Approves up to $25,000 for Youth Speaks to bring a spoken word teaching artist to students
Youth Speaks will provide a teaching artist who is a poet and arts educator to support students and staff in raising student voice through spoken word poetry. The agreement ran September 1, 2023 through May 24, 2024, and the board is approving it after the fact. The cost is capped at $25,000.
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- Vendor / partner
- Youth Speaks · San Francisco, CA
- Action
- New agreement
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- Classroom & academic programs
- Term
- Sep 1, 2023 – May 24, 2024
- This vote
- $25,000
- Funding
- Measure G, Parcel Tax
- Resource / site
9334-909- Vendor no.
004735- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
24-1172· agendaT.-80- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, May 22, 2024
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2023-2024 by and between the District and Youth Speaks, San Francisco, CA, for the latter to provide a teaching artist (TA), a highly accomplished poet, organizer, and arts educator, who will provide direct support to youth and staff focused on uplifting student voice for the entire student body through youth spoken word pedagogy and perform related services, all as described in Exhibit A of the Agreement, incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth, via Academics and Instruction Department, for the period of September 1, 2023 through May 24, 2024, in an amount not to exceed $25,000.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report