Jan. 12, 2026 | OKCPS Board Meeting

001All right, welcome. It's packed house. It's kind of fun to see. Hadn't seen this in a little bit. There's some exciting things on the agenda tonight. Um, I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. We do have quorum. Uh, Mr. Kates will call the role and go over our reading protocols. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. If everyone would please take a minute to silence your cell phone, we would be most appreciative. If you need to have an extended conversation with the person next to you or on your phone, please do so in the lobby. Please note, spontaneous comments from the floor are not permitted. Individuals who exhibit disruptive or distracting behavior will be asked to leave. And those who come to the podium to address the board are asked to please introduce yourself by

002name, title, and organization if external to Oklahoma City Public Schools. With that, I will call the role. >> Paula Lewis, >> present. >> Carol Thompson, >> present. Lori Bowman, >> present. >> Jessica Cuentes, >> present. >> Dana Meister, >> present. >> Mike Shelton. >> Juan Lacona, >> present. >> Mehaney, [snorts] and we do have a quorum. And before I lead everyone in the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence, I just wanted to note for our board members, you will note there are new cameras on the ledge in front of you. And this is uh part of the upgrade for our live stream. So as we uh go through the meeting and as you are speaking, our system will automatically when it hears you speak, it'll automatically turn on that camera. So you'll get

003a a direct uh view the the viewers on live stream will get a direct view of the board member who's speaking at the moment, which is an upgrade from what we had before. Uh previously it was more two or three board members at a time. So, this is a better a better view for our live stream viewers. So, we're excited about that. And with that, I'd ask everybody to please stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence. >> 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. Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. We have no public comments is what I've been told.

004It's correct. Everybody's Yes. Okay. >> That is That is correct. >> All right. That brings us to the superintendent's uptake. I'll recognize Dr. Jamie Pulk and she will let Mr. Stephen Brian know when we need to play the video. >> Thank you, Chair Lewis. And to all, I will take just a moment and share how excited we are for our board appreciation. I wish you could see the gifts that are up front as well as the walkway as you come in when they enter. Special thank you to the communications department. uh that team ensured that you all not only had gifts from the department but from schools and very specifically also student artwork. So happy board appreciation to Oklahoma City Public School board members. With that, please start the video. [laughter] >> Thank you. Good

005evening, board chair Lewis, members of the board, staff, families, and community. Before I begin, I want to start by recognizing that January is school board appreciation month. On behalf of our students, staff, and families. Thank you to our board of education for your service, leadership, and commitment to Oklahoma City public schools. Your work matters and we are grateful for the time, care, and responsibility you bring to this role. I'd like to take a few minutes to share how OKCPS is moving forward [music] step by step by focusing on what matters most. Great learning, great people, great systems, and great culture. First, great learning. As we begin the spring semester, we are watching three [music] things closely. How well students are reading, how confident they feel in math, and how quickly schools respond when students need

006help. This winter, our students participated in civics day, where they learned how the government works, how their voices matter, and how to be responsible citizens. These lessons [music] strengthen reading, thinking, and understanding the world around them. At Epoon Middle School, students are also benefiting from [music] math tutoring. With extra support, students are building confidence and learning that it's okay to ask questions. When we give students the right help at the right time, they grow. [music] Next, good people. We recently hosted the state of OKCPS where we had the opportunity to visit with leaders and shared a clear message. [music] Our people matter. As our state superintendent Lindell feels often says, if you're not taking care of students or an educator, take care of someone who is. That's why this semester we are focusing on clear

007expectations. Fewer distractions and more [music] time for teaching and learning. When adults have clarity and support, students benefit. Third, great systems. This month, we launched our new [music] district website, making it easier to use, easier to navigate, and easier for families to find information and stay connected. [music] Families can now see what we're working on, where to get help, and how to stay informed because strong systems should be easy to understand. Clear communication is part of serving families well. We also celebrated the John Marshall Enterprise Middle School ribbon cutting. [music] This building represents investment in students, pride in our community, and a strong future for learning. When systems are clear, and schools are strong, trust grows. Finally, [music] great culture. Great culture means families feel welcome, students feel safe, and staff feel respected. When people

008feel they belong, learning grows. We see [music] this at Spencer where we hosted free family workshops that brought learning and support directly to families. When schools and families grow together, students [music] succeed. At Oklahoma City Public Schools, we believe progress happens when we stay focused, work together, and keep students at the center of every decision. Once again, thank you to our board for your leadership and thank you to our community for your continued trust and partnership as we build a stronger future together. That ends my report. >> Okay, thank you. Um before I open up for questions, I do want to say thank you for all the amazing gifts that are up here. The especially the gifts from the children. They're incredible. and for the adults who took the time to get those. So, I

009appreciate that. Is there any questions, comments on the update? Looking down here. Now, looking over here, Mr. Shelton. First of all, uh good evening. Uh and thank you to all for all the wonderful gifts that uh are sitting here. I'm I'm I'm hoping I won't be here for next year's, but I would I've always hoped that I could get some of those lunch cookies, those butter cookies that we had when we were kids. >> We don't need >> But [laughter] those cookies were good. >> I'll hook you up, Mike. >> You got that recipe? >> I got it. >> All right. Uh just I'm just uh not that it was overlooked, but I do want to just make sure that I I shout out to Douglas High School. >> Okay. >> Uh they honored gave

010gave letterman jackets to their 4.0 students and it was pretty impressive. And so >> wasn't it 22? Was it 22? Do I remember that correctly? >> It you know what? However many it was, it was impressive. >> It was impressive. Yes. And uh let me just tell you this, far too frequently our uh athletes, which they deserve to be honored, but we forget a lot of times about the work that's being done behind the the uh in the classroom. Those kids that show up every day and not only get C's like me, but they getting 4.0's. Uh, okay. I got I I got a little worse than C's, but there's kids that get 4.0's and uh we need to make sure that that we are honoring them. So, I just want to make sure that

011uh I congratulate uh the principal Kevin Jones as well as the uh administration, the teachers, the the support staff on all that's happening at Douglas High School. I received that and if I may also share there there are a lot of great things happening in OKCPS at every school two three times a day. Uh thank you uh and we'll ensure Mr. Jones hears your sentiments but each and every one of you could actually say the same. Um, and and I have two minutes for my presentation and I recognize that >> I'm just giving you a hard time. Most important, great things are happening in Oklahoma City public schools. >> Yes. Um, I I I agree with everybody and um there are some incredible things being built in Oklahoma City public schools right now. I think

012the trajectory we're going with and everything you mentioned in your report, Dr. Pulk, is super incredible. I mean, if you're just driving around and you see any of those projects uh that are being built up from the ground, man, those reports are incredible. And just driving around and seeing what is being built, the buildings, and all the learning that's going to be take taken in those buildings. Um, I'm super excited for Oklahoma City Public Schools. And thank you to all of our voters for investing in the future of our children's education. >> Thank you for saying that. Please note that you can go on our newly website and find all of those exciting things that are happening uh with our projects where the voters did um actually invest in Oklahoma City Public Schools. We keep

013that live and updated. >> Mr. Lacona, um good evening everyone. Uh my name is Juan Lacona. Uh but first of all I would like to thank uh not just the board but also the teachers, staff, uh students. Because of them we're here. Um because of them we do the work that we do. This is not about me. It's about the kids. So let's finish the year strong. Um we got a lot of work to do. So, let's stay let's stay on on course and let's finish strong. >> Okay. If there's no one Oh, Dana, >> sorry. I have to ch time in here. Um the phrase when Carol when excuse me when Mike was talking is if you build it, they will come. And that's what I feel like we're doing. We're offering this to

014them. Uh we're going to give every opportunity to any Oklahoma City public school child who wants to take advantage of that opportunity. And I'm really excited about the future. Are you good? Yeah. I'll just piggyback off of Dana and Mike and Juan and say not only do we have great students in Oklahoma City public schools, but we have great educators. And I want to take my hat off and give a round of applause for our educators and teachers in Oklahoma City public schools. [applause] >> [applause] >> Thank you. Okay. All right. That brings us to our information agenda. We have two items. The first is the presentation on a possible future action regarding the Stanley Hutfield Academy. I'll recognize Jason Mack. He is currently director of workforce development and charter schools. Perfect. Ready. Okay. Uh,

015thank you, Madam Chair, and uh, good evening, board members, and, uh, happy board appreciation month. Um, my name is Jason Mack. I'm the district's, uh, director of workforce development. Hey Jason, let me interrupt you for a second. Craig, we've got a lot of people that are still trying like I don't know if we need to open that door or what. We've got a ton of people trying to get in the back. Somebody can help with that. >> Okay, so I think they're going Brad and head back. >> Thank you guys. >> Okay, thank you. Apologize for interrupting. >> Fine. I feel like I beta test this mic every time. So it's good. Yeah. Um, we have a a unique situation um this evening uh with Stanley Hubfeld. It's our last So, I've I've been in

016front of this board a lot this year uh doing uh renewals for John Rex and Harding and Kip. Um our last expiring contract this year is with Stanley Hutfield Academy. Um and it's a a unique one because their uh current sole member of their LLC, their nonprofit um is Integress Health. um and they've want to pivot and go more towards their healthcare mission. Um and so that leaves Stanley Hutfield in a a situation where they're they're kind of looking for someone to pick up their their sponsorship for their their nonprofit. Um and so with that, um we are treating this one kind of like a new, uh charter school application instead of a renewal, uh because it will be a new entity that comes online. Um so I just wanted to kind of preface what

017we do tonight with that. Um, thank you. Keep going. How does it mean now? I hit it. You know who I am. You know why we're here. Go ahead. Quickly. Just a timeline. Okay. Um, so we haven't done a initial uh charter application since 2023. So, I just want to bring everyone um up to speed on the timeline for this sort of thing. Uh, first they have to submit a letter of intent. Um and Jason Brown did that uh who's the superintendent of Harding Fine Arts uh back on October the 29th. Um then we meet with the applicant um several times in this scenario because it's so unique and then an application is submitted that was done back on December the 5th. I give that application to a bunch of people um within our organization

018that have um school leadership experience and such. And then step five, stop it, Stephen. Go ahead. There it is. We are here. Step five, we're doing a board presentation. Um, after this, um, I'll give a recommendation to, uh, Dr. Pulk and then we'll kind of bring this back up, um, hopefully in a couple of weeks and have a a possible vote on it. Okay. Um, are there any questions? Go ahead, Stephen, before we get started. Okay. Uh then I will uh yield the floor to Jason Brown who's the superintendent of Harding Fine Arts. >> Welcome back to the podium, Mr. Brown. >> Thank you, Superintendent Poke. Uh Chair Lewis, thank you so much. Members of the board, uh it is both an honor and a privilege to stand before you uh for a couple of

019reasons. Uh January is a very special month, and it's nice to be here while you are recognized as board members of one of the largest districts in the state of Oklahoma. We know that uh not only do you serve uh tirelessly um you serve without pay without accolades for the most part uh and you give of your own time and so to volunteer and give to others especially the kids of our of our city uh is always appreciated by by those of us who live in the Oklahoma City metro area. Uh speaking of which, as I get into a little bit of the presentation, I would be remiss uh because we have a couple other people here and you had mentioned uh Chair Lewis that we have quite a few people here. Uh among the

020group I will start with uh since it is uh January is uh board recognition month, we have members uh from the board of Stanley Hubfield and members of the board from Harding Fine Arts Academy along with staff, along with parents, along with members of our foundation. And so without taking a lot of time, but just so you can can see for yourself uh the number of people who support uh the acquisition of Stanley Hubfield and the and this merging of of of of educational properties. Uh if you are here in support of that, if you could just please stand so that we can get an idea. Thank you so much for all of you here and thank you especially to our board members who serve and foundation members who serve. Thank you very much. Appreciate

021it. As Mr. MG mentioned, this is a very unique um situation and a very exciting opportunity. It's an exciting opportunity because usually you have one of two things before you when you consider charter applications. You either have a renewal and you utilize how well that school's been doing, how well they've performed, how you look at their evaluation from the last several years and you decide whether you want to renew that application. Uh that would have typically been according to the timeline what you would have been looking at uh this particular school year. Uh Integris uh who has been a great partner and sponsor with Stanley Hubfield uh very graciously uh notified Stanley Hubfield that they would be moving in a slightly different direction uh but still be partnering with education as a whole in the

022city of Oklahoma uh city of Oklahoma City. But that did necessitate Stanley Hubfield looking for a place to land so to speak. Uh which is extremely important because as you will see here in a moment they do an absolutely wonderful job with the students uh in at Stanley Hubville and with the students in that neighborhood. Um and so with that uh that sought and started began certain conversations and those conversations resulted in uh the decision of Harding Fine Arts Academy uh to seek acquisition of Stanley Hubfield in the form of asking you to consider authorizing Stanley Hubfield as a new elementary for Harding Fine Arts Academy District. Uh we feel like what that will do is that will continue the great things that are happening at Stanley Hubville without missing a beat. Uh they have

023wonderful leadership who you'll hear from. They have wonderful support as you can see. Um and we want to continue exactly what's happening there for Harding Fine Arts Academy. Uh that will give us a prek through 12 continuum. uh that partnership and collaboration um will will speak to kids metriculating through an arts integrated and Oklahoma A+ um curriculum that has served both campuses very well and it will allow kids a very unique opportunity that they can't get anywhere else to keep with that Oklahoma A+ essentials all the way from preK through graduation. And so I want to introduce uh the principal and current acting superintendent of Stanley Hubfield. And I think what you will hear and and I so appreciate the the your focus for this semester because I think what you will hear in this

024presentation uh without even previous collaboration is you will hear exactly what you outlined and what the focus for Oklahoma City Public Schools is this semester and that you will hear a little bit about great learning. You'll hear a little bit about great people, great systems, and great culture. And what we want to do is we want to just do right by the students of Stanley Hubfield Academy. We know that there's a lot we can learn from uh at Harding Fine Arts Academy. And there are a lot of resources that we can bring to bear to provide opportunities for for the wonderful students and staff of Stanley Hubfield. So, I'm going to introduce Ruthie Rener, who has served in the leadership role for Stanley Hubfield for a number of years, uh, both as principal and then

025most recently as acting superintendent, and allow her to share with you some of the wonderful things that are happening at Stanley Hubfield because whether a new application or renewal application, your decision often comes down to how well uh, do you feel like this this school will operate? Will it be successful? Are they stable? Do they have a plan? And I think you'll see the wonderful accolades and the wonderful achievements of Stanley Hubfield and how good a job they've done under the leadership of Miss Rainer. >> Thanks Jason. >> Thank you Jason. Thank you all for being here. Um it is and thank you board for listening to and considering this as an application. Um, we are very excited and I want to say thank you to Integress for 25 years of amazing community support. Um,

026Stanley Hutfeld was a failing school in Oklahoma City public school at the time when we became a charter 25 years ago and we have made so many inroads and impacted so many families. Um, this is just a sampling of those that could come this evening of of former educators from Stanley Hutfield. It doesn't matter where you go, you typically hear somebody say, "Oh, I taught there." Um, and so it's great that we are launching teachers, we are launching administrators from our site, but most importantly daily we are impacting the lives of students. So share a little bit about who we are. Our mission at Stanley Hutfield Academy creates a community of learn lifelong learners through positive connections and rigorous integrated curriculum to inspire excellence. Those are not just words on paper. Those words are lived

027daily with what we do at our school. Um, we greet the students as they come in the front door and whatever they bring with them, we set it aside. If they need to see the counselor for a moment or need a new uniform or maybe need didn't get breakfast, we make sure that what happens at the front door starts their day off right. So that learning is what's important and learning can't happen if there's not that trust built. And so that trust starts um and it goes throughout our entire day. We live the mission at Stanley Hutfield Academy. Um one of the things that started with Integris is our positive directions mentoring program and now that is held inhouse. Um currently we have about 108 mentors matched to our students. Um they match one-on-one and

028spend an hour a week. We call it the hour of power where they are impacting the lives of students and giving back to them academically, sharing about their career, career readiness, what it takes to um launch into the world. And um even at the young age of, you know, first and second grade, you see connections happen. Sometimes you'll see them walking down the hall and you're like, are you guys related? Because that connection is so real. um and they have impacted students to the point where um they follow them to middle school and high school and and watch them as they graduate. But it is a uh another relationship in the life of lives of our students that allows them to have another caring adult um and show that education is important. In the afternoon,

029we have free interest base clubs on Mondays and afterchool tutoring on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This is a commitment of my staff. Um, we have everything from basketball and cheerleading to music and art. Um, we've even had fishing club and uh, soccer, tennis. If you say it, we like, "Oh, we've probably done that before." Um, we have a newscasting club. We have robotics. Interestbased clubs allow students to explore things that they typically wouldn't. And the student gets to pick the club. Contrary to most places, uh, sometimes parents call and say, "Hey, I really don't think they're going to like it." and I said they picked it so this is where we're going to go with and we'll see. Um but a lot of times we find out that students once they are exploring um something

030that they're interested in um it peaks their interest in other things and it shows um their resilience. It also shows um some self-confidence that we typically don't see from uh other things that happen. So I have some I have one in particular a L student who became a cheerleader, very very quiet child and just found herself. And so it's kind of fun to watch that uh happen in the early years before we launch them off into middle school. At Stanley Hutfeld, we have uh specialists that are dedicated to art, PE, dance, technology, literary arts, and music. Uh, these specialists serve all students from preK through 4th, which is a little different than a lot of elementary schools. A lot of elementary schools don't send those pre-K babies off to specials. Um, but our students really

031learn that all of the they have gifts in all areas and it's an opportunity for them to explore those areas. our art specialist and music specialist, they all integrate into the classroom and they help during our literacy block. Every person at Stanley Hutfeld is a teacher. My parents teach, my teachers teach, my specialists teach, my cafeterias ladies teach. So um everyone is uh treated on that same equal is we are there for students and we are there to guide them on a path. The arts have an inseparable part in a human journey. Indeed, we depend on the arts to carry us toward the fullness of our humanity. We value them for themselves. And because we do, we believe knowing and practicing them is fundamental to the healthy development of child's minds and spirits. And this

032is from the National Standards of Arts education. Arts is not just a class. Arts is integrated into who we are. Um, you will see art as you go up and down our hallways, but when you go into the classroom, you see poetry, you see movement, you see music, you see students creating this. And so that gleans into school's fun, and when school's fun, we're learning. So, um, we are excited. We are a member of the Oklahoma A+ network. We're a demonstration model school. Um, we have some members here today, um, some founding members from OKA+. Um, but it really has allowed us to develop the essentials because it's not just about arts. It's about the infrastructure. It's about curriculum. It's about the climate of the school. And all of the essentials are important and play

033an important role in who we are. Part of who we are um is we do have a house system. There are five different houses at Stanley Hutfield. When you are a member of Stanley Hutfield, you belong to a house. I happen to be in the house of Thiago. We are the owls and the house of perseverance. Great one. Um so, uh but each student has a house. And this is part it derived from our PBIS, positive behavior intervention supports. It's part of our MTSS system that we have in place looking to ensure that we are not just addressing the academic needs of our students, but we are addressing those social emotional needs, the character development. Um, we meet monthly with our houses. Um, this year the this year we've started adding in literature as we

034meet with our house group. Um, we come up with challenges and uh we are all super rivals and it's all in great fun. Um, but you can ask any student at Stanley Huffle what house they're in and even the little ones will tell you. They might say the four-year-olds, the purple one, but they can tell you their house. So, um, we are super excited that our house system has really launched us into a community from prek through 4th grade, um, where we are uniting students together and building those relationships and creating a a system of care for each other. Who do we serve? We serve the students um of Western Village between 101st and 115th between Penn and Western. That is our demographic outli um when we took over from Oklahoma City. You can see

035that our demographics are very similar to every school pretty much in Oklahoma City. Um we serve students um in that demographic zone and if we have any openings then we accept outside um out of area transfers in. And what are our results? Our last three report cards from 22 to 23 was a B, 23 24 was a B and 24 to 25 was a B. Um we are consistent in our interventions. We are consistent in our academics and reacting to the needs of our students. During this time, we've had a growth. Um, I've been at Stanley Hutfield for 15 years and during that time, we've gone from 6% to 26% Hispanic and ELLs. We have created a system to address those students needs, which are unique, and making sure that those students succeed because that

036is what we are there for. making sure that every ch student has the ability to succeed. We are not done. Um we want to see that as an A and we are working hard to make that happen. Ensuring that we are addressing all of our subgroups and making sure that we are um creating interventions through our MTSS that work. Um this is a lineup of those test scores. Um, it kind of shows you when we do have an area that drops, we provide professional development to our teachers in that area. We also look to see what we are doing differently and how we can adjust our reaction so that we are addressing the needs of that se that student group um as they move forward into the next year. And just a little lineup of

037ELA between Oklahoma City and Stanley Hetfield for this last year. This is our uh fourth grade ELA students. And you can kind of see we've got very similar in that um our economically disadvantaged subgroup here. Um it shows you kind of what the breakdown is for ELA and a breakdown of what it is for math. Um we work hard to get students in the advanced category and proficient. That's always the goal. Um, but our advanced students, sometimes there's so many that come to us that have needs where you're working a lot on remediation. Um, not forgetting to make sure that we provide um extra uh additional supports for our students that may be advanced because we do have students that are um in advanced category. We have an academic team. We work with our pair

038professionals um in providing some enrichment activities and projectbased activities as well for those students. So here are a few of our successes. We are a certified healthy Oklahoma school for 15 years. Um we do have a community garden we'd love for you to come out and see. Alumni member of healthy schools of OK. Um we are an okay A+ network demonstration model school. And what that means is we provide professional development out to others and others take part in our professional development as well. We're project 21 learning exemplar model school in 2018. On our Oklahoma State report card, we have a letter grade of a B. OET a technology grant recipient in 2019 which was very timely and uh was a blessing to make sure that we were ready for COVID when it happened. Uh

039we have been a charter, a public charter serving the community sponsored by Integress Health, the only medical entity in the nation to do so for 25 years. So we have a huge heritage and a name that we want to make sure is preserved in our excellence that we continue to build. We are a community focused neighborhood charter and that is what we hope to continue to do. We are excited about the merging with Harding Fine Arts. Um someone said what will the name be? It will we want to keep the Hutfeld name because Mr. Huteld was the CEO of Integress um that started this mission and um we are thinking Hutfeld Fine Arts Academy um to go along with the same FAA um initials there. So I'm going to hand this back over to Jason

040Brown and he's going to talk a little bit about the merging piece of this and what it looks like. >> [applause] >> Thank you, Ruthie. Um, I will not belabor these slides. Uh, I want to be able to utilize your time to answer some questions, and I know this information was provided to you in your packet. I just want to talk very briefly and reiterate some of the things that we have uh uh that we've expressed here this evening. uh that is that this is for us um a very synergistic uh alignment uh almost like written in the stars. We felt uh our leadership style between myself and Ruthie uh seem to to mesh and work very well together. uh as an entity that's been established for a large number of years. Harding Fine Arts

041Academy uh and looking at the good work that they do at Stanley Hubfield, it was a quick and easy decision to say if this happens, we would like to leave everything exactly as you as you currently have it and just provide support and resources. Uh there are not any systemic changes, leadership changes, staff changes, calendar changes that we want to enact with Stanley Hubfield because as you can see by as evidenced by the results uh and by their community support they do a good job. What we want to do is provide resources and bring resources uh to bear. We want to learn from Stanley Hubville Academy. We want to give opportunity for kids to extend their education in Oklahoma A+ essentials. And just like our one of our essentials uh speaks to uh in depth,

042we want to collaborate with other like learners and we want to collaborate with other educators and we want to use that collaboration to help grow the students from preK through 12 both that are currently at Stanley Hubfield and those that would attend Harding Fine Arts Academy. And so as you can see Stanley Hubfield has had um quite a bit of success over the uh last number of years as has Harding Fine Arts Academy. both very stable institutions. We want to preserve that success. We feel like this expands a student opportunity and while there are wonderful opportunities in Oklahoma City uh preK through 12, uh this is a very unique example of professional development that happens every summer already. Uh we already uh re conduct and and attend professional development with the staff at at Stanley

043Hubfield in the summer under Oklahoma A+. Uh there's mutual alignment there between fellows and between curriculum and between adherence to the A+ essentials. And this would be the only school in Oklahoma, the only district in Oklahoma where students from preK through 12 uh could be exposed to the Oklahoma A+ essentials and have that type of curriculum and that type of education take place uh and while they metriculate all the way through their their school. Um so we feel like as outlined here, uh it provides there's a couple things I would point out. Number one, it does provide a seamless pathway as I just spoke to. Uh it does provide stronger supports uh broader participation. Uh we love the fact that uh Stanley Hubfield could be authorized by Oklahoma City public schools. We as a middle

044school and high school are currently authorized by USAO. We feel like that brings a great connection uh between K12 education and higher education. And so in one district you have both the resources and partnership and collaboration between one of the largest districts in the state of Oklahoma and then a higher ed university all uh looking out for the same goal. Uh obviously efficient use of resources. Uh both schools right now are financially sound. Uh this merger this combination would maximize resources. Um and which which is why I describe it as a synergistic effect. Um as we've looked at it we've really tried to poke holes in it. We've really tried to say are there anything that would be a negative to the students uh staff or community of Stanley Hubfield or Harding Fine Arts Academy

045and we've yet to find one. Uh we've worked with uh the state charter association. We work with a number of partners in just taking a look at this and what it would look like. Um whether this was doable had there been a precedent set and what it would look like uh for Harding Fine Arts Academy to officially acquire more practically merge with Stanley Hubfield Academy creating uh Hubfield Fine Arts Academy. Uh that would be the elementary branch of Harding Fine Arts Academy. And we have yet to find a single a single negative. uh everything so far has has just revealed itself uh for this for this to be almost a marriage made in heaven uh so to speak. And so because of that uh we would like to request for this continued partnership. Again, you

046are very familiar with Stanley Hubfield. Um while this is a unique uh decision and consideration on your part, uh you are you are both considering renewing the great things that have been happening but renewing with a new uh sponsor in Harding Fine Arts Academy. So for that reason in a sense it is a new application. Uh but we would love to partner with Oklahoma City public schools. Uh we feel like uh your approval would not only strengthen Harding Fine Arts uh the education uh that happens at Stanley Hubfield but also would strengthen Oklahoma City's uh charter portfolio. Um and your approval also allows Stanley Hubfield leadership and families to continue what's been happening there for over 25 years to continue the legacy that was started uh by the sponsorship of Integris. and we feel like

047we have all partners on board. And so, uh, both Miss Rainer and I stand ready for your for your questions if you have any. >> Okay. Thank you very much for the presentation. I appreciate it. Um, great job, by the way, on [laughter] your three years. Congratulations on three years of a B. That's hard to achieve in elementary school with little kiddos that get sick. So, good job. Um, I'll start off the questions. Uh, where a couple of things. One is where do most of your fourth graders go to fifth grade currently? >> Currently most of them go on to charters. Um last year we had about 76% go on to charters. I lost about 5% to other districts and then I had the rest go to John Marshall which is about 10% out of

04840 kids. So about eight kids or seven or eight kids went to John Marshall. >> Okay. Thank you. And this is not have to happen now, but in the next month, I would like to for the board to receive Harding Fine Arts report card scores over the last three years and their proficiencies compared to OKCPS as discussed on slide 14. So, but I don't need it now. All right, that's all I have. Next. Well, I have a question and Mr. Mr. Brown probably. So, when I first learned about this, I had some confusion about you all are not proposing to become one LEA or one school district. Like basically, I in my head when I learned this agenda item, I was thinking, how can one LEA be authorized by two different entities? So, Harding Fine

049Arts is USAO. >> Yes. And then Stanley Hutbeld would be OKCPS. >> Correct. >> Can you clarify that is not the case? You are not proposing to become one district unless I'm just explain to us the structure and how that works because you all are not I'm sorry I'm I'm saying you because I'm looking at you as Harding Fine Arts are not proposing to come to OKCPS as an as an authorizer. >> Correct. we would continue uh with USAO as our authorizer for the middle school and high school. And so in the state of Oklahoma and in charter education, a precedent has been set by Santa Fe South and Dove Academy where as they've expanded their district and opened different campuses, uh they've either sought or partnered with different authorizers for different campuses, starting with

050Santa Fe South, who actually originally uh had schools that were authorized by Oklahoma City and then added a site that was authorized by the University of Oklahoma. So that first set the precedent. Uh underneath that they established the elementary site as a different LEA but all under the same district. And so they would have the same superintendent, the same board, but they would just be two separate LEA numbers because they had two separate authorizers. Dove uh academy continued that precedent or continued that trend as they uh open multiple sites that had different authorizers. So, in talking with the state charter board and state board of education, uh we would continue that precedent and if you approved this uh uh opportunity, the state would give Stanley Hubfield a separate LEA. Uh they would still have the

051same superintendent and the same board. Um for those of you who are familiar with single sign on, what it would look like is that when you get on single sign on, you have your LEA with all the sites underneath your LEA. I would get on uh single sign on and have an LEA with two sites and then an LEA with one site. Um and so while it would be the same board uh of education and it would be the same superintendent, it would be two separate eleas uh authorized by two separate entities is the president uh set with state board of education [laughter] >> and and the and the board would be Harding Fine Arts Academyy's board of education and as superintendent of Harding Fine Arts I would serve as superintendent of Stanley Hubfield LEA.

052So essentially you'd be superintendent of two districts. >> Yes. >> Two districts. One district with two locations. One district with one location. >> Correct. >> And then is there any will should we expect to get an authorization request from Hardy and Fine Arts down the road like it's there? Do you anticipate operationally, you know, difficult challenges or or or no that you feel like you've sorted out what it would be like to have two authorizers, so two different reporting entities that you're reporting to? And >> in some ways, uh, and I talked to, uh, superintendent, uh, the the two that I mentioned, I talked to at least one of those superintendents about his experience with two different eleas. And there are, uh, advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage, as he said, is there's sometimes additional paperwork

053because you have to do sometimes reporting for two different LEAs. And while it may be easier because you're finishing one report and you open the other LEA and you do the other report, it's still sometimes twice as much work where there are advantages, especially when in a situation like this is that I would have to report the data separately. And so as we have been talking, not putting the cart before the horse, but pre preassuming that uh there may be this possibility for this opportunity to happen and how does student management systems work. What we found is with this opportunity um some of that merging does not immediately have to take place because we're going to be reporting separately to the state. Um and while we would have the same RAO, there would be two

054u there would be site accreditation visits and there would be two district accreditation visits but they would happen at the same time uh as that RAOO would check off both LEAs. So there are some advantages um in in this and the disadvantages uh probably are mainly for me uh as that they're going to be two different reporting uh and two different accreditations, two different child nutrition reports and and so on. So there is some some duplication uh at the very top uh that you would happen at the district level, but my goal is to relieve uh Miss Rener of some of that so that she can focus on on educating the youth at at Stanley Hubfield uh as principal. But those are great questions. I appreciate that. Uh we've talked to both your in-house uh

055legal uh consult at the state charter association and then obviously contacted the state board of education to make sure we had all of that clarified. So I do appreciate those questions. >> Thank you. Anyone over here? Yes, Mike. >> Thank you so much. I do have a couple of questions uh specifically to Harding's a a um testing to get in. Correct. >> No, no, we are a public charter school. Um we hold a lottery and it's whoever wants to to attend. Uh we fill it up until we fill up all seats. Uh any student who chooses to attend Harding can attend our middle school or high school. Okay. So, The historical data shows how successful have Stanley Hubfield students been getting into Harding over the last couple of years? I mean, have they been pretty

056successful at being able to get in? We've had some Stanley Hubfield students attend Harding, but we have at Harding students from from public schools, Oklahoma City public schools, surrounding suburban schools, different charters that enroll in our middle and high. Um part of our tiered system that we would uh propose with this particular partnership is that uh the tiered system would be that if you live in that neighborhood, that geographic neighborhood uh in Stanley Hupville and you want to continue to metriculate on that you would be a tier one student for for Harding uh Fine Arts Academy. Uh and then any sibling would be a tier 2 student so to speak. um so that it it functions as one seamless district. Um but right now we accept all students and so any Stanley Hubfield student that

057is chosen or signed up to come to to Harding as long as we had space then they got accepted. >> So I'm just repeating what I believe what you just said. As long as you're in that district for Stanley Hubfield you will transition directly into Harding. Correct. >> Correct. And we're actually really excited about that. >> Transportation has been an issue in the past too. >> Yeah. And one of the uh and I do thank you Mr. Rainer >> before you start I apologize before you start is that y'all love acronyms >> and so if you throw out any more acronyms give the definition of >> We'll do. Yes sir. Uh, one thing I was going to mention is that uh, just in in the in the planning as we get excited about the possibility

058of of this happening, um, we looked at the transportation sometimes with public charter schools as an issue and what we hope to do is is utilize Stanley Hubfield as a transportation hub. So students would just have to get to Stanley Hubfield. So when you when you metriculated uh far enough in your education, you lived in that neighborhood and you wanted to go to Harding Fine Arts, our goal is to transport those students from the campus of Stanley Hubfield to Harding Fine Arts and back. So that parents and families who live in that neighborhood still only have to get them to the same place they've had to get them to since preK. Is that it, Mr. Shelton? Okay. Meg, Juan, Carol, Jessica, Dana, Jessica. >> Yes. Uh, thank you so much for your presentation, guys. I

059really appreciate it. Um, and no, thank you to Integress, also my employer, but uh, no, thank you to Integress for the 25 years. Um, I think that's pretty awesome to hear some of the history that we have with them. Um, I don't know if you guys know this, but Harvard came out with a study in 2023 that looked at um, they ranked um, states based off of their charter schools. They have a ranking and Oklahoma was actually number six in 2023 um, out of 36 states. Um, so that was a pretty cool thing. So, congrats on your B's on the state report cards. It's pretty awesome. Um, kind of going back to Lor's question, um, why have two separate authorizers? Why do it that way? >> Ideally, if I had to choose and, uh, Miss

060Rainer and I are, our original plans, uh, that was not our plan. Uh, that was not our plan. That's not what we sought or pursued. Matter of fact, just looking from the outside in on how Santa Fe South and Dove Academy operated, we actually just assumed they were one district because it worked so seamlessly. It wasn't until we actually did the research and followed up with the state and they said while they may look like one district and they function as one district and they have one superintendent and one board, technically on paper they have two LEAs. So for us, we're just following the precedent set by the state board of education and the state charter board. But ideally, it would have been great to just have one uh LEA with three sites. Uh but

061again, following the precedent that's been established by by law and practice, >> it has to do with our policy that in order for a charter to be in our buildings, we have to authorize them, >> right? >> So, that's the pressing point. >> Okay. Just Thank you. You're welcome. >> Thank you. [laughter] Okay. And um let me see. And so the so so Stanley Hufffield is in our property right now and >> yes. >> Okay. >> Well, and I let me add to that uh Chair Lewis is exactly right. Um uh to be in the building Oklahoma City has to authorize, but we also see the advantages as a district of having a K K12 public school as a partner in this educational journey. There are certain resources uh as I've been superintendent of Harding

062Fine Arts Academy uh certain resources and certain partnerships uh and benefits that come with being authorized by Oklahoma City Public Schools that we want Stanley Hubfield to continue to take advantage of. And so I would tell any charter you there's a there's an advantage by being authorized by Oklahoma City Public School and we appreciate that that advantage uh with that authorization. >> Okay. And with this potential merger, will the funding change um or I guess the sources of our of the funding for the school, will any of that change or be in danger? >> There's some some legal maneuvering and legal conversations that we have to have in regards to what we uh assets when a sponsorship changes. Uh but technically the money that goes to Stanley Hubfield is generated from the state because of

063their attendance and the number of students who who attend Stanley Hubfield. And so that will um that that same money will continue to go to that LEA to Stanley Hubfield. Um, one of the new benefits of of establishing a new school, even if it's a new LEA number or not, uh, but especially if it's a new LEA number, is that thanks to work by by charter association and charter leaders, uh, the state of Oklahoma passed, uh, the law that would allow you to get, uh, some funding upfront if you're adding. And so, uh, that puts us in a much more stable position than maybe previous charters that had to wait on funding or had to have some funding up front and then wait on a mid-year allocation. Uh, the state of Oklahoma now provides a

064a weight of 1.3 funding per student that you can show that's going to uh that's enrolled in your school. And so that actually this year is a really good year to do this because it puts us on more stable ground than than previous districts that may have added or or charter schools that are just getting started. >> And that's the the 1.3 is a weighted average or ADM. Yes. Okay. And my last question is I mean what is going to change because Integris is not there anymore? >> That's a great question. I'll leave that to to to Miss Rainer to answer. I was going to say hopefully nothing because I I would say that there are still members who have served on their their board, but Miss Rainer can speak to that better than >>

065so I want to say again we appreciate everything that Integris has done for the 25 years and I understand completely there are no hard feelings. I need everyone to know that we understand that they have a mission to serve in healthcare. Um what they have done for our school is create an environment where health is important and you realize that when you come onto our campus and you see a community garden, you see ABL labs where kids are moving. You see um a focus on the healthy initiatives not from the cafeteria only but from our teacher standpoint. So that health initiative is still going to continue to be there. Our mentoring program will continue as well. that was started and established before we even became a charter with Integris. Um and about five years ago

066we took over that in-house. They do background checks with our mentors. Um our mentors still continue uh many of them 30 so or so mentors still come from Integress. Um but we recruit community members as well. So we will continue to do those things with Integris um that we've had in place um that are highly successful and benefit our students and families. Thank you. Thank you for your answers. Thank you, Integris. And thank you for serving children. >> Yeah, me too. >> Um for um Jason, for Mr. Brown, um what are when is the Harding Fine Arts Academy next up for reauthorization with USAO? What year? >> We actually this year would be a renewal for us. uh prior to learning of of this opportunity, uh we started to negotiate with with USAO uh in

067the summer and so we looked to renew with USAO and and our board has approved that renewal uh actually the month at the board meeting the month before this issue came before the our board. Uh they agreed to renew with USAO and so that contract starts on July 1st, 2026 this summer. Thank you. Um I'm a little interested in your tier one and tier two. Um I can get have Jason ask for more information, but is that kind of like how we have the John Rex set up? I think there were three tiers if I remember correctly. >> No, that's exactly right. Uh for example, John Rex, if I remember correctly from talking to Patrick, uh you know, their tier one are those that live uh in their in their boundary area. uh tier 2

068um those who if you attend Oklahoma City and if you're a sibling and so they have their tiered weight on the order that you get in. What we want to do is we want to make sure that any student who lives within that geographic boundary uh can go uh not only obviously to Stanley Hubfield but also continue on at Harding Fine Arts Academy but if there's a sibling that chooses to attend we want to place them in a tier two. So if we have a sibling of a hard Harding fine arts student and they have a student who's in or sibling who's in elementary school, uh they wouldn't move in front of someone in the geographic area, but if there's space, they would be let in before someone who's not a sibling or doesn't live

069in the area. So the the rating the ranking would be if you live in the area, if you're a sibling uh of someone who already attends Harding Fine Arts Academy, and then finally would be out of out of area. Um and and that same would happen for for Harding Fine Arts Academy. We would take those students and then we would take siblings of of students. Uh right now we have a open um I mean we take all students from from both Oklahoma City Metro and surrounding suburbs, but we would start to rank those to make sure that uh Stanley Hville students can metriculate on through Harding Fine Arts Academy. >> It's a little different than John Rex because Harding Fine Arts doesn't have a boundary. So, how does that negotiate through the state department and

070the rules there? >> We uh that's actually a conversation we had with our authorizer, USAO, that we want to acknowledge and honor our our uh other LEA and make sure that we grant them um given the numbers at Stanley Hubfield and as long as we're a public charter and we still allow then USAO has been amunable to that. >> Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Yes, Mike. Just curious um if you have a student at Stan Stanley Hupfield and for whatever reason that student has to leave Stanley Hupfield due to behavior, where does that student get transitioned to? There's a if that's the neighborhood school and you all are a charter, >> right? So, we're an elementary school that's a public and we we deal with >> you deal with it. You don't behavior like some

071of the charter schools, not all of them. Some of the charter schools will ask that and send that child back to their home school. >> Absolutely. We are their home school because we are a neighborhood charter. Now, we do have students on occasion that live out of area and on occasion parents may not choose to um agree with the code of conduct. They then may seek their other school, but we do not boot students out to go to other schools. they have that opportunity to go to their home school if they're not in our attendance zone. So, on occasion, every once in a while that does happen, but our students are our students. Um, from special ed students all the way up to, you know, our enrichment students. So, we we educate all students. >>

072Okay. Thank you. Yes, Jessica. >> Yes. Um, I just had a question. Mr. Brown, I think you referenced the packet. Did you get do we have that packet >> as part of the uh well when I referenced the packet and thank you for asking that uh Mr. Fuentes the because when I referenced the packet I meant the you had the presentation I know in front of you. >> We do we have it on the both slide decks are connected to the >> the agenda item >> to there was a previous request for report cards and additional information for Harding. So, in our application that we submitted on December 5th, uh while the renewal didn't call for it, knowing you might ask, we went ahead and submitted report cards for the last several years for Harding

073Fine Arts as well. So, while it may have not been in your board packet, it is part of our comprehensive application that we gave to uh Mr. Childers and Mr. Mack. And anything missing from there, we can supplement. [laughter] >> Okay. Mr. Childers will get us that for sure. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, I was I was like I wasn't sure what packet he was referring to, but that's great. Thank you. >> All right. Well, I think that wraps up our questions and comments. Thank you for your time. Thank you for everybody who is here for your time. >> Thank you. >> And I'm sure you won't mind if there's a mass exodus. Uh not that we don't love the business. >> I mean, executive session will be over about 9 and y'all are

074welcome to stay till then. >> It's not that we don't appreciate you during this month, but thank you guys. >> Thank you very much. Okay, that brings us on to 5.02. Well, first of all, just for the board's clarity, as always, this is an information only. It will show back up next month. If you have questions, send them in and then it'll action item will be on the next business meeting. All right. Okay. So, 5.02. I'm super excited about this discussion on possible future action to name the John Marshall Enterprise High School Early Childhood Facility. And I'll recognize uh Dr. Maloo Smith. And I want to say thank you to everyone who is in the audience to support this. And thank you once again to the POTS family for um the donation that allowed this

075to be possible. >> Board Chair Lewis, Vice Chair Bowman, board members, Superintendent Pulk. Good evening. This month, the Early Learning Center at John Marshall Enterprise High School will open. The center was funded by the Pototts family in collaboration with the Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation and the Oklahoma City Community Foundation to provide highquality child care for district staff and for students who are parents. A proposed name for the center was submitted through the facility name request online form. The submission included three letters of support consistent with board policy for naming a facility after an individual and those letters were provided to board members as attachments in the agenda. The name submitted was Pototts Family Early Learning Center at John Marshall Enterprise High School. The rationale provided was as follows. Quote, "Prior to her passing, Pat

076Pots and her family provided a substantial gift with a mission to help bring families back to OKCPS. The first project from this gift, named the OKCPS First Choice Fund, is the Early Child Care Center at John Marshall Enterprise High School. Pat has been an advocate for early childhood for decades and has led efforts to improve programs for children and families. Pat was also a longtime supporter of OKCPS and served as the first woman board of education president. Her husband Rey was the first chair of the OKCPS Foundation board. They continued supporting the OKCPS Foundation through many decades. All of their children graduated from John Marshall High School. End quote. In accordance with board policy on naming facilities, an ad hoc committee was convened to review the request. The committee was made up of the building

077leader, the director of the early learning center, the executive director of early childhood, one teacher, two support staff, one parent, and one student. I served as the committee's facilitator. During discussion, a few committee members expressed a preference for modifying the name to include the name of the mascot. However, the majority of the committee voted to recommend the name as originally submitted. Therefore, the committee recommends that the board of education approve the name Potts Family Early Learning Center at John Marshall Enterprise High School. Thank you so much. That's very detailed. I appreciate that. This is information only today, but that is the recommendation that will come back in one month for the vote. Um, I did want to say if it kind of falls in line, the John Marshall campus will soon have the MLAN family

078stadium that we just approved that name. It also has the Terry Harris Athletic Training Facility, which was one of their main donors. So, it falls straight in line in my opinion with that. Just a comment. Anyone else have any questions or concerns, statements? All right. Thank you so much. You >> that's exciting. Thank you for bringing this forward. >> Okay. Now we 6.01 recognize Dr. Pulk. This is discussion and possible action on future driven 2030 goal monitoring report. >> Thank you chair Lewis and good evening everyone. Um, I want to take just a moment and before I dive into the data, I want to express a sincere gratitude to the team 136 staff. I'll start with uh chief strategy officer Jason Galloway, chief talent officer Brad Herszer, chief finance officer Sydney Ward, chief operation officer

079Deborah Dak, her legal counsel Tony Childers, as well as chief academic officer Alicia Sefield. This next group I'm going to send gratitude to and for falls under uh Alicia Sfield, our chief academic officer, and that's senior executive uh director Vera Martin, executive director of counseling and CTE Dr. Petra Woodard, executive director of workforce development Kate Hayden, and director of workforce Jason Mack. I must preference I'm giving the report, but it's the dedicated adult behavior that actually drives the student outcome, which is the engine behind the progress that we're seeing uh not only tonight, but in classrooms. across this district under our student outcome focus governance framework. We recognize that the behavior here sets the culture for classrooms in the district. Tonight, we monitor goal three, our commitment to ensuring our juniors and seniors are not

080just graduating, but are graduating with a clear, validated pathway towards postsecary success. Board members, you have several documents tonight that are also attached on the agenda on the board docs uh from a slide deck to this actual monitoring report, the response to the questions and feedback that we received, the goals and guard rails in their entirety, as well as a fiveyear monitoring calendar on Tonight I will focus on future-driven 2030 student outcomes monitoring report. And as you can see from this report, our northstar for this work is clear. Goal three states that the percentage of students in 11th and 12th grade who complete a postsecondary option will increase from 37% in August 2024 to 69% by August 2030 as measured by the postsecary opportunities on the Oklahoma State Department of Education report card. We have

081established a rigorous annual target for the 2425 school year. Our target was 42%. We view these not as ceilings but as the floor of our expectations for student opportunity. I am proud to report that we are officially on track. Next slide. The most recent data from you may from the Oklahoma State Department school report card shows that 47% of our 11th and 12th graders completed at least one postsecary option in the 2425 school year. This is a significant fivepoint lead over our annual target and a 10% increase over the previous year. Since 2023, we have seen a total growth of 19% points. This data represents more than just numbers. It represents hundreds of students earning industry certification, completing AP and IB coursework, or engaging in high level internships that bridge the gap between school and

082workforce. As we continue, this is happening because of the intentional systemic focus on adult behavior. We have strengthened our leadership in systems. We move from a decentralized approach to a focused one on one by adding an executive director and a director of workforce development. We also built data dashboards that allow us to move from guessing to knowing exactly which students need support. We are expanding policy and partnerships. OKCPS successfully advocated for junior CTC to count as a postsecondary option and we've expanded our footprint with partners like U Health, Metro Tech, and Construct My Future. We are individualizing our support for students. Our post-secary success teams at each campus have prioritized onetoone student advising ensuring that every students IAP or their individual career academic plan is a living document rather than a check box and that

083every eligible internship course or credential is accurately tracked credited it and supported through enrollment. We are ensuring every student has that opportunity provided to them in the interest of intellectual honesty. We must also address what is not going well. Credit recovery constraints. We have too many students are upper classmen who are teethering to credit recovery for core classes which physically limits their time to enroll in postsecary pathways. Awareness and capacity opportunity shouldn't depend on which school a student attends. Yet awareness still varies. Furthermore, our most popular programs often face capacity constraints as well as transportation. For many, the lack of a driver's license or a vehicle remains a hard stop for offampus internships. Our progress is real, but the hard truth is that too many students are still blocked by credit recovery, uneven access to

084information, and basic transportation barriers. Until we remove those conraint constraints, excuse me, opportunity will remain uneven. So for our next step to deepen um our existing things that are are going well board members uh now I want to share how we are doing that and what is working well so progress becomes consistent and sustainable across every high school. First individualized ad advising practices. If we start early and use the IAP process intentionally, not as a form, but as a planning tool. And if we provide one-on-one advising for students who do not yet have a post-secary plan, then more students will make informed choices and actually complete a college or a career pathway before graduation. This is more about moving from awareness to action, one student at a time. Second, data informed collaboration through the dashboards.

085If we consistently use our dashboards to identify students who are not yet on a postsecary path then and then meet those students to set goals and complete IAP requirements, then more students will successfully enter postsecary opportunities. This is how we shift from reacting late to intervening early. Third, developing transformative teachers through targeted professional development. If we strengthen the teacher training and advising and career pathways and improve grading practices and student support, especially in core courses, then more students will complete their classes on time and avoid being pulled into credit recovery. That frees up time and space for postsecary experiences. And then finally, partnership development. If we continue to expand partnerships with Metro Tech, industry partners to offer certificates, career experiences, and coaching, then more students will graduate with real skills, real credentials, and real options

086for what comes next. In short, these strategies are not initiatives. They are about doing the right work earlier, more consistently, and with greater accountability. So, opportunity is no longer dependent on chance or campus. Moving forward, we are not just maintaining, we are accelerating. We are strengthening teachers training. We'll activate strategies starting August 2026 when we open new college and career centers, formerly known as flex spaces and hire dedicated workforce development coordinators. We are aligning our budget to ensure that staff supporting these pathways are unified under one framework to maximize student access. I am here to say team 136 and I are committed to the 2030 goal. We have the data. We have the strategy and we have the momentum. I'm excited now to take any questions for conversation in regards of goal three. >> Who

087wants to start? Anyone? Jessica? >> Thank you for that presentation, Dr. Pulk. Um, yes. I I asked a question. It didn't make it onto the questions and feedback, but that's okay cuz I think you were able to answer it with other questions. Um, but it was the question about inspiration and just to share a little bit. Um, so the word animal um, in Spanish it translates to soul or will. Okay. [snorts] And um just throughout talking to some students, through some of our engagements, um we've had um occasionally I've met some students that maybe [clears throat] they're just not as inspired um to do something like a post-secary opportunity goal. So my question, the first question I'd like to ask is how are we ensuring that our students are being engaged in all of our

088post-secary opportunities within OKCPS given the fact that we talked a little bit about awareness being a barrier. >> Thank you uh for that question. Please note that is a evolving question that we are trying to answer in regards of student engagement and motivating students. What we're finding is when we tap into their interests and it's studentled and not adultled then we have a greater opportunity to motivate our students for postsecary. Please know I recently had a conversation with uh an adult and they shared they're still trying to figure out what they want to do after high school and they're closer to retirement than uh so I say we will just have to keep working at it. There's no silver bullet. There's no silver one right answer other than being present for students and asking them

089and we'll have to ask more than once. Thank you for your question. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> Yes, Dana. >> Um, and it may be in here and I'm just not seeing it. Is mentorship part of this? I mean, I can see how mentors would be great in helping people get uh interested in other >> careers. Yes, ma'am. It is definitely a major aspect of and with every high school having a success team. They will base that off of what the students need. If it is a mentorship, yes ma'am, it is a part of >> who sits on the success success team. Typically, it's the assistant principal, the counselor, and perhaps one teacher that knows the student well >> and those are implemented in every school >> at this point. >> Okay. And so

090somebody in every school, somebody on one of the success team, the strategy is that they will meet with each child and they are doing that currently to go over their IAP. >> That is the overall goal. One of the things I must share in regards of IAP as we build this system that is the desired outcome. We are learning that each high school may or may not have the same understanding or the expectations with IAP. That's my role is to ensure everyone understands the importance of IAP. Under the leadership of Kate Hayden as well as Dr. Woodard, the success team is a new strategy or initiative put in place as we move forward. >> Anyone else? >> No one. >> I got a followup. Yeah. Thank you. >> Uh, yes. And I always have to

091keep looking up what IAP stands for. Individual career academic plan. Um, how do we know that IAP is an effective tool and is predictive of post-secary success? >> We're going right now it is the tool and um, please note the class of 2023, it was a graduation requirement that came through state law. And just as any other state law, we did have a runway to ensure that the class 2023 was ready. We are gathering our data ourselves because we did see that question and we do want to answer it, but I need to actually back that up with numbers to ensure. Right now, it's a state law that we're following, but I would love to follow back up and say this is it or it's not. If it's not, we'll have to go a different

092direction, but it it won't start here. It'll start with the lawmakers. >> So, are there other vendors for something similar? >> Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. There's actually two Yeah. options. And the there's I we have chosen career guide and we have s done so for the last that we started with but there's another IAP individual career academic platform that you could use that's more geared towards higher ed. Uh so there are two options >> outside of the IAP. Is there another option? I know there is for a fact there there are some out there but I apolog misunderstood. I move >> anyone else. >> So the IAP is offered across the district. So if per say an alternative school um sees the uh for example maybe US Grant offers a course that he or she

093would like to attend but it's not offered at her home school. Do they have the option to do it online if possible? >> I'm hearing two separate things. IAP as a computer base that can be taken anywhere. When I hear you talk about coursework based off of the pathways that could perhaps be offered at one school and not another, um, our students will once we get the IAP and we look at because they'll be taking that assessment again here real soon for the current eighth graders who are in the seats so that we can look at the ninth graders because these things are fulfillment of the 2030 graduation requirement. one u all students must have IAP but what you're talking about is a little different in regards of the courses and our career pathways that

094we're offering that may be at one school but not at another. Uh and so the first year coming out, we will actually take it a case bycase base opposed to actually changing an entire system until we find out how many students may need to go to a different site if their school, their home school does not offer a course that they would like. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> You're welcome, sir. the IAP as in most things. What's the strategy to connect the parents to the IAP and the kids results? I've said this in the small group. As a parent, I've never seen that. >> Never heard from anyone. My son tells me and that's what they should do. But also, teenagers don't like to tell their parents thing. So, how are we going to handle

095that? >> Yes, ma'am. I'm excited to share our communications department has a communication plan and that information will roll out. We must do better uh with uh not only our students knowing but our families knowing. I've heard from a student who has asked us to do better with letting the adults know what the requirements are. Um, and so please note the communications department under Mr. Galloway has a plan. I've I've we've gone through and looked at and they're ready to roll it out so that families will also know we did not do well with that in the past. Well, and kind of building on that, and I think that this was a question that I I want to say Jessica asked and maybe even related to Dana's question. the kind of theme of lack of

096awareness by sight, I think, you know, concerns me and I I feel like we've seen it on other monitoring reports as well that, you know, a a barrier to advancing the goal is that there's uneven awareness. So, it's family awareness to help support their student, but it's also individual schools awareness there it what I'm inferring by the monitoring report is that from one school to the next the information the awareness of post-secary opportunities varies >> and I think that um you know there needs to be beyond the communication plan for I mean I'm not I guess I'm trying to stick say strategic um that basically we you know that it needs to be addressed. It's been identified as a a barrier in the monitoring report. Um but I guess I don't see it really connected

097to the deepening of the existing strategies of how specifically um you know that the district is going to know that school A kids and students and faculty there have deep knowledge of post-secary opportunities while school B they do not have awareness of post-secondary opportunities and I think the you know as a board you know we seeing a specific plan of how that will be addressed is important because that is you know by your own you know you've identified that as a barrier and therefore I think it would be good to see it as a specific strategy and with more specifics built in around it >> if I may share um One of the things um within cabinet that we're working on because we know the student outcomes won't change until the adult behavior and we

098the team has identified that there through a root cause analysis that not all campuses principles have the same knowledge in order to do so. So a strategy that we have put in place is now each cabinet member walks alongside a principal supervisor. We have a scorecard that actually aligns to these barriers and it has a check sheet that we use and we're trying to come up with the system and the rubric for the consistency. In order for me to do so, I need to be able to determine what that consistency should look like. And that's the work cabinet is working on in alongside principal supervisors because they are the ones that will support the principles in order for us to have that. But we do have a scorecard for all four of these barriers. and

099what we're going to look for based off of research. >> Dr. Poke, I would like to do a followup on the u [clears throat] uh communication. You said that a student reach you and so what do you mean like we got to do a better job of communicating? Um so do can you explain? Yes, very specifically. Uh the student was a a panel member and when we asked what does he need? Uh he shared he gets it but when he goes home he's having trouble explaining to his auntie in regards of IAP and the things that he needs to do and be ready and prepared for graduation. and I share with him with him. I hear you loud and clear. Immediately turned and gave that to a cabinet. Mind you, several of the cabinet members

100heard the student also. But I when I we hear the adults is one thing, but when a child looks at [clears throat] you and say, "I need help in communicating this with my family," we've taken that uh to a different degree. >> Thank you. Uh, so I'm guessing uh maybe a text would be part of the communication or email. >> It could be. Yes, sir. >> So that the parent have a better understanding of what um his or her students are trying to uh get into or achieve. >> 100%. And one of the things the communication department shares with me quite often is it needs to be in multiple languages that multiple ways. >> Gracias. >> See >> yes me. I'm trying >> I have a I have a statement or a question. >> Okay.

101Me I recognize me first. Sorry. >> Thanks. Sorry. Um, is there a way that we could see at a high level that communication plan that you're planning that your team has just so we can understand? And I think it would be good just from our perspective to know whenever like if we're out in the community or someone asks, we're like, "Hey, check your emails, check your whatever." We have a work session scheduled for the 26th and I'm wondering if that would be a great opportunity to carve out a few moments for you to take a look at that as well as the document I'm speaking of in regards of a scorecard that we're trying to level set our uh building uh principles and and as we come to postsecary. >> Yes, we can do that.

102um also talked about having a IAP on that that same work session. So we have to kind of watch our time >> two two hours. >> Okay, Carol, I just wanted to say that it has been a historical marker in Oklahoma City public schools that all of the schools are not on the same level. And for me to say that is strange, but it's true. And that's exactly what I just heard. And I'm following up with uh board member Bowman's question about having a strategy for all schools, all principles, all assistant principles and whoever is in charge to all be on the same level, same playing ground, same everything. because as a former student and person who worked in this district, I saw the differences and I don't think they have changed a whole lot.

103I know you're moving forward. >> Yes, ma'am. >> But I would like to see what you're going to do for those strategies and for that to work for all schools and for all students to have the same level playing ground. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. So, Lori, you are better at this piece of it. Deciding where you've got your book opened. >> Oh, well, >> I mean, as far as the >> um basically we just we the vote is to accept the report. Um and so I can make a motion. >> Okay. Can I >> Everybody feels good about that? Nobody's talking about a table, right? This felt like we're good to go. Just wanted to make sure. >> You have the option of tableabling it. Accepting it, tableabling it, or >>

104right. >> Yeah. Or not accepting. >> Accept. Not accept. Yeah. >> Or postpone to a definite or indefinite date. And I might point out Mr. Lacona stepped away for a moment. >> Sure. That's okay. We That's >> We can still make a motion. >> Yeah, >> I'll make a motion to accept this monitoring report. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> There's Jessica board member. >> Thank you. And if there's no further discussion, we'll call for the vote. This >> bear with me, Madam Chair. I'm customizing our motion appropriately. The motion reads, motion to accept the goal three monitoring report made by Vice Chair Bowman, seconded by Jessica Sephuentes, and I heard the chair call for the vote. Correct. >> Yes. >> Thank you. doing so now. Having received Whoops. I beg your pardon.

105We only have seven members listed here. And I >> Mine never popped up, >> right? I beg your pardon. I uh I will um we can redo this vote or I can simply add uh >> I vote I that'll work. board member. I will add board member Mlhaney's vote to this to this vote. >> Thank you. >> Okay, that brings us to the consent agenda. Do any board members desire to pull an item to be discussed only or to be voted on separately? Okay, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as is. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Call for the vote. May I share one other thing? You go ahead, Dr. Pulk, while we're doing this. >> While they're voting, you also have a the strategic framework from the greater chamber

106in regards of the workforce. It goes along with this report. I recently was at a meeting, but I picked up a copy for each of you all so that you would have it also. It is in your notebook. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I'm sorry. >> Yes. Consent agenda. >> Nobody pulled it off. I asked. >> Yeah. I asked us. >> She just Lori accidentally closed her. Couldn't she just I was coming back up. And once again, board member Melhaney, your vote >> for the record. >> I it it popped up and I clicked I >> Thank you. For some reason, it it didn't register on my end. Board Docs is not your friend tonight. >> Not tonight. >> Okay. But I I have it recorded and it will be correct in the minutes

107and I do appreciate that. >> Having received eight I votes and zero nay votes, the motion carries. >> Okay. We there is no new business and I will make a motion to enter into executive session. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Call the vote. >> Craig, I vote. I I'm sorry. I accidentally exed out. >> No, no problem. >> I was had a couple of other windows open and I just click click click and I'm sorry. I got you. No problem. Thank you, >> Craig. I also voted I I clicked on it. >> This time it showed up on my end. >> Cool. >> Go figure. [laughter] >> Thank you, Mr. Shelton. >> Having received eight I votes and zero nay votes, the motion carries. Oh, >> I'm a little jealous. >> Oh my

108gosh. >> That's awesome. Golden jelly jelly. [laughter] >> All right, Craig. Let's Craig, I'll get you to go ahead and read it. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. The board entered into executive session at 7:10 p.m. and returned to open session at 8:17 p.m. on January 12, 2026. And individuals present during executive session included all board members Dr. Jamie Poke, Laura Holmes, Sydney Ward, Deborah Deck, and Tony Childers. The board discussed the sale or lease of district-owned real property and no actions were taken during executive session. >> Thank you. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Call the vote. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. Hearing none. Motion carries. The board is adjourned.