LASD Board Meeting Highlights

The Board updates the community with the important highlights from each meeting. Take a look below for the update from last night's meeting.

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As you may know, we have been engaged in a thorough search for a new Springer Elementary School Principal. We are pleased to announce that parents, teachers and administrators have all had the opportunity to interview Denise Khalid, who will soon begin her leadership at Springer.

Mrs. Khalid rose to the top of our search of highly-qualified principal candidates and we believe she is an excellent fit for Springer’s student, teacher, and parent community. With nearly 20 years of experience in education, Mrs. Khalid has served as a classroom teacher, assistant principal and most recently, as principal for ten years in the Campbell Union Elementary School District. Mrs. Khalid’s experience will ensure that each student achieves to the highest potential.

We are thrilled to welcome Mrs. Khalid, who will begin to prepare immediately for a smooth transition with Springer's current Interim Principal, Mrs. McGonagle. We are planning an opportunity for parents and students to meet her as soon as possible. Please join me in welcoming Mrs. Khalid to the Los Altos School District community. She will officially take the helm of Springer after the December Holiday Break.

Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, Mrs. McGonagle, presented information on teacher collaboration in LASD, which serves to personalize learning for our students and foster the strong student achievement for which our schools are known.

All of our teachers collaborate regularly on Thursday afternoons to share best practices and analyze student performance. One major component of this work is a close look at student performance data to check for student understanding and determine which students need more help and those who require an extra challenge. Instructional Specialist Teachers help the team of classroom educators design an instructional plan to move students to the next level in their achievement, implement successful instructional methods and plan for the next unit of study.

To learn more about how our teachers work together to personalize student learning and ensure all students achieve, check out our latest video on our Team of Educators at Los Altos School District.

Superintendent Baier presented a brief update on the Community Engagement for Facilities process to the Board last night. As you are likely aware, LASD initiated a Community Engagement Process in May 2019 to engage the public in finding a solution to house Bullis Charter School in the long term.

November Workshops

In September and October, the community had the opportunity to discuss previously considered facilities scenarios to house BCS and generate new ideas. Now, in the second phase of the Community Engagement Process, participants are evaluating those community-generated ideas and sharing their level of support through community workshops.

LASD has already hosted two workshops on November 2 and November 4 with over 600 participants. In fact, there was so much community interest that the November 4 workshop couldn't accommodate all who wanted to participate, so there will be a third and final workshop held on November 18.

Please only attend one workshop. The format is the same for all workshops. There is no need to participate in more than one. Attendance is limited to 400 people. Please give others the opportunity to participate on November 18th if you have already had the chance to participate in a workshop. Participants and community members are asked not to distribute materials related to the facilities discussion at the workshop.

Once the workshops are completed, MIG will summarize the results in a report, which will be presented to the LASD Board in January.

Final Workshop, Monday, November 18

Open House: 6-6:30pm

Workshop: 6:30pm-8:30pm

Egan Multipurpose Room

For more information about the Community Engagement process, to review workshop materials in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese or to review questions and answers from the community process, please visit our website. To review information presented to the Board at last night's meeting, please take a look at our agenda online, Item H.1.

Board discussed membership for a reconstituted Facilities Master Plan Committee (FMPC), which will analyze facilities needs throughout the district and provide input to the Board to meet those needs through careful analysis with an architect. The FMPC will take into account the goals of Measure N--the voter-approved bond measure--in its facilities analysis.

The Board decided to table a vote on committee membership in order to gather more information regarding the facilities master planning process in a study session on December 2, 2019. With further information, the Board will better define the tasks of the (FMPC), in addition to its membership to effectively accomplish the facilities plan.

Please join us for the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees at 7:00pm in the Board Room located at 201 Covington Road.

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