our first will be bill sanderson, the assistant supervisor of high schools and president of the san franciscoharter of california school administrators. he will be after he presents his 4-a wards he will be followed by the supervisor and president of the united administrators of san francisco. >>> good evening. it is a little different at this microphone than those microphones. i am glad to be here. i want to acknowledge four administrators as part of region five. first i would like to recognize sylvia, who was the principal of the year. come on up. (applause). >> also, i want to recognize tiffany, who is assistant principal at rooftop school. tive fan flee was the elementary co-administrator of the year. the other two from region five i would like to recognize. row chavez, interim site administrator now director in the early education department. he received the valuing diversity award. finally, the long time principal, since retired, received the secondary principal of the year award. he went to the state to receive the california secondary principal of the year and he will be recognized he

as bill sanderson said earlier the state is defining these. we do have better access to who they are now. we should be doing a better job. >> related to the middle school and high school readiness, i wanted to understand a bit more around what are the steps to address the one third of students on how we are transitioning them between middle and high school? i brought this up, as well. i would really love to continue to understand the work for the transition planning between the middle school redesign. i am really excited about the redesign. what that transition looks like into high school. do you want to comment now? or is that top design? tran21 of the things i think we can respond is getting some of the high-level practices that high schools are doing. we have been working with these early warning indicators for a number of years. i cannot say that there is one that is across the district. i can say that there are things that high schools are doing and we can get you some of the ideas and things that high schools are doing across the distric