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$6,627 per adult. so for a household with four adults. that is $26,508 and $4,419 for each individual in the household that is either a senioro seniorr disabled. and these figures and imms that i'm -- examples that i'm including in this presentation are from temperature materials e shared with the eligible households when arws conducted their interviews last spring. so, a sample calculation for a
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three person household that included two there would be a payment for two eligible household members. $132,054. a little more complicated four person household including two adults and one senior a two children and one of them that was disabled. that would be $26,500. and then again illustrating that that second child that there is just the one payment of $14,519 for the two children.
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but because one of those children is disabled there is an additional payment to the household of $4,419. then for a large multigenerational household with a couple of seniors and more than four adults, any adults beyond the fourth would not be eligible for further payment. this hyp hypothetical household cobblcould be eligible for $47,. so the terms of moving forward with the boroug proposed early u payment, the rent board updates their schedule as i said at the end of february. typically it's adjusted by a cola amount per year. something like 3 percent give or
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take depending on the current economic conditions. so we would update the materials we have been preparing to issue extend the opportunity around the end of march. and discuss that o at the marchn island community meeting and having a table at april on island board meeting. because the figures are updated annually, proposing to make this -- extending this opportunity through february of 2020 as a fixed window of time in order to take advantage of this opportunity. with the knowledge that if we chose to continue it further
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into 2020 into the future, that we would then update the materials with any lessons learned and as well with the new financial figures. and then send them a further update in 2020 if we were going to continue the early in lieu program. so our next steps are going to continue working with arws to finalize our material for the issuance of the offer. then other activities still working to engage potentially income qualifying households to start the income certification process for affordable units. including specifically those that are interested and potentially qualifying to purchase an affordable unit that would be in the first podium building on yvi. hanand also ones that would be interested in or eligible for an
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affordable rental unit and working with tdic for the development procedures for the premarketing purchase opportunity for market rate and affordable units. we'll be coordinating with mohcd for the affordable unit program but right now tentatively providing an update for the board and residents as part of the regular agenda for the april island premarketing opportunity. so that concludes my presentation. >> president tsen: thank you mr. beck. questions from the board? >> vice president giusti: so as a group does everybody in the household do all of the household members have t to agre to this in lieu payment? >> under the thr&r each
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household member is entitled to a benefit. and if you had a situation you had a multi-person or multi-family household and some individuals were within the household were relocating for communitcomeementsemployment opo another area. if the entire household didn't elect to take the in lieu payment and those people would leave and the people that remain would take their choices to take a transition payment or in lieu payment. the entire househol house housee the in lieu payment and relocate at that time. it's limited to one benefit option for each household. >> so household needs to agree on the election.
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>> so like in the first example with claire and fred and bob, claire couldn't take this $6,600 and fred say no, i want to stay. >> director beck: in that case it would be going back to the analogy of the relocation from ybi to treasure island under an interim move. if some people -- if the household or two household members said they didn't want to make that transition, those that chose to make that transition would get the interim replacement unit on treasure island and those that chose not to move down to fres treasure id would move on and that would be the termination of their benefit. the benefits under the transitional housing rules and regulations at large are provided to households that were
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resident on the island in 2011 and continue to remain on the island until they are offered the opportunity to move to a new unit. and at that offer of replacement unit, they ar eligible to take t choice of payment or the early in lieu payment. this in lieu payment is really intended to being acknowledge t that could be an extremely long prepared of time and provide an opportunity for households who as a household circumstances have changed and it makes sense for them to move to purchase something today. they could take this in lieu payment and use that for the down payment. or rather than holding out and waiting for a replacement unit that may still be seven or eight years away. >> vice president giusti: so once again going back to this example, so if claire and fred
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who could possibly use that money to relocate, but then what happens to bob in does he even get a vote in this? >> director beck: yeah, the benefit is to claire and bob -- >> vice president giusti: fred. >> director beck: fred, and bob doesn't have a voice in this. >> thank you mr. beck. this document again is a major milestone and it really conveys and demonstration democrat on -- demonstrateses the hard work the staff are making. i have had this question before. we know us here have to build on this island and we also know how to supervise the public-private partnership and everything that is going on here. at the end of the day the tenants relocation and all of
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these issues that benefit, are they one that is going to come to play? like i said before, i would like to have a chronological sort of calendar on the outreach. it's very important people that have been involved that are listening to our proceedings we talk about that. but for a lot of people they don't know and at some point it only b takes one person. the supervis supervisor would lo know the extensive outreach and you could tell in his comments before what are we doing for the community engagement and the outreach for this particular eye item on our calendar today is we are really going beyond qut call of duty to keach -- reach out to the tenants on the island. and in your last presentation you mentioned by now all of the tenants have been contacted.
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we asked you to use private e-mail or to do whatever. to attach this kind of document at some point for everyone to be on the same page we are going to have to ge demonstrate to look t any extensive outreach we have done on the island. because we are going to move from this phase into the implementation phase. so for the public part of this discussion and for the supervisors and the stake hold e. and even the mayor, it's going to be very important. so when issues come up and hopefully they don't. but if they do we can say hey this is what we have done. i'i continue to ask for this because i know the genisis of how things are. all it takes is two people and they are a constituent of people that will come up and say they were not aware. and what we have kno not done ae
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have done years and years and years of excellent outreach. i want to put it down there and all of this does matter and will matter even for this supervisor and you meet and this is what we have done. in all of these areas i am sure he would really appreciate what we are doing here. >> president tsen: mr. beck? >> director beck: and per your question, the arws has been maintaining an outreach log. for the past few months we have been in the process of preparing for this and we have. have. have. haven't been doing a lot of additional outreach but we will be maintaining that and we will submit that and as we do the ou outreach we'll submit tht again. one thing i want to add you know, we have 200 eligible
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households and based on the interviews we are not expecting a huge rush of people seeking the early in lieu opportunity. most people have indicated that they are happy with their current accommodations. they look forward to relocation opportunity. but to provide this as an option for those households that have kind of put in their time of a decade or more, in almost every case. who this would be a benefit to. so you know, if a dozen or two people or two dozen people take advantage, two dozen households take advantage of that that would be actually quite high numbers. just following through on it as a commitment that was negotiated at the time. >> president tsen: thank you
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mr. beck. mr. dunlop. >> secretary dunlop: yothank you you said there is 200 households who are pre-dda or have a dda. >> director beck: i believe the exact number is 198 that are pre-dda or mixed. and then we have the 25 251 treasure island households and we have almost 200 additional householdings that are post dda. we have 650 households that are on the island today. >> secretary dunlop: thank you. >> president tsen: is there any bubilitany public comment. hearing none next item please. >> public agenda items. >> two things one is in response to some recent communications
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inet mediinin the media around e and there are competing facts and i know that director beck has been responsive in fielding our questions around it and i understand you are in the process of preparing some facts. i think it would be helpful to the community if we could just memorialize that. have essentially like an official type of response to kind of clarify the record around ongoing issues. how we have responded to and adhered to the board's resolutions. and the second thing we are currently in budget season or about to turn to it. i think last year around february we had a budget presentation and i wanted to flag that and hopefully we'll have that very soon. that would be a perfect
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opportunity for us to evaluate mid and long term budget needs as well. and to have discussions around the bond msh irtion and the funding gap. and i know that that idea has been brought up by past directors in past meetings. i just wanted to put that on your radar. >> director beck: bringing the budget is on anticipation there. or the backup for abrogha appror endorsement. we are in the process of preparing that now and submission to the mayor's office. as i said we'll bring that. and in terms of bond measures.
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>> we have been working on community housing and we are working on the funding for the first five projects and i would be happy to come back to the board with how those five projects are looking and when we will be in the position to bring them forward given certain assumptions. >> president tsen: miss richardson. >> linda fadeke richardson: i think it was great to have supervisor mike haney and i think earlier supervisor didn't attend some of our meetings. but one thing for the record was that in some of the engagement that bee we have had with her ad all of the major, and i need to quantify that all of the major milestones for treasure island came during her tenor.
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she asked questions but she always made sure that this project you know, moved forward and we really need to do that. now we have had the privilege of having that supervisor attending our meeting part time and i would say the next meeting he is here to give him an assignment. given i was going to today he was not here for the building and the housing and expen expens and his district and district 10 are the only districts in the entire sa san francisco that hae the opportunity for housing. i would like to ask him on his calendar with respect to his title for him to help us to advance the discussion we are having on the one treasure island affordable housing that we are having here. it's extremely and very important. charity begins at home. and we have spoken about that. another issue i would have
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stayed up for these comments. the next opportunity he comes i would like to reiterate that because there are discussions going on right now. we have the land. it would come out of the gate. it would be extremely very important. we also have the intention to -- and also amocd. when your supervisor is here. so we can start this engagement on a higher level i would like to have that on the calendar. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you. so next item. adjourn. excellent [meetin[. >> president tsen: meeting is adjourned. [adjourned, 3:52.
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>> president cook: glad you're here. this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for february 12, 2019. this meeting is now called to order. before i get started, we have at least one birthday in the room. commissioner collins turns 50 today.
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[applause] i was hoping you will join me in brief version of happy birthday. you cool with that? [singing happy birthday]. now the black version -- [laughter] just joking. >> commissioner collins: thank you. >> president cook: we start this meeting in great american educator and activist paula barbara jordan who said for all of insecurity, we cannot leave the future. section a is accessibility
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information for the public. section b is open items. number one is approval of board meetings. motion and second please? >> so moved >> ising. contac superintendent's report. tonight we have roll call. [roll call] we're taking the roll call for minutes now.
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>> president cook: superintende. >> good evening everyone. i like to begin by introducing our new deputy superintendent of instruction anikia ford. [applause] deputy superintendent ford has served as the district's assistant superintendent for the bay view schools if the past three years. she serves as chief of schools in oakland and began her career as a teacher and principal. ms. ford is a strong equity-minded leader who embodies our core values in commitmenting to serving our students. we look to our leadership to realize the graduate profile and to ensure that each and every student has what they need to
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thrive in 21st century. we're excited to have you join us and welcome. [applause] i want to express my deep appreciation to mayor breed and the san francisco board of supervisors for considering our request regarding the educational revenue augmentation fund. we're very thankl thankful to a1 members who set aside eraf funds for proposition g over the next two years. this is a huge relief to our entire san francisco district community. san franciscans know how important public school educators are to successful city and in this eraf discussion they learn about the challenges our schools face as a result of chronic underfunding. which prop g was meant to help
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address before it was challenged in court. after all, the state funds us through the same formula as schools in the central valley and in other lower cost areas which makes local funding solutions incredibly important. i want to thank you uesf and labor partner and the p.p.a., p.p.s., san francisco family union and numerous staff, parents and students for sharing your compelling stories with our city's policy makers. up shared about why we so badly need eraf support. it is clear your individual voices move and motivated our city leaders to include our educators and schools among the many significant needs that these funds must reach. we thank you. last week was a national school counselor's week. we want to take this time to offer our deep appreciation in
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helping students achieve academic success, social emotional development and clear planning. national school counselors seek sponsored by the major school counselor's association. we're proud that all of our middle and high school counseling program have i lined their school program to the asba school counsel roaors. february is black history month. san francisco unified schools will celebrate in many different ways. in the past few weeks i had the pleasure participating in read allowed this month. there's a wonderful celebration on february 21st, which is the 24th annual african-american honor roll and candle light ceremony put on by the san
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francisco alliance black school educators and the african-american community. third through 12th grade, african-american students achieved 3.0 or higher will be honored. all participating students are gather at 5:00 and the program will begin at 6:00 with the reception immediately following. this event will be held at st. mary's cathedral. finally, all san francisco unified school district schools and offices will be closed this monday to commemorate president's day. president cook, that ends my thoughts. >> president cook: thank you dr. brief note about speaker cards before the report. speaker cards for the regular agenda if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to our executive assistant. importantly according to board rules and procedures, speaker
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cards will not be accepted for item already recorded. >> good evening everyone. last night, leaders from the youth commission presented their preliminary budget. the youth commission will also host a tabling session during our upcoming annual youth summit. thank you presenters. next up on the retreat. city leaders will be partaking in a team bonding retreat on saturday february from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. we would like to celebrate our
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work from the past semester, provide leadership training and team bonding. plans for our upcoming youth summit and relax and enjoy. this event will take place at goldengate park. next up, i really love my spot on the board and i am excited to work with our wonderful board members, i guess it's time for me tenants that application for next year's delegate is open now. it's a great leadership opportunity that enables the students who represent sfusd student voice and build a better sfusd. it is a fun and rewarding position. i can't tell enough how much i learned. if you like to apply, please see your representative for an application. the deadline is march 1, 2019. our next meeting will be on february 23rd at 5:00 p.m. in the board of education room. it's a public console and anyone is welcome to attend our
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meeting. if you like to attend and make a presentation, please contact our supervisor. thank you. >> president cook: thank you. number 4, recognition of resolutions accommodation. dr. matthews. >> this evening, we will begin our -- we are recognizing african-american students excelling in advanced place in stem courses. i'm proud to introduce this recognition this evening. president cook will explain. students aren't here this evening. we're recognizing these student who excelled in advanced placement, science, technology and engineering and stem courses. i like to pass it over to president contact to explain the students. >> president cook: the past three years wive -- we've been
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highlighting african-american students that gotten three or above on the stem topic for a.p. classes. those students are not here tonight. i'll read their names. [reading student names] certificates will be handed out to them at their school. [applause] b, recognizing the state champion lincoln high school varsity football team. [applause] >> also tonight we're recognizing the lincoln high varsity football team for winning the california federation division, 6a state
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championship. this fantastic team defeated orange glenn who is the san diego division 5 champion and this team also made history not only was that the first state football title in lincoln's history, it was the first championship game ever played here in san francisco. and to top it off, they had a perfect 13-0 season. i like to invite sherry to introduce the coaches and the team. >> good evening dr. matthews board president cook, board vice president sanchez, board commissioners, deputy superintendent and of course all the parents in the audience
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tonight. i want to talk to you about the young men. not only they are student athletes they have the average of 3.0 g.p.a. not only they are leaders on and off the court, the most importantly, they have a heart of gold. they are very respectful when people need help in the schools, they are first ones to help us out. i thank you for that. they will be amazing young men. i want to thank the parents, the coaches for all the support you've given us. i like to introduce the coach. >> thank you for taking the time to acknowledge our great school and our great team. it wassal prett -- it was a prey amazing year. in regard the level of football
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played was unsurpassed. it wasn't wasn't just one person. it was 33 people working in unison. amazing thing we want to teach our kids about being yourself, being comfortable within yourself to take maybe a lesser role. i'm very fortunate to be these young men and women, our managers and our great principal and great parents. i have one kid is like a legacy. we're going to miss him. he's been with us for 15 years. his older brothers, both played for me. they won turkey day championships. it's pretty amazing to have a guy who's been with our program since he was like five years old
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come out and play for us. it was so many great stories i couldn't tell you anymore. i wanted you guys to get along. thank you very much. i really appreciate the support and hopefully we'll do better things next year. greatest thing we're doing it. thank you. >> good evening everyone. i'm that kid that coach was talking about. i have been part of the mustang family for most of my life i learned a lot of responsibility. it taught me a lot. this season was really special.
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lot of the guys were four-year players. some my best friends i made ever sisince my freshman year. as we kept winning, we really -- there was lot of pressure. once we got to that championship, we knew we were untouchable. coming into state, it's a new experience for all of us. i don't think any of us played in front of that many people before. it was really an honor and it was a really fun experience to represent our city and become the champs. thank you guys. >> comments from commissioners.
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[applause] >> president cook: if you're standing and want a seat, you can fill in those seats. number 5, recognizing all valuable employees. there are none tonight. number 6, advisory committee reports and appointments to the advisory committee by board members. number a is report from the parent advisory council.
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>> good evening everyone, commissioners and superintendent dr. matthew. i have a 10-year-old daughter who is in fourth grade i'm the vice chair of pac. >> good evening commissioners and superintendent. i have a third grader at tenderline elementary school. she has made the honor roll you
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want to thank you for the support. i like to welcome commissioner lam. the pac welcomes appointed commissioner jenny lam to the board of education. we hope to meet with her soon and looing forward to working with her to serve sfusd students and families. the pac has been working with our community partners from the local control accountability plan to develop the stakeholder engagement campaign. this year marks the sixth year of community out reach to share information about the budget process. the objective are to increase transparency, understand and accountability about "pistons half-timsfusd'sbudget process.
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it encourage families to participate in the planning process at their chosen schools. for the past few years we saw the stakeholders connecting the dots. during stakeholder engagement, we draw parallel to connect the dots between the following. l-cap and balanced score card, how the state fund, public schools and the way "pistons half-timsfusdallocates resource. focal students prioritized in
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our district. thank you. >> over the years, we have heard from 2000 family and community members about the resources, promising practices and support on making a difference. at the same time we heard about the challenges on the ground and it's not always evident how issues are being addressed in way that can goes with the goals identified in the outcome. for this reason, one of the objectives for stakeholder engagement is to strengthen the implementation of l-cap. the intent is to bridge a connection between the feedback we get across the district to improve implementation of key strategies, services and practices identified in the outcome. as part of the circle of
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continuous improvements. this objective is change from previous year where was focus was to balance of the l-cap and implementation. the commitment of the l-cap task force is the community that will inform the budget planning process. as a task force, we are -- we
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also recognized there are families that will not attend school meeting or a townhall gathering. to which some of the families, we corroborate with communities who are working with these families. for example, last year we met with the families leaving at the hamilton family centre to learn from their experiences. in the past, we have reached families who are foster parents and the ymca in chinatown. each year we reflect on who we have heard from and who is missing from the conversation. we prioritize schools that have a significant number of focus students including the schools and identify community groups
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that expand our rich to ensure we capture diverse voices the families. [please stand by]
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>> happy birthday. happy birthday to you. >> i wanted to give a brief update and let you know that the l-cap task force will be providing a presentation to the budget and business services committee on march 6th and have a more in-depth conversation about budget planning and l-cap process. i wanted to provide that update. >> ms. collins: i appreciate the report and the time you put into it. one of the comments made at who is at the table and who is missing and being intentional about outreach, that's an amazing thing. i just appreciate you're being to thoughtful, including community voices. so thank you. >> we are so glad to work with all of you to make a better district.
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>> president cook: thank you. >> thank you. >> president cook: just a quick heads-up, okay, you can go. [laughter] announcement about the changes in the agenda, so after 6-c, i'm going to move up a presentation from my brothers' keeper initiative. i'm going to move public comment after that. i see a lot of folks with young kids here. so you can say what you need to share and go. get back home. after 6-c, my brothers keeper and then public comment. so now we have b, report from community advisory council for special education.
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>> good evening, superintendent matthews, president cook and commissioners, welcome commissioner lam. the community advisory committee on special education appreciates that opportunity to present updates to our 2018-19 priorities. the cac advocates for effective special education programs and services and advises the board of education on special education priorities. the cac is a state mandated organization and the cac must sign off on the local plan and
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budget before it can be sent to the california department of education. we hold monthly meetings on the 4th thursday of every month. our remaining meetings for this school year are february 28, sfusd special education department will give overview of transition for every level, pre-k through college and career. march meeting is a community meeting with aapac and kal with w, special guest larry p will share his experience as a student of color and still struggles to read to this day. on april 25, the cac will hold the advocates worthy of excellence award. this is a special evening and we invite you all to attend.
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community members can nominate individuals who are going above and beyond to support our students in special education programs. additional topics we will cover this year include the sfusd budget and service plan. the caa is currently seeking nominations for board members for the upcoming year. they're open to any current cac member. >> good evening. the community advisory committee is actively involved in collaborating a district and others. they partnered with advisories groups and the family engagement team of the unified school district to host the second annual family alignment summit.
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this helps the cac build leadership skills and strengthens our alignment with other committees. also in november, they partnered with the african parent advisory committee to host a cafe. the cac has been able to increase outreach to parents of african-american students. on december 3, sfusd kicked off inclusive schools week. support for families with children of disabilities helped us cap off the week by sponsoring a screening of the film, intelligent lives, by dan habib. the cac will participate in a resource conference for the
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support of families with children with disabilities. we'll participate in a resource fair and host a panel discussion. this is a free event and all special education community members are invited to attend. on may 1st, the school district will join other cac members from across the state to lobby our legislators in sacramento for special education funding and legislation. it's a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with representatives and lend a voice. on may 4th, the cac will provide a workshop at the expo in oracle ballpark. previously at&t. this is a free annual event that focuses on the 1 in 5 students with learning and attention differences. this event combines guest speakers, workshops and resource
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fair with a celebration on the field. bring your kids and let them run the bases and play out in the field and catch balls. >> we want to point out this bright spot. on saturday, february 2nd, the first annual sfd was presented at city college. this was a meaningful day and kicks off a much needed annual event for our district. the cac would like to thank dr. matthews for his support and participation. city college of san francisco for hosting. and the sfusd for their implementation of the event. dr. matthews shared inspiring stories and moderated a panel
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discussion with individuals who spoke of empowerment and their experiences with college transition. in addition, over 25 college disabilities representatives and post-secondary resources from the bay area and out of state joined us and shared their knowledge with families through workshops and resource fair. feedback for this event was excellent. before today, i felt like my child and i were all alone. now i know there are lots of kids out there with similar struggleses and we don't have to give up on our dreams of college. community members can access the resources shared at the fair at the counseling and post-secondary success website. additional kudos to cnps for all their help and giving help on this.
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a lot of families were very excited about it. thank you. so just to recap, our priorities for the 2018-19 school year. to improve outcomes for students receiving special education services, reading intervention, social-emotional support and staffing stability. these priorities also align as was mentioned earlier by the l-cap stakeholder engagement team and the other advisory committees and their priorities. so, to follow up on reading interventions, some of this is a recap of what we gave you back in september. we're excited. this is the first year we'll be presenting to you three times. we present normally september and june and we're excited to add this mid year presentation
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as well. so reading intervention, this has been a really -- talk about bright spots -- this is another one of them. we've been working for a couple of years with curriculum and instruction and the amazing work they've been doing to improve the efficacy provided. particularly focused on students with learns differences resulted to the law ab-1369 that went into effect three years ago. i think it is. just wanted to point out a couple of things. so we started with the pilot program last year. you can see the data on the screen in front of you. we've been doing -- we, as a district, the royal we, have been doing a whole lot of training of staff around better screening for students to the effect of almost 800 children
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have been screened and identified for needing additional either assessment or intervention in just the early years, kindergarten, first and second grade. so the pilot has been really beneficial in that area. the cac would still love to see a program addressing middle school and high school student. that is still an area of need. and we have a big question with the 800 students who are undergoing further screening, what is going to happen if they're identified for further intervention? are we planning on hiring more staff? how will we take this to the next level? i have to commend the curriculum and the instruction department. they've been fantastic in working with us, in working with decoding dyslexia and addressing a all of the concernses that
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have been raised throughout the program. that have been raised throughout the program. thank you. social-emotional support. we've had a lot of bright spots around social-emotional supports, too. it's important to focus on the positive. we've had great amount of success this year, the cac, working with family engagement and empowerment. they've been really supportive of the cac and taken a lot of our feedback into account, the spa, the sfusd partnership category and they're working on a module around special education. that is going to -- the spa as you know will be rolled out at various schools to address needs related to parent engagement. we've been invited to attend and participate in the wellness and
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attendance work groups and been providing feedback on ways to disrupt some of our systemic status quos and move forward. so while there are bright spots, there is definitely areas where we would like to focus as well. we're excited to see some of the work that is coming out of student family support division. one of the things you'll find in your pact is the tiered fidelity inventory of school-wide pbif. we find socially, emotionally some of the greatest challenges in the data we see that is concerning surrounds our students receiving special education services. and better implementation from a school-wide standpoint of social-emotional supports is needed. we have quite uneven implementation at our school
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sites. so providing something like the tiered fidelity index along with the score card could be great way to help our schools focus more on social emotional supports. i also wanted to point out as a highlight, inclusive schools week, we appreciate everyone's participation. one of the things we do every year, we have a spreadsheet -- there is a whole bunch of information that goes out to every school. there is a pact, a letter from dr. matthews, pact from special education. this year, julia martin walked to every elementary school and made sure they had the information related to inclusive school week. but the follow-up spreadsheet, last year, 75 schools filled it out. this year, only 28. inclusive schools week for us is