Richard Gonzales

This Local Control and Accountability Plan Federal Addendum outlines the Los Nietos School District's strategy to align federal funding with its core educational objectives. The plan emphasizes fostering academic excellence, ensuring student safety and wellness, developing innovative programs, and cultivating community connections. Key goals for 2024-2027 include providing tools and support for student mental health and physical safety, achieving high levels of academic success and enrichment, and increasing engagement with staff, families, and the community to make informed, evidence-based decisions.

This document outlines the Los Nietos School District's academic strategy through a detailed curriculum overview. It covers core content areas such as English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, History/Social Studies, and Visual and Performing Arts across Transitional Kindergarten through Eighth Grade. The overview specifies key big ideas, core curriculum resources (with adoption years), and supplementary materials for each subject, aiming to ensure a structured and comprehensive educational program.

The agenda item focuses on the recommendation to approve the purchase of the HMH Amira program for grades K-2. This program is intended to support early literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, and instructional intervention, aligning with both state mandates and district literacy goals. The program was selected after a review by the district's K-2 Screening Committee, which convened multiple times to evaluate potential screening tools. The Amira program offers 1:1 intelligent tutoring, oral reading fluency assessment, dyslexia risk screening in English and Spanish, micro-interventions for phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension, and real-time feedback and data for educators.

The meeting included discussions and approvals for several key items. These included attending the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) Conference 2024, and the ACSA Every Child Counts Symposium. The board also considered the adoption of CENGAGE Learning History/Social Science textbooks for the Los Nietos Middle School STEAM Academy, Heggerty supplementary instructional materials, the School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) for elementary schools, a renewal purchase for Math Expressions consumables, and an agreement with Communications Solutions for communication services.

This document outlines the Los Nietos PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) framework, focusing on universal prevention, positive reinforcements, and a structured process for addressing challenging student behavior. Key components include Tier 1 supports, student engagement incentives like 'Boss Bucks,' and a collaborative approach involving teachers, PBIS TOSA, and school counselors to identify root causes and reinforce positive choices. The plan aims to decrease Tier 3 interventions and commits to transparently sharing student behavioral data with all stakeholders to foster lasting behavioral growth and academic success.