Each year the CAC recognizes and celebrate the individuals and groups who support, inspire and teach students with exceptional needs in the San Francisco Unified School District. We are grateful to all individuals who are allies to our students. Their efforts and kindness make a difference.  We hope you will join the CAC in celebrating these individuals by nominating someone from your school by March 24th and by joining us at the Awards Ceremony on April 27th in the Board Room at 555 Franklin Street. For more information visit the CAC AWE Awards page.

Nominate someone for an Advocates Worthy of Excellence Award Today!

Register to attend the AWE awards in person

Register to attend the AWE awards on zoom

Our members are dedicated families, educators and community members of San Francisco. 

For more information on becoming a CAC member, please visit our membership page.  We are looking for help with community events and logistics for our monthly meetings.  Interested?  Please contact us!

Staffing Stability 

• Guidance on staffing inclusive classrooms, including co-teaching.

• Guidance on case management of students with disabilities, including reducing the administrative burden on special education teachers.

• Support of collaboration planning time and prep periods for general education and special education teachers.

Professional Development 

• Training for all SFUSD staff on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and strategies, special education core competencies, Multi Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and school wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).

• Create asynchronous video modules for all staff on special education basics, inclusive practices, UDL, MTSS and PBIS.

Literacy 

• Take the findings of the curriculum audit seriously as students receiving special education services are general education students first and improvements to Tier 1 methods and instructional materials will support the needs of students receiving special education services.

• Screen for reading risk, as is established in state and federal guidance

Mental Health and Trauma 

• Continue to address the Individual Education Plan (IEP) assessment backlog

• Provide mental health and wellness supports to all students as well as training to all staff on Positive Behavior Interventions.

Did you miss our presentation to the SFUSD Board of Education this October?  You can check out our report below or by following this link - https://bit.ly/CAC_Fall_Report or watch the video (the CAC presentation starts at 1:18)

More than half of San Francisco foster youth are placed outside of San Francisco because there are not enough safe, loving foster homes for them within our City. This separates foster children from their relatives, friends, anopd school.

When you become a resource foster parent in San Francisco, you allow a child to maintain those connections while building positive new ones. By providing a safe and stable home, you’ll see the child placed in your care learn, trust, and grow in extraordinary ways. The City needs additional foster homes so these children and youth can stay in our community and in our schools. 

If you would like to help foster, adopt, or even mentor a foster child, please visit https://foster-sf.org/ for more information.