i want to give a shout-out to our first paraeducator to receive achievement. [applause] she is an incredible para and i'm so honored she is the first one to get it. mary knows i don't like to speak in front of a mic., but i said i will do this just for you. stewart and katie was a paraeducator and jolene, so a lot are now admi administratorse and teacher. it's hard for me what happened last year in mayor lee and we had the paraeducator housing last june and we were talking hydra and -- and me. i said this is great, but are we going to do a paraeducator of the year, and he said carolyn, yes, we are this year. i know you have been pushing for it and then he proceeded to tell me i was a bilingual para and i went oh, wow, i never knew that. we talked about paris for ten minutes and how he had been and how important they are. this is very special and so glad it's mary avalade that's getting it. congratulations to everyone and thank you. >> thank you carolyn. i did want to highlight the housing that carolyn was eluding to because of the partnership with the school d

and this includes this service codes for paraeducators in our i.e.p.'s which have recently changed leaving huge gaps of support in the measured minutes of services that our students receive from their paraeducators. we have to address that, and we're going to talk about how. so beyond increasing the professional development for things like universal design for learning, making sure that our general educators have the same level of understanding of support that our special educators have, we have to fully fund coteaching in the middle and high schools? because at the secondary level, coteaching is absolutely necessary to ensure that our students with i.e.p.'s graduate with all of their 8 through g requirements. we have to provide the staffing allocations for that teaching as well as schedule a school day so that those coteachers are allowed to coplan lessons. we have to ensure that our school site councils include special education in their planning process 'cause when parents and staff connected to special education have a seat at the table for the scho

a supplementary aids and services which means we don't accurately capture how much time these paraeducators need to be spending with these students to appropriately support their success. so we recommend looking at the codes that already exist, and you'll see some of the codes that we found that being aratley depict what our paraeducators do in the classrooms. we have to make sure we appropriately staff the service minutes to provide the accurate allocations to our school sites when we're looking through at the beginning, middle, and end of the year to make sure that staffing can support these actual services that are being provided to our students. >> we are looking forward to 2018 and 19, another year of comparing. our immediate -- [inaudible] >> so this past year our popular topics were disability in college, know your rights, and executive function. at our june meeting our topic is artists and support. in two days, we'll have the meeting. so our c.a.c. meetings are open to public, and we would like to invite all of you commissioners to attend. over 2018-2019 meeting topic, i would like

has always supported the work that we do with our young people and with principles, teachers and paraeducators, and last, i want to thank pg&e for their generous support. andrea, you did this donation on behalf of mayor lee, and so it's really important for us to do this in partnership with you, so thank you, and thank pg&e for all you do for our city. these partnerships, as i said,. we expect you to be the next doctors and lawyers, the next mayors, the next supervisors, and people that will lead our city going forward, so we're proud of you. you represent the future of san francisco, and congratulations to you all. thanks for coming out. [applause] >> thank you so much, mr. mayor. so many organizations that we referred you to us we work with closely, and many are funded by our department of children, youth and family, and i just wanted to acknowledge maria fu, who's the director of the c.y.f. and lives, breathes, and ettas everythi eats everything that has to do with young people. we have a supervisor in our districts that does so much with public schools. katey tang graduated from public sch