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APD outlines restructuring to align central office with SFUSD strategic plan
Summary
The district—s Academics and Professional Development division presented a reorganization into three strands—learning support & equity, 21st-century learning & accountability, and professional learning & leadership for equity—to implement the strategic plan, tighten alignment with school sites and roll out professional development linked to Prop A funds.
Academics and Professional Development (APD) leadership presented the board a wide-ranging plan to realign central-office work with the district strategic plan.
Tony Smith and Francisca Sanchez described the redesign: APD will organize teams into three interrelated "strands"—learning support & equity, 21st-century learning & accountability, and professional learning & leadership for equity—aimed at braiding content expertise and equity work so central-office services better support site-level priorities. Sanchez said the goal is stronger alignment rather than multiple, disconnected programs and that the division is using research-backed programmatic principles.
Presenters described operational changes including weekly executive-team meetings, quarterly all-staff convenings, stewardship liaisons for schools, intensified work with low-performing schools and a master-teacher/professional-development framework (to be developed with partners including the San Francisco Education Fund and external experts). "We will be bringing through the course of this year how different central offices ... are rethinking themselves in service of the strategic plan," Sanchez said.
Board members asked how early-childhood education (pre-K) would be integrated, whether career-technical education would be preserved alongside college-prep goals, and how professional development would be structured. Sanchez said pre-K work is beginning collaboration with relevant staff, and that career-technical education and A-G (a-to-g) university-prep pathways are viewed as complementary within a 21st-century learning framework.
Public commenters and union representatives later asked for explicit teacher-union involvement in Prop A-funded professional development planning; APD said teachers and site staff are being included in think tanks and co-design processes.
