what is going on, who to trust. why is this happening? and frankly, tired of being blamed or a culture of noninvolvement which is not true at all. we would like to partner with the district and we're looking at a geo graphic and would like to draw more african-american students there. thanks.

>> good evening. hi. i'll just start again. i'm linda parker pennington and a proud parent of a junior in the media program at the school of the arts. and the aapac was formed just in 2017. this is actually just our second year. and we started right after our principal started and he's been one of our biggest supporters and we're very blessed to have him. and then there are other folks here. yay. so our goals are to recruit, retain and celebrate african-american students and their achievements at soda. and among our accomplishments in our first year, the biggest ones have been to increase the enrollment of african-american students by 25% overall year over year. and that includes mixed race

students who one race is black. and that has been done through our outreach efforts and providing guidance and support for 8th graders through the application and audition process. the second thing which is huge, we've conducted very well attended series of workshops for all parents on cultural humility and she's also helped train staff and teachers and admin folks. the major challenge faced by our african-american families is helping to build an anti-racist and inclusive culture. this year, we're going to focus on the theme of building allyship in the community and what does it look like to be an

ally in this process. and the support we need from the district would be helping our community create a resource repository of educational materials that can be used to support our mission of building an anti-racist school. thank you. >> hello. my name is kayla douglas. i'm a student. this year, i've had the wonderful experience of supporting two wonderful 9th grade students, lonnie and r rio yell. they have taken part to hear their voices and my role is to help them grow as leaders and allow them to develop their own voice and what they want to see at school.

[applause] >> hi. my name is lonnie and i'm a freshman from john o'connell. also the student ambassador and freshman president. [applause] >> my name is daryl, i'm a proud father of a jr. and i am an african-american parent ambassador and the president of the african-american parent partnership committee at john o'connell. [applause] our aapac was formed in 2015 and the purpose of our support, our group is to support african-american students in the process of being successful, in their academic learning and provide social and emotional support for family and student. >> our goals for the year are to engage more black parents to be

active and have students feel more motivated and confident through support so they do not give up. finally, to continue ensuring success for our african-american students. among many bright spots, our biggest one is that they created their own more electives, excellence in every part of the curriculum. we have two black students on our ssc as members. lastly, our black family dinners to kick off black history month. >> one of the major challenges faced at john o'connell is more african-american family involvement just trying to figure out how to, we invite, light meal, childcare is provided. we just need more support on getting them to the school. and the support we need from our

district is more professional development offered for non-black teachers to learn thousand work with our black students -- how to work with our black students. [applause] >> bsu gives us a way to come together as a black student community to voice our opinions, feel supported and comfortable. >> it gives us a platform to decide on changes so that we can make formal recommendations to the school site council that we are official members of. racism is institutionalized. this is why it is important to come to be informed as parents and stakeholders. [applause]

>> a special thank you to our group. as you can see the love for african-american students and families is spreading and growing. and a special thank you to all of our staff and partners who have made a decision to uplift the voices of african-american families and respond to our voicings by listening, educating and advocating. all in support of our incredibly brilliant and capable youth. for those wishing to get more involved, please check out the meeting dates above or reach out to our coordinator via the contact information listed. thank you again for this

opportunity and now we want to open it up to questions from the board. i want to thank the aapac for coming out and presenting and all the leaders and parents at different sites. the one thing we try to get across to community as we advocate for our school sites, is to get people to understand that all of our schools, the one common denominator for all of our strong schools is a strong parent community and caregiver community. this is very important and i appreciate the work of the aapac over the years. i appreciate seeing the growth and i'm getting excited more and more every year as the presentations come. and as we start seeing more aapacs happening in the school sites which is why we put this in place. thank you for all your hard

work. in fact, i just had a colleague on the board of education reach out, requesting information to speak with ms. irving about how they can start something like this in their school district. and a lot of leaders across the state want to learn how to do this in their district. it's a testament to what people see happening in the district and the continued focus we have to support our families and students. secondly, i want to say that as we talk about the things that need to change, as we look at slide 6. if we want to make sure that we get more of those items crossed out, please continue to push and hold us accountable as a district. hold our site leaders accountable. continue to call out things that are happening at the sites that are not working for families that we need to bring attention to, so we know what is happening. a lot of you do that, but just remember we love to get

information about what is not happening at the sites that needs to be followed up on, be it e-mails, phone calls. we definitely don't want to wait until we get here. we want to remind all of our families that all of our information is listed. we do respond because we want to be held accountable. our school sites and side leaders are held accountable. the third thing i want to say, i was glad to see that we had a teacher at willie brown middle school, that was one of the founding educators get honored tonight, because as we continue to talk about the work that we're doing with our students and talk about the narrative, people try to continue to find a narrative for our black students and we won't let that happen. we know we have work to do. nobody is trying to down play that part, but there are a lot of good things happening.

when things moving in a positive direction, we need to make sure that people know and understand that. i appreciate all the work of the aapac, the continued growth in what is happening at all of the school sites and across the district, it's evident, your success and how hard you worked to make sure all parents have voice across the district. thank you. >> i'm super excited. i was pumped up. i really wanted to watch that video. i think first and foremost, good job. i know to be here in the evening, with the kids probably at home, and also doing this work for the community, it's not easy.

especially coach humility and racism and have to navigate that as well is difficult. i command you for being able to step and do the work. the narrative part to me is very important. you guys are doing a good job of pushing the narrative to create a new insight for people to be able to kind of start to believe it. so as a school district board member, we are here to support in whatever way possible and just continue the good work. thank you. >> commissioner murase: i'm so delighted to hear the report tonight. there is so much activity around it. i want to thank you for the presentation tonight and the work you do every day. your voice in the process has been very important as well as the inclusion of willie brown

and band 3. i had a lot of folks ask about that issue and i was proud to forward to them the views of aapac as one perspective on that issue. through the chair, i'd like to request -- i know that the committee flagged ethnic studies as being an important component of this effort, if we could request a report on ethnic studies in the curriculum committee meeting. i know that commissioner norton is not here tonight, but if we could pass along a request to have a study. and then finally, i understand you have 20 different sites with aapac active. i would love to see a map of that. which schools are active. and then moving forward, seeing how that proliferates, because i think that would be important to know which schools might need one, or which schools are already active. so if i could request that

information from the staff. thank you. >> commissioner haney. >> commissioner haney: i appreciate the work of aapac. i like seeing you bring back issues that we have made progress on and also issues we still need to make progress on. that is effective and important and i hope we'll see more and more issues crossed out as time goes on. with that, i did want to ask if maybe you could speak more about the progress on curriculum and books and on black history being celebrated. i know that this is continued to -- i've heard still a bit about it, and i want to make sure that black history being celebrated, that we're doing a better job of that. and maybe if you could speak to the progress you've seen on these issues. i'm sure even though it's

crossed out, some of the work that still needs to be done. >> we continue to partner with the school sites. we actually this past year saw some of our best african-american history, or black history month celebrations. and we actually attended as many as we possibly could to show support. we continue to provide our school sites with the tool kits and offer any assistance we can, so they know what it looks like. and how to put on a black month celebration and make sure they have the resources. as far as the books, i think that is each individual school site specific. and that knowledge i don't have right now, but i can research it and get back to you guys and see if that dynamic has changed in some schools. willie brown is near and dear to my heart as you know.

i can say our library is great, but that's the only one i have knowledge of right now. >> commissioner haney: thank you. it would be great to know the strategies we have on that, from our staff, make sure we're providing information and support to schools on both of those points. there were two other things i wanted to flag. i see on here more black teachers and staff. i think that would be something that would be important to bring forward to the personnel committee. and learn more about some of our strategies and how they're working and some of the progress. and look at the numbers there. i think we should continue to make progress on that. i also wanted to -- i know there are some folks here tonight who are going to speak about some of the ways in which we've begun to move backwards on school climate and discipline-related issues

and you spoke about the bias versus de-escalation and how we're doing that. so i hope you're all very much at the center of that conversation, at the table, working with our staff, to make sure that we can make progress on supporting all of our students and not pushing our students out. we were very concerned to see some of the numbers that came in front of us on backtracking on school discipline numbers. and on absenteeism as well. so those are of huge concern to us and we spoke about it in the last board meeting, but i want to make sure we're working closely with you all, to do better on that and the people here tonight to also speak out on that. >> thank you, commissioner haney. and thank you, aapac, for the great update and the all participation from the parents

across the city. i was wondering. in the updates i heard from various schools, it tacked about lack of -- talked about lack of participation and lower grades. but we know we have high concentration of african-american students, can you speak to the participation of those aapacs? some of the challenges, if any, they're having in terms of engagement at the sites? >> can you clarify the question, please? >> at schools where we have high concentration of african-american students, i didn't hear from those sites tonight, from their aapac, so i was wondering if you can speak to what is happening around organizing at those sites? >> i think -- i can only speak from one perspective, those sites generally do not have aapacs, because they have high concentration of families, instead they're called parent groups, or ptas.

i also believe that some of the problems that exist when recruiting parents or families for groups in other sites, those challenges exist at those sites as well. but to name specific aapacs at those sites, yeah, i'm not sure behind that. but letisha irving would like to say something. >> if i could. she is right. in schools where there are high concentrations of african-american families, we do not see aapacs. but we're doing the black family partnership academy. that is bringing together school site staff where there are some schools with high concentration of african-american students, the parents, the teachers, the administrators for a year-long study. so they're coming with us, sitting with us on saturdays for 6-7 hours. we're having evening meetings. there is coaching.

and be the change consultant agency and they're coming with us and we're sitting with these families. you have malcolm x, that's a part of it, dr. charles drew, that's part of that cohort. there is rooftop. carver. star team. who else is on there? there is a bunch. so this is an opportunity for us to look at it and study it and help and do coaching for those schools that see a lot of the students that face the same issues. >> so the engagement strategy is different, but would you say that the challenges are aligned? >> so challenges are absolutely aligned when we talk about implicit bias, and the number of black educators we have in schools. some of the schools, like drew, they have a good number of black educators, but not enough and they're not necessarily the

families -- the educators that are coming to the black family partnership academy. but the racism, the bias is the same. and it's those schools and cohorts that are working hard to combat that and reaching out to the district offices for support. >> thank you. also, i was going to mention that i know in our personnel committee updates, the recruitment of black educators is a top priority for the h.r. department. and one of the updates they presented a study from johns hopkins and i'm trying to find it here. but if you google it, it's easy to find. that basically says if you have one black teacher before you hit the 3rd grade, your chance to graduate from high school increases exponentially. so they brought that research to us on recruiting

african-american teachers for the early grades. it's something the district wants to see more of. hopefully, we can connect the aapac to see what is happening around those efforts. if there are no other questions, thank you. [applause] so we have no appointments to advisory committees by board members. section c. consent calendar. bless you. can i have a motion on the consent calendar? >> so moved. >> can i have a second? >> second.

>> thank you. any items withdrawn for corrected by the superintendent? >> no. >> any items removed for first reading by the board? there are none. roll call vote on the calendar. >> thank you, commissioner. [roll call] that's four ayes. >> thank you. section d. discussion and vote on consent calendar resolution served for separate consideration. section e, proposals for action.

resolution 18925 a in support of world languages, commissioner murase. this is moved to the 15th. we're dealing with the resolution as amended by staff. there was a report from the curriculum committee on october 18 -- or 15th. ms. norton is not here, do you want to talk about that? >> commissioner murase: this resolution was taken up in curriculum committee. there was some refinement of the language as a result of discussion at that committee and so what you see before you is an edited version of the resolution. in committee because there were some questions about the size of the advisory council, things like that, it was forwarded to the full board without a recommendation pending changes. and so what you have before you is staff recommendations for

changes based on the curriculum committee. there has also been a budget memo about the cost of the council which initially was estimated to be high cost, which which was not my intention at all. so there has been revision of the budget memo and the cost is estimated to be around $9,000, including staff time and the materials and supplies for the two meetings per year that the resolution calls for. >> thank you, commissioner murase. if you would read it into the record. in support of world languages. i also want to note that commissioner mark sanchez has agreed to be second author on the resolution. whereas vision 2025, the

strategic plan lays the foundation for preparing our graduates to live, thrive and succeed in san francisco and beyond, and the graduate profile contained in the plan serves as the anchor for our vision and identifies the knowledge, skills and disposition and behaviors required by our world, and whereas one of the key tenets of the graduate profile is cultural competence and multilingualism, where they will foster students, who will be globally aware, multilingual and competent. whereas the san francisco board of education formalizes it commitment providing all students for a multilingual world, taking full advantage of the rich diversity of san francisco to provide the opportunity for every student, pre-k to 12, to become multilingual and multicultural.

and whereas since 2012, when the program started in california, sfusd has awarded thousands of graduating seniors literacy on their diplomas for those who demonstrated proficiency in more than one language. when san francisco became one of the first school districts in california to receive the multiple pathways recognition award, presented by californians together. the award celebrates districts that are leading the way to world class education in the 21st entry, communication skills of multiple languages. and considerable resources and energy to meet the needs of english language learners and has robust from english language learner schools, communities and

families through the bilingual community council and the district language advisory committee. language programs in the category of foreign languages in elementary schools, do not have representation in any district-wide advisory board. and whereas the smaller language programs would benefit greatly from better coordination of such issues as language articulation k-12, student recruiter and equity issues as demonstrated by council planning meeting in fall 2017. therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco establishes a world languages council composed of stakeholders including key sfusd staff members, school site administrators, parents of current and alumni students and students as appropriate that will meet at least twice per year, once during the fall, and

once during the spring, and the council may form subcommittees to meet in between for council meetings. and be it resolved that the world language of council shall not supplant the mission, but rather augment the dialogue involving stakeholders around educating students in world languages with the goal of producing multilingual and competent graduates. and that the goals of the council shall be as follows. one, to serve in advisory capacity to staff on world language programs. two, to exchange information about strength and challenges of world language programs. and to brain storm, problem solve around challenge. three, to make recommendations as appropriate. that the membership of the council include but not be limited to representatives of sfusd dual language immersion,

foreign language and elementary schools program and secondary school world language course offerings. language programs recruit to participate in the council may include arabic, mandarin, filipino, japanese, korean, spanish, and other languages as appropriate with the intention of having a diversity of languages represented on the council. in keeping with board poll 1220, citizen advisory committee, the council shall be composed of no more than 11 members. seats in the council will be apportioned in the following manner. 4-5 seats to represent elementary. 2-3 seats to represent middle school world language programs. 2-3 seats to represent high school world language programs. once per year, staff will make recommendations to the board of education about members for approval by the board of

education for two-year terms. while council meetings shall be open to the public, there shall be no more than one official representative and one official alternate from any language program at a school site. and a chair or co-chair shall be elected from among the members at the first meeting in spring of 2019 and further governing rules will be adopted by council members. the council planning meeting be convened no later than december 15, 2018. that the council shall report activities and recommendations to the full board of education annually. >> thank you, commissioner murase. we do have several speakers signed up for public comment on this item. when you hear your name called, if you could make your way to the podium. i apologize in advance if i mispronounce your name. if i do, you can blame mr. l.