Woodland highlights 'Wildcat Summer Adventures' enrollment, plans to expand adventure and life‑skills offerings

The district presented a summary of its summer programming and said it will pursue additional thematic and life‑skills activities after collecting staff and parent feedback.

Tia Martinez, director of educational supports and innovation, reported that the district's extended summer program — which serves returning students and incoming kindergartners and includes an Extended School Year (ESY) component — remained steady in enrollment and that staffing mixes changed this year to integrate special education students into general classrooms. Martinez said staff reported appreciating collaborative scheduling and that both staff and parents asked for more nonacademic, life‑skills and theme‑based offerings such as gardening, cooking and other experiential classes.

Martinez displayed a short promotional video for "Wildcat Summer Adventures," described the program as a full‑day, three‑week offering with structured literacy and math interventions and said the program aims to blend academic reinforcement with enrichment. The director provided a budget outline showing salaries and registration fees offsetting program costs and said next steps include reviewing ESY support allocations and developing more middle‑school‑targeted courses to increase that enrollment.

Board members thanked staff and asked for grade‑level enrollment breakdowns, which Martinez said she would provide. The district noted that next summer the program location will shift to accommodate construction at intermediate school and that some sessions and projects will carry across fiscal years because of summer timing.