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Superintendent highlights back-to-school outreach; board awards contract for secondary literacy materials
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Keever described back-to-school community outreach and said the division welcomed more than 130 new instructional staff. The board approved a contract for cross-curricular literacy resources for grades 6–12; a community group invited the superintendent and board chair to discuss meeting literacy proficiency goals.
Superintendent Dr. Keever told the board the division launched the school year with community service events, outreach to military families and kickoff sessions for staff, and said the division welcomed more than 130 new instructional staff members.
"We welcomed more than 130 new instructional staff members to our team last week," Dr. Keever said during the superintendent's report, describing community events, student panels and staff kickoff activities the division hosted ahead of the first day of school.
During the action items, the board approved award of Request for Proposal No. 202500990 for cross-curricular literacy resources for grades 6–12 to Nuusuela, a two-year contract totaling $176,106.24.
After the superintendent's presentation, community member Mike Joseph invited Chair Ortega and Dr. Keever to an open discussion about how the community can collaborate with the division on the board's stated goal of reaching 85% proficiency by 2028. Joseph said he emailed the chair and superintendent on Aug. 15 outlining questions about plans to support student literacy and career readiness and requested a follow-up discussion.
The transcript does not include district-level implementation steps for the new literacy materials, timelines for teacher training tied to the contract, or whether the Nuusuela materials are expected to be adopted across all middle and high schools; those details were not specified during the meeting.
