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Mountain View presenter says district embraced community-schools pillars before statewide push
Summary
A Mountain View School District presenter told attendees the district's 2014 Local Control Accountability Plan anticipated the community-schools model and highlighted partnerships with Disney, Boyle Heights Conservatory, Think Together, and other local providers that support enrichment and family engagement.
Presenter told the audience that Mountain View had a community-school focus "before it was even a discussion at the state level," saying the district's four Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) goals from 2014 align with community-school pillars such as collaborative leadership and family and community engagement.
The presenter said the district's LCAP goals "we have lived by" include supports for student learning and equitable, expanded learning opportunities for all students. "Each student is one enriching experience away from becoming a lifelong learner," the presenter said, framing arts, media and extracurricular partnerships as part of that strategy.
Mountain View highlighted several districtwide and local partnerships. The presenter described arts residencies for TK-6 and a new media-arts partnership with Boyle Heights Conservatory to expose students to media careers. The district also runs a Book Break pilot that brings children's authors into classrooms via Zoom and described the AYSO program hosted at the Mountain View Family Center for students with special needs.
The presenter said the district is one of four in Los Angeles County invited to participate in Disney's Imagination Campus program. "Every fifth grader in Mountain View this year went to Disney," the presenter said, adding that the district provides the trips at no cost to families and runs a parent chaperone academy that Disney packages as part of the program.
After-school and non-instructional-day services were highlighted as a family-support strategy. The presenter identified Think Together as the district's primary after-school care provider, delivering nine-hour days plus programs on 34 non-instructional days; a district survey reported that 99% of participating parents would recommend the program.
The presentation closed by listing other enrichment partners — Al Monte Parks and Recreation, Wind Tree (coding and robotics), Culture Bytes (Spanish and Mandarin language enrichment), and Home Field Advantage (high school or junior coaches paired with students) — which the presenter said help sustain engagement and readiness for classroom learning.
The presenter did not announce new board actions at the meeting; the remarks were framed as a report on existing programs and partnerships and upcoming pilot expansions.
