my name is todd berman. i'm the executive director of the arts education alliance of the bay area, which that organization sent in a letter about this resolution, but i'm going to talk also about my experience. i was a long-term substitute teacher in the school district, and i'm also a provider of arts education through the where it lives program. so i think we've also seen there's been such a meeting -- we've seen a lot of student voice here, so the arts prioritizes student voice and student expression, and we can see how powerful that can be. so i've been -- as an arts advocate, i've been connected with some state advocacy, and the california collaborative campaign because i want to see sfusd be an art leader and join the statewide movement, and also affirm that arts are a right and essential to education of the whole child. so i really support this declaration, but i also see this resolution does more, and it seeks to make that -- those rights and that access a reality. it puts teachers in charge of curri