BCC Meeting Minutes
3/19/2012
Location: Paul Revere K-8, 555 Tompkins Ave
Attendance
Members Present: Kim Garcia-Meza, Cindy Choy, Erika Delacorte, Leonor
Jackson-Flores, Lisa Gutierrez- Guzman, Flor Ramos, Maria Teresa
Ponce, Gladys Soto, Darlene Anaya, Elvira Ebalo
Members Absent: Edwin Yuen, Tina Alejo.
SFUSD: Jen Fong, ELSS Supervisor and BCC Liaison; Christina Wong, Special
Assistant to the Superintendent;
Sherry Vaughn, ELSS Supervisor
Members of the public:
1. Review and approval of 2/27/12 minutes
Postponed
2. New Business:
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Lisa Gutierrez-Guzman began a discussion about layoff notices of
approximately 500 paraprofessionals and a proposal to skip layoffs in the
Superintendent’s Zone, which the teachers’ union is taking to court.
Kim Garcia-Meza would like a report from the district on the balance of
children accepted to Immersion Pathways. Last year, there were some
problems with student assignment to Immersion Program. Staff will request
a report from the Educational Placement Center.
Cindy Choy informed the committee that Superintendent Carlos Garcia is
retiring and that there is an informal appointment to Deputy Superintendent
Richard Carranza.
3. Board Report
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Elvira Ebalo was appointed to the BCC by Commissioner Emily Murase.
Commissioner Rachel Norton has two openings. Kim asked Darlene if she
could ask Commissioner Rachel Norton for 2 new appointments.
Darlene Anaya said that Tina Alejo wants to resign. Kim Garcia-Meza said
that Tina Alejo needs to resign formally even via e-mail.
4. Presentation from Sherry Vaughn
Follow up presentation on previous month’s Biliteracy Pathways including potential
changes to the Biliteracy Pathway model.
The objective is that Spanish and Cantonese Biliteracy Pathway students will enter
the Secondary Dual Language Pathway along with the students from Dual Language
Immersion Pathways. Spanish was the language of instruction throughout the day.
Chinese was used only for clarifying or giving instructions. The models will be
changing. Biliteracy used to be called a Bilingual Program that ended in 5th grade.
Bilingual Programs, for example, by 4th grade was probably 15 minutes a day in
Spanish, but the proposal is to teach both English and Spanish for the same amount
through 5th grade.
One proposed change is to give math instruction in English starting in Kindergarten.
During English, students would be regrouped by ELD level. For Chinese Biliteracy,
students are exposed more to English than Spanish Biliteracy students because
Chinese speakers have to learn Chinese symbols/signs and an alphabetical language.
Because the alphabet is similar between Spanish and English, there is more transfer.
There was a question about layoffs and new teachers’ proficiency in pathway
language.
It was suggested that the BCC send questions to Sherry Vaughn to be addressed at the
next meeting.
5. Ongoing Dialogue with Internal Oversight Committee
Staff will be presenting to the Board’s Curriculum Committee on a variety of topics.
6. Site Visits
a. Two visits still to occur:
i. Francisco on April 11th
ii. Tenderloin on April 5th
b. Please give site visit reports to Maria Teresa Ponce.
c. Kim Garcia-Meza requested that SFUSD not send a representative to have a
more candid meeting, but according to Christina Wong, the Deputy
Superintendent Richard Carranza wants a SFUSD representative present at the
site visits. The rationale behind it to get immediate feedback and immediate
solutions. In previous years, sites did not receive any feedback from the
BCC.
d. Christina Wong described the IOC Site Visits, which are all day audits.
When BCC members asked if BCC members could attend, Christina Wong
said “yes.”
7. Next meeting
April 30, 2011, 6:00-8:00 pm, Moscone Elementary School, 2576 Harrison Street, San
Francisco, CA 94110 Library