>> miss collins and mr. clerk miss lam? miss lópez? >> vice-president lópez: here and miss collins is here as well. >> clerk: okay, thank you, thank you. mr. moliga is going to be late. miss norton. >> commissioner norton: here. >> clerk: mr. sanchez? >> president sanchez: here. >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you. so i need to have our translators and our interpreters, announcers, at this moment.

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>> thank you very much. >> thank you. if you are not speaking at the moment, please mute yourself. all right, thank you. and, again, just welcome, everybody and thank you for everything that you're doing during this crisis. we'll move into agenda and section a is just notice regarding virtual meetings and translation purposes which we just did. and section b, opening items. we need the approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of may 12th. a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> clerk: thank you. any corrections?

board members, if you have any, just speak up. roll call please, miss costo. >> clerk: mr. cook? yes. miss lam? miss lópez. yes. mr. moliga. miss norton? yes. thank you, mr. sanchez? yes. thank you. >> did you get the student delegates? >> clerk: you know what they probably did -- i'm so sorry, miss senator? yes. and mr. sandaval? yes. >> president sanchez: superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president sanchez. good afternoon, everyone.

it's great to see you all in this format. this month is the public school striving to be a place where every student can see themselves and be themselves with the diversity of our students to be celebrated every day. in the united states, the month of may is celebrated as asian-pacific heritage month to honor and to uplift the many important contributions of asian-pacific americans which are essential to san francisco's history. both our history present and our future history. our communities are made better by embracing and celebrating the differences that define us all. graduating seniors first and foremost, congratulations. we're extremely proud of your hard work, especially during these times. you have little shown true grit. now for a bit of business for

our seniors and for students who are leaving san francisco unified school district and not returning in august. anything borrowed, including technology, texas books and musical instruments need to be returned before the end of the school year. so collection days will be scheduled at select locations. more information will be available soon as to those locations. but once again, most importantly, we want to wish you congratulations on your hard work. last week was classified employees week and i want to celebrate the people who are essential to making our schools work for kids. like school secretaries, custodians and security guards and cafeteria workers and teaching assistants, just to name a few. in the world of public education, these staff are referred to as classified employees and the california department of education has designated that the third week of may is "classified school

employee week" to honor the many contributions of our classified employees. while our classified employees do so much when school buildings are open, today i want to share with you how our classified employees have been at the forefront of our pandemic response. and since closing schools due to the covid-19 outbreak, the district has distributed nearly one million meals to children and families in san francisco. our school nutrition staff, along with the security guards and custodians, who help to open up sites and keep them safe and making sure that no child goes hungry. ensuring technology access. to address this need, the district, led by classified staff in the department of teg nolg, distributed over 16,000 devices, including chromebooks and hotspots. our district has taken a creative approach to technology deployment and outreach using

school distribution to home shipment and even home deliveries to make sure they're reaching the students and families who need them the most. finally, we're planning for next school year. learning will take place starting august 17th. we're still in the process of planning what that will look like. we are hiring a facilitator to lead the community process and the discussion on what learning will look like. given current guidance from public health and education officials, we will be considering a variety of approaches and scenarios, all of which will require major changes in how we deliver education in order to minimize the health risk for our students and staff and their families. president sanchez, that concludes my report for this meeting. >> president sanchez: thank you so much, dr. matthews. and the student delegates' report. >> thank you, hello, everyone.

students were surveyed and we would like to announce that the 2020 student voice surveys delegate election has ended. we'd like to give a big shoutout to our candidates, katialachelle, and they ran campaigns eastbound during the pandemic conditions. our goal is to encourage school leadership and engagement. now can i please get a drum roll so i can announce the 2020, class 2021 student delegates. i need a bigger drum roll than that. thank you. we would like to announce that the new student delegates for the board of education is a junior from high school. she's an advocate for student leadership. she's also our very first african american student delegate and we're excited to see all of great things that she will bring to the board.

we thank our guidance for the survey and for all of the candidates who ran this year. we are sure that this won't be the last year that we will hear from you and we can't wait to see them. [broken audio] last night at our fosfusd meeting we had nominations. and after nominating and endorsing leaders i had the honor to introduce our interern student delegate. she's a peer resources student. i would love to introduce our president megan lowell who is our current secretary. megan is a junior and has helped to plan a lot of the school's proms and school distances. we'd also like to thank all of our sfusd representatives who ran for the positions and continued to devote their time

to student leadership. >> during our meeting we briefed student leaders with the final details of our resolution after our meeting. and president sanchez and vice president lópez did speak. and they support us in advocating for this resolution, and to secure funding for our school district. we'd like to thank all of our constituents, student leaders who were there and for their input and all of the focus groups that we did for creating this resolution and special kudos goes out to sfusd commissioner and president sanchez and vice president lópez and the commissioner of engagement. and we'd like to thank mr. syres and mr. sal and we couldn't have done it without their guidance. our fourth item is our student voice concerns around graduation. so last night our meeting many of our constituents had concerns

around grad. based on their findings, we had the general consensus that maybe it would be possible to host a physical celebration that would be a lot better than virtual. we'd like to thank sal again and cyrus for hearing our concerns during this time. >> continued projects. collaborating with other school districts. sweetwater union high school district. we will collaborate with other student delegates and hope to create future projects that can provide a better streamlined student support service to our school sites. pending resolutions. and we are in the final stage of proposing our safety solutions which is co-authored by commissioner lam. we'd like to thank the sfusd for input and to pass our

resolutions before the end of the school year. >> and the vote survey. now that our leadership election is over we can gather the data collected by our constituents and host student focus groups with the student input and create recommendations. our next steps would involve collecting data and submitting the information to our r.p.a. department for processing. student leadership for 2020 to 2021. applications. if you're interested in making a change in and becoming a student advocate for your peers we're accepting applications for the year 2020-2021. interviews. during the summer, our cabinet team will be conducting interviews for applicants and for more information go to our instagram page. and that concludes our board update. >> president sanchez: thank you, student delegates. item 4 is recognitions and resolutions of commendation.

i don't know, dr. matthews, are going to start this off or shall i? >> sorry, why don't you start off the first part and then i'll do the superintendent's awards. >> president sanchez: great, thank you. so we have -- we're now going to announce -- an announcement of scholarships awarded by our education support organizations and the first is the united administrators of san francisco, and it's joan hepperley, and i hope that joan is here. i saw her earlier. >> i'm here. hi. good afternoon, everyone. i'm joan hepperley, with the united administrators of san francisco. superintendent matthews and president sanchez and commissioners and student delegates, on behalf of the united administrators of san francisco, we are pleased to announce eight high school recipients who received each a $1,500 scholarship from our organization.

this scholarship can be used to provide support to these students for their college expenses. the recipients are as follows. from youth chant high school, marticia gant will attend the city college of san francisco and then transferring. and then ashley perez, san francisco state university. lincoln high school, adrian buscas, city college of san francisco. hiptop school, lucero, the san francisco state university. and john o'connell high school, san francisco state university. and civic center secondary, jordan priestley, city college san francisco. and idab. wells, amani matthews. and balboa high school, u.c. santa cruz. and congratulations to all of our students, you will receive a

check within the next 10 to 14 days. >> president sanchez: everyone is applauding. thank you. our next is for educators. are you here? mr. steele, have you seen her? >> i just had her over in attendees, so hopefully try again. >> president sanchez: and the alliance for black school educators -- all right. we'll go back to miss marshall. and the association of chinese teachers, loren --

>> (indiscernible). >> hi. i'm the head counsellor for the san francisco unified. >> (indiscernible). >> president sanchez: go ahead, miss marshall. >> sorry about that. superintendent matthews and commissioners and student delegates and my fellow colleagues on behalf of the association of chinese teachers i would like to announce the 2019-2020 scholarship winners. we had over 70 applicants and we're so proud of all of them and we wish we could give them each $2,000, but we have chosen these 19 select, and i'm going it go through that list right now. so for the scholarship we have from galileo, adrihanna may. and for the robert louis memorial scholarship, we have alex tran liu.

and for another scholarship we have andrew seema who is off to larrharvard. and for the friends of tak scholarship, crystal chan going to yale. from the alan wong memorial scholarship, we have doris setu from galileo off to u.c. davis. and for another scholarship, we have kelly moss from ga galileof to u.c. berkeley. and for the troy louis family scholarship, we have jesse lin from lowell high school, off to u.c. san diego in the fall. and for the horace man middle school scholarship, we have jung tung lee from galileo going to u.c. santa cruz. and for another scholarship, we we have jane shee, going to u.c.

more merced. and we have another from s.f. international high school. choosing between u.c. davis and u.c. berkeley. and for the chan yang scholarship, we have kevin zao from thurgood marshall going to u.penn in the fall. and for the yee family memorial scholarship we have sabrina chiu from washington high school, going to u.c. irvine. for the yee fung memorial scholarship we have a student from lowell high school going to u.c. santa barbara. and the rotary club of san francisco chinatown scholarship will be going to tommy one from lowell high school off to u.c. berkeley in the fall. and for the ester chiu memorial scholarship, our winner is from s.f. international, and that is wey shei winnie yu going to u.c. berkeley. and for another we have sharon

chen from gal lailo off to u.s.c. and for the alai alain jang scholarship we have a student from gagalileo off to u.c. stat. and we have another student from lowell high school, off to u.c. irvine. and for the william and gail chan family scholarship, we have ying irene tam from galileo off to u.c. san diego in the fall. we thank everyone and everyone who applied and we have a wonderful team of students. thank you so much. >> president sanchez: thank you. thank you so much. and back to the alliance of black school educators. miss marshall are you with us? >> i'm with you, hello, everyone. good afternoon. sorry about that technology glitch. good afternoon, president sanchez and vice president lópez and board and commissioners. and our beloved ester, and

ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls. on behalf of the alliance for black school educators i'm pleased to share our 2020 scholarship recipients. for the first time we made history, number one, it was a virtual scholarship with more than 100 on the call. and number two, for the first time in our history we're awarding $21,000 scholarships. drum roll, please. here are the names: the s hirsch a duffin from ga galileo to cal state. and tommy harper jr., will go to cal state east bay. and nahee nim. and another student will go to san francisco state. and hannah from lowell high school to boston university.

and adahalu from john o'connell goes to san francisco state. and chante island gramlin university. and another student will go to cal state east bay. and meisha from gateway high, going to gramlin university. and tania sills from mission high goes to dene college. and another student from lowell high school will go to the university of southern california. and ion robinson from john o'connell goes to arizona state university. and mia montgomery will go to texas southern university. issac cristwell will go to ucla. and michael (indiscernible) to u.c. berkeley.

and another student will go to dene college. and jayden johnson will go to oregon state university. tyrese moront will go to cal state east bay. and erica salis will go to yale university. congratulations to all of our recipients and thank you to our sponsors. >> president sanchez: thank you. >> (indiscernible). >> hello, everybody, thank you so much for having us. thank you, commissioners. this year in lieu of doing our annual scholarship dinner/dance we decided to up our number of scholarships. last year we awarded 16 and this year we're awarding 35 scholarships to our students. there's a long list and i'm going to go through it right now. we are just -- between our

scholarships we give a varying amount depending if our students are going to city college or a four-year university. depending on that, and once they send us their schedule we're able it give them the money they have earned. we have [reading of students names and high schools]

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[reading of students fames and high schools] thank you. >> president sanchez: thank you, thank you so much. it's a highlight of the year for us i'm sure. >> congratulations. >> president sanchez: congrats to all of them and thank you to

our folks that are giving out the scholarships. dr. matthews, item 2 is resolution accommodation for sfusd department of technology staff for their dedicated staff to sfusd and students. >> we have a few more award winners. the 21st century awards. in our vision 2025 graduate profile we have identified skills and competencies that we aspire to develop and to support for all of our graduates. we aim to cultivate our graduates who are ready to learn, and ready to create, ready for career, ready for life, ready to tackle a changing world and ready to lead and ready to work with others. and ready to be their best. each year with the community support through spark s.f. public schools, we recognize six of our district graduates with a superintendent scholarship award. this year's winners will speak

to us directly in this 2 1/2 minute video. so, mr. steele. >> i'm from john mcconnell high school. >> my name is alana and i'm currently a senior. >> i'm a senior. >> i'm michelle and i go to independent high

for >> congratulations to all of our 21st century award winners. we are so proud of you and proud of all of our scholarship winners and all of our graduates. so a big thank you. the next item is we have a resolution of accommodation for our district department of staff for their efforts. >> okay, thank you, dr. matthews. and so bear with me for one second if you would. >> before you go on, can we have a motion and a second? >> i can record that for you if you like. >> commissioners, we need a motion. >> so moved.

>> second. >> thank you. i'm sorry. >> thank you, president sanchez and thank you so much to the commissioners and dr. matthews for recognizing the department of technology staff in this way and it is -- i can't overstate how challenging the work has been that they have performed and so many of the wonderful things and difficult things that have been happening over the last three months have a lot to do with their efforts. so without further adieu i will just read the specifics of the accommodations. so resolution accommodation for sfusd department of technology staff for their dedicated service to sfusd students. whereas the department of technology, d.o.t. team of san francisco unified school district, is committed to providing equitable access and

equitable opportunity with technology and meeting sfusd's efforts to transform into a digital district, and with whe whereas sfusd staff mobilized to obtain and distribute more than 12,40400400 chromebooks for 16,0 devices distributed to students in grades 3 through 12 since school closures. this represents nearly 30% of the entire sfusd student population for grades three through 12. and where whereas more than 3,900 students received wifi access through district distributed wifi for students three through 12. and 1500 received we few through their housing community in partnership with the city. whereas the d.o.t. staff and volunteers planned and executed a total of 100 centralized

events at district sites throughout the city, presenting students and families with 65 hours of pick-up opportunities over the course of seven weeks in addition to distribution events hosted by school administrators and school sites. and whereas d.o.t. mailed more than 3,700 packages containing assigned chromebooks and hot spots to reach students at their homes and to reach those students who could not pick up needed technology. whereas as a result of these efforts 5rbgs 6 56% of our afrin american students received a chromebook and 19% of the students in hunter's point received wifi ak sisd access fra hotspot. and d.o.t. provided over 222 online webinar sessions with more than 9,244 recorded attendances to train teachers, leaders and staff in distance learning and virtual meeting tools and strategies. and whereas as a result of these

collective efforts that 99.3% of students, i say that once again 993.3% of students grades three through 12, engaged online with the technology platforms since the start of educator-led distance learning on april 13th. and whereas d.o.t. has supported more than 5,000 family inquiries via online forums, emails and the family resource link and multiple languages since march. additionally whereas help tickets from sfusd staff more than doubled from this time last year and yet d.o.t. increased its resolution rate by 4% to a resounding 98% resolution rate. and whereas d.o.t. mailed over 100,000 family photo activation letters to families in march and currently 42 -- sorry -- 42% of the parents guardians have activated their family portal accounts and an increase of over 11,000 activations since

january 20202. total parent log-ins were more than 213,147 respectively. and whereas in partnership with e.p.c. and d.o.t. quickly pivoted to anon lin online appln system with 11,000 families to register for their school assignment online and 3,035 families to apply online for school year 2020-201. therefore be it resolved that the superintendent and the board of education recognize and commend the 90 d.o.t. team members who have worked tirelessly and on the frontlines and embodying our district's core values, especially being student centered and fearless and united and diversity driven to support the district's mission to provide each and every student with the equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century. and i don't know if melissa

dodge with technology is on the grid and wants to chime in a little bit? >> hi, yes, i'm here. i just want to say thank you, president sanchez, vice president lópez, and board commissioners, superintendent matthews. thank you for this honor and recognition on behalf of d.o.t. this is quite a bit -- we're very humbled by this recognition. and it's a bit of a humble brag because we're quite proud of the work that we have done and we are so fortunate in this district to have such a phenomenal technology team who is dedicated and who is committed to supporting our students. i just wanted to read very quickly a little note that i had shared with d.o.t. this morning. we happened to be on a leadership townhall on friday and where unexpectedly there was a lot of bright spots and recognition for d.o.t. as well.

so i wanted to make sure that i shared that with them and this recognition. and so i just -- if i can indulge me for one minute. all of d.o.t. is serving sfusd in above and beyond ways as the district navigates the uncertain times of this pandemic. and as we do as well in our personal lives as parents, as caregivers, as caretakers. many of us have stepped up to the challenge working hours that should be humanly impossible. and a number of us are making sacrifices by serving as frontline workers and coming into work every day and engaging with the public. you have my utmost gratitude and appreciation. thank you does not do it or you justice. you are seen and you are appreciated and you are valued. and this award recognition from the board from our leadership in the district is more than i could even say or do. so thank you very much on behalf

of d.o.t. >> thank you miss dodd. any public comment on this item? please raise your hand. >> we have a few hands up here. >> okay. >> hello, is this jim? risk recognition for the department of technology. >> i'm the president of local 21 union and we report many of the d.o.t. workers, among others in the district. as the president i'm proud to hear the board recognize the work of my colleagues have done and that i have done to support the district for the students and families during the covid crisis. all district employees have really stepped up and i'm happy to be one of them. however, there are conflicting messages -- hold on a second --

conflicting messages coming from the district when our members are at the same time being noticed with layoffs and when newspapers report to layoffs to d.o.t. and other staff. we understand that there's a budget crisis that is bigger than the city and state alone, but we must advocate for the dollars that the district does have to be spent on our committed district staff and not outside contracts and contractors. d.o.t. is as only as strong as a team. a team of department staff and school site tech supporting and being supported by a large team of district workers. we have been praised today for the work that we have done but we're only as good as a team if we're kept whole to put it simply we cannot afford to have layoffs to central or to school -- on-site school staff. we thank them for recognition and ask for your support in keeping our district team whole so that we may continue to do

the work for -- that we do for and with all of you. thank you for your time. thank you. >> thank you. hello, margarita? margarita there? hello, margarita? we'll come back. susan? susan solomon? >> thank you very much. good afternoon, board of education commissioners and student delegates and superintendent matthews. i wanted to talk about how very, very helpful the d.o.t. workers have been to our workers. in addition to deploying thousands of devices to our students and to our members, in

particular our para-educators, the workers in d.o.t. represented by the local 21, also trained thousands of our workers -- our members in the technology required for the distance learning. we had to rapidly undertake it. and so many thanks to them. i'm really dismayed to hear that they are now facing layoffs at a time when we really, really need them. and i truly hope that the school board can find a way to maintain these valuable workers and to keep them on staff. there are often as i understand it vacancies in the department and to leave vacancies unfilled and to then potentially be laying workers off in these positions can do harm to the education that we need -- or we're all trying so hard to provide. thank you very much.

>> thank you. hello, kim? >> hi. i also want to chime in and to just congratulate the department of te technology and sfusd. the job they're doing is phenomenal. there isn't anyone and the local 21 that has been touched by the department of technology that has been able to say anything other than that. they are responsive with questions and with device issues and they reach out and the members have told me they have gotten a call back. and there are clerks that are helping with turning some of the normal paper processes into virtual processes. so a lot of our leadership team has been really on the forefront of helping to transition student

services, and these will now be virtual. and the department of technology has been so helpful for us. and i just want to commend them and to thank them and, clearly, they need every single person, because every single person in there is working above and beyond. no one is twid twidling their thumbs there. and i want to commend them for the amazing work that they're doing. thank you so much. >> thank you. hello, julie? >> hi. my name is julie robertson. and i feel like, you know, in this defendan difficult time ito be cranky about the things not going exactly the way we wanted them to. but i wanted to take a moment to be really supportive of the work that the department of technology has done to close

much of -- not the entire digital gap, but much of the digital gap in our city. i come from an elementary school where we have lots of new immigrant families, some of whom are refugees from war-torn countries who literally come to school and say, what is your email address and you ask them to sign in. and so they have done amazing work and they have been getting devices into families' hands in the moments of emergency learning. and addressing the different access to broadband that we have in this city. and so i'm just really appreciative of that in this moment. it is a bright spot. and i also want to advocate that we learn from this and continue to expand. we have about a third of the folks who were from third to 12th grade, who have devices and access to the internet. and it's important that we also

add in, up, ipads or other devices for young kids who are in earlier grades and the kind of tech support that families and educators and school sites need to be able to support families in getting on. and we're having still about a third of our students in some of the classes who have not been able to access education through the internet for one reason or another. so on that note i'm kind of shocked to hear that we're looking at layoffs for contracting out folks in the department of technology. i think that we're -- our institutions are only as strong as our people. and the historical knowledge and relationship that we have -- so i urge the district to, you know, to expand, and to invest in and expand the existing workforce that we have so that there's tech support that we need and the families have the

in-language tech support that we need. and i am concerned about news to contract out any of those roles or eliminate those positions. thank you. >> thank you. president sanchez, that concludes the public comment for this item. >> president sanchez: thank you, mr. steele. thank you shall, public commenters. commissioners, any comments? i can only see a couple of you. vice president lópez, please. >> vice-president lópez: i wanted to say how appreciative i was just because -- just going into this, the first thing that we knew we needed to solve was this gap. and so i have been to the distribution sites and i have seen our local 21 workers helping out families. i have been at the school district and seeing that they're

still not turning families away. so all of this is something that i'm certainly never going to forget it. i know that a lot of families feel the same way. and so i certainly am going to keep working and helping to make sure that we see all of the work that's being done, including the webinars, that have helped other educators to make sure that we do our best for our students. and i just wanted to point out that i think that joan has really also wanted to make a comment. i saw her hand raised before public comment was closed. >> okay, miss hepperley. >> you're muted. >> you're muted i think. joan, you're muted. unclick. >> okay, sorry. anyway, i didn't know that you had to press a button.

on behalf of the united administrators, i wanted to express gratitude to the d.o.t. team. the administrators could not run their schools at all, or have conducted all of the business they have done virtually during this time and supporting teachers to support their students and families. so, again, we just really feel that it's important to avoid layoffs with this department and to avoid consultancies and to be able to at least retain the staff, given and knowing and understanding the budget cuts that are in front of us. that even if we go back to school physically, in order to meet the digital divide and the inequitable education of some of our students we may need to have a combination of online additional support for students. so as far as i can see i think that we'll just continue to need this department more than ever. thank you. >> thank you. any other commissioners that --

commissioner lam? >> commissioner lam: thank you, thank you to the d.o.t. team under chief dodd. you are all truly, you know, at the forefront of really leading our way of what public school districts across the country are grappling with. and i also got commissioner lópez had mentioned the chance to see the team in action all the way from strategy to when a district makes a commitment on how we're going to actually deliver on those promises. to really the empathy and the compassion and working with our students and our families. so a big thank you. i know that there's actually more to come, especially as we advance our school district into the adoption -- the adaption to the 21st century technology. so, again, your professionalism and to the d.o.t. team, and really embracing and working with our city partners and truly how we'll close this digital divide. so, thank you so much.

>> president sanchez: commissioner colins? >> commissioner collins: i wanted to reiterate what is already said and also to say that i also thank computer science educators and the local 21, you know, staff. because technology isn't a resource for education unless it's a tool that is used in a way. and i think that there's -- i have seen a lot of collaboration and work across the department and just really, really appreciate, you know, all of the staff that has made it possible for our students and families to stay connected during this time. and i just look forward to us continuing to innovate and lead in that way. >> thank you. i don't see commissioner norton. i thought that you'd want to say something commissioner norton. so i just want to say and to

congratulate, actually, the d.o.t. for their excellent work. i want to recognize chief dodd for many, many things, but assembling an incredible team that is so responsive. i personally have reached out to miss dodd when i have heard through the grapevine from different folks that families needed hotspots and she acted on it immediately. so just from the quote/unquote, top to the, quote/unquote, bottom of the team, everybody throughout, it just seems that it's an amazingly well run organization within our organizations. so thank you for everything that you have done. and will continue to do in this crisis and beyond. so that item -- we are going to have a roll call on this item.

>> thank you. let me mute myself. thank you. miss collins? yes. mr. cook? >> president sanchez: he stepped out. >> clerk: miss lam? yes. miss lópez? yes. mr. moliga? yes. thank you. miss norton? miss norton? okay, mr. sanchez? >> president sanchez: yes. >> yes. >> clerk: thank you. mr. san doval? yes. you have five ayes right now. thank you. >> president sanchez: thank you so much. and so nice to recognize. -- >> did you record my yes vote. this is miss norton. >> yes and that makes it six, i meant six, not five. >> item five is recognizing all

valuable employees. and we have awards tonight. and section c is public comment. so our host, mr. steele, will call on speakers and keep them to two minutes. here's the protocol for the commenters. please note that public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about an empleaee you may submit it with district policy. and those rules do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment time, no matter how much we'd like to. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask the staff to follow-up with speakers. so if you are in our public -- and you would like to make a comment, that's definitely something not on our agenda.

mr. steele could recognize you. >> thank you, president sanchez. eloise? >> yes, good afternoon, commissioners. i wanted to speak to the representation of the kip academy. and it's our understanding that the district is now not providing the number of classrooms entitled to our families by law. i'm certain that it's not due to capacity because i'm born and raised in bayview and i know that back in the day that over 400 children attended malcolm x. and enrollment has consistently dropped and now between kip and malcolm x. there's less than 280 students so please do not tell us that there's room for our children. i understand that you may not like that myself and other parents have chosen to send our children and grandchildren to kip, so we respectfully ask that you respect our rights to choose

the educational pathway for our children. this is not right, nor is it fair. there's those of us who live in bayview and have suffered enough and we have been through enough. everything that comes to us that is helpful is taken away, eliminated or moved out of the community. we ask that the district allow kip three things -- stay in bayview, allocate the appropriate number of classrooms, and stop attacking us. we're going through enough hardship. we've had to deal with this uncertainty every year. and right now we're in the middle of a pandemic and this is what has happened? please, we want you to resolve this today. and also the phone number, the path code for the phone to call in is not working. several parents have tried to do there and contacted me and they are unable to contact you. this happened at the last meeting. so i strongly encourage you to take a look at what your

password is and to see if you can correct that so that people can call in and make public comment. thank you. >> thank you. >> (indiscernible). >> hello, ben, ben? >> yes, can you hear me? >> this is ben trafney, i'm a news director in san francisco. and i want to thank the board and the administrators and teachers and students at sfusd during this time. as a parent of twin seniors at lowell and sarasota, i want to say happy graduation and a big congratulations to everybody who has gotten through all of these years. i also want to note that klyw have received a grant to run our summer podcasting institute. this is a chance for the students to learn audio production and journalism in a small class setting while receiving a stipend and reporting for the podcast which

is by about and for teenagers. the project brings together work that we have done with more than a hundred high school students at galileo and other high schools. when others are cancelled due to this pandemic, we are working with our trainees and we're excited to provide this great opportunity for teenagers as well as people who should hear what they have to say. so, please, do spread the word about the summer podcasting institute to students. you can respect me at my email ben@klaw.org. and several media outlets have cancelled their training programs. but, again, building upon our strength as a teaching newsroom and sfusd we're holding training programs this week. it starts tomorrow. people who have taken part in our past training programs have moved to work for the "washington post" and n.p.r. and

christian science monitor and we think that this is our responsibility and duty to provide this opportunity if we can and we have figure th figurw to do it. and we have an award that went to the alliance for women in media foundation. it's for inflection point with lauren schiller about how women rise up and it's in partnership with klew. and the winning episode featured playwright speaking about her bestselling book. so good news to share with you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> one second. >> charlicharlie, are you on?

>> we had the issue of the password not working and so we have a parent who called in to me and he will speak right now. go ahead, justin. >> hello, i am justin brooks, and i'm the parent of justin brooks jr. which is a first grader. i am on the phone today asking this board why it is that my child -- why is my child worth less because he goes to a charter school? and this is basically telling us that you don't care if the school closes down or stays open and now you're saying that you won't let us have classroom space that is needed for our children in the area. to me this (indiscernible) nor does the schooling in the neighborhood, and why does my student have to worry that they may not be able to see their friends nor the staff that they're acquainted with

throughout the existence of kip being here and in going to school. i ask this board to do the right thing. and not only for the students in the school but for the staff and the teachers. >> thank you. thank you so much. that was great. perfect. (indiscernible). >> hello, cassandra? >> can you hear me? >> yes, go ahead. >> i am cass anda. have been a sixth grade elementary teacher and i have come to the board and spoke many times. today i'm coming to you not as a teacher but i've had the unique presence of being on the bargaining team this year.

and in regards to our bargaining today, i want to share with you my (indiscernible) as a class and future and bargaining team member, i have a well rounded perspective on the current perspective that they are facing at this very moment. our reality exists at the same time as facts. even more so as they develop with the estimates or calls for a bailout (indiscernible) and we still must move forward with the certainties that we have in front of us. just like we did with our students. the contract extension for thousands of educators are demanding, provides those certainties for everyone. it's consistency, clarity, and a language that is collaborative and familiar. we are all in this together. and we are prepared to serve our

students and families as this learning through crisis develops. so i urge you to support this contract extension alongside the sfusd members so that we can move forward to plan to serve our tens of thousands of students and family come fall. thank you. >> thank you. hello, megan? >> hi. my name is megan calussa, i'm a behavioral analyst at the sfusd district. and i wor i wanted to speak froe perspective of a sfusd member and an educator who has been with san francisco unified for 15 years.

in order to be in the position to provide what is best for our students we need to provide more social, emotional supports now and moving forward. this crisis has destabilized all of our lives and it is educators who are heavily tasked with dealing with that emotional state and providing concrete ways to address it. forward fo in order for educatos to have a sense of stability we need to know that our primary focus is connecting with students and their families and lifting them up in this time of need. we want to focus on healing centered practices for our students and families so that the task of learning is not so burdened by the reality of our situation. we need to know that the people and the resources that our students rely on will be there for them. when educators are stable, they can stabilize their school community, and support stabilization of the larger

community. and in a time of great uncertainty, our educators need to be the anchors that our community needs. a contract expansion allows us to do the essential work, to move forward towards healing and towards hope. thank you. >> thank you. hello, are you there? hello? >> yes. darcy chan-blackburn. this is 21 years teaching in the district and i teach first grade at sheraton. i represent elementary teachers with sfusd and i'm on the bargaining team. i'm here to speak to you in support of a two-year contract extension as well. this board and district have the power to listen to educators in this moment and respect the thousands of voices who in a

really uncertain and scary time all agreed on a vision moving forward that deals with the crisis in a way that is reasonable and centered and to do what is best for youth right now. that's why we mobilized and voted before -- i'm sorry -- we're all in this together and we're always going to do what is best for our students and families as we have seen. that's why we mobilized and voted before we got to the bargaining table today to extend the current contract and to spend our time focusing on working with educators, students, families and the district collaboratively in the coming months. we really need to have the capacity to advocate for more funding at the state and the federal level as well as getting schools and communities first passed. this is how we avoid making unnecessary cuts when and if the time occurs. the negotiating cuts right now is in direct opposition to how educators have been approaching this pandemic with our students.

and we just also heard about how the technology department has been hit as well. cuts right now is in direct opposition to how we have been working to support our students. we have been flexible and present as we all try and to adapt to this uncertain time. because we knew our students deserved more, not less. and focusing on the negotiating premature cuts to our youth in schools will do direct harm right now. i'm urging you today to support this proposal and extend the contract for two more years and advocate for the funding needed to continue to provide and to improve on the schools that our students deserve. >> thank you. hello, megan? is there a megan?

okay. is there a christy? >> yes. >> you can go ahead. two minutes. >> hi, i am christy measley and i'm also a concerned parent of a 6 1/2-year-old young lady named tanya who was born into this world drug addicted. she's a product of my little sister. she is a kin kind kindergartenee has mastered up to a third grade level in kindergarten and has received a distance learning award for mastering 100 more words during this distance

learning. i share in the concerns with all of the other parents. as a student of color, as we're asking this board to please to not break this family up. these students are -- have been like a family in the last two years. right now i wish you guys could experience some of the zoom sessions that they have, they miss each other, they want to come back to school. this is very -- these are children of color that actually want to go to school. they want to go to school. they really want to go to school. so i'm asking you guys, please, this board of commissioners, please, give us the classroom

space that we need so that we can continue to send our children to the neighborhood schools that they love. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> hello, caller, are you there? caller, are you there? hello, susan? >> thank you again. this is susan folman again, a kindergarten teacher, with the united educators of san francisco. and following some of our

previous speakers from sfusd. so giving some amount of certainty in a form of a two-year contract extension allows us to come to the virtual bargaining table and to work through crisis learning, re-starting schools, and potentially any worst case budget scenarios down the road that could come up. we as educators and the union are not going to ignore the crisis. thif things are looking bad we'd come back to the table and figure out how to keep any cuts as far away from our youth and our classrooms as possible. our membership and union leadership has made it really clear that with this current proposal this we have given to the district that we don't want to be locked in a fight come fall or even the summer. we really have a clear vision and a strong commitment to the collective work that needs to be done. the district and board have an important decision to make before we get back to the bargaining table on june 9th. you can choose to reciprocate

that same collective approach and signal to our community that we will figure it out together. we are in this together. we agree with the decision and we're ready to do that work with you. or if you try to push concessions out of fear, we all get trapped in making decisions with no real collective spirit, then that isn't the way that we should approach any potential discussion about reducing reducs to our students. so let's continue this difficult work together. we can get it done together. thank you. >> thank you. hello, caller, are you there? >> hello. hello? >> yeah, would you like to speak in general public comment right now? >> yes. hi, my name is patricia roth and i'm a special-ed parent and also after-schoolteacher. and also i'm on the bargaining

team. and i am speaking on behalf of peer educators. so i come here today to speak to you about the importance of unity in the times of crisis. one thing that we know as union members in this important -- and in the importance of working together. and we are asking to you do just that. work with us in a reasonable manner so that we can all continue to serve our students and communities. parent educators and support staff are always the first to take the burden of cuts when they are proposed. and our parents and our support staff have been instrumental in reaching out to students and families during this pandemic. we are having really difficult but necessary conversations with many and most of our vulnerable families during this pandemic. it's really hard to be present with people who are experiencing

so much uncertainty and trauma. so we show up and we do it because we care. because that's what our community needs right now. they need to know that someone is there and they're thinking about them. that is where in this -- that's where we are in this together and we are going to figure it out together. we all deserve and need it right now. and now you have a choice in approaching this decision from the same perspective. so i ask you how will we move forward? what will our youth see from us at this time? because they are watching. do we want them to see the adult and caretakers collaborating to find reasonable ways to address this crises? or do we want them to see us collectively aligned and advocating for more funding for

them and their schools? or do we want them to see a fear-based approach that divides us and makes our potential cuts worse than they have to be, because we are not united? i know that -- i'm sorry. and i hope that you would join me there. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> (indiscernible). >> never mind. >> okay. >> hello, kim trey? >> i'm with local 1001 and i

support the desire to maintain a two-year contract with sfusd. and it just makes sense. and i have heard here on this call while i'm listening in, that it makes sense and i want to be able to support them in that acquisition with the district. i also want to let commissioners know and the public know that we are still working on our covid negotiations and we'd like to get it settled. it's almost the end of the school year and those frontline workers have not been given the due that they need to take care of their families. and if i have understood it correctly, it's just a small policy decision instead of an economic decision. and that is pretty low when we find out that it's just a few folks that the district doesn't

want to help out. please, look at that again and make certain that you're making the right decisions when you're allowing the masses not to have what they need to take care of their families just for the few that you think deserve it. which is utterly, utterly, not true. thank you so much. >> thank you. hello, jeremiah? >> greetings everyone, this is jeremiah jeffries, first grade teacher. and one of the founders of teachers for social justice. i am calling both to echo the support and to say that the proposal before you to extend the contract for two years and to begin to partner.

and during this crisis, it is not the appropriate way to proceed. all of us need to take a pause while doing deep, deep planning to return students and educators safely to school in the fall. and i say it in terms of the board of education has scheduled two regular meetings a month, so that's four meetings to come up with a plan for returning kids and teachers back to school safely. and so in order for a decision to be made, the focus has to be on that. and bringing those educators and those frontline staff and talking to educators at schools to say this is what is needed and this is what it would look like in a real way. so, like, every year kids show up to school, young kids specifically, runny noses, etc. is that going to be tolerated in this new context? what about those families who have to work, will you send those kids home and tell those families they can't go to their

jobs to make up for the weeks and months of unemployment? like, the level of planning that is required and the level of engagement of frontline workers that is not currently the habit of the district needs to help with our union and all of our labor partners. we need to talk to sfusd about the structure for cleaning after every recess if that is what it takes. so going through in real-time and talking about none of these people will be in a regular (indiscernible) and the workers will be paid and compensated to have those conversations with you. so definitely need to pause on the negotiations at this time and you need to really start about engaging. we haven't been engaged at the end of the week and early next week, about what families need for summer. like, you can't act like they're learning hasn't been interrupted this year, it's been significant. so i'll leave it at that and there's a lot of planning to do and support the extension.

>> thank you. president sanchez, that concludes public comment. >> president sanchez: thank you, host steele. well done. thank you. and i want to thank the public who took the time to comment today. section d is advisory committee reports and appointments. this is a report on local control accountability plan, the lcap, from the parent advisory council and the district english learners advisory committee, and the african american parent advisory council, and the community advisory committee for special education. we don't know who the representative is -- dr. matthews -- who the representatives are for this item? >> good evening. my name is -- hi. i'll just dive right in because we have our introductions included in what we're going to say. good evening superintendent sanchez and vice president lópez and student delegates and

superintendent matthews and staff and members of the public. i am michelle, i'm the coordinator for the parent advisory council for the san francisco board of education. as the superintendent highlighted, this month is asian-pacific month and we would like to celebrate the class of 2020. we're so proud of you. and congratulations. and we look forward to the amazing things that you will do. this is the report to the board of education by the joint advisory representing the families in the san francisco unit fight school district, including the african american parent advisory council, and the district english learners advisory committee, and the community advisory committee for special education, and the parent advisory council. along with the leaders representing early education and indian and migrant education, and foster, youth and many of the hawaiian and pacific islands, we have worked as a coalition over the course of this school year. this report is a result of our collaborative efforts and it

will be presented by a team of parent leaders and staff advocates who will now introduce themselves. starting with my members. and we have one who has had connectivity issues so she may or may not be able to be on and i'll let my other member introduce herself. >> hi, everyone, thank you for having us. i'm naomi laguana and i'm been a p.a.k. member for two years and i have a sixth grader and a ninth grader at the jewish community high school. >> good evening, i'm latisha irving, the program manager for the african american parent advisory council and you will see me soon. and i'm joined by two incredible apac leaders who will introduce themselves. >> i am toni, i'm the mother of five graduates and a student at

abraham lincoln high school. thank you. >> hi, i am latoya pritchards and i'm an apac leader and an early education parent advisory leader. i am the parent of a fourth grader at rosa parks and two preschoolers, one headed into kindergarten in the fall. >> good evening, i am danielle liam, and i'm the specialist with the district. and i am the liaison to the english learners advisory committee. i am joined today by one of our members. >> i'm sorry. good afternoon, i am anna. and i'm a co-chair for the delac. and a parent of a second grader and an incoming student. >> good evening.

my name is julia martin and i'm a sfusd om budsperson for special education and the liaison for the community advisory committee for special education. and i'm joined today by two of our members. >> good afternoon. my name is alita fisher and i'm the past chair of the community advisory committee, and i have been a member for nine years. i have been a member of the african american parent advisory committee for three years. and i have four sfusd current and graduate students. in elementary, middle school and high school and college. >> hello, everybody, i'm danielle, i'm the second vice chair for the community advisory committee. i have a high school student with an i.e.p. at an n.p.s. >> wonderful, thank you, everyone. so as we're nearing the end of the current school year we'd like to take this opportunity to are express our appreciation for you, the commissioners, sfusd

leadership, and staff. and our community-based partners and volunteers and especially our parent and student leaders who have worked together this year within the framework of the cycle to see impriefmen improveo examine how to better serve our students and to help them to be successful. we hope that the district will continue to use the process -- if you can give us the next slide -- thank you. which you see here in evaluating how to best move forward for the coming school year and beyond. we would like to say a special thank you to everyone, including those at curriculum and instruction, and the superintendent forsell and the department of technology who have worked so tirelessly this spring under extraordinary circumstances to work towards meeting the needs of all of our students and families, especially we'd especially like to thank our students who have continued to challenge themselves to learn and to grow despite unusual and challenging

times. next slide. thank you. we know that this pandemic has only served to highlight the pre-existing inequities that our students and families face and we acknowledge that there's still much work to be done if we are truly to provide each and every student in sfusd with the quality and instruction and equitable support to thrive in the 21st century. and so typically at this time of year we'd present a report of recommendations for updates to the local control and update plan. the district's plan for how to spend the money that we receive from the state. due to the changes made by the california department of education, the timing and the process for updating the lcas, which has been presented at previous meetings, in addition to issues that we collectively see as a priority-focused areas, we will instead focus on the

following. feedback on the impacts of school closures on students and families based on the five categories in the covid-19 written report. which were collected during apac and the meetings. as well as the phone calls. concerns about proposed 2021 school year budget reductions. and recommendations on the student assignment redesign process. and questions regarding the district's plans for opening up the 2021 school year. i now turn it over to danielle utley who will highlight the feed back from parents on the impact of school closures on the students and families. >> thank you, michelle. good evening, everyone. upon learning at a task force meeting that the state requested a written report focusing on how the school districts have responded to the covid-19 pandemic, we have decided to pose similar questions to our students and families in an effort to better understand the self-experience of our local

population. and in addition our advisory groups focused on the needs of african american, latin, and indian and migrant, and native hawaiian and pacific islander students, as well as students who are in i.e.p. so their experiences are also included in this report. and in the month of may, as part of the stakeholder engagement we shifted our focus to address this unprecedented situation and held multiple sessions and conversations. we heard feedback from 46 apcs and 90c.a.c. and in addition many families shared experiences via the family health link line. we look forward to conducting a more robust engagement in the fall of 2020 with the specific focus on the local control accountability plan. major impacts on students and families is reflected in each of

the following sections of this report. changes to programs and offerings, high quality distance learning opportunities, needs of english learner, and low-income students. providing school meals while maintaining safe distancing practices. supervision of students during ordinary school hours and other concerns. with that i will hand it over to naomi. >> thank you so much. i'm naomi with the p.a.c. so as a result of the school closures, we have been having conversations around getting feedback and here's a few of the things that we have come up with. one is a loss of communication in general and clear communication in particular from specific school sites and from teachers to the home. so not necessarily district

communication about higher level communications, but more specific site, specific school and specific communication. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. it's just -- your thing doesn't match what we're viewing and this isn't available on board docs so we can't access the slides. >> hi, gabrielle, sorry. we have some scrambling and some moving things around at the last minute. so we don't have a slide for everything that we're talking about. and we do apologize that you didn't get the report ahead of time but we'll make sure to get it to everybody once we're done. >> okay, i was just double-checking in case there was clicking that needed to happen. >> no, it's just -- you know -- last minute. >> sorry about that. so the first bullet point was a lack of communication, specifically from the school sites to families. and second bullet point is unclear expectations from teachers to students and parents about, you know, the specifics around like the schedule for the

school day. and inconsistent levels of instruction and engagement across grade levels and varying from school-to-school, meaning that one school might be getting a very robust distance learning program. while another school might not be providing the same level. so not equitable. and next bullet point is that we reduced services for students and supports for students with i.e.p.s and distance learning plans and those i.e.p.s are agreements that the parents have with the schools and they're guaranteed these students and so it's vital to figure out a way to provide these students with their specifics in distance learning. next bullet point is ongoing concerns and lack of information about what is coming up with summer and summer learning opportunities. and i'm also going to move on to the next piece, right, michelle?

no? >> no. next actually will be latoya. and then naomi will chime back in because danisha is not able to get back on. >> so passing to latoya, one of our parent leaders from the apac. >> thank you, naomi and michelle. so high quality distance learning opportunities. there's been instances and implementation and variation of quality and opportunities for some. while others are receiving high quality (indiscernible) and some are minimal interaction and some have an adequate amount of information. there's also been language limitations and a lack of access to technology which is creating barriers to education. and the emergent students are not receiving sufficient instructions or supports. distance learning has been difficult for some students with high social and emotional needs while beneficial for many other

students who experience anxiety in traditional school settings. for students who are actually thriving with distance learning, how to incorporate this with what the school education looks like going forward? another challenge has been inequitable access for prek to second grade student access with needed instruction. and now i'm going to pass this back to naomi. >> thank you. so in regards to the needs of students learning english in foster care and/or students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, parents are very concerned about the reclassification of their students who are learning english as it is currently based on older data due to the interruption of the elpac testing. also parents report that students are not receiving

sufficient instruction nor support to grow their language abilities and the parents are very concerned that their students are falling behind and will take even longer to then get requalified -- sorry, reclassified once the testing restarts. parents are reporting that the distant learning packet for students learning english lacks content to keep the students ebb ganged and learning and -- engaged and learning and that one hour is insufficient instructional time during these circumstances. parents are very concerned about the achievements of their child who are english learners and they hope that the schools and the teachers help them to strengthen their reading and writing aspects to ensure that their language foundation, especially during the uncertainty that they don't know when the students will be returning back to school. thank you. >> all right. then i'll continue to add to

this area. e-commerce -- i am anna, i'm representing delac. they need packets to provide more learning for students to have supported learning. parents and students should have the options to pick the information -- the format to continue and learn and grow. mechanisms for teachers to track students' online school work is critical as parents are concerned that the children do not complete their online homework. or enforcing and learning new or fresh material. improve the connection between family, home and school. some schools' communication is minimal with parents and parents are glad to be connected with our delac and other parents in the community. provide one-on-one and/or small group sessions with students is

essential to help to engage students' learning. some children feel disengaged from big group learning. and one hour a week is not enough for students to get a gain in their learning or education. then i will take it to the following area which is providing school meals while maintaining safe distance practices. the need is obviously great and families are very appreciative. the student nutrition service staff have been quick to respond to changes and demands and yet some families are still turned away. mission district residents are heavily impacted. there are areas with a lack of volunteers and student nutrition service staff. and not all caregivers are truly literate. and even in their home language, it's insufficient. the families appreciate not having the students present. this has created stress for caregivers. however, single parents often have no choice but to bring

their children. some working families are unable to access food distribution during the 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. timeframe. and delivery of meals to homebound students' families, can we continue and expand to all students in the household? now i would like to hand it over to tanya. >> hello, commissioners, and the public and our superintendent. i am toni and i'd like to talk about (indiscernible) during school hours. through our report we found that there's a lack of clear direction from teachers combined with the parents who are juggling multiple responsibilities with varying degrees of understanding of the content of technology platforms. we have a wide variation of student engagements. with sfusd closed, and the students home, many working parents are having to choose between being a parent, teacher, and being a productive employee and report that they are

concerned about losing their jobs due to this. and additionally members of many advisory committees have expressed the compounded impact of covid-19 on top of historic discrepancies in child care within san francisco. many families who have the highest need for child care during this time are relying on the network which -- [no audio] >> toni, you cut out. i tang we may hav think that we. >> toni, are you still there? >> you didn't hear me? >> toni, if you could just start from the many families who have the highest need for child care point.

>> okay. >> thank you. sorry about that. >> with sfusd closed, and students home, many working parents are having to choose between being a parent, teacher and being a productive employee. every point they are concerned about losing their jobs due to the decreased productivity. additionally, many members of many advisory committees have expressed concerns with the compounding impact of covid-19 on top of historic discrepancies and child care within san francisco. many families have -- many families who have the highest need for child care during this time are relying on the distance and networks that may lead to increased risk of covid exposure. and students are missing peer

interaction. and finally, to date, community child care centers are closed and are mainly supporting the essential staff, leaving many families without child care and adequate supe supervision of chn during normal school hours. thank you. >> hello, i'm danielle. and i'm continuing. in addition there are some things that really stood out in terms of family experience during school closures and it doesn't really fit into any of these five categories, including that many families are feeling stressed and overwhelmed. many students are mentally struggling with shelter in place and the ability to learn. unavailability of counselling and mental health supports have compounded the challenges that students and families are facing during this crisis. and lack of communication from

the district to families. disproportionate burden for communication is falling on a limited number of bilingual staff. and the need for proactive measures and plans to examine, to better understand, and to address the social and emotional impact that is happening to our children. this is crucial in my mind. i'm experiencing it directly. we all need to remember that this time is not normal. thank you. >> thank you, danielle. good evening and thank you again for the opportunity to share what we have been hearing from our families throughout this school year, especially during the time of the school closure. and thanks again for powering through with us, even though the slides aren't represented and you will get the report soon. i'm the program manager for the african american parent advisory

council. we imagine that you all are alarmed by the current budget projections and the impacts of what will happen as a result. before jumping to those concerns though i'd like to appreciate our budget office in addition to our staff and the departments who have worked extremely hard to be thoughtful to ensure that the cuts that are happening will have the least impact on our school sites. and we thank our advisories walking us through the budget updates. and attending all of our main meetings to present. thank you, anne marie. despite the budget cuts there are some pre-existing conditions that we want to remind you of. and the low rates for spanish speaking students and the understaffing of the interventioninterventions and rn programs and the shortage of professional development opportunities and social and emotional supports. and also the lack of full implementation of the inclusive practices, including culturally responsive and implicit bias training. and positive behavior supports

and safety care that greatly impact many of our lcap populations. and prior to cuts, significant impacts include -- or proposed cuts, include impacts to professional development and support for teachers. especially our new teachers. supports offered through professional development can greatly impact staff and the current teaching practices and into the future. thus, increasing the likelihood that they'll remain in our classrooms. two of our biggest pathways for new teachers are the bilingual and special education pathways. these staff need explicit training to support the students learning english and those with i.e.p.s. and we know that our students in our historically underserved schools in many ways are the ones who are getting the teachers with the least amount of experience and training, so we need those professional development opportunities. and the cuts will also impact the inclusive practices and

integral components of the school resolution and it will also impact our vital relief time that our staff need to participate in our professional learning communities. at a time when we need more social workers and school nurses in order to provide the level of social and emotional support to ensure physical health and well-being of our students on the campus we see cuts to sfusd with the family support division. as you know our school district, along with many others, are having an overrepresentation of african american students suspended from our classrooms and identified for emotionally disturbed or health impaired. we expect that those cuts to sfusd and the professional development will specifically around the areas of cultural responsiveness and practices will further this disproportionality. we again thank you for all of

the decisions that you had to make in this dire situation, trying to make it workable and in the best interest of all of our students but we ask that you take our concerns into consideration. thank you and i will now turn it over to julia. sorry, i now turn it over to alita fish. judge that's all right. and the next part is the student assignment redesign process response. wile we understand the board's commitment to changing a system that is inherently inequitable and we appreciate the efforts by the district staff and parents for public schools, along with the many community partners that supported the vigorous stakeholder engagement this spring prior to the pandemic shelter-in-place, we're extremely concerned with the decisions moving forward. moving forward with the student assignment system at this time

despite our collective ask for our district to halt, is resulting if in a growing distt amongst families with advocacy. a new policy does not address the top priorities for families. high quality schools is by far the biggest point of feedback that was received throughout the engagement process. and the reality is that not all schools offer equal access to the same or similar experiences. and this is why student assignment is such a critical issue. and the resolution does not address the families' fundamental concerns with programs such as language pathway and special education continuance of services. what are we doing to improve our schools so they're all equally equitable and in demand? it is not morally or financially responsible to proceed at this time. instead, the advisories are requesting that the money to be used instead to restore cuts that will directly impact the

students, including i.t. support, and professional development for teachers, and school social workers and nurses, at least one for every elementary school and one per grade level for middle and high schools. and this is going to be especially important as we return to school post-covid. we recommend that the district spend money on fixing up the existing school facilities. some schools don't have sufficient electrical infrastructure to support an oven to warm up meals that are delivered. and to support virtual learning or access to clean drinking water. we recommend that the money to be used to prepare for reopening of the schools under safe distancing guidelines which we know that will require additional custodial hours and sufficient p.p.e. and appropriate cleaning materials and training for all school sites, staff, and proper cleaning and safe distancing requirements. and now we turn it over to jul

julia. >> good evening, commissioners and thank you. i'll be speaking tonight about families' concerns regarding sfusd's plans for the next school year. the joint advisory has acknowledged that this is a highly unusual and stressful time and that the public directives are changing rapidly. we appreciate the planning that is underway and we want to highlight the following concerns from sfusd families about the upcoming school year. as we mentioned, families are very concerned about lack of funding for schools to open safely on august 17th. we appreciate and thank dr. matthews for being one of the 60 superintendents in california who penned a letter to the governor stating they cannot safely reopen schools with the proposed level of state funding for the 2020-2021 school year. support is also needed for teachers. so that the schools can open in

august. if we continue with distance learning, teachers will need training and professional learning opportunities so they can be comfortable and adept at teaching in a virtual format. as this is new for many veteran teachers. if we return to in-person schools, time will be needed for in school cleaning and adequate p.p. supplies to ensure that teachers and staff remain safe. and for next year we have many concerns for students, some which i'll highlight here. starting with our prek to second grade students who need increased access to technology to decrease the digital divide and to ensure that these students are able to fully engage in their education and special education related services and therapies. for students who are learning english as a second language, they will need increased instruction and supports to make sure that we continue our efforts towards reclassification.

our students with i.e.p.s and 504s will also need additional support next year so that distance learning plans can be improved to fully meet their needs and legally required supports and services. not to mention that we anticipate all students will need increased mental health supports to address the trauma and stress caused by this pandemic. lastly, families would like to see sfusd develop an option for those who choose to stay home due to health or other concerns, along with appropriate materials and other supports, not just attendance waivers. and now i turn it back to michelle. >> hi, i just got notice that my laptop battery is running low so hopefully it doesn't die on me. if it does, i will dial in on my other one. thank you so much, julia and everyone. so just to continue on the topic of the fall, we understand that

the district has released an r.f.q. or request for quotes, to hire a fund for program management to reopen the schools. it does not include the experience during stakeholder engagement nor partnering with families. we hope that this would be a consideration and that the student advisory council, classroom teachers, other school site staff, out of school time program providers and parents are included in the thought process for what reopening schools will look like. parent advocates -- parents, advocates and educators and community partners have been integral to providing much-needed supports to students and families during this time of school closures and shelter in place. we can do the same for planning for whatever the school could look like and we want to be included as vital partners and not considered as afterthoughts. from the discussion on the state reopening of the california schools on may 21st, the quote from erica jones, a classroom

teacher and a civil rights advocate and a board of the teachers' association. all stakeholders have to be part of the conversation. thank you again to all of the parents who continue to provide leadership during this time and to all of the advisory leads, my colleagues, district staff and the comment partners who support us in this work. thank you very much for this opportunity to present. and i'm not sure, we may have some parents who would like to do public comment specifically to our report. and we'll be providing the report to everyone after this. sorry that we didn't get it out ahead of time. and we, of course, welcome any questions that you may have. thank you. >> we do have one final slide with the recommendations. there we go. thank you. >> is this a good time for public comment? or no? >> i think so. you'll have to raise your hand but they'll probably call for

public comment for this item. is that how this works? >> first of all, thank you for the report, the joint report. and we'll open it up to public comment right now and then go to commissioners. >> can i literally raise my hand? or do i virtually raise my hand? >> why don't you just go ahead. >> hi again, and thank you. i'm naomi. i wanted to give a little bit of color to something that we talked about on the report and i'll try to keep it to two minutes. so i have a sixth grader and a ninth grader in an independent high school. and i'm grateful to be able to speak to you today. obviously, the past 11 weeks have been a huge change with our planet and our country, our city, our district, our neighborhood, our home and our families. i'm speaking today as a parent of a sixth grader at a middle school. the learning model that we have transitioned to has had

challenges and rewards. i personally am grateful for having a strong internet and a laptop for my child to work on and a clean, well-lit spot in the house for him to work in. but i do understand that not every child has that. what i would like to see going forward is more specific communication from the individual schools to their parent communities. the distance learning model is a completely different schedule than what we are all used to. a standard school day might have been from 9:den to 3:40, etc., and five days a week and now we're seeing a much shorter dayy and sometimes only three days a week. after asking around in my robust parent community, i was told that the shorter day was reduced because of the teachers' union and protecting the teachers and the administrators for having time with their own families, they would have to juggle both teaching our students and at home with their own students.

so that seems very reasonable. i was just hoping that there would be specific communication around that so that parents would understand that the day would be shorter and then some feedback to the parents about what to do after that short day ends. so that's it. >> thank you. latoya, did you want to go ahe ahead? >> can you hear me now? >> yes, latoya, go ahead, two minutes. judge as a parent of three african american students, i wanted to address the issue with the digital divide, specifically to pre k and second graders. there are currently two, maybe three schools and sfusd preschools where the high score curriculum is forced on preschools though the parents have asked to have a (indiscernible) in place of the

high scores. and i think that at this point in time that -- given the current situation that we're in, that we're having challenges using technology with our kids who have never used technology outside of our homes. outside of our homes.

>> thank you. anna, did you want to go ahead? anna. >> yes, thank you. >> i just want to add that i heard that the schools will be connecting with families directly to ask how can they support me. i haven't received a phone call, haven't had a parent teacher conference. i know the teachers are doing a lot. i am a parent. i am trying to juggle 40 hours a week of full-time job and two kids. i understand. i want them to understand my child needs more support. when i ask like we don't know my

child doesn't know how to do x, y, z, skip it. she will get it. that don't work for me. i would like a 15 minutes to work with your child, whatever works for the teacher. communication. there is a lot of communication from the district going on the website, but from our school to families, i am not getting that communication. the lack of technology before the teacher mentioned from pre-k to second grade. all students deserve to have access to technology. this is not being asked. we should demand all students to have access to technology. i want be to bring up a case that i work with families.

this family is undocumented. child is going to sixth grade this school year. don't qualify for internet essentials because they were in a basement. i connected her to the district. they never responded. she got a hotspot for $35. families don't have that money to go spend almost $100 on something that the district was going to be able to provide. thank you everybody for hearing us and for taking the time. >> thank you. did you want to go ahead? >> yes, first off i want to recognize all of the hard work that the district has done to get education to continue and back up under a crisis. i want us all to remember and i

said this in other meetings. this is a crisis. this is not normal. now, my student has been struggling greatly with the mental aspect of this. i really want to put it in the forefront that our students need that support. i do understand that as we move to the end of the school year and extended school year various timings of things happen, services change. our students are still living in a crisis. it is imperative at this time that we address the mental health of our students so they can continue to access education and that they can learn in a healthy way. i request greatly that you guys consider expanding mental health, not just for those students who might have it as part of iep but to look at all of the students who are going to

be coming back in some way living through a very serious dire crisis. i want that to be on the forefront. thank you all for listen being to our. > -- to our report. >> thank you. >> lillian, are you there? is there a lillian there? lillian. >> i am here. >> go ahead. >> i am lillian. i am the first vice chair cac and the parent of two sfufc students, one with iep. i would like to recognize the help the district has done with

the money, all of the planning anchorednating in this short period of time. i am here to represent the special ed family today. we all noticed that inequity for our special ed families. i was at the second district meeting last week and i appreciate doctor matthews acknowledging the gaps serving special ed students. it is not waived by federal law. it makes available a free and public education to eligible children with disabilities and special education and related services to those students with disabilities.

right now special ed families are receiving significantly reduced services through the money instead of the iup, and our students needs have not changed. they require more support and services, not less. especially on emotional and mental health. i wanted to give you my own experience. i have one with iup and one general ed student with distant learning through zoom classes. my student in general ed received school participation and zoom classes. my youngest with iup only two or three students in his class. the support to the student to

participate in distant learning. if we continue to do the distant learning in fall and to comply with the law. thank you. >> lahurie. you have two minutes. >> i am mary lahurie. i want to thank you for the presentation and strongly support the statements shared earlier. i want to take the time to acknowledge doctor matthews for mobilizing parents to gather resources to support students and families. i want to remind us as families, as a community that we have values in our district. that means we are student centered. students needs are first. we practice social justice and

are diversity driven. we need to remember to put parents and families as part of the center. i want be to reemphasize how we as parents are part of the system. we want the children at the center of everything we do and we want the district to believe in this and stand for it. it is dire times with the budget that has negatively impacted all of us. we are having competing priorities creating anxiety from educators to parents. two priorities that are speaking to me as the parent is around student assignment and direct services supporting students and families. there is a desire to stick with the student assignments. making the assignments and

slowing down decision making could have unintended consequences. what could those look like? limiting access and opportunities to the most vulnerable students and families, not having the same desire or effort to improve schools across the district for low academic schools and black children over represented and suspension and expulsion. most important, the potential but unintended consequence might mean breaking trust with black families when this is the goal for our district to increase the sense of belongs for black students and families. i want to speak apac said social workers are important. we heard that mental health support is needed. when we make cuts to cut programs for clinical interns to become social workers, to be

responsive and trauma informed, what could that be? we won't have staff trained. we have high turnover of social workers that will create more harm to our families and students of color when we don't have social workers trained. i ask you to if you want be to go fast go alone. let's go far together as educators and parents to support students and families. thank you. >> susan solomon. i want to thank the awesome parents on these advisory committees who participated in this report. it is always an inspiration to hear from you and you learn so much. thank you very much. i do want to echo michelle's

words about the task force that will be assembled around re-opening or restarting schools. the importance of having all of the stakeholders at the table cannot be underestimated and so i am glad to hear that was called out. then finally, i want to say i am delighted to hear you quote erica jones, i work with her through the california teachers association. she is an incredible leader. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> marisha. >> good evening, everyone. i am marisha robinson, parent of five and apac leader. i work for the district as family liaison. i just want to give a shout out

to the joint advisory board and the families that serve on those different committees and councils. i want to give appreciation to all of the groups who contributed to meet and give input at every board meeting. putting together presentation to come before the board. these families are rock stars, parents are rock stars. the teacher advocates are excellent thought partners. i enjoy working with them. i will advise the district to keep them in the forefront on critical decisions to impact youth and students and not think of the councils as afterthought. the energy in the recommendations and doing the work for our children, the district children is free, and we profit and benefit off that freedom and they should do it

for all children in the district. that is all. thank you. >> thank you. julie. i am julie robertson. i want to appreciate the parents advisory committee for doing the hard work on the front line families and youth and coming back with some important recommendations. this is the kind of partnership that we want to see in the district. now it is on us as the distribute to listen to the voices to ensure their recommendations inform decision making. i want to ask technical difficulties with the presentation. i want to request that this presentation is public and that the district ensure it be uploaded to board docs or online in other accessible places like the recommendations previously.

this is the kind of document that we are going to need to refer back to as we make our plans through the summer and as we think about returning to school in the fall. i really want to appreciate all of the front line thinking and i hope that all of the folks that just presented will be centered in the planning process for the fall as well as our community partners, educators, classified staff, families and youth above all. thank you. >> thank you. lila. hi, i am lila nelson. i have a fourth grader going into fifth grade daughter i am proud of especially during these

times. i am also a parent leader with african-american parent advisory council coming to you today. our children need better instructions. there are no universal sinstructions. teachers are doing their own communications with our children. i am really sad seeing how this noninstruction is emotionally draining my normally outgoing daughter. she is frustrated to wake up every day with 15 uploads of assignments with no expectations to just do it, no guidance, not being able to see classmates is tough. seeing her teacher one day a week for 30 minutes. it cannot continue. i hope and ask the board better facilitate the instruction between our children, teachers and the staff. i ask that you take the time to

really put thought and put things in place for our children to grow. it can be done. i am watching it with my son in another school district. it can be done. thank you. >> thank you. >> i just want to thank the parent advisory council and all of the different iterations. this is how i started off. besides being the parent myself. there is a deep wisdom and knowledge in the parent based and community-based organizations to connect and are inter woven. thank you for bringing your advocacy to the forefront and

board of education, all members, have been connected to these organizations or came through them or know intimately about them. we have been part of that. i want to praise that work. i want you to put that in to consideration when you make decisions. they are part of your brain trust. not just the folks in central office or paid administrators or everyone else in the district. this is your personal brain trust of knowledge and wisdom and years of experience. i am grateful that they do this work, really, from their heart for the benefit of others. thank you so much, parent advisory council and everybody. thank you so, so much. i am grateful you continue to

thrive and bring forward your advocacy points to determine representation. thank you. >> thank you. caller, are you there? >> this is mildred i am a parent organizer. good evening. thank you for having us. i want to say this. i have listened to everything tonight. like the last caller spoke and said that parents are extremely powerful, and extremely important in this time. i appreciate everything that apac and the parent organization and everyone that i work with are amazing and pushing this work forward and i appreciate each and every one of you. i am saying to you guys, commissioners, tonight like i said before, mr. cook has heard

me say it. parents are extremely powerful and extremely important. thethey are a huge stakeholder. it is important that you have many chairs at the table for parents. because as our students that are going through this that they are struggling, suffering, it is the parents' voices that are being heard when youth does not want to come forward because of them going through what they are going through, whether mental illness, struggling with academics to get teachers to help them with academics. you need to remember that the parent's voice is huge. when you are making decisions and you don't have us at the table and you decide things without us, that is where this comes from. i am asking you to continue to

make sure that our voices are heard. because our children are hurting. they need you, right? if they are hurting, then you really need to look to the parents to tell you. we have a whole lot of wisdom and you have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in front of you tonight on this phone call. eve and every one of you are powerful. your voice matters. moving forward, i am asking us all to continue to be part of this and making sure that our students, our children and us that we see that this work and people are saying i may not be here. no, i want us to be here when this improves. doesn't matter what we are going through. i am asking you and begging you

to keep talking to parents, keep talking to them. that is the only way things will get better. thank you, guys, thank you. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you so much. i want to thank the advisory committees. we will open up to board comments and questions. i can't see all of you on my screen. we don't have a chat box. if you want to chime in. go ahead, commissioner collins. >> thanks, i really appreciate. i thank you for the presentation. very much looking forward to seeing an actual report. it is full of -- it is a great summary of a lot of what i am hearing. and i am experiencing as the parent and what i am hearing

from parents. i have been participating in his serving sessions with coleman leaders, human rights commission. i want to restate what i am hearing. it is like in every meeting. i really want to honor the work that was done. i am hearing that families and i am hearing from teachers, but families have felt like an afterthought in our planning for distance learning. they want to be considered vital partners. i want to echo what commissioner kim stated. this is where it starts is the parent leaders. the parent leaders, what they have to say and contribute. the fact they work really hard. it is all free and the fact they are contributing and trying to support and advise us in our decisions. we need to be as a district starting with them as well as

starting with our labor partners when we make decisions. what i hear about some of the rollout is that because it was on a site to site basis there is a lot of great work happening. there was a lot of inconsistency and unclear communication at sites, and specifically for folks that have students that have higher needs like english learners and special education students there was even less support. also, that i am seeing and hearing that pre-k through two there is a need for digital learning and that more communication for families and connecting them. i wanted to ask staff.

it is important, i think, to put this report online. i went online and looked. it was hard to find the advisory councils and committees. they are listed under -- i would like to work with staff to find out how families can see the reports that these committees are putting forward. i would like to make the request of staff that they post this report and maybe there is a page that is the joint advisory board. i feel there is such good work that i want to see it all. some of those reports on one page. i also want to call out that i have been since last year since i was the parent leader, calling out the fact i don't feel like our previous board has really heard families in the fact that they want to see equality and

equity at schools before they see a redesign. i want to name that. i just appreciate they are consistent in naming that they want to focus on renee remediatg gaps over fiddling with enrollment system. i wanted to know how is staff, what are the specific ways staff is gathering input from community members about how this crisis learning or remoat learn is going? is there a specific way to ask families how it is going? that is a question for the superintendent or doctor priestly. how specifically are we

gathering information? is there any method other than the works of the pacs. >> the progress we are making in one area is the wellness aspect. that is reaching out to families. you will hear that later on tonight exactly how to the question you just asked. i want to say you asked about looking for this report. i think michelle said that the report we didn't get it in. if they were still putting it together. >> i appreciate that. i know they have done an amazing amount of work. i don't want it to seem like it is not there. i can't wait to get my hands on it. i would love to have it available to all families. they tend to look on the website. i would love to work with staff to get it more accessible. i want to ask the pair present

-- the parents. i have not gotten a wellness check for my families. have you gotten wellness checks and how are they? are they getting at the questions? i am hearing they are varying, some more in depth than others. are they getting at what we want to know. what needs do you have? do you need food or resources and how are things going? >> do you want us to respond right now. >> i would like to hear directly from parents who may or may not receive a wellness check. how is it going? >> well, i can tell you what my of the three schools my children attends i received one call followed by voicemail and text to make sure i engage. the other two i have not heard from yet.

one i think we did as part of the iep process last week. it was everything rolled into one by the case manager. >> i would love to hear from other parents. did you get a call and what was your experience. >> we did get a call from the case manager. my son is at mps. we are removed with th the iep d removed again. we got a phone call. i felt that the questions that were asked and the concerns were more regarding if he was academically okay and if we needed immediate resources. in our situation my son emotional and mental well-being as we continued in shelter-in-place have gone downhill. i am scrambling to make sure he

that a therapist which is crucial and struggling to do so. i do appreciate everyone stepping in to make sure academics are there. this is such an unusual time. there are so many children suffering with just how to deal with the crisis on many level. i think that component was very lacking in our wellness check. >> commissioner collins. >> yes. >> i got a call from a counselor, but she was calling to speak to my daughter. she told me how pleasant my daughter was. at least i did get one call. >> thank you. any other parents? >> this is emma. i have not received a call from my child's school. i feel because they know that i

am very engaged, i would reach out to them for help. i was waiting for them to do the initial because i wonder how many other parents have not received a phone call. iit is unfortunate to see that. i want to say that it has been a lot of academic support that is lacking. i can't say enough. such emotional support is beyond lacking. that is unbelievable. i an adult have breakdowns. i can't imagine a first grader that already have trauma in their life. i want to make sure we talk about emotional health for our children and their families, which is us. >> commissioner collins, this is michelle.

naomi had to stop off the meeting. i haven't heard a lot either way in terms of my pac members if they have received wellness checks or not. >> any other parents? >> i am a parent and district staff member. my younger son is in middle school. he doesn't have an iup. he doesn't interact with the staff there. we had a death in the family around the time as the wellness checks. not only did we get a phone call. it wasn't what they were anticipating. they weren't on the list of somebody to reach out to, so they had to get some tough information when they made that call, which is i appreciate the staff. they followed up with resources

that i didn't know about for grief counseling and support for my son that i hadn't considered for my noniep student. we are lucky to have the connections to counselors and psychologists at our high school. to see the large middle school where my son was not connected with people in that kind of way step up was really impressive and not something i thought i would need. i was appreciative. i wanted to share that perspective. >> i just got a text from naomi who said what is a wellness check? i don't think she has had one. >> i am looking forward to, i think, continuing this conversation in the next presentation. it is really important to me we gather input, not just checking in. that is important but gathering

in and input from educators and students. that is another conversation. how are we gathering input from specifically middle and high school students? how are we seeing how they are doing around distance learning or checking in on health or wellness when they check in on algebra. that is not where we find out how they are doing. i would love for staff to follow up. there was an apac parent that said the child felt disengaged. i would love staff to follow up. we are doing different things at different schools but there is a general expectation they will get daily instruction. i don't know if there is miss communication or if that child was not supported appropriately. finally, i guess i am going to be holding a curriculum

committee meeting on thursday at 3:00 p.m. i would love for all of you to be present at that meeting and also encourage families to be there. one of the biggest topics that we are discussing is this social emotional, also connecting families for summer learning. we have not really connected with families and shared. i don't know what our family is doing. this is true across the board. also, i think providing direct support to families to build students' literacy math and so cab larry. there are base -- vocabulary. if we could give families of english learners as well as background knowledge. i look forward to continuing that conversation. i invite the public and

specifically parents reach out and share your experience around how we support you, how we support social and emotionally and academically. i want to be talking about it and i want us to do a better job of connecting those dots. thank you. >> i had a text message from a family that said they had hands raised. >> there are a couple attendees with hands up. i can unmute them to respond to commissioner collins' question. >> is that okay? >> yes. >> hello. i just wanted to say that i, too, am a parent candid tickets employee. i want to lift up my daughter's teacher. she is a fourth grader.

we got a wellness check. the classroom teacher did the wellness check. what i appreciate about my daughter's school is that all classroom teachers were responsible for doing the wellness check. our classroom teachers should have the relationship with the students. she went through the questions and did a conference as well. she went over some of the things she saw with my daughter and the progress she has made. it wasn't just a wellness check but a report how my daughter was doing during distance learning. i appreciated the teacher and want to give you props for all you do to support students during distance learning. >> thank you. was there another parent?

>> it is mildred again. i can say that my son attends and they are doing an exceptional job checking in with him and e-mailing us. we did get a wellness check. they check in every day when they are doing their lesson. thank you. >> thank you. eany other commissioners have questions for the advisory committee? >> i would like to comment. >> thank you so much for this really heartfelt input and honest. i think we can all agree that

this has been a really pretty unprecedented time both for the workers in the school, teachers and educators and parents and be most importantly students. there are a lot of things that we haven't gotten right at this point. it is input from our stakeholders. it is going to help us work together to improve. one concern that i have heard and that i am concerned about and wondering what we are doing. there continues to be kind of a patchwork or lack of understanding or clarity on our expectations for district learning. different schools seem to be messaging what the expectations are very differently. i am concerned about that. we already know there are

inequities in the best of times across schools in the district. how have we communicated the expectations? what are the lessons learned next year. we will be dealing with this for a long time. how are we addressing those disparities between schools and addressing distance learning? >> i will talk and see if the deputy superintendent wants to speak. they have continued the division of curriculum instruction has had lead meetings for clarity. deputy superintendent is in constant communication not only with the cohort leaders but principals. there are twice a week communications that go out to all of the principals, all of the leaders in the system directly so they have consistent so there is not room for for

miss interpretation. it is written down how long instruction is going to go. expectations around grading. that is going out regularly since late march, beginning of april. those communications have gone forward. as you just said, we are learning from the parents about differences. as you also said during when we are not in the pandemic there are differences. it is giving us the opportunity as we see the differences at different sites to learn from. as you just said what we are doing is thinking how communication is going to go forward once we are not in this situation so we can make sure there is stronger communication and stronger consistency across all level of the system. i don't know if you wanted to

add to that. >> i will echo what you said, doctor matthews. at the beginning of phase three and before that we created the distance learning guide that laid out expectations for distance learning. we expect students to engage in four hours of instruction to be fair was including emotional pe, arts, and that we also really tried to stress balance that we all do it together, live instruction as well as independently offline. i would say one of the challenges that comes with the remote schoolroom is in the brick and mortar principals and coaches can walk around to observe each other's instruction to see what is happening to provide read feedback. when you have remote learning it

-- we were clarifying the guidance and support. we had cohort meetings, regular check ins. we had the assistant superintendents and principals join on the learning opportunities similar to walking the classroom to observe. one thing as a system is rethinking if we will stay in this type of situation for a short period of time or longer, what is instructional leadership look like in a remote world? we are tackling it. it was a challenge. i would add in the same way we call for grace and compassion and ask students and families to engage, we know we had educators and teachers with a hard time managing the reality of this time and working and having

their wi-fi connection issues. there was variance as a result of that. it is an area of focus. >> i guess i just thank you for that, and i appreciate that we are approaching this in the spirit of continuous improvement. it would be really helpful if we can broadly communicate at the beginning of next year. we don't know what it is going to look like and what school is going to look like. when we do what our standards are across schools because i just think there is a lot of confusion. i just want to briefly appreciate the superintendent for engaging with the pta at the webinar last week. it was an unprecedented number of that participated. spending that time to engage with families is time well spent. i know you committed to following up with an faq as well

with, you know, unpacking the questions. i just want to appreciate you for doing that. i know you have a lot. you are a busy guy, but it is time well spent. thank you. >> president sanchez, could i make a quick request? >> yes. >> i just wanted to make an ask. i think it would be fantastic if a district could share with the leads of the advisory those expectations and communications. one, we know what the expectations are because we get the parent questions and we can help communicate that out to more families for clarity. >> superintendent matthews, do you want to respond to that?

she is asking for those expectations to be submitted to the advisory council. >> so yes that is one we can make that available, absolutely. >> thank you, michelle. commissioner lam or cook? >> go ahead. >> i heard commissioner lam was going first. >> thank you. thank you to the joint pac report. it is so important to hear from families. i want to comment about wellness and social emotional development later on. we still have a detailed presentation that i know is going to spark conversation. i will keep my remarks really focused. particularly around the continuous improvement and feedback. thank you for reminding us, yes,

we served on advisory committees. i served 10 years as volunteer for the school district on advisory committees. i now have two children still in the district. i think one of the hardest things to navigate right now is for any parent, people to feel like they know how they can provide feedback. you know, we are feeling pressures around not wanting to overwhelm educators and site administrators. when we provide feedback it might not be in a formal way. i think through the joint pac that is critical. i absolutely agree that as we go to the planning process it is not about, you know, checking the boxes of engagement. to me this has to be continuous improvement. covid is here to stay for a long

time. the notion of normal see now is having to adapt to constant change. i think that is one piece i wanted to lift up. the other pieces are between development. that would be helpful to share with parents, with our different stakeholders and around really discussing the different development of our students. example, k-12, k-2 and so on. at times i feel like there are broad strokes. i understand we have to talk about broad strokes. all of us including parents there is what your children are going through. similar to how early education approaches it. i think we can have those conversations around what is it that we are going to need to be

in place for a remote learning environment that is responsive. i am very concerned, of course, for all students system wide. particularly children in the younger grades, too, because i feel that without the technology and kind of the instruction there with their age developmentanticly around literacy and reading and comprehension overall what that means if we continue this path over the duration of time. obviously, i will comment later on around the social and emotional needs of students and families. thank you all for your work and for just again all of that exactly heartfelt engagement. >> thank you, commissioner lam,

for sharing about the upcoming presentation and to get the families who have shared with us experiences. i want us to be careful when we have conversations on different items. there might be folks out there who expect to be involved in that conversation and not realizing a lot of it is happening throughout the agenda. behind full of that. to speak on the parents, as a teacher, they were my best friends in the work that i did. there is not a day now that goes by that i am not engaging with them in our school district because it is these narratives, what you have been able to share with us to keep us focused. there is also no doubt that we have been successful in many areas. that doesn't mean that we should avoid and not address some of the underlying issues that remain. it is through your voices we can

continue to have the conversations and bring it up and bring people to the table that is all of the families we are working with. i appreciate that. i appreciate this is a majority parent board and these perspectives stay at the top thf our minds. i look forward to continuing to formalize the process and engage families as often as we can and we hear this at every meeting. it is what we need to be successful. there is no doubt about that. honoring the way learning happens at home starts with families. i hope that is the conversation that we are having now given the current situation. >> thank you. any other commissioners? student delegates? >> i wanted to give a big shout out to the parents that

presented today. i also do want to make sure that in the future we continue to make sure that we are really supporting our undocumented and low income families during this time. i heard a lot of conversation around families not having access to internet and going out of their way to receive that information because of their citizenship status. i want be to make sure in the future we can find a way to extra support them. also right now a lot of undocumented families do not have a stable income. that is a hardship on them. i want to see if we can improve on that. a shout out to the parents that presented and calling in to let the board know what is going on in the school sites and with families that they are staying connected to. thank you. >> thank you.

student delegate do you want to chime? >> go ahead, commissioner cook. >> it is brief. i wanted to add my appreciation to all of the people that -- all families that weighed in. it was a credible update. we want to appreciate the parents that had a conversation with me last week. i think years from now they will look back. everyone will look to you to figure out how to address the next major thing that happens. we are setting this right now. thank you for your tire less sacrifice, ms. irving. we appreciate all of you. >> thank you.

>> i want to say thank you to all of the parents who have gone through this hard time. special thanks to the parents who put this presentation together. it was great. thank you. >> thank you to everybody on the advisory committees. >> the mere lot of what they are saying to us right now. one of the things that was brought up how to open our schools. talk about that process and how to be inclusive of our stakeholders.

>> we acknowledges the recommendations to this board. we are in the process right now of hiring a facilitator to lead this community process. that person is on board and we will work hand-in-hand with them to bring all stakeholders to the table. that was one of the concerns listed earlier. the concern was about whether or not the community or facilitator would have those skills. we will work hand in hand to make sure that happens so we get all stakeholders and voices and parents and cb o groups. i won't go into it. the goal is to have all voices at the table so we can go through the process to determine what learning in the fall looks like. learning in the fall. not reopening schools because

for some that phrase is loaded. we want to talk about what learning in the fall is going to look like. there are a number of options there. the process, hopefully, is to go through to figure out those options and determine if in order for those options to happen, what needs to be in place for safety to occur? that is a community process we will go through. it is really around what learning in the fall will look like. >> thank you. i want to double down on that. we are not going to engage in a process that does not include the active voice of parents. students, of course and teachers it is going to be rebust. -- robust. thank you for the presentation. i appreciate you all. we are moving to the next item.

charter school oversight committee report. mr. davis, are you with us? >> yes, i am. >> welcome. >> hi. i would like to turn it over to michelle parker, the chair of the charter school oversight committee. >> hi, michelle. >> good afternoon everyone. thank you so much forgiving us this opportunity to present to you this afternoon. we are in tonight now. it is a few hours. i wanted to quickly take a point of personal privilege to thank the parents that went before us. as a parent i know what the families are going through. you know that i am the legislation vp for the district pta. we have been hearing similar things. thank you to all of them.

again, i am the chair of the charter school oversight committee. i am going to go through the agenda quickly and we have many members of our committee who are part of this presentation tonight. we are going to give you an introduction what the committee is and its purpose. we will talk about the committee's work s so far this year and talk about the charter schools and their response to the crisis and make recommendations to you before we end. it shouldn't be too long of a presentation. there is a lot on the agenda tonight. i would like to pass the microphone over to alexander for the introduction and to ms. fisher to talk about the purpose of the committee. >> good evening. i am alexander, part of the charter school oversight committee. i want to thank everyone for the opportunity to present today.

i want to introduce the rest of our members. michelle parker, chair member. natalie is vice chair, corinne is our secretary and we have aleta fisher and myself. we have five members and 10 spaces. we would want to have a full committee also including students. unfortunately, not all of our committee members were available this afternoon to be part of this presentation. everyone who was available will be part of it. we have had active participation in all meetings. i will pass it over to aleta fisher. >> good afternoon everyone. the purpose of the charter school oversight committee, we were part of the sfufc charter

school oversight resolution adopted in september of 2018. [please stand by]