in 2015-16, special assistant was passed, our beloved landon dickey. in 2016 and 17, african american student achievement became an express priority of the superintendent's leadership team. our village roundtable, black men's program and horizon program also launched. in 2017, launched a variety of programs, and all of the partnerships up there, among many others were established. in 2018, in partnership with the family empowerment and partnership team, we launched or partnership academy. we cohosted learning while black at sfusd and soon, we'll be hiring another special assistant to the superintendent to continue building on the work of our lead, but i want to note under mr. dickey's leadership, we went from a one-person team to seven-person team. we went have having no budget to a $1.5 million budget, and we went from very scattered leadership across our schools so in terms -- in terms of african american families and students, to impacts in all schools and b.s.u.s. black excellence, i'm going to read these out because we hold very dear. black excell

my name is landon dickey, and i'm the special assistant to the superintendent. thank you for allowing us to present on the african american leadership initiative, a. i'm joined up here with three members of my team and the rest are in the audience. this is a very special team of people that have all been with this initiative from the day that they were hired, so i'm fortunate to present with them today. in terms of our purpose for today, so it is to review the journey of the african american leadership initiative, to provide context on our current projects and programs, to look ahead to what they expect for 2019-2020, and then, to share some of my reflections on the future of sfusd work in support of african american students. and with that, i'm going to turn it over to letitia irving, our program coordinator for the apac. i want to walk you through the journey, and we are proud of the milestones listed here. in 2015-16, special assistant was passed, our beloved landon dickey. in 2016 and 17, african american student achievement became an express priority of the

my name is landon dickey, and i'm the special assistant to the superintendent. thank you for allowing us to present on the african american leadership initiative, a. i'm joined up here with three members of my team and the rest are in the