my name is salima, and i'm a teacher on special assignment with the multilingual pathways department. am a member of the association of chinese teachers, and i served on the scholarship committee. let me briefly tell you what it is. there are us -- there is a set of three rules that we employed to guide our students in the classroom to ensure a positive learning environment, and these rules are, make good choices, solve your problem, and be respectful. i'm going to use these three rules to build a narrative about our organization. some 50 years ago, a group of young chinese-americans made a good choice of becoming teachers and worked for the san francisco unified school district. and because of their immigration and nationality act of 1965, which lifted national origin holders, a large number of chinese immigrants came and settled in san francisco. as a result, the district was faced with an influx of chinese immigrant children that had little or no english skills. at that time, there was no bilingual support for teachers, so therefore, these chinese-american teachers had to solve the