001Good evening everyone. We're going to get uh the meeting started for January 20th, 2026 at 7 p.m. regular board meeting. Secretary, call the role please. >> Valencia >> here. Deuentes >> here. Reyes here. >> L here. Olivas >> here. Moreno >> here. >> Johnson >> here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Well, we have um one public speaker, David. >> And before you start, we do have a threeminut time limit and uh respect the privacy of our staff and students. >> Absolutely. >> Feel free to start. Uh, good evening. My name is David Kira and I'm the regional manager with
002an exciting initiative in Illinois called Birth to Five Illinois. Birth to Five Illinois works locally to build a stronger, more inclusive, and equitable early childhood system that puts the family stories at the center of policy and decision-making. This system was created across the entire state to better understand how to help families with young children thrive in their communities. We listen to families and document their challenges and successes across accessing childare and early education opportunities. And some of those caregivers that we've been talking to are residents of the school district. Essentially, we listen, we ask questions, and we share back with both sides locally and across the state. We see programs and services that don't have nearly enough preschool, child care, or early intervention openings for children. We share wants and needs from families to the
003leadership who can bring about change. Some of these include our regional office of education as well as local and state elected officials. Over the past two years, birth to five Illinois regional team has published an early childhood regional needs assessment, a mental and behavioral health report and an action plan that not only outline some of the challenges within our local early childhood system, but more importantly re make recommendations and outline action steps for how we can better support children throughout Aurora. Our birth to five annoy team is currently working with providers, local community leaders, libraries, and families to address the recommendations that they've talked to us about. Their continued feedback and input serve as a roadmap for our work. And we also work with our funders, the Illinois State Board of Education, who look and
004we look forward to the new Department of Early Childhood that will be encompassing several existing programs under this new state department starting this summer. Finally, we want to engage with school districts to let them know the importance uh and the critical role that they play in community building in regards to parents and caregivers looking to start families looking to grow their families. A lot of families looking uh only not at academic successes, but also where they can access early learning and care opportunities for their children. I'd invite you to take a look at our reports and the information we've gathered on our website. And I'm happy to leave some materials. Thank you so much for your time. >> Thank you. All right, moving on to communications from the superintendent, Dr. Halverson. >> Good evening, board
005pre president, members of the board. Uh, this evening we've got a couple updates. Uh, the first thing we have is we have Elizabeth with our student board member report. So, if Elizabeth could come up with our student board member report, we'd be great. Uh, we greatly appreciate it. Thank you. >> Uh, good evening board. I hope everyone had a relaxing break and had time to spend the holidays with their loved ones. Um, after the break, our students had a week to prepare for finals, which took place on the 9th and 13th of January. The freshman class council hosted a cocoa and cram on the 12th to help with last minute studying. Uh, they had teachers of all subjects available for questions, and of course, there was hot cocoa for all to enjoy. We've officially made
006it a week into the second semester. Our senior class council has planned a special event called senior sunrise for our seniors to celebrate their final semester in high school. It'll take place tomorrow at 7:45 a.m. and they'll be showing ratatouille with an assortment of snacks. On January 15th, our bridging the gap students welcomed a group of students who came all the way from St. Teresa's youth center in Belfast, Ireland for a day of cultural exchange and leadership activities. Students shared experiences about their schools and communities, participated in presentations, service projects, and team building sessions led by Easter students and staff leaders. Both groups spent this weekend at the Sean Goodman Teen Institute in Bloomington, Normal. Our boys and girls wrestling teams have been on a roll in the last month. Both teams have won against
007conference competitor Larkin High School right before the break and both teams had very successful tournaments over the break. The boys placed second at the Glenard South Varsity tournament and the girls placed first at the Kieran Queen of Mayhem tournament and the Betavia Invitational. Senior night took place on the 14th against Dreamwood and of course of course both teams won with the girls having a score of 84 to zero. The girls are on their way to their fourth upstate 8 conference champion championship title. Our cheer team placed seventh at the ICCA 2026 championships which is a state level competition. And tomorrow we are hosting the upstate 8 cheer conference championships. The dance team recently became an IDTA state qualifier placing fourth out of 50 teams. Uh the boys basketball team had a great start to their
008break with a close victory against Bartlett on the 19th of December. Over the break they had the Easter holiday tournament at which they placed third overall. Last Friday they had another victory against Larkin with a score of 70 to 63. January 9th was our cross town game with West and unfortunately we didn't win but we'll have a shot at redemption on the 5th of February which will also have pizza available for all student spectators. I want to give a big cong big congratulations to all our winter sports and the efforts made by our students and coaches to accomplish great things. Thank you. >> Next we have our community relations report with Miss Britney Walker. Good evening everyone. All right. So, first I want to start off. As you can probably see, we have an increase
009of students here from Easter High School. The Illinois State Assistance Commission every year does an Illinois State Illinois State Scholar Program. So, these are for high academic achieving students and great test scores. We had 37 students. um half of them, you know, are are here present, but other half were probably working or have some other commitments because these are very involved students. Some of those scores that Elizabeth just presented. I've seen some of these students at games. So, if you're a student athlete, raise your hand. I saw several of you at um some of your senior nights, but I will go ahead without further ado, list their names. I'm going to have them stand in place and then we'll have them all come up at the end for a picture together. So please stand when
010I call your name. Nanell Alvarez, Jose Arando, Miriam Kalzada, Anhel Kamacho, Alejandro Canterero, Edgar Cantoales, Viani Castaneda, Elizabeth Carell Moreno, Lilia Del Toro, Ivan Escoido, Elena Ftoma, Samantha Gamino, Kayla Garcia, Diego Gonzalez, Yurum Horta, Zeian Laiwala, Gian Carlo Leesma, Andrew Lee, Kathy Madera, Fernando Manzas, Raquel Martinez, Sergio Martinez, Brian Navarez, Anhel Nunees, Nicole Olivo, Ariana Overreet, Vanette, Jasmine Pina, Matteos Ramirez, Guadalupe, Reyes, Vera, Ricardo, Rios, Raul Rodriguez, Juan Sosa, Dariana Valerio, Oralis Velasquez, Joanna Via Gomez, Brian Gik, Jazelle Zeruggoza. We have a round of applause for all of our students. They're not going to be able to shake all your hands. We'll do two rows. Taller, preferably in the back. If you're just a little bit shorter in the front, please. and we'll try to see the board in the back. We're gonna have you
011all come all the way over for me. Perfect. Can I have you come over too for me, please? You too. Both of you on the end. >> Or stand on your toes. >> No worries. Come on. >> Parents, please come. family. >> Smile like you're happy to be done with your first semester finals. One more round of applause for all of our remaining awards. >> Congratulations again to all our state scholars. We know you guys probably want to get home and study or you're involved in a lot of things. So, we'll pause real quick. Please feel free to take off. You're more than welcome to stay, but we'll pause real quick so you guys can get home for the evening. So, thanks again for coming out. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work. >>
012You And as our students transition out, we do have a lot of seats up front here. So, if anybody wants to move up front for a better um vantage point, please feel free. One more video, right? Yeah. Yeah. We'll just once we get it and we'll turn it back over to Miss Walker. >> All right. So just before winter break, students from across several um career and technical education programs came together for a unique student-led learning experience rooted in collaboration and exploration. This crossprogram event gave students the opportunity to showcase their talents while learning directly from their peers on other CTE pathways. programs represent uh represented included our industrial technology, welding, automotive, construction, and woods. Using a think, pair, share model, students led presentations, demonstrated techniques, and guided their peers in hands-on activities. Programs um
013I lost my spot. Construction students spent time learning from their welding peers, while others explored skills and tools outside of their primary program areas. um often many of them did this for the first time. So faculty members provided structure and support uh and definitely stepped back to allow the students the opportunity to lead um become mentors and collaborators for their peers. This approach empower empowered students to communicate their knowledge clearly, ask thoughtful questions and learn through doing. Experiences like these help students build confidence, expand their skill sets, and gain broader understanding of how different trades connect in real world settings. Cross CTE collaborations encourage curiosity, teamwork, and innovation, key skills that prepare students for both career and post-secary success. This event reflects the strength and uh the strength of our career and technical programs uh
014and is a powerful learning that happening that is happening with our students and they are trusted to lead teach and learn from one another. So there's a quick video I got to spend a day um behind the protected welding curtain and got to see people the students tinker with toys and do fun things. So I love when I get those opportunities to kind of see what's happening in our classroom. And here's just a quick little video to show what happened. So again, it was a very fun day. I just want to say if any of our East Aurora High School staff from these programs is present, if you can please stand and be recognized. And thank you for letting me be in your rooms. >> He's holding it down for the whole team. But thank
015you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Walker. Greatly appreciate it. Something great to celebrate there. Uh, next we're going to move on to C1, which is our school improvement day highlights from our January 12th uh, school improvement day. We hosted an institute day on January 12th where we spent time coming back together around what matters most, cultural belonging. We had a keynote by Phil Bodie where he focused on the importance of relationships and how the tiny moments matter. In the feedback, many staff shared how meaningful it was to see the district's continued commitment and the positive shifts in our culture. The overarching theme in the evaluation by all was that it was great a great way to start back after winter break with several noting it was the best keynote the district has offered in years.
016We ho also hosted an elementary literacy a mira training. This is a benchmark platform we purchased with our English and Spanish language arts program. Staff shared in their evaluation that the session was informative and very helpful. Additional uh sessions focused on restorative practices and cultural sensitivity. In the feedback, staff shared they appreciated the hands-on activities and reflection. One staff member shared that the learning opened their eyes to new ways of thinking and reinforce the idea that culture and connection shape everything we do, especially how we support our students, respond to behavior, and partner with our community. Our next major professional development event will be on February 27th. It's a countywide institute institute day and we have some great sessions planned for our staff on that day. So that's a little bit of an overview of
017the school improvement day on January 12th. Uh next I'd like to kick it over to Mr. Allen for our buildings and grounds positions. This was um some additional positions that we wanted to make sure we had the opportunity to bring forward to the board in the superintendent report so we can get this on for action uh to fill these important roles. And once again, this comes out of the fact that we were able to move away from some of our outside contracts and our outside vendors and we want to bring some of this work back in house. Mr. Allen. >> Yes. B&G committee, I think in October, we were talking about other contracts we had for maintenance of HVAC equipment and things like that, the overall cost of it. uh working with the B&G uh
018maintenance department, we spoke more about the things we could do in house and how we could probably do equal if not better job in-house maintaining some of these equipments and still carrying a small maintenance plan on some of the other large chillers that are a little bit more complicated. Uh we've been trying to get the positions posted. So, this is we've come tonight to hopefully get the have them dropped down so we can get them immediate action. We we want to get these people trained and hired before we get to the spring and summer when we start having to work on a lot of these units again uh for the time of year. And it's it's we want to find good candidates to fill that position. We want to try to get them as fast
019as possible to get them onboarded. So if you have any questions, be happy to answer about those. >> No questions on my end. I know that that's something that we brought up. So I'm good. >> Perfect. Thank you, Mr. Allen. Uh next, uh moving down to C3, student services parent group. Um I'm gonna have Mrs. Laura Aronball come up to highlight. We had our very first uh student services parent group which went tremendous uh just last week. So Mr. Aaron Ball is going to provide some highlights for that. >> Hello. Good evening. On January 14th, student services hosted our first parent group meeting at the rec center. The group was open to all families who have a child with an IEP or a 504. Families were invited through a direct email communication and we also
020shared the information uh through our district social media channels to broaden that outreach. The focus of this first meeting was really twofold. First, we wanted to clearly establish the purpose and vision for the parent group, creating a space for families to connect, learn, and feel supported. Second, we were fortunate to have Shannita Jones from the Illinois SLD project join us. She provided an overview of how families can effectively advocate for their children throughout the IEP and 504 process. We provided food and attendance was strong for our first meeting with approximately 55 parents in attendance. families were engaged, asked thoughtful questions, and shared positive feedback um both about uh the content and then the opportunity to come together and connect. Uh we're currently using that feedback to guide our planning. And our next parent group uh
021is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, March 11th. I'd be happy to answer any questions the board may have. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. Next, we're going to drop down to C4, which is the motion to approve the middle school football program. Uh, could we have the PowerPoint put up there? Thank you very much. Um, so, as I, uh, discussed earlier with the board this year, um, we haven't had tackle football in the middle school for some years now. Um, we have had, uh, flag football. Um, but looking at continuing to build out our athletic programs at the younger ages and build some connections there. We really want to focus on trying to build these youth programs out and we wanted to start with the football program here. Um some of the
022purposes and overview for that is it would enhance student engagement. Um so gets our kids more engaged and more bought in in the middle school perspectives. Um it'd be another athletic opportunity for our students right now and there's a gap there. There is flag football but a lot of our studentu our students desire to play tackle football in high school and have limited exposure. It would allow us to continue with community collaboration uh potentially working with the tiny tomats uh to make sure we have that feeder program going all the way up to middle school. And then at the middle school level, it would really allow our coaches to drill down and provide some of the guidance needed um so that kids students start to learn the plays, start to learn what it is to
023be a tomat on the football field. Next slide, please. Looking at some of the benefits for our students and their and our athletes. Um it definitely has academic benefits. When students are involved in athletics, they definitely perform better um because they're ready, they're prepared, they have other goals outside of the academic side there. Social skills and development. Football team. Football is a great team sport. provides opportunity for individuals to collaborate, work together. There's definitely physical health advantages just like there are with any other sport. Um, and it continues to really get that district and community impact. Um, we know that our students need buyin at the younger ages to stay involved to find the things that they love. This is another opportunity for us to foster that. Next slide, please. We would look to continue
024to build partnerships and involvement. Um, we'd look for that community engagement being very important there. Like I said, connecting with the tiny tomats at the younger age level and looking to build out the middle school programming further. Look for partnership development. Um, it would provide us opportunity, this is important one, for in district coaching and volunteer opportunities. Um, so like I said, we could really start to build out some of the processes for East Aurora High School football. And in the end, it's not about the winning and losing, but getting our kids where they can compete at a higher level and start to build out those opportunities a little bit earlier. Um, it also will provide the opportunity for community events. Next slide, please. um looking at the structure of the safety and the timeline
025uh program structure that we have the heads up tackling training and meet all the ISBY requirements. We'd also make sure that we had all the safety protocols in place and make sure that we have updated equipment as well as making sure that our helmets are um uh certified. Thank you, Mike. That's the word I was looking for. Appreciate it. The implementation timeline we'd be looking for right now would be getting the program up and going for the summer of 2026. We're able to get some summer camps going. Next slide, please. Um, once again, we touched on these a little bit earlier. We can skip to the next slide as well. The next steps for approval would be to see what questions the board of education has. Uh, seek the approval this evening. So that way
026we're able to move forward with beginning to plan that. One of the important things is when we look at scheduling with other neighboring districts, whether it's Betavia, West Aurora, Yorkville, they're getting to the point where they're building their schedules out now. Um, this would allow us, like I said earlier, to have that scheme, the program and coaching philosophy in there, as well as the programs and drills. We also would next next step, uh, gauge interest level. Right now, we look at it being a one middle school program for all of our middle schools hosted at one of our middle school sites. And we'd have a JV and varsity program. So, you'd have typically a lot of times JV would be sixth and seventh graders where varsity would be eighth graders. But we do have that
027ability to move in and out a little bit there um as the students um talent and exposure um kind of goes through there as well. We also would look at our coaching interest forms, look at getting summer camp opportunities provided and then beginning to order equipment as well. Um some of the initial numbers when we looked at some of the equipment, we'd probably be around $6,000 for equipment right now um for some of the helmets, pads, etc. at that point in time. And then we'd have to expand some opportunities as well. We need some new tackling sleds at the middle school level or replacing our high school ones and taking the high school ones and dropping them down to the middle school level. But I think it's a great opportunity for our students. It's one
028of the opportunities we've talked about and it's kind of a um preempter to next summer when we start to have some of those further dialogues around how we can develop our youth programming, youth artistic and youth youth advanced academic opportunities to really get that buying at the younger levels. Um so that's kind of the proposal we have for you this evening as a board. I wanted to see if there were any questions. No, I think for me it was just I was I had a question here about the budget and what was needed. Um, do we have an actual more itemized on what is really needed or is we don't have any? >> It would be driven by numbers board or board vice president leave us. So once we had the numbers we'd have a
029better idea, but we definitely can come back with not to exceed before purchasing anything for sure. We would definitely want the board's input on that. >> Dr. Hverson, I have a question. >> Yes. So, I know how you were talking about varsity and JB. So, just making a whole like every middle school has a team, but like building it off like the high school levels. >> We would start, Great question, board member Reno. We would start with one team. So, it' be one team for Cowardd, um, Simmons, Waldo, and Fred Rogers Magnet all combined into one. So, there's going to be some logistics with transportation, but it would be one team to start with. If it came out where we had crazy interest and we had to do multiple teams, we would look to do
030that, but we want to start small and really build it up there. The JV and varsity would be sixth and seventh graders would typically be your JV. That's how it's kind of associated with a lot of the neighboring schools in the area. And then eighth grade would be your varsity. But it would give you the opportunity. Let's say you've got a really uh talented seventh grader that should be playing at the varsity level. They could play on the eighth grade team. If you had an eighth grader who maybe needs some more development, you're concerned about the safety aspect, you could have them work down at the JV level at that point. >> Yeah, I remember how it used to be sixth and seven combined and then they had an eighth grade team. So, no, that's
031a cool setup. The goal would be that we'd get this get this going for next year and then look to expand that as we grow the numbers, but we want to start small and really build something that's successful at that point in time. >> And who's going to be in charge of getting um I know you mentioned um concussions and the helmets. Is that like um >> it would still be led we'd have the high school athletic director take the lead on it, but work with the middle school athletic directors as well. So, we'd really work through that. I had a a initial meeting with the high school athletic director, the head football coach, and a couple of the middle school coaches who have coached for years just to talk about kind of some of
032some of those very things. and we kind of viewed it as the athletic department running it initially there and then working with the middle school ads as well. Um, and we wouldn't right now when you're looking at it, we have a lot of stipens built in for flag football. We wouldn't be looking at adding additional stipens. We'd look to reallocate at that point in time and work together with our union leadership to have further dialogue around that. >> Sure. >> Great questions. Any other questions from any other board members? >> Yeah. Do we have a feel at all for what the interest is from students, parents? Yeah, I think there's there's definitely an interest. Um, some of the middle school coaches have started to kind of put it out there. Um, not in a very
033formal manner, but just to start to have some of that dialogue. There's a lot of kids who are playing Flag that would stay with Flag. There's a lot of kids that are playing Flag that said they would come over. We definitely would be able to fill both teams the first year with what the interest we've had so far, but we don't want to we don't want to overprogram and then not have enough kids at the schools. That's why we're starting with one site. Good question. Any other questions? >> All right, with no other questions, we'll move on. Motion to approve the middle school football program. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? Secretary, call the role, please. >> Yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Olivas, >> yes. >> La, >> yes. >> Thank you.
034Thank you. And our next agenda item and final one of the communications from the superintendent is C5, learning and leadership improvement plan presentation. So I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Simpson who's going to bring his team up for the presentation for us this evening. Once again, this is a continuation of what we started earlier. We've already had finance, curriculum, instruction, and assessment. And next we're going to learning and leader leadership and learning. >> All right. Good evening, Board of Education. Dr. Halverson. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to present this evening. Uh so we are going to present our continuous improvement plan from the learning and leadership department. Uh I'm obviously uh Jonathan Simpson the associate superintendent for learning and leadership and I have Mrs. Rosary Horn our executive director of early
035learning Dr. Luis Gonzalez our executive director for elementary and Dr. Jennifer Van Dusen for our director of uh sorry Dr. Gonzalez director of elementary Dr. Van Dooen executive director of secondary. Uh so this year uh under our continuous improvement model we did begin uh by drafting our goals over the summer. Uh we do have uh in total seven goals that were drafted this year and these slides outline those learning and leadership department goals for the 2526 school year uh and how this work is directly aligned to our district 131 strategic plan. Our focus is grounded in our three core priorities which is culture of belonging more than typical growth and community partnerships. These priorities guide how we support schools, develop our leaders, strengthen systems across our district, and they are intentionally aligned to our four
036pillars of our strategic plan as well with equity, operational excellence, collaborative leadership, and student achievement. Our goals begin with ensuring a strong start to the school year, building on a successful launch. Our work then focuses on strengthening systems of continuous improvement, differentiating supports based on school needs, enhancing community partnerships, deepening collaborative leadership across district departments, and investing in leadership capacity and equity to drive measurable improvement in student outcomes. >> Good evening. Our first department goal is well connected to our district goal to foster culture for belonging. So, we want all of our students to walk into our schools and experience a genuine excitement for learning as well as a warm and welcoming environment. Uh, to start the year, our principles planned fun opening day celebrations with bands, uh, mariachi music, uh, performances to kick off
037the year on a positive note. And so, these celebrations built the school spirit and connection that keep students engaged throughout the year. Uh, we also prioritize operational readiness. So, we put systems in place to ensure that all of our buildings um open successfully and classrooms were ready for learning. We revised and shared a school readiness checklist to help our principles uh prioritize key operational tasks including 100% registration compliance for the first day of school, accurate student rosters, uh effective transportation systems, as well as timely delivery of instructional materials. And so with a focus on belonging and operational excellence, we will establish a firm foundation for school success. Goal number two focuses on our cohort-based school improvement work grounded in strong collaboration with ISBY and our learning partner West Ed as we support schools in designation
038status and those that are not. Our school improvement plan serves as the backbone for everything we do, which you will continue to see woven throughout this presentation. We take a thoughtful, datadriven approach to assessment, monitoring, and principal leadership as we work to improve outcomes for students. The images reflect what this work looks like in practice. On the left, the Simmons Middle School administrative team is engaged in IR standards analysis, examining question rigor and determining what students need, are doing, and have already experienced in relation to statewide grade level learning. On the right, administrators and teacher leaders are developing their school vision tree, the activity that launched their school improvement planning process and established their direction moving forward. Together, these examples highlight how our cohort models build collaboration, clarity, and continuous improvement across our schools. In
039goal three, we're sustaining datadriven improvements in our schools through the use of an updated school improvement planning template. The current format includes key metrics for each grade level band across the district, priority teaching practices identified by local school improvement teams, cyclical data review processes taking place at a minimum of every 45 days, and data monitoring dashboards for each school. These school improvement plans are truly living documents undergoing regular review which result in datadriven adjustments impacting day-to-day operations of teaching and learning to drive improvements in student achievement in reading and math as well as building a culture of belonging for all. As we as a district implement this new format and the schools set their improvement plans in motion, we're not only evaluating the progress towards each school's goals, but we are also providing professional development
040and support to build the capacity of our school leadership teams toward the greater goal of ensuring continuous growth year-over-year. Uh families and community partnerships are critical to our district's success. Uh this year we've established strong partnerships with Family Community Services, Boys and Girls Club, and Lutheran Child Family Services. Uh we're also teaming up with Wanzi Community College, Fox Valley Career Center, Kang County Health Department. And these partnerships bring valuable resources and support to strengthen our families and enhance student success. Um one highlight is our partnership with the Boys and Girls Club. You can see there in the picture, the students are enjoying fun holiday activities. Uh I wish I were there and getting wrapped up like a money. That looks really fun. Um, and so that's just one meaningful example of how these partnerships really
041truly enhance the experience, the learning experience for our students here in Eastor. Principal development and collaborative leadership is the goal that supports all other goals. Through various routines and actions, our team and in a collaborative effort with other departments strives to build the capacity of each of our school leaders. This takes place during our district's monthly principal meetings pictured here with the active engagement of all school principles and the entire superintendent's cabinet as well as during meetings that bring principles together with their executive director either in small groups or individually. Providing multiple formats and varied cohorts allows our team to focus on supporting key actions of school improvement plans and district priorities in job alike groups while also providing opportunities for individualized support for all leaders throughout the year. Two-way communication and feedback integrated into
042these targeted coaching and support opportunities guides us in refining and improving how, when, and where we support our school leaders, which in turn helps build the capacity of all leaders across the district. Goal six focuses on continuous school improvement. And while we redesigned our school improvement plan and process, the most important shift has been our mindset about how we approach school improvement as a district. The shining star of this work is our priority teaching practice. It provides every building with a clear, robust instructional focus that bring numeracy, literacy, and a culture for belonging to life. Most importantly, it unifies our staff regardless of role around a shared responsibility for improvement. We also ensured that all school sites have strong intentional actions to support our children with disabilities and our English learners. These actions along with
043our priority teaching practice are monitored every 45 days by both sitebased and district teams to identify strengths and refine areas of focus. The visual on the right shows the range of priority teaching practices across grade levels in our district. This structure allows us to provide targeted professional learning and resources that directly support each building's instructional priorities. Together, this framework keeps our important improvement work focused, collaborative, and aligned to student success. >> Our final goal is focus on cross department collaboration. We know that the work of the learning and leadership department cannot function without working very closely with every single other department uh here at the district. And so with this one um it's really focused on ensuring uh that we are doing the work needed to support our schools and all of our district goals.
044So as a result we are creating these cross department teams that bring together diverse perspectives and expertise to work on those shared priorities. These teams operate within a continuous improvement cycle. By using feedback and reflection to refine these practices throughout the year. By intentionally monitoring the impact of these efforts, we can ensure that our collaborative work is directly supporting schools and driving those positive district outcomes that we're all striving for. Thank you for allowing us to present our continuous improvement plan. We're happy to take any questions that you may have. >> Question. Are you guys monitor do you guys monitor like per quart or per semester? >> So with the working with the schools directly we monitor those school improvement plans for their data analysis cycle every 45 days looking at that and then the
045when we meet as a team we are bringing those up we bring up our goals uh when we meet monthly to then make those refinements and improvements. So a good example is goal number seven uh that was one that we have really worked to refine as the year has progressed and when we started we started with five goals and we built two additional goals into the year as the school years progressed. Okay, thank you guys. Appreciate the structure. >> Thank you, Mr. Simpson and team. Appreciate it. >> And that concludes my superintendent report. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Moving on to section five. Motion to approve the following consent agenda as listed. Secretary, call the role, please. Oh, >> yes. >> Motion. I'll move >> second. >> Any questions? Secretary call the role,
046please. >> Yes. Quentes. >> Yes. >> Olivas. >> Yes. >> L. >> Yes. >> Moreno. >> Yes. >> Johnson. >> Yes. >> Reyes. >> Yes. >> All right. On to finance and personnel committee with Miss Reyes. >> Good evening everyone. Buenos toos. Um the finance and personnel committee did not meet um earlier this month. So, I do not have a report. The next meeting will be held on Monday, February 2nd, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. here at the administrative center. And we do have one action item uh 6B.1 motion to approve two maintenance mechanics. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Hearing none. Secretary, call the role, please. >> Yes. Yes. >> Olivas, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Moreno, >> Yes. Valencia, >> yes. >> And that's it for FMP. >> All
047right. Thank you. Moving on to curriculum and programs committee with Mr. Olivas. >> Good evening. Um I do have the report or the minutes from our December 15, 2025 um meeting. Um during that time um we had two uh school improvement plans, one from O park and one from O'Donnell. O park school shared goals uh to improve literacy and math achievements in preschool and elementary grades, address achievement gaps, reduce chronic absenteeism and streng and a sense of belonging through culturally responsive practices and family engagement. At that time they had a 94.1 daily attendance. Oddonnell school presented data highlighting academic challenges in literacy and math and outlined clear goals to increase student proficiency, improve attendance, uh reduce discipline referrals and enhance social emotional support through targeted instruction and restorative practices. They had a daily attendance of
04893.60. We also had a presentation uh from uh Mr. Simpson about the resilient education center and some programming. Uh the district uh leadership provided an overview of the winter and spring 2026 um rec catalog uh featuring enrichment opportunities from January through April 2026. Uh program focus on art, creative expression, culinary and life skills and wellness of movement. Uh we also had a presentation on our MTSS process of multi-ter systems of support. uh the district review how the MTSS is being used to proactively support students academically, social emotional and through attendance initiative. Uh continue efforts will focus on consistent implementation, data alignment and collaboration across schools. Um and we look forward for uh to hearing about the progress of the alitement, shared understanding and the structural collaboration. Uh, additional updates. We had Easter High School request
049approval to dispose um outdated novels that no longer are aligned with the curriculum. And that will be an action item um later on today. Uh, the district uh reported 11,733 students enrolled in an average attendance uh rate of 87.49 as of December 5th, 2025. Uh the meeting was concluded at 6:31 p.m. on December 15, 2025. We also have our curriculum meeting this evening here at the admin center at 6 p.m. Um I will have a report at the next meeting of February 2nd. And our next curriculum meeting will be uh Tuesday, February 17 at 6 PM here at the admin center. And I believe we do have an action item. Uh motion to approve the resolution to dis for disposal of personal property outdated high school textbooks. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions?
050Secretary, call the role, please. >> Olivas, >> yes. Benno, >> yes. Sequentes, >> yes. Valencia, >> yes. Reyes, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. And that concludes my fast report. Thank you. >> All right, moving on to building and grounds committee with Mr. Lshe. >> We had a uh buildings and crown committee tonight meeting tonight at 5:30. Um I will have a report at the next BNG meeting which is Monday, February 2nd right here at 6:00. We have no action items. So back to you. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Moving on to executive session for the purpose of discussing student discipline, land acquisition, workers compensation, pending litigation, negotiations, and the appointment, employment performance, compensation, and dismissal of a specific employee. >> So move. >> Second. >> Secretary, call the role, please. >> Reyes,
051>> yes. >> Valencia, yes. >> Johnson, yes. L, yes. Quentes, yes. Olivas, yes. >> Moreno, >> yes. And there will be action. Motion to reconvene from executive session. So move >> second. >> Secretary, call the role, please. >> Valencia, >> yes. >> L, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Reyes, >> yes. >> Moreno, >> yes. >> Quentes, >> yes. >> Oliva, >> yes. >> All right. Uh first motion that I have here is motion to approve the resolution rejecting the resignation of teacher Maharin Maria. So move >> second. >> Any discussion on this? Secretary call the roll please. >> Deentes. >> Yes. >> Valencia. >> Yes. >> Olivas. >> Yes. >> Moreno. >> Yes. >> Johnson. >> Yes. >> Reyes. >> Yes. >> L. Yes. >> All right. Second motion that I have here
052is motion to approve the recommendation to terminate the assignment of head coach of head basketball coach Ronaldo Robinson as discussed in close session. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Do we have any discussion? >> Yes. >> Does this include his position as teachers assistant? >> It does not. only as the head coach. Any other discussion? All right, hearing none. Secretary, call the role, please. >> Valencia, >> yes. >> Deentes, >> yes. >> Johnson, >> yes. >> Olivas. >> Based on the evidence presented, yes. >> L. >> No. >> Rez. >> No. Moreno, >> I abstain. >> It did pass with four yeses. Um, motion to adjurnn. Second. Secretary, call the role, please. >> Valencia, >> yes. >> Sephuentes, yes. Dees, >> yes. >> La, yes. Olivas, >> yes. >> Moreno, >> yes. >> Johnson, >>
053yes. What a jerk.