dr. valentino asked us to share our work and thinking. so, again, we have carefully thought about what we want to share with you this evening. as you all know california is one of the 45 states that adopted the common core standards in mathematics and we in san francisco along with educators across california are thinking about what it is to implement this comprehensive rigor described in the common core. so we are presenting our recommendation to you this evening. our recommendation addresses this specific question with the transition to the common core states standards what core sequence supports college and career readiness for all students and specificallien insures the completion of completion of the required uc admission. so while we are talking tonight about the core sequence, we want to land it in a much broader common core state standards which talks about the core rigor that are described. in a balanced mathematics classroom what we are asking of students is they hold a balance of conceptual understanding and problem solving and

dr. valentino stated in 2010. that is when we started to build awareness especially with teachers and site communities and we had many presentations both at sites and principal meetings and other community meetings to create an awareness of the standards. from that we actually started working with communities of teachers which we called at that time the response and development groups and they helped us design the tools that you have in front of you, the curriculum maps, the lesson and unit plans and they were also instrumental in validating the scope and sequence that we had outlined prek-12 for san francisco. in addition, right now we are in the implementation stage. this year was our biggest push in terms of implementation. so what we have been working with teachers for several years on the ela curriculum, this is the first year where we had participation from most of our sites, from teachers from all of our sites and we had contact with most of our teachers and when i said we had direct contact with them, we d