Diamond Lake 76 board approves personnel slate, hires Yolanda Roldan as director of multilingual learning

The Diamond Lake 76 Board of Education approved routine personnel items and unanimously moved to hire Yolanda Roldan as the district’s director of multilingual learning, the board announced at its meeting.

The board approved a personnel slate that the agenda described as four new hires; the motion was made and approved, though the transcript does not record a roll‑call vote tally or the names of the four new hires.

Board members then considered the recommendation of Dr. Aaron Noe to appoint Yolanda Roldan to the director position. The board voted to approve the recommendation and welcomed Roldan at the meeting. In brief remarks, Roldan thanked the interview panel and the board, said she had been encouraged by the district’s welcoming environment and student success report, and described her professional pathway: dual‑language classroom experience, a move into an assistant‑principal role, and postgraduate study she said took place at Harvard. She also identified herself as an English learner and said that perspective shapes her work to support multilingual students.

Roldan said she looks forward to partnering with staff, families and district leadership to continue multilingual programming and supports. The board concluded its business agenda after the hire and proceeded to other items.

What’s next: The transcript records the motions as approved but does not include further implementation details such as start dates, reporting requirements, or a vote roll call; those details were not specified in the meeting record provided.