>> yes. hello. >> hi, my name's jennifer. >> i'm sorry. jeff just picked up. go ahead, jeff. >> sorry. i was distracted for just a moment. i wanted to first of all thank the board for at least starting this process of getting the students back to school and i wanted to encourage some better communication. i think i've seen the press releases and the information released, but it's still unclear. i have a son in the first grade at daniel webster. it's not even clear what day he is to return. i think that also goes with what's happening in the fall. a lot of parents would like to have some reassurance that we'll be back in the fall. and, third point i'd like to comment on is i'm just a little surprised now to hear that the school facilities aren't ready in all cases. i mean, i think the original

plan was to open up in january and the issue at that point there's been negotiations with the teacher's union. but i'm just a little surprised that the site work isn't done yet. i would encourage the board to try to get this going as quickly as possible and also bring back some of the older students as well. thank you very much. >> hello, jennifer. >> hi, my name's jennifer and i'm a teacher on special assignment and i also have a 1st grader in sfusd. the district imposed schedule with arbitrary and inequitable hourly requirements for instruction is really concerning and it basically guarantees that instruction for all students in distanced learning and in person will suffer under the schedule. so on monday, tuesday, thursday, and friday, teachers are going to have to decide during their 15 minutes of prep time whether they get materials ready for their students or go use the bathroom. for two hours on wednesday

only, they'll have to plan lessons for a whole week for two different models. review student work and make changes to lessons based on that. plan accommodations for students with ieps. hold ieps meetings in the day. call parents, collaborate with colleagues, check in with special ed teachers, parents, social workers. write and answer e-mails. i don't know when teachers will write and answer e-mails. maybe even attend a pd. doesn't sound like there's going to be time for that u. all in two hours on wednesday. this schedule is inhumane and treats teachers as baby sitters and not professionals. >> thank you. hello, jeremy. i know your hand's not up. but i want to give you a chance to speak. >> guess what i'm doing guys. i'm preparing lessons right now for my third graders in spanish.

i like this. i like to prepare lessons. i like to be planned and i like to differentiate instruction. it's one of our strengths. you know, i've been here 16 years. i'm good at differentiating instruction, but i need time to plan. number two, i'm a parent. i got the survey. i filled it out, dr. matthews. sent it already. but, guess what, i was talking to my parents. i talked to seven parents today at parent conferences, they didn't get it in their e-mail. they don't know how to do it. they want me to help them. i can't help them. i think we realize a lot of parents don't have parent view. they need support in filling out these forms. i'm wondering how can we do that. we want to get some accurate data of who wants to return. we need parents informed that schools are going to be open. many of our families we didn't even know. thanks. >> thank you.

president lopez that includes the allotted time for public comment. >> president lopez: thank you for that and i will remind everyone we'll continue to update you all on this item at all of our meetings. we're providing more and more opportunities to hear from you all and continue to update. i want to open it up to commissioners beginning with student delegate mansa if you have any questions or comments to discuss. >> i do. i have two questions. my first one is this survey that is going to three through five grades. a clarification i have is how will families officially finalize their decision. will there be a separate enrollment process or do students just show up to school sites? >> thank you, student delegate.

the survey responses that we get will be used to prepare the registration packets that go out to the families. ten days, our aim is to send those out ten days prior to the respective child. within that light, this is the response that will inform whether we will have a schedule that accommodates them on particular days. so it depends on how many families' request. and possibly at a given grade. so that will allow us, our team to design the staffing, the schedule, and, if needed, the combination of hybrid schedules. so this is the time for our

families to tell us the references and as we mentioned before, if families responded previously to the initial survey back in september. and the response they provided at that time. then they should do so -- someone has their -- needs to mute their mic. dawn, you need to mute your mic. >> sorry. hello. >> yeah. you need to mute. >> sorry. my daughter just came home. sorry. >> so student delegate correa almanza did that answer your question? >> yes it did. my second question is that lots of my teachers have interpreted this live graduation as an in-person graduation. is this accurate or does live

mean just not a youtube video? >> the current plan for graduation is to plan a live, in-person ceremony for our seniors pending our ability to do so while complying to health and safety measures. >> thank you so much. that's great news. i also wanted to say that educator's spot for vaccine access announced through unity, all staff will have access to vaccines. this is so amazing. i personally celebrate any time i hear someone i know gets the vaccine. so you can imagine the joy i felt. it's almost going to be our one-year anniversary of shelter-in-place. and, now we can finally see the light at the end of this tunnel. thank you to the staff for building out of thin air. thank you to the educators who

are on the front lines and who consistently advocate for the students and themselves. thank you to the parents who show up to these meetings, show up for their sons, daughters, loved ones and fight with love. the same way the passionate teachers are talking about their very valid schedule concerns. i also ask with all due respect to also think about the burn out that the youth are feeling one year into this. it is very hard and i hope that the teachers who are listening to student feedback especially on workloads. so many of my peers are suffering and get no break within their long days. all work is homework right now. so hours of after school homework does not help students the way you think it does. i do not blame each teacher for this or take right of way on the concern but i wanted to talk about this. finally, i wanted to address the student who is are on call tonight. i had so many of you during

public comment which makes me so proud. this quarantine has proved that you are stronger than ever imagined and you are capable of everything. you have even survived the isolation and immense loss of a global pandemic. to my high schoolers and middle schoolers, i feel you. we have been wronged by this virus. as a senior, most of my high school career has been in distanced learning and it is extremely disappointing and heart wrenching. there's no possible way to sit here and sugar coat the feeling. my class of 2020 experiences and the way we have been let down in our last year as high schoolers. i was 16 when this quarantine started and now, next month, i will be 18. all i can say is that in this moment, it's time to hold on to this hope. this chapter is finally ending and the next one is being written right in this moment. so [speaking spanish] we are stronger than the person we were when we entered this.

thank you so much for answering my questions. i'm really excited for you snow the writing of this next chapter. >> thank you to our student delegates and your continued hopes for all of this. we really appreciate it. commissioners, do you have questions or comments? vice president collins. >> vice president collins: thank you. i just want to appreciate our student delegate katiya for her words. i think she's right. this is a really tough time. i mean, i think we're even beyond pandemic fatigue. i think if there's another term, somebody needs to come up with it. and, but i do think we are

turning the corner and hearing about vaccines and the fact that we have educators getting vaccinated and also now community members like walgreens and kaiser stepping up to make it easier to do that i think is such like welcome news and so i do want to even though things are hard, i think it's important our student delegates are reminding us too that we have to look at what's hopeful and what's new and i'm also very excited about the idea of students being able to return to classrooms and meet their peers face-to-face in some cases for the first time. so i think that's also something to celebrate and work towards and have hope. i guess i just wanted to ask some questions of staff and this may be a question that's been asked before, but i think

it's helpful for the public because folks join us at some meetings but not all meetings. we were all eager to have schools open as soon as they can to families, but i know there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes and sometimes it's hard to know all the parts. when it comes to getting buildings ready as to why we can't move faster? i know there's a process as far as physically getting them ready. chief can you just kind of generally explain why are we staggering? why can't we just open them all as they're ready? anyway. >> great. and, i'm happy to answer that question. i welcome more detailed

questions as folks have them. our focus for march. one i want to let folks know is we started this process in terms of physically preparing sites in january and actually earlier than that in terms of counting all the windows that need to be counted and assessed. so we have been moving. we have been working since early fall to get to this point. the target has also moved as we have been working. so as we have planned initially, we were talking about small groups of local students and a gradual return for january that was sized around 500 students or a 1,000 students and now we're up to talking about 1,664 classrooms to house 15,000 daily students across our elementary school sites. so we have been constantly scaling up as we've gone along, but as earlier schedules showed

where we wanted to have wave 1, wave 2, and then 50% of wave 3 sites ready by march 22nd, we have now tried to meet the aggressive schedule the board has set. we're actually going to be able to get even most of our wave 3 sites like physically prepped and ready earlier for april 12th. there are sites, though, there are about 15 sites that i think won't be ready physically until april 19th. so we are planning 50 moves during this month in 30 days. we then have to follow those moves with moving companies with the sites expand out process for all times and all the you know taping off water fountains, and then we have to schedule dph inspection which can't proceed independently from instructional leaders. we can't just schedule the dph inspections one after another

twelve a day without principals participating. so we also need to accommodate while principals, superintendents, and executive directors are still trying to drive distanced learning. so they also then need to be pulled off task to come and do these dph inspections. so we have a lot of balls in the air and we are also still trying to be respectful of principals and instructional leaders' time and give them at least five day's notice so everyone can be successful. so i think all that is -- we're trying to do a lot of volume in a short period of time and staff up all different steps simultaneously communicating this to all the different sites. we do need to make sure that dph has a chanceo