with me are assistant superintendent, genie paun and christina wang. executive director keefe and we have a couple of other superintendents that will be available. as promised, we're here this evening to bring quality school pattern that the work that staff has been condid -- has been conducting over the majority of the school year. we're going to show a powerpoint presentation, but to remind you about the outcomes of the presentation, we want to review the purpose of the middle school project. we want it answer key questions that the board members raised since the last meeting. we want to discuss a pathway and a pattern of the pathway, approximate -- the prompt -- the proximity pathway. we want to agree on community engagement and analysis for a quality middle school plan. just as a matter of review, the charge of the group that has been working on the quality middle school pathway is developing a quality middle school pathway and to implement a man to insure that quality middle schools and options at all schools including the extending of language pa

wang. from gateway high school. [applause] congratulations. christine from hillcrest elementary school. [applause] congratulations. christina, sorry. christin. and another is not here tonight, so we will hang onto it for her. kelly from john o'connell high school. [applause] congratulations. jessica, we are not sure if she is here. ok, we will hang onto that for her. peter, from the student program. shaun from leonard flynn elementary school. [applause] meghan from wooland -- woodside learning center. congratulations. denise from gateway charter high-school. [applause] ok. congratulations. and dawn from john o'connell high school. i do not think she is year, but we will get it to her later. [applause] robert from leonard flynn elementary school. [applause] and gretchen, we do not think is your, from leonard flynn elementary school. -- we do not think is here. [applause] helen agar from longfellow elementary school. [applause] john from gateway charter high- school. [applause] congratulations, john. richard from sunset elementary school. [applause] congratulations. >> thank you. superintendent garcia: katrina from june jordan high school. [ap