Board debates where to present guardrail monitoring; approves added teacher-climate target
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Summary
Board members discussed whether guardrail progress monitoring should be handled during SOFG reporting or placed in the consent agenda. The board approved an interim measure target (teacher favorable climate survey from 52% to 60%) and later approved consent item J after discussion.
Board members debated where to place qualitative guardrail monitoring in future meetings and approved a numerical target for a teacher-climate guardrail during the same session.
Miss Marquez asked that guardrail progress monitoring—measures intended to capture qualitative values and school climate—be discussed during the Student-Outcomes Focused Governance portion of meetings rather than being routed to the consent agenda. "I personally would like to see our guardrails up with the SOFG portion of our meetings," she said, urging substantive questioning be part of deliberations rather than being approved on consent.
District leaders explained that some progress monitoring is delivered via narrated slide packets and online materials to make efficient use of meeting time; board members weighed whether that practice complied with expectations to dedicate half of SOFG meeting time to outcomes-oriented discussion. One concern raised during the discussion was whether the climate-effectiveness survey instrument (interim measure 2.1) could be shared publicly; district staff said they would check whether the instrument is proprietary and whether sharing it would create public-record implications.
On content, the board approved adding numeric percentages to interim measure 2.1 under guardrail 2: the percentage of teachers who respond favorably on the climate-effectiveness progress-monitoring survey for one Urban Connection pilot school will increase from 52% (August 2025) to 60% (May 2026). A motion to approve the amended progress-monitoring calendar (which also adds Student Panorama to guardrail 1 in December and a staff Panorama survey to guardrail 3 in June) passed.
Later in the consent block, the board discussed and then approved consent item J after the vice chair invited the discussion and Miss Marquez raised questions. Members who spoke acknowledged the work that went into the narrated presentation and agreed to place the question of where to agendize guardrail monitoring on a future agenda for a fuller conversation.
What’s next: The board asked staff to look into sharing the climate survey instrument with the board and to add Miss Marquez’s request about guardrail placement as a future agenda item so the board can settle whether guardrail reviews should occur during SOFG time or be handled on consent.