m. superintendant, do you have a designee to introduce this item? >> yes. this is dr. value tip entino who is going to do the presentation. i want a point of clarification. we have two separate items, one is alignment to the math common core and a spret -- separate item on language arts. >> so we are taking the math at this time. we'll do the english language arts later in the evening. thank you very much. it's a powerpoint? okay. commissioners. and this is the powerpoint that aligns with this. >> we are very pleased to be with you this evening to share with you the results of a lot of work by a lot of people that began over 18 months ago. as we transition to the math common core standards. this effort results in a core curriculum that includes a rigorous design, comprehensive professional development and a focused implementation plan that includes a clearly articulated core sequence. the teams of educators participated in this effort includes staff members from cn i, special education, early education, the leads, teachers and administrators. in addition many of our pa

item m discussion of other educational issues. superintendant. thank you president fewer so as our presenter come up and get ready to present i think that's very, very important it seems like the theme of the evening that we're very, very fortunate but very strategic in san francisco that we have not only embraced but actually supported language development and probably one of the most robust pathway initiative no california but particularly important is that we've been applying the research less than to our programming and actually looking through a study at what have been the outcome for our students and pathways. we're very fortunate to have a robust partnership with stanford and professor has been with us and do we have researches from stanford as well as our own internal research department and special have an opportunity assistant so we want to share with the board and the public the results of some of the elevation work i'd like to start and call optional special assistant to the superintendant ms. wong >> we're going to start out with our

. >> item l, special order of business none, and m, discussion of other educational issues, superintendent? >> thank you, president fewer and so this is a special place in the agenda, last board meeting we talked about the common core, english, language arts and math. and today we are talking about what happens after our students learn all of those wonderful facts. they have to be assessed. and as you know, california is adopting not only the common core, state standards, but also a new assessment system called smarter balanced. and part of this is going to require if anyone read the op, ed that i wrote for the examiner and i talked about the context of which smarter balance will be implemented. but, there have been a number of questions as to how are we positioned and do we have the technology, and what is our status and so to give the public a very, very quick, update on this, we have assembled a stellar team led by dr. cona and dr. kensy and they are going to introduce our folks as well. >> is there a powerpoint tonight? >> no. >> thanks goodness. >> we have the theme, technology and da

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superintendent who does not want to listen to the community. she took away a bunch of things that were put into improve our schools, because you do not agree with the. mhas suggested a new plan that would totally rock that -- that would the chartercalize schools, and then roll over the contract that she said is absolutely imperative for doing the work that she and the government said you needed to do in newark. sittinge the superintendent you actually have to listen to the people that you serve, not pretend that they are not important. what we have said, is listen to the people. do the things that we know work and schooling, not just give the schools to private prayers -- purveyors. that is basically why we have written a letter to chris christie zhang listen to people. listen to the reasons why people are upset with her, do not ignore it. host: if you're listening on c-span radio, our guest is randi weingarten, the president of the american federation of teachers. this is a tweet -- guest: when you actually compare the u.s. education cost to the cost and other countries, there is one huge difference. other countries actually paid for economic securit