thank you superintendent carranza. thank you board members, thank you, thank you, thank you. i stand before you and i am asking the general public no money. i am not requesting any money, i am requesting your presence. at the 34th annual oratorical and musical contest and that will be held on february the 22nd at the marshal high school, grades kthrough 12. and i see a lot of the educators out there and you are sending your students and please, come out and support this wonderful event and it is 8:30 to approximately maybe, 12, we have two, three, a 40 students who will be participating, all work, poems, musicals are memorized and we know that we will not let you down and also, we are addressing the core standard curriculum. for our contest, and the theme is 50 years anniversary of the civil rights act of 1964, justice, equality, and opportunity. please come out and support us, thank you very much. >> thank you, for the invite. >> president fewer? >> yes. and if i may just ask. >> absolutely, if marshal could come up and give us an update on patrica who has been a leader on t

. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent carranza, i too am looking forward to negotiations that are coming up. good to see that there is finally money to talk about instead of money that we have to take away. because it was not there. now we have some money and we i think that all parties have pro'ssals that will be beneficial to our students and we begin negotiations next week. thank you very much. >> any comments from the board? >> seeing none, we have three actions, under special order of business. can i have a motion and a second please on the approval of the 2013-2014 initial proposal for a successor contract from the san francisco unified school district to the united educators ofsan francisco (uesf) teacher and paraprofessional units.. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> and i think that we need a reading of the recommendation by the lovely miss kristina wo ng. >> the board of education approves the addendums for 2013, 14, balance score cards for the single plan for the student achievement and the amount of the eif funds that were used in 2013, for the centraliz

i think that we have one speaker tonight, char on olken. >> good evening, superintendent carranza. president fewer, vice president murase and members of the board of education, thanks for having me this evening and it is a pleasure to see you. my name is sharon and i serve as the executive director of the gateway of public schools and it is nice to see the friends and familiar faces in the room. before i talk about the charter, i just want to thank you for passing the mlu just a moment ago and also for the opportunity to continue discussing the enrollment deadlines and process, and we are certainly open to it and we appreciate the dialogue, and it is a great step, so thank you, we appreciate that. as we embark on the charter renewal process i want to thank you on your hard work on behalf of the students and schools in san francisco. we are honored to be part of this district and to work side by side with so many dedicate and talented educators. i believe that this is really a great time to be a kid in san francisco. on a personal note, i have been at gateway since 2000 and this is

. >> good evening superintendant carranza. hi. my name is louis valentino. and elizabeth barnes, an administrator in the math department. the requested action reads as follows: that the board of education of san francisco unified school district support the actions necessary to implement the recommendation of the superintendant to adopt a 6-12 sequence of standards for mathematics and smaller balance assessment in years 2013-2014. >> before public comment if i hear no objection from the board i would like to take out of order at this time on the common core matters section 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

. >> item b, presentation for the board of education f, superintendent's report. spurpt richard carranza. >> thank you, good evening for everyone joining us here in person and all of the community that is listening to us over the air waves, a couple of thoughts for this evening, that the monk institute of jazz, has chosen san francisco unified school district as one of the five to receive a free jazz educational workshop series and presentation sponsored by the national, endowment for the arts and it will take place at three high schools. burton high, is known for his jazz band and will be introduced for the national peer to peer jazz, program, and it will be presented by six of the countries music students along with the recording artist. and the kansas city, jazz and blues vocalist, lisa henry and so congratulations to the students for this honor. i also wanted to annoys that the students who have a 3.0 or higher will be celebrated at the school district's annual african american honor roll event where i will be congratulating the students with the success as long with the board of edu

. >> hello, thank you superintendant carranza, president fewer, board members, staff. my name is susie loftus and proud that i went to elementary and middle school. i have a first grader and third grader. what i'm here to share is really an appreciation of assistance superintendant who came to our school last night and has some important goals and data and policies where you want to go. our request really is that in fact oring those decisions and understanding what this program means not only to children that are in the program but kids like mine who benefit who spend time with those kids who cheer them on, it affects an entire community that is truly inclusive. it's something that benefits all of our kids. you can see the number of people we have packed in here on short notice. if there doesn't have to be a rush to this, take some time. come out to the school. have you experienced what we experience everyday and we believe this is something that you will want to replicate and you will see the incredible impact it has. our request is to slow it down and give us more ti

. >> superintendant carranza. i'm here to speak with open power ship. san francisco has had an opportunity to partner in several different organizations mathematics in common, the core partnership and others and through these opportunities and particularly over the last 18 months working on our core sequence options, i just want to thank first of all our san francisco colleagues for what that partnership has meant to us in oakland. we feel in some cases we have been able to find common solutions to these problems that we couldn't take on on our own and found local problems that we found so much to have an outside perspective. i'm here to speak on that power and partnership and in particular i won't speak to the details of the proposal you are considering, i want to recognize and appreciate that the principals and underlying goals that we developed together i think really are important to all of us, the equity and access issues, tackling the commitment made to the requirements so your students don't go to their favorite csu or uc to find out they are not

. >> hello superintendant again carranza, president fewer and commissioners. i'm going to update you on the language arts common core standard implementation. daisy santos, a director has been on this for longer than the math team has and in a lot of ways she was blazing trails and there was a lot of lessons we learned from her work and she and melissa lambert have been instrumental in informing us about some potential land minus -- mines that were there. i want to turn it to them so they can share with you the work. they have a little bit ahead in the process and that has helped us to best coordinate our efforts in terms of professional development, in terms of scheduling, that sort of thing. but because they are in the pledges -- implementation stage there is a lot at best to discuss. i'm turn it over to them. >> good evening commissioners and superintendant. thank you for having us here. we are going to speak, try to be very brief here and talk fwou some of the work we've been doing mostly this year in terms of the implementation of the core curriculum and