the exploratory courses are going to work. how students are going to -- what a typical year would look like with these courses. it's great that we're offering world language in medical school and that's a huge step forward. i question the one trimester if that's going to get them ready for a class in a deeper study in high school. if you could talk a little bit about that too. >> so the exploratory in terms of the structure, they obviously -- because they rotate through on a trimester system. in sixth grade it will look

different than seventh and eighth. in terms of the world language, we are in an exploratory phase with our exploratory wheel. so what we really are thinking about is how do we ensure that we are basing the world courses, so that what we are doing in those courses is getting students ready for the next level. we think it is a step in the right direction. it will be offered in cases where students want to take an elective. i think it is for students who entered, but for the sake of approximating redundant, students who entered in pathways in kinder and first grade then were able to take it through the

eighth grade. and parents or students who didn't make that choice for their children didn't make that until high school. it's the first step to change that, but the first step to make that more equitable for all students. >> i want to underscore that i see this as a positive development. thank you, staff, for making this possible. so how long is a trimester and how is that going to work? >> every 12 weeks. so one of the things that i also want to -- if you look at the exploratory courses as a sampler, that's for students just to take a taste, but they

also have electives where they go deeper into the language. we're not saying the exploratory course will take the place of a full-on exploratory language class. if you see in those two big buckets. the exploratory courses are your appear tideser and your elective is a main dish as well. >> finally, can you talk a little bit more about the exploratory course and how is that looking like. >> for literacy we're using an accelerated literacy course that we're using. and in math they're using a course to help students.

i think that the acceleration courses are also places that students designated as students that need help can get help. >> does that mean that every student is enrolled in an acceleration course that's tailored to whatever their need or passion is. if i'm an english language learner i would get the right course. i assume if i'm -- we've talked about math so i'm going to ask. if i'm passionate about learning about math, i can enroll in a math acceleration course? >> absolutely. that's a course in progress. we've hired someone to work

exclusively on that math course. if you're at grade level in math you can take a math acceleration course approxima course? >> we hired someone this year to do it next year. >> so right now there are for students who are behind grade level in eld or mathematics -- >> or reading. >> thank you. >> thank you for the presentation. it's been really exciting to be a parent at roosevelt and going through the redesign. thank you. i had a couple of questions around the social and emotional integration. i wanted to learn around what

was happening in supports and how you look to scale. >> it's actually happening at francisco and presidio. we are working with an organization looking at student connectiveness and building community and building resilience of the teacher. we piloted it at ap a year ago and the sixth grade students is phenomenal because that is a large school and they felt more connected to their teachers and students. because the teaches had time to reflect on their own practice but also reflecting on themselves as a teacher and the

identity of a teacher and how hard that is. because we saw that support, we wanted to branch that out to the other schools. >> and the other question i had is what does scaling look like for the district. i know you pretend that in the spring, but maybe you can move forward with the assessment and the growth year. >> sure, i can answer that. we're exploring what scale hools looks like. in terms of how many schools and at what pace, we're still learning. we're still learning how are all of our middle schools able to explore or pilot or address some of the principles of deeper learning and what does it look like in terms of all of the

changes that need to have structurally and capacity-building, professional development, for a whole school to adapt and take on that change. so through our evaluation through our p.a. we're going to be looking at that and looking at all the factors. we don't have a definitive answer at this point, but we will know more and look at what are the next set of schools. i will say the good thing or what we're working forwards, the schools are in a good way. other schools are working on specific principles or have their own aspects of deeper learning and the middle redesign. so we're gearing up schools to be in that pipeline.

>> i think that is going to be really critical communicating that out to the community. even parents in elementary, they're thinking about what middle school experience is going to be. it's going to be important for us as a district to be orienting rising sixth grade families, how are we communicating that this is a long-term impact for the district. this is what we want to get through the class of 2025. just to recommend that we proactively engage with our parent pacts it's a continuous feedback cycle and encouraging

that at the school sites as well that i know that will be occur lg at. thank you. >> so i wanted to get clarity. i think part of what i'm hearing from other commissioners is what i'm experiencing. we're exploring things, and at the same time i want to know what does it actually look like. in terms of the planning even. so i want to know -- so i have a lot of questions. what types of electives are being offered. i'm hearing we could offer world language classes as an elective. we could be offering band or those things. as a parent and a board member, electives sounds vague and there's some crossover things.

so for kids getting a sampling or doing a year-long class. we want knto understand where w are going. what is an elective -- these acceleration courses are electives but also elective. >> the different schools have different -- similar electives and different. some schools have robotics and some have dramas. the reason we don't have a set of electives is each community has what they want to offer. is that what you're asking? >> i know it would be -- we're

looking at how we do art in the district. that may form some of the electives offered in the future. when you say english, math, social studies, that makes sense to me. i heard from commissioner norton, what kinds of classes fit in. what kinds of classes fit in -- for what types of classes. it could be math circle. give me specific examples. i would like to know on the m u menu, is it an appetiser or main menu item.

as far as how they lay out, it looks like every year every kid would get one visual or performing art. they would get a computer since and two years they would get health. in sixth grade they would get a world taster. maybe the exposure would lead them to say they would want something in seventh or eighth grades. you're working with concrete pieces and it would be helpful for families and pieces to see that. also, social and emotional content, you say you're working with my -- milennium forum.

>> i would have to look at it. >> it's also part of the health curriculum at the different grades swlt. i can speak to the cyberbullying piece as well. >> i don't know if you've been using second step and i don't know if this is a part of this. so problematic the second step is because i think there's one lesson on sexual harassment and bullying. it doesn't talk about race and power dynamics. those kinds of things lead to

certain kids getting bullying. so it's not random kids getting bullied. kid bring them in. so i would like to do a thorough review of all the click alumini aluminium -- i mean, i have done as an educator, is it comprehensive throughout or is it one lesson, that's the kind of thing i'd like to make sure -- and i love when we develop our own curriculum. our health ed is incredible. so we're going to buy pieces as much as we need. but our educators are doing an amazing job and we should be

patenting it and selling it because the stuff we do is more comprehensive. and then, i guess -- have we conducted any resource mapping. because i don't know who's doing what. i'd like to know what are the components of the redesign. i'm hearing many different things. do we have a list of all the schools and who has what? i know all schools have computer science to varying degrees. i'd like to know if we're moving from there to here and do you have a master list from all the schools? >> we can follow up and get that to you. >> we're all going to homefulpe

have all of it. and scoping-wise, how are we going to get there? it's not going to be we planned this and we're doing this. but five years and we got a lot of schools and a lot of components, so i'd like to sigh what's our -- even if it's a -- we're going to go for this. and then stakeholder outreach, i'd like to see family focus group, the actual raw data if you have family focus groups, and i'd like to know what negative feedback or pushback are we hearing from families and surveys. if you could tell us all what are some of the challenges or things you're hearing from the community redesign.

i'm interested in hearing it now if you have some input. >> i heard hiring for computer science was a big challenge. and other challenges i'm thinking about -- >> so the time that this takes for our educators -- and we heard from some of our teachers and the comments that they shared, to share the lessons they're hearing, not only in terms of the content but also the time. shifting to a block schedule is different than the number of minutes that teaches have. having the early release time so that teachers have more time

together. having teacher-led pds. and then in terms of when we've done from our parent focus groups, you know, a lot of excitement definitely about it. and i know we were talking about our elementary school families. we often get a very large representation from elementary parents because they want to know what's going on and available for my kid in middle school. the questions about what's going to work. what will the children have in terms of shifts, will the children be prepared. it's also that excitement but also anxiety. >> wanting to have the nuts and

bolts. >> the shift, can we give an example. so we had a working group last year that looked at examples and sample lessons. how do you go deeper instead of new staff. i imagine that will continue to come up and how are we supporting educators in the way we are teaching. >> thank you. i love group work and project-based learning. it's more facilitating learning than direct instruction. but my question is i've seen that in some cases people associate group work with

putting students in a group. in those cases i heard the high-pchling take over for low-performing students get bulldozed or hang back or not supporting. i think we need to be supportive in how we support teachers in that work. i want to know how are we supporting educators in those structures. there are structures that you can implement with group work. so i'd like to know what we're going to be providing to teachers. i'm assuming that support can happen through this collaborative time, but i think we should have structures for how we can scaffold students

together. >> actually, we've been thinking and doing a lot of that work in our status. in our math departments in when we go into clam classrooms, we've been trained to look at that. >> thanks for the presentation. i just want to quickly shout out again to all the teachers. thank you for coming out -- >> and ms. allen who is an amazing science teacher. >> all of you, thank you for coming. i see your principal is back there. what's up, y'all. you got to teach tomorrow.

you're going to stick around? you're welcome to stay. hope to have you back at future meetings. it's tons of fun as you can see. i had a couple of questions about -- i only have a couple about the redesign work. and i'm sure you all thought about this already, but it's not included in the presentation. but it's really around what's happening around summer school and in the summer for students. what is our -- do we have summer learning loss and how it affects middle school students? >> i don't think we have the kind of data we need to inform what we would need in the

summer. there are very few options for the middle grade students. there is a geometry class that we would offer. >> i hear a lot of conversations around elementary school students and around efforts towards literacy and our high school conversation is around credit recovery. there may be some college prep stuff, but we have this wide gap around middle school. and given the fact that we're having this redesign

conversation, we're talking about what we need to do for middle school. i'm hoping we can start to seriously look at that and see what it will take to enhance our students' learning experience over the summer. have those conversations started? >> no. but i think we can start them. i think these are great conversations to have. there are a number of cbos in the summer we can work with. a lot of them do serve our middle school students and are academically focused. but figuring out if those are sufficient or if we need to do something different can be a topic going forward in the steering community. >> i love a lot of the work that's coming out of the project-based learning.

i'm wondering how can we share it because a lot of it is seeing it. it's great work you are doing and i want to see more of it. >> the other thing i was going to speak to was the health curriculum and how critical that is for middle school students. what i see when i visits schools around the type of behavior we see in the hallways. conversations that students are having that are very common in schools, so common that you let it go. so our health classes are a great place to start that.

how we take it from class to the outside is a great opportunity for our schools, do you see the health classes play a role in that or what else needs to happen? >> most definitely. the health class is a way to systematise a way of what students are doing and how are the ways they are speaking to each other. the other part is every single middle school has a culture teammate. in our middle school priorities we look at the sense of belonging and assess how are school, staff, and students feelings. because middle schools are important, we hone in on the culture climate.

so that lift is the culture team and the health classes support the lessons students are learning to interact with each other. >> just because i feel so strongly and excited about adolescent development, one thing i would like to see as we work around this redesign is around language, helping parent community discover what an important this is in adolescent development and why i think this redesign matches not only where they're at finding their voice or identity, and how the middle grade schools are so important and we find out this is going to be part of setting them up for their journey ahead.

thank you so much. >> the last thing i wanted to mention is how many more schools we have to reach is for myself and the public. so with the number of the sites here, how many sites are part of the pilot, six or seven? >> this is two, but we also have two other who are latching onto it as well. but i want to share back this slide with you. so if you look at technology and integration, some of these schools have been part of this for a while. the only difference here is the structural pieces that we're looking into, like the exploratory wheel, the electives, the acceleration pm

and the aligned early release. those structural pieces are changing. but if you look at all these pieces here, most of our middle schools are already in the redesign process. >> i was counting the schools as nine schools on this list. how many do we have total? >> 13. >> so there are four more that haven't seen anything. >> so these nine schools them strait the schools that have taken on some of the core designs. the other schools have been exploring and piloting smaller components of it. they have been part of professional learning communities. if all 13 schools are on a

contin continuum, they are on a novice phase, if we think of the others to be the first two to pilot. >> okay. that's helpful. >> okay. i want to add something about go slow to go fast. if we make these shifts in the deeper learning principles and the types of peed -- peed gynaecology and structure. so this idea that we're going to implement fully and pieces are going to be picked up across the board, help us learn what things are going well. what things in the shift in practice and teaching practices

are going well. how do we restructure the office to support these. we don't want to practice opposite everyone all at once. it will allow us to say one piece worked in one way and not another, and we will be able to course correct if we're adding two or four more schools. >> okay. when is our next update about middle scooss redesign in the spring or next school? between now and january, is that enough time to start about what the summer would look like? so we'll see an update about that in january? okay. cool. thank you. good night.

svermgts r. >> section k. number 1 comment on proposals. we have none. so these are going to first reading. number 2 board policy 5132. and board boil 3. board policy 4. no. 5. may i hear a motion to second on the four policies? >> seconded. >> if i don't hear anything else

from legal, i'm going to refer these to the rules committee. >> yes, will go to rules committee. sexual healthed and hiv aids prevention as well as hiv aids requirement should also go. >> section l, proposal for immediate action and suspension of the rules. section m, board members' reports. we also got an update from curriculum. >> can i say something? >> yes. >> we had so many committee members at this meeting, i think it was telling. we had five board members, so i just wanted to put it out there.

>> [ indiscernible ] -- [ laughter ]. >> we had an action item report proposal 19625 and we go an update on that. no. #, report from board delegations to membership organizations. any other reports by board members? >> i'm just so excited, we passed this equity resolution. it's going up everywhere. we have a student declaration of rights to access the arts.

we've purchased instruments. it will have an immediate impact this fall for students and i appreciate the unanimous support that we all got from the board in making that happen this year. thank you. >> i would also just like to appreciate the sites that welcomed me for the first week of school. i got to visit the premiere high school in san francisco. we got to talk to the principal about the number of priorities that they have for this year and the recommendation for the best burritos in the city. i would also like to welcome our new intern. and our board delegates, i would like to give you a welcome.

this is the first time since i've been on the board that we've had a member from mission high school. congratulatio congratulati congratulations. [ applause ]. >> you make us proud, both of you. we have a calendar of business meetings. the rules, policy, and legislation is meeting october 7 at 5:00 p.m. curriculum and program is meeting monday, september 9, at 6:00 p.m. the ad hoc committee on personnel members and affordability, the meeting is

being scheduled on monday, september 6, 6 p.m. section n, other informational items. new brunswick -- no. 1 sfusd's true transition guidelines. at this time, we will take public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for public session. we have no comments.

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>> we are back in open session. in the matter of sfusd, the board gave direction to general council. section r., adjournment. that concludes tonight's board meeting. good night.

>> here we are responsible to oversee the drinking water distribution system. in san francisco changes in the fire code required anyone doing representtro fit to the home to get a new fire service this caused the need for new water services to spike. we used to do 200 a year. now we are up to 600. >> if you are building a new house you need fire protection. you have to make application to the water department for that. if you go through the process we come out and install the new line and the new fire line. >> the project got kicked off by two of our a gms, steve and eric. they recognized the need for improving this process. they pulled together the project and selected the team members and asked me to lead the effort.

>> on c cd there is permit and no parking signs and installing the service, having water caught at the check off and pave. >> it is a lengthy application process with manual tracking. for construction because we communicate with ccd we have to stay in touch with ccd to inform the customer for updates. >> at one time there was three separate visits to activate the fire service. water quality and gate manment and then gate man would go back. now the gate man goes one-time, one visit and it is done. >> we dissected the process and looked for ways to streamline the process and use technology to make the experience smoother and what we are building is an

online portal for customers to apply without coming downtown and they can get updates. >> with the online application everything is there. it is built in condition logic with tracking to communicate with the customer without having to take notes. >> we want to tell you these are 10 steps and you are on step three or four. >> we streamlined the process. we knocked it down to 65 days. the goal is half of that. from the time you make application to put the check on the table to the time we pave the street, we want it down to 30-days. >> i am proud of the team for the work to get together to understand each other's work and come up with solutions. i really wanted the rest of the team to understand the time and deliberation and thought so they could get the recognition that

they deserve. >> good morning, everyone. i'm tom mcguire and i have the privilege of acting as the san francisco m.c.a. we're here to celebrate the opening of this beautiful train platform. this is going to be the best way to get to the chase center arena. we're exciting to be cutting the ribbon on that platform today. this arena will be the most sustainable, transit-friendly and most successful arena in the nba. to celebrate this opening, i would like to welcome mayor london breed. >> mayor breed: thank you, tom. there are a lot of folks here today to celebrate this platform, and i just want to start by thanking each and every one of you for being here and

helping us to get the word out, but i especially want to thank the warriors. not only have they committed to making sure that this is the most transit friendly chase center anywhere, but they can put their money where their mouth is by making investments in our transportation system here in san francisco. this platform is just one of their many commitments to supporting transportation to chase arena for the over 220 events that they plan to host every single year. we announced a few weeks ago that any event that you attend at chase center, you can basically show your ticket as proof of payment to get on muni and pull up right to the almost front door and walk over and enjoy a good time. and then when you're ready to go, you can hop right back on muni to get back home or wherever you're trying to get

to. a year ago we formed a committee to talk about how we were going to be the most transit friendly location when chase center opened, and the warriors have been at the table, ucff has been at the table. the legislators have been at the table. i really want to thank ucsf for being here today and an incredible partner to make sure that people are able to get in and out this community, whether they're going to the hospital at ucsf or going to class or coming back from mission bay or going to chase center, this neighborhood which basically used to be a railway and empty space has now become a real part of san francisco as an incredible, thriving community, with people, restaurants, places

to go and things to do. i've got to tell you, chase center is like the icing on the cake because this is where entertainment is going to happen, this is where the championship warriors nba champions will play right here in san francisco starting this fall for the -- well, actually coming home for the second time in our great city. i'm so excited about what's to come when we open this new center. but today is about really promoting our transportation plans and how we need to get people around this area safely, securely, efficiently. the thing that people ask about the most, first of all, san francisco has a lot of congestion, but now that we're adding another 18,000 people who are going to visit this area over the course of 220 events, what are we doing? well, we got bike share, we got

plans with muni, we have so many incredible opportunities for people to choose the ferry service and transit options first. our goal is to get the word out and to hopefully when we open this amazing place we'll see tons of people getting right off at this platform to attend the first concert here and attend one of the first games happening here for the golden state warriors. i'm excited about this. thank you to the neighborhood for your patience and all the people that have had a tremendous role. i'd also like to add my real appreciation for the warriors and the four additional trains that we're going to be getting in addition to the platform and some of the other infrastructure improvements as their commitment to doing all they can to provide transit options for the visitors to chase arena. they've been an incredible partner in this city.

at this time, i'd like to introduce another incredible partner, someone who's helped on the legislative side and continues to advocate for not only resources for san francisco, but continues to push the envelope around the kinds of transit options that we need to make san francisco and the bay area a more transit friendly, a more efficient place to move people around, that's assembly member david chu. >> thank you, madam mayor. san francisco, are we ready for basketball? are we ready for the warriors? so i was trying to think of something pithy to say that would be appropriate for this day. this is what i'll say in four words: this is the station for dub nation. all right. this is ride, this journey, has been long in coming. i was just talking to rick wells about how it was eight years ago when i was serving as president of the san francisco board of

supervisors, i got a call about the possibility that the warriors might move to our great city. a lot as happened over that time. i remember asking him the question: how are we going to move 18,000 people in and out games this many times a year? today we announced we unveiled part of the solution to that blue-and-gold question. i want to also along with the mayor thank so many folks that were responsible for the day, starting with the mayor and her team at muni, along with our contractors and our engineers, our builders. of course to the warriors for your vision of what an amazing venue could be about. ucsf, thank you for not only your science but also partnership. i want to thank a moment to thank the neighborhoods, the neighbors, our transit advocates for bringing us to where we are today. i want to take a moment to thank the legislature and the bay area voters who last year passed

regional measure 3, which is over $4 billion of transit and congestion funding to help ensure that we are building the best transit system in the world here in san francisco. let me also mention today is a ribbon cutting, but this is not going to be the last transit stop ribbon cutting. as i mentioned when we were moving forward with regional measure 3 it was suggested to me and my colleagues that we also invest in a ferry system that includes a future mission bay ferry stop. if all goes well, in 2021, we will hopefully do a ribbon cutting there as well with the temporary option, as mayor breed just reminded me. let me just close by saying that we all know that the greatest 21st century cities have great transit. we know we have more work to do in san francisco, but this is one of the major stops to ensuring that we have great

transit here in san francisco and here in the bay. go dubes. with that, it's my honor to introduce someone who needs no introduction. someone who has overseen three championships over the last five years, the the of the golden state warriors. >> thank you. another great day. we have been on this journey for about seven years now. i know it's a distant memory, but we had some press conference on pier 3032 about seven years ago accepting the mayor's invitation to bring the warriors back to san francisco. obviously a lot has happened since then. two people up here -- actually, all of them, but two in particular at that point in time were critical to this project david chu in his former role at the board of supervisors was one of the first advocates for this project. it seems really easy now that it's all done.

at the time he took some arrows for us and there were some times when it wasn't the easiest position to be taking. david, we owe you a great debt of gratitude and the support you gave us then in guiding us to our new home at mission bay. i'm going to introduce this guy in a moment, but i want to say something about him before i do. chancellor hagad has been an amazing partner in getting this project done. through the time that i have known him, which initiated with this project, i've come to respect what an incredible steward you are for this amazing institution. he's a really good negotiator too. i will tell you that. he was -- you know, we had a common vision, but we had to figure out how to get there. the getting there was the part that chancellor hagood was so instrumental in making happen. mayor breed before she was mayor was a supporter.

she even came with us to china a few years ago to see the warriors play there. she has -- since the time she has been in office has been an inbelievable advocate in focusing in on what it's going to take to make this project successful for the city. i think her encouragement is what resulted in our muni program. remember that, your ticket to any event at j center is our ticket on muni. free transportation on muni the day of the event. that's an incredible opportunity. i think it's not only going to be great for getting people familiar with muni on muni. i think it's going to bring a lot of people to muni that have never tried it before because of the guests from outside the bay area and outside of san francisco who now will have an experience with muni that hopefully they'll repeat over and over again. i think, mayor, you've assured us that tom has made sure with

all this demand that we're creating, that the service is going to match that demand, right? isn't that what you told me? thanks to each and every one of you. you deserve to be up here. we're less than a month away from cutting a ribbon and welcoming our first event, metallica and the san francisco symphony. what else would you do in san francisco on september 6. thanks to all of you. i'm going to turn this over to chancellor sam hagood. >> thank you, rick. let me welcome you all here the medical center and university here. we're delighted to be welcoming the equally world class warriors to be our partners. it has been a journey as rick mentioned, but i am confident that everything is in place to

make this a spectacular success not just for mission bay, but san francisco. at ucsf we strongly believe in the mayor's transit policies. we run our electric shuttle services to keep our patients, staff, students out of cars. we promote the use of transit whenever we can. that includes allowing city employees to access our transit to zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. i would like to especially thank the mayor, who from day one has made a commitment to the opening of the chase center and the operations of the chase center the great success that i know it will be. with the cooperation of the m.t.a. for their terrific work on this new pavilion. my office is just here. i can actually see this transit center and see the chase center from my office. i believe i'll be looking

directly into rick's office. we'll be able to monitor very carefully how this all works, but we're very excited about welcoming the warriors to our neighborhood. i thank the members of the ucsf community, but the broader community who have tolerated a lot of construction including our own construction and the warriors and the transit. it will all be over soon and we'll be able to enjoy the fruits of everyone's labor. thank you for being here. it's a very, very exciting day. tom. >> thank you, chancellor. thank you again for your patience and for all the neighbors here in mission bay and all the neighborhoods who have been so patient with the amount of construction that has taken place and that has been required for a great station and a great arena to take shape here in mission bay. thank you also to our elected officials for their leadership encouraging us to put transit first. of course to the warriors for

funding infrastructure investments. making your warriors ticket count for your muni ticket. i'm looking forward to seeing what our peer cities and other teams in san francisco, thank you, madam mayor. also joined by our board member who has been terrific. thank you to all the m.t.a. members who have been working so hard for the last few months to make sure that this station opened before the arena so we've got a great facility for all the fans who are going to show up in one month. with that, let's go across the street and cut a ribbon. >> ready? five, four, three, two, one. yay. we're open. [♪]

>> good morning, everyone. welcome to the thursday exit a fifth meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. i am the chair of this committee i'm joined by supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor vallie brown who will be joining us shortly, and we are also joined by supervisor